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Our daily news podcast brings you top news stories, plus analysis and insights from reporters and scholars about the state of play in America’s hottest policy debates.
Episodes
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Let's try Nuclear Data Centers Right Outside Virginia's Capital City?
10/09/2025 Duration: 20minTuesday evening Richmond’s channel 6 news viewers heard the headline; “Goochland County residents voice concerns over proposed data center and nuclear reactor development.” While anti-data center protests are growing more common, a proposed nuclear reactor? After looking further in, it appears that the concerns might be based on extrapolations of several things proposed in a ne “Technology Overlay District” for Goochland County’s already existing commercial development areas. Nevertheless, we sat down with Jennie Slade from the Goochland Economic Development Authority to find out what is proposed. Keep Up With The Daily Signal Sign up for our email newsletters: https://www.dailysignal.com/email Subscribe to our other shows: The Tony Kinnett Cast: https://megaphone.link/THEDAILYSIGNAL2284199939 The Signal Sitdown: https://megaphone.link/THEDAILYSIGNAL2026390376 Problematic Women: https://megaphone.link/THEDAILYSIGNAL7765680741 V
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Charlotte Murder Aftermath Continues, Israel Strikes Hamas in Qatar | Sept. 10, 2025
10/09/2025 Duration: 11minOn today’s Top News in 10, we cover: New footage from the aftermath of the Charlotte murder brings additional outrage from Americans and policy suggestion from the federal government. Israel strikes Hamas inside the capital of Qatar. President Trump seeks to protect prayer inside American public schools. Keep Up With The Daily Signal Sign up for our email newsletters: https://www.dailysignal.com/email Subscribe to our other shows: The Tony Kinnett Cast: https://open.spotify.com/show/7AFk8xjiOOBEynVg3JiN6g The Signal Sitdown: https://megaphone.link/THEDAILYSIGNAL2026390376 Problematic Women: https://megaphone.link/THEDAILYSIGNAL7765680741 Victor Davis Hanson: https://megaphone.link/THEDAILYSIGNAL9809784327
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Victor Davis Hanson: From Enemies to Allies? Trump’s Quid Pro Quo With Silicon Valley
09/09/2025 Duration: 08minPresident Donald Trump held a tech summit last week where a number of notable tech CEOs and gurus—who previously were vehement opponents of Trump—met at the White House. This included former Microsoft CEO Bill Gates, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, members of Google, and more. It’s a quid pro quo: If major tech companies stop offshoring and start investing billions of dollars in the U.S. and create jobs, then Trump will approve their investments, productions, and use of greater energy sources. Victor Davis Hanson breaks it all down and explains how this move is similar to what former President Franklin Delano Roosevelt did when World War II broke out on today’s episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words.” “These CEOs don't like Trump. They're opposed to him ideologically, but they have one thing in common: They're patriotic.” “Maybe, just maybe, Trump can do for the United States in these emerging, absolutely essential fields of artificial intelligence, cryptocurrency, robotics, genetic enginee
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Democrats Fight for Crime, SCOTUS Rules for ICE, & Oversight's Epstein Letters | Sept. 9, 2025
09/09/2025 Duration: 12minOn today’s Top News in 10, we cover: Democrats take a hard line against police arresting criminals following the stabbing video from Charlotte. The Supreme Court pauses a lower court ruling that had prohibited the Trump administration from conducting roving immigration arrests across Los Angeles. House Oversight Democrats lock in on alleged Trump letters to Jeffrey Epstein. Keep Up With The Daily Signal Sign up for our email newsletters: https://www.dailysignal.com/email Subscribe to our other shows: The Tony Kinnett Cast: https://open.spotify.com/show/7AFk8xjiOOBEynVg3JiN6g The Signal Sitdown: https://megaphone.link/THEDAILYSIGNAL2026390376 Problematic Women: https://megaphone.link/THEDAILYSIGNAL7765680741 Victor Davis Hanson:
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Victor Davis Hanson: The Kennedys Can Handle Scandal—But Draw the Line at RFK Jr.
