The Republican playbook for November comes down to a wardrobe change no Democrat can pull off. That's the bet, at least, from the officials tasked with beating a new class of Democratic candidates who slip on a Carhartt jacket and call themselves working-class populists.

Across the country, Democrat populists like Georgia Sen. Jon Ossoff and Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed are running on the economy, courting voters frustrated with the state of the country and pitching themselves as the answer on prices and the cost of living. (RELATED: 'DSA Is Our MAGA': The Democratic Establishment Faces A Reckoning)

In some cases, they're proving hard to beat, officials directly involved in the GOP's 2026 midterm operation told the Caller. But the officials say they have a plan to strip away the disguise: don't just call these Democrats socialists. They need to prove it, using their own votes, words, and party platform.

In conversations with the Caller, officials described a two-track approach that brands the national party as captured by its far-left flank while defining individual candidates race by race.

"It comes down to displaying the

Second Amendment activists predicted that a California city could face legal action over its fees to apply for concealed carry permits.

The city of Glendale announced it would charge $1,078 for an initial application for a concealed carry permit, which would come in addition to fees for fingerprinting, a training course and a psychological evaluation. The announcement came to light after both the Department of Justice(DOJ) and the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) settled litigation with Los Angeles County over its handling of concealed carry permit applications. (RELATED: EXCLUSIVE: Blue County Throws In Towel, Agrees To Stop Dragging Feet On Concealed Carry Permits)

Glendale apparently raised its CCW application fees dramatically, now ,078 for new permits, and 8 for renewals.

When you factor in the training course, livescan, and psych exam, they are now even higher than Santa Clara. pic.twitter.com/3fXB1G9wk5

— Kostas Moros (@MorosKostas) August 14, 2026

"Glendale apparently raised its CCW application fees dramatically, now $1,078 for new permits, and $828 for renewals," SAF Director of Legal Research and Education Konstadinos Moros posted on X. "When

For years, government buildings have deteriorated, hemorrhaging taxpayer dollars and endangering employees' lives. Ed Forst, the Administrator of the General Services Administration (GSA), has a plan to change that.

In an interview with the Daily Caller, Forst detailed just how derelict many of these buildings have become. Many government-run buildings left to decay have become uninhabitable, with collapsing concrete ceilings, exposed wires, and standing water rendering spaces unusable. (RELATED: Kash Patel Announces FBI Is Leaving J. Edgar Hoover Building)

"There is an act of the government which requires occupancy data to be submitted to us," Forst told the Caller. "The first submissions were in March, and agencies were required to meet a 60 percent agency-wide occupancy level. Not one agency in the federal government met it. Not one."

"Some is lying fallow. Some is just really unproductively used. And some is just not usable."

While the GSA directly oversees and manages the government's real estate portfolio, Forst also emphasized Congress' role in helping revive these buildings.

The House Ethics Committee opened an investigation into Democratic California Rep. Jimmy Gomez Monday over sexual misconduct allegations.

Gomez was accused in June of kissing a much younger aide who worked for a different member of Congress, the New York Post first reported in April. The committee formally announced Monday that it opened a sexual misconduct investigation into Gomez.

"The Committee, pursuant to Committee Rule 18(a), is reviewing allegations that Representative Jimmy Gomez may have engaged in sexual misconduct in violation of the Code of Official Conduct or any other applicable standard of conduct, including engaging in inappropriate sexual contact with a House staffer in violation of clause 18(b) of the Code," the committee said. (RELATED: Democrat Activist Says 'Shocking' Number Of Women Prepared To Accuse Eric Swalwell Of Harassment)

🚨NEW🚨 The House Ethics Committee is investigating Democrat Rep. Jimmy Gomez for sexual misconduct. @DailyCaller pic.twitter.com/rGfChdDgvq

— Nicole Silverio (@NicoleMSilverio) August 17, 2026

The committee quietly began investigating Gomez in June over the allegations, CNN

Pro-Second Amendment organizations filed suit Thursday to block New York's ban on Glock pistols, saying it violated the right to keep and bear arms.

Democratic New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed the ban into law as part of the state's budget in May, becoming the fourth state to ban the popular pistols over illegal conversions to full-auto firing. The National Rifle Association (NRA), Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) and the Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) announced the effort, saying the measure was barred by the Supreme Court's 2008 Heller decision. (RELATED: Trump's DOJ Just Upped The Ante Against Gavin Newsom's Glock Ban)

"Glock and Glock-style pistols, themselves, are not relevantly different from any other ordinary semiautomatic handgun. That is true even though they may be illegally modified," the complaint filed by the pro-Second Amendment groups said. "What is more, these pistols are in common use; indeed, they are among the most popular firearms in the nation. Yet if the Act is enforced, ordinary New Yorkers will be relegated to a shrinking secondary market made up of only those pistols possessed before the law's effective

Justin Trudeau and Katy Perry appeared in a cringey video that proved their romance has stripped them of all self-awareness.

The clip featured awkward dance moves and overly exaggerated lip-syncing that the world could have done without, yet they seemed incredibly proud of themselves. The former Canadian prime minister and his pop-star girlfriend were inside a Montreal Home Hardware store when a song by Trudeau's 18-year-old son Xavier Trudeau began playing.

Trudeau and Perry seized the opportunity to dance around in the plumbing aisle in a tacky video we sadly can't unsee.

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President Donald Trump weighed in on Flock Safety surveillance cameras for the first time Monday, signaling he remains undecided on the polarizing topic.

Flock Safety is a surveillance technology manufacturer whose cameras have raised privacy concerns and sparked debate across the country on whether the technology would open the door for spying on innocent Americans. The Daily Caller White House correspondent Reagan Reese asked Trump about his stance on Monday, and he said he would make up his mind "over the next couple of weeks."

"It's being studied right now," Trump told Reese. "You have pