When President Donald Trump signed an executive order prioritizing production of the pesticide glyphosate, conservative influencer Alex Clark received hundreds of messages from Make America Healthy Again advocates saying they would no longer vote Republican.  “I have received hundreds of DMs saying I’m either not voting in the midterms or I’m considering not voting because this was such a massive issue,” Clark told The Daily Signal.  Removing pesticides and chemicals from the food supply is a top issue for MAHA voters, and many became disillusioned after Trump’s executive order said that glyphosate producers should have “immunity” under the Defense Production Act. “Half of them are thinking they’re not even voting at all because they’re very unhappy about the pesticide issue,” Clark said. “Half are probably still willing to vote red.” “But as far as 2028 goes, that’s not in the bag at all,” Clark said. “And if anybody on the right is thinking that we have MAHA voters in the bag for 2028, they are sorely mistaken, and they are in for a rude awakening.”  According to Clark, the GOP is in a “situationship” with MAHA voters, and if the GOP doesn’t keep its promises to them, they will flock to Democrats who make MAHA promises.  Calley Means, a top advisor to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., told The Daily Signal the Trump administration is already doing what it must to win over MAHA voters. “The concern about children’s health from voters is loudly heard in the Trump administration,” Means said in an interview, “and Secretary Kennedy is working throughout the government to drive solutions.” The Trump administration is working to ensure farmers can thrive while also working to reduce contaminants in food, according to Means. “The government has just committed over a billion dollars to driving innovation and research towards an agriculture system we all want, which is an agriculture system that continues innovating and reduces dependence on chemicals that produce negative health outputs,” Means said. “That’s what everybody wants, and the Trump administration is ensuring farmers have the tools they need right now, while putting innovation initiatives into overdrive to build a better future.” “It is a fact that 99% of corn is sprayed with glyphosate right now in the United States, and that chemical is needed for farmers right now, and it is also true that we were working and should innovate towards a better future, which Bobby Kennedy is doing,” Means continued. There have been historic successes in the first year, and much remains to be done, Means said. So far, the Trump administration has changed the childhood vaccine schedule, updated the food pyramid, worked to phase out petroleum dyes from food, and launched Operation Stork Speed to improve the quality of infant formula. But MAHA activists want more, and getting pesticides out of food is at the top of their priority list.  “We will be pushing every single day to deliver tangible benefits, to improve our food system, to make health care more affordable, to empower patients, to reduce overmedicalization, to improve mental health,” he said, “to accomplish the core agenda items that the MAHA voters have made clear are important.” Democrats, on the other hand, are offering MAHA voters nothing, according to Means. “There’s nothing happening from the Democrats,” he said. “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 Republican party can’t afford to lose MAHA voters, according to Jay Richards, MAHA advocate and vice president of social and domestic policy at the Heritage Foundation.  “It would be a disaster for Republicans if the MAHA vote was either lost or suppressed in the midterm elections, because the numbers are almost certainly sufficient to win or lose on the margins of almost any local or national election,” Richards told The Daily Signal. “I think that it’s one of the most energetic parts of the current Republican base, and it would be a self-inflicted wound if Republicans didn’t understand how important that is.”  A new poll, conducted by the Brownstone Institute and Health Freedom Defense Fund, showed that a supermajority of Americans support freedom for individuals to make their own medical decisions. At least 80% of those surveyed expressed support for the rights to refuse medical treatments and make personal health choices, and to protect doctors from censorship.  Richards said the addition of MAHA voters to the MAGA coalition is “one of the most important political realignments” of the last generation. “If the White House and Republicans are able to meet those and respect them, I think that contingent of voters will continue to support Republicans,” Richards said, “but I don’t think the Republican Party should treat them as a base that’s going to stick with them, no matter what.”  Most MAHA voters understand that an outright ban on glyphosate is not realistic and would harm farmers, but Richards said the Trump administration needs “a well thought out plan to make it easier for farmers and consumers to get affordable food without a large amount of glyphosate contaminant on it.” “If the White House and Republicans can thread that needle, I think even the frustration over the executive order could dissipate between now and the election,” Richards said.  