BELLEVUE, WA –  In the aftermath of last week’s election, which swept anti-gun Democrats into office at both the federal and state levels, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms says the threat to Second Amendment rights cannot be overstated, and they are keeping track of pre-filed bills across the map.

Democrats in Texas have already reportedly filed at least 16 different gun-related bills, primarily in the House, which they now control. Legislative proposals are also showing up in Minnesota and Arizona, while Democrats now control both legislative chambers in 24 states, including Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, New Hampshire and Pennsylvania. They also hold a majority of governorships.

“We’re looking at a dire situation,” CCRKBA Executive Director Andrew Gottlieb acknowledged. “We fully expect anti-gunners in all Democrat-controlled legislatures to push an extremist agenda, which could include—depending upon the state—efforts to roll back state firearm preemption statutes which prohibit cities and counties from adopting their own more restrictive local gun control laws, reverse Constitutional carry laws, add permit-to-purchase requirements, ban so-called ‘assault weapons,’ and add other possible restrictions.

“Fox News on Tuesday reported that Democrats now control 24 state houses, while Republicans hold 22,” he continued. “Texas and North Carolina have split legislatures, and we’re still waiting for vote outcomes in Alaska and Georgia. Essentially, the Second Amendment community is facing a nationwide emergency, so it’s all hands on deck.”

Gottlieb said CCRKBA is monitoring every state, watching for anti-gun legislation which might be pre-filed as January legislative sessions loom on the political horizon. He anticipates a flood of restrictive proposals which may seem benign on paper, but will be malignant in practice.

“Our state affiliates—our boots on the ground grassroots organizations—are preparing for action in every state capital,” he observed. “Democrats campaigned on affordability, health care, and civil rights, but now that they’ve won, they are focusing on long-standing agenda items including gun restrictions, gun bans and trampling on the rights of law-abiding gun owners.”

Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words” from Daily Signal senior contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to Hanson’s own YouTube channel to watch past episodes.

Jack Fowler: Very briefly here, let me just say that Victor has written a significant post on X. You’ll find it there. His handle is @VDHanson. It may also now be up on the Blade of Perseus, Victor’s website. 

By the way, that’s victorhanson.com. Check that out. Go there. Do subscribe. Here’s what Victor wrote. I’ll just read a little bit. 

The midterm is not the end term. It is too soon to calibrate the direction of the post-midterm Democratic and Republican parties, but if the first 72 hours are any indication, and despite the soon-to-be speaker’s denials, the Left is already bragging about subpoenas and is intoxicated by the notion of investigations and impeachments. 

And Victor says a lot more, and he’s gonna tell us what more he said and why he wrote this piece. Victor? 

Victor Davis Hanson: I was a little upset. My point is, if you had criticisms of the administration and you supported it and you were constructive, why didn’t you voice it? And then after the election, all these people—it’s what John F. Kennedy said after the Bay of Pigs. He said success has a thousand mothers or parents, and failure is an orphan. 

So what I’m getting at is, all these people are coming out now, especially in The Wall Street Journal, but everywhere, saying that they should—not that they should have done this, but these people, it’s over, it’s done, it’s nothing. 

And what I wanted to do in this tweet—and I have a longer version of it that’s coming out Monday at American Greatness or Tuesday—is say that a lot of it was the messaging, and I had been saying that for a long time. 

So what I did in this—first, I want to tell everybody, just take a deep breath because the Trump MAGA movement is not over, and the Trump presidency is not over. 

It’s got two and a half years, almost. We’ve got two more months in this year, and then we’ve got a month in 2028. So it’s three months and  

Jack Fowler: 27 months total 

Victor Davis Hanson: Yes, 27 months, exactly. 

And so, what I’m getting at is, if you just look at Barack Obama and look at Clinton, who came in with bigger majorities than Donald Trump and got wiped out over their two midterms—not so much Clinton the second time, but they lost. 

