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Sami Winc: So, Victor, California polls or the California election results have come in, and I was wondering your thoughts, especially in LA, because there’s been lots of news this week and discussion about two things: dirty voter rolls, and then the New York Post had an article on how Nithya Raman was part and parcel to funding a social services by $600,000, and then they went out and paid or got homeless people and anybody else they could to register at that address.
And so, my question is this: How many social services do you think have done that? And what is the impact of the number of votes they can bring in in that fashion, given that Nithya Raman won by 30,000 votes over Pratt?
Victor Davis Hanson: Well, with 65% of the vote, she was third. She was seven points behind.
She even gave a tearful, teary-eyed, I lost. It’s so bad. But the point was, she didn’t—when all of these mail-in ballots came in in troves, they went out and they harvested votes. And they went to homeless people, and under the rules, they said you don’t need an address. You just get the lowest corner.
Here’s five bucks, $4. Some people said $4. And we will register you. Oh, you don’t have an ID. You don’t have a driver’s license? That’s OK. We’ll give you an ID number. Well, now that you have an ID number, now you’re registered.
Well, turn in your registration. Now we’re gonna give you a provisional ballot.
Oh, you can’t read or write or you’re too zoomed out? Make a happy face, your mark, and I’ll be the witness. And here, you can’t read them?
Here’s who you vote for. And give me the—here’s the registration and here’s the ballot, and I’m gonna take it in. And they did that all over Los Angeles to young people, minorities, and homeless people.
And they all came in to such a degree. I don’t even think she won her own district’s vote. It was all over the city in specially designated areas that they had contacts as social workers, social work centers.
And so, everybody said on the left, well, you’re a conspiracist. You think that, uh—show us the fraud.
[President] Donald Trump walked out of an interview because they said, “Show us the fraud.”
They don’t understand what the fraud was. The fraud was the legal system that was legalized fraud.
It was created to create fraud, but it was technically legal. So, in California, you don’t need a license to register to vote. If you’re an illegal alien, you can get a license. But you wouldn’t even need a license.
You can have a credit card without your picture on it. You can have anything, and if you don’t have anything, you can be given an ID number. That’s the first thing. You can register and vote on the same day, and you won’t have to show any picture ID either to register or to vote. You don’t even have to read English.
You don’t have to be able to write. You can make a mark. You can have somebody witness 1,000 times, the same person. Every single person who is registered gets a ballot. They don’t care if you’re dead. They don’t watch it carefully. They don’t care if you’ve moved. They don’t care if the names have been changed and you have two ballots.
I mentioned that before. I have children who lived here. They went to college. They married, and for years, I got mail-in ballots. Mail-in ballots. Maybe it was William Hanson. Maybe he registered under Bill. Maybe he registered under Billy, and I took the ballots and threw them in [the trash]. All I would have had to do was make a happy face and have my friend witness it and mail it in, and it would have [counted].
And that happened. And then they said, illegal aliens don’t vote. And then the question was, well, why not? If you go to the disability, they do. If you go to unemployment, they do. If you go to Medi-Cal office, they do. If you go to legal services, they do. If you go to school, they do. You’re given a registration, and you can register without a driver’s license.
But if you wanna be correct and get a driver’s license, you go into the DMV and say, “I want a driver’s license.” And you don’t have to be a US citizen. And so, then, once that happens, you get all these people that vote, and then you have people in these vote collection centers. And you don’t just turn them in.
You get the troves, and then you postmark them, and they can come in for the next seven days, as long as they’re postmarked on or by election day. And then you see if you need them or not.
Believe me, if she had been way ahead, she wouldn’t have done that. It wouldn’t have mattered. They wouldn’t have done that.
They knew that she was third. They had polls. So, that’s vote harvesting.
Then, if you go in and they say, “Well, the person didn’t sign their name. It doesn’t match the registration.” Well, if it’s 40%. So, Victor Davis Hanson, I write Victor, it’s 40%. That counts. But if it doesn’t count, you put it in the seven-day vote-curing pile.
And then you call the candidate and say, we’ve got all these votes that came in. Do you want to cure this ballot? They open the thing up and they say …
So, the candidates then go to extraordinary measures to find the people. And then they bring them in and they re-sign their name. And that’s why the ballots take so long, because they don’t come in for seven days.
And then when you have all this fraud, guess what the rejection rate was in 2024 of all the ballots that were cast in California? 0.09%. Not even 1% was thrown out, just a fraction of a percent.
In other words, they have all these people, and they didn’t do anything. They didn’t say, well, this person’s not registered. This person is registered on this name, but we have three ballots with this. This witness didn’t spell a name. There’s none of that.
They just went ahead and did it. And that was designed to do what? That was designed to get a supermajority in the House, the Assembly, and the State Senate in California. Check. To get 15 years of straight Democrat governors. Check. To get a whole generation of liberal judges appointed by Jerry Brown and Gavin Newsom. Check. To get the congressional district, not 40%, the delegations of the 52, to get it down to seven. 13% of the state’s congresspeople are Republican, and the state votes about 38%, 40% Republican statewide. And so, it worked. And then finally, why did it work? What happened to the Pete Wilson group? What happened to [unintelligible]?
The middle class, 300 to 500,000 a year, said, you know what? This is crazy. We pay the highest taxes, and we’re down like 45th in test scores. We pay the highest gas taxes, and we’re rated 49th in roads. High-speed rail is rusting. Palisades burns down. It’s not rebuilt. We passed a water bond. They took the money and blew up four dams.
They didn’t build one dam. We did a gerrymandering, anti-gerrymandering bill, and we had five Democrats, five Republicans, four Independents. And guess what? The activists, the lawsuits, the racialists, they all went in and they warped the spirit, and they did that.
And so, people said, I’ve had it. And they’re leaving, the conservative voter.
And then we imported about 10 million people over 30 years that said, I love this country, but, you know, if I say I hate the country and it’s racist and it’s horrible, the more stuff I get, and the more I’m patronized, and the more I can’t be a racist. So, they created that dependent—and I saw that when I taught as a professor.
