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Politicians Will Only Be as Brave as Their Voters
With the midterm elections just weeks away, conservatives are once again asking why so many Republicans campaign as fighters only to govern like cowards. But perhaps we’re asking the wrong question. Before demanding courage from our elected officials, we should ask how much we’re willing to show ourselves. Conservatives love to complain that politicians have… -
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Illinois Parents Consider Lawsuit After School District Defends Housing Boys With Girls on Overnight Trips
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Illinois parents are considering a lawsuit after their kids’ school district stood by its policy of placing males with female high school students on overnight trips while withholding information from parents. “In light of the district failing to recognize their legal obligations to D128 families and educators, Liberty Justice Center is… -
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Early Voting Numbers Soar Across Virginia
More than 870,000 Virginians had cast an early ballot in the 2026 midterm elections as of two weeks before Election Day. That represents more than a quarter of the total voting turnout in 2022, the last time there was a midterm election without a presidential campaign to drive up turnout. According to the Virginia Public… -
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DOJ Sues Alaska to Block Senate Election Certification, Citing ‘Voter Confusion’
The Justice Department is suing Alaska to block certification of the state’s U.S. Senate race, alleging that the presence of a second Daniel Sullivan on the state’s ballot causes confusion. Daniel J. Sullivan is running as an independent in the closely contested Senate race against incumbent Republican Sen. Daniel S. Sullivan and former Democrat Rep…. -
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Pentagon Reports Third Unexplained Triangular UFO
Federal special agents at a sensitive site in the Western United States recently spotted an unidentified anomalous phenomenon in the shape of a black triangle, according to the Department of War’s Friday release of UAP files. At 7:23 p.m. local time on a recent date, agents familiar with aviation spotted a triangular aircraft 3 miles… -
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France Is Burning and the Media Is Most Concerned that the Right Is Right
If you merely paid attention to the legacy media in recent weeks, you’d think that the French riots were only a bit of a scuffle between students and police, with perhaps a few “ultra-left” agitators, and that the only negative takeaway from the whole thing is that—horror of horrors—this could help the Right. Let’s get… -
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8-1 Supreme Court Decision Upends Student ID Fight in Battleground Days Before Key Senate Election
The Supreme Court, in an 8-1 decision, allowed New Hampshire to block student IDs as a valid form of voter identification. In an unsigned order released Thursday, the justices paused Oct. 2 and Oct. 5 orders by U.S. District Judge Joseph Laplante, a George W. Bush appointee, that prevented the state from enforcing its restrictions… -
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Don’t Hire the Arsonists to Fight the Affordability Fire
Voters are angry about the cost of living, and they have every right to be. With Republicans in full control of Washington, they expect a fast reversal of the Biden years. But voters’ anger should not be mistaken for amnesia. Americans clearly remember who started the affordability fire burning through families’ wallets. My new League… -
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Can a Grown Man Vote as Sydney Sweeney? Ad Shows How Rigged California Voting Really Is
Could a grown man who looks nothing like celebrity Sydney Sweeney vote under her name in California? A new ad by the Proposition 39 campaign dramatizes that scenario to spotlight the state’s lack of a voter ID requirement, encouraging voters to “Vote Yes on Prop 39.” Can someone pretend to be a voter that they… -
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Trump, DeWine Take Opposing Views on Ramaswamy Ad Against Acton
On Thursday, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine and President Donald Trump both spoke out on the controversial Amy Acton “Mom Ad” that has gone viral on social media, with Trump calling it “very powerful” and DeWine calling on the Vivek Ramaswamy campaign “to take this down.” “The ad, on its face, is deeply, deeply troubling,” DeWine… -
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EXCLUSIVE: What Did California Do With DOJ’s List of 20,000 Potential Noncitizens? Election Integrity Group Seeks Records
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Did California officials investigate the Department of Justice’s list of roughly 20,000 people suspected of being noncitizens or reject it without checking the names? The Honest Elections Project has filed three records requests seeking the answer to this question. The requests, provided exclusively to the Daily Signal, were filed with the… -
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Election Watchdog Flags Over 3,600 Duplicate Voter Records in Key Senate Battleground
North Carolina has more than 3,600 duplicate voter registration records, according to a complaint from an election watchdog. The Public Interest Legal Foundation filed a complaint with the North Carolina State Board of Elections that identified 3,674 matched voter registration records across 94 of the state’s 100 counties. The finding comes as one of the… -
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Trump Admin Asks Supreme Court to Restart Big Bend Border Wall Construction
On Wednesday, the Trump administration filed an emergency appeal asking the U.S. Supreme Court to lift a lower court’s decision to halt border wall construction in the Texas Big Bend region. The U.S. Department of Justice is asking justices to allow the administration to resume building the border wall, saying the Big Bend region has a… -
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Sen. Louise Lucas Indicted on Drug Trafficking, Money Laundering Charges
State Sen. L. Louise Lucas and six other people were charged Thursday with federal crimes involving an alleged conspiracy to sell marijuana and launder the resulting profits. Lucas, the president pro tempore of the Virginia Senate, was indicted by a grand jury on charges of racketeering conspiracy, conspiracy to possess and distribute marijuana, and conspiracy… -
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Omar Breaks Silence on Raid, Offers New Vague Response to Brother-Marriage Allegation
Rep. Ilhan Omar says she did not marry her brother, to her knowledge, a switch from her vehement denials beginning in 2016. Omar joined MS NOW for her first sit-down interview following the Columbus Day raid on her Washington, D.C., home. When asked if the man she married in 2009, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, was… -
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What Justice Elena Kagan Gets Wrong About Democracy
Much of the Left seems intent on defining “democracy” as bureaucratic administration, but many of the changes to the bureaucracy they condemn actually empower the people. Take Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan, for instance. She suggested that the majority decisions of her conservative colleagues are undermining American democracy, citing cases involving gerrymandering, money in politics,… -
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Watchdog Using AI to Help Americans Dig Through Millions of Pages of Government Records
An online database with more than 4 million pages of government documents is now deploying artificial intelligence to make searches easier for Americans. The Oversight Project, a government watchdog group that runs the site Doc Depot, says new AI features will allow users to quickly get answers buried on the 100th page of a large… -
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Talarico’s Radical Record Is Suddenly Getting a Moderate Makeover
Summary When Democrat state Rep. James Talarico tells you who he is, you should believe him. Or maybe not. Talarico is one of the most radical leftists in Texas politics, but from his recent campaign stunts, you’d never know it. Suddenly, he has flip-flopped away from his radical past on Immigration and Customs Enforcement, abortion,… -
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Meet the Worst Criminal Aliens Arrested in Iowa Ahead of Trump’s Midterm Rally
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—As President Donald Trump prepares to campaign for GOP candidates in Iowa, the White House is highlighting the “worst of the worst” criminal illegal aliens who have been removed from the streets under his administration. Trump’s Department of Homeland Security arrested illegal immigrants convicted of crimes including child prostitution, assault of… -
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Why Trump Went to South Carolina
South Carolina Republicans hope President Donald Trump’s Wednesday night visit can tamp down disappointment in the base over the choice of candidate, GOP strategists tell the Daily Signal. Sen. Darline Graham is up just 2.7 percentage points over Democrat Dr. Annie Andrews in the U.S. Senate race, according to the RealClearPolling average, though Trump won…