08/09/2025 Duration: 07minBut it’s not just congressional Democrats on offense, as his own family is blasting him as an “embarrassment.” Victor Davis Hanson breaks down the Kennedy family’s hypocrisy—especially considering their silence on Ted Kennedy’s Chappaquiddick scandal and JFK’s infidelities—on today’s episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words.” “ This is the irony. What is an embarrassment to the Kennedy family was not Bobby Jr. working for Donald Trump. It really wasn't. It was Ted Kennedy in 1969: a U.S. senator driving off a bridge with Mary Jo Kopechne, allowing her to drown in the car, and then for 24 hours, trying to fabricate a narrative that was completely a lie so he could get out of responsibility. And then using the Kennedy money and leverage in Massachusetts to get off with this, with no criminal exposure at all. A woman was killed. And yet, no one—none of the Kennedys said that he was a predator or he embarrassed them. “ You know what else is an embarrassment right now that Caroline Kennedy should be
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Media Silence over Charlotte Murder, Trump Warns Foreign Manufacturers | Sept. 8, 2025
08/09/2025 Duration: 12minOn today’s Top News in 10, we cover: A brutal attack on a Charlotte, North Carolina train is met with media silence. Trump warns foreign manufacturers after a major illegal immigration raid at a Hyundai facility in Georgia. Senate Majority Leader John Thune prepares to go nuclear over a huge swath of Trump nominees. Keep Up With The Daily Signal Sign up for our email newsletters: https://www.dailysignal.com/email Subscribe to our other shows: The Tony Kinnett Cast: https://open.spotify.com/show/7AFk8xjiOOBEynVg3JiN6g The Signal Sitdown: https://megaphone.link/THEDAILYSIGNAL2026390376 Problematic Women: https://megaphone.link/THEDAILYSIGNAL7765680741 Victor Davis Hanson: https://megaphone.link/THEDAILYSIGNAL9809784327
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The Daily Signal Presents "Problematic Women" - Therapy Course Claims Trump Is a Cult Leaders, Voters Are His Followers | Pamela Garfield-Jaeger
07/09/2025 Duration: 55minWhen Pamela Garfield-Jaeger learned a therapist was offering a class characterizing supporters of President Donald Trump as members of a cult, she was compelled to learn more. Using a fake name, Garfield-Jaeger register for the online course and in August, she spent three hours “learning” how a therapists can deal with their Trump supporting clients. The course, titled “The Impact of Donald Trump on America- A Cultic Studies Perspective,” was led by clinical trauma specialist Jamie Marich, Ph.D. Additionally, Dr. Janja Lalich, a sociologist and cult expert, participated in the instruction. The instructors painted Trump as a cult leader. The course “instructed therapists to hate their Trump supporting patients,” Garfield-Jaeger wrote in a post on social media after attending the class. “I was ‘taught’ that if you voted for Trump, you are a part of a ‘cult on a national scale’ that ‘presents an image of bringing the country back to a white majority and white power,’” Garfield-Jaeger added.
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The Daily Signal Presents “The “Signal Sitdown - Woke Is Liberalism All Grown Up | Dr. Patrick Deneen
06/09/2025 Duration: 01h27minNotre Dame Professor Patrick Deneen’s book, “Why Liberalism Failed,” was not a project undertaken to explain the Trump phenomenon after President Donald Trump’s surprise victory in the 2016 election. Nevertheless, it quickly entered the panoply of books, with Vice President JD Vance’s “Hillbilly Elegy” among them, that provided insight into a new era of not only American but Western politics. The book’s success, even featured on former President Barack Obama’s list of recommended books, catapulted Deneen to one of the most prominent academic figures in the West and his ideas to the forefront of America’s most contentious political debates. Much has happened in the years since “Why Liberalism Failed” was published. Liberalism managed to claw back power, first through undermining Trump’s agenda at almost every turn from within, and then through the empty vessel of former President Joe Biden. Yet, Trump was able to mount a surprising return in 2024 with a new resolve to dismantle the forces of liberalism
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Victor Davis Hanson: Woke Politics Caused Britain’s Crisis. Now, It Reaps the Consequences.