I saw students that came in, and they were basically—I think I’ve told that story twice to this crowd. As a Latina, I don’t have to listen to “The Iliad.” It doesn’t—It’s not relevant to me. OK, I said, as a white person, your argument’s not relevant to me. And then I got—not she didn’t get chastised, I did.
And then finally, the coup de grâce was we had $14 trillion in Silicon Valley, and that took the political nexus from the LA conservative places, once conservative, to the Bay Area. And we got Barbara Boxer, Dianne Feinstein, Nancy Pelosi, Gavin Newsom, Jerry Brown, Kamala Harris, Willie Brown.
That’s what we got. And they ran the state into the ground with the money and backing of this new world juggernaut. And the whole bicoastal elite were the upper, upper Asian and white professional classes that said, I’m so wealthy now. I want to create heaven on earth. I want to get rid of fossil fuels.
I want diversity. I want to defund the police. I want to do all this stuff. And I live in Brentwood, and I live in Carmel, and I live in Montecito, and I’m safe. I’m safe from the disasters I’m creating for the hoi polloi.
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Elephant Pees In Front Of Press At Texas GOP Convention
/in America 250, Elections, Featured, Hot Topics/by The Daily CallerAn elephant peed in front of the press at the 2026 Texas Republican Party Convention in Houston, according to footage posted Friday.
WATCH: Elephant Pees In Front Of Press At Texas GOP Convention
Lauren McGaughy, Texas politics correspondent for The New York Times, recorded footage of multiple people leading an elephant through a gap between throngs of attendees and posted it on X. The convention is set to take place from June 11 to June 13.
“They just led an elephant through the @TexasGOP convention and it took a giant pee right near the press area,” McGaughy wrote.
Footage shows at least three people directing the elephant through the gap as spectators watch and record in the background. Music and speaking can be heard as the elephant, decked in a banner reading, “Unity Drives Victory,” suddenly comes to a halt and people start shouting. The camera moves downward to show the animal peeing on the floor. A woman starts laughing as the elephant resumes walking forward.
The convention comes days after Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton won the May 26 GOP Senate primary runoff against incumbent Republican Sen. John Cornyn in a landslide a week after President Donald Trump backed his candicacy. Paxton secured a 28-point margin of victory with 63.8% to 36.2%, The New York Times reported with over 95% of the vote counted. Republican Gov. Greg Abbot and Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick both secured primary wins March 3, according to The Texas Tribune.
On Friday, incumbent Republican Party of Texas Chair Abraham George lost his seat to his ex-running mate, Republican Party of Texas Vice Chair D’rinda Randall, the outlet reported. George congratulated Randall on her victory on X.
The elephant first took off as a Republican Party symbol during the American Civil War, though political cartoonist Thomas Nast’s 1874 “Harper’s Weekly” cartoon was central in popularizing it, according to History.com.
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Justin Bailey
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Murdering Thug Karmelo Anthony
/in Assassination, Commentary, Communism, Courts & Law, Culture War, Hot Topics, Marxism, News, Policy, Politics, Propaganda, Socialism, Terrorism, The Truth, Violence/by Royal A. Brown IIII wrote this only because it illustrates, once again, the idiocy of the Marxists who are part of the Black Lives Matter, Critical Race Theory movement who frame every event or activity that they don’t like in the form of racism.
This was murder and a knife with a 5″ blade was used by thug Karmelo Anthony to penetrate the sternum and pierce the heart of unarmed white teenager Austin Metcalf at a track meet.
This was hardly self-defense and the excuse by Anthony’s defenders that it was only a “multi-tool” is ridiculous or that someone tapping someone on shoulder is grounds for being murdered.
Karmelo Anthony was found guilty of murder by a jury of his peers.
DEADLY PHOTO: We Now Know What Karmelo Anthony’s Knife Looked Like, and It Was No Quaint Leatherman Multitool
By Samantha Chang
Race-hustling apologists for convicted murderer Karmelo Anthony beclowned themselves by insisting that the knife Anthony used to kill high school track star Austin Metcalf was not a “deadly weapon” because it looked like a Swiss Army Knife multitool.
The harebrained gaslighting unfolded Wednesday during a virtual panel discussion hosted by Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett of Texas.
Crockett — whom President Donald Trump called a “very low-IQ person — try to downplay the lethality of the murder weapon by claiming it was too small to be deadly.
‘So it was small,” the congresswoman said.
“Well, I would have argued the size of it alone, you wouldn’t even think it’s a deadly weapon.’”
Crockett‘s brain-dead reasoning ignited a social media backlash, with numerous X commenters underscoring that anything can be a deadly weapon if you repeatedly stab someone with it.
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Italy: Muslim Migrant Beheads Woman While Reciting Qur’an Verses
/in Anti-Semitism, Assassination, Culture War, Islam, Must Read, News, Policy, Politics, Radical Islamic Terrorism, Terrorism, Violence, Waste, Fraud and Abuse/by The Geller Report“When you meet the unbelievers, strike the necks…” (Qur’an 47:4)
Italy: Muslim migrant beheads woman while reciting Qur’an verses
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Pamela Geller
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Trump: U.S. Kills ‘Infamous’ Tren de Aragua Leader in Lethal Strike in Venezuela
/in Child Sex Trafficking, Culture War, Featured, Hot Topics, Immigration, Narco-Socialism, Narco-Terrorism, Terrorism, Violence/by The Geller ReportA force for good extinguishes a force for evil.
President Donald Trump on Friday night announced the U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) “delivered a swift and lethal kinetic strike” to successfully execute Hector Rusthenford Guerrero Flores, also known as Niño Guerrero, the “infamous” leader of Tren de Aragua (TdA).
The U.S. Department of State previously offered up to a $5 million reward for the 43-year-old Venezuelan’s arrest or conviction.
