After months of negative Texas Republican Senate primary polls showing him trailing a firebrand opponent, longtime Sen. John Cornyn appears to be gaining some ground. On Monday, Emerson College Polling showed Cornyn leading 30% against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s 29% among Republican primary voters. Thirty-seven percent of…
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DC Sandwich Attack Suspect Charged With Felony
U.S. Attorney Jeaninne Pirro announced that she would pursue felony charges against suspect who allegedly threw a sandwich at a federal agent in a viral video recorded in Washington. On Sunday, video was released on social media of a man outside a Subway sandwich restaurant accosting U.S. Customs…
Time To Build a D.C. U.S. Attorney’s Office Worthy of the Nation’s Capital
For years, I’ve (Stimson) been writing, speaking, and even testifying before Congress on D.C.’s problems and how to fix them. Now, national leaders are finally shining a spotlight on the ever-present and persistent crime problem in our nation’s capital. But while they work to fix D.C.’s dysfunctional system,…
THE BIDEN BURROWERS: Exposing a Potential Deep State Threat Against the Second Trump Administration
In 2018, The New York Times published an op-ed written by a self-described official in President Donald Trump’s administration who confessed to be “working diligently from within to frustrate parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations.” Deep state actors arguably helped launch the first impeachment against Trump,…
Trump Is Right: Illegal Immigrants Shouldn’t Be Counted in Census
President Donald Trump is correct in seeking to exclude illegal immigrants from being counted in the census. Census numbers determine the apportionment of congressional seats and spending. The illegal immigrant population should not be here in the first place, so it should have zero effect on seats or spending. But Trump must go further…
State Department Accuses UK of Free Speech Violations
The Trump administration is accusing the United Kingdom of a number of human rights abuses in a negative human rights “report card” for the birthplace of the Magna Carta and the modern parliamentary system. In its annual “Human Rights Report” for 2024 released on Monday, the U.S. State…
Runaway Texas Dems Weigh a Return to Capitol
After almost two weeks of absence from their legislative duties, it appears the Texas state House Democrats who fled the state to prevent a vote on congressional redistricting may be making their return to the Capitol. On Tuesday, a Houston ABC affiliate “confirmed with multiple sources that House…
Boys and Girls to Share ‘Gender Neutral’ Open Bathroom in Virginia High School
When students return to Christiansburg High School for classes on Wednesday, they’ll find at least one large “open plan” gender-neutral and multiple-stall bathroom. Parents are raising the alarm. “I would have been mortified at that age,” Alecia Vaught, 49, who has two grandchildren at the southwestern Virginia school,…
Cuomo Denies Mamdani Accusation of Having Had Connection to Epstein
Democrat New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani has sharpened his campaign’s rhetoric with a video containing brutal accusations against his chief opponent, Andrew Cuomo—even implying that the former New York governor is connected to the now-deceased convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. “Four years ago, Andrew Cuomo resigned…
Abbott vs. Newsom: Rhetoric Ratchets Up in House Redistricting Arms Race
As Texas Republicans push to redraw their congressional map along (district) lines more friendly to their party, a redistricting arms race has broken out between governors from both parties. Texas state House Republicans’ redistricting plans could hypothetically flip as many as five Democrat-held congressional seats, an effort President…
5 Cities With More Homicides Than Washington
President Donald Trump announced Monday he’s taking decisive action to reduce crime in Washington, D.C., drawing attention to violent crime rates not only in the nation’s capital, but in major cities across the U.S. “We have other cities that are very bad—New York has a problem, and…
Israeli Strike Kills Al Jazeera Staff Member, Claims He Was a ‘Hamas Terrorist’
An Israeli strike in Gaza killed multiple Al Jazeera staff Sunday, including Anas al-Sharif, who Israel describes as a “Hamas terrorist.” Al-Sharif “posed as an Al Jazeera journalist” and “was the head of a Hamas terrorist cell and advanced rocket attacks on Israeli civilians and … troops,” the Israel…
Bomb Threats, Shooting, Arson: Report Finds Hundreds of Attacks on Churches in 2024
Although the backlash to the overturning of Roe v. Wade appears to have subsided, vandals, arsonists, and worse targeted hundreds of churches in 2024, according to a new report. Travis Weber, vice president for policy and government affairs at the Family Research Council, which released the report Monday,…
Will Trump’s Winning Streak Continue When Congress Returns?
President Donald Trump, though working with razor-thin majorities in the House and Senate, has won in almost every single legislative fight of the 119th Congress. But is there a risk his congressional winning streak will come to an end? So far, Trump’s second term has been characterized by…
The Left’s Latest Supreme Court-Packing Scheme Exposes an Existential Threat to Our Republic
Why are Democrats bringing up court-packing again? Back in 2020 and under President Joe Biden, the institutional Left would tell anyone foolish enough to listen that we needed to add seats to the Supreme Court. In October 2024, however, much of the court-packing rhetoric vanished, almost on cue….
EXCLUSIVE: ‘Pedophiles, Car Thieves, and Burglars’—Meet 5 Criminal Illegal Aliens Now in ICE Custody
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Md. Mobarak Hossain is a convicted pedophile from Bangladesh. His criminal record includes sexual contact with a minor under the age of 11 and endangering a child’s welfare in Queens, New York. He was living in the U.S. illegally until Immigration and Customs Enforcement took…
EXCLUSIVE: DHS Honors More Than a Dozen Victims of Illegal-Alien Crime
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…
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…
Texas Dems Flee Austin to Stop Redistricting
Texas Republicans are weighing legal consequences for Democrats who have left Austin to stymie efforts to redraw the Lonestar State’s congressional districts. Ahead of the Texas House of Representative’s consideration of a newly-drawn congressional map which would favor Republicans, Democrats have fled the state in order to break…
GOP Senate Hopefuls in Kentucky Keep Distance From McConnell
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…
Chemical Abortions, Sex Education: March for Life President Addresses Future of Pro-Life Movement
There has been a significant shift in the fight to protect the unborn since Roe v. Wade was overturned in the summer of 2022 with the Supreme Court’s ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. Now, the March for Life is holding state-based marches across the country…
Mike Lee’s Idea to Break Logjam on Trump Nominees Awaiting Senate Confirmation
With the U.S. Senate set to break for August recess, Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, told The Daily Signal he is pushing for action on approximately 140 presidential nominees still awaiting confirmation. While the Senate has confirmed more than twice as many nominees as it had at this point…