FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The MAHA PAC is launching a $100 million fundraising campaign to bolster “Make America Healthy Again” candidates endorsed by President Donald Trump in the 2026 midterms. The MAHA PAC, a Robert F. Kennedy-aligned super PAC dedicated to “Making America Healthy Again,” hopes to “counter the influence of Big Pharma, Big Food, and Big Ag, which are funneling massive resources to Democratic opponents in a desperate bid to derail the transformative health reforms spearheaded by Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and President Donald J. Trump,” according to a news release obtained by The Daily Signal. “The midterms are existential for the MAHA movement,” Tony Lyons, president of MAHA PAC, told The Daily Signal. “We need Secretary Kennedy to complete the mission, the mission to end the chronic disease epidemic in [America].” The MAHA PAC has already begun its intervention in the midterms by supporting the primary challenge of Rep. Julia Letlow, R-La., against Louisiana Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy.  The MAHA PAC pledged to contribute $1 million to her campaign fund. A new poll, conducted by the Brownstone Institute and Health Freedom Defense Fund, showed that a supermajority of Americans support the freedom of individuals to make their own medical decisions. At least 80% of those surveyed expressed support for the right to refuse medical treatments and make personal health choices, as well as to protect doctors from censorship.  Without MAHA messaging, the “Winnable Middle” voters in the poll chose Democrats by a 5-1 margin. But with MAHA issues taken into account, the same voters chose Republicans by a nearly 2-1 margin, according to 2025 polling from Fabrizio, Lee, and Associates. MAHA PAC’s “war chest” will fund targeted campaigns, voter outreach, and grassroots mobilization to elect Republicans who will fight for “clean food, safe medicine, and real health solutions.” The Kennedy allies hope to counter the efforts of Big Pharma, Big Food, and Big Agriculture to prop up Democrats, the MAHA PAC says. “These industries have poisoned our food supply, corrupted our healthcare system, and turned America into the chronic disease capital of the world—all while Democrats abandon the public to protect their dwindling power,” the news release reads. The MAHA PAC says Democrats choose “hatred over hope, corruption over compassion, and chronic disease over common sense.” “By aligning with these corporate giants, they prioritize profits over people, betraying the American families they claim to represent,” the news release says. The partnership between Kennedy and Trump remains “unbreakable,” despite efforts to sow division, the MAHA PAC says. “As Secretary Kennedy has shared, he prayed for 19 years for a leader to join his fight against chronic disease, and God delivered President Trump,” the news release says. “In turn, President Trump has given America the visionary leadership of Bobby Kennedy to tackle this.” While the Trump administration fights every day to improve the food system, make health care more affordable, empower patients, reduce overmedicalization, and improve mental health, Democrats offer MAHA voters nothing, according to top Kennedy advisor Calley Means. “There’s nothing happening from the Democrats,” Means told The Daily Signal in an interview March 6. “The Democrats have not lifted one finger to reverse childhood chronic disease and all of the energy is on the Republican side, and this is worth continuing.” The post EXCLUSIVE: Super PAC Launches $100 Million Strategy to Bolster MAHA Candidates in Midterms appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Hungry dogs run faster, but Fairfax County’s leadership is so bloated that it can barely move. Contrary to what these overfed “dogs” would have you believe, the county’s problems are not the rest of Virginia’s responsibility. On Tuesday, Kyle McDaniel—an at-large member of the Fairfax County School Board currently embroiled in embezzlement allegations—emailed Fairfax families urging them to lobby their elected officials in Richmond for more funding for the county. “As the General Assembly works to finalize the state budget, I’m asking you to make your voice heard,” McDaniel wrote. “Reach out to your Delegates and Senators and tell them Fairfax County schools deserve a fair return on what we send to Richmond.” McDaniel cites a flawed study commissioned by district leaders with the Weldon Cooper Center at the University of Virginia. It inaccurately claimed that Virginia’s largest county receives only 50 cents back for every tax dollar it sends to the commonwealth. Even if the study were completely accurate, it’s surprising that McDaniel and the rest of Fairfax Schools’ equity brigade would take issue with one of the state’s wealthiest counties sharing its resources with the rest of Virginia. After all, that is precisely the type of policy they claim to support from their equity pedestal—when it’s politically expedient. Another classic example of “equity for thee, but not for me.” In December, Virginia Senate’s president pro tempore, Louise Lucas, a Democrat, criticized the study in a post on X, articulating why its conclusions were misleading. “This is false and is a number derived by only counting money we send the county directly, not services used by all,” she wrote. Lucas accused Northern Virginia localities—particularly Fairfax—of misrepresenting their financial relationship with the state. “I’m