MAHA Institute co-president Mark Gorton said voters who look at the whole of what Kennedy is doing are not going to drop their support of him because of the glyphosate order. “If you just look overall at the work that Secretary Kennedy and his team are doing, if people are paying attention,” Gorton told The Daily Signal, “they’re really working to profoundly change our health system and remove the corporate capture in a way we have not seen in generations or American history.”  Gorton, a registered Democrat who supports the president due to this MAHA policy, said Democrats oppose the MAHA agenda, even on common sense issues. “Democrats only seem to be leaning into the corporate capture by Big Pharma, spouting Big Pharma talking points on vaccines, and everything else,” he said. “Whatever President Trump And Secretary Kennedy do, the Democrats support the opposite, even on issues that where that’s idiotic, and so as much as the Republican party may not be delivering 100% for MAHA, I mean, the Democrats are determined to do worse.” To keep MAHA voters, the Republican Party needs to deliver on policy issues, said Gorton. Gorton has seen a lot of action on the executive level, but said Republicans in Congress need to step up their game.  “Congress is, to a reasonable extent, still bought by corporate interests, and you see that there are pushbacks on a lot of MAHA issues, and so it would be nice to see Congress really delivering and passing meaningful legislation on some of these fronts,” Gorton said.  MAHA voters have had a “prominent seat at the table during the Trump administration,” Means said. “The Trump administration has driven historic victories for those voters,” he said. The post The MAHA Vote Could Decide the Midterms. What Can Trump Do to Secure It? appeared first on The Daily Signal.

America’s mainstream media mostly ignored Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard’s detailed warning about the growing threat of Islamization in the United States, which was issued a few days before Christmas last year during a Turning Point USA event. Conservative media like The Daily Caller devoted significant space to the speech, but a search of The New York Times website, for example, turned up no references to the former Democratic congresswoman’s remarks despite the fact that it included this stunningly direct admonition: “There is a threat to our freedom that is not often talked about enough, and it is the greatest near and long-term threat to both our freedom and our security, and that is the threat of Islamist ideology. It is propagated by people who not only do not believe in freedom; their fundamental ideology is antithetical to the foundation that we find in our Constitution and Bill of Rights, which is that our Creator endowed upon us inalienable rights, the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” Gabbard pointed to a conference earlier in 2025 in which the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) “issued a call to action to use the American legal and political systems to overthrow the United States government. This Islamist ideology is a direct threat to our freedom because, at its core, it is a political ideology that seeks to create a global Caliphate that governs here in the U.S., in America, threatening Western civilization—[it is] governance by Sharia law.” Sharia law is the civil and religious law prescribed by the Islamic religion’s Koran to regulate public and private life. Among much else, Sharia sanctions husbands treating wives as slaves, justifies Islamic men raping non-Islamic women, requires the death penalty for those who identify as homosexual, death by stoning for adulterers, and forces non-Muslims to convert or face death by beheading. By failing to recognize and take decisive action to defeat this threat, Gabbard predicted, “we will find ourselves in a place where many European countries and countries like Australia have found themselves. Countries where you can get arrested for praying silently on a street corner, as happened in the U.K. Countries where you can be arrested for putting up a social media post.” “In places like Dearborn, Michigan, and Minneapolis, Minnesota, clerics are openly pushing this Islamist ideology, trying to recruit and radicalize young people. This is already underway in places like Houston. This is not something that may possibly happen. It is already happening here within our borders. Paterson, New Jersey, is proud to call themselves the first Muslim city. They are working to implement in their own governments these Islamic principles that are forced on people through the use of laws or violence,” Gabbard said. The big mainstream media outlets like the Times weren’t talking about Gabbard’s warning last year, but other people across the nation have been and are now talking and acting. As The Washington Stand recently reported, the newly organized Sharia-Free America Caucus in the House of Representatives was announced the same week as Gabbard’s address