Robert Reich told listeners on his podcast that Democrats should stop sending taxpayer money to Elon Musk’s companies and start preparing to take them over. He named Starlink and SpaceX. He said they ought to become a public corporation because no private person should hold that much power. The remark was not a thought experiment. […]
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Every cycle the numbers arrive early and loud. This year they show Democrats ahead on the generic ballot by six to eleven points, depending on the survey and the day. Senate races in red states sit inside the margin of error. The picture looks like a wave. The question is whether the samples behind those […]
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The Justice Department charged three noncitizens with voting in Ohio, a year after the state made 167 federal referrals of noncitizens who appeared to cast ballots in the state. Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose noted that’s only “so far.” His office has referred more than 1,000 election fraud cases from even-numbered years to the […]
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National trends don’t tell the full story about crime. New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani wants to talk “affordability,” but violence in public places is worsening. High-profile killings highlight the problem of urban chaos. America has seen a significant turnaround on crime. But some statistics hide the continued, and often growing problems many cities face. […]
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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. I’m speaking about 10 days before our Nov. 3 midterms, the second midterm in the second […]
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With early voting already underway and Election Day one week off, the contest between Republican Ken Paxton and Democrat James Talarico sits inside the margin of error in most surveys. Averages of recent polls put Talarico ahead by roughly two points. Individual polls show everything from a five-point Talarico lead to an outright tie. Texas […]
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The latest release of recordings and documents shows a group of current and former federal employees working with the same network that has described red lines for declaring the federal government illegitimate. The group is the Federal Workers Alliance for Democracy. It is listed as an endorser of the strategy aimed at structural reform, and […]
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Data from the Census Bureau’s National Crime Victimization Survey shows violent crime victimization fell 25% and property crime victimization fell 19% during President Donald Trump’s first year in office. The survey estimated Americans age 12 and older experienced about 7.5 million violent victimizations in 2025. That’s down from 8.2 million in the final year of […]
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Investigators in New York have been moving through social adult day care centers that billed Medicaid for meals, supervision, and activities while the rooms stayed empty. A multi-agency effort has targeted more than one hundred providers suspected of improper billing, kickbacks, or worse. One mother-and-daughter operation on Staten Island has already been charged with collecting […]
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Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, a left-leaning funding hub, received more than $50 million from federal agencies even as a former executive alleged serious compliance, accounting, and cybersecurity failures. Unlike a traditional private foundation, RPA moves hundreds of millions of dollars both as a donor-advised-fund sponsor and as a fiscal sponsor for more than 100 projects, allowing […]