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                            October 22, 2025To Lower Health Costs, Legalize Catastrophic Health Insurance Plans for All By Stephen Moore
        The following column is coauthored by Stephen Moore and David M. Simon.

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                            October 22, 2025Free Speech By John Stossel
       The Constitution's First Amendment protects free speech for good reason.
        If people can't say what they want, we don't have honest debate.
        I was relieved when Donald Trump, campaigning for the presidency, said, "If we don't have free speech, then we just don't have a free country!"

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                            October 21, 2025How To Make the Americas Great Again By Daniel McCarthy
        President Donald Trump is in a fight for the destiny of the Americas.

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                            October 21, 202551% Want Government Shutdown to Continue
A narrow majority of voters – including two-thirds of Democrats – are in favor of having the current government shutdown continue.

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                            October 20, 2025Democrats Fall Behind GOP in Favorability
Nine months into President Donald Trump’s second term, voters now have a slightly less favorable view of the Democratic Party than they do of Republicans.

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                            October 20, 202543% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction
Forty-three percent (43%) of Likely U.S. Voters think the country is heading in the right direction, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey for the week ending October 16, 2025.

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                            October 18, 2025What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending October 18, 2025
In surveys last week, this is what America told Rasmussen Reports...

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                            October 17, 202567% Support Ending ‘Corporate Welfare’
A solid majority of voters of every political persuasion are opposed to government subsidies for business.

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                            October 17, 2025Trump Defies Conventional Wisdom ... So Far By Michael Barone
        "What all the wise men promised has not happened, and what all the damned fools said would happen has come to pass." That was the mordant comment of Lord Melbourne, Queen Victoria's first prime minister, on the failure of a liberal reform to achieve the results promised with great assurance by the articulate liberal eminences of the day.

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                            October 16, 2025Just 19% Report Improvement in Their Personal Finances
Most Americans continue to see their financial situation as stagnant or worsening, and fewer than 1-in-5 report it’s getting better.

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                            October 16, 202546% See Politics Behind Indictments of Comey, James
A plurality of voters believe the recent federal indictments of former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James are about getting revenge on enemies of President Donald Trump.
October 16, 2025Maine Senate Primary Tests Whether Democrats Will Keep Deferring to Their Leaders By J. Miles Coleman and Kyle Kondik
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE— Gov. Janet Mills’s (D-ME) Senate run sets up an intriguing primary that will test Democratic voters’ willingness to go along with the preferences of party leaders.
— Mills’s most prominent rival, oyster farmer Graham Platner (D), is already attacking her, and the primary illustrates several fissures in the party, including insider vs. outsider and older vs. younger.
— There are several instances of sitting governors losing Senate primaries in the postwar era, but these are generally from decades ago.

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                            October 15, 2025Shut Down! Do You Care? By John Stossel
        The government is "shut down."

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                            October 15, 2025Voter Support for Israel Declines
At a time when a historic peace deal has ended the Gaza War, support for Israel has significantly declined among American voters

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                            October 14, 2025Stop the UN Global Climate Tax on American Ships By Stephen Moore
        Later this week the United Nations will hold a vote on a multibillion-dollar climate change tax targeted squarely at American industry. Without quick and decisive action by the White House, this U.N. tax on fossil fuels will become international law.

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                            October 14, 2025Rasmussen Real Unemployment Rate: Remains The Same
National unemployment was 8.3% in this month’s Rasmussen Reports Real Unemployment update, remaining the same as last month. Due to the government shutdown, there is no percentage officially reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics for today. 

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                            October 14, 2025Rasmussen Real Unemployment Rate: Up Slightly
National unemployment was 8.7% in this month’s Rasmussen Reports Real Unemployment update, up slightly from last month. Due to the government shutdown, there is no percentage officially reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics for today.  

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                            October 14, 2025Distrust of Lawyers Has Increased
More Americans now say they don’t trust lawyers, and those who’ve hired an attorney before trust them even less.

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                            October 14, 2025Democrats Hold Six-Point Advantage on Health Care Issue
Democrats continue to be more trusted on the health care issue, which is central to the current government shutdown.

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                            October 13, 202552% Side With Trump on National Guard Deployment
A federal judge ruled that President Donald Trump could not deploy National Guard troops to defend offices of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency, but a majority of voters back the president’s position.