It was not very long ago that liberal writers would rhapsodize about how America’s changing demographics would spell Republicans’ doom. A 2012 headline from The New York Times read “Demographic Shift Brings New Worry for Republicans.” By 2014, the corporate media was already writing the GOP’s obituary: “Republicans have a major demographic problem. And it’s only going to get worse” one Washington Post headline claimed. Then conservatives committed the crime of noticing—noticing that mass migration followed by mass amnesty was Democrats’ play for political power. The Left labeled them peddlers of the “Great Replacement Theory.” Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo, joined “The Signal Sitdown” to discuss how President Donald Trump upended Democrat plans for permanent control in Washington. For Schmitt, it all starts with one crucial realization: The American nation is “not just an idea.” This is a real nation with real people,” the Missouri senator said, and the GOP should be “fighting for them.” “When Joe Biden is letting 15 million people here illegally, people don’t understand. How could the president of our country allow this? And the answer is that he bought into and was captured by this worldview that there wasn’t anything particularly unique [about America], that America was just some economic zone with an airport attached to it,” Schmitt continued. “We can have our jobs shipped overseas, all those good-paying jobs, and we get cheap Chinese T-shirts in return and everything is going to be great.” In fairness, Schmitt says some of these policies were justifiable prior to the end of the Cold War. In the aftermath of World War II, America’s trade and foreign policy focused on “rebuild[ing] our European allies and Japan, to bring them into the fold, and defeat Soviet communism. That defined our foreign policy in the sense that we had this security umbrella for our friends and allies. We had trade deals that weren’t really good for us, but that allowed them to get back on their feet.” Once the Cold War ended, Schmitt told The Daily Signal, “this is when the mistakes were made because the people in charge, the elites, they never really adjusted. They never adjusted trade policy. They never really adjusted foreign policy.” “You sort of had this globalist view,” Schmitt said, “the end of history. And that fueled this mass migration. It fueled a wandering, aimless, Wilsonian kind of foreign policy that was based on these abstract ideas of global democracy.” It was far from a Democrat-only problem. “Republicans were a part of this problem, too,” Schmitt added. Republicans of the post-Cold War era pursued trade policies “that shipped our jobs overseas,” but promised ‘creative destruction’ would leave Americans better off. The destruction came, but the creativity did not. “We’ve seen devastation in our communities, factories that are desolate now, and they’ve been replaced with, in many ways, despair and death,” Schmitt said. Long before Trump was president, he was one of the first to recognize the need for change. Since taking American politics by storm, he has vigorously reasserted the sovereignty of the American nation. Republicans of yesteryear hesitated to embrace this view, afraid of pejoratives like racist or xenophobic. But the Republicans of today have caught up to the party’s frontman.  America is “much more” than idea, Schmitt told The Daily Signal. “It’s our home.” “We’re a people and we believe in things and that we ought to be fighting for the dignity of the guy that doesn’t have a PhD, but who wants to work and he wants to be able to raise a family and he wants his kids to have a better life,” Schmitt said. “He shouldn’t have to compete with foreign labor for that.” “Work is important for people. It gives them meaning,” Schmitt continued. “And I think if we’re honoring the dignity of every individual, which we should, that’s a big part of what we should be fighting for. And President Trump tapped into that in a way that no political figure in my lifetime has ever really tapped into because he met the American people really where they were.” In doing so, Trump reversed what the Washington Post and New York Times seemed to think was inevitable. “The Left understands they were playing a game of getting a permanent majority and total control,” Schmitt said. “It’s important, I think, to remember how close we were to maybe losing all of this.” “If they had the House and they had the Senate and [Joe] Biden or [Kamala] Harris or somebody else was in the White House,” Schmitt continued, “they would eliminate the filibuster in the Senate. They’d add states to the union. They would pack the United States Supreme Court. They would get mass amnesty. They’d add a bunch of new voters and they very well could have been in the majority for a very, very long time.” “Trump is a unique political figure in that way,” Schmitt claimed. “He was able to break through, and that’s why they came at him so hard.” But the task for the next generation of Republican leaders like Schmitt will be not to squander the inheritance they will receive from Trump. The post How President Trump Stopped Democrats’ Plan for Permanent Power appeared first on The Daily Signal.

