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Virginians Question Power-Hungry Data Centers’ Expansion

Newton’s third law indicates that every action produces an equal and opposite reaction. In Virginia politics, that is showing up in the...

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Talarico Says He’s for Border Security. His Texas House Voting Record Tells a Different Story.

The U.S. Senate race in Texas is heating up, with Republican Ken Paxton and Democrat James Talarico offering sharply different approaches to border...

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After Three Senate Roadblocks, Republicans Eye New SAVE America Act Strategy

For the third time in two years, House Republicans have passed election integrity legislation, only to watch it stall in the Senate. But two officials...

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Texas Tech Lawsuit Raises Bigger Question: Who Controls the Classroom?

A national professors’ union has sued the Texas Tech University system’s chancellor and Board of Regents over policies that restrict professors...

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Virginians Wonder About Impact of Proposed Dominion-NextEra Merger

Early July brought 100-plus-degree temperatures to large swaths of Virginia, forcing most of the commonwealth’s air conditioners to whir all day and...

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The Fight to Protect American Citizenship Starts in Texas

When the Supreme Court upheld birthright citizenship, America lost a huge battle in preserving her identity. Now, Texas is fighting back by taking...

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Court Was Right to End Texas Dream Act, Block In-State Tuition for Illegal Aliens, Policy Experts Say

Last week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit ruled that federal law prevents Texas from granting in-state college tuition to illegal...

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How One Duo Uses California Voting Rights Act to Flip Red Cities—With Your Tax Dollars

Huntington Beach’s grip as Orange County’s conservative stronghold is under threat from a new court ruling. But this isn’t the first time the...

10.07.2026 5

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More Than 40,000 H-1B Visa Holders Work in Texas Amid Calls for Reform

In Texas, about 650,000 to 680,000 people are unemployed, yet more than 40,000 individuals are authorized to work in the state under active H-1B...

10.07.2026 1

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Virginians May Be Asked to Vote for Higher Taxes

Do you want higher taxes? Local politicians may soon give many Virginia residents a chance to answer that question for themselves. Earlier this year,...

09.07.2026 6

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Texas Senate Reviews Foreign Surrogacy Amid Birthright Citizenship Debate

Earlier this year, Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick announced the 2026 interim legislative charges, directing lawmakers to examine the exploitation of...

08.07.2026 2

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Virginia’s Gun Law Under Fire in Courts: Cuccinelli

Virginia’s governing Democrats made it a crime to buy, sell, manufacture, or swap so-called assault weapons and high-capacity magazines that hold...

08.07.2026 5

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Abbott Calls for Ban on AI Data Centers in Rural Texas Neighborhoods

Gov. Greg Abbott is calling for new AI data centers to be blocked from development in rural neighborhoods across Texas amid growing backlash over...

08.07.2026 4

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Talarico’s Affordability Message Faces Questions Over Past Tax Votes

As Democrat U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico campaigns across Texas touting his commitment to affordability, his legislative record tells a...

07.07.2026 4

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‘American Patriarch’ Tells George Washington’s Tale

As the United States marks its semiquincentennial, a new biography reminds us why George Washington was eulogized by “Light Horse Harry” Lee in...

03.07.2026 6

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Virginia’s Drought Drags On

Almost all of Virginia remains under a drought advisory ahead of the hot July 4 holiday weekend. Rainfall earlier this week provided some relief in...

01.07.2026 5

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New Virginia Laws Effective This Summer: What You Need to Know

Virginia’s gas tax is set to increase on July 1, and that isn’t the only new law that will take effect this summer. One of the legal changes is...

30.06.2026 8

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Central Ohio Data Center Will Have Its Own Power Plant

THE CENTER SQUARE—An Ohio state board has approved a natural gas-powered electric generation plant in Licking County to serve a data center, saying...

30.06.2026 6

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EXCLUSIVE: Monsanto SCOTUS Victory Sparks MAHA Revolt—EPA’s Glyphosate Response Revealed

Despite the backlash since Thursday’s Supreme Court ruling shielding Monsanto from liability, the Environmental Protection Agency is pushing ahead...

29.06.2026 4

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Virginia’s Gas Tax Increase: What Drivers Need to Know

Drivers in the commonwealth will pay more for gas beginning on Wednesday. This isn’t because of the recent legislative budget deal. It isn’t...

29.06.2026 7

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Newsom Wants the Jacobins Cheering and the Billionaires Staying

Gavin Newsom has discovered the limits of his own revolution. After the California governor’s opposition failed to keep a union-backed wealth tax...

27.06.2026 4

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Richmond Hosts an Early Birthday Party With ‘IllumiNATION’

Virginia was at the forefront of American history back in 1776, and it remains ahead of the curve as Independence Day approaches next week. This...

26.06.2026 7

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EXCLUSIVE: EPA’s Zeldin Exposes China as Top Smuggler of Dangerous Pesticides at CA Ports

LONG BEACH, Calif.—Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin on Thursday put China on notice, naming it the No. 1 source of illegal...

26.06.2026 4

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California Demands Proof You’re LGBT for Contracts—But Not Proof You’re a Citizen to Vote

California has achieved something almost impossible in the annals of bureaucratic absurdity: It has made citizenship easier to assert for voting than...

26.06.2026 7

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Sacramento Dems Ban Glocks Before They’re Illegal—And Release Criminals After They Are

California’s Assembly Bill 1127 is sold as gun safety. In reality, it is the Sacramento Democrats engaging yet again in their favorite sport:...

24.06.2026 7

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Virginia Democrats Finalize Sweeping Budget Deal

Virginia’s governing Democrats played let’s make a deal to pass a two-year budget that will take effect next week. The state lawmakers opted to...

