President Donald Trump on Aug. 7 via executive order directed federal departments and agencies to take on debanking by financial institutions, which deny access to checking accounts, payment processors and other financial services due to political grudges and other viewpoint-based discrimination that has taken place against small businesses, individuals and even the President himself who was debanked […]
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Listen up, folks, because if you thought the elites were just content with telling you what to eat, drive, and think, think again. They’ve got their sights set on your thermostat, your TV, and even your fancy electric car battery. And leading the charge is none other than Patricia Poppe, the big cheese at California’s […]
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Trump’s Recent Deployments and Historical Precedents President Donald Trump has federalized state National Guard units twice in 2025, first in Los Angeles and now in Washington, D.C., to address domestic challenges ranging from immigration protests to urban crime. These actions, invoking laws like the Insurrection Act and specific federal statutes, mark a continuation of a […]
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President Donald Trump announced Monday he’s taking decisive action to reduce crime in Washington, D.C., drawing attention to violent crime rates not only in the nation’s capital, but in major cities across the U.S. “We have other cities that are very bad—New York has a problem, and then you have, of course, Baltimore and Oakland,” Trump said […]
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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. This is the 80th anniversary of the Aug. 6 and Aug. 9, 1945, bombings—with nuclear weapons, […]
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Kentucky voters will head to the polls on November 3, 2026, to elect a new U.S. senator in an open race following Mitch McConnell’s decision not to seek an eighth term. McConnell, who has held the seat since January 3, 1985, announced his retirement on February 20, 2025, marking the first open contest for this […]
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Maria Bartiromo’s interview Sunday on Fox News with Vice President JD Vance covered many topics, including those with a connection to Ohio. Early on, the interview discussed the hot topic of redistricting. Ohio is among those states going about the process, with new maps due at the end of last month. Bartiromo asked Vance about the process as well as […]
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Trump Isn’t and Looks to Continue Streak When Congress Reconvenes President Donald Trump, though working with razor-thin majorities in the House and Senate, has won in almost every single legislative fight of the 119th Congress. But is there a risk his congressional winning streak will come to an end? So far, Trump’s second term has been […]
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“Liberation Day” arrived Monday in Washington, D.C., as declared by President Donald Trump. The president declared a crime emergency in the district and said the National Guard will soon patrol the streets in an effort to curb crime. Trump said the district has “crime, bloodshed, bedlam and squalor and worse.” “This is Liberation Day in […]
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Zohran Mamdani’s ascent in New York City’s mayoral race is being heralded as the reconfiguration of the Democratic Party, but the Democrat Senate primary in Michigan could be an even bigger step toward the national party embracing democratic socialism and a more critical stance toward Israel, thanks to one would-be senator in particular. In the Michigan […]