The “unofficial” start to summer 2025 has arrived, and with it, Virginia’s campaign season with its national implications—it’s touted as a barometer for how the electorate feels about the party in power in Washington. The state never has an “off year”—what pundits call election years without a federal or statewide elections. Every year in Virginia features elections that could change the course of the commonwealth or even the country. ­So, the next few months will be full of young campaign volunteers showing up at Virginians’ doors asking (politely) if they have yet made a choice in the upcoming election, full of glossy mailers extolling the virtues and sometimes the vices of one candidate or another, and full of stock-in-trade phrases from pollsters like “outsiders” and “outside the margin of error.” Virginia is home to two nationally renowned polling organizations, the Wasson Center at Christopher Newport University and the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, home of professor Larry Sabato’s Crystal Ball, plus several well-known regional polling outlets, including those at Roanoke College and Virginia Commonwealth University. However, rarely have we seen such a wide disparity in early polls as the two released last week for this November’s Virginia gubernatorial race. One, Roanoke College, showed Democrat candidate Abigail Spanberger with a 17% lead over Republican Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears. The other, conducted by Pantheon/HarrisX and commissioned by the nonpartisan group VirginiaFREE had Sears’ deficit at only 4%. How could two polls be so different? And why does the legacy media only seem interested in reporting the results of the Roanoke College one showing Spanberger with a seemingly insurmountable lead? The Daily Signal put those questions to Chris Saxman, former Virginia delegate and the founder of VirginiaFREE. Listen here: The post 2 Polls in Va. Governor’s Race Paint Very Different Pictures. Why Is Media Only Showing Democrat-Friendly One? appeared first on The Daily Signal.

The Media Just Isn't Skeptical Enough of Democrats (Update)

Democratic National Committee Vice Chair David Hogg has proven an effective albeit unwitting saboteur on the left. In addition to spilling the beans about who was really running the Biden White House, the 25-year-old gun control activist hammered California Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D) for her alleged insider trading in newly released undercover footage from Project Veritas. Hogg, warned not to challenge Democratic incumbents earlier this year by DNC Chairman Ken Martin, appears to say in the newly released video, "I would say Pelosi's actually very good at her job. I don't agree with the stock-trading stuff." "I mean, she gets better returns than almost every hedge fund in this city, every year," continued Hogg. "Some of these members of Congress make trades that are way too well timed to not have insider knowledge." Pelosi, whose annual salary is now around $174,000, has a net worth of $260.37 million, according to Quiver Quantitative. RELATED: Throw us a bone, Congress, and lay off the stock trough Douglas Rissing/Getty Images "They happen to be some of the best financial analysts in human history," quipped Hogg, who is facing a potential ouster next month after party elites effectively declared his election null and void. 'I just want to burn everything down.' In his Blaze Originals documentary, "Bought and Paid For: How Politicians Get Filthy Rich," James Poulos, the host of BlazeTV's "Zero Hour" and the editor at large of Blaze Media, highlighted some of the "most egregious transactions" members of Congress have directly or indirectly pulled off in recent years — like making big investments in defense contractors on the eve of the war in Ukraine — without remorse or consequence. A financial disclosure signed on July 2, 2021, by Nancy Pelosi revealed that her husband bet big on Alphabet, Amazon, and Apple stock ahead of the House Judiciary Committee's vote on antitrust legislation that threatened to limit how those companies organized. According to Bloomberg, Mr. Pelosi's trade secured him a $4.8 million gain. In September, President Donald Trump demanded that Pelosi be prosecuted for alleged insider trading after her husband dumped 2,000 of his shares in Visa — valued at roughly $500,000 — two months before the company was sued by the Department of Justice for allegedly monopolizing the debit markets. Visa stock dropped by 5% following the announcement of the DOJ's civil antitrust suit. There are many more such cases of conveniently timed bets and dumps, not just from the Pelosi household but by others in Congress as well. RELATED: David Hogg spills the beans to undercover reporter about who really controlled the Biden White House Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images Multiple