but has since quickly swelled its membership to 43 Members, an unusually swift recruitment success. That success came despite, Co-Chairman Keth Self (R-Texas) told The Washington Stand, the fact that he “hasn’t even made a complete pitch yet.” Among those joining the caucus was Rep. Brandon Gill (R-Texas), whose district stretches from Oklahoma’s southern border almost to the far-North Dallas suburbs. Gill, in an interview with TWS, pointed to Ndiaga Diagne, the naturalized U.S. citizen from Senegal who murdered three people and wounded more than a dozen in Austin, Texas, in the early morning hours of March 1. “That was somebody who clearly had no business being in America, who was wearing a sweatshirt that said ‘Property of Allah’ and a tee-shirt with an Iranian flag, who was clearly an Islamist terrorist. The American people are waking up and saying why in the world are these people in my community,” Gill said. “The problem is across the country, and there are particular epicenters that include the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex, Minnesota, and then a few other localities and states, but this is fundamentally an immigration issue that needs to be tackled on the federal level,” Gill continued. Traditionally, American immigration policy required new arrivals to assimilate fully, to adopt and support this country’s political principles of freedom of speech and religion, learn the language, and become independent productive citizens. “That hasn’t happened for a long time,” Gill said. “Political Islam is incompatible with the American way of life. We should not be importing people from the Islamic world. It is idiotic and suicidal.” Gill deferred when asked if he would support federal legislation that would ban residential developments like the massive The Meadows/EPIC City and others like it elsewhere that are designed, marketed, and sold as Muslim-only jurisdictions in which Sharia law is intended to replace every other legal authority. “I think there are a lot of things that you can do, but again, the root problem is immigration, making sure that people coming here adhere to ideologies that are assimilable, as opposed to unassimilable worldviews like Islam. But I do think there are real problems with creating Islamic cities within our own country, creating these parallel societies that adhere to Sharia legal codes. The federal government has a clear role in banning Sharia law,” he said. Asked if it’s feasible to seek such an outcome in the current political atmosphere, Gill said that is the purpose of the Sharia-Free America Caucus, and he pointed to the rapid accumulation of more than 40 members. “Getting 40 congressmen on board with any particular policy is a big step in the right direction, especially this early in the game. I do think there is a political path to that, but it is something we are going to have to continue pushing hard for,” he said. Asked about reports of growing numbers of Muslim candidates seeking local public offices in Texas, Gill said he was told recently by a constituent. “We ought to be aware that it’s happening everywhere. I can tell you in my district in one of the small towns, one of the very small towns, I was speaking to a city official in the past three weeks who was telling me they’ve got issues where there are Islamic centers popping up and who are wanting to blast calls to prayer. This is in rural North Texas. This isn’t big-city Dallas, this is happening everywhere and the time to stop it is now,” Gill declared. We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post Media Ignored Gabbard’s 2025 Islamization Warning, but Hill GOPers Are Taking Action appeared first on The Daily Signal.

“Celebrate your country by seeing your country.”  With that message to Americans, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy kicked off a new national campaign Friday at Union Station in Washington, D.C.—one designed to remind Americans that the freedom to move has always been at the heart of the American story. As the nation celebrate its 250th birthday this year, the U.S. Department of Transportation unveiled “Freedom Moves You,” a sweeping initiative tied to the nationwide Freedom 250 celebration marking the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.  “Now more than ever, our nation needs to unite around the shared principles our founding fathers enshrined in 1776. America’s 250th birthday is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to bring people together, cherish our national heritage, and inspire the next generation of patriots,” Duffy said. “From artwork that inspires a national conversation about civics to helping families hit the road this spring, this department is committed to keeping the flame of liberty and independence alive for another 250 years.”  Airports, highways, train stations, bus stops, and transit networks will showcase ads like this one. (Erin Granzow for The Daily Signal) The initiative aims to inspire Americans to rediscover their country—not just through textbooks, but by experiencing it firsthand.  