Legacy media have been sounding the alarm about deportations in Texas, but they are leaving out key details, painting law enforcement as criminals—and criminals as the victims. 

One recent example is an investigative article on police in the small town of Ingram, Texas. The Ingram Police Department joined Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s 287(g) program in 2025, which offers funding in exchange for enforcing immigration law—a major boost for a department with just two officers.  

The Texas Tribune profiled Officer Jaron Alexander, who made traffic stops that caught illegal aliens and sent them to federal authorities. As a police officer, he enforced the law. Within a year, he and the town’s only other officer referred a whopping 10% of the town’s population as illegal aliens. The worst thing the outlet dug up about Alexander was allegations of affairs, which he denied.  

The real shocker is that illegal aliens allegedly make up at least 10% of Ingram’s population. In fact, Latinos make up 45% of the town’s population—to the point that some have begun calling it “mini Guanajuato,” after the central Mexican state from which many of them came. But this wasn’t the headline for The Texas Tribune. Its story line was that Alexander enforced the law. Since when is a police officer doing his job newsworthy? Many communities across Texas participate in the 287(g) program, including Tarrant County, home to Fort Worth. One wonders why left-wing media would pick on a small town like Ingram.

Legacy media didn’t stop at putting a negative spin on law enforcement. They even went so far as to paint criminals as the real victims in all this—never mind everyday Texans. In CBS’ “60 Minutes,” a reporter paints a sympathetic picture of Moussa Diawara, a Malian national who had lived in the U.S. illegally since 2012. Recently, he had been living in the Houston suburb of Katy.

“[Moussa Diawara] had lived in the U.S. for 25 years and had no criminal record,” the program reported. “Moussa Diawara says he was deported without being able to speak to his lawyer or a judge. He was eventually sent to Mali, a country a U.S. immigration judge ruled he could not be deported to.”

White House officials and ICE have strongly criticized CBS over its reporting. First of all, Diawara had been breaking the law by staying in the country since his order of removal in 2012. And while an immigration judge did rule he could not be sent back to Mali, federal officials respected that, sending him to Ghana, which sent him to Mali.  

But that’s only the tip of the iceberg. After the man came to America, he married a woman and had two kids. Why is that relevant? Because when he sought asylum in 2001, he claimed he was a homosexual and used that to try and avoid deportation, according to ICE. 

“Since I came to the USA I had the possibilities to express my feelings to men without any embarrassment no reserve,” he wrote in his asylum application.  

All in all, “60 Minutes” effectively treats Diawara as a regular law-abiding American who was suddenly deported to Mali. As we’ve seen, that could not be farther from the truth. Apparently, the program may not be too concerned with the truth after all.

In an interview with Department of Homeland Security General Counsel James Percival, the outlet omitted some of his key quotes, like the following: “We have laws, Congress passes those laws, we just enforce them. … And this obsession with whether somebody has committed a sufficient crime, an immigration judge has ordered us to remove someone. We’re following an order from an immigration judge.” Meanwhile, it kept these emotional quotes from Diawara: “I cannot call my wife; I can’t contact my lawyer. I can’t talk to no one. I tell them, ‘This is kidnapping. You guys kidnapped us.’” 

Time and time again, legacy media have shown they cannot comprehend this simple fact: When criminals break the law, they must face the consequences. This isn’t the fault of law enforcement. It’s the result of their own poor decisions. 

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Today President Donald Trump heads to Chillicothe, Ohio, for another midterm MAGA rally in support of Ohio candidates including Vivek Ramaswamy.  The livestream activities should begin around 5:30pm with President Trump at 7:00pm.  Livestream Links Below: . Posted in Donald Trump, Election 2026, Live Streaming, President Trump, RSBN

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Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for the Daily Signal.  

We’re into five or six months now of the Canadian-American trade wars. It’s kind of Orwellian in the sense that the dispute only involved about 2% of the half-trillion dollars of trade that goes back and forth across our northern border. 

And because Canada has been running up a $50 billion to $60 billion annual trade surplus, and that’s not the greatest contributor to our trillion-dollar—prior trillion-dollar—trade deficit, you would think that they would make a gesture, just say, “We’re going to lift the 250% tariff over a certain level on American dairy, cheese, etc., and maybe we’ll just go down from about $50 billion or $60 billion in surplus, just for appearances, optics, to maybe $20 billion.” And they could solve it. 

Instead, Prime Minister Mark Carney has taken this trade dispute and used it for his political future, his political career. He basically was given somewhat of a vote of confidence in Quebec and Alberta. 