“Before I returned to office, Joe Biden opened our Southern Border to millions of Illegal Criminals, and allowed this foreign army to rape, maim, and murder American Citizens with total impunity,” Trump wrote in a statement on Truth Social. “During my Campaign, I pledged to expel these monsters from our Country, and bring Justice to the families of those they slaughtered, including the precious 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray, 22-year-old Laken Reilly, and countless other beautiful souls.”
The U.S. military has killed the alleged leader of Venezuela-based gang Tren de Aragua, President Trump announced Friday.
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Iran Will Fall Within the Year: Amit Segal and Josh Hammer
/in Anti-Semitism, Culture War, Hot Topics, Iranian influence, Islam, Must Read, News, Policy, Radical Islamic Terrorism, Terrorism, Violence/by The Daily SignalU.S.-Israeli military and diplomatic pressure will lead the Iranian regime to crumble within the next year, Israeli and Jewish American political commentators told the Daily Signal in Israel.
That is, unless “Israel fatigue” undermines the effort.
“Iran is losing $450 million [a day] through the blockade in the Strait of Hormuz,” Amit Segal told the Daily Signal, before adding that Iran’s losses on the economic, social, and military fronts have sped up the fall of the Iranian hostility.
Iran is currently weakened by American and Israeli strikes, ongoing since June 2025, which claimed the lives of the regime’s top officials, virtually wiped out its air force and navy, and damaged infrastructure, ammunition, and weaponry. President Donald Trump announced the commencement of military operations against Iran last year, citing the need to stop the regime before it reached its nuclear ambitions.
Additionally, since the commencement of the retaliation against the regime in Operation Midnight Hammer last June, about 30% of the regime’s missile capabilities have been eliminated as of March.
However, despite the advancements, the commentators said that the potential fall of the Iranian regime could be at risk because Israel is losing the support of Western nations.
Segal told the Daily Signal that the Western world’s growing rejection of Israel stems from what he describes as “Israel fatigue.” This weariness has led people to ignore conflict in the Middle East and withhold support for the war, which Trump claimed would last weeks or months.
As a result, a lack of international support plus global efforts to obstruct the Israeli military has “slowed Israel’s military progress,” prolonging the war, according to Segal.
“Israel fatigue” also has created an opening for Westerners to begin embracing anti-Israel propaganda and antisemitism.
“You wake up in the morning in Oklahoma or Washington, D.C., or New York City or San Francisco … and you keep hearing about a tiny country that is a 12-hours flight from here,” Segal said. “And then you’ll hear that they fight Hamas in Gaza, they fight in Syria, and in Iran. It’s not surprising that you might come … to the conclusion that the Israel is actually the aggressor.”
Josh Hammer, an American Jewish lawyer and Newsweek’s senior editor at large, echoed Segal’s remarks.
Segal added that the best solution to this problem is to win the war Israel is fighting against Iran, Hezbollah, and Hamas.
“I think that the best remedy for this situation is to decisively win this war and stop fighting for a few years,” Segal continued.
As seen in the recent week, Israel has progressed its campaign to win.
The Israeli military has engaged in recent air strikes on multiple fronts, including against Iranian funded radical militants occupying parts of Lebanon, the Gaza Strip, and Yemen.
After the Iranian regime fired a barrage of ballistic missiles against civilians in Israel last week, which were intercepted before they hit the ground, Israel intensified strikes against Hezbollah operatives in Lebanon. Israel then began strikes in Iran as well.
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2026 Mid-Term Elections: 5 Important Questions
/in Commentary, Elections, Hot Topics, News, Policy, Politics, Social Issues, The Truth/by Lyle J. Rapacki, Ph.D.Elections already unfolding and also about to come, may be our last. I am not being theatrical or conspiracy minded. The forces of darkness aligned against America, even by so-called Americans in the Marxist Democrat Party, intend and already are working to destroy what our founders gave us as a gift, if we would but keep it. Each American who cares about our exceptional nation, and cares that we remain a free country with the rights and privileges given to us in our founding documents, each American must put aside every distraction and vote for the candidate who mirrors the questions I posed below.
No messing around! Ask each candidate, I do not care for what office, local, county, state or national, ask the questions below and demand an answer that is not “world salad” rambling and nebulous. Demand specific answers to these questions. Have five of your friends in the audience and each one of you take a question. Hold the candidate accountable. Let me write that again, Hold the Candidate Accountable to answer your question and not give a “word salad” response.
Folks, we are in a war to preserve this nation. I am not being sensational as I wrote above. I pray Americans wake-up and come out of being “comfortably numb.” Trump, with his faults, is attempting to bring this country back to our foundational principles and beliefs. He needs immediate help in congress, and in state houses across the nation. Will you help!?
Question # 1:
What is the proper role of government?
Our Founders were clear that government was to reflect the will of the people. It is the people who give government its authority.
Question # 2:
As an elected public official, you will be required to take an oath to uphold and preserve the Constitution of the United States. When was the last time you took a serious look at the Constitution?
Can you identify one or two areas where the Constitution is being violated today?
Question # 3:
What are your views about public debt? What is your opinion of using debt and how it should be paid off?
Our Forefathers warned about debt; it should be paid by the generation that created it!
Question # 4:
What is your view on unalienable rights stated by Jefferson in the Declaration?
These are rights given by our Creator. They cannot be taken by man without coming under the judgment of Him. This will tell you much about a candidate’s philosophy.
Question # 5:
Share your thoughts on: “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
Solutions should be based on morality and virtue.
As a Nation, we seem to have misplaced the truth that government derives its powers by consent of the governed; by We the People! So very many elected officials clearly appear to have misplaced, or outright ignored, that our Forefathers sought for elected office those who would represent the citizens first, not their own careers, and they would accomplish this as “Servant Leaders.”
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The Unholy Alliance Between Islam and the Left
/in Anti-Semitism, Communism, Culture War, Elections, Hot Topics, Islam, Marxism, Must Read, Narco-Socialism, Narco-Terrorism, National Security, News, Policy, Politics, Propaganda, Queers and pedophiles, Radical Islamic Terrorism, Social Issues, Socialism, Terrorism, The Truth, Violence, Waste, Fraud and Abuse/by Amil ImaniThe progressive establishment in the United States maintains a transactional syndicate with radical Islamist factions to lock down institutional power. This structural cartel sacrifices Western secular principles, democratic consistency, and basic human rights on the altar of raw electoral survival.
