THE DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—President Donald Trump accused Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota of marrying her brother during an interview with Politico’s Dasha Burns released Tuesday. Questions about whether Omar committed immigration fraud have dogged the Somali-born Minnesota congresswoman since she was elected to Congress in 2018, with the Minneapolis Star-Tribune uncovering inconsistencies regarding her marital history in a 2019 report. Trump took aim at Omar, who has attacked operations by United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) into the Minneapolis area to target illegal immigrants from Somalia after revelations into at least $1 billion in welfare fraud, some of which allegedly went to the radical Islamic terrorist group Al-Shabaab, during his appearance on “The Conversation.” “I want to see people that contribute. I don’t want to see Somalia,” Trump told Burns. “I don’t want to see a woman that, you know, marries her brother to get in and then becomes a congressman, does nothing but complain.” [Editor’s note: Omar denied she married her brother in a X post Dec. 3.] I didn’t but is your President a pedophile? https://t.co/dI5RGu4y2o— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) December 3, 2025 Omar claimed during a Sunday appearance on “Face the Nation” that Somalis in Minnesota were also victims of the welfare fraud scheme. Rep. @Ilhan Omar says the COVID-era welfare fraud in Minnesota, which amounts to more than $1 billion in taxpayer money, has harmed the Somali community who could have benefited from the program."We are taxpayers in Minnesota. We also could have benefited from the program and… pic.twitter.com/Qm0Bs4SkML— Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) December 7, 2025 “All she does is complain, complain, complain and yet her country is a mess. You know, it’s one of the worst in the world,” Trump said. “Let her go back, fix up her own country. So no, Somalia, and I was right about it.” “You know, I started complaining about Somalia long before the scandal… the horrible things they’re doing to Minnesota,” Trump continued before taking aim at Democratic Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota. “It’s incredible. They have an incompetent governor there, too.” .@POTUS RIPS @IlhanMN: "We ought to get her the hell out! She married her brother… Throw her the hell out!" pic.twitter.com/pJRrkIEMbi— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) December 10, 2025 Omar married Ahmed Elmi in a 2009 civil ceremony in Minnesota, seven years after she married Ahmed Abdisalan Hirsi in an Islamic ceremony, according to a timeline published by the Daily Mail in 2020. Omar claimed she and Elmi separated in 2011, and she and Hirsi had their third child in 2012, per the Mail’s timeline, but her divorce from Elmi didn’t take place until 2017. Omar later split from Hirsi in 2019 after marrying him in a 2018 civil ceremony before she started an affair with Democratic consultant Tim Mynett, the Daily Mail reported. Trump announced on Nov. 22 he would end “Temporary Protected Status” for Somalis in Minneapolis in response to the allegations, and also said that the influx of refugees had “destroyed our country.” Originally published by The Daily Caller News Foundation. The post Trump Accuses Ilhan Omar of Marrying Her Brother appeared first on The Daily Signal.

REUTERS—Democrat Eileen Higgins became the first member of her party in nearly three decades elected mayor of Miami on Tuesday, defeating a Republican backed by President Donald Trump in a Hispanic-majority city in the heart of his Florida stronghold. CNN and the Associated Press called the election for Higgins less than an hour after polls closed, as returns showed the former Miami-Dade County commissioner leading her Republican opponent, Emilio Gonzalez, by 18 percentage points. An officially nonpartisan local contest that normally draws little attention across the country, the Miami mayor’s race this year was elevated to national prominence as a key electoral test of voter sentiment in Trump’s political backyard. Higgins’ decisive win adds to the momentum Democrats gained in a flurry of election victories last month that dimmed Republican prospects for maintaining Trump’s monopoly over Congress in the 2026 midterm elections. It also sharpens Republican concerns about whether Hispanic support that Trump peeled away from Democrats in 2024 has since faltered. Higgins, 61, made no mention of the national implications of her victory in a statement posted to her Facebook account, instead casting it as an outcome that “turned the page on years of chaos and corruption” at the local level. Higgins is the first Democrat to win Miami’s mayoral race since 1997, when Xavier Suarez, father of the outgoing Republican incumbent, Francis Suarez, was last elected. With her runoff victory tonight, Eileen Higgins will be Miami's next mayor—the first woman in the city’s history and the first Democrat in nearly 30 years elected to the office.Congrats, Mayor-elect! pic.twitter.com/lSyZ087Xvc— Democrats (@TheDemocrats) December 10, 2025 She also becomes the first woman ever and the first non-Hispanic candidate since the 1990s to be elected mayor of Miami, a predominantly Hispanic city of roughly 487,000 people that is part of Miami-Dade County. Tuesday’s results suggest Republican strength has softened in Miami-Dade, where the Miami Herald says many historically left-leaning Hispanic voters moved to Trump’s camp last year—as they did nationally—helping him amass 55% of the overall county vote in the 2024 presidential race. In the first round of the Miami mayor’s race on Nov. 4, Higgins garnered 36% of the vote in a crowded field of candidates, comfortably finishing in first place but short of the majority needed to win outright. Gonzalez was the No. 2 vote-getter with 18%. That set the stage for Tuesday’s runoff. Neither Higgins nor Gonzalez, 68, a former city manager and retired U.S. Army colonel, started out running an overtly partisan campaign. But their showdown took on national overtones in the aftermath of Democrats’ triumphs