In the sweltering summer of 2025, Texas Governor Greg Abbott is wielding a firm grip to crush the cowardly tactics of House Democrats who fled the state to dodge a redistricting vote. These runaway lawmakers, skulking in blue-state hideouts like Illinois and New York, think they can paralyze the Texas Legislature by denying a quorum. […]
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Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. In that 1960s version of the original “Star Trek,” James T. Kirk—William Shatner—the captain of the Enterprise, remember, he went out to explore deep outer space. And the mission statement was, in part, “to go boldly where no one else has gone before.” And then, […]
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President Donald Trump plans to sign an executive order cracking down on “debanking,” a term used to describe financial institutions that selectively close customer accounts or deny services based on political or ideological beliefs. The order directs bank regulators to investigate whether any financial institutions might have violated the Equal Credit Opportunity Act, antitrust laws, […]
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Putting Guatemala First, America Last Brace yourself for the latest display of Democrat disloyalty. On August 2, 2025, Rep. Delia Ramirez (D-IL) stood on foreign soil in Mexico City and declared, in Spanish, “I’m a proud Guatemalan before I’m an American” at the second annual Panamerican Congress. Undoubtedly, this is a gut-punch to every citizen […]
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The Trump administration is working to safely return the unaccompanied illegal migrant children lost under the Biden administration to their home countries, The Daily Signal has learned. Hundreds of thousands of minors arrived at the southern border without a parent or a legal guardian under the Biden administration. The Trump administration has located 13,000 of those children, and […]
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Rate Cuts Needed Amid Rising Unemployment, Slowing Inflation The U.S. unemployment rate in July rose to its highest level since November 2021 at 4.248 percent according to data compiled by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The number of people employed also contracted 260,000 to 163.1 million, its lowest level this year after reaching 163.96 million in […]
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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 been a recent hysteria over a provocative commercial, a jeans commercial by American Eagle. It portrays the […]
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The 2028 Democratic presidential primary is a chaotic mess, with no frontrunner and a party licking its wounds after Trump’s 2024 rout. These contenders are pushing globalist drivel, weak on borders, and drunk on woke. Kamala Harris, fresh off her VP loss, joins ten others vying for the nomination. Below are their bios and odds […]
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Before Barack Obama’s CIA Director John Brennan and 50 other intelligence analysts deceived Americans in the run-up to the 2020 election by warning that Hunter Biden’s laptop had “all the earmarks of a classic Russian information operation” – and before Obama, Brennan, Obama’s FBI Director James Comey, and National Intelligence Director James Clapper falsified an […]
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Kentucky Republicans are seeking someone to fill the shoes of retiring Sen. Mitch McConnell—a figure who has been a major face of the Republican Party for decades. But in the race to replace the longtime lawmaker, the leading candidates are in a competition to prove who’s the furthest from McConnell, who at times has had […]