That was the point. He got elected by drumming up this hatred of Donald Trump, and I’ll be candid, of the United States. But here’s what’s really strange. He’s now posed, as I said earlier, as a leader of the middle nations. 

So get this: He has 75% of his trade with the United States, with almost no transportation cost, and over a small dispute over agricultural products that at most might cost Canada $10 billion or $20 billion of its huge trade surplus, he’s really destroying the entire American-Canadian relationship. 

And here’s what he’s doing, and everybody thinks it’s because of Donald Trump’s crudity, his bombast, but this is more existential. He’s doing three things: 

He’s reaching out to make special agreements with China that make no sense because he’s always talking about Canada’s superior moral stature. But Canada is now dealing with a country that put a million Uyghurs into labor camps and has the worst record—worst record in the modern era—of cheating on trade by dumping products below the cost of production, by currency manipulation, by flagrant disregard for patents or copyright. 

I could go on, but why would you want to reach out to this communist country, which in some ways is the logical descendant of Mao’s government, which was responsible for the greatest mass murder in history, killing 70 million of its own people, and is a fanatical autocracy?  

It makes no sense, but that’s not the end of it. 

Now he’s reaching across the Atlantic to capitalize on anger at the United States in the EU and NATO countries, and he wants a special relationship. But it’s like he’s now reaching out to a ship that’s sinking. Paris is engulfed in five weeks of existential rioting. It spread to Italy. Britain is a mess. 

The German economy is stalled. GDP is about half of the United States’ GDP. Its economy is $10 trillion smaller than that of the United States, which has 100 million fewer people. It can barely suffice to make its 2%. 

Now, I understand that the Canadian economy is in worse condition than the European economy. It’s the lowest of the 30 or so Westernized economies in terms of annual GDP. It’s got a more acute first- and second-generation immigrant problem than does the EU. It has a worse fertility problem than does the EU. 

But you would think, given all of those problems in this socialist command economy that Canada has turned into, you would want to be bolstered by developing relationships with the United States, which is booming and will boom even further. 

Instead, he’s reaching out to a collapsing economy, and that’s not the end of it, unfortunately, for Canada. There’s a third thing that Carney is doing. Now he wants a special relationship with Turkey. 

The EU that he worships would not let Turkey into the EU because Erdoğan is sort of a president for life. His elections are show elections. They’re not real referendums where the people have an open choice. He has persecuted ethnic minorities, like the Kurds and, earlier, the Armenians, mercilessly. 

He took Hagia Sophia, a U.N.-protected site, which was for a millennium the largest church in Christendom, and he’s turned it away from U.N. protection into a Turkish mosque. 

He persecutes Christians. He has threatened Israel, and I’m quoting almost verbatim, that one day he would send missiles into Tel Aviv. He’s threatened Greece. He’s told the Cypriots, the Greeks and the Israelis that we don’t want you to ship natural gas to Europe, and we may disrupt you. 

He’s told the Greeks that their Dodecanese islands and other islands off the Turkish coast are really disputed, and he’s hinted that, in neo-Ottoman fashion, one day they may revert to Turkey. 

He has said to the Greek people, “You may wake up and find missiles coming into Athens.” He has said that if Greece did not recognize the Turkish occupation of Cyprus, it might be in deep trouble and its allies, quote, “could not save them.” 

So Carney is posing as the moral superior to the United States as he’s reaching out not just to illiberal China, but to Turkey, which is occupying 30% to 40% of northern Cyprus, and only one country in the world recognizes it. Turkey does. 

And this is supposed to be the moral alternative to the United States? 

What’s the problem? The problem is, as we’ve said so many times earlier in so many different contexts, if you take a naturally robust people endowed with a treasure house of natural resources—timber, fossil fuels, minerals—that have a Western tradition, work ethic and a strong military, and performed brilliantly in World War II as one of the major allies of Britain and the United States, and you take that potential and that record, and you socialize and regulate the economy, you start to introduce euthanasia, you have a high abortion rate, you have a low fertility rate, you open your borders, you don’t acculturate, integrate or assimilate 45% of your population that’s either first- or second-generation immigrant. 

You cut back on your military, so you just scarcely can make 2%, and you welched on your promises because you didn’t have the money to protect yourself.  

And now you’re in this surreal position of counting on the United States geostrategically to protect the entire North American continent, and you’re part of it, from any potential North Korean, Iranian, Chinese or Russian missile, and you don’t even contribute to the North American defense because you can’t, because your economy is moribund, because you took a different path than the United States did. 

