They Want to Declare the Election Illegitimate If Too Many People Disagree With It

A new recording shows a retired diplomat pitching a plan to replace the federal government if enough voters simply refuse to accept the results. Washington’s Secretary of State sat in the room and compared the idea to how foreign officials handle right-wing parties. The criteria for calling the whole system illegitimate are loose enough that […]

A Court Filing Puts a Different Name on the Minnesota Congresswoman

A federal court paper filed this week lists the Minnesota representative as Ilhan Nur Said Elmi, also known as Ilhan Abdullahi Omar. That single line has revived old questions about who she is, how she got here, and whether any of it crossed the line into crime. She has not been charged. Her office says […]

A Michigan Senator Said the Quiet Part Out Loud and Then Blamed the Critics for Noticing

Elissa Slotkin stood at a University of Chicago event on October 13 and described what she wants Democrats to do if they regain control of Congress. She said they should pursue signature cases of corruption and focus not only on the president but on the people who enabled him and carried out his bidding. Then […]

Young Men Are Checking Out of Politics and the Country May Never Get Them Back

Large numbers of young Americans, especially men, have stopped voting, stopped volunteering, and stopped believing the system can be fixed. They call it blackpilling. The shift is measurable, concentrated among men under 30, and driven by a clear set of material and cultural failures. If it continues, the country will face a permanent shortage of […]

Supreme Court Refuses to Revive Accused 9/11 Mastermind’s Deal to Escape the Death Penalty

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed wanted the Supreme Court to save his life. The Court said no. On Monday, the justices turned away an appeal from the accused architect of the September 11 attacks and two co-defendants. The three men were trying to restore 2024 plea deals that would have taken the death penalty off the table […]

These Four Posts Map Out How a Crisis Gets Built Before Anyone Calls It One

A researcher has spent the past week releasing four packages of recordings, transcripts, and planning documents. She says the material came from internal calls and working groups run by people who once managed democracy programs overseas. The four drops lay out a sequence that begins with street pressure and ends with a redesign of the […]

Virginia’s Top Senate Democrat Faces Federal Charges Over a Family Marijuana Operation

Louise Lucas, the 82-year-old president pro tempore of the Virginia Senate and chair of the finance committee, surrendered Thursday morning after a federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia returned an eight-count indictment on October 14. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and the FBI director stood in Norfolk to announce the charges against […]

Trump Offers Cash for Fraud Tips as ICE Targets Illegal Immigrants on Food Stamps

If you catch someone stealing from taxpayers, President Trump wants to pay you for it. In the Oval Office on Tuesday, Trump and Vice President JD Vance rolled out the Fraud Whistleblower Incentive Program. It is a $25 million fund run by the Justice Department. According to the White House, anyone whose tip leads to […]

Why Western Civilization Is Fighting Back

Western civilization is under assault. Victor Davis Hanson explores why the West seems ready to fight back. The Islamists think the West is decadent and hate the West for seducing them into its decadence. Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our […]

Waltz Hands Cuba’s Former Political Prisoners the UN Microphone. Havana Tried to Stop It

“If you’re offended by us giving a platform to Cubans to speak about these issues, how about you stop doing them?” That was U.S. Ambassador Mike Waltz’s answer to Cuba’s communist government, which tried to block a U.S.-hosted event at the United Nations featuring Cubans who survived its prisons. The event went ahead Monday at […]