Transportation at the Foundation of Our History   From dirt roads traveled by the Founding Fathers to the interstate highways that now spread across the continent, America’s modes of transportation have carried the nation forward for nearly two-and-a-half centuries.  “Freedom moves you. Whether it’s planes, trains, or automobiles, we all move through transportation,” Duffy told hundreds of people gathered in Union Station’s Main Hall. “America’s story is a story of movement. From the earliest days of our republic, the ability to travel, trade, and explore helped define what freedom means in this country.”  ? ? WATCH @SecDuffy, @MonicaCrowley, and other transportation leaders LIVE from Union Station as USDOT unveils “FREEDOM MOVES YOU”- a nationwide campaign with @Freedom250 ?? ?? https://t.co/j866Ax9MPt— U.S. Department of Transportation (@USDOT) March 6, 2026 Joining Duffy at Union Station were Ambassador Monica Crowley, chief of protocol of the United States; Bud Denker, president of Penske Corp.; Anna Bager, president and CEO of Out of Home Advertising Association of America; and Eliot Hamlisch, executive vice president and chief commercial officer for Amtrak. They stood with other transportation leaders and partners helping bring the campaign to life.  “This campaign is freedom in motion,” Crowley said. “As Americans travel, it will remind us of our extraordinary, shared history and renew a sense of tremendous pride in our exceptional country during our big 250th birthday year.” What Is Freedom Moves You? Duffy credited The Heritage Foundation for its role in the campaign. Last year, Heritage began developing the creative concepts and ads that would eventually become the centerpiece of Department of Transportation initiative.  “I specifically want to give a shout out to The Heritage Foundation, who helped craft these images,” Duffy said. “They didn’t do this under contract. They didn’t ask for money. They said, ‘You know what? We want to help celebrate America’s birthday. We want to develop these images that are going to bring people’s minds back to civics.’”  Heritage is honored to have played a role in @SecDuffy’s @USDOT “Freedom Moves You” campaign celebrating America’s 250th birthday. Keep an eye out for these visuals in transportation stations and on buses, trains, and airplanes across the country between now and Independence Day. pic.twitter.com/JXxkRsGc5i— Heritage Foundation (@Heritage) March 6, 2026 Heritage donated the work to the department, which will now display them across American’s vast transportation system.   The campaign will feature Freedom 250 branding across America’s airports, bus stops, train stations, and highways. Americans will see them on Amtrak, FlixBus routes, Brightline high-speed rail lines, and multiple airlines. The goal is simple: meet Americans where they already are—on the move. National and local leaders joined Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy at Union Station in Washington, D.C. (Erin Granzow for The Daily Signal) Speakers at Friday’s event said the campaign is about far more than tourism. It’s about reconnecting Americans with the various places where the nation’s story took root—cities, small towns, and highways that together form the backbone of the American experience.  The Campaign’s Goal  At a time when civic knowledge remains alarmingly low—recent surveys show only about 30% of Americans can correctly identify the three branches of government—supporters hope the campaign might also spark renewed curiosity about the nation’s history and founding principles.  “Transportation has always been about more than roads and bridges,” Duffy said. “It’s about connecting people to opportunity, to one another, and to the history that defines us.”  The campaign is part of a broader national effort coordinated by the U.S. Semiquincentennial Commission, which is organizing events across the country to commemorate America’s 250th anniversary in 2026.   Federal agencies, state governments, private organizations, and local communities are expected to host events, festivals, and educational programs throughout 2026.  Love seeing the America 250 makeover at Union Station today! Congrats to @SecDuffy and the @USDOT team for celebrating our country’s history in style at some of the biggest transportation hubs. Made possible thanks to a generous gift from @Heritage. pic.twitter.com/PXGMV6e1lI— Rob Bluey (@RobertBluey) March 6, 2026 For the Department of Transportation, however, the message behind Freedom Moves You is ultimately a personal one.  America’s story, Duffy said, isn’t confined to museums or history books. It lives in the roads Americans drive, the railways that connect cities, and the landscapes that generations have traveled in pursuit of opportunity and liberty.  As the nation approaches this historic anniversary, the department hopes millions of Americans will take that message to heart—getting behind the wheel, boarding a train, or booking a flight to explore the country that has been in motion since 1776.  Because sometimes the best way to understand America is to travel through it.   The post A Nation on the Move: New Campaign Celebrates 250 Years of American Freedom  appeared first on The Daily Signal.