in a slew of off-year elections last month, including the New Jersey and Virginia gubernatorial races, New York City’s mayoral election and a redistricting referendum in California. Then Trump weighed in on Nov. 17 to publicly endorse Gonzalez on Truth Social, urging Miami voters: “GET OUT AND VOTE FOR EMILIO – HE WILL NEVER LET YOU DOWN!” The Democratic National Committee countered by throwing its support behind Higgins, as did several prominent Democrats, including U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. Extrapolating national or even statewide political trends from local races can be fraught, however. Another Democratic non-Hispanic woman, Daniella Levine Cava, has been mayor of Miami-Dade since 2020 and was reelected last year even though Trump carried the county in the White House race. (Writing and reporting by Steve Gorman in Los Angeles; Additional reporting by Brad Brooks; Editing by Edwina Gibbs and Tom Hogue) The post Democrat Elected Miami Mayor for First Time in Nearly Three Decades appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Rep. Pete Sessions, R-Texas, a co-chair of the Congressional Scouting Caucus, told The Daily Signal that he is attempting to meet in person with Secretary of War Pete Hegseth to discuss the memo on the Department of War separating from Scouting America, the organization formerly known as the Boy Scouts of America. Sessions called the memo—first reported by NPR and not confirmed by the Department of War—”stunningly uninformed” about the necessity of scouting to the military. Sessions told The Daily Signal that he and his fellow members of the Congressional Scouting Caucus have sought to meet with Hegseth to “remind him and those at the War Department that the Boy Scouts of America are a value added part of providing in the past men, young boys, to join our military, in particular, Eagle Scouts at our academies to take on the top jobs of protecting this nation.” The military awards an automatic rank increase to Eagle Scouts who enlist. A 2017 post for Scouting Magazine noted that 20% of West Point cadets, 12% of the Naval Academy Class of 2016, and 10% of Air Force Academy cadets had attained the highest rank in Scouting. “On the side of men who are also Eagle Scouts, but also people in scouting, we have taught [young men] skill sets that have been very valuable to the military,” Sessions added. Scouting America, which changed its name from the Boy Scouts of America earlier this year, takes young men and young women—in separate sex-segregated troops—on hiking, camping, fishing, and adventure trips, teaching wilderness survival skills alongside civics and a hard work ethic. Yet Scouting America has faced criticism in recent years for allowing scouts who identify as transgender to join troops reserved for the opposite sex, and for requiring a “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” merit badge. These and other reasons lead the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to end its long-term relationship with the Boy Scouts and create its own scouting organization. The Scout’s ideological drift also inspired the founding of Trail Life USA and American Heritage Girls, conservative alternatives to the scouting group. The Hegseth Memo According to NPR, Hegseth’s draft memo to Congress states the military’s intention to sever all ties with Scouting America, claiming the group is no longer a meritocracy and accusing the group of being “genderless” and attacking “boy-friendly spaces.” A War Department official told The Daily Signal that “the department will not comment on leaked documents that we cannot authenticate and that may be pre-decisional.” “The Scouting movement has had a strong relationship with our nation’s military going back more than a century,” Scouting America CEO Roger Krone said in a statement responding to the news. “An enormous percentage of those in our military academies are Scouts and Eagle Scouts.” Krone denied the claim that Scouting America is “no longer a meritocracy,” noting that “badges and ranks are not given, they are earned.” He also insisted that “Scouting is and has always been a nonpartisan organization. For more than a century, we’ve worked with every U.S. presidential administration—Republican and Democrat—focusing on our common goal of building future leaders grounded in integrity, responsibility, and service.” Boy Scout Alternatives? Sessions responded to concerns about Scouting America’s apparent leftward drift by insisting that his experience of scouting on the ground does not fit that characterization. When it comes to allowing scouts to join opposite-sex troops based on a claimed gender identity, he said, “while I’m not in favor of it, I believe the laws in the states where this may be present require this, and I think we find ourselves becoming a regional organization as opposed to adopting the laws of the nation.” “I don’t think that that’s the way we think about it in most states where it’s not required,” he added. He defended having a “big tent” national approach to the issue, allowing troops in blue states to adopt leftist ideology. “Is scouting going to be a nationwide organization and be adaptive, or are we going to be a regional organization?” he asked. Sessions noted that Latter-day Saint churches “are very important to the military,” but did not comment on whether the military should consider working with alternatives to Scouting America. He mentioned sensing a “reluctance” between Scouting America and the Latter-day Saints to remaining apart. Of the memo, he repeated, “It is a mistake and will not go without a huge fight in Congress for the Department of War to continue down the path that they are on.” “The Department of war is misinformed; they have the wrong viewpoint about this issue,” Sessions said. He reiterated his desire to meet with Hegseth and the White House to discuss the issue. Neither the White House nor the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints responded to The Daily Signal’s request for comment. The post ‘STUNNINGLY UNINFORMED’: Scouting Caucus Leader Slams Hegseth Boy Scout Memo appeared first on The Daily Signal.

FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Transgender activists are “weaponizing” a law meant to protect participation in public debate, flipping it “on its head” to further a “personal vendetta” against a Georgia mom and real estate agent whom the activists previously tried to get fired, the mom’s lawyer says. Julie Mauck, the Georgia mom, publicly addressed a library meeting in July 2023, asking the library to move a sexually explicit book out of the children’s section, and warning that some pedophiles try to claim membership in the LGBTQ+ acronym as part of the “plus.” Transgender activists reached out to her broker and to the Georgia Association of Realtors, claiming that she called “the entire LGBTQ community ‘pedophiles'” and urging disciplinary action. Mauck sued, and both a trial court and the Georgia Court of Appeals struck down her claim under the Peach State’s anti-SLAPP law. (Anti-SLAPP refers to “strategic lawsuits against public participation.” Such statutes aim to protect Americans from baseless legal attacks meant to stifle public debate.) Jonathan Vogel, Mauck’s attorney, filed an appeal Monday, asking the Georgia Supreme Court to take up the case. “Should the anti-SLAPP statute be weaponized to enable cancel culture tactics like this?” Vogel asked in an interview with The Daily Signal on Monday. “Surely, it was not enacted for this purpose. It really turns the anti-SLAPP statute on its head.” “Julie’s speech at the library, that’s the classic protected speech that the anti-SLAPP statute was enacted to protect,” he argued. He called it “outrageous” for “people who mischaracterize what she said and tried to get her fired” to claim the anti-SLAPP law should protect them. Doug Turpin, president of The Coalition for Liberty, a nonprofit aiming to combat cancel culture that is paying Mauck’s legal fees, warned that the appeals court ruling sets a terrifying precedent. He noted that when courts dismiss a claim based on anti-SLAPP, the party bringing the lawsuit may have to pay the legal fees of the wrongly accused party. “If this decision is allowed to stand, any activist out there can knowingly lie about a person, get them fired, destroy their reputation, and then if somebody tries to fight back, they will be paying the legal fees,” he told The Daily Signal. “You just want to shake somebody and say, ‘Are you not listening to what happened? It’s really OK to make up a lie about somebody and try to get them fired based on a lie and that’s OK?'” Mauck, who is also involved with Moms for Liberty, told The Daily Signal. The Attempt to Fire Mauck In Georgia, real estate agents must work with a broker. After the library meeting, transgender activists Fiona a.k.a. Felix Bell, and Danielle Carmella Bonanno, reached out to Mauck’s broker, Bob Allen, to suggest he discipline her. According to Mauck, Bell is a woman who identifies as a man and Bonnano is a man who identifies as a woman. Bonanno told Allen that Mauck engaged in “discriminatory behavior towards the LGBTQ+ community” in violation of the National Association of Realtors Code of Ethics. Bell told Allen that Mauck “made a public display of calling the entire LGBTQ community ‘pedophiles.'” Bell repeated this claim in an official complaint to the realtors’ association. Allen stopped serving as Mauck’s broker, leading Mauck to suspend her business for a time until she obtained her own broker’s license. The National Association of Realtors investigated Mauck and cleared her on appeal. The library moved the book to the adults’ section. “We can confirm that, in 2023, Julie Mauck was a respondent in a GAR Code of Ethics case,” the Georgia Association of Realtors told The Daily Signal in a statement Tuesday. “She was initially found in violation of Article 10 [ of the National Association of REALTORS® Code of Ethics, the article prohibiting discrimination against protected classes], but on appeal the decision was reversed and she was determined not to be in violation of Article 10.” Problems With the Appeals Court Ruling Vogel identified two large problems with the appeals court ruling, which Judge Jeff Davis wrote on Nov. 3. “In the first step, the analysis on whether the anti-SLAPP statute applies, the court has to determine whether the statements were made in connection with an issue of public concern,” the lawyer noted. “In this case, we don’t think that statements that were made about