Everytown wants AI companies to build gun safety and gun violence prevention messaging into their chatbots. The question is who decides what information gets prioritized.

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Vice President JD Vance said he and President Donald Trump have “aggressively” considered how to pass the SAVE America Act, the White House’s voter ID legislation.

Vance told the Daily Caller’s Vince Coglianese that he and the president have considered every option for how to take over the Senate floor and pass the bill.

“The problem is that we have a number of Republican senators who vote more with Democrats than they do with their own party, and that is the issue,” he said. “If you could get 51 GOP senators, or, frankly, 50 senators plus a vice president to stick together, we could fire the parliamentarian. We could get rid of the filibuster. We could pass SAVE America Act and a bunch of amazing stuff too.”

In the interview, Vance said that while he could assume the role of Senate chair, that is not where the bottleneck lies.

“The problem is that you have four or five Republicans, and we all know who they are, who are going to stand with Democrats,” he said.

Vance said he and Trump have “war-gamed this to every detail,” but they decided assuming the chair wouldn’t fix the problem at hand.

“We have obsessively thought through how do you get SAVE America passed, and how do you how do you blow up the filibuster? So, you have 47 Democratic senators,” he said. “If I overrule the parliamentarian, they need four because if they get to 50, I break the tie and we win. Forty-seven Democrats plus four Republicans: Mitch McConnell, John Cornyn, Tom Tillis, Lisa Murkowski.”

“They overrule the vice president. You have a fun little ceremonial battle that you lose,” he said.

Vance said the White House wants to win the battle, which entails replacing “mediocre Republican senators with good Republican senators.”

Michigan Democrat Senate candidate Abdulrahman El-Sayed has criticized anti-fentanyl laws designed to punish drug dealers and deter drug use as draconian while advocating for supervised consumption sites where individuals can use illegal drugs under observation.

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LONDON — The British government issued an official public apology on Tuesday for interrupting whatever it was the nice Muslim men in unmarked vans were doing at 1:00 a.m. outside a military base used by U.S. forces.

A pair of female reporters were caught swooning over Sacramento Kings guard Ben Simmons while roasting him in a hot mic. 

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President Donald Trump said Tuesday he will sign a “very powerful” executive order on “superintelligence.”

“This kind of innovation in government is just a preview of what is possible with superintelligence or SI, and that’s the official name in the United States,” he said. “I’ll be signing a very powerful executive order. I spoke to President Xi; he loves it, and because when you say artificial intelligence, it’s artificial.”

“This isn’t; this is extreme intelligence,” he continued. “It’s superior intelligence. It’s supreme, also intelligence, but the word ‘super’ is the best word of all, and it’s the simplest.”

Trump spoke while unveiling a new website that uses artificial intelligence to make it easier for U.S. citizens to access federal services.

The website, America.gov, will make sure “the federal government no longer stands in your way, and it stands only at your service,” Trump said.

Trump said the creation of the new website was so complicated that the administration has been working on it since almost day one.

“We’re making it dramatically easier and faster, and more convenient to get what you need exactly when you need it,” he said.

Trump said this will make it easier for married women to change their names without navigating “a stressful bureaucratic process that took months and months and even years to complete.”

“Very soon, all she’ll have to do is ask America.gov, and it’ll fill out the forms, track the progress, and send her a new social security card, passport, and insurance card in the mail. It’ll arrive almost instantly,” he said.

“Whether you’re a scout leader who wants to reserve a campsite at a national park, a senior citizen trying to choose a Medicare plan, or an American veteran trying to get the benefits that you’ve earned and so justly deserve, America.gov will be there to help and to help you accurately and quickly,” he said. “And with this, nobody can any longer complain about providing proof of citizenship or voter ID.”

The first part of the website launched Tuesday, but Trump said it will continue to evolve in months ahead.

“I will sign a historic executive order directing every federal government agency to make all of their public-facing services integrate directly with America.gov as soon as possible,” he said.

A spokeswoman for the Iranian regime warned on Monday supply problems and wartime damage to Iran’s refineries could cause fuel supply problems in northern Iran during the winter. On Tuesday, the Islamic dictatorship's currency fell to a record low of 2.5 million rials to the U.S. dollar.

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Dario Amodei's Anthropic is telling would-be investors that the very technology it's asking them to fund could pose a "catastrophic or existential risk to humanity." Wall Street is calling Anthropic's IPO a prospectus a "head scratcher" due to its doomer language. 

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In the “toss-up” special election race for the U.S. Senate in Ohio, former Democrat Sen. Sherrod Brown’s record is coming back to haunt him when it comes to transgender procedures for minors.

Before he was defeated by now Republican Sen. Bernie Moreno in 2024, Brown had served for three terms in the U.S. Senate. Although his campaign fought back against ads on the issue of transgender procedures for minors and athletes in 2024, he still lost, and history may be repeating itself as he seeks a comeback.

A recent ad from the Senate Leadership Fund features a 23-year-old detransitioner, Soren Aldaco, speaking about her experiences and how she was “groomed by strangers online at 11.”

Doctors told her family she was transgender at 15, and she had hormone injections and then surgery, which she said was “without [her] parents’ consent.”

Aldaco began the ad by declaring that “Sherrod Brown supports sex changes for minors, irreversible surgery on kids.” She later adds, “I was a kid. I was confused. Sherrod Brown isn’t. He knows the consequences. Ohio’s kids deserve better. So did I.”

The Daily Signal reached out to the Brown campaign for comment about the ad but did not hear back in time for publication.

The ad is backed by close to $10 million, with Senate Leadership Fund investing $79 million in Ohio.

“Children should never have to endure the trauma that far-Left politicians like Sherrod Brown have inflicted. Ohioans are sick and tired of Democrats caving to the demands of extremists and will once again reject Brown this November,” Senate Leadership Fund Communications Director Chris Gustafson said in a statement.

The group created a website, sherrodbrownoh.com, to highlight “Brown’s 50-year record of caving to extremists and the far-left,” highlighting his role as a career politician and how he voted with then-President Joe Biden 97% of the time. Referenced issues include higher taxes, open borders, and sex changes for kids.

A press release for the ad on Monday spoke to Brown’s previous time in office and how Senate Leadership Fund is looking to retire him for good, noting that the latest ad is part of a campaign to “permanently retire 50-year career politician Sherrod Brown.”

This ad comes not long after another one by the group highlighting Brown’s record and falling in line with other liberals on this same issue. The ad also features former Vice President Kamala Harris as well as Reps. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y.

In addition to pointing out how “permanent” the surgeries are, with “devastating consequences,” the ad claims that “the extremists demand it, Sherrod Brown complies,” and that while he’s had “50 years in politics,” he’s “more extreme than ever.”

The group similarly targeted Brown in 2024 for his record on the issue. Brown, along with former Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., who lost to now-Republican Sen. Tim Sheehy in that same cycle, was also referenced in an editorial from The Wall Street Journal in October 2024.

Actor Adam Brody and actress Florence Pugh have called for a "free Palestine," adding that they will be more vocal about the ongoing conflict in Gaza going forward.

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Over the past few weeks, Old Guard conservatives have been making a concerted effort to attack Vice President JD Vance and the New Right.

Many were critical of Vance’s support for a Trump Administration proposal to allow federal dollars to go to stay-at-home parents. Dana Loesch suggested that those who accepted such funds weren’t “man enough.” Another conservative called it a “scheme” and “a longstanding tenet of the Postliberal/Orbanist policy agenda.”

Old Guard critic Jay Caruso mocked Vance for saying the administration would not “let” companies exchange American workers “with cheap foreign labor,” accusing the vice president of turning his back on the free market. Simultaneously, a chorus of Old Guard conservatives have been blasting Vance for supposedly refusing to distance himself from Nazis and groypers—and from a group of trinitarian Christians, the Society for American Civic Renewal.

These tantrums stem from the Old Guard’s belief that history was meant to unfold differently. Many conservatives mock the Left for their notion that America had reached an “end of history,” epitomized by the expected crowning of Hillary Clinton in 2016 as successor to Barack Obama, an outcome that would have solidified progressive rule for at least a generation.

But many fusionist Old Guard conservatives have their own version of an end of history, which the unlikely rise of Donald Trump has so far prevented. And as the date of the resurgence is pushed further back, their impatience is crystallizing into fury.

Santorum and Trump

The election of Barack Obama to the presidency—the first openly progressive Democrat since Lyndon Johnson—sent a jolt of fear through conservative voters in 2008. This gave way to the Tea Party wave of 2010, which produced astounding results: the Republican Party recaptured the House of Representatives, winning its largest majority since the late 1920s and a bevy of governorships.

Many groups behind these candidates, such as the Koch-backed Americans for Prosperity and the free-market-oriented FreedomWorks, were libertarian in nature and pushed dogma like Grover Norquist’s “No New Taxes” pledge. The resulting victories convinced them that their time was near. Voters had responded to their message, and in 2012 they would ride it all the way to the White House. But Obama was re-elected in 2012, easily besting Mitt Romney.

Though he did not quite fit the Tea Party mold, Romney matched well with its economic orthodoxy, especially against Rick Santorum, his spirited opponent in the Republican primaries. In mid-February 2012, the former Pennsylvania senator had surged to the top of several polls, briefly pulling ahead of Romney. Though the media focused on Santorum’s social conservatism, particularly his fervent opposition to gay marriage, his skepticism of free trade made him stand apart from the other Republican hopefuls. At the time, free trade orthodoxy was a key plank of the Republican Party.

Shortly after Santorum reached first place, attacks on this front started rolling in. “Economic Conservatives Question Santorum’s Record” read one headline. A New York Times piece, bearing all the hallmarks of an opposition hit piece, lambasted Santorum for supporting the domestic steel industry. Romney joined in, critiquing Santorum for backing what he termed a “bailout” of the sector. However, Santorum refused to yield, noting that many of his voters had lost jobs and livelihoods as the industry was enticed to leave the country.