A final thought: There’s roughly 33 or 34 nations in the Western Hemisphere, that is, North, South and Central America and the Caribbean. We are witnessing one of the most radical changes in the last 50 to 60 years, where nation after nation after nation in Latin America is flipping to an open economy, a transparent society, a democratically elected president, a pro-American stance, a pro-Western stance, whether it’s Colombia, Argentina, Chile or Bolivia. 

There’s only about three or four nations that are anti-American and communist now: Nicaragua. I think Brazil’s about ready to flip Western in the next election, if it’s held in transparent fashion. (Note: Socialist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won reelection in a disputed contest, with opposition candidate Flavio Bolsonaro forced to flee to the U.S.) 

Maybe Mexico, but Mexico is getting closer and closer to the United States, at least it wants to. And Cuba, which is about ready to implode. 

And now there’s Canada. So, in other words, this huge Western Hemisphere that is now gaining wealth, gaining power, gaining influence because of the United States is creating a whole Western alternative both to the Russian-Chinese paradigm and to Europe. 

And what is Carney doing? Rather than capitalizing on this, he’s holding out. He’s not only going to be orphaned from the United States, he’s soon going to be orphaned from the Western Hemisphere, and he’s reaching out to the most illiberal regimes in the world. 

And why in the world would you pick China over the United States? Why would you pick autocratic, illiberal Turkey over democratic and free Greece? 

And why would you look to the stagnant, ossified, calcified economy of the EU as your model rather than the United States, over a mild $10 billion or $20 billion that you could settle in trade like that? 

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In 2024, voters without a college degree broke for Trump 56 to 42. On Nov. 3, Americans will learn whether the working-class voters who pulled the lever for President Donald Trump are staying with the Republican Party.

At least since President Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal, most working-class voters have felt kinship with the Democratic Party. The Democrats were supposedly the party aligned with manufacturing and labor unions, the party of higher wages for workers, affordable housing, and a social safety net.

The Republicans were largely viewed as the party that put industry leaders over workers and the GDP over the real wages of the average worker. Put aside the fact that free markets supporting entrepreneurship and innovation tend to lift all boats and progressive and socialist policies tend to destroy more than they build. The perception has had little to do with actual policy and a lot to do with vibes. The vibe for the last century has been that Democrats are for the working man.

There has been a recent “vibe shift” taking place in America. Trump tapped into something: the feeling of ordinary Americans that our nation’s institutions no longer represent their interests.

The question facing the Republican Party is whether or not the shift will reverse itself. One prominent Republican hoping to ensure it doesn’t is Vice President JD Vance. Vance has the chance to turn the shift into a realigned coalition where the Republican Party becomes the party of the American working class for generations to come.

As I argue in my book, “JD Vance and the Future of the Republican Party,” Vance’s political project is about reorienting the Republican Party around the interests of the American family and the American worker. But this is not simply messaging; he is putting it into practice.

Vance has long been a supporter of expanding the child tax credit. Some reports have also indicated that he has advocated for a proposal to expand eligibility for the Child Care and Development Fund (the federal day care subsidy) to married couples with a stay-at-home parent, rather than limiting it to parents who work and outsource care of their children to day care. Eligible families could receive up to $9,000 per child per year.

Vance sees that America needs families who have and raise children; he seems willing to experiment with policies that might encourage people to make this happen.

Some conservatives object to the stay-at-home subsidy, arguing that it could bring about unintended consequences, including audits, benefit cliffs, and disincentives to work.

Vance’s own view, from Fox News in August: “You don’t stop socialism by throwing slogans at people about the free market. As much as I love the free market, you stop socialism by making people’s lives better.”

Vance’s rhetoric on immigration is centered, not primarily on disfavoring outsider groups, but on ensuring that American workers have access to well-paying, meaningful work.

In September he said the H-1B visa “should not exist to replace American workers with low-wage foreigners.” This worker-centered messaging is key.

Immigration hawkishness focused on preserving American culture alone plays well with the MAGA base but makes other parts of the Republican coalition nervous. A focus on ensuring that American citizens have jobs that pay a living wage before inviting the rest of the world into our country should be the way to unite the party around this issue.

Tariff policy needs restructured messaging, too: The purpose of most of our tariffs is a long game to reindustrialize the United States by keeping out unfair competition from countries that pay slave wages.