What happened to them? Nothing. They started to do executive orders. Could they get new legislation through? No. Could they appoint more liberal judges? No. Could they replace a Cabinet member? No. 

And I want to qualify that the Democrats are much more unyielding about confirmations than the Republicans were. Some of them they confirmed, even though they were Democrats. 

And then foreign policy? No, nothing. The Republicans yelled to high heaven that Bill Clinton should have congressional authority to join the coalition of NATO partners in Serbia, and we bombed for 77 days without congressional authority on his initiative. 

And it turned out to be, if you believe it was necessary to save the Kosovo people from slaughter by [Slovan] Milosevic, it led to Milosevic’s downfall. 

He cut a deal with [Newt] Gingrich, and he then claimed credit for it. He wouldn’t have been able to do it without Gingrich, but he said he balanced the budget for four years. 

And he did, but he didn’t do it by himself. He did it with Newt Gingrich, but he worked across the aisle. He had a lot of executive orders. 

He and Joe Biden were the pardoners par excellence. They set the example of pardoning people. Remember that when these questions of pardons come up. 

And then Barack Obama, he was more ambitious. My gosh, he recognized Cuba by himself. He didn’t even go to Congress. He went into the disastrous Paris Climate Accord without Congress. 

People said, aren’t you a constitutional lawyer? Don’t you realize the Senate has to have a two-thirds ratification vote? 

No, I don’t think so. I’m a constitutional lawyer, and we’re going to do the Iran deal. They need $400 million at night on a pallet. 

So he did that, and he remade the Middle East. He created, in his last two years, a Shia alternative to the Gulf states and Israel and the moderate Jordan and Egypt states. 

And it was basically the Syrians under the crazy Assads and Iran, no need to talk about that. And then Hezbollah, who had taken over Lebanon, and then Hamas, and then the Houthis had taken a lot of Yemen. 

And that’s what he gave us in his last term. 

And you know what? When the campaign started that I was writing about, the president just gets above it all. Al Gore disastrously said he didn’t want Clinton campaigning. 

Clinton said, that’s even better. You’ll fight it out with George W. Bush, and I’ll be presidential. 

Obama said, I’m going to interfere in this election, but I’m going to do it quietly. I’m going to get [James] Comey and [John] Brennan, [James] Clapper into my office, and I’ll have Susan Rice take phony notes, and then they’ll go after Russian collusion. 

But I won’t do it. I’ll just go out in the golf place and say, I’d like to be president if I just called in from the basement. Third term. 

And he did have a third term with Biden. But the point I’m making is that he went out with 60% approval, and Clinton went out with about 68%. And they had been lower than Trump at 37%, 38%. 

So the president, under our system, is not a parliamentary prime minister when he loses the majority in the parliament. I.e., he doesn’t have to resign, nor does his party have to resign. 

And then we know what happens with wave elections. Remember 2010? The Tea Party really didn’t have a particular leader, but they swept 63 seats, and then they thought, we’re going to win the Senate in 2010 and ’12. 

And they nominated—was it Christine Ingle or whatever her name was? And in Delaware, they nominated that poor woman. 

Jack Fowler: Oh, yeah.  

Victor Davis Hanson: She said she’s not a witch. 

Yes. I’m not a witch. 

Jack Fowler: Oh my God, I met her. She came to National Review. Christy something. 

Yeah, I’ll figure it out. 

Victor Davis Hanson: That was really cruel. When you have to make a campaign ad saying you’re not a witch, you can’t win. 

So they were picking, and they got extreme, and they thought they were going to do this and that, but they had no leader. 

And the same thing happened in the Clinton era. Once, in October, it was exposed, and Ken Starr started publishing some of them. And I can’t repeat it on this show, but some of the details of the sexual congress between Monica and Bill came out in public. 

They were very gross. It was taking place in the little bathroom off the Oval Office, and people said this is disgusting. 

And then when he lied about it under oath and said that he had not had sexual relations with that woman, Ms. Lewinsky, Monica Lewinsky, he lied, and he was disbarred. 