Julie’s employment are issues of public concern. It’s a private vendetta to try to get her fired, it’s your classic cancel culture scenario.” “How can private communications made to her employer or to her membership association contribute to a public debate? These are not the types of statements that the anti-SLAPP statute was meant to address,” Vogel argued. The second step in an anti-SLAPP case, according to Georgia Supreme Court precedent, involves whether the plaintiff—in this case Mauck—can show a probability of success in the case. This represents a preliminary threshold—courts are not supposed to weigh the evidence in the case, only to determine whether the person suing has “hit the elements of a claim.” Yet Vogel claimed the Georgia Appeals Court departed from that practice. Mauck’s appeal repeatedly states that the court “impermissibly” weighed evidence in the case. “Now, we have the extreme risk to the public of cancel culture activists weaponizing this, to be able to go after people in an organized way and destroy their lives, and then say, ‘Ha! If you try to do anything to us, you’re going to pay our legal bills,'” Vogel said. “If the Georgia Supreme Court doesn’t act, they’ll be enabling this kind of precedent to be used against ordinary people,” Turpin said. He warned that transgender activists want to “silence Americans.” Neither the Georgia Association of Realtors nor Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner, the law firm representing Bell and Bonnano, responded to The Daily Signal’s request for comment by publication time. Judge Davis and Allen declined to comment. The post Trans Activists Are Flipping the Law ‘on Its Head’ to Protect a ‘Personal Vendetta,’ Georgia Mom Says appeared first on The Daily Signal.

The Heritage Foundation launched a new ad campaign Tuesday posing a new strategy and a provocative idea for 2026: “The Golden Age is a choice.” The Washington-based think tank’s mission has not changed, but their strategy has shifted. The campaign introduces what the influential conservative organization calls “Heritage 2.0.” Heritage 2.0 will focus on four cornerstones: The American Family The Dignity of Work and the Future of Free Enterprise National Security The American Heritage and Citizenship The national ad campaign, “Our Heritage is Our Future,” launched Tuesday and will be featured later this month at Turning Point USA’s America Fest in Phoenix, Arizona. It will also air this Sunday during CBS News’ interview with Erika Kirk, widow of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk. “It’s a choice to prioritize families and empower local communities,” reads the ad, accompanied by soaring music and a montage of iconic American scenes. “A choice to find dignity in prosperous and honorable work. A choice to prioritize our nation’s safety, protecting our homeland and standing strong against foreign threats. A choice to cherish the greatest gift we’ve been given—waking up every day an American citizen.” The Golden Age is a choice. Let's choose well. pic.twitter.com/v6RdfEGzrA— Heritage Foundation (@Heritage) December 8, 2025 The goal of the ad is to “reset and reframe the conversation on what’s important as a movement—and reinforce Heritage’s role as the leader of that movement,” The Heritage Foundation shared with The Daily Signal. The ad also emphasizes, “our heritage is our future,” which has been the messaging from Heritage leading up to this launch. Last month, Heritage Foundation President Dr. Kevin Roberts published a piece in The Daily Signal titled, “4 Questions Every Conservative Should Be Asking Right Now,” which foreshadowed the unveiling of Heritage 2.0. Here Are 4 Questions Every Conservative Should Be Asking Right Now: What does it mean to be a flourishing American family?What does it mean to honor the dignity of work and secure the future of free enterprise?What does it mean to have true national security?What does it…— The Daily Signal (@DailySignal) December 1, 2025 This campaign shows The Heritage Foundation on offense. It previews the year ahead, America’s 250th, and major policy initiatives the organization is gearing up to launch. Heritage 2.0 aims to remind the American people that “the key to our future can be found in the principles of our founding.” The post EXCLUSIVE: The Heritage Foundation to Promote Golden Age Vision in New National Campaign appeared first on The Daily Signal.