05/09/2025 Duration: 05minBritain has seen an influx of illegal immigrants from the Islamic Middle East, often without proper background checks. Scandals involving Pakistani immigrants grooming young girls went largely ignored by authorities due to fears of political backlash. Ordinary citizens face harassment for expressing patriotism, even as immigrant communities display cultural or political symbols freely. Victor Davis Hanson explains that this crisis is part of a larger European problem, and how the social, demographic, and political pressures facing Britain and Europe threaten the stability of their nations on today’s episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words.” “They’ve had a series of controversies and incidents and scandals in which Pakistani illegal immigrants have been grooming young British girls in the sex trades. And this was apparently known to authorities. But they felt that it was politically correct, in the age of DEI and woke, to seriously pursue any legal ramifications, until the public was outraged.
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Fairfax School Board Meeting Turns Heated as GOP Candidates Weigh In on Title IX Lawsuit
05/09/2025 Duration: 14minAnother contentious School board meeting in Northern Virginia, this time in Fairfax where that school division is suing the Department of Education over funding that has been withheld because they have been found to be in violation of title 9 due to their policies regarding transgender students. After the ugliness that pock-marked the Arlington School Board meeting last week, GOP Gubernatorial candidate Winsome Earle-Sears and Lieutenant Governor candidate John Reid were both at the meeting to address the board and Reid tells us at the Daily Signal how it went. Keep Up With The Daily Signal Sign up for our email newsletters: https://www.dailysignal.com/email Subscribe to our other shows: The Tony Kinnett Cast: https://megaphone.link/THEDAILYSIGNAL2284199939 The Signal Sitdown: https://megaphone.link/THEDAILYSIGNAL2026390376 Problematic Women: https://megaphone.link/THEDAILYSIGNAL7765680741 Victor Davis Hanson: https://megaphone.link/T
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Rubio Spites the UN, National Guard to Louisiana, RFK Jr. & Senate Dems Fight | Sept. 5, 2025
05/09/2025 Duration: 13minOn today’s Top News in 10, we cover: Updates on Venezuela, the U.N., and National Guard from our White House Correspondent Elizabeth Mitchell. Secretary Kennedy returns fire to Senate Democrats in an overheated finance committee. Catch the rest of our coverage of the RFK Jr. Senate Finance Hearing & our check-in with Elizabeth Mitchell here: https://youtube.com/live/tK847yPRdP0 Keep Up With The Daily Signal Sign up for our email newsletters: https://www.dailysignal.com/email Subscribe to our other shows: The Tony Kinnett Cast: https://open.spotify.com/show/7AFk8xjiOOBEynVg3JiN6g The Signal Sitdown: https://megaphone.link/THEDAILYSIGNAL2026390376 Problematic Women: https://megaphone.link/THEDAILYSIGNAL7765680741 Victor Davis Hanson: https://mega
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Victor Davis Hanson: World War II Was a Brilliant Work of American ‘Strategy, Productivity, Courage, and Sacrifice’
04/09/2025 Duration: 23min“World War II was a brilliant work of American strategy, productivity, and courage and sacrifice. And the result was we destroyed the greatest threat to mankind, and we did it as economically as we could in American cost and lives,” Victor Davis Hanson says. He also addresses why the U.S. allied with the Soviet Union during the war: "We fought World War II and won the war, and we came away with losing very few soldiers. At the end of the war, the Soviet Union had no intention … of honoring their commitments made both at Yalta and then before the Japanese theater had ended at Potsdam. “But nevertheless, when the war was over, the United States was the preeminent power in the world—except for Britain—had lost fewer combatants than any of the major three allies, Britain, the United States, Russia, and China as well, and had lost fewer than Japan and Germany. “So, we fought that war very economically by giving material aid to the Soviet Union, who used their manpower and lost 20 million people to kil
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Biggest Drug Bust in History, Epstein Victims Speak Out, Conspiracies Plague Dems | Sept. 4, 2025
