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Victor Davis Hanson: Minnesota Insurrection Proves 'Blue State Model' Has Failed Feb 10, 2026

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Minnesota’s top officials are fanning the flames of unrest in their state. When are we going to call it like we see it? This is an insurrection.

From Gov. Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison to Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, state and city leaders have repeatedly excused, enabled, and emboldened disorder. They’re only the latest links in a long Democrat chain of political indulgence toward radicalism, tracing back to the civil rights era. Victor Davis Hanson warns of the fractures this mindset brings on today’s episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In a Few Words.”

“ What we're seeing is a complete failure of the blue state model. And the failure is ironic because it's neo-Confederate. Just like the old Confederacy and the Antebellum South, these blue states are obsessed with race. This is where DEI comes from. This is where, if you're one-sixteenth of this, or you have DNA of that, you identify, primarily, by your ethnic or racial background and not your common humanity or your common American citizenship. Very similar to the South.

“This is something that's disturbing, that it's a trademark of over 150 years that the Democratic Party has, maybe it feels that it's more a people's party, but they feel they can defy federal law at their own volition.”

00:00 Introduction

00:10 Minnesota's Insurrectionary Rhetoric

00:29 Impact on ICE and Law Enforcement

03:43 Historical Context of Defiance

05:53 Blue State Model and Neo-Confederate Comparison

08:45 Conclusion: The Future of Blue State Defiance

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What Gerrymandering Looks Like: Virginia Democrats’ New Map | Joe Thomas Feb 10, 2026

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Last week, Virginia Democrats unveiled a new congressional map that could flip four of the five Republican seats in the U.S. House of Representatives in the midterm elections. However, the Virginia Supreme Court will now determine whether the Democrats’ redistricting plan can proceed after a lower court blocked their efforts, ruling “that the Democrat-led Legislature had wrongly approved a constitutional amendment that would allow for mid-decade redrawing of congressional districts ahead of the midterms this fall,” Politico reported.

Virginia state Del. Thomas Garrett Jr., R-Va., joins The Daily Signal’s Virginia correspondent, Joe Thomas, to discuss the implications the proposed congressional map could have on the state’s political makeup heading into the 2026 midterms.

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Trump Accounts: Setting the Record Straight | E.J. Antoni, Ph.D Feb 09, 2026

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A product of the “Big Beautiful Bill,” Trump Accounts give American children — sorry, illegal aliens, this one is for us — a “tremendous” financial head start on life, providing the means to pay for college or put a down payment on a home, along with exposure to equities, something roughly 1 in 3 Americans currently do not have.

If you make the maximum annual contribution of $5,000 to a Trump Account, it could be worth:

At age 18: $300,000

At age 28: $800,000

At age 55: $10 million

All courtesy of the power of compounding returns, argues Heritage Foundation Chief Economist E.J. Antoni in this special video commentary.

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‘Truflation': Trump’s Actual Inflation Rate | E.J. Antoni, Ph.D. Feb 06, 2026

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President Trump’s “clamoring for the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates” may finally pay off later this year when Kevin Warsh takes over as the new Fed chair.

Trump “shouldn’t have to wait that long,” however, because his appeal to the Fed has been “on the grounds that inflation is much lower than what’s being officially reported,” explains E.J. Antoni, Ph.D., The Heritage Foundation’s chief economist.

“ It turns out Trump is spot on with today's real inflation rate being only one-third the official metrics. In fact, these numbers come from the real-time price aggregator Truflation which monitors millions of prices every single day. That is orders of magnitude more than the Bureau of Labor Statistics, or BLS, which only observes a few thousand prices just three times per month.”

(00:00) Trump's Push for Lower Interest Rates

(01:49) Understanding Real Inflation Rates

(03:40) Comparing Truflation and CPI

(06:26) Housing Costs and Inflation Metrics

(09:02) The Impact of Lower Interest Rates

(09:38) Conclusion and Next Steps

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Victor Davis Hanson RETURNS: Surgery, Cancer Battle, and Minnesota's ‘Hypocritical Insurrectionists’ Feb 06, 2026

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There is “no coherent principle” to the left’s ongoing “utterly hypocritical” “insurrectionary movement” in Minnesota, argues Daily Signal senior contributor Victor Davis Hanson in his first post-surgery video appearance.

Nearly five years ago, these same people lambasted Ashli Babbitt, an unarmed 14-year Air Force veteran who was shot and killed by the U.S. Capitol Police on Jan. 6, 2021.

The left cheered as hundreds of demonstrators were arrested for allegedly assaulting officers and carrying firearms.

