Rolling into the 250th anniversary of the United States, liberals, leftists, Democrats, and democratic socialists are united behind one message: America stinks.

At the counterprogramming to the White House UFC match over the weekend, a bunch of miserable looking, aging celebrities held a “#resistance” rally or something like that.

Robert De Niro, an aging Hollywood gazillionaire last seen trying and failing to play a young tough guy in “The Irishman,” took to the stage and announced that “loving our country is starting to sound like an abused spouse saying they love their abuser.”

He further said that America is “not so lovable right now.”

Two Democratic politicians running against each other in a New York House district were asked on a local television show Monday who they wanted to “win it all” in the World Cup.

Now, if I as many an American were asked this soccer question, my response—without having any knowledge of soccer or what teams were even in the World Cup—would simply be to say, “the United States.” I’d rather answer that and be informed that the U.S. had been eliminated or wasn’t even in the tournament than to answer differently.

But the two Democrats, without the slightest hesitation, answered “Mexico” and “Senegal.”

These are politicians who assumedly make a living kissing babies and pretending to like things they don’t like to win elections. That they confidently said they support any other national team besides Team USA says as much about their constituents as it does them.

It runs right in line with what we saw last month on Memorial Day when Democratic leaders spent their time protesting at Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities, taking cheap partisan shots at the president, and grumbling about military spending on flyovers.

Their party leaders, “thought leaders,” and celebrity influencers see no point in making even token appeals to patriotism because their base of supporters simply don’t care. They even have a certain loathing for any display of patriotism.

While there is no question in my mind that there’s been an enduring and significant patriotism gap between the Left and Right in America, that reality is becoming an indelible mark of our politics and a difficult one to transcend in a country that has little else to bind it together besides civic nationalism.

A recent series of polls show a large and widening chasm between Americans who say they are proud and or “very proud” of America, and those who say they don’t.

The numbers are stark.

NBC News ran a headline on Sunday announcing a new poll showing that America at 250 “is riven with doubt and pessimism.” Some of the evidence is not surprising. There’s historically low trust in institutions, the federal government, and the media.

No big surprises there. The institutions earned their current deplorable level of trust.

But buried a little further in NBC’s report is another sign of the patriotism gap problem.

“While 62% of 2024 Trump voters say they are extremely proud to be Americans, 12% who picked Democrat Kamala Harris in 2024 said the same,” the report said.

That reality is backed up by other sources too.

Gallup released a poll a year ago that showed just how much the country has bifurcated on national pride in the last two decades.

In 2001, 87% of Americans said they felt “very proud” to be Americans.

By 2025 that number had dropped to 56%. But the drop was hardly uniform. The number for Republicans was 90% in 2001 and 92% in 2025 and hardly shifted at all, even in the years of Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden when Democrats were politically ascendent.

The chart of mostly sagging American pride is unmistakable for Democrats.

The numbers climbed to their highest point in the Obama years, plummeted after the first election of President Donald Trump, climbed back up again slightly after Biden entered office, then totally disintegrated after Trump’s return.

Now, none of this surprises me. It’s been clear for more than a decade that the Left’s love of America was only conditional on their own power, their diminishment of those they see as the “bitter clingers,” the “basket of deplorables” who are on the “wrong side of history.”

But it poses a significant dilemma for the nation going forward.

Elections now seem to have existential stakes. A small but growing number of people, particularly on the Left, would rather do violence to those who oppose them rather than convince others of the righteousness of their ideas.

Their righteousness is assumed to be self-evident, their enemies’ wickedness unquestionable.

Unfortunately, the answer to the challenge of our time is not immediate and seems unsatisfactory.

For now, we’ll muddle through for now as a nation divided. For those who love America, the foundation of ideas it was built on, the great people who formed it, the many generations who fought for it, and the culture that nourished it, we can only plant our flag and never let go.

We must do our best in our own time to reestablish and grow that love and devotion to country that was once nearly universal, teach the next generation right from wrong and how to be an informed patriot in a sea of broken institutions that would rather teach them to be uninformed America haters.

Let the angry Left rage at the memorials and statues going up in Washington, D.C. and elsewhere. Then build more. Let them show their true, miserable colors. Let them know that the flag is still there and not going anywhere. Be resolute and don’t give in to doomerism.

Reject decline. Embrace America.

