Abdul El-Sayed defeated Rep. Haley Stevens in Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary. The race was tight, the spending was enormous, and the outcome is a clear signal that the progressive left can now win nominations beyond deep-blue House districts and city halls. El-Sayed will face former Republican Congressman Mike Rogers in November for the open seat […]
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Hasan Piker is a socialist Twitch streamer with millions of young, mostly male followers. He spends his days railing against capitalism, the Democratic establishment, and Israel. In 2026 he has thrown that audience behind progressive and DSA-aligned candidates, showing up at rallies, livestreaming events, and driving small-dollar donations and volunteer energy. Some of those candidates […]
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The Democratic Party keeps insisting it is a big tent. That slogan now means one thing: the establishment will not confront the Democratic Socialists of America. The result is a party that looks more radical by the week while the people who actually decide competitive elections watch in disgust. The Primary Massacre in Safe Blue […]
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A third whistleblower came forward about a Biden-era operation involving alleged massive shipments of fentanyl into the United States that federal agents were told to track and not seize. The U.S. Justice Department is conducting an internal probe of the operation that critics say likely led to numerous deaths. The most recent whistleblower complaint details […]
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We’re hearing more and more every day about Iran and [President Donald] Trump as the midterms now are only about 90 days away. 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 […]
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Massachusetts Democrats are advancing a bill to create a permanent state commission dedicated to one religious group: Muslims. Senate Bill S.2134, “An Act promoting the civil rights and inclusion of American Muslims in the Commonwealth,” would establish an 11-member panel appointed by the governor, legislative leaders, the attorney general, and other officials. Among its duties: […]
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HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has drawn a straight line from decades of reckless gain-of-function research to some of the most stubborn and damaging illnesses hitting Americans. Lyme disease, he says, “almost certainly” emerged from laboratory experiments. RSV, now one of the leading killers of children, came out of the same kind of work. […]
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Government and police surveillance tools have multiplied. Some detect actual violence in public. Others build permanent, searchable records of ordinary people’s movements. The distinction matters. ShotSpotter: Targeting Gunfire, Not Conversations ShotSpotter (now under SoundThinking) uses acoustic sensors to detect gunshots and alert police to the location within seconds. Cities deploy it in high-violence areas. Studies […]
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Somewhere inside the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget this week, an analyst hit “publish” on a paper that should have led the evening news. The finding: no single change to how Washington taxes Social Security benefits will save the program. Reforming benefit taxation could help, the group said, in its July 30 paper on the subject, but only as one piece […]
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Zohran Mamdani, the mayor of New York, has just stirred up a lot of controversy. He said that he wanted to go after property owners who had homes worth more than $5 million, and they were likely to be second homes. Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily […]