If you heard Elon Musk put $400,000 into the midterms and filed it under “nice gesture,” you need a new calculator. That number, if it ever existed as a standalone pledge, is already obsolete. The first official dump hit the federal filings this week at $800,475.74. That is the down payment. The menu is nine […]
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Losing an election is supposed to be the adult part of politics. You get beat, you shake hands, you get out of the way, and you let the people who actually won the argument go fight the other team. That used to be the deal. John Cornyn and Ralph Norman spent the summer proving they […]
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Co-founder of the Sharia Free America Caucus, Rep. Keith Self, R-Texas, will introduce a resolution on Thursday condemning Sharia law and aims to get a House vote on the resolution before the November midterms. Titled “Denouncing Sharia Law in the United States,” the resolution obtained by the Daily Signal will reaffirm that the “primary role […]
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Scott Bessent does not do the sympathy tour. On Canada he has been plain: the new 50 percent tariffs are reciprocity. Ottawa pulled American liquor, walled off dairy, and answered last year’s duties with its own steel, aluminum, and auto hits. Washington answered with a 1930 statute almost nobody had dusted off and a list […]
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The more you look around us today, I think a good description of 2026, culturally, economically, socially, politically, is that we are in a modern medieval world. 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, […]
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The generic ballot is the political equivalent of a bathroom scale after Thanksgiving. Everybody stares at it. Almost nobody asks whether they were wearing boots. Over the last month the headline average barely twitched. Democrats still sit on a five-to-six-point lead in most blended national numbers. One tracker has them at 48.5 percent to 42.1 […]
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Scott Bessent stood at the G20 in Asheville and said the quiet part with the manners of a man who has watched a wire hit the same lie twice. Iran does not control the Strait of Hormuz. It is in a death spiral. And one of the best allies the Iranians have, he said, is […]
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A Milwaukee judge looked at a man charged with killing three people and asked the only adult question in the room: why does the jail hand him a tablet? Thomas Zollicoffer, accused of shooting three people in two apartments on August 8, used a county device to tell someone to make a witness “stop lying,” […]
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Michigan AG Dana Nessel Invokes Esther, Says Jews May Need to Sacrifice Their Own Future to Save Humanity Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel urged her fellow Jewish Democrats Sunday to place the “needs of the world” above “our own self-interest,” arguing that Jews may need to “sacrifice” even “the very future of our own people” for […]
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We’re nine weeks from the midterm election, and we’re starting to see a lot of anxiety, frustration on the part of the Republicans. They fear the historical precedent will be the same in November, that the in-party loses seats in the House and Senate, and maybe both of them, and the Left is very triumphant. Editor’s […]