What if history wasn’t something you only read about—but something you could walk through?  What if the stories of Scripture rose from the page and surrounded you—etched into stone streets, carved into ancient ruins, whispered through the landscapes where God moved in history?  An exciting new venture, Sojourn, has officially launched as outreach of Good Comma Classroom, expanding its mission beyond writing instruction to an immersive, Gospel-centered travel program that deepens your understanding of the Good News.  Carrying the slogan “Learn the past. Lead the future.” Sojourn is the rebranding of the former Good Comma Classroom travel program. It organizes pilgrimages to biblical and historically significant sites, inviting students and adults alike to walk in the footsteps of the saints.   The name reflects its vision: a “sojourn” is not a vacation, but a purposeful journey—one marked by growth, formation, and thoughtful reflection. For many participants, it is genuinely life–changing.  In an interview with The Daily Signal, Sojourn’s founder and CEO, Michael Hamilton, described the heart behind the mission:  “Sojourn’s mission is to help people learn the past so that they can lead the future. What we do is take people to civilization’s greatest places to teach them civilization’s greatest principles.”  The story behind Sojourn is, in Hamilton’s words, “a two fish and five loaves kind of story”—a testament to God’s providence.  From Uncertainty Came a Mission  After graduating from Hillsdale College, Hamilton entered a season of vocational uncertainty that quickly turned into financial strain. Though he had been teaching theology, history, literature, and political science, he felt adrift. Out of that uncertainty, he launched Good Comma Editing.  The editing company set out to help leaders communicate what matters most with clarity and conviction. Often, Hamilton explained, their clients either operated explicitly within a Christian mission or were led by Christians seeking to articulate truth with precision.   Those shared beliefs were often enough to build trust. To date, Good Comma has edited nearly eight million words—roughly ten times the length of the Bible.  Yet despite the mission, the business struggled. Lacking formal business experience, Hamilton found the company faltering. Then, through God’s goodness, came unexpected requests.  “You used to live in Boston. You’re a theology, history, literature, poli-sci teacher. Could you plan a trip?” What began as a favor turned into another request—and then another. Slowly, the Good Comma Classroom’s travel program was born. That program has now become Sojourn.”  Traveling Back Through Time   While many Christian organizations offer faith-based travel, Hamilton believes Sojourn stands apart.  “There are so many Christian providers of trips,” he said. “To say we’re just another Christian provider isn’t distinctive enough. What we bring is a robust biblical lens layered with a well-read, deeply considered classical historical perspective. Together, that creates a complete cultural experience.”  Sojourn leads participants through places like Philippi—where Lydia was baptized, and Paul met the Philippian jailer—through Thessaloniki and Berea, and onward to Athens and Corinth. Standing in these places, participants often say the Scriptures become three-dimensional.  “They tell us it brings the Bible to life,” Hamilton explained. “Now they can see God’s redemptive, providential hand working through history.”  For Hamilton, the phrase “life-changing” is not a cliché—it is the goal.  He believes many people spend their lives contemplating abstract truths without ever seeing their reality in place and time. Sojourn seeks to make the abstract tangible—to connect eternal ideas to physical ground. It is, in a sense, the closest thing to time travel.  Why Sojourn Exists   People do not need travel to grasp great truths. But for many, it helps profoundly. Some assume history and theology are out of reach, reserved for scholars or certain personality types. Hamilton rejects that notion.  By standing face-to-face with history in civilization’s greatest places, he argues, people discover something deeper: that by virtue of being created in God’s image, they are capable of understanding the most important truths ever revealed.  That is why Sojourn exists. To learn the past and lead the future.  The post Sojourn Launches as New Branch of Good Comma Classroom  appeared first on The Daily Signal.

