FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—It was a warm summer night in New Jersey, and Maria Santos Pleitez was driving her 11-year-old daughter and her daughter’s friend to get milkshakes when a drunken driver slammed into Pleitez’s vehicle, killing her and her daughter. The other girl was injured, but survived…
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South Carolina Governor Hopeful Calls for Erasing Sole Dem House District
Rep. Ralph Norman, a South Carolina Republican running for governor, is calling for congressional redistricting to flip the Palmetto State’s sole Democrat district. Flipping the seat, currently held by Democrat veteran and former House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn, would be nothing short of a sucker punch to the…
Murder, Rape, and Robbery Rates Fall, New FBI Date Shows
New FBI data shows crime rates fell in 2024, with violent crime as a whole falling by 4.5% compared with 2023. The FBI estimates a violent crime occurred about every 26 seconds in the U.S. last year. “We are not letting up. We have multiple operations going…
Will GOP Cuts to Public Broadcasting, Foreign Aid Make Liberals Generous Again?
Before politics overwhelmed the word, the primary meaning of “liberal” was “generous.” President Donald Trump and the Republican Congress have given political liberals a chance to take that meaning back—by opening their wallets to show just how much they value NPR, PBS, and other programs defunded by the…
Trump to Settle on New Fed Governor by End of Week
President Donald Trump said he would select a new Federal Reserve governor before the end of the week. At a White House event Tuesday in which Trump signed an executive order about preparations for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics, a reporter asked Trump whether he had chosen a…
Texas AG’s Ultimatum to Missing Democrats: Return or Risk Ouster
Texas state House Democrats again refused to return for state legislative business Tuesday, prompting Republicans to issue an ultimatum—come back to the Capitol by Friday or risk removal from office. Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office released a statement Tuesday that “he will pursue a court ruling…
Arizona’s Biggs Pushes to Declare National Debt Emergency
Rep. Andy Biggs, a Republican House Freedom Caucus member running for governor of Arizona, plans to introduce a resolution Tuesday to declare the national debt a threat to the nation’s security. The resolution is a statement that the House of Representatives “recognizes that the national debt is a…
Stop Funding the Opposition: Conservatives Must Cut Ties with TFA
Stop giving money to your adversaries. This should seem like an obvious rule of politics. But until the Trump administration went after funding for NPR, USAID, and other leftist organizations, conservatives couldn’t seem to stop handing taxpayer dollars to activists determined to undermine their principles. While Trump has…
Texas Republicans Threaten to Have Democrats Who Fled State in Redistricting Fight Arrested
The Texas House of Representatives voted Monday to force Democrats who fled the state in an attempt to prevent congressional redistricting to return to the state Capitol under threat of arrest. On Monday, dozens of Texas Democrats were in Democrat enclaves such as Illinois, New York, and Massachusetts,…
WATCH: Mother Responds to ‘Nightmare’ Hostage Propaganda Video
“I can’t stand, and I can’t walk to the bathroom,” Rom Braslavski says through tears in a hostage propaganda video released over the weekend. Hamas took Braslavski hostage from the Nova Music Festival in Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. His family gave permission Sunday for the video…