getting sick and tired of localities in Northern Virginia (especially Fairfax) spreading misinformation about being underfunded by the Commonwealth of Virginia. It’s time to correct the record and stop these lies.” “We will not be bullied or lied to by the richest community in the Commonwealth that is constantly begging us for more funding,” the liberal state senator concluded. Fairfax County’s leaders’ push for more money—and an even larger budget—rests on two faulty assumptions: that the district needs the additional funding for its schools and that spending more would improve student outcomes. Neither claim holds up. In fact, Fairfax County Public Schools has a spending problem, not a funding problem. Between 2019 and 2025, the district’s budget ballooned from $3 billion to $3.9 billion. Yet during that same period, enrollment dropped by more than 10,000 students, while private-school and homeschool enrollment surged. The issue isn’t that Fairfax has fewer children—it’s that more families are losing confidence in the district’s public schools and voting with their feet. If student performance had risen alongside the district’s rapidly expanding budget, the spending might be easier to defend. Instead, outcomes have declined. Over the same period, average SAT scores for students in Fairfax County Public Schools dropped by 35 points. In 2025, about a quarter of students in the county’s public schools failed their reading, math, and science Standards of Learning exams. In December, the state’s department of education further reported that 20% of the district’s 199 public schools were federally identified as needing support. Instead of focusing on students, Fairfax County Public Schools has turned into a jobs program for central administrators. While the district eliminated 275 teaching positions in fiscal year 2026, it is spending roughly $272 million on salaries for 2,346 non-school-based administrators. At least 44 of these administrators earn over $200,000 a year. The most shocking example: Superintendent Michelle Reid makes $445,353 annually—and is accompanied by four publicly funded bodyguards. Her chief of staff, Marty Smith, takes home $306,154. Fairfax County’s schools are failing not for lack of money, but because leadership has prioritized bureaucracy over students. Ballooning budgets, thousands of overpaid administrators, and declining outcomes show that throwing more state funds at this system will accomplish nothing. Virginia’s taxpayers should not be forced to bankroll a failing, bloated bureaucracy. If anything, the state should stop subsidizing Fairfax’s excess and let the county face the consequences of its own spending choices. We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post Virginia Shouldn’t Bail Out Fairfax County’s Failing Schools appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Rival nations are weaponizing immigration to America according to an author who investigates foreign influence in the United States. Experts gathered at The Heritage Foundation Wednesday to discuss how this works. Peter Schweizer, President of the Governmental Accountability Institute and author of “The Invisible Coup: How American Elites and Foreign Powers Use Immigration as a Weapon,” explained that Mexico uses mass immigration as an entrance for Mexicans to “reclaim” their territory and push their power in the U.S.  Schweizer quoted Mexican senator, Felix Salgado: “Mexicans are in our territory. California, Nevada, Texas, Utah, Oklahoma, Colorado, and Wyoming. We’re going to take back the territory that was stolen from us.”  The Mexican government’s December 2024 official report listed the number of Mexicans in the United States at 39.9 million. Mexico also has officials living fulltime in the U.S. who serve in the Mexican government at the same time to “represent Mexicans living inside the United States before the Mexican government.”   Schweizer also discussed how China exploits the U.S. birthright citizenship laws through their so-called birth tourism industry.   Birth tourism is when expecting mothers travel to another country so that their child has citizenship there. Companies in the birth tourism industry in China, according to Schweizer, arrange for pregnant women to fly to the U.S. for a fee between $80,000-$100,000 to have their children in America and return to China to raise them under the CCP.  But since the child would be considered a U.S. citizen, Schweizer stressed that “when they turn 18, they’re gonna be able to vote in our elections, contribute to political campaigns, and donate to political campaigns, and take government jobs.”      The post Weaponized Immigration Methods Aimed at America appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Rep. Chip Roy is demanding an “immediate” investigation into the leftist network of activist groups organizing protests against President Donald Trump’s intervention in Iran after some of the network’s leaders met with the Cuban Communist Party’s Politburo earlier this week. “That this group would openly meet with Cuba tells you how urgent it is for the administration and state law enforcement entities, including attorneys general, to immediately investigate these groups and the myriad other groups that are clearly acting against our national security interests,” the Texas Republican told The Daily Signal in a phone interview Thursday. Roy suggested that the network is “very clearly operating unlawfully in terms of their engagement with foreign interests.” “They’re on