And then it all made sense. “You don’t have to kill the guy, just make him look bad,” said comedian Kurt Metzger on Joe Rogan’s podcast last month, discussing how elites try to destroy political threats they can’t defeat at the ballot box. That one line explains it all: the hysteria, the lies, the Hollywood hate, the media’s […]
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Like the weather, everyone complains about Pentagon spending and mismanagement, but no one does anything about it. Leaders of the world’s most expensive military have refused to conduct or failed to complete every internal financial audit since Congress first demanded such accountability in the 1990s. The Department of Defense owns over 70% of the nation’s assets and can’t […]
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The 2026 U.S. House of Representatives elections in Colorado, set for November 3, will contest all eight congressional districts during the midterm elections under President Donald Trump’s second non-consecutive term. With Republicans and Democrats evenly split at 4-4 in Colorado’s House delegation and the GOP holding a narrow 220-213 national majority, competitive races in this […]
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The annual consumer inflation rate for April slowed down to 2.3 percent, the lowest since February 2021, according to the latest data compiled by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, despite the imposition of reciprocal tariffs by President Donald Trump on April 2 that all of Washington, D.C.’s experts arrogantly projected would increase prices. Food at home down 0.1 […]
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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. You know, one of the most popular topics in the media is President Donald Trump is […]
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President Donald Trump will take action on Medicare if pharmaceutical companies don’t lower prices across markets in response to his Monday executive order to slash prescription drug costs. Trump signed an executive order Monday morning instituting a “most favored nation” policy under which Americans will pay “the same price as the Nation that pays the […]
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One consistent theme by President Donald Trump on the campaign trail in swing states like Nevada, Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania was his tax proposals to not only extend the 2017 Trump tax cuts that are due to expire Dec. 31, 2025, but also his no tax on tips, overtime and Social Security. This […]
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The 2026 U.S. Senate elections, scheduled for November 3, will contest 35 seats—22 held by Republicans, 13 by Democrats—during the second year of President Donald Trump’s second non-consecutive term. These elections will be shaped by a polarized electorate, midterm dynamics favoring the out-of-power party, and the consequences of Trump’s bold policy agenda. With Republicans defending […]
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A coalition of Democrat governors resisting the Trump administration scheduled at least two Zoom discussions focused on how to avoid assisting National Guard “protections” and “deployments,” according to email correspondence obtained by The Daily Signal. Executive order templates created for Democrat governors say the states “shall provide no time, money, facilities,” for any National Guard […]
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Chief Justice John Roberts Admits It’s His Job to Rein in the Judicial Insurrection—and He’s Not Doing It The deep state and its allies have launched a judicial insurrection against President Donald Trump, and Chief Justice John Roberts effectively just admitted he’s not doing his job to stop it. Roberts made a rare public statement back in March, […]