So then what do you do with him? What do you do with him when the economy is about 4% GDP, inflation’s about 2.5%, and he’s paid back two years of the debt? 

There are budget surpluses, and then he’s got economists saying, if you let Bill and Gingrich go, we’ll get four years. And if you let the winner, Al Gore or Bush, continue this, the entire debt will be paid off within six years. 

Why would you impeach a president like that? And we did, we on the Right. And it just backfired terribly, and he picked up seats. 

And then, even though he didn’t have Congress, he picked up, I think, five seats in the House, and he didn’t lose any Senate seats. 

So I’m getting at the overreaction will be even worse with a socialist. 

And coupled with the presidential running, Donald Trump declared his candidacy on Nov. 15, 2022. That, Jack, is eight days from now in the same term. 

Eight days from now, is somebody gonna declare they’re president? It’s gonna be soon, and once that starts, nobody’s gonna wanna know what Stephen Miller’s wife did on Tuesday afternoon or how big his house is. 

They’re not gonna wanna know any of that. They’re gonna wanna go—it’s gonna be [Marco] Rubio, [Ron] DeSantis, JD Vance, AOC, [Gavin] Newsom, [Abdul] El-Sayed. 

Jack Fowler: Don’t forget Chris Christie. 

Victor Davis Hanson: Chris Christie’s already said he’s going to run. He wants to get 1%. 

Yeah, so I guess— 

Jack Fowler: Or skim milk. 

Victor Davis Hanson: He wants to have that 1%. 

But my point is, a president in his last two terms under our system is set free. He has no elections to worry about. He signs executive orders. He does what he wants. 

Yes, he doesn’t have nominations, judges and Cabinet, and that’s bad. But as long as he keeps his minority, in this case perhaps 45 seats, these Republicans together, they don’t have 60 votes to override. 

So if they want to, say, pass a law and say, we’re going to repeal the estate tax exemption, so no more $19 million, it’ll go down to $1 million. 

And they go in and they vote, and it’s 58 to 42, and they get some Republicans to join them, and then he vetoes it, and that’s it. 

They don’t get 60. They can stop them. But you have to have solidarity because you only have a four- or five-seat safety valve. 

You can’t have [Lisa] Murkowski and others joining the Left on these veto overrides. 

So basically, that’s what I was saying. Don’t panic, and he can do a lot of good stuff. 

And then I also said, I tried to go through systematically what were the symptoms of what everybody said. JD said four things: MAGA, there was not enough America First economics, the war and Israel. 

I think he got two of them. There was anger over the war, and I’ll address that in a second very quickly, and the economy. 

But I don’t know what America First is. He took a beating from the tariffs. That was all designed to tell foreign entities, if you come to the United States and give jobs to the forgotten, you don’t have any tariffs. If you don’t, you’re going to be tariffed off the charts. 

And all he did was give tips, no tax for tips, refunds for Social Security for certain people, no more taxes on—It was all America First. 

Okay, so then there are two things that I tried to address very quickly. 

The economy, yes, but I keep asking this question. In 2022, Joe Biden was running—he was president, excuse me. He had his first midterm, and everybody, including me, thought there would be a red wave. 

Why? Because he was polling 40%. 

Wars were breaking out. There was a huge war in Ukraine that he had precipitated by cutting off defensive weapons to Ukraine and saying he wouldn’t react unless it was a major invasion. 

And he had pulled out of Afghanistan just months earlier, August of 2021, his first year, and he had never been over 40% since because he left $140 billion we put into Afghanistan. 

I don’t know how much of that we want to count. Renewed buildings, warehouses, roads, bridges, a billion-dollar embassy, $350 million for Bagram refitting, 100,000 vehicles. 

Everybody, we’re all worried about car prices. 100,000 we bought, brand-new vehicles turned over. 

But when you put the weapons and the infrastructure, it was over $50 billion easily, more than the Iran War. 

And he was unpopular. And how did he survive? He picked up a Senate seat. He only lost nine House seats. 

Yes, he lost the House, but the Republicans only had seven advantages. 

So was the economy then good? 

Well, Victor, 80% that year said it’s the economy, so obviously the economy— 

No, it was much worse than in 2026. 

Interest rates were higher. GDP was lower. Inflation was almost three times higher than it is now during our midterms. 

The poverty rate was a point and a half lower. The median family income was, depending on how you adjudicate it, either $14,000 or $8,000 lower. 

The stock market, if we go on the day right before our midterms, it was 20,000 points lower under Biden at his midterms, or now maybe 17,000 or 18,000. 

I could go on, but the economy was terrible, and yet we didn’t have a red wave. And now we’re told the economy is terrible when it wasn’t nearly as terrible as Biden’s, and we did have a blue wave. 

So I was trying to explain in this article, there were three reasons. 

The media just said this was COVID. Donald Trump did it. No, Donald Trump didn’t do it. He left office, and Joe Biden inherited a 1.9% annual inflation rate, and he enjoyed a 7.4% aggregate rise over four years. 

Okay, so then they said, what was it then? What was it? I said this to Megyn Kelly. 

It was the media. Janet Yellen said, this is just temporary, and we know with Trump, every day you have to use the word unexpectedly. 

165,000 jobs just created unexpectedly. Unexpectedly. 

But the media, number two. If you’re going—it’s very different inheriting 7% inflation versus 21%, three times higher. 

So when Donald Trump had 2.7% in his first year, you add 21% to it because that’s what prices are. 

So now you have 28% coming into this year, 28%, but it wasn’t Donald Trump. Excuse me, not 28%. You have 21 plus 2.7, 23.7. 

Joe Biden, three times higher, 9.1%, but he’s coming in with seven, so he has 16. 

So you got eight points, eight percentage points higher because of the inheritance. 

Nobody said this then. We are going to lower the rate of inflation. We inherited 21% in four years. It averages to 5.1. 

My promise in the first year is to halve that. He did that almost, 2.7. We’ll see what it is this year. It might be 3.5. We’ll see because there’ll be more. 

And then he should have said, and I can’t lower the 21%. That’s why you can’t afford things. 

I can only lower the rate of inflation so we don’t increase it too much. But more importantly, I can raise wages, and I can raise per-family median income. 

And he did. It was negative wage growth in 2022, negative, and it was positive in 2020, about 2.5%. 

So you can give people more money as compensation, and you lower the rate that prices grow, and finally that rat and the snake, that big lump starts to disappear. 

That’s all he had to say. Instead, he said, I’m gonna lower prices. 

Yes, but it was impossible for him to do that without a recession. We call it deflation. 

Look at Japan. They can lower prices from the year, from 10 years, but they had a recession. It’s a deflationary spiral. 

So that wasn’t articulated. 

And then very quickly, I said the other two. The border. Everybody wanted the border closed. It was closed, so everybody said it’s not an issue. 

Why would I vote on that? It’s done. It was done. 

And then all the polls said, would you like to deport aliens? Yes, 80%. 

Would you like to deport people who are criminals? Yes, 90%. 

Would you like to, when it was phased, phase it, would you like to deport illegal aliens even when they haven’t committed crimes? 

Yes, 55%. 

But here’s the kicker. What nobody could have anticipated was, we want the border closed, and we want all 10 million that Biden let in, especially those 500,000 criminals, deported. 

But we go to bed at 10 o’clock at night, and we wake up at six, and we want them all gone during the evening. 

So then, when we walk out on the streets of Minnesota or Phoenix, we don’t see any ICE officers who are pulling aside Herlinda, who works for my cousin, or Jose, who cuts the palm trees for my grandfather’s place. 

I don’t want to see that. I like the idea in the abstract because I poll that way, but I don’t want to see ICE officers. 