the side of Iran, they’re on the side of Cuba, they’re on the side of anything opposing America, and they’re operating within our framework in our country,” he added. “The fact that they’re openly going and engaging and sitting down with Cuba… it just tells you how coordinated the entire network is.” Vijay Prashad, executive director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, a hub of the activist network funded by Shanghai-based billionaire Neville Roy Singham, announced the Cuba meeting on X Tuesday. “Last evening, the [International People’s Assembly] delegation spent several hours with leaders from the Cuban Communist Party Politburo, including the President of Cuba, the Foreign Minister, the no. 2 in the Party, and the head of the International Department,” Prashad wrote. He further noted that he represented Tricontinental in the meeting, along with Manolo De Los Santos. “We gave the President a number of our texts,” he added. “We had a very encouraging dialogue about the resilience of the Cuban Revolution and its untiring sense of fight against US hyper-imperialism.” Last evening, the @peoplesassembl_ delegation spent several hours with leaders from the Cuban Communist Party Politburo, including the President of Cuba, the Foreign Minister, the no. 2 in the Party, and the head of the International Department. Laura, Manolo, and I represented… pic.twitter.com/IrAlgNSau4— Vijay Prashad (@vijayprashad) March 11, 2026 Santos, the founder of The People’s Forum, and Prashad form part of a network of leftist groups that includes Code Pink and the ANSWER Coalition. These groups organized protests against Trump’s ouster of Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro, and more recently against the attacks on Iran’s regime. The same groups also organized “anti-racism” protests after the 2020 death of George Floyd, and anti-Israel encampments after the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel. “What we saw, out in the open, was a coordination between the Cuban leadership, including the president and the Politburo of the Cuban Communist Party, and the leaders of the groups that organize mayhem on our streets, over Gaza, ICE, Iran, whatever cause comes their way,” Mike Gonzalez, a senior fellow for national security at The Heritage Foundation, told The Daily Signal in a statement Thursday. “Included in that meeting was Vijay Prashad, Neville Roy [Singham’s] top ideologue and a top leader of the International [Peoples’] Assembly, which was created in Caracas to defend Maduro and which includes CodePink, Manolo De Los Santos, also funded by Singham, a leader of the People’s Forum, and Brian Becker, who holds leadership positions in the Party for Socialism and Liberation and the ANSWER Coalition,” Gonzalez added. “All these groups organize chaos in our streets.” The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform voted in January to subpoena Singham, over his funding for activist groups and his ties to the Chinese Communist Party. The Daily Signal reached out to Tricontinental, Code Pink, the ANSWER Coalition, and The People’s Forum for comment, but they did not respond by publication time. The post ‘URGENT:’ Chip Roy Demands Probe Into Leftist Activist Groups After Their Leaders Meet With Cuban Communist Politburo appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Mohamed Jalloh, a former U.S. service member and naturalized citizen from Sierra Leone who shot and killed one person and injured two others at Virginia’s Old Dominion University on Thursday, was reportedly released by President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice in 2024 after being sentenced in 2017 to 11 years in prison for aiding ISIS. According to media reports, Jalloh was accused by federal prosecutors of sending money to aspiring ISIS fighters and attempting to help the terror group acquire weapons that he believed would be used in an attack on U.S. soil. Prosecutors under President Donald Trump’s administration had originally sought a 20-year sentence for Jalloh. “By putting the idea of this murder plot into religious terms, and by suggesting that murdering members of the US military would be a path to heaven, the defendant showed how strongly committed he was to the deadly ideology,” prosecutors stated at the time, as reported by the AP. However, Judge Liam O’Grady of the Eastern District Court of Virginia, an appointee of former President George W. Bush, sentenced him to 11 years in prison, the AP reported. Media reports noted that the judge’s sentence came after the defense claimed that Jalloh had renounced his ISIS aspirations. “I feel like a complete idiot for accepting such a superficial and dishonest interpretation of Islam,” Jalloh wrote in a letter to the court, as reported by the New York Post. Jalloh was released from his sentence four years early in December of 2024, according to Federal Bureau of Prisons records reported by the Post. FBI Director Kash Patel announced Thursday that the bureau would investigate the shooting as an act of terrorism. Earlier today, an armed individual opened fire at Old Dominion University, leaving one person dead and two others wounded. The shooter is now deceased thanks to a group of brave students who stepped in and subdued him – actions that undoubtedly saved lives along with the quick…— FBI Director Kash Patel (@FBIDirectorKash) March 12, 2026 The post Old Dominion University Shooter Reportedly Had Prison Sentence for Aiding ISIS Cut Short appeared first on The Daily Signal.