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10 States Checked Their Voter Rolls With a DHS Database to Find Startling Info
Half of U.S. states, with the help of a Department of Homeland Security database, have identified hundreds of thousands of dead people and noncitizens registered to vote, and they haven’t finished counting yet. So far, just 10 states—including key battlegrounds Georgia and North Carolina—have fully processed the voter data through the Systematic Alien Verification for… -
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Why Would Congress Want to Punish People for Their IRA Savings?
Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Rep. Richard Neal, D-Mass., rolled out the Retirement Fairness for Working Americans Act this week, and the name alone tells you how Washington sells a bad idea. There is nothing fair about capping retirement accounts and forcing selloffs on people who did exactly what the tax code told them to… -
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The Cold War Never Ended. It Just Came Home.
Under President Ronald Reagan, Americans understood communism for what it was. We knew it wasn’t an ambitious social program or a compassionate alternative to capitalism. Everyone knew—without question—that it crushed faith, confiscated property, silenced dissent, and turned citizens into subjects of the state. Then the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union collapsed. We defeated… -
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‘Ghost Students’ Defrauded Utah Taxpayers of Almost $1 Million
According to a recent report from the Utah legislative auditor general, the state’s higher education system lost over $830,000 in recent years to “ghost students” who apply to receive financial aid and run off with the money without pursuing a degree. “Institutions reported disbursing $834k to suspected fraudulent applicants and spending over 15,000 hours working… -
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After DHS Release of Noncitizens on Voter Rolls, How Have States Responded?
A week after Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin wrote to top election officials in four states warning of hundreds of thousands of potential noncitizens on their voter rolls, only New Jersey has admitted to a problem. The other three states have been either noncommittal in responding or have pushed back on Mullin’s claims. The Department… -
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Trump Returns to White House Correspondents’ Dinner After Foiled Assassination Attempt
President Donald Trump will address the White House Correspondents’ Association at a rescheduled dinner on Friday, nearly three months after a shooting at the Washington Hilton hotel interrupted the event. The black-tie gathering of journalists, politicians, and administration officials was called off on April 25 after a man tried to force his way through a… -
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Byron Donalds Unleashes MAHA Playbook to Protect Children’s School Lunches
Florida gubernatorial hopeful Rep. Byron Donalds announced on Friday a plan to remove ultra-processed food, artificial dyes, and harmful additives from Florida school meals and to guarantee every Florida child access to clean, tested water at school and at home. The plan is called Healthy Florida Healthy Families. Florida schools currently follow federal U.S. Department… -
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News Networks Challenge Mark Warner on Voter ID, President’s Speech
Virginia Sen. Mark Warner told a gathering of supporters in Staunton this past weekend that “this is it” for him. It is his last run for the U.S. Senate seat he first won in 2008 after serving as Virginia’s governor. Funny, you don’t have to look hard in the archives to find a famous video… -
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Residents Voice Opposition to Proposed Mosque Ahead of City Council Vote
The McKinney City Council in Texas is facing criticism after the Planning and Zoning Commission unanimously voted to recommend a proposed mosque development for further consideration by the council. The McKinney Islamic Association already has a mosque on Eldorado Parkway, but members say they have outgrown the facility and plan to build a larger center… -
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HHS Restores Individual-Based Civil Rights, Says It Will No Longer ‘Sort People by Race’
The Department of Health and Human Services announced Thursday that it would enforce civil rights based on equal protection under federal law and no longer “sort people by race.” The HHS Office for Civil Rights announced a final rule updating its regulations to implement Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The department… -
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Victor Davis Hanson: President Trump Sparked the Counterrevolution to End the Destruction of America
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. I’d like to speak today about revolutionaries and counterrevolutionaries. Whether we realize it or not, we’ve been in a progressive revolutionary cycle for about… -
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Will Trump’s Plan to Make Data Centers Bring Their Own Energy Quell Anti-AI Sentiment?
President Donald Trump said 23 governors have signed his pledge to protect everyday Americans from the energy costs associated with new artificial intelligence data centers. Governors, companies, and stakeholders who sign the pledge agree to “protect American consumers from price hikes due to data center energy and infrastructure requirements, and lower electricity costs for consumers… -
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Nick Shirley to the Daily Signal: Newsom Is ‘Paying for Good Press With Your Tax Dollars’
“Governor Newsom is essentially paying for good press with your tax dollars.” That’s what independent journalist Nick Shirley told the Daily Signal when asked about Gov. Gavin Newsom’s new grant program for California newsrooms. Newsom announced a new initiative that will award grants of up to $250,000 to eligible California news organizations producing what the… -
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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, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt urged Congress to pass the SAVE America Act to prevent such instances from occurring in the future. “It is completely unacceptable to have noncitizens on American voter rolls voting… -
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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…