The political left and Islamist organizers operate a highly coordinated machine built on mutual opportunism. Progressivism delivers mainstream legitimacy, legal defense, and institutional cover to fundamentalist groups. In return, the Islamist infrastructure guarantees monolithic voter turnout and massive financial injections into progressive campaign chests. This transaction abandons core progressive principles – including secularism, gender equality, and LGBTQ safety – to shield orthodox religious systems from public scrutiny.
An extensive analysis published by the Policy Exchange Research Group on Islamism and the Left details the deep ideological affinity and historical roots of this epistemic alliance against the liberal democratic order. The investigation demonstrates how both factions actively weaponize identical narratives of Western oppression to close down open debate and dismantle standard legal equality.
The human and societal costs of this alliance manifest through specific, systemic points of failure inside American institutions:
The internal subversion of American politics directly cripples foreign policy, causing immediate devastation on the global stage. When Western political actors validate fundamentalist rhetoric domestically, they undermine vital international crackdowns on radical networks.
This domestic collusion paralyzed the federal apparatus during critical geopolitical flashpoints. Progressive lawmakers, beholden to their fundamentalist ground operations, actively sabotage sanctions regimes and defund defensive alliances to appease their domestic voting blocs. This legislative betrayal leaves democratic allies entirely vulnerable to asymmetrical warfare, as the domestic cartel prioritizes precinct-level vote tallies over international stability and treaty obligations.
Official documentation from Human Rights Watch on Armed Conflicts exposes the catastrophic reality of unchecked Islamist insurgencies, where fundamentalist networks slaughter civilians, execute local leaders, and enforce total totalitarian control. The American progressive machine routinely downplays or ignores these harsh global realities to avoid fracturing its fragile domestic electoral coalition.
The progressive machine in the United States must face complete political dismantling. A system that trades fundamental liberties for short-term precinct victories acts as an existential threat to constitutional governance. True national security demands the complete severance of this syndicate.
For a deeper look into how these dynamics unfold on the international stage, this Debate on Left-Wing and Islamist Alliances analyzes the broader geopolitical consequences and regional shifts caused by these controversial political frameworks.
©2026 Amil Imani. All rights reserved.
$22 Million Gun Factory Relocates From Virginia to Georgia Over ‘Anti-Gun’ Legislation
/in Courts & Law, Elections, Gun Rights, Hot Topics, Marxism, News, Policy, Politics, Social Issues, Socialism/by The Daily SignalOn Wednesday, Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp announced a firearms manufacturer will leave the state of Virginia over new “anti-gun legislation” and relocate to Georgia, bringing a $22 million investment and employing hundreds of residents.
“Georgia attracts job creators from all over the country and world because we work with them, not against them,” Kemp said. “Our state’s pro-business approach, skilled workforce, and enduring support for constitutional freedoms make us an ideal home for manufacturers like Rideout Arsenal, and we look forward to their success here in the No. 1 state for business.”
Rideout Arsenal, the firearms designer and manufacturer launching the new facility, has announced it will be opening its doors in the South Georgia town of Thomasville.
“Today we welcome Rideout Arsenal to Thomasville. This includes new highly skilled jobs, new partnerships, new careers, and new momentum for our community,” Thomasville Mayor Scott Chastain said. “Most importantly, we welcome the Rideout family to our community.”
The new facility will be located within the Plantation Oak Industrial Park, with additional buildings planned throughout the next several years.
The company’s founders said the decision to locate in Georgia was made partly as a response to recent legislation in Virginia that could affect the business.
“This relocation was not something we originally planned to pursue. The reality is that recent anti-gun legislation in Virginia created a significant uncertainty for our company and ultimately forced us to look for a state where we could continue operating, investing, and growing with confidence,” Travis Rideout, co-founder of Rideout Arsenal, said. “We are excited to bring new jobs and manufacturing investment to Thomas County and are grateful for the warm welcome we have already received.”
The move comes after Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger enacted a slew of gun control measures into law, which blocked the sale of certain “assault weapons” in the commonwealth and imposed a ban on magazines capable of holding more than 15 rounds.
Spanberger claimed the legislation would make Virginians safer. “Firearms designed to inflict maximum casualties do not belong on our streets,” she said in a statement.
Spanberger, Kemp, and Rideout Arsenal did not respond to the Daily Signal’s request for comment.
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Will Western Civilization Survive?
/in America 250, Commentary, Culture War, Elections, Hot Topics, Immigration, Islam, News, Policy, Politics, Social Issues/by John Droz, Jr.This is a guest post by Mike Dee. Mike is an engineer from Western NY who is on the right side of the issues (like wind energy). He frequently writes for local papers there. I’ve enjoyed his commentaries, and asked that he do a special one for us. Enjoy!
The Woke Left seems intent on destroying Western Civilization — what liberated people from a history of servitude and poverty. In its place the Woke Left promotes Statism, wherein the people are merely servants of the State.
Western Civilization (or Tradition) is set of cultural norms developed over 500 years in Western Europe and America, with roots in ancient Greek philosophy and Judeo-Christian beliefs. It is based on the application of reason (rather than authority) and the belief in the Natural Rights of the sovereign individual — the assumption that a person has a Right to exist for his own sake, rather than to serve the collective State.
America’s Declaration of Independence explicitly defines the sovereign individual’s Natural Rights: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” This may be the most consequential statement in the history of human governance.
Natural Rights imply equality before law, and that the individual has the right (and responsibility) to choose one’s own course as long as it does not interfere with another’s rights. Freedom from Government is the core of our tradition. No kings. No commissars. No DEI. No tyranny of the majority. No involuntary collectivism. No forced socialism. No communists. No Marxism. No fascists. No specially privileged groups.
