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An unprecedented American papacy is shifting the Vatican back toward tradition, math, and absolute truths after a chaotic twelve years under Pope Francis. This new leadership is already paving the way for strong diplomatic ties with the Trump administration, driven by a mutual respect for innovation and strict institutional order.  Daily Signal Politics Editor Bradley Devlin’s sits down with...

With America's 250th birthday around the corner, Victor Davis Hanson and Bradley Devlin discuss what must be done to keep America alive for the next 250 years. WATCH NOW: Sacred Honor: The Declaration That Defines a Nation Premieres TONIGHT, July 2, at 8:30pm ET 👉 https://youtu.be/O1d3gn_H8ow    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Former senior Health and Human Services advisor and ICE official John Fabbricatore says the Biden administration failed to vet sponsors for unaccompanied minors, leading to over 300,000 children missing from HHS rolls, 65,000 unanswered hotline calls, thousands of trafficking allegations, and dozens of deceased children later identified. Fabbricatore describes his career in INS/ICE and says Trump-...

President Donald Trump's Department of Justice has charged the Southern Poverty Law Center, the SPLC, with wire fraud and bank fraud. According to the DOJ, the SPLC paid millions of dollars to individuals associated with groups like the KKK, only to raise money off of supposedly pervasive hate in America. Daily Signal Senior Editor Tyler O'Neil, author of a book on the SPLC titled "Making Hate Pay...

Nick Freitas recently returned from the United Kingdom and shares what he witnessed on the ground. After first visiting in 1998, he saw how dramatically Britain has changed due to mass immigration over the past 25+ years. Areas near historic landmarks like the Tower of London now resemble Bangladesh. British culture is rapidly shifting, with growing balkanization, Sharia courts, grooming gangs, an...

Matthew Mehan, author of "The American Book of Fables," joins Bradley Devlin on a new episode of Signal Sitdown to discuss the "moral imagination" of the Founders and on the need during America 250 for the nation to have a "shared memory." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As debates rage across conservative media over foreign policy, coalition building, tariffs, and the future direction of the Right, the real question becomes whether the movement can stay focused on governing instead of turning inward.  From social media feuds and ideological purity tests to the growing influence of podcasters and political commentatory, today we explore what happens when political...

The chaos surrounding the Kavanaugh confirmation didn’t just shake Washington—it revealed how far the Left was willing to go to pressure the Supreme Court. Mollie Hemingway, author of “Alito: The Justice Who Reshaped the Supreme Court and Restored the Constitution,” explains how that push reshaped the conservative legal movement and helped elevate Justice Samuel Alito as a defining voice on the be...

In the past few weeks, Rep. Greg Steube was leading the charge to bring to the House floor a vote to expel now-former Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick. Minutes before Steube was set to join the “Signal Sitdown” — and the same day the Ethics Committee was expected to render a recommendation to the House on whether to expel the Florida congresswoman over fraud allegations — Cherfilus-McCormick announ...

Congress could be heading for another One Big Beautiful Bill. Congressional Republicans are facing a double-bind of a lingering shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security and the urgent need to pass the SAVE America Act, an election integrity bill that would require proof of citizenship to vote and implement nationwide voter ID, before November’s midterm elections. Rep. Brandon Gill, R-Texas,...

In a world where opportunity for women abounds, why are they so unhappy? Emma Waters, a policy analyst in the Center for Technology and the Human Person at The Heritage Foundation and author of a new book titled "Lead Like Jael: 7 Timeless Principles for Today's Women of Faith," has thought deeply about this question and joins “The Signal Sitdown” this week to discuss. “Women have more choices bef...

Detroit has become the poster child of American decline and for good reason: No city in what is now known as the Rust Belt experienced such soaring highs and such abysmal lows. In the 1950s, Detroit was the wealthiest city in America. By 2014, just one year after the city declared bankruptcy, Detroit was considered the poorest city in America. Detroit is starting to show signs of comeback by court...

Vice President JD Vance’s life has taken him from the hollowed out town of Middletown, Ohio to the halls of power. Between his challenging upbringing, his service in the Marine Corps, his stint in Silicon Valley, his Senate tenure, and now his vice presidency, it’s easy to lose sight of the two short days leading up to President Donald Trump picking Vance as his running mate. Reflect on those two...

Last week, Jeremy Carl, President Donald Trump’s nominee for assistant secretary of the Bureau of International Organization Affairs at the Department of State, testified on his nomination in front of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Carl has spent the better part of the last year of his life pursuing this State Department post, at great personal and professional expense. And, fresh off of...

It’s been five weeks since the U.S. removed former Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro from power. But the question on everyone's mind is what comes next now that Maduro is no longer in power.  State Department Deputy Spokesperson Tommy Pigott joined “The Signal Sitdown” this week to discuss the plan to stabilize, recover, and transition power in Venezuela. Pigott explained the administration's ph...

Minnesota has been on fire for weeks, but this is nothing new for the city of Minneapolis. The last time the city saw organized protests and violent riots at this level was in 2021 during the George Floyd riots.   “They [rioters] are so anxious to distract from what is actually happening in Minnesota, all the massive fraud that’s going on,” Rep. Beth Van Duyne, R-Texas, told The Daily Signal on th...

Poll after poll shows a growing majority of Americans are against transgender issues and policies, from men in women’s sports to men in women’s bathrooms. Some of these issues are now 80-20 issues.   It’s a remarkable feat, and it also makes one wonder how the conservative movement has had such resounding success against transgenderism when it resoundingly lost a very similar battle, the battle to...

America has hit another record, but it’s not a good one. Last year, the median age of the first-time home buyer in America hit 40 years old. In the 1980s, the average age of the first-time homebuyer in America was just 28. What happened? Rep. Pat Harrigan, R-N.C., joins us this week on “The Signal Sitdown” to explain how multi-billion-dollar institutional investors like BlackRock are crowding out...

Oversight Project President Mike Howell joined "The Signal Sitdown" this week to discuss a new force analysis conducted by The Oversight Project into the ICE-involved shooting of a woman in Minnesota. "Our team of career law enforcement has carefully reviewed all available evidence and has cleared the officer," the force analysis reads from the Oversight Project, which has more than 60 years of la...

The George Floyd riots in 2020 brought a dark undercurrent of violence on the Left to the forefront of American politics. The violence had its epicenters in progressive cities, but it was very much national—thousands of arrests occurred at hundreds of violent demonstrations in what became the largest civil-unrest-related insurance event in American history. Many of America’s political leaders cowe...

One evening, Josh Williams sat on the edge of his bed, gun in hand, and contemplated ending his life. “I was in a pit of despair that I can’t describe to you,” Williams said in his interview on “The Signal Sitdown.” After hearing some terrible news from doctors regarding a traumatic workplace injury, Williams had told his then-wife to take the kids to the store. “I sat on the edge of my bed with m...

The worst thing that has ever happened to the Capitol Building? “Air conditioning,” says Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn. Burchett joined ”The Signal Sitdown” at the Republican Study Committee's new media row to discuss how a group he calls the “war pimps” came to dominate Washington—and what he’s doing to try to stop them. Installing air conditioning in the Capitol, Burchett said, gave members of Congr...

The question top of mind in Washington, D.C. right now is what is the United States trying to get out of ongoing operations in Venezuela?  Very rarely is it the case that the question occupying minds on Capitol Hill and in think tanks is the same question everyday Americans are asking. But what’s happening between America and Venezuela right now is a rare exception.  A recent CBS/YouGov poll found...

The 2026 midterms are shaping up to be one of the most consequential midterm elections in modern American history. In November 2024, the American people gave Republicans the trifecta—the White House, the Senate, and the House—a mandate victory that some conservatives did not think possible. Democrats were already expected to have the advantage heading into the 2026 midterms, but  impressive Democr...

While the congressional drama is coming to a close, a new chapter in the Epstein story could just be opening. What could more tranches of Epstein documents reveal, and what questions remain about Epstein’s activities and elite network? As a member of the House Oversight Committee, Rep. Eric Burlison, R-Mo., has been deeply involved in the ongoing congressional investigation into Epstein. He joins...