By Parisa Hafezi and Maayan Lubell DUBAI/JERUSALEM, March 8 (Reuters)—Iran on Sunday indicated it had chosen Ayatollah Ali Khamenei‘s son Mojtaba as his successor, after Israel struck fuel depots in Tehran overnight and the conflict widened after Bahrain said an Iranian attack had damaged one of its desalination plants. “The name of Khamenei will continue,” said Ayatollah Hosseinali Eshkevari, a member of the clerical council charged with electing a new leader, in a video published in Iranian media. “The vote has been cast and will be announced soon,” Eshkevari said, without providing further details. The council’s secretary, Hosseini Bushehri, would announce the successor to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei—who was killed earlier in the conflict—Ahmad Alamolhoda, another cleric, told state media. U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday Washington should have a say in the selection. “If he doesn’t get approval from us he’s not going to last long,” he told ABC News. Israel said it continued to target senior Iranian figures, including Abolqasem Babaian, the recently appointed head of the military office of the supreme leader, killed in a Saturday strike. Black Smoke Hangs Over Tehran As fighting escalated on day nine of the U.S.-Israeli campaign against Iran, thick black smoke hung over Tehran on Sunday, residents said, after strikes on oil storage facilities had lit up the night sky with plumes of orange flame. Iran’s foreign ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei said the large-scale attack marked a “dangerous new phase” of the conflict and amounted to a war crime. “By targeting fuel depots, the aggressors are releasing hazardous materials and toxic substances into the air,” he wrote on X. Israeli military spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Nadav Shoshani told reporters the depots were used to fuel Iran’s war effort, including producing or storing propellant for ballistic missiles. “They are a legal military target,” he said. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said his government would press on with the assault and strike Iran’s rulers “without mercy”. “We have an organised plan with many surprises to destabilise the regime and enable change,” he said in a video statement. Trump told reporters on Air Force One that he was not seeking negotiations to end the conflict, which has driven up global energy prices, disrupted business and snarled air travel. “At some point, I don’t think there will be anybody left maybe to say, ‘We surrender’,” he said. Iranian Drones Strike Gulf States Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain reported Iranian drone attacks on Saturday and early Sunday, including a huge fire that engulfed a government office block in Kuwait. Kuwait’s interior ministry said two officers were killed, while the UAE said four migrant workers had died in Iranian attacks there so far. The UAE said air defence teams had knocked out 16 ballistic missiles and 113 drones fired towards the Gulf state on Sunday. One missile fell in the sea and four drones hit the country’s territories. Bahrain said on Sunday that an Iranian drone attack had caused “material damage” to a desalination plant, though water supplies were not disrupted. It was the first time an Arab country has said Iran targeted a desalination facility during the conflict. On Saturday, Iran accused the United States of striking a desalination plant on Qeshm Island, disrupting water supplies to 30 villages and calling it “a dangerous move with grave consequences.” In Saudi Arabia, two people were killed and 12 injured after a projectile hit a residential area in Al-Kharj city, the Civil Defence agency said. Riyadh has told Tehran that continued Iranian attacks on the kingdom and its energy sector could push Riyadh to retaliate, people familiar with the matter told Reuters. Lebanon has also been pulled into the conflict after the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah launched rockets and drones into Israel last week, with nearly 400 people killed by Israel over the past week, the health ministry said. Israel killed at least four people when it struck a hotel in central Beirut on Sunday, saying it had targeted Iranian commanders operating in the city—the first such strike on the heart of the Lebanese capital—amid heavy bombardment of the southern suburbs and the country’s south and east. New Supreme Leader Selected, Not Named Two Iranian sources told Reuters last week that Mojtaba Khamenei, who built influence inside Iran’s security forces and vast business networks under his father, remained the clear favourite. Choosing him would signal that hardliners remain firmly in charge. The U.S. and Israel have discussed sending special forces into Iran to secure its stockpile of highly enriched uranium at a later stage of the war, Axios reported, citing sources. Asked on Saturday about sending ground troops to secure nuclear sites, Trump said it was something they would only do if the Iranians were “so decimated that they wouldn’t be able to fight at the ground level.” The U.S.-Israeli attacks have killed at least 1,332 Iranian civilians and wounded thousands, according to Iran’s U.N. ambassador. Iranian attacks have killed 10 people in Israel. At least six U.S. service members have been killed, with Iran saying on Sunday it had struck U.S. bases in Kuwait. Israel said on Sunday that two of its soldiers were killed in southern Lebanon. (Reporting by Reuters bureaux; Writing by Crispian Balmer and Charlie Devereux; Editing by William Mallard, Alex Richardson and Ros Russell) The post Iran Indicates Khamenei’s Hardline Son Will Be Next Supreme Leader appeared first on The Daily Signal.