Western Tradition also believes that objective truth exists, whereas the Woke Left subscribes to Postmodernist beliefs that there are no objective truths, and that each person is entitled to their own subjective truths (relativism). They purposely delude themselves that truth is whatever they want it to be. Hence, Woke Leftism is indistinguishable from any cult religion.
The assault on Natural Rights began with the perverse ideas behind the French Revolution (particularly Rousseau) and was followed by the “Communist Confession of Faith” (Engels) and the “Communist Manifesto” (Marx and Engels). After the global meltdown of Socialism in the 1990’s, the Left came upon “Woke” and re-invented themselves as “neo-Marxists”, carrying the same tired “oppressed vs. oppressor” narrative. Their only goal is ultimate power over people.
The Western tradition of individual sovereignty directly contradicts the Woke Left’s demand for centralized control of human affairs. Under Socialism (in any form) there can be no Natural Rights and no private property; people are merely termites in a colony with no inherent value other than serving the State. History makes this clear.
Hence, the fundamental difference between the Western Tradition and the Left’s Socialism is the existence of Natural Rights. In the Western Tradition, a Natural Right is an action that an individual can take that cannot be infringed by others or by the State, such as freedom of speech, freedom of religion, etc.
A Natural Right does not require that the individual be given anything — only that the individual cannot be prevented from exercising the Right. Hence, Person A can speak freely, and Person B (or the State) cannot infringe on Person A’s Right. Likewise, Person B is under no obligation to agree with Person A, or to even listen.
In contrast, the Woke Left does not acknowledge Natural Rights, but rather recognizes only special privileges conferred by the State to specific groups. The Woke Left has made a living inventing “Group Rights” under the oxymoronic term “Social Justice”. But justice – by its very nature – can only be served on an individual basis.
Hence, group-based Rights require the State to abridge the Natural Rights of others. The best example of this is DEI, where specific demographic groups are given preferential treatment, while denying the Natural Rights of others. DEI is simply State sponsored systemic discrimination.
Because the Woke Left does not believe in objective truth, men can have babies and play women’s sports. Again, the Natural Rights of some (say, biological females) are violated to give special privileges to delusional biological males.
The nonsensical “Right to Free Healthcare” pushed by the Left is a utopian dream. No healthcare is free — somebody must provide the healthcare service regardless of who is forced to pay for it. Neither healthcare nor anything else can be free unless you view slave labor as being free and can compel someone to slavery. But “Free” always sounds good to the unthinking person who doesn’t mind enslaving others for his own selfish purposes. Neither do they ask, “how much healthcare?” Canada’s universal system answered that question by denying care and pushing euthanasia.
As ridiculous as Leftist Woke ideology sounds, it has gained a foothold, particularly among the most naïve part of our society — our young people. They have no intellectual defense because they have not only been deluged with progressive indoctrination by our public school system, but they also have not been taught the skill of Critical Thinking.
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EXCLUSIVE: Multiple Sources Confirm GOP Senator Attempted IVF Expansion during NDAA Negotiations
/in Featured, Healthcare, Hot Topics, News, Policy, Social Issues, The Truth/by Family Research CouncilAs negotiations in the Senate continue over funding for the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for fiscal year 2027, sources familiar with the situation tell The Washington Stand that an amendment that would have implemented the unrestricted use of highly controversial in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatments into basic health care for military servicemembers was put forward by a Republican in a closed-door executive session, before it was ultimately dropped.
Sources confirmed Thursday that Senators Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) and Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) offered competing amendments during a closed-door executive mark-up session for the NDAA that would have expanded servicemembers’ access to IVF treatments at the expense of taxpayers as part of the military’s Tricare health insurance program, without fully addressing pro-life concerns. The Sullivan amendment reportedly was shopped around to Republican offices, but failed to garner support because it was not clear that it protected frozen embryos, most of whom are discarded or experimented upon. The language of the proposed Duckworth amendment was said to be almost identical to language first put forward in an amendment she offered during last year’s NDAA markups. A source conveyed to TWS that during the session, Duckworth told those in the room that she and Sullivan agreed to withdraw their competing amendments and, as a compromise, to offer Duckworth’s language from last year. That amendment would have enabled Tricare coverage for “fertility-related care,” an open-ended term that could include “other information, referrals, treatments, procedures, testing, medications, laboratory services, technologies, and services facilitating reproduction as determined appropriate by the Secretary of Defense.”
The attempt by a GOP lawmaker to quietly fund IVF treatments with taxpayer dollars behind closed doors comes in the wake of the Trump administration’s efforts last year to “lower costs and expand access” to IVF by attempting to help lower the cost of fertility drugs used by women for egg retrieval. But pro-life advocates say that IVF procedures involve a host of ethically and morally problematic outcomes.
Based on CDC data and estimates from the Heritage Foundation, in 2021 alone, approximately 4.1 million embryonic children were created via IVF in the U.S., but just over 97,000 babies were born as a result, amounting to just 2.3% of the embryos created. Unused embryos are routinely discarded or frozen indefinitely. While actual figures are unknown, the number of destroyed embryos is estimated to be over one million per year, and at least 1.5 million embryonic children remain indefinitely frozen.
In addition, experts note that the open-ended language of policies like the Duckworth amendment leaves the door open for cloning, including the creation of human-animal hybrids known as chimeras. Other concerns include the lack of parental rights amid the unregulated IVF industry, in which embryos have been discarded without parental consent, the exploitation of women through surrogacy’s health risks, and the fact that the underlying causes of infertility are not addressed through IVF procedures. Experts point to restorative reproductive medicine (RRM), including NaPro Technology, FEMM, and the Billings Ovulation Method as far more effective and ethical methods of treating infertility.
While the IVF amendments allowing unrestricted IVF usage for servicemembers at taxpayers’ expense have been defeated for now, experts say that pro-life advocates must be especially vigilant that the Trump administration and Republican lawmakers who claim to be pro-life refrain from putting forward policies that harm preborn children and undermine human dignity.