Vance recognizes that homeownership is a key part of attaining the American Dream. He has publicly worried that foreign nationals and large investment firms purchasing American homes is making homeownership harder for ordinary Americans. The ROAD to Housing Act, which was passed in July and goes into effect in January, limits home purchases by for-profit investors that own 350 or more homes.

These are not scattered proposals. Vance has a vision for the Republican Party as the party of the ordinary worker and the ordinary family.

If working-class Americans continue to see Democrats as the party of the college-educated elite and Republicans as the party that wants to ensure ordinary Americans have access to homes, good jobs, and strong communities, that can’t help but cause a seismic shift in the American political landscape.

The policies mentioned here are not a guaranteed recipe for success; they actually have to work. American voters must see good jobs reshored, housing prices come down, and raising a family become more affordable. But Vance is making an important play for the future of the Republican Party.

If these policies start to make life better for working-class Americans, we could see a political realignment that permanently moves working-class Americans from the party of FDR to the party of JD Vance. That could transform American electoral politics for decades to come.

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FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The National Institutes of Health under the Trump administration has slashed more than $1 billion of woke Biden-era grants studying “economic-based empowerment” for “transgender women,” lowering “transgender men’s” voices, and more, the Daily Signal has learned.

The NIH has terminated about 1,000 grants, adding up to $1,020,711,506 in savings. Another approximately 5,000 grants have been renegotiated. Others are protected by courts from being canceled, so NIH will allow them to expire.

The funding has been reallocated to projects aligned with President Donald Trump’s agenda.

One terminated grant was dedicated to helping “transgender women,” also known as biological men, who face economic “systemic marginalization.” The $2.21 million grant is entitled “ENTRUST,” which stands for “Economic Navigation and Strengthening to Realize Unrestricted Services for Transgender Women.”

“ENTRUST is an economic-based empowerment intervention that will provide transgender women with group-based financial education while receiving tailored [Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment] counseling to help transgender women routinely engaging in substance use services and HIV care or preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP) programs,” the summary says.

The grant author at the University of Central Florida said the research was necessary because “transgender women in Florida are economically disadvantaged and at highest risk for substance use disorders, HIV transmission and/or non-adherence to antiretroviral treatment, yet remain underrepresented in research.”

“Existing programs fail to address structural barriers such as socio-economic status and social marginalization that deter access to prevention services and care,” the author wrote.

Another grant for $2.28 million studied the “Effects of exogenous testosterone therapy on communication in gender diverse speakers.”

“Up to 97% of gender-diverse individuals assigned female at birth have gender-related voice problems, yet there are currently no evidence-based treatments for voice masculinization,” the summary says. “Gender-affirming hormone therapy with exogenous testosterone is the default treatment, yet we still do not know how and when it works, nor in whom.”

The study asserts that it is “speculation” that testosterone lowers a woman’s voice, but the theory has not been directly assessed.

“The project will allow for evidence-based guidance about when and how communication will be impacted by testosterone therapy,” the summary says.

A $1 million grant terminated by NIH linked transgenderism, alcoholism, and domestic violence.

“The proposed research is focused on understanding the public health impact of daily experiences with discrimination, harassment, and stigmatization experienced by sexual and gender minority couples living in rural communities in the Midwest,” the public health relevance statement reads.

The study isolated “factors that increase the likelihood of alcohol use and destructive conflict in response to distress experienced from daily minority stress (i.e., drinking to cope motives and internalized forms of minority stress).”

It also identifies so-called sources of resiliency from “interpersonal relationships and community-based resources that interrupt this maladaptive cascade and mitigate risk for the dual public health threats of alcohol use and intimate partner violence in this underrepresented population.”

Another $2.4 million grant funded an app for elderly LGBT people titled “SilverBills: A Legal, Technical and Financial Tool for Aging LGBTQ+ Individuals with Impaired Cognition.”

The goal was to “improve the financial well-being of older LGBTQ+ individuals with cognitive impairment” through the app.

One terminated grant for $2.87 million was focused on convincing young black people in the South to take the COVID-19 vaccines.

The grant summary says African American young adults are a “super-spreader” population, yet COVID vaccination acceptance is low.

“A digital health intervention has the potential to increase the reach and uptake of COVID vaccination among African American young adults which is central to ending the pandemic,” the grant author wrote.

A grant for $2.4 million linked perceived racism to cardiovascular disease and neurocognitive aging.

The grant application expressed the intention to “investigate the impact of interpersonal and institutional/structural racism on neurocognitive integrity of these brain systems in Black adults aged 65 years and older and to examine cardiovascular disease risk as an underlying biological mechanism.”