Romney’s defeat of Santorum gave the original Tea Party relief from temporary heartburn. After winning the House in 2010, Tea Party leaders clearly had a vision: they would wrest control from the “compassionate conservatives” who had governed during the George W. Bush years and finally get one of their own in the White House.

Six years later, those plans turned to ash. All the Tea Party presidential candidates of 2012, and their most promising candidate of 2016, Ted Cruz, were crushed by the insurgent candidacy of businessman and television star Donald Trump. Announcing his presidential campaign, Trump delivered a stemwinder of a speech, addressing four key themes: the need to build a wall and deport illegal aliens, to confront China, to replace free trade with fair trade, and to ensure Iran never acquires a nuclear weapon.

On some issues, such as taking on Iran and ISIS or border security, Trump shared ground with the Tea Party, which believed Obama was too weak. But he went much further. While Cruz talked about building a fence and leading an international coalition to defeat ISIS, Trump spoke about constructing a “great wall” on the southern border and bombing “the sh*t out of” the terrorist group. And on issues such as free trade, Trump totally rejected GOP orthodoxy, like Santorum had four years previously. Unlike Santorum, however, Trump made it a centerpiece of his campaign—and GOP voters rewarded him for it.

The Latest Target

The Tea Party sought to make the best of the first Trump Administration. Many of its major figures were Tea Partiers. Mike Pompeo, elected to the House in 2010 on the Tea Party wave, later served as secretary of state. Mitt Romney’s running mate, Paul Ryan, was a Tea Party-aligned Republican who became Speaker of the House, helping shepherd the first major legislative win of Trump’s term: tax cuts, a GOP staple since Ronald Reagan’s presidency.

Vice President Mike Pence, who served in the Tea Party Caucus in the House, worked with figures like Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and Trump’s first secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, to channel and redirect Trump’s energies. Pence himself was repeatedly dispatched to Europe to deliver the increasingly difficult-to-believe message that the United States would remain enmeshed in Cold War-era thinking.

Tea Party and small-government conservatives had to grit their teeth through a fair amount of Trump’s policies, such as his early steel tariffs. After he left the White House in 2021, however, many Old Guard conservatives believed the Trump moment was over. They had always viewed him as an accident of history: Trump had decisively put an end to the Obama era by dispatching Hillary Clinton, but now they could get back to marching toward their goal.

During the Biden Administration, Paul Ryan called for GOP voters to reject Trump’s politics. Mick Mulvaney and Nikki Haley, two Tea Partiers who served in Trump’s first administration, said Trump should not run in 2024. Erick Erickson called for shooting the January 6 protesters and barring Trump from running for office again.

But the Old Guard’s hopes for a Trump challenger failed to materialize. Ron DeSantis fizzled, and Nikki Haley won only the D.C. and Vermont primaries. Trump stormed back to the nomination. Along the way, he picked JD Vance as vice president over then-North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum because, as many political observers concluded, Vance could be a potential heir, whereas Burgum would serve only as a seat warmer and was less ideologically aligned with Trump.

Trump, significantly more powerful in 2025 than in 2017, was less restrained by the party’s establishment. During the Biden interregnum, Trump had a hand in Speaker Mike Johnson’s rise to power, urging House members to pick him amid endless balloting. In 2025, Johnson returned the favor by blocking motions to rescind Trump’s tariffs—significantly expanded from the steel tariffs of 2018—and supporting other policies that his predecessor, Paul Ryan, would have strongly opposed.

The 47th president’s popularity with the base after his comeback put Tea Partiers in a bind. Republicans and movement conservatives who still wanted to work with the administration could no longer openly lambaste the president; doing so would make their message dead on arrival for the base. The direction Trump had taken the party was also clearly popular with Republicans.

Their answer, as demonstrated by Erick Erickson’s recent screed, is to attack Trump’s ideological successor instead: Vice President Vance.

Fukuyama’s Children

Those who predict an end of history are wrong. Democrats were wrong to predict decades of dominance with Hillary Clinton’s coronation in 2016. The Old Guard was likewise wrong for assuming that a politics of the 1980s would never expire.

The Old Guard’s genuine incomprehension at the poor position they find themselves in is demonstrated by their lackluster complaints of socialism, when it comes to using government to strengthen the pillars of civilization, and Nazism, when it comes to terminating the endless stream of cheap foreign labor. As Vice President Vance has argued, screaming “Socialist!” will not sway young voters if the alternative is unaffordable housing, unsafe streets, and a country they no longer recognize.

The truth is, the Old Guard’s pull-up-your-bootstraps, hyper-meritocratic politics, which forces Americans to compete against the world for jobs in their hometown, is a failure. Fusionist Old Guard conservatism has not won the presidency on its own terms since 1984—before most Millennials were even born. It failed in 2008 and failed in 2012. GOP voters rejected it in 2016, 2020, and 2024. And there is no reason to expect a different result in 2028. While there is still room in the coalition for skeptics of Trump and Vance, they must understand that their time of dominating the coalition has passed.

The train has switched tracks and is heading in a different direction. Old Guard conservatives can stay on and help the engineer, possibly negotiating the speed. But they cannot change direction without derailing it.

They have two years to decide which path they want to take.

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