“It is disappointing that, behind closed doors, Republicans continue to try to expand taxpayer-funded IVF coverage despite the fact that they have been educated, year after year, about the problems, and especially the problems with expanding IVF from service-related injuries to all servicemembers and their dependents,” FRC Senior Director of Government Affairs Quena González told TWS, responding to the source. “Not only would it be immensely expensive, but it would involve taxpayer-funded creation, storage, and ultimately destruction of human lives.”
He continued, “And this is the proverbial camel’s nose under the edge of the tent. Using the NDAA to start this experiment in the military before expanding to universal coverage of IVF is particularly sneaky because, at this stage, the NDAA is being negotiated behind closed doors to protect military secrets and national security concerns. It is concerning to learn that some Republicans are using a legitimate process to hide from public accountability and cut deals on harmful language behind closed doors.”
As González underscored, “Millions of Americans would object to expansive taxpayer funding of IVF, when better alternatives exist to actually treat (rather than artificially bypass, at great human cost to all involved) the underlying causes of infertility. The military is a fighting force to deter tyrants and protect America, not a social laboratory. Military spouses and families, and the millions of Americans who fund their healthcare, deserve better.”
When asked for comment, a spokesperson for Sullivan’s office replied to TWS, “As a pro-life senator, this is a very important issue for Senator Sullivan. He believes that there is no greater gift than parenthood and understands that some families need IVF treatment to have children. However, there are significant pro-life concerns regarding IVF treatment, many of which Senator Sullivan shares. He has worked with pro-life groups on legislation in the NDAA for years. In the current NDAA, he was trying to find a path forward on this issue that takes into account those pro-life concerns. When it was clear that Democrats would block the proposal because of pro-life provisions in the proposal, he withdrew the amendment.”
EDITOR’S NOTE: This article was updated with a statement from Senator Dan Sullivan’s office, and additional clarifications to the markup proceedings, and a clarification that Sullivan’s measure was dropped rather than “defeated” in the original version.
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How California’s Election System Keeps Democrats in Power
/in Election Fraud, Hot Topics, Marxism, Must Read, News, Policy, Social Issues, Socialism, The Truth/by The Daily SignalWATCH: Victor Davis Hanson: Karmelo Anthony Conviction Marks The End of Critical Legal Theory
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Sami Winc: So, Victor, California polls or the California election results have come in, and I was wondering your thoughts, especially in LA, because there’s been lots of news this week and discussion about two things: dirty voter rolls, and then the New York Post had an article on how Nithya Raman was part and parcel to funding a social services by $600,000, and then they went out and paid or got homeless people and anybody else they could to register at that address.
And so, my question is this: How many social services do you think have done that? And what is the impact of the number of votes they can bring in in that fashion, given that Nithya Raman won by 30,000 votes over Pratt?
Victor Davis Hanson: Well, with 65% of the vote, she was third. She was seven points behind.
She even gave a tearful, teary-eyed, I lost. It’s so bad. But the point was, she didn’t—when all of these mail-in ballots came in in troves, they went out and they harvested votes. And they went to homeless people, and under the rules, they said you don’t need an address. You just get the lowest corner.
Here’s five bucks, $4. Some people said $4. And we will register you. Oh, you don’t have an ID. You don’t have a driver’s license? That’s OK. We’ll give you an ID number. Well, now that you have an ID number, now you’re registered.
Well, turn in your registration. Now we’re gonna give you a provisional ballot.
Oh, you can’t read or write or you’re too zoomed out? Make a happy face, your mark, and I’ll be the witness. And here, you can’t read them?
Here’s who you vote for. And give me the—here’s the registration and here’s the ballot, and I’m gonna take it in. And they did that all over Los Angeles to young people, minorities, and homeless people.
And they all came in to such a degree. I don’t even think she won her own district’s vote. It was all over the city in specially designated areas that they had contacts as social workers, social work centers.
And so, everybody said on the left, well, you’re a conspiracist. You think that, uh—show us the fraud.
[President] Donald Trump walked out of an interview because they said, “Show us the fraud.”
They don’t understand what the fraud was. The fraud was the legal system that was legalized fraud.
It was created to create fraud, but it was technically legal. So, in California, you don’t need a license to register to vote. If you’re an illegal alien, you can get a license. But you wouldn’t even need a license.
You can have a credit card without your picture on it. You can have anything, and if you don’t have anything, you can be given an ID number. That’s the first thing. You can register and vote on the same day, and you won’t have to show any picture ID either to register or to vote. You don’t even have to read English.
You don’t have to be able to write. You can make a mark. You can have somebody witness 1,000 times, the same person. Every single person who is registered gets a ballot. They don’t care if you’re dead. They don’t watch it carefully. They don’t care if you’ve moved. They don’t care if the names have been changed and you have two ballots.
I mentioned that before. I have children who lived here. They went to college. They married, and for years, I got mail-in ballots. Mail-in ballots. Maybe it was William Hanson. Maybe he registered under Bill. Maybe he registered under Billy, and I took the ballots and threw them in [the trash]. All I would have had to do was make a happy face and have my friend witness it and mail it in, and it would have [counted].
And that happened. And then they said, illegal aliens don’t vote. And then the question was, well, why not? If you go to the disability, they do. If you go to unemployment, they do. If you go to Medi-Cal office, they do. If you go to legal services, they do. If you go to school, they do. You’re given a registration, and you can register without a driver’s license.
But if you wanna be correct and get a driver’s license, you go into the DMV and say, “I want a driver’s license.” And you don’t have to be a US citizen. And so, then, once that happens, you get all these people that vote, and then you have people in these vote collection centers. And you don’t just turn them in.
You get the troves, and then you postmark them, and they can come in for the next seven days, as long as they’re postmarked on or by election day. And then you see if you need them or not.
Believe me, if she had been way ahead, she wouldn’t have done that. It wouldn’t have mattered. They wouldn’t have done that.
They knew that she was third. They had polls. So, that’s vote harvesting.