04/09/2025 Duration: 12minOn today’s Top News in 10, we cover: Major drug and chemical seizures continue, with meth and fentanyl from China. Epstein victims speak out. Democrats won’t let go of the bizarre “Trump on his death bed” conspiracy. Catch the rest of our interviews with Ron Coleman & Reagan Reese here: https://youtube.com/live/wwcOWa8Zz8E Keep Up With The Daily Signal Sign up for our email newsletters: https://www.dailysignal.com/email Subscribe to our other shows: The Tony Kinnett Cast: https://open.spotify.com/show/7AFk8xjiOOBEynVg3JiN6g The Signal Sitdown: https://megaphone.link/THEDAILYSIGNAL2026390376 Problematic Women: https://megaphone.link/THEDAILYSIGNAL7765680741 Victor Davis Hanson: https://megaphone.link/THEDAILYSIGNAL9809784327 Follo
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Victor Davis Hanson: Democrats Deflect From Truth About Minnesota Trans School Shooter
03/09/2025 Duration: 10minVictor Davis Hanson explains why this was not simply a tragedy, but an act of evil, and why the media and political leaders refuse to have an honest discussion about the factors behind it on today’s episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words.” “They won't have any discussion over transgenderism. This falls in the broader category of exempt DEI woke topics, but I think we should talk about this. This is the fourth or fifth incident—I don't even like the word "incident"—occurrence of transgendered shooters who are protected by authorities. “We were told, "Be careful about Big Pharma. Be careful about Big Med." All of those worries and prohibitions and cautions were thrown out the window, as were SSRI antidepressants. These were selective serotonin prohibitors. In other words, they altered the chemistry of the brain, supposedly, to correct mental disturbances, depression, bipolarity. But they're very dangerous drugs. But when it came to the exempt topic of transgenderism, suddenly the society was su
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Expanding School Choice in Virginia: Craig DiSesa on the Future of Education Options
03/09/2025 Duration: 17minOn Saturday September 6th, a special statewide education summit will be held in Richmond. The hosts are the Virginia Education Opportunity Alliance, which includes the Middle Resolution, Virginia Institute for Public Policy, the Heritage Foundation and leaders in the homeschooling and micro-school movements and the day-long event will look at all of the options open to Virginia Families and discuss greater possibilities in the future. We sat down with the VEOA director Craig DiSesa to look at those opportunities now and in the future at the State Policy Network Annual Meeting where the growth of school choice was a large portion of the program. Keep Up With The Daily Signal Sign up for our email newsletters: https://www.dailysignal.com/email Subscribe to our other shows: The Tony Kinnett Cast: https://megaphone.link/THEDAILYSIGNAL2284199939 The Signal Sitdown: https://megaphone.link/THEDAILYSIGNAL2026390376 Problematic Women: https://megaph
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Congress is Back to Fight Over the Budget, Illinois Dems are Mad, Navy Sinks Narcos | Sept. 3, 2025
03/09/2025 Duration: 11minOn today’s Top News in 10, we cover: Recess is over as Congress gets ready for a big budget fight. Illinois officials rally against the Trump administration’s crime crackdown. The U.S. Navy sinks a Venezuelan narco-terrorist boat. Keep Up With The Daily Signal Sign up for our email newsletters: https://www.dailysignal.com/email Subscribe to our other shows: The Tony Kinnett Cast: https://open.spotify.com/show/7AFk8xjiOOBEynVg3JiN6g The Signal Sitdown: https://megaphone.link/THEDAILYSIGNAL2026390376 Problematic Women: https://megaphone.link/THEDAILYSIGNAL7765680741 Victor Davis Hanson: https://megaphone.link/THEDAILYSIGNAL9809784327 Follow The Daily Signal: X: https://x.com/intent/u
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Victor Davis Hanson: Obama Dreamed of an Iranian-Led Axis to Counter Israel, Then Trump Destroyed It
02/09/2025 Duration: 07minSince striking Iran’s nuclear sites and military personnel last June, America and Israel have brought the Islamic regime to its knees. A web of paranoia, triggered by Israel's systematic dismantling of Iran’s terrorist surrogates and in-country air defense systems, has caused the regime to lash out against an already wary population. The Obama-Biden administration tried for years to position Iran, and its surrogates, as a “counterweight” to Israel and the more moderate Arab countries in the region, favoring neither one side nor the other. President Donald Trump’s strike on Iran and subsequent sanctions have tipped the scales in favor of Israel and the more moderate Middle East regimes. “ We don't have to be the instigators. We don't have to stage coups. All we have to do is turn up the heat and let this pot boil over. And boil over it will,” argues Victor Davis Hanson on today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words.”
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Federal Judges fight Trump EOs, CBS Caught Editing Kristi Noem Interview | Sept. 2, 2025
02/09/2025 Duration: 12minOn today’s Top News in 10, we cover: President Trump’s executive orders and federal judges once again go toe-to-toe. CBS is caught maliciously editing DHS Secretary Kristi Noem’s interview. And both Democrats and legacy media spent the entire weekend claiming President Trump being alive was a conspiracy. Keep Up With The Daily Signal Sign up for our email newsletters: https://www.dailysignal.com/email Subscribe to our other shows: The Tony Kinnett Cast: https://open.spotify.com/show/7AFk8xjiOOBEynVg3JiN6g The Signal Sitdown: https://megaphone.link/THEDAILYSIGNAL2026390376 Problematic Women: https://megaphone.link/THEDAILYSIGNAL7765680741 Victor Davis Hanson: https://megaphone.link/THEDAILYSIGNAL9809784327 Follow The Daily Signal: X:
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From Reagan to Trump: Rethinking Poverty Solutions in America
01/09/2025 Duration: 23minEver since that former California Democrat Governor named Ronald Reagan gave his “Time for Choosing” speech, Conservative’s have wandered further and further away from engaging the issue of poverty. However, Reagan’s ‘do a little arithmetic’ point on poverty budgets vs how much help it’s been to the poor community still pencils out. President Trump shocked the GOP establishment when he went into Detroit in 2016 and asked, “are you better off now?” Eight years later the Black and Latino community support for the GOP has grown to record levels but has the policy the effort to bring free-market, liberty-based solutions grown to match? We sit down with Dr Ed Kornegay and Ehi Aimiuwu from the Center for Poverty Solutions and the Illinois Policy Center to hear about the success that they have had in Chicago and can that be exported to places like Richmond, Norfolk, Charlottesville or even… DC? Keep Up With The Daily Signal Sign up for our email newsletters: https://www.dailysignal.com/emai
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The Daily Signal Presents "Problematic Women" - How The Left is Losing the Culture, From Tragedy to Taylor Swift | Feat. Isabel Brown
31/08/2025 Duration: 45minThe Left and Right’s reactions to the events of this week provide a telling insight into why the Right has a hold of the culture, and the Left, decidedly, does not—from the tragic shooting at a Minneapolis Catholic School to Taylor Swift’s engagement announcement. On today’s episode of Problematic Women, we begin with the tragic shooting at Annunciation Catholic School in Minnesota. We share what is currently known about the incident and how some Democrats have chosen to respond, including attempts to minimize prayer and politicize the tragedy. We also highlight the data showing how President Trump’s recent crime crackdown in Washington, D.C., has led to real results—lower carjackings, fewer robberies, and even nearly two weeks without a homicide. Speaking of Trump, his marathon three-hour cabinet meeting on Tuesday ran longer than The Godfather. We sat through the entire thing so you don’t have to, and we break down the biggest takeaways, from Trump’s surprising stance on Chinese student visas t