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Florida AG Subpoenas DSA Over Alleged Funding From China and Cuba
Summary Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier issued a subpoena Tuesday to the Democratic Socialists of America over potential foreign contributions, including support from China and Cuba. “Floridians who give to organizations operating in our state have a right to know where that money comes from and how it is used,” Uthmeier declared in a statement… -
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Victor Davis Hanson: It’s Time to Clean Up Washington’s Corruption
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. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for the Daily Signal. We all talk about waste, fraud and abuse, or corruption in politics. It’s kind of a… -
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Epstein’s Crimes Could Have Been Prevented, House Oversight Report Says
A new House report details the federal government’s decades-long failure to hold convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein accountable. The report, released Tuesday by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, says that crimes committed by Epstein after 2005 could have been prevented if not for failures by federal investigators and prosecutors, and it specifically faulted… -
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Utah Judge Sets 2028 Date for Trial of Charlie Kirk’s Accused Assassin
Summary Nov 9 (Reuters)—A Utah judge on Monday set a June 2028 trial date for Tyler Robinson, the man accused of murdering prominent right-wing activist Charlie Kirk last year. Robinson, 23, has pleaded not guilty to seven counts, including aggravated murder, in the shooting of Kirk as the conservative held one of his trademark debates… -
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EXCLUSIVE: How Trump Is Fighting Drug ’10 Times More Potent Than Fentanyl’
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—President Donald Trump’s drug czar says she is working with the Chinese government to keep cychlorphine, a drug “10 times more potent than fentanyl,” off the streets. Cychlorphine has killed an estimated 140 Americans since it entered the United States in 2025, including 53 deaths in Tennessee alone. The actual number… -
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Democrats Eye Musk, Miller Probes After Midterm Rout
WASHINGTON, Nov 8 (Reuters) – Tech megabillionaire Elon Musk and President Donald Trump’s newly appointed White House chief of staff, Stephen Miller, will likely be targets of congressional probes when Democrats take control of Congress in January, a senior lawmaker said on Sunday. California Representative Robert Garcia, who is in line to chair the powerful House Oversight… -
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Victor Davis Hanson Exposes Oakland’s Lawlessness
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words” from Daily Signal senior contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to Hanson’s own YouTube channel to watch past episodes. Jack Fowler: Victor, let’s start talking about Oakland, which I know you’re very familiar with, and you probably had to dodge the bullets… -
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Democrat Facing Felony Charge Flips GOP House Seat in ‘Blue Tsunami’
A Democrat facing a felony charge flipped a North Carolina seat blue in the 2026 midterm “blue tsunami.” LaKesha Womack is set to be sworn into the 120th Congress in January, unseating first-term Republican Rep. Tim Moore in North Carolina’s 14th Congressional District. Womack unexpectedly beat Moore by just over 2 percentage points in North… -
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Legal Whiplash: Trump Scores Win in California Voter Roll Fight Over 20,000 Noncitizens
In an Election Day win for President Donald Trump’s administration, a judicial game of ping-pong in California has moved in his favor. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals cleared the way for the Justice Department to continue its probe of California voter rolls, including a warning to election workers against counting illegal votes. The… -
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Pretending the Justice Department Was Never Partisan Under Democrats
The most obnoxious lie that erupts routinely in the “independent media” is that President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice is weaponized in a way that no Democrat has ever contemplated. It’s like they all observed everything that the Biden Justice Department did to put Trump and his allies in jail and considered it to be… -
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Midterms: Closing Argument
Summary Heading into Election Day on Tuesday, here are the four most important reasons to vote for patriotic populist candidates: Sovereignty After America endured the madness of the open border of former President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance brought sanity back to migration policies and enforcement. According to DHS, we’ve now seen the lowest annual encounters… -
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California’s ‘Likely Noncitizen’ List Just Got a Court Decision
Summary U.S. District Judge David O. Carter denied the Justice Department’s request for a temporary restraining order against California on Wednesday evening, one day after a hearing in Los Angeles on a case involving tens of thousands of questionable ballots. The legal fight began last week when the DOJ asked California to segregate an estimated… -
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Tim Moore Questions Democrat Opponent’s Fitness for Congress After Felony Summons
Summary A Democrat nominee for Congress in North Carolina, LaKesha Womack, was served with a felony criminal summons at her own campaign rally last week. Her opponent, incumbent Republican Tim Moore, is now questioning her ability to serve the people of their district. The inciting incident occurred seven years ago, when Womack allegedly failed to… -
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Victor Davis Hanson: Christopher Wray Knew What He Was Doing When He Downplayed Antifa
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words” from Daily Signal senior contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to Hanson’s own YouTube channel to watch past episodes. Jack Fowler: Two former FBI officials are charged with making false statements about Hunter Biden’s laptop. That’s a headline from The Epoch Times…. -
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Collins Rails Against Ossoff at Georgia Rally, Speaks on Increasing Momentum of Senate Race
Summary BUFORD, Ga.—Rep. Mike Collins held a rally at the Buford Community Center on Monday night, railing against Sen. Jon Ossoff’s failures and stressing the importance of Republican turnout, saying, “Knowing that this is a midterm election, you know what this is about. It’s about turnout.” The Stark Contrast Between the DSA Leader and Collins… -
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DOJ Charges James Comey for Third Time, This Time Over Alleged Leak of National Defense Information
The Justice Department has charged former FBI Director James Comey with unlawfully communicating national defense information and conspiring to disclose such information. The charges mark the third time the Justice Department has brought a criminal case against Comey during President Donald Trump’s second term. Comey is already under indictment on charges that he threatened the… -
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This Is the New York Crime Problem Mamdani Can’t Keep Ignoring
Summary America has seen a significant turnaround on crime. But some statistics hide the continued, and often growing, problems many cities face. Urban chaos in deep-blue cities is still a major, unresolved issue that’s rightly driving the perception that crime is unacceptably high and mostly the product of bad policies. National crime trends are generally… -
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New Federal Crime Numbers Show Dramatic One-Year Drop After Trump’s First Year of the Second Term
Summary New Justice Department federal survey data shows violent crime victimization fell 25% and property crime victimization fell 19% in 2025 from the rates in 2024. The new data showed particularly steep declines in aggravated assault, robbery, burglary, and motor vehicle theft. The National Crime Victimization Survey, conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau and released… -
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Trump’s Deportations Are Making America Safer
Summary The restoration of law and order in America is happening in large part because of President Donald Trump, in particular, his insistence that immigration laws be enforced and criminal illegal aliens be deported. The administration should double and triple down on this message. America’s return to normalcy is contingent on making border security and… -
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November’s Stark Choice: 2 Visions for Justice and the Rule of Law
Summary Democrats, suffering from denial and delusion, tend to think of themselves as the guardians of the rule of law. Back in reality, nothing could be further from the case. Consider Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., who fancies herself a rule-of-law-championing model immigrant despite the fact that she literally conceded to her fellow Somalis that she…