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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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 3

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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 2

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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 4

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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 5

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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 8

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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 8

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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 8

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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 5

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Spanberger’s Gun Control Laws Won’t Save Lives

Late last week, Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger signed a slew of controversial gun control measures into law, blocking the sale and proliferation of...

19.05.2026 4

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‘Victory or Death’ Story of French Counterrevolutionaries Premieres in US

When the newly founded French Republic tried to force submission to its regime and stamp out the remains of French faith and culture in 1793, its...

19.05.2026 8

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San Diego Mosque Shooting Exposes the Left’s Two-Tiered Outrage Machine

Monday’s massacre at the Islamic Center of San Diego was pure evil. Two teenage suspects reportedly opened fire outside the mosque at 11:43 a.m.,...

19.05.2026 10

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THOMAS: A ‘Pawn’ in Louise Lucas’ Game of Life

“I know nothing” was what Virginia Senate President Pro Tempore Louise Lucas told the Virginian-Pilot over the weekend regarding the raid of her...

18.05.2026 10

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Virginia’s AG Could Really Use a Spell-Check

Social media is having a grand time with the misspellings in Virginia Attorney General Jay Jones’ filing to the U.S. Supreme Court in the fight over...

13.05.2026 6

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Karen Bass Thinks Missing Teeth Are LA’s Biggest Problem

Last week, filmmaker Charles Curran posted a viral AI-generated video that now looks less like satire and more like prophecy. In the video—boosted...

13.05.2026 8

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Newsom to Struggling Parents: ‘Forget Rent and Groceries—Here’s a Box of Overpriced State Diapers’

California is the most unaffordable state in the union, where the cost of living is a punishing 11 percent above the national average. Rents for an...

11.05.2026 10

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Victor Davis Hanson: The Democratic Party Is ‘Gone Forever’

Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our...

08.05.2026 10

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California Spends Over $20 Million to Save Endangered Trout—Then Sprays Poison in Their Creek

Orange County, Calif. — Thousands of gallons of herbicides have been sprayed into flood channels that flow straight into the ocean—right in the...

08.05.2026 9

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Don’t Cross ‘the Big Guy’: Reflecting on Sen. Lucas and ‘The Sopranos’

I always liked the premise of the TV show “The Sopranos,” a guy stuck between “the Family” and his family. I never watched much because I...

08.05.2026 8

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Xavier Becerra: An Unextraordinary Man Desperate for Extraordinary Power

Xavier Becerra is the embodiment of the modern California Democrat: a career politician who climbed from longtime congressman to state attorney...

06.05.2026 7

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Newsom’s Fatal Flaw: A Wife Who Radiates Coastal Contempt

California Gov. Gavin Newsom is positioning himself with characteristic flair for a national run in 2028, but at least one major obstacle stands in...

02.05.2026 10

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California STEM Push Backfires: Schmitt Calls OPT a ‘Backdoor Jobs Program’ for Foreign Workers

California college graduates have been struggling to take their next steps into the career world. According to one congressman, the issue is not a...

01.05.2026 8

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Thomas: Can Virginians Count on a Simple Reading of the Law?

The Virginia Supreme Court on Monday heard arguments from Republican plaintiffs and Democrat defendants regarding the legality of the April 21...

28.04.2026 10

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Fantasy Land vs. Reality: California Debate Exposes One-Party Failure

Wednesday’s California gubernatorial debate in San Francisco laid bare the results of 16 years of one-party Democrat rule: sky-high gas prices, tent...

23.04.2026 10

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