In Alaska the Senate race is already unusual. The state uses a top-four primary and ranked-choice voting in the general election. That system put four candidates on the November ballot. One of them is a retired teacher from a small fishing town named Daniel J. Sullivan Jr. The incumbent Republican senator is also named Dan […]
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Troy Jackson likes to remind audiences that he is a fifth-generation logger from Allagash, a small town in Maine’s far north. He still wears the work clothes and talks about the long hours he put in cutting wood and driving trucks. What he mentions less often is that he has not reported regular logging income […]
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The National Institutes of Health under the Trump administration has slashed more than $1 billion of woke Biden-era grants studying “economic-based empowerment” for “transgender women,” lowering “transgender men’s” voices, and more, the Daily Signal has learned. The NIH has terminated about 1,000 grants, adding up to $1,020,711,506 in savings. Another approximately 5,000 grants have been […]
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Eric Holder spent Sunday on television telling viewers that the people Harmeet Dhillon has brought into the Civil Rights Division must be removed the moment a Democrat returns to the White House. He called the current direction a break from the division’s historic mission and said the next president should use the expanded executive power […]
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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. We’re into five or six months now of the Canadian-American trade wars. It’s kind of Orwellian […]
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More than 35 million ballots have already been cast in the 2026 midterms as of October 28. In the states that publish age breakdowns, the pattern is the same one that has defined midterm elections for decades. Voters age 65 and older make up half or more of the early ballots in most places. Voters […]
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Angie Nixon is the Democratic nominee for Florida’s special Senate seat. She has represented a Jacksonville district in the state House since 2020. In June she joined the Democratic Socialists of America. In August she beat a better-funded primary opponent by more than twelve points. She now faces appointed Senator Ashley Moody in a state […]
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Kamala Harris spent the final days before the midterms on the road in Nevada, New Hampshire, Wisconsin, Georgia, and Mississippi. The stops are billed as help for local Democrats. The geography tells a different story. Nevada and New Hampshire sit early on the 2028 primary calendar. Harris is not staying home to write a book. […]
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Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has released declassified material showing how the 2016 intelligence assessment was rewritten after the election to fit a narrative that Russia preferred Donald Trump. The Steele Dossier sat at the center of that rewrite. Public statements from the time said the dossier was ordinary campaign research. The new records […]
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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. There’s a lot of acrimony right now about a planned summit with the three most powerful […]