Los Angeles is overrun with rats. They breed in the streets, feast on garbage and human waste, and carry fleas that spread flea-borne typhus—a disease most Americans associate with the Middle Ages. Cases in Los Angeles County hit a record 220 in 2025, with nearly 90 percent of patients requiring hospitalization. The trend has been […]
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With food prices on the rise and Americans reassessing their monthly food budgets, the Senate Agriculture Committee is set to mark up the farm bill today. Packed with agriculture subsidies originating during the Great Depression, the farm bill has been informed by a belief that these subsidies “save the struggling family farm,” but the facts show this […]
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Jack Fowler: And the whole trans issue is coming up in the WNBA, and various coaches are like, “I don’t know. Should a she—I can’t say who should be playing.” They will not say that a biological woman should be playing in the WNBA. It’s this absurdity. Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of the latest edition of “Victor […]
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Francesca Hong is the Democratic front-runner for governor of Wisconsin. She is a state assemblywoman, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, and a former restaurant worker turned legislator. Bernie Sanders, the country’s most famous democratic socialist, was asked if he would endorse her. His answer: “I don’t think so.” He called her “very, […]
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Establishment Democrats and their allied outside groups dumped a fortune into stopping Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan’s Senate primary. They lost. The numbers are ugly, the timing worse, and the lesson clear: money alone no longer buys Democratic primaries when the activist base has already moved left. Michigan says no to AIPAC’s money, Whitmer and Schumer […]
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No one has formally declared for the 2028 Democratic nomination, but the early field is already taking shape. Kamala Harris leads most national primary polls. California Governor Gavin Newsom sits near the top of prediction markets. Pete Buttigieg, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, and a long list of governors and senators (JB Pritzker, Wes […]
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When New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said he intended to govern as a socialist, he meant it. And he is doing what any dedicated communist does when he rises to power: purge the kulaks, promote the apparatchiks. On Monday, Bloomberg reported that Mamdani had eliminated all the businessmen and various other civic leaders from the Mayor’s Fund […]
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Jack Fowler: This from the New York Post the other day: “Thousands of illegal African immigrants overrun Spanish enclave, turn streets into open toilets, bathe in fountains.” Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of the latest edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words” from Daily Signal senior contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to Victor Davis […]
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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 […]