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Victor Davis Hanson: The Left Has Followed Every Play in Its Weaponization Playbook
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. Recently, the Left in general and Democrats in particular have been criticizing a lot of things that this administration has done. This came up with the confirmation… -
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EXCLUSIVE: ICE Arrests 5 Criminal Illegal Aliens
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Monday arrested five illegal aliens convicted of violent crimes and drug offenses, the agency announced Tuesday. “Yesterday, ICE arrested murderers, violent assailants, kidnappers, drug traffickers, and other dangerous criminal illegal aliens from our communities,” Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin told the Daily Signal. “Under the leadership… -
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Trump Allies Tackle Birthright Tourism in New Initiatives
President Donald Trump’s administration and allies on Capitol Hill have put forth efforts to crack down on the practice of traveling to the United States to give birth to an American citizen, known as birthright tourism. As announced in a Tuesday statement, the State Department created the Birthright Tourism Prevention Taskforce to work with the… -
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Trump Asks Supreme Court to Fast-Track Fight Over Mail-In Ballot Order
Solicitor General John Sauer asked the Supreme Court Wednesday to expedite review of a court order blocking President Donald Trump’s mail-in ballot policy. In June, U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani of Massachusetts, a Barack Obama appointee, blocked Trump’s mail ballot order for 23 states challenging the policy. The president’s order prevents the U.S. Postal Service… -
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Trump Administration Restores Support for Faith-Based Homelessness Programs After Biden-Era Restrictions
U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Scott Turner and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. appeared in Los Angeles on Tuesday to announce the Trump administration’s latest push to overhaul the state’s response to the homelessness crisis. California has long struggled with homelessness, and recent scandals involving taxpayer dollars flowing to troubled… -
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Trump Confirms Karoline Leavitt’s White House Departure
President Donald Trump announced on Wednesday the departure of White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt. Leavitt is leaving at the end of the month “so she can spend more time with her beautiful young children and family, a decision I totally understand and respect!” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post. The president added that… -
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Progressive Flank of the Democratic Party Scores Big in Minnesota
On Tuesday, Minnesota’s far-left progressive Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan secured her party’s nomination for a soon-to-be-vacant U.S. Senate seat. Flanagan was declared the victor in her race against Rep. Angie Craig, D-Minn., after receiving the backing of 59% of primary voters. “For months now, I have been telling you that this campaign was about the… -
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After Billions Spent and Zero Trains, California’s Rail Boondoggle Nears a Reckoning
California’s high-speed rail boondoggle may finally be running out of money. It’s bad news for Gov. Gavin Newsom, possibly good news for the people of California. I’ve been opining about why the California bullet train will never succeed since I wrote my very first column as a young college pup. But even my accurate (though… -
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BREAKING: Former SPLC CFO Arrested, AG Blanche Confirms
Authorities arrested Heidi Beirich, the former chief financial officer of the Southern Poverty Law Center, Tuesday as part of the fraud case against the SPLC, Attorney General Todd Blanche announced. “My understanding is, today there was an arrest made and there is a new indictment that includes the former CFO of SPLC,” Blanche said in… -
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Paxton Secures Emergency Order Protecting Newborn Baby Diagnosed With Heart Condition
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has intervened in a Dallas County case to protect the life of a newborn baby boy who was diagnosed in utero with a serious heart condition. The child, known as baby Gabriel, was diagnosed with hypoplastic left heart syndrome, a condition in which the left side of the heart is… -
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11 Charged in Decade-Long Scheme Allegedly Selling Green Cards Through Fake Marriages to Chinese Nationals
Federal prosecutors have charged 11 people with involvement in more than 1,000 fake marriages to gain legal status in the United States over the last decade. The two-count indictment alleges that some foreign nationals paid as much as $100,000 to be in the sham marriages, according to the Justice Department. The scheme was primarily for… -
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Are Ohio Democrats in ‘Disarray’ Over Amy Acton’s Support for Voter ID?
Support for voter ID looks to be dividing Ohio Democrats. Dr. Amy Acton, their nominee for governor, has come out in support of Issue 3 for the November election. On Friday, Acton told Signal Statewide that she accepts the possibility that Ohio’s voter ID law may become enshrined in the state constitution. “This amendment has… -
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Victor Davis Hanson: The WNBA’s Treatment of Sophie Cunningham Has Been Anything but ‘Privilege’
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of the latest 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. Victor Davis Hanson: I’ve mentioned a couple of times that on the internet, there’s a whole genre… -
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WPATH Just Made an Earth-Shattering Admission in Court
Democrats, activist groups, and medical associations have long cited the World Professional Association for Transgender Health’s Standards of Care as the ultimate authority on a scientific “consensus” for sex-rejecting procedures, but WPATH just made an admission in court that threatens to undermine that exalted authority. The Federal Trade Commission and four state attorneys general sued… -
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Where Did All of California’s Students Go?
Between falling birth rates, net out-migration, and the aftermath of COVID-19, California is running out of students. According to a recent Public Policy Institute of California report, K-12 enrollment statewide has dropped 8% since 2015 and is expected to continue declining over the next decade. Julien Lafortune, senior fellow at the Public Policy Institute of… -
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Watchdog Group Says Appeals Court Must Revisit Navarro Conviction
A conservative watchdog group called for a federal appeals court to reconsider a ruling upholding the conviction of Peter Navarro, one of President Donald Trump’s closest advisers in both his first and second terms. The Oversight Project filed an amicus brief late Tuesday in Navarro’s appeal to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. Navarro spent… -
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Is Los Angeles Seeing Sense on Noncitizen Voting?
The Los Angeles City Council has reversed course on a ballot measure that would have asked voters in the nation’s second-largest city to decide whether noncitizens may vote in city and school board elections. However, this news isn’t as simple as it might seem. The motion’s author, Councilman Hugo Soto-Martinez, said that he authored the motion for noncitizen voting because… -
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Andy Biggs’ Big Gamble in Arizona
Many politicians dedicate their entire lives to making it to the shining city of Washington, D.C. But that initial glow can fade. Representatives often realize they would rather return to their families and communities and serve in the towns and states they will always call home. After 10 years in Congress, Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz.,… -
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US Consumer Prices Increase as Expected in July
U.S. consumer prices increased slightly in July, potentially weakening the argument for an interest rate increase from the Federal Reserve next month. The consumer price index edged up 0.1% last month after dropping 0.4% in June, which was the first decline in six years, the Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics said on Wednesday. In… -
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DSA Dealt Major Loss in Wisconsin
Democratic Socialists of America member and Wisconsin state legislator Francesca Hong has lost the Democrat nomination to be the state’s gubernatorial candidate. In Tuesday night’s Wisconsin Democrat gubernatorial primary, Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley was declared the victor by the Associated Press early Wednesday morning at 3:34 a.m. EDT, capturing 39.8% of the vote to…