bills have been introduced in recent years that would ban congressional stock trading, including Missouri Republican Sen. Josh Hawley's Preventing Elected Leaders from Owning Securities and Investments Act — or PELOSI Act for short. While Hogg apparently shares the concern expressed by Trump and other Republicans, it's not a battle he's willing to fight. Hogg told the Project Veritas journalist, "The hardest part about my job is I just want to burn everything down because it's all so corrupt. But you got to pick your battles and slowly build your momentum." The DNC vice chair noted that even if he tried to hold Pelosi accountable, "we wouldn't beat her." He suggested that it was instead preferable to go after members who "are far weaker." Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Billionaire entrepreneur Palmer Luckey says Meta is a very different company than it used to be, and he's ready to work with Mark Zuckerberg again after being fired from Facebook in 2017.Luckey, the creator of virtual reality goggles called Oculus Rift, was fired by Facebook allegedly for donating $10,000 to a pro-Donald Trump group. Almost 10 years later as founder of Anduril, a military tech company, Luckey announced on X that he was ready to reunite with Zuckerberg to create VR and augmented reality systems for the U.S. military.'The people who conspired to oust me, they're not even there anymore.' "Anduril and Meta have teamed up to make the world's best AR and VR systems for the United States Military," Luckey wrote on X, alongside a photo with Zuckerberg. "Leveraging Meta's massive investments in XR technology for our troops will save countless lives and dollars."Luckey revealed the first project would be a military helmet called Eagle Eye, equipment that would give Army soldiers access to advanced augmented reality systems that makes them "superhuman.""My mission has long been to turn warfighters into technomancers, and the products we are building with Meta do just that," Luckey said in a press release.RELATED: Oculus creator fires back at 'politically obsessive journalists' as hit-piece culture dies Mark Zuckerberg is seen at UFC 298 at Honda Center on February 17, 2024, in Anaheim, California. Photo by Sean M. Haffey/Getty ImagesOn the podcast "Core Memory," Luckey explained what was long thought to be the real reason behind his exodus from Facebook: an impending revolt from an army of tech-leftists ideologically opposed to his political donations."Meta is a very different company than it was nine years ago when they fired me," Luckey told the host. "I don't mean in tenor or tone. I mean it's literally different people."Luckey claimed that while Zuckerberg still likely approved of his firing, it was more so his subordinates who orchestrated his removal."When your people that you task with making decisions come up and say, 'This is what we've decided we have to do. There's no other way out of this huge PR and internal problem. Our employees are insane radical leftists who are going to quit en masse if we don't get rid of Palmer,' like, what are you really gonna do?""The people who conspired to oust me, they're not even there anymore," Luckey added.RELATED: Back to the future? Palmer Luckey's Chromatic does nostalgia right Return's James Poulos asked if America is actually ready for the advanced "techomancers" Luckey speaks of."It may be too late to ask. The specter of China’s immense production capabilities and verve for systematization presents America with a much different threat profile than its two great Axis enemies," Poulos stated.“It would be a harsh lesson indeed to discover that the only way to compete militarily with China is to lose our own identity here at home. That’s a problem no tech alone can solve," he added.Luckey seemingly found solace in the reconciliation with Meta and its now apparently right-wing CEO Zuckerberg. Almost talking himself into it, the Anduril boss said it was likely more productive for him to accept that he "won the persuasion argument" and should be happy he received apologies from Meta's top brass."If people end up coming to your side, you shouldn't shove them back and say 'Hey, f**k off. You had different beliefs 10 years ago.' You should say, 'Come on in, the tent's big, and I'm happy to have you.'"Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