23.06.2026 8

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Millionaire ‘Lilo’ Star Died Homeless—Progressive Compassion Is the Problem

A 35-year-old woman was found wasting away to skin and bones on Los Angeles’ Skid Row, barely conscious on the floor of a fetid tent, nodding in and...

19.06.2026 10

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Georgia Lawmakers Meet for Redistricting, Vote-Tallying Dilemmas

Following the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Louisiana v. Callais, Georgia lawmakers on Wednesday are meeting in a special session to debate the...

17.06.2026 10

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The Wannabe Leftist Trump: How Gavin Newsom Is Playing the Persecution Card

Gavin Newsom would have you believe he is now the brave victim of a Trump-orchestrated reign of terror. In a self-pitying video released this week,...

16.06.2026 10

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Virginia State GOP Voids Lynchburg Primary Results

Voters in Lynchburg, Virginia, can expect a large slate of candidates for the three city council seats that will be on the ballot in November....

16.06.2026 9

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Newsom Calls Trump ‘Biggest Loser’ on 80th Birthday as President Negotiates Iran Deal

In ancient Athens at the height of the Peloponnesian War, the politician Cleon rose as the archetype of the demagogue. Thucydides, the great historian...

15.06.2026 10

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Ben Carson Brings American History to Cartoon in ‘Star Spangled Adventures: The Movie’

Dr. Ben Carson is showing that the classroom isn’t the only place children can learn about the Lewis and Clark expedition and the Declaration of...

12.06.2026 10

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Newsom Doubles Down on Sanctuary Policies as Ireland Explodes Over Migrant Violence

On June 8, in Belfast, Northern Ireland, a 30-year-old Sudanese asylum seeker named Hadi Alodid allegedly stabbed 44-year-old local Stephen Ogilvie...

12.06.2026 7

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California Is America’s Banana Republic

Historically, a “banana republic” is a derisive term for small, unstable nations in Latin America dominated by a corrupt ruling clique. These...

10.06.2026 10

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Virginia Budget Debate Turns Public Amid Data Center Dispute

The Center Square—Virginia budget negotiations spilled into public view last week as top Democratic leaders publicly clashed over data center policy...

10.06.2026 8

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Lawmakers Weigh Dominion-NextEra Deal

The Center Square—Virginia lawmakers on Tuesday questioned whether state regulators have enough time and authority to fully review Dominion...

10.06.2026 9

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California’s GOP on Cusp of a Nominee, but Dems Still Favored to Win Big in Governor’s Race

A Republican appears set to make the November ballot, but California’s Democrat supermajority isn’t going anywhere. Experts predict a Democrat...

09.06.2026 8

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Georgians Will Pay More at the Pumps Beginning Wednesday

The Center Square—Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp will not extend the motor fuel tax suspension that expires at 11:59 p.m. on Tuesday, the governor’s...

03.06.2026 10

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Collins, Dooley Spar During Debate

The Center Square—Georgia Republican U.S. Senate candidate Derek Dooley took a jab from U.S. Rep. Mike Collins on immigration, while Dooley took a...

03.06.2026 10

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Virginia, Other States Pay Price for New York’s Lax CDL Law

Late last month, a bus driver plowed into a line of stopped cars on Interstate 95 in Virginia, killing a family of four traveling to a wedding in...

02.06.2026 10

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Group Calls on Cleveland to End Race-Based Contract Programs

By David Beasley (The Center Square)—A nonprofit Ohio-based think tank is demanding Cleveland end what the organization calls its race-based...

02.06.2026 10

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If 2 Dems Advance in CA Gov’s Race, Conservative Vote Split Will Be a Key Factor

Tuesday is decision day in California. Voters head to the polls in the state’s top-two “jungle” primary, a system in which every candidate...

01.06.2026 10

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Newsom’s Reign of Madness: California’s Modern-Day Caligula

Just as the deranged Roman emperors—Caligula, Nero, and Commodus—turned the empire’s treasury and laws into weapons against their own people,...

31.05.2026 10

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Spanberger Vetoes Women-Owned and Minority-Owned Businesses Bill—Says Didn’t Go Far Enough

As Democrats continue to hemorrhage support among white voters, legislation passed by Virginia’s Democratic-controlled Legislature offers a...

29.05.2026 10

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Dr. Oz Visits the Buckeye State, Discusses Fraud Focus

Officials have long promoted a partnership between state and federal governments, and that came to fruition this week as Dr. Mehmet Oz, administrator...

28.05.2026 10

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Virginia Bishop Urges Catholics to Vote ‘No’ on State Abortion, Same-Sex Marriage Referendums

During a recent episode of his “Walk Humbly” podcast, the Bishop of Arlington, Virginia, Michael Francis Burbidge, spoke out against two proposed...

27.05.2026 10

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Why California Proves the Extreme Left Is Now the Democrat Mainstream

The Democratic Party did not merely drift left over the decades, as some still politely maintain. It was captured, body and soul, by its radical...

27.05.2026 10

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Duffy’s ‘Great American Road Trip’ Promotes American Culture

Road trips are quintessentially American. What’s more America than a family packing into an SUV and driving hundreds of miles across state borders,...

23.05.2026 10

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Newsom Expanded Medi-Cal While California Kids Lost Local Pediatric Beds, Report Reveals

Despite Gov. Gavin Newsom expanding Medi-Cal to record levels, community hospitals across California have been closing pediatric inpatient units,...

22.05.2026 10

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Newsom’s Budget Houdini Act: All Smoke, Mirrors, and Wishful Thinking

Gavin Newsom has once again pulled off a dazzling feat of financial gymnastics. In his May 14 revised budget for fiscal year 2026-27, California’s...

20.05.2026 10

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