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‘Completely Unacceptable’: Karoline Leavitt’s Message to New Jersey After Noncitizen Voters Exposed
After New Jersey Democrat Gov. Mikie Sherrill revealed that 6,600 noncitizens were accidentally registered to vote in the Garden State, press secretary Karoline Leavitt urged Congress to pass the SAVE America Act to prevent future such instances from occurring. “It is completely unacceptable to have noncitizens on American voter rolls voting in U.S. elections, and… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Does Apple Support Chemical ‘Transition’ for Minors? Shareholders Want to Know
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Apple shareholders sent a letter to CEO Tim Cook, raising concerns about the tech company’s commitments to transgender ideology and the potential market downsides of such a stance. “Gender ideology has become an incredibly divisive issue in the United States and around the world, and companies put billions of dollars of… -
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Justice Department Memo Protects Parental Rights, Religious Freedom, Across the Federal Government
The Justice Department released a memo Thursday directing all federal agencies to institutionalize the Supreme Court’s precedents and protect all aspects of religious freedom, including parental rights, amid activist efforts to force LGBTQ+ activism in schools. “Religious liberty is not merely a right to personal religious beliefs or even to worship in a particular place,”… -
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‘They Don’t Know What It’s Like’: Communism Survivors Question Why Americans Like Marxism
As American support for Marxism rises across the country, House Republican leadership held a roundtable with survivors of communism to warn the American public of the true horrors of the communist and socialist ideologies. Chair of the House Republican Conference Lisa McClain, R-Mich., questioned the new Democratic Socialists of America agenda while emphasizing that American… -
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Want to Rebuild Higher Education? Here Is the Guidebook
The rise of the Democratic Socialists of America—a boom in its boom-and-bust cycle, as my colleague Robert Stilson calls it—has many political observers on the right and the left analyzing the conditions that led to an embrace of that group’s radicalism. And it is radical. As Stilson points out, “[i]n its newly updated platform, the DSA… -
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Jim Jordan Refers Jack Smith for DOJ Criminal Investigation, Alleges He Misled Congress
House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, made a criminal referral of former special counsel Jack Smith to the Justice Department, alleging he misled Congress about his investigations of Donald Trump. House investigators deposed Smith behind closed doors in December, and the former prosecutor testified in a public hearing in January. According to a letter from… -
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Trump Axes Regulations Pushing Race-Based School Discipline
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The Department of Education is rescinding several regulations that justified racial quotas in school discipline, the Daily Signal can first report. Disparate impact is an approach to civil rights enforcement that claims a neutral policy that does not discriminate on its face can still constitute illegal racial discrimination if it has… -
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The House Bans Insider Trading and Passes Voter ID
Congress just passed two major Republican efforts in one bill. The Stop Insider Trading Act, meant to stop members of Congress from profiting from the stock market based on insider knowledge, included the SAVE America Act. The legislation passed Wednesday evening, 232-198, with 13 Democrats joining Republicans to pass it. The Stop Insider Trading Act… -
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Microsoft Stops Discriminating Against Conservatives
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Microsoft has stopped systematically excluding conservative nonprofits from its corporate generosity program, the Daily Signal has learned. The tech giant—the fourth-largest company in the world by market capitalization—has directed its corporate generosity platform, Benevity, to stop relying on the Southern Poverty Law Center’s “hate map” to filter out nonprofits. Critics say… -
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Democratic Socialists Think America Is Somehow Worse Than Mass Murderer Mao Zedong
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal senior contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos. This is Victor Davis Hanson for the Daily Signal. We’re hearing more and more from the Democratic Socialists of America about all of the sins of America and very… -
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Congress Wants to Overturn This SCOTUS Ruling
Earlier this year, the Supreme Court protected pesticide companies, ruling that they are protected from liability even if they leave off a warning label. A new bipartisan bill hopes to change this and hold manufacturers accountable. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., joined a bipartisan group of members of Congress on Tuesday to introduce the Americans… -
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House Passes Trump-Backed Military Bill
The National Defense Authorization Act, which includes legislation requiring voter identification in federal elections, is now headed to the Senate after passing the U.S. House of Representatives Tuesday in a 219-to-206 vote. Five Democrats voted for the bill: Reps. Don Davis, D-N.C.; Jared Golden, D-Maine; Adam Gray, D-Calif.; Vicente Gonzalez, D-Texas; and Marie Gluesenkamp Perez,… -
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Inside Speaker Johnson’s Hail Mary to Defund Planned Parenthood
House Speaker Mike Johnson is planning a rare fourth reconciliation package to defund Planned Parenthood, according to sources, but it is unclear if he can succeed. The 2025 One Big Beautiful Bill Act defunded Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider, for one year, but that provision expired on July 4, 2026. Pro-life members pushed… -
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Victor Davis Hanson: The ‘Performance Art Joke’ at the Heart of the Democratic Socialist Movement
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of Thursday’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words” from Daily Signal senior contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to Victor Davis Hanson’s own YouTube channel to watch past episodes. Jack Fowler: Everyone should notice, if you’re watching this on YouTube or Rumble, that over Victor’s right shoulder are the galleys… -
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Hospital Lobby Takes Hit After Senate Panel Passes Price Transparency Bill
The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions passed legislation on Wednesday to require drug providers, hospitals, and insurers to clearly disclose to patients the cost of their products. The legislation, sponsored by Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., would also require hospitals to compile and make public the costs of their products and services on… -
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‘Confronted With This Indecency’: Smithsonian Director Grilled Over Sexually Explicit Exhibits at American History Museum
A leader at the Smithsonian Institution faced scrutiny over sexually explicit exhibits promoting gay and transgender issues at the National Museum of American History. For the second day in a row, Anthea Hartig, director of the history museum, was grilled on Capitol Hill after the release of a White House Domestic Policy Council report that… -
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Virginia’s Abortion Amendment Would Strike Down Statutory Rape Laws, Warns Lawsuit Seeking to Invalidate It for Deceptive Language
Virginia Democrats have supported a “Reproductive Freedom” constitutional amendment, but critics warn that it would vacate laws against statutory rape, and a lawsuit seeks to invalidate it. “Virginia’s so-called reproductive freedom amendment goes far beyond the issue of abortion,” Josh Hetzler, executive director of the Founding Freedoms Law Center and an attorney for the nonprofits challenging… -
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Tim Walz’s Pedophile Pardon Gets Skipped on TV
Sexual abuse of minors is a serious crime. But when it comes to the national media, the crime is only serious if it can make Republicans look bad. Recently, Curtis Houck of the Media Research Center found that ABC, CBS, and NBC devoted 1,627 minutes of airtime on their morning, evening, and Sunday shows over… -
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Alaska Senate Candidate Backed Income Tax Plan Critics Say Would Hit Lower-Income Earners Harder Than Millionaires
Alaska Senate Democrat nominee Mary Peltola once voted in the state Legislature for an income tax proposal that critics called regressive because its highest earners would have paid lower tax rates than many working families. Legislative records show that while serving under the name Mary Kapsner in 2002, Peltola voted in the state House of… -
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Heritage Foundation Brings Election Transparency Initiative Into Fold
The Election Transparency Initiative, which advocates for voter integrity issues at the federal and state levels, is joining The Heritage Foundation. The initiative was first founded in 2021 and has been led by its chairman, Ken Cuccinelli, former Virginia attorney general and former acting deputy secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. “ETI is excited…