The Environmental Protection Agency under President Trump is looking a lot different than the one that existed under Biden after Trump’s rollback of greenhouse gas limits.The agency is now proposing to repeal all greenhouse gas emissions standards for fossil fuel-fired power plants, which would include requirements set under Biden.“This is a big deal, because when you think about your electricity bill, when you think about the cost of powering the country, these power plants are a huge part of it,” BlazeTV host Stu Burguiere explains on “Stu Does America.”“When you limit how they can produce the fuel that you need, you wind up driving up the cost of that energy. That’s why your power bills have probably gone up over the past couple of years,” he continues, noting that the reasoning behind Biden’s requirements were silly in the first place.“You have to remember that 88% of emissions don’t come from the United States. Everyone’s obsessed with the United States and what we’re driving and what kind of power we’re using, but 88% of global emissions come from other places, not us,” Stu says. “So really, the focus on us just kind of seems to be a little bit more about anti-capitalism than anything else.”And while 12% of global emissions do come from the United States, 75% of those emissions are coming from sources that are not power plants.“What we’re talking about here is only 3% of global emissions. A little, tiny slice of a little, tiny slice that comes from coal and natural gas plants,” Stu explains. “And that’s not even the entire picture, because things have been changing, honestly, in a direction that nobody on television wants to tell you about, because everyone wants to scare you.”“Everyone wants to tell you that the emissions are going crazy, and we’re all going to die, and global warming is coming to town, and it’s going to, you know, going to backhand you across the face, and we’re going to have these terrible storms,” he continues.In a chart revealing the total U.S. greenhouse gas emissions from 1990 to 2022, the amount continues to drop.“They’ve been going down since the mid-2000s, not dramatically. Down from 5.5% in 2005,” Stu says. “With the exception, really, of the COVID year, where we had one dramatic drop. And even the dramatic drop, it wasn’t all that dramatic, which kind of tells you something about greenhouse emissions overall.”“When we basically shut down our economy for a year,” he adds, “we just had a slight drop in greenhouse gas emissions.”Want more from Stu?To enjoy more of Stu's lethal wit, wisdom, and mockery, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

Newly declassified records reportedly show that a key figure in the Crossfire Hurricane investigation lied to Congress about her involvement in the scheme to accuse Donald Trump of Russian collusion during his first presidential campaign. The documents were released by Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa as a part of the Senate Judiciary Committee probe into the origins of the collusion narrative. 'The DOJ’s inaction on Nellie Ohr’s criminal referral — despite the obviously incriminating evidence provided in the FBI’s own analysis — undermines public trust in the rule of law.' The FBI analysis from 2019 was declassified at Grassley's request, through his role as the chair of the Judiciary Committee. It documents the evidence that Nellie Ohr, researcher for Fusion GPS, had lied during sworn testimony before Congress about the opposition research firm that had been hired by the Democratic National Committee as well as the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign. In one instance, Ohr testified that she had taken ham radio classes before hiring on at Fusion GPS, but it was later discovered that she had taken the classes during her employment at the firm. Grassley said the FBI analysis concluded that Ohr had lied but that the DOJ declined to prosecute her at the time. He also claimed the FBI prevented agents from "reviewing all relevant information necessary to perform a full analysis" of Ohr's allegedly criminal testimony. In addition to several alleged lies Ohr told in her testimony, the analysis found reasonable evidence to conclude that Ohr "may have been involved" with drafting parts of the infamous Steele dossier, as well as conspiring with her husband, Bruce Ohr, who worked as an associate deputy attorney general at the Justice Department, to pass her work on to FBI officials. “By lying to Congress, Nellie Ohr showed contempt for congressional oversight and the American people. What’s more, the FBI and DOJ’s failure to hold Ohr accountable for appearing to commit multiple felonies and its obstructive conduct against agents that sought additional information reveals the agencies’ deeply disturbing political bias," said Grassley in a statement released Wednesday. RELATED: Russian intelligence said Hillary Clinton approved campaign plan to tie Trump to Russian election interference, reveals Trump intel director Photo by: John Lazenby/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images "Ohr never suffered consequences for advancing the phony Trump-Russia narrative and attempting to cover up her involvement in the hoax. Yet time and again, the American justice system has been weaponized against President Trump and his associates with reckless abandon," he added. He went on to praise FBI Director Kash Patel and U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi for their part in releasing the 43-page document from 2019. “The DOJ’s inaction on Nellie Ohr’s criminal referral — despite the obviously incriminating evidence provided in the FBI’s own analysis — undermines public trust in the rule of law," he concluded. In 2023, Special Counsel John Durham concluded in his report that the FBI had been biased against Trump when it investigated the allegations of Russian collusion and that the agency had found no evidence to substantiate the Steele dossier. Here's more about the Crossfire Hurricane scandal: Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

