The 1994 Northridge Earthquake moved Los Angeles about 8.7 inches north toward San Francisco. The 2026 Democrats moved Los Angeles all the way into the third world. First came the squalor, the homelessness, and the smash-and-grab lawlessness, and now, straight out of the banana republic playbook, come election shenanigans so blatant it makes North Korean...

THE CENTER SQUARE—Virginia budget negotiations spilled into public view last week as top Democrat leaders publicly clashed over data center policy ahead of the June 30 budget deadline. Senate Finance and Appropriations Chairwoman Louise Lucas, D-Portsmouth, publicly criticized Democrat Gov. Abigail Spanberger and House of Representatives leaders Friday as negotiations continued without a final…

A Republican appears set to make the November ballot, but California’s Democrat supermajority isn’t going anywhere. Experts predict a Democrat will ultimately win the governor’s race and keep the state under one-party control. “It’s a Democratic state. … I think Steve Hilton will put up a noble effort and will probably help some down-ballot Republicans,...

Spencer Pratt has officially been shut out of the running for Los Angeles mayor, with City Councilwoman Nithya Raman overtaking the reality television star and securing a spot in November’s runoff against incumbent Mayor Karen Bass. While he initially held a strong second-place position with 29% of the vote—only 7% behind Bass and nearly 10%...

Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words” from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to Victor Davis Hanson’s own YouTube channel to watch past episodes. Jack Fowler: So, Victor, let’s start out local. California election. This thing—no, there’s no state in America, and in fact, I’ve read there’s no…

California held its statewide primary on June 2. It’s now June 9, and votes are still being counted. That’s not a glitch in the system. That’s by design—and it’s fueling questions about the integrity of the election and renewed efforts to pass the SAVE America Act. Six years ago, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic,...

Term limits have always been an issue members walk on eggshells around in the halls of Congress; however, once your term has an expiration date, it might be easier to give one to others. Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, who chose not to run for reelection to Congress, lost the GOP primary for attorney general. His...

Last Thursday, members of President Donald Trump’s administration met in Columbus, Ohio, to discuss the Buckeye State’s ongoing fight against fraud. Ohio is the first state in the country to share corporate registration records with the Department of Justice’s National Fraud Detection Center, granting investigators immediate access to important information. The announcements made last week...

Delayed vote tallies in California are attributable to the vote-by-mail system and weeklong deadlines for receiving ballots, which undermines confidence in results, election experts say. Tuesday is the deadline for the last of California’s ballots to arrive, where about 80% vote by mail and about 40% of ballots arrive after Election Day in the nation’s...

Despite his initial overwhelming lead, Spencer Pratt has been surpassed in ballots by City Councilwoman Nithya Raman in the race to be Los Angeles city mayor—prompting criticism from Pratt supporters and renewed scrutiny of California’s vote-counting process. Pratt held a lead on election night, receiving as much as 30% of the vote at one point....

Polling from both Heritage Action and Honest Election Project Action has shown voter ID to be extremely popular among Ohioans. Yet the Republican effort to enshrine voter ID into the state constitution is being called out by many in local mainstream media. Republicans Push Enshrining Voter ID in State Constitution First, where the effort stands...

State auditors across the country were unable to verify billions of dollars in unemployment spending, Medicaid payments, and pension obligations in federally-funded programs, according to a new report by a government watchdog group. The findings in the 2026 Financial Transparency Score report, released by the government watchdog Truth in Accounting, found that 13 states failed...

California’s punishing cost of living isn’t inevitable—it’s policy-driven. Burdensome regulations have sent housing and energy prices soaring, crushing incomes and deepening poverty. Smarter deregulation could bring back the Golden State’s long-lost affordability and historic role as a “land of opportunity.” In 2024, California had a poverty rate of 17.7%, meaning about 7 million people were...

It was the based of times, it was the woke of times, it was the age of candor, it was the age of cant, it was the epoch of sense, it was the epoch of pretense. And it was the season when firms started moving from high-tax, high-cost blue states to freedom-loving red states. ExxonMobil’s...

The polls closed in California on Tuesday at 8 p.m. local time. As of Saturday, nobody knows which two candidates will be competing in November for governor or Los Angeles mayor. Indeed, mail-in ballots postmarked by Election Day may stumble in for seven days until June 9—and still be counted. Thus, weeks could pass before...