And when the Left discovered that, and Kristi Noem and Corey Lewandowski didn’t understand that and thought, I’m going to wear, like, SWAT team stuff, and I’m going to do all these photo ops, make all these about arresting people, you played right into the hands of Tim Walz and the Minnesota lunatics. 

They have 600 sanctuary cities, everybody, and jurisdictions. How do you get 10 million people out of there who spread all over the United States that Biden let in at 10,000 to 12,000 a day? 

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An incident late last month at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, has garnered attention on social media as a student faces a felony charge for allegedly threatening pro-life students with a reference to the assassination of Charlie Kirk in September of last year.

Screenshots of the Miami Ohio page at the Yik Yak social media site, along with reporting from WLWT, show a comment targeting the Students for Life of America table at the university. “How many dining dollars to kirk the anti abortion table in Armstrong,” the Oct. 28 post read.

Alixandra R. Patterson was arrested on Nov. 2.

Patterson is facing charges of aggravated menacing, inducing panic, and making a terroristic threat. Court records mention telecommunications harassment as well. Members of the College Republicans reported the threat to the FBI.

She is being held on a $170,000 bond at the Butler County Jail and is listed as being in custody, according to court records. Should Patterson post bail, she’ll have to wear an ankle monitor, stay off social media, and stay away from the students who were threatened.

The alleged threats in question took place as the Students For Life America team and student members were engaged in what the organization describes as an “educational outreach display” known as “Meet Abortion’s Victims.”

Pictures of the display, including ones with SFLA Ohio regional coordinator Grace Kimzey, show a table with a sign reading “Every Abortion Has a Human Victim.”

The table has fetal models and information cards, among other items. Displays next to the table detail circumstances in which a woman might have an abortion, including diagnosis of Down syndrome, rape, or a woman who is the victim of human trafficking.

SFLA President Kristan Hawkins, who has been visiting campuses alongside Turning Point USA, told Fox News, “There are signs saying we are filming in this area, yet there will be students who will stand beside me and call me Mrs. Kirk, and they’ll use the verb ‘Kirked’ over and over again.”

She recounted alarming instances of students on campus mocking Kirk’s assassination and downplaying safety concerns, even claiming that Hawkins deserved violence.

Hawkins and SFLA’s press release emphasized the importance of free speech for students sharing the pro-life message.

In a statement to the Daily Signal, a spokesperson for the university indicated that, “Due to the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), the university cannot confirm if a student is being disciplined or is currently in the disciplinary process. Every Miami student is afforded their due process rights through our Code of Student Conduct.”

The spokesperson added that the university “handles any reports of possible policy violations by students or violations of law through the Office of Community Standards and through campus and local law enforcement, with potential sanctions that vary based on the alleged violation and a student’s previous conduct history.”

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Conservative justices seemed reluctant to grant the Trump administration sweeping authority to penalize employers importing immigrant workers.

The Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday in a case that could have broader implications for the Trump administration’s immigration-enforcement agenda. While the administration argues that it can oversee all employer-related cases involving immigration, justices questioned the scope of that authority.

“You can’t really rely on immigration as a basis for this,” Justice Clarence Thomas said of the Labor Department issuing fines for violations against immigrant workers without the involvement of Article III courts.

“No, we absolutely can rely on immigration as a basis for this,” Sarah Harris, principal deputy solicitor general, replied. “There are plenty of civil penalties in the immigration context, both for the aliens themselves, for violating the conditions of admission to the United States.”

Justice Neil Gorsuch said the bulk of immigration statutes are related to admissions or deportations, not administrative actions. Chief Justice John Roberts stressed that the administration seemed to argue for a deference to the executive branch that will extend to many future cases.

In the case of Department of Labor v. Sun Valley Orchards, LLC., the department investigated and imposed penalties and back wages of more than $500,000 against the New Jersey-based Sun Valley Orchards after it concluded that farm workers had poor working conditions. The department found that the farm charged workers for meals and used unlicensed drivers to transport them, according to SCOTUSblog.