Meanwhile, they said it was perfectly OK for somebody like Alex Pretti “to go to a demonstration with a military-grade semiautomatic weapon, with extra clips, and just stick it in his waistband, visible sight of anybody, and then get into a brawl with law enforcement officers,” Hanson continues.

“All of our most prominent liberals are saying the state of Minnesota has a right to do what? Occupy federal property? Attack federal officers? Prevent the enforcement of federal law? I thought the left didn’t like states’ rights. I thought they said that this was ‘insurrectionary.’”

00:00 Introduction and Personal Update

01:32 Health Struggles and Recovery

03:58 Minnesota's Street Insurrection

06:13 Hypocrisy in Law Enforcement

09:37 States' Rights and Federal Law

12:57 Conclusion and Future Discussions

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Affordable Energy? Not After This Winter…And Election | Steve Haner Feb 05, 2026

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Much of the electric and natural gas rate increases Virginians have been seeing—and will only continue to see increase after the recent storm—are due to the Clean Economy Act.

Gov. Abigail Spanberger “very much ran for election on those policies,” so the big question now is if she’ll do anything about the rate increases, said Steve Haner, a senior fellow for state and local tax policy at the Thomas Jefferson Institute for Public Policy.

“ People are about to get bills and, and it's going to shock them. And if you think the legislature's doing anything to make that cheaper, please lie down. You'll feel better. Because they're not. They're doing things that are going to make it more expensive.”

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Do Borders Still Matter? Europe’s Struggle May Hold the Answer | Elaine Culotti Feb 04, 2026

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Europe’s illegal immigration crisis might be the warning America needs to fix its own before it’s too late.

According to Laura Ries, director of the border security and immigration center at The Heritage Foundation, America is “kind of on that same path” as countries like the France, Germany, and the U.K.

“The question is… Are we a sovereign nation? Do borders matter? Can we uphold the law? Can we enforce the law? What’s happening to Western civilization? And this is a real question for our country.”

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Trump Turned Biden’s ‘Anemic’ Net Wealth Grow Into a Rocket Sled on Rails | E.J. Antoni Feb 02, 2026

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If you need any further evidence on what a menace inflation is, and what a blessing it is when inflation ends, take a look at the latest data on household wealth. After Biden, it is truly impressive how fast the turnaround happened in 2025.

Under Trump, household net wealth jumped more than $9 trillion, or more than 7 percent, even after adjusting for inflation.

Under Biden’s four years, household net wealth, adjusted for inflation, grew an anemic 2.0 percent. It was, in a word, pathetic.

The great progress by the Trump administration to shrink government spending and the federal workforce, to reduce taxation and regulation, while increasing energy production, have all contributed to faster private-sector wage growth and slower inflation. In fact, it’s been deflation in some cases, meaning certain prices have actually gone down, argues Heritage Foundation chief economist E.J. Antoni on today’s special video commentary.

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Blame Japan, Not Trump: The Truth Behind the Market Drop and Greenland Deal | E.J. Antoni Jan 31, 2026

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When it comes to Greenland, Trump’s arguments about international trade, geostrategic locations, rare earths, etc., were all ignored by European leaders. In response, Trump threatened additional tariffs on many European countries. When markets opened last week, things turned red.

Those suffering from Trump derangement syndrome couldn’t help themselves and immediately drew the conclusion that the stock market drop was the result of Trump’s harsh negotiating tactics with Greenland.And they were wrong.

To find out why the markets tanked, you need to travel halfway around the world to a country that is “basically running ahead of the U.S. in terms of the life cycle of a debt crisis,” argues Heritage Foundation chief economist E.J. Antoni in today’s special video commentary.

00:00 Trump's Greenland Strategy and European Resistance

00:25 Market Reactions and Misinterpretations

03:31 Japan's Economic Turmoil and Its Global Impact

05:53 Strategic Importance of Greenland

07:36 Lessons from Japan and Future Implications

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‘Five Bullets:’ CNN Legal Analyst Explains the Subway Vigilante Case That Split New York Jan 31, 2026

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When four black teenagers approached Bernhard Goetz on the New York City subway in 1984, he shot each them “in succession” for fear they were about to mug him.

In an era of high crime, many New Yorkers hailed Goetz as a “hero” for doing what they wished they could do, explains Elliot Williams, CNN legal analyst and author of “Five Bullets: The Story of Bernie Goetz, New York’s Explosive ‘80s, and the Subway Vigilante Trial That Divided the Nation.”

“New York City in the 1980s was broke and mismanaged… People just generally felt scared… As a result, when there was this somewhat vigilante act, a lot of people felt in New York [that] this guy finally did what needed to be done because the police can’t keep us safe.”

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