“Addressing this knowledge gap is critical for developing new health policies and biobehavioral and social interventions for healthy aging,” the summary said.

A similar study for $2.16 million investigated the “Impact of Structural Racism on Racial/Ethnic Disparities in End-Stage Kidney Disease from Healthy Population to Mortality.”

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Socialism is on the ballot in the midterm elections, and not just in high-profile congressional races.

The Democratic Socialists of America has endorsed 255 candidates and ballot initiatives, according to the DSA’s national tracker. The candidates from around the country are running for a variety of local, state, and congressional offices.

Eleven of the candidates have already won their races for local office, while 59 candidates have lost their local races or congressional primaries.

More than half of the DSA-endorsed state legislative candidates hail from just five blue states, suggesting the group is building a bench of local leaders who could become national candidates.

Expanding ‘The Squad’

DSA-backed candidates could expand the socialist contingent in the House beyond prominent members such as Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich.

Two DSA-endorsed candidates, Darializa Avila Chevalier in New York’s 13th Congressional District and Melat Kiros in Colorado’s 1st Congressional District, unseated established Democrats in their primaries. They have already discussed plans to demand policy concessions of Democrats running for Speaker of the House, should the party win the majority next week.

In addition to Chevalier and Kiros, the DSA has endorsed Donavan McKinney (Mich., 13), Claire Valdez (N.Y., 7), Chris Rabb (Pa., 3), Angela Gonzales-Torres (Calif., 34), Mai Vang (Calif., 7), and Lauren Jewett (La., 1). The DSA endorsed former Squad member Cori Bush, who lost her House primary earlier this year.

Socialism in the Senate

The DSA’s national tracker does not include any U.S. Senate candidates, though the national organization has previously endorsed one candidate. Another candidate joined the DSA this year, and the last candidate is firmly in the movement’s orbit.

Abdul El-Sayed, the Democrat nominee for U.S. Senate in Michigan, has neither joined the DSA nor received a DSA endorsement, but has supported DSA policies and previously addressed DSA events.

Though he said he thinks of himself “as a capitalist,” El-Sayed has supported DSA policies such as Medicare for All, ending the filibuster, and abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement. El-Sayed also spoke at DSA events between 2017 and 2020, Fox News reported. His campaign website touts endorsements from DSA member Ocasio-Cortez and socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt.

Cook rates Michigan’s Senate race as a “toss-up.”

The Memphis-Midsouth DSA in Tennessee has urged supporters to vote for Marquita Bradshaw, the Volunteer State’s Democrat nominee for Senate. The DSA has not officially endorsed her this year in a race the Cook Political Report rates as “Solid R.”

Florida state Rep. Angie Nixon, meanwhile, joined the DSA in June before winning the August Democrat Senate primary. She had previously described herself as a capitalist. The national DSA has not endorsed Nixon, who faces Republican Sen. Ashley Moody in a race the Cook Political Report rates as “Solid R.”

State and Local Races

The largest share of the DSA’s candidate slate, however, lies at the state and local levels. The movement’s national tracker lists 59 candidates for state legislative offices across 25 states.

More than half of those candidates are concentrated in New York, Vermont, Minnesota, Illinois, and Oregon.

A DSA candidate is likely to take power in the nation’s capital, as Janeese Lewis George won the June Democrat primary for Washington, D.C., mayor. The city’s main DSA chapter mobilized more than 300 members to canvass for George, who ran on a platform of universal affordable child care and strengthening tenants’ rights, Time Magazine reported.

Nithya Raman, the DSA-endorsed candidate for Los Angeles mayor challenging incumbent Democrat Karen Bass, is locked in a race that is effectively tied even as she faces the prospect of losing the DSA’s backing over the issue of Israel.

Ballot Initiatives

The DSA has also endorsed and opposed a bevy of ballot initiatives.

The DSA is urging voters to oppose Washington Initiative 645, which would repeal a new 9.9% state tax on adjusted gross income over $1 million, set to begin on Jan. 1, 2028. Initiative proponents say the tax represents a “test case” for a broader income tax.

The DSA has endorsed Tenants Right to Repair, a ballot initiative in St. Paul, Minnesota, that would allow city renters to be reimbursed for the cost of fixes to their homes totaling up to $500 or half their rent, whichever is greater, according to MPR News. The city council opposed allowing the measure on the ballot, citing concerns that it would violate state law.

Simultaneously, the DSA is training members to build what it calls “militant tenant unions,” organizing renters into citywide and regional groups to build a lasting political movement.