Then, if you go in and they say, “Well, the person didn’t sign their name. It doesn’t match the registration.” Well, if it’s 40%. So, Victor Davis Hanson, I write Victor, it’s 40%. That counts. But if it doesn’t count, you put it in the seven-day vote-curing pile.
And then you call the candidate and say, we’ve got all these votes that came in. Do you want to cure this ballot? They open the thing up and they say …
So, the candidates then go to extraordinary measures to find the people. And then they bring them in and they re-sign their name. And that’s why the ballots take so long, because they don’t come in for seven days.
And then when you have all this fraud, guess what the rejection rate was in 2024 of all the ballots that were cast in California? 0.09%. Not even 1% was thrown out, just a fraction of a percent.
In other words, they have all these people, and they didn’t do anything. They didn’t say, well, this person’s not registered. This person is registered on this name, but we have three ballots with this. This witness didn’t spell a name. There’s none of that.
They just went ahead and did it. And that was designed to do what? That was designed to get a supermajority in the House, the Assembly, and the State Senate in California. Check. To get 15 years of straight Democrat governors. Check. To get a whole generation of liberal judges appointed by Jerry Brown and Gavin Newsom. Check. To get the congressional district, not 40%, the delegations of the 52, to get it down to seven. 13% of the state’s congresspeople are Republican, and the state votes about 38%, 40% Republican statewide. And so, it worked. And then finally, why did it work? What happened to the Pete Wilson group? What happened to [unintelligible]?
The middle class, 300 to 500,000 a year, said, you know what? This is crazy. We pay the highest taxes, and we’re down like 45th in test scores. We pay the highest gas taxes, and we’re rated 49th in roads. High-speed rail is rusting. Palisades burns down. It’s not rebuilt. We passed a water bond. They took the money and blew up four dams.
They didn’t build one dam. We did a gerrymandering, anti-gerrymandering bill, and we had five Democrats, five Republicans, four Independents. And guess what? The activists, the lawsuits, the racialists, they all went in and they warped the spirit, and they did that.
And so, people said, I’ve had it. And they’re leaving, the conservative voter.
And then we imported about 10 million people over 30 years that said, I love this country, but, you know, if I say I hate the country and it’s racist and it’s horrible, the more stuff I get, and the more I’m patronized, and the more I can’t be a racist. So, they created that dependent—and I saw that when I taught as a professor.
I saw students that came in, and they were basically—I think I’ve told that story twice to this crowd. As a Latina, I don’t have to listen to “The Iliad.” It doesn’t—It’s not relevant to me. OK, I said, as a white person, your argument’s not relevant to me. And then I got—not she didn’t get chastised, I did.
And then finally, the coup de grâce was we had $14 trillion in Silicon Valley, and that took the political nexus from the LA conservative places, once conservative, to the Bay Area. And we got Barbara Boxer, Dianne Feinstein, Nancy Pelosi, Gavin Newsom, Jerry Brown, Kamala Harris, Willie Brown.
That’s what we got. And they ran the state into the ground with the money and backing of this new world juggernaut. And the whole bicoastal elite were the upper, upper Asian and white professional classes that said, I’m so wealthy now. I want to create heaven on earth. I want to get rid of fossil fuels.
I want diversity. I want to defund the police. I want to do all this stuff. And I live in Brentwood, and I live in Carmel, and I live in Montecito, and I’m safe. I’m safe from the disasters I’m creating for the hoi polloi.
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Victor Davis Hanson
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U.S. Becomes World’s Largest Oil Exporter
/in Elections, Energy, Hot Topics, Must Read, News, Policy, Social Issues, The Truth/by The Geller ReportTrump!
US Becomes World’s Largest Oil Exporter
Salem News Channel: Overtaking both Saudi Arabia and Russia. Salem News Channel: The shift comes after years of booming US shale production along with disruptions to Russian and Saudi exports tied to war, sanctions, and attacks on energy infrastructure. US crude and fuel exports reached about 10.5 million barrels per day in May, marking the third straight month America has led the world in oil exports.
Reuters: America’s ascendancy to the top spot marks a stunning reversal for a country that was dependent on Middle Eastern oil for decades and suffered from an oil embargo imposed by some OPEC members in 1973 to retaliate against U.S. support for Israel. U.S. fortunes began to change after 2010, when oil and gas output from its shale formations soared, first making it the world’s top gas and then the world’s top oil producer…. U.S. exports of crude and fuel climbed to about 10.5 million barrels per day in May on the back of high output and the release of strategic reserves, data from ship tracking services Vortexa showed, making the U.S. the top global exporter for the third month in a row. Russian exports stood at 7 million bpd in May, according to Reuters’ calculations, while Saudi Arabia’s exports stood at 5.9 million bpd, according to Vortexa. In comparison, Saudi Arabia exported about 8.1 million bpd in 2025, while the United States shipped out 6.6 million bpd, and Russian exports stood at about 5.8 million bpd, according to Vortexa data.
Understanding America’s Energy Dominance
There’s no question White House: Donald Trump—over the course of the past decade—has played an enormous part. Indeed, in his first 100 hours this term he announced a plan to ‘unleash American energy’.
Washington Times: None of this unleashing could not have happened without American innovation via the shale revolution. Stephen Moore looks at a new study: Thanks to the shale oil revolution, the United States tripled its oil output in less than 15 years, even as the Malthusian doomsayers (and then President Obama) were assuring us that we would soon be drilling the last barrel of oil on American soil. Shale gas also helped break the back of the OPEC cartel, which, for nearly half a century, had a knife at the neck of the U.S. economy and could, by turning off the spigots, plunge the U.S. economy into a recession. Now a study shows that fracking shale oil and gas have made America rich. The University of California, Berkeley’s Energy Institute at Haas — hardly a right-wing source — has released blockbuster findings on the shale gas revolution: “It may seem like a distant memory now, but as of the mid-2000s, U.S. natural gas production had been flat for a decade, and the U.S. was importing liquefied natural gas (LNG), with plans to import much more. Then shale gas happened. Advances in hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling caused U.S. natural gas production to increase significantly, and the U.S. went from being a net importer of natural gas to being the world’s largest exporter. We calculate that U.S. natural gas consumers have saved $3.1-$4.3 trillion between 2007 and 2025, equivalent to $164-$227 billion annually”.
