In April 2025, U.S. Senator Dick Durbin, Illinois’ entrenched Democratic powerbroker, finally announced his exit from the Senate after clinging to power for nearly three decades. His decision to retire at 80, revealed on April 23, 2025, has unleashed a chaotic free-for-all among Illinois Democrats, who are now clawing over each other to claim his […]
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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. Just recently, the Houthis, that is the terrorist organization that controls half of Yemen and has […]
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20 Blue States Sue to Reverse HHS Cuts Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is being sued by California, New York, Washington, Arizona, Colorado, and other states over what they call the dismantling of the U.S. Health and Human Services Department. Plaintiffs in the suit filed Monday against the HHS secretary also include Connecticut, Delaware, the District of Columbia, Delaware, […]
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“I am confident that we will bring Trump’s popularity numbers and strength down if we keep at it and keep at it and keep at it.” That was Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on March 19 on PBS News Hour outlining the singular goal of Democrats who are in opposition to President Donald Trump and Republicans […]
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The 2026 U.S. Senate elections, scheduled for November 3, 2026, will see 35 seats contested: 33 Class 2 seats and two special elections for Class 3 seats. The winners will serve six-year terms from January 3, 2027, to January 3, 2033, except for the special elections, which will fill terms ending in 2029. Currently, Republicans […]
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Left-leaning federal bureaucrats aim to oppose President Donald Trump from within the administrative state, and some Biden administration appointees have attempted to “burrow in” to the federal bureaucracy by switching from “political” to more permanent “career” positions. While presidents appoint more than 3,000 people for political positions, the federal government directly employs roughly 2.3 million people, most […]
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President Donald Trump will nominate federal judges “rapidly,” he told The Daily Signal on Sunday night. “We’re putting them in rapidly and trying to get very good ones, but we need judges that are not going to be demanding trials for every single illegal immigrant,” Trump said on Air Force One. “We have millions of […]
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The national election returns last November gave the Democrats a comeuppance. They may not have lost the White House or Congress by large margins, but they cannot take solace in that. The election returns showed support for their party is dangerously eroding among the people on whom they once depended – the young, and black […]
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SAVANNAH, Georgia—Small Business Administrator Kelly Loeffler celebrated Friday’s jobs report, dismissed fears about a tariff-induced recession, and expressed optimism that the U.S. economy is “spring-loaded” for success. “Every meeting I come out of with manufacturers, they are completely enthusiastic and optimistic,” Loeffler told The Daily Signal in an interview at the Job Creators Network’s Freedom Fighters Summit in […]
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‘Defender of Girls’ and Women’s Sports’: Meet the First Federal Judge Nominated in Trump Second Term President Donald Trump nominated the first federal judge of his second administration. Whitney Hermandorfer is Trump’s choice to serve on the 6th Circuit Federal Court of Appeals in Cincinnati, Ohio. She currently leads Tennessee’s Strategic Litigation Unit in the Office of […]