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The Daily Signal is adding Texas to its State News Network, announcing today that Emily Medeiros will serve as its first-ever Texas correspondent and Lauren Washburn will contribute a weekly column covering Texas politics and culture.

Texas is one of five states now covered by Daily Signal correspondents. In 2025, the Daily Signal launched its first bureau in Virginia, followed by Ohio. It expanded to California in April, then Georgia and Texas this month.

Medeiros joins our team with strong Texas reporting experience. She spent nearly three years as a staff journalist at Texas Scorecard, where she covered state and local politics, interviewed legislators and activists, and produced investigative work. She followed that with a stint at Texas Wire, serving as the sole writer for a startup publication focused on conservative issues across the state.

Most recently, Medeiros has been a freelance contributor to the Lincoln Media Foundation, reporting on Texas news and political developments. A University of Oklahoma journalism graduate with a minor in political science, Medeiros has the instincts that Texas coverage demands.

In her new role, she will report on state government, the legislature, politics, and the policy debates shaping life for the state’s 30 million residents.

“I’m excited to join the Daily Signal as its Texas correspondent,” Medeiros said. “Texas is a unique place with stories that often set the tone for policy debates across the country, and I look forward to covering the people, legislation, and issues shaping the state’s future through factual, in-depth reporting.”

Washburn brings a complementary set of skills to the Daily Signal. A Hillsdale College graduate with a background in print journalism and radio, she served as a research analyst for “Dr. Phil Primetime,” an intern reporter for The Center Square, and a freelance writer for Lincoln Media Foundation. She currently serves as executive assistant to Christopher Rufo at American Studio.

Her weekly column will offer commentary and analysis on Texas politics and the ideas driving the state’s national influence.

“As a lifelong Texan, it’s been rewarding to watch the state influence politics, culture, and business in a major way. I’m extremely honored and excited to continue my reporting in this pivotal state,” Washburn said.

Texas often dominates national news—and for good reason. On energy, border security, education, and the future of conservative governance, it often leads the way. The Daily Signal believes the state deserves serious, sustained coverage from a news organization that shares our supporters’ values.

“The Lone Star State has long been a bastion of conservative government. Its people embody the American spirit—courageous, gritty, innovative, and sensible. The Daily Signal seeks to bring those same values to our journalism, which makes Texas a natural choice for our state news network,” said Bradley Devlin, politics editor of the Daily Signal. “Emily and Lauren bring the experience and intelligence needed to cover the state where everything is bigger and confront the challenges Texans face today.”

The Daily Signal’s expansion of state-level reporting comes at a critical moment when many communities are left without local news due to the rapidly changing media landscape. Under the guidance of state news editor Bruce Parker, our network of correspondents in Virginia, Ohio, Georgia, California, and now Texas is committed to bringing truthful coverage to each of those states.

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President Donald Trump just showed NATO what America First foreign policy looks like in practice: America leads, Europe pays its fair share, and allies are expected to take the lead in defending their own continents.

At this week’s NATO summit in Ankara, Trump announced after meeting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy that the United States would grant Ukraine a license to produce Patriot missile interceptors. The announcement came as Russia intensified missile and drone attacks and Ukraine faced an acute shortage of Patriots—its most important defense against Russian ballistic missiles.

This is not Joe Biden’s blank-check Ukraine policy repackaged. It is a fundamentally different model.

For years, the Biden administration asked American taxpayers to shoulder a disproportionate burden while wealthy European governments issued statements, held summits, and promised to do more. Trump is turning that model on its head.

Under NATO’s Prioritized Ukraine Requirements List (PURL), allies and partners purchase urgently needed American military equipment for Ukraine rather than expecting Washington to foot the bill. The program has become critical to Ukraine’s air defense, including Patriot interceptors.

The final NATO declaration from Ankara proves the larger point. Alliance leaders declared that European allies and Canada now finance the “vast majority” of security assistance to Ukraine and pledged €70 billion in military equipment, assistance, and training for 2026, with commitments to sustain at least equivalent levels in 2027.

That is exactly the burden-shifting Trump has demanded for years: Europe pays more for European security, America protects its own military readiness, and NATO expands production rather than relying indefinitely on U.S. inventories.

The Patriot licensing announcement takes the strategy further. Instead of simply stripping scarce interceptors from American stockpiles, Trump is opening a path toward expanded production capacity outside the United States.

The strategic logic is straightforward. Ukraine needs air defenses. America needs sufficient weapons for its own forces and global contingencies. Europe needs to rebuild the defense industrial base it neglected for decades.

Trump’s policy addresses all three.

It also exposes the central contradiction of European free-riding. European leaders have repeatedly insisted that Ukraine’s survival is essential to the security of Europe. If they believe that, they should be willing to pay for its defense.

America First does not mean that the United States has no interest in Ukraine. Washington has a clear interest in preventing Russia from conquering Ukraine, destabilizing Europe, and increasing the risk that American troops will someday have to defend NATO territory.

But an American interest is not the same thing as an American blank check.

Trump’s second-term policy has increasingly linked American support to reciprocity. The U.S.-Ukraine Reconstruction Investment Fund created a framework for American investment in Ukraine’s future rather than permanent foreign-aid dependency. PURL shifted more weapons purchases onto allies. Now, Patriot licensing points toward greater production capacity.

The principle is consistent: no more something-for-nothing foreign policy.

Trump is also right to keep the ultimate objective in sight. The purpose of supporting Ukraine should be to secure a sovereign, defensible country and create the conditions for a durable settlement—not to sustain an endless war without a political strategy.

In Ankara, Trump combined support for stronger Ukrainian air defenses with a renewed emphasis on ending the conflict. Those policies are not contradictory. Diplomacy works best when the aggressor understands that time and force will not deliver victory.

For too long, Washington treated Ukraine as a choice between endless American spending and abandoning the country to Vladimir Putin. Trump is offering a better alternative: Arm Ukraine without hollowing out America, make Europe pay more for European security, rebuild allied defense production, and negotiate from strength.

The message from Ankara is clear: America can support Ukraine without subsidizing Europe’s security forever.

That is not isolationism. That is America First.

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'We cannot choose to become idiots.'

Massachusetts gun owners are facing an unprecedented assault on their constitutional liberties under the draconian overreach of Chapter 135.

This unconstitutional legislation directly targets law-abiding citizens, creating an unnecessary and convoluted burden on anyone exercising their right to keep and bear arms.

To counter this blatant infringement and fully restore our Second Amendment rights, The Civil Rights Coalition is inviting you to a special event to help organize, mobilize, and fuel the grassroots resistance. Gun Owners of America will also be there!

The event will take place on Wednesday, July 15th, from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM at Cape Gun Works, located at 96 Airport Rd in Hyannis.

This gathering is a crucial opportunity for Second Amendment advocates across the Commonwealth to unite under one roof, discuss the strategic path to fully repeal Chapter 135, and ensure that the voices of law-abiding gun owners cannot be silenced by anti-gun politicians.

There will also be an auction to raise money for this fight!

Defeating this sweeping legislative overreach requires the active support and resources of every dedicated patriot in the state.

To power this monumental ballot and legal campaign, attendees are encouraged to contribute to the fight, with suggested donation tiers of $50, $100, $250, and $500 to The Civil Rights Coalition. Please make every effort to attend, stand strong with fellow gun owners, and help us reclaim our stolen liberties!

For more info, visit The Civil Rights Coalition Events page here!

We hope to see you there!

The convention will include roughly 600 delegates