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Pamela Geller
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Iran: ‘If they respect Iran’s interests and act accordingly, the war will end; otherwise, it will continue’
/in Culture War, Hot Topics, Iranian influence, Islam, Must Read, National Security, News, Policy, Radical Islamic Terrorism, Terrorism, Violence/by Jihad WatchWhat’s going on between the U.S. and the Islamic Republic of Iran is not at all clear. Trump has announced that the two sides were on the brink of a deal many, many times:
He has tried to give the impression that the leaders of the Islamic Republic have taken such a beating that they are begging for a deal.
However, the Iranian leadership is consistently behaving as if it is the victor and the Americans are the ones who are begging for a deal:
That same attitude is clear in these reports from the state-controlled Mehr News Agency. Mohammad Mokhber, advisor to the supreme leader, said: “If they respect Iran’s interests and act accordingly, the war will end; otherwise, it will continue.” This is not how a defeated combatant speaks. They know how desperate Trump is for a deal, and they know they’re in the driver’s seat.
“Iran says proposed deal not finalized amid US backtracking,” Mehr News Agency, June 12, 2026, 1:16 p.m.:
“Major parts of agreement finalized despite US contradiction,” Mehr News Agency, June 12, 2026, 10:40 a.m.:
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Robert Spencer
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Trump Reveals Controversial Plan to Make Americans ‘Very Rich’
/in America 250, Budget and Finance, Economy, Government Transparency, Hot Topics, Policy, Social Issues, Taxes/by The Daily SignalPresident Donald Trump said the public will become “very rich” due to his plan for the government to have stakes in top artificial intelligence companies.
“We’re talking about giving back something to the public, and if we do that, the public will become very rich, the people in our country, because that’s the kind of money we’re talking about, and I think they’ll do that, and I think it’ll make it very popular,” he told the Daily Signal at the signing of the Secure America Act.
Trump said Friday he planned to meet with top tech executives to discuss equity stakes in AI companies. However, subsequent reports indicated that the executives had not yet received invitations from the White House. Trump confirmed that the meeting is still going to occur.
He said he will meet with “the top 12 or 15 executives very shortly.”
“We’re having a meeting with them,” Trump said in response to a question from the Daily Signal. “It’s an amazing industry. It’s bigger than any industry anyone’s ever seen. We are leading China by a lot, and you know, whoever leads that is going to really lead the world to a large extent. That’s how big it is.”
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., a self-described “democratic socialist,” has made a similar proposal with legislation requiring top AI companies to pay a one-time 50% tax in stock.
Senate Republicans have expressed skepticism at the proposal.
“I don’t think the federal government should be in the business of being an equity holder in private companies,” Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, told NOTUS.
“I’m not a huge fan of the government owning industry, and I think with this you’d combine the worst of the big bureaucrats with the Big Tech monopolist,” Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., said.
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Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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DHS Directs ICE to Deport Noncitizens Who Illegally Vote in U.S. Elections
/in Courts & Law, Criminal Illegal Aliens, Hot Topics, Immigration, Must Read, News, Policy, Social Issues, The Truth, Voter REAL ID/by The Daily SignalNoncitizens who illegally vote in U.S. elections will face deportation, among other stricter penalties, according to new guidance from the Department of Homeland Security.
The general counsel for the Department of Homeland Security, James Percival, directed the leadership of Immigration and Customs Enforcement to enforce the stricter penalties against noncitizens who vote.
Percival’s letter cites an executive order on election integrity signed by President Donald Trump in March 2025, calling for actions across federal agencies to secure the vote.
Percival also referenced the Immigration and Nationality Act, which directs the removal of aliens who illegally vote or make a false claim to U.S. citizenship.
“The importance of free, fair, and honest elections is without question. Echoing the words of President Trump, ‘the right of American citizens to have their votes properly counted and tabulated, without illegal dilution, is vital to determining the rightful winner of an election,’” Percival said in a public statement about the policy.
“Illegal voting by aliens dilutes the votes of American citizens and undermines our democracy. It must have consequences,” Percival added.
The department notes that this could allow for the removal of immigrants legally in the United States who are not citizens but illegally cast ballots in federal elections.
In March 2025, Trump signed an executive order titled “Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections,” which calls for federal agencies to act on verifying voter eligibility, election grant administration to state and local governments, information-sharing, enforcement of federal election laws, and criminal prosecution of unlawful voting.
Congress in 1996 passed a law making it illegal for noncitizens to vote. Still, jurisdictions in California, Maryland, Vermont, and the District of Columbia allow noncitizens to vote in municipal races for offices such as mayor, city council, or school board.
In May, the Justice Department announced four separate criminal complaints against noncitizens for allegedly illegally voting in federal elections in New Jersey. The four allegedly falsely certified that they were U.S. citizens on their voter registration forms. The agency’s criminal complaint alleged that the defendants cast at least one vote in federal elections from 2020 to 2024 before applying to become U.S. citizens. Also, this month, a Canadian citizen living in North Carolina was sentenced to two months in prison for voting in federal elections.
Meanwhile, officials in the states of Michigan, Nevada, Utah, Montana, and Kansas have flagged noncitizens on the voter rolls, including some who actually cast ballots.
A 2014 study by professors from Old Dominion University and George Mason University estimated that about 6.4% of noncitizens voted in the 2008 presidential election, while 2.2% voted in the 2010 midterm election.
The new Department of Homeland Security directive comes as Congress continues to debate the SAVE America Act, which would require proof of citizenship to register to vote.
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Fred Lucas
Fred Lucas is senior investigative reporter for the Daily Signal. He is the author of “The Myth of Voter Suppression: The Left’s Assault on Clean Elections.” Follow on X FredLucasWH.
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