SAN ANTONIO—Despite a bomb threat, Turning Point USA is bringing together thousands of conservative women this weekend to hear from the movement’s leading female speakers at its 11th annual Women’s Leadership Summit—and the Daily Signal is on the ground reporting live. Running today through Sunday, the summit aims to equip women to “strengthen their minds,...

Trump-endorsed Fox News host Steve Hilton will likely face off against Xavier Becerra this November, leaving California conservatives hopeful that they have a shot at the first Republican governor in over a decade. California’s top-two primary system advances the two highest vote-getters to the November general election regardless of party affiliation. After months of waiting...

Nationwide, Americans are struggling with affordability, public safety, and government waste—and Democrats’ big, bold solution is a revenge tour against President Donald Trump. During a Thursday on NewsNation’s “Katie Pavlich Tonight,” Daily Signal Senior Political and Legal Analyst Mehek Cooke argued that the Democratic Party’s new agenda, “Project 2029,” focuses more on opposing Trump than...

The war between affordability and climate activism continues to rage on in California after a recent decision by the California Air Resources Board to update its cap-and-invest program left both environmental activists and the oil industry upset. The program was first authorized in 2006 as a way to limit greenhouse gas emissions and incentivize “major...

Florida lawmakers once again approved a provision in their budget to prohibit state agencies from contracting with advertising and marketing firms that track media outlets using rating systems. Gov. Ron DeSantis is expected to sign the budget into law this month. For the second year in a row, the Legislature opted to include the language in the state budget to combat the use of media blacklists,…

Who would have thought education dollars were best used when actually directed toward the education of students? Attempting to follow every letter of federal regulation in education is a monumental task. School personnel spend tens of millions of hours (and dollars) each year on federal compliance. What they get in return for this investment is...

As Ohio officials crack down on fraud, their hard work has not gone unnoticed. The State Financial Officers Foundation, in a recent update celebrating highlights from the month of May, touted the success of its spring meeting and praised state officials who are making government more efficient and less vulnerable to fraud. Among the officials...

Spencer Pratt, the reality television villain turned Los Angeles mayoral candidate, is on track for a showdown with incumbent Democrat Mayor Karen Bass. While Pratt has not yet officially locked in a top-two finish, returns coming in from the Golden State on Wednesday morning show him in second place and maintaining a comfortable lead over...

Democrats thought they found their next political golden boy in Maine U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner, but they realize his campaign follows the same pattern as disgraced former Rep. Eric Swalwell—with an even worse résumé. Mehek Cooke, a national security and political analyst with The Daily Signal, joined Harris Faulkner on Fox News’ “The Faulkner...

Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for the Daily Signal. People talk about the California disaster, but I don’t think we fully appreciate the severity and the manifestations of...

Late last month, a bus driver plowed into a line of stopped cars on Interstate 95 in Virginia, killing a family of four traveling to a wedding in South Carolina. Massachusetts residents Dmitri and Ecaterina Doncev and their two children, ages 13 and 7, were killed alongside fellow Bay Stater Priscilla Mafalda. Forty-four others were...

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore is facing fresh allegations of having exaggerated his military experience, after a year-long Spotlight on Maryland investigation yielded “no documentary evidence” to support his claim of having “led soldiers into combat in Afghanistan.” Spotlight on Maryland is a joint venture between the Baltimore Sun and the TV news stations FOX 45...

The Ohio Senate is expected to take up a vote in the coming days on a resolution that could produce one of the strongest voter ID laws in the country. “If this is passed by the voters, this will be the most stringent voter ID law in the country,” state Sen. Jane Timken, the sponsor...

Pointing to rising crime rates and a crash that killed an 11-year-old boy last December, leaders of the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday asked law enforcement leaders in two major California cities to provide information on sanctuary policies they say shield criminal illegal aliens. House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, and two subcommittee chairmen—Republican Reps....

The Center Square—A nonprofit, Ohio-based think tank is demanding that Cleveland end what the organization calls its race-based contracting programs, saying they are “unconstitutional and discriminatory.” “It has now been more than a year since the city of Cleveland publicly recognized that it must abandon its unconstitutional race-based programs,” David C. Tryon, director of litigation at the...