President Donald Trump's State Department is leveraging the nation's visa program to protect Americans from foreign speech censors, marking a monumental shift for free expression.Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Wednesday that the department would no longer grant visas for foreign nationals pushing to censor American speech.'America has the world's strongest free-speech protections, but for years other countries have undermined those protections by globalizing their censorship regimes.'He wrote in a post on X, "For too long, Americans have been fined, harassed, and even charged by foreign authorities for exercising their free speech rights.""Today, I am announcing a new visa restriction policy that will apply to foreign officials and persons who are complicit in censoring Americans. Free speech is essential to the American way of life — a birthright over which foreign governments have no authority," Rubio stated.RELATED: Trump halts student visas to bolster national security vetting: Report Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty ImagesHe added in a separate post, "Foreigners who work to undermine the rights of Americans should not enjoy the privilege of traveling to our country. Whether in Latin America, Europe, or elsewhere, the days of passive treatment for those who work to undermine the rights of Americans are over."Rubio's announcement followed Vice President JD Vance's speech at the Munich Security Conference in February, during which he expressed concern that American and European values are dangerously diverging. Vance specifically pointed to the erosion of freedom of speech protections in Europe."In Britain and across Europe, free speech, I fear, is in retreat," he stated. "So I come here today, not just with an observation, but with an offer. And just as the Biden administration seemed desperate to silence people for speaking their minds, so the Trump administration will do precisely the opposite."Vance expressed interest in working with Europe to fortify free-speech protections and end censorship.RELATED: Liberals freaked out over Vance's Munich speech. Just wait till they read the State Department's Substack. Photo by Johannes Simon/Getty ImagesNico Perrino, the executive vice president of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, told Blaze News, "America has the world's strongest free-speech protections, but for years other countries have undermined those protections by globalizing their censorship regimes."Perrino explained that in the past, the federal government has attempted to protect Americans from foreign censorship. He highlighted the 2010 SPEECH Act, which blocks foreign defamation rulings flouting First Amendment standards from being enforced in the U.S."The Trump administration appears to recognize the problem, and it's generally a good thing that the administration is seeking solutions to protect Americans from foreign efforts to erode their First Amendment rights," Perrino added. "How this new policy will be implemented, and whether it will have its desired effect, remains to be seen." — (@) During February's Artificial Intelligence Action Summit in Paris, Vance criticized the EU's Digital Services Act for restricting speech on America-based technology platforms. "Many of our most productive tech companies are forced to deal with the EU's Digital Services Act and the massive regulations it created about taking down content and policing so-called misinformation," Vance said. "For some, the easiest way to avoid the dilemma has been to simply block EU users in the first place."Rubio's visa ban addresses Vance's warnings about global censorship, concerns that U.S.-based technology leaders have also echoed, with the EU's restrictions directly impacting American platforms, including Elon Musk's X and Chris Pavlovski's Rumble.On Wednesday, Pavlovski praised Rubio for implementing the new visa restrictions against foreign censors, calling the move "an incredible win for free speech."Linda Yaccarino, the CEO of X, also expressed her support."We stand right alongside you, @SecRubio," she wrote in a post on the social media platform.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

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