Democrat congressional candidate Christina Bohannan is refusing to explain her controversial vote in the Iowa House, making it easier for sexual predators to get off the sex offender list.

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FIRST ON DAILY SIGNAL–Fraudsters who used podcasts, TikTok, and other platforms to boast and give tutorials on how to steal from the federal government now face an investigation by the arm of Congress that reviews wasteful spending.

The Government Accountability Office will review online forums where people share tips on how to defraud federal agencies, namely the Small Business Administration, the office stated in a letter last week to Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, chair of the Senate Small Business Committee. Some of the bragging culprits have already been charged.

David Powner, the GAO’s acting managing director for congressional relations, wrote that the office would “review matters related to the extent to which individuals defrauding the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) share their fraud tactics, particularly online, and how agencies are monitoring and preventing the dissemination of these tactics.”

Ernst on June 2 made the request for an investigation, citing numerous examples of online boasting about fraud.

In Georgia, podcaster Jonathan Dupiton, whose motto was “F.R.A.U.D. is Dope,” with the letters being an acronym for Finally Rich After Unstoppable Determination, was sentenced in April in the Northern District of Georgia for being part of a scheme that drained $3.8 million from the California unemployment insurance system, a federal-state-funded program.

In July 2022, a rapper put his fraud into lyrics on YouTube about getting wealthy from a pandemic scheme involving unemployment insurance money he wasn’t entitled to. Fontrell Antonio Baines, 33, known as “Nuke Bizzle,” was sentenced to more than six years in prison for combined fraud, gun, and drug charges.

Ernst asked the GAO to probe the extent to which fraudsters share tips online and the effectiveness of their advice, as well as the extent to which government agencies monitor online information-sharing.

The senator is also the chair of the Senate DOGE Caucus, short for Department of Government Efficiency, which initially aimed to assist the White House DOGE efforts. Now the caucus is working with the White House Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, chaired by Vice President JD Vance.

Some federal employees have used their positions to actively participate in fraud schemes.

In January, federal prosecutors in Georgia charged Attallah Williams with being part of a scheme to steal more than $3.5 million from four separate COVID-19 emergency relief programs by obtaining employment at both the SBA and Internal Revenue Service.

Williams pleaded guilty in February, according to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration’s report to Congress.

“Also, while employed as an SBA loan officer, Williams used social media to recruit individuals who, under her instructions, submitted fraudulent applications to SBA for EIDL funds,” the report said. “Williams improperly approved those applications in exchange for a share of the proceeds.”

“Williams left SBA for a position as a tax examining technician at the IRS,” the inspector general report continued. “She continued to use social media to recruit individuals who, with her assistance and instruction, submitted fraudulent tax documents to the IRS to claim payments under the Employee Retention Tax Credit program. This scheme also entailed Williams receiving a share of the proceeds.”

In her letter, Ernst specifically noted a report from 2022 about a self-described con artist named Danielle Miller who applied for 10 SBA loans and eventually received $1 million in fraudulent payments during the COVID-19 pandemic.

“You can go on Telegram and join a group of scammers, and they’re all just bragging and sending pictures,” Miller told New York Magazine in 2022. “You just put in the search for whatever you’re interested in. So say it’s SBA loans—you type in E-I-D-L or just S-B-A. And then there’s a bunch of chats of people just selling SBA information.”

In September 2023, a federal court in Boston sentenced Miller to five years in prison with three years of supervised release.

According to a report from talkSPORT, the champions of the 2026 FIFA World Cup will have the championship trophy presented to them in a very unique way, by the president of the United States.

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A Nigerian high court judge on Monday ordered the national election commission to decertify five opposition political parties, including the leading challenger to President Bola Tinubu, the African Democratic Congress (ADC).

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Gavin Newsom would have you believe he is now the brave victim of a Trump-orchestrated reign of terror. In a self-pitying video released this week, the California governor melodramatically declared that he and his wife, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, had proudly joined “Donald Trump’s hit list.”

Federal agents, he wailed, have been knocking on doors of family, friends, and former employees. Grand juries are being “abused.” Investigators are digging through years of documents—not because they found crimes, he insists, but because they are simply trying to manufacture them. According to Newsom, the entire effort is raw political revenge for his repeated criticisms of Trump and his rumored interest in running for president in 2028.