Justice Samuel Alito on Monday said the workers were not directly involved in the litigation and further questioned the significance of immigration to administrative action.

“This is not a contract action by the aliens,” Alito said. “They have no say in the conduct of this litigation. The government is not seeking, has not sought, just compensation for them, but civil penalties.”

The case itself stretches back to 2016, under the Obama administration. The farm owners, the Marino family, have denied the allegations, according to the Institute for Justice, a conservative-libertarian organization that is defending them.

Robert E. Johnson, senior attorney at IJ, argued that the Labor Department should not be able to take more than $500,000 from a family farm via an administrative judge that it employs. The farmers should have access to an Article III court, he said.

Solicitor General D. John Sauer argued in a brief, citing Founding-era figures former Chief Justice John Marshall and former President James Madison, that Congress may authorize executive branch agencies to impose fines for violations of immigration laws without courts.

“An employer accordingly has no vested right to import foreign labor; instead, it may bring aliens into the country only with the government’s permission. And when Congress grants a U.S. entity the privilege of bringing an alien into the United States, it may require the entity to accept executive adjudication of its compliance with the privilege’s terms and conditions,” Sauer’s brief said.

After an administrative law judge sided with the Labor Department, the farm sued in federal court over the department’s authority to impose the penalties. U.S. District Judge Joseph Rodriguez again sided with the Labor Department.

However, the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled the Constitution requires executive branch agencies to proceed before a federal district court, rather than an administrative judge.

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Texas Republicans could remove the wide powers of Lieutenant Governor's office before a far-left Democrat is sworn in to the position — and the outgoing officeholder, Dan Patrick, is on board with the move.

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Former Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee and former Chair of the House sub-committee on weaponization, Jim Jordan (62), has defeated Steve Scalise in a republican caucus vote 106-73, and will become the next Republican minority leader of the House. Despite popular opinion to the contrary, with reservations and brutal honesty CTH predicts this will […]

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While Democrats celebrate the Department of Justice’s decision last Friday to drop its lawsuit involving suspected noncitizen voters in California, another lawsuit remains ongoing, keeping the legal battle over election security in the Golden State far from over.

One day before the election, the Supreme Court rejected the DOJ’s emergency appeal seeking to require California to separate ballots associated with approximately 20,000 suspected noncitizens identified on a DOJ-provided list from other ballots.

On Friday, the DOJ announced it was dropping its lawsuit seeking to segregate the disputed ballots because the election had already taken place and the ballots could no longer be separated.

First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli explained the decision on X, saying he would “pursue every civil and criminal remedy to ensure only eligible American citizens vote.”

California Attorney General Rob Bonta called the lawsuit an “unlawful effort to interfere with California’s elections and disenfranchise eligible voters.”

However, the DOJ’s legal fight with California isn’t over. The department is continuing a separate lawsuit seeking access to the state’s voter registration records.

United States v. Weber, filed in September 2025, seeks to require California to turn over its statewide voter registration database so the DOJ can determine whether the state is properly maintaining its voter rolls, including keeping noncitizens off them.

California Secretary of State Shirley Weber has refused to turn over the records, arguing that doing so would violate state laws protecting voters’ private information.

The case was dismissed in January 2026, but the DOJ appealed the ruling in February, and the case remains before the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

The ongoing legal battle comes as California voters rejected Proposition 39, a ballot measure that would have required identification to vote in person and additional identifying information when voting by mail.

As of Nov. 5, Decision Desk HQ projected the proposition would fail, with approximately 39% voting in favor of voter ID and 60% voting against.

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Representative Robert Garcia, the incoming Chairman of the House Oversight and Govt Affairs Committee, held a brief press availability earlier today and identified the first set of targets from the Trump administration. You will note that Garcia mentions the names we previously predicted.  Susie Wiles, Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump, Steve Witkoff, Kimberly […]

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Rep. Lauren Boebert has not conceded her Colorado House race as Democrat Eileen Laubacher leads by 3,352 votes and there are still uncounted ballots.

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