Defense technology startup Anduril, founded by Pro-Trump billionaire Palmer Luckey, has created a drone racing competition that tests software engineering skills rather than piloting abilities, with winners earning jobs at the company and a share of $500,000 in prize money.

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Sunday on ABC's "This Week," Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said the Department of Justice's doors were open to lawmakers who want to review the "unreacted materials" in the Epstein files.

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With things looking dire for the Hawaiian government in the current challenge to its restrictive carry laws before the U.S. Supreme Court, anti-gun lawmakers in the Aloha State are already scheming to continue infringing the Second Amendment rights of lawful gun owners. At issue in the case Wolford v. Lopez is Hawaii’s so-called “vampire rule,” ... Read more

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About a month late, presumably due to last fall’s government shutdown, the Census Bureau has released its estimates of the populations of the 50 states and the District of Columbia for July 1, 2025.

It provides an interesting picture of what the country is, and is becoming, halfway through the decade of the 2020s and one-quarter of the way through (have we really gotten this far?) the 21st century. It also provides some political dynamite, all the more explosive because of Census Bureau statisticians’ deserved reputation for apolitical rigor and willingness to admit mistakes, as it did on the COVID-19-plagued 2020 census.

The headline story is the sharp rise and sharp fall in immigration. The notion that immigration exploded sharply during the Biden administration and contracted sharply during the second Trump administration is not political propaganda.

After the expiration of most COVID-19 restrictions, immigration rose to 1.8 million in 2021-22, 2.6 million in 2022-23, and 3.2 million in 2023-24.

The snapback to 1.9 million in 2024-25 reflects changes in both outgoing and incoming administrations. With the election looming, the Biden administration in early 2024 discovered that current legislation let it restrict immigration in ways it had claimed it didn’t before, and under the same legislation, the Trump administration immediately stopped almost all illegal border crossings. Government policy can make a difference.

Taking that into account, the Census Bureau estimates immigration will fall well below 500,000 in 2025-26. That’s comparable to the sharp falloff of immigration during the financial and economic crises of 2007-08.

That means the nation’s total population increase is sharply down, especially in the states centered on the nation’s four largest metropolitan areas, which either grew just barely (New York and Illinois) or lost population (California). Meanwhile, every state in the Midwest gained population, and five states grew above the national rate.

Even more striking, 44% of the nation’s population gains in 2020-25 came in just the two states of Texas and Florida. When you add in North Carolina, Georgia, Arizona, South Carolina—with the nation’s higher percentage growth in 2024-25—and Tennessee, you have 70% of the total national popular gain, all in states carried by Donald Trump in 2024.

Projecting 2020-25 or 2024-25 patterns ahead of the 2030 census and the reapportionment of U.S. House seats among the states that automatically follows results in a sharp change of political balance. Two different projections have California losing four House seats and Texas gaining four, leaving California with 48, only marginally larger than Texas’ 42.

One has Florida gaining four and New York and Illinois losing two each, while the other has Florida gaining two and New York and Florida losing one each, with the same net partisan effect. There is agreement that five more or less Republican states will gain one seat each (Georgia, North Carolina, Arizona, Utah, and Idaho) and that five more or less Democrat states will lose one each—Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Oregon.

Apply either set of projections to the 2024 presidential election totals, and Trump gains either nine or 11 electoral votes—and wins even if he loses his three closest states, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania. The blue wall has become a purple flowerbed.

That doesn’t mean Democrats will be frozen out of the White House. Changes in opinion of a magnitude often experienced can render the 2024 numbers obsolete. But one can see difficulties, even in 2028, if Democrats nominate one of the two California politicians, Gov. Gavin Newsom or former Vice President Kamala Harris, who top their polls. Will the nation be well served by policies that have prompted more people to leave than to head to a state with California’s beautiful scenery and comfortable climate?

It’s harder to be sure whether the 2030 census will give Republicans a boost in Congress. The current ructions over mid-decade redistricting make prediction perilous. An intermediate court has blocked Virginia Democrats from gerrymandering, and a trial judge has ruled that the Voting Rights Act requires linking a Staten Island-dominated district to Manhattan rather than Brooklyn.

But almost certainly any political redistricting would rather be a Republican adding multiple districts in Texas and Florida than a Democrat required to eliminate some of his party’s incumbents in California, New York, or Illinois. And heavily Democrat central cities will no longer be entitled to as much representation from masses of illegal immigrants protected from deportation but counted by census takers.

A final caveat. Issues aren’t static, politicians aren’t around forever (even if Trump Derangement Syndrome sufferers fear that), and voters move around amid changes in the political landscape. The Trump era has been full of surprises—who thought he’d win in 2024 because of increased Latino support?—and the 2030s, when Trump won’t be president nor be running for president, will have its surprises for us too.

We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal.

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Nvidia has not received any orders from Chinese customers for its H200 AI chips as Beijing continues to deliberate on whether to permit imports of the American company's components, according to CEO Jensen Huang.

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SACRAMENTO, CA — Governor Newsom announced today that construction has wrapped on the long anticipated high speed rail project, finally connecting his house directly to the French Laundry.

A civil lawsuit was filed in federal court on Thursday against a $60,000-a-year New York private school and a former teacher, Winston Nguyen, 39, who was arrested in June 2024 for sending nude photos of two young teenage girls in a "revenge porn blast" to his students on Snapchat.

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Actor Peter Dinklage recited a poem for 37-year-old ICE agitator Renee Good, who was fatally shot by a federal agent after hitting him with her car. "Blood blown like rose, iced wheels flinched and froze," the "Game of Thrones" star said.

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President Trump and Secretary Rubio are walking carefully through a process to keep Venezuela stable and authentic to the true intents of the Venezuelan people.  Toward that end, both Trump and Rubio have been very careful with Maria Corina Machado, the exiled opposition leader who claims to be the legitimate voice of the people. Machado […]

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On this week's broadcast of Fox News Channel's "Sunday Morning Futures," White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt discusses President Donald Trump’s immigration policies.

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“Nobody elected him to be [President Franklin Roosevelt], they elected him to be normal and stop the chaos,” then-Rep. Abigail Spanberger harshly said of then-President Joe Biden in 2021, after her Democratic Party lost the governorship of Virginia. Her point was that Biden had followed a radical agenda that betrayed how he had run and how the media had presented him: as a centrist.

Biden’s sudden radicalism in his first year in office, she seemed to be saying, lost her party the election.

What a difference four years make. Now that she has been sworn in as governor of the Old Dominion herself, after running as a “centrist” and being portrayed by the media as such, Spanberger is pulling a Biden on everything from abortion to anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement activity.

Her far-leftist playbook has conservatives shaking their heads and saying, “Told ya so,” or that old mainstay, “Elections have consequences.” People could be excused for disparaging her now with the claim, “Nobody elected her to be Joe Biden.”

Why did Virginians elect Spanberger? Many reasons, including a weak GOP candidate. But it’s impossible to ignore that 320,000 federal workers live in the commonwealth.

Sure, that is only about 5% of the 5,971,190 registered voters. But turnout was just over 50%—and that was high in an off-off-year election. So, the federal workforce was closer to 10% of the electorate, and it was very motivated to vote.

They were so mad at President Donald Trump’s cuts and overall antipathy to the bureaucracy that they didn’t just elect Spanberger, but also Jay Jones, an attorney general so depraved that he was caught saying he wanted to kill little children to achieve his political ends.

Federal workers feel entitled not just to their jobs, but to run government as they see fit, with no political accountability. Then they ran into the buzzsaws brandished by Trump and Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency. They had to exact revenge.

It also assuaged their feelings that Spanberger, along with the candidate who won New Jersey’s governorship, Democrat Mikie Sherrill, were sold as centrists, the rational part of the Democratic Party, and its answer to socialists such as New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and her squad.

“Ms. Spanberger and Ms. Sherrill are moderate women,” The New York Times said. The Washington Post echoed these sentiments: “The two congresswomen, both moderates, have shared a Capitol Hill apartment for the past four years.”

Spanberger herself fed the narrative. “We need to not ever use the words ‘socialist’ or ‘socialism’ ever again. Because while people think it doesn’t matter, it does matter,” she was overheard saying in 2020.

Well, now we know that the operative phrase there was “use.” You won’t catch Spanberger prattling on about replacing “the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism,” a phrase Mamdani actually used in his inaugural speech, either to scare people or simply to troll them—or both.

But, taking another page from Biden, Spanberger used her first hours in office to sign executive orders that undid much of what her predecessor, Glenn Youngkin, had accomplished in his four years, and what Trump had called for in public universities that receive taxpayer money through the federal government, especially in the areas of race, education, and immigration.

One of these first-day executive orders was on the topic that Democrats apparently believe will carry them to electoral victory later this year, opposing ICE’s enforcement of immigration laws that Republicans and Democrats voted on in Congress. She therefore rescinded a Youngkin executive order that had improved the commonwealth’s collaboration with ICE.

And no sooner was the anti-ICE executive order signed than her Democrat allies in the Virginia House of Delegates introduced a bill that forbids the enforcement of immigration laws within 40 feet of a polling place. Why that exact location was singled out, given that noncitizens such as illegal immigrants can’t vote, was not explained.

Another executive order, on higher education, was meant to undo Youngkin’s attempt to cooperate with the reforms that Trump was elected to carry out to make universities less woke.

“Under the current federal administration, Virginia colleges and universities have faced unprecedented challenges from shifts in federal policy to attacks on institutional autonomy and mission,” Spanberger’s executive order reads. “These pressures underscore the urgent need for the commonwealth to reevaluate how governing boards are appointed, ensuring they are composed of individuals dedicated to upholding the quality, independence, and reputation of our institutions.”

The education executive order calls for her education secretary to “prepare a report and recommendations on changes to the Board of Visitors appointment process for the Commonwealth’s public institutions of higher education as well as the process used by the Virginia Commission on Higher Education Board Appointments to evaluate potential appointees.”

Essentially, the boards running Virginia’s top public universities, which include some of the best in the country—the University of Virginia, William and Mary, and George Mason University, among others—are less likely in the future to run the universities.

“Strong governance is essential not just for protecting academic excellence, but for ensuring that our colleges and universities continue to prepare students to thrive in an increasingly complex and competitive world,” the executive order reads.

Power will go back to a professoriate that has been totally captured by the Left, and which will soon go back to running diversity, equity, and inclusion policies that run afoul not just of many Trump executive orders, but of the Constitution itself.

Indeed, immediately after taking office, Spanberger was able to nominate 27 candidates to college boards, with 12 going to George Mason, 10 to UVA, and five to the Virginia Military Institute. The reason she will be able to take control of these boards so swiftly is that her allies in the Virginia legislature had cleared the field for her by rejecting 22 Youngkin nominations purely on political grounds, because of alignment with Trump’s anti-DEI policies, a decision that the Virginia Supreme Court let stand.

The rejection by the Virginia Senate’s Privileges and Elections Committee especially saved George Mason President Gregory Washington, who was facing federal investigations for illegally maintaining DEI policies and a board that took these matters seriously. Unless the federal government decides to intervene, Washington will likely now beat the rap.

Regarding the Virginia Military Institute, a venerable institution founded in 1839 and the oldest public senior military college in the United States, Spanberger allies in the House of Delegates introduced a resolution to investigate it over possible DEI policies.

“Less than a month in office as governor of Virginia, Abigail Spanberger has shown a commitment to turning the commonwealth into California,” Rep. Pat Fallon, R-Texas, quipped to Fox News Digital. “The Left’s renewed focus on VMI is not intended to benefit our military.”

But the Spanberger revolution doesn’t just stop at ICE and DEI. On abortion, a constitutional amendment backed by the new governor would turn Virginia into the only state in the South to allow abortion on demand until birth, or perhaps even soon after, as one of her predecessors, Democrat Ralph Northam, once suggested.

“Abortion is already legal in Virginia until the 27th week, but that’s not enough for these ‘moderates,’” Ben Domenech wrote in the New York Post.

And then there’s taxes. Spanberger may have run as a centrist, Jonathan Turley wrote, but “once in control of the Governor’s mansion and the legislature, however, Virginia Democrats have moved quickly to fulfill the worst stereotype of a tax-hungry, economy-crushing party. The Democrats introduced an array of new taxes on every aspect of life.”

These tax bills, some version of which Spanberger will sign into law, include House Bill 378, which “imposes a 3.8% net investment income tax on individuals, trusts, and estates beginning in taxable year 2027.” This action would raise Virginia’s top marginal income tax rate on portfolio and passive income to 9.55%, on top of federal taxes.

Many may think that this tax will only hit “the rich,” but most Americans are now invested in the stock market. But all classes are to be hit with the new taxes. Another bill, HB 900, for example, imposes a new tax on retail delivery that will hit consumers of Uber Eats, Amazon, FedEx, UPS, etc.

Other taxes will hit those who purchase guns and ammunition, which will especially hit the rest of the state where Republicans hunt and vote, though less so the effete parts of Northern Virginia where the bureaucrats live.

Just as Fallon did, Turley raised the comparison with the Golden State. “Virginia Democrats appear to be replicating California’s disastrous tax policies that have chased high earners and companies from the state.”

A year after Youngkin’s come-from-behind win in November 2021, Republicans took control of the House of Representatives, and then two years later, Trump won the presidency back. To some of us who follow these matters, this was all part of a national rejection of the Left’s attempt to take over the country culturally in 2020. We will see soon how Spanberger’s DEI, ICE, abortion, and tax policies play out.

Originally published by the Washington Examiner

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