This is Newsom’s calculated bid to become the Left’s Trump. He frames every legal pressure as a witch hunt, turns routine scrutiny into a badge of honor, and positions himself as the defiant champion who will lead the resistance. 

He hopes the “hit list” rhetoric, paired with the suggestion that Trump fears him as a genuine threat, will rally the progressive base, attract big donors, energize activists, and finally make him the Democratic Party’s Trump-like figure—resilient, victimized, and destined for the White House.

It won’t work. The parallels are hollow. Trump endured four criminal indictments, two impeachments, an FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago, a public mugshot, gag orders, and novel legal theories pushed in hostile courts. His supporters rightly called it lawfare—the weaponization of justice by a politicized system.

Newsom faces nothing comparable. There have been no SWAT raids on his mansion, no agents rifling through wife’s underwear drawer, and no Alvin Bragg-style press conferences inventing felonies from misdemeanors with ever-shifting “other crimes.” 

Newsom and his wife have not even been personally subpoenaed. Instead, federal investigators have interviewed associates and issued routine subpoenas to banks and financial institutions for records linked to nonprofits and businesses tied to the Newsoms. 

These are standard tools that Newsom and his allies long cheered when used against conservatives. Yet, he casts these inquiries as a Trump-driven “reign of terror.” Newsom is frantically searching for any angle to paint a legitimate investigation as false persecution.

The hypocrisy is incredible. For years, Newsom praised every aggressive legal move against Trump—creative charges, friendly venues, and process as punishment. “No one is above the law,” he declared repeatedly. Now that career prosecutors in the Eastern District of California, following leads that began under the Biden administration, are reviewing patterns in his own circle, it suddenly becomes a fascist plot driven by Trump’s personal dread. This is the classic double standard: justice for thee, but tyranny for me.

The questions under review are real and long predate any Trump return. Newsom’s former chief of staff, Dana Williamson, pleaded guilty in May 2026 to conspiracy to commit bank and wire fraud, false statements, and related counts after allegedly diverting roughly $225,000 from a dormant campaign fund tied to former Biden health secretary Xavier Becerra. Wiretaps and evidence gathering started years earlier.

Jennifer Siebel Newsom’s nonprofit, The Representation Project, raises even more serious concerns. IRS filings show she and her production company, Girls Club Entertainment LLC, have pulled in roughly $3.7 million combined over more than a decade—including her $150,000 annual salary plus licensing and production fees for her own films. 

These payments consume an outsized share of the organization’s modest budget, while donations flowed from entities with business before the state. Longstanding Sacramento questions about self-dealing and pay-to-play optics triggered reviews well before any supposed vendetta.

Then there is Newsom’s predictable counterattack. When federal agents appeared near one of his events last year in Los Angeles, he immediately filed Freedom of Information Act requests framing routine law enforcement presence as intimidation by Trump’s “personal police force.” On the very same day he released his victimhood video, his office demanded more records from the Justice Department. 

He weaponizes transparency demands against others while shielding his state’s books on pandemic fraud, homelessness spending, and nonprofit dealings. All of it is designed to manufacture a narrative of victimhood rather than confront the actual questions being asked.

California’s well-known history with fraud makes the entire martyr act impossible to take seriously. An estimated $20 billion in Employment Development Department pandemic unemployment fraud vanished to criminals and overseas scammers while legitimate claimants suffered. Billions poured into homelessness programs have produced proliferating tent cities, open drug use, street filth, and declining public order. 

Businesses and middle-class residents continue fleeing the state in droves, shrinking the tax base and accelerating decline. This is the governance record of a career machine politician who lectures the nation on morality while insulating his inner circle from scrutiny.

All of this exposes why Newsom’s comparison to Trump is hollow. Trump rose as an outsider who built a genuine grassroots movement against a hostile establishment. Newsom is the ultimate insider—a product of elite California whose leadership has delivered high taxes, failing schools, urban decay, and mass exodus. Claims that Trump “fears” his influence only highlight the vast gap between the two men.

If the probes ultimately clear the Newsoms, full transparency will vindicate them. But the desperate spin, selective amnesia, and emperor’s-new-clothes denial only deepen the humiliation. 

History will record the fraud—and dismiss the performance as the transparent ploy of a man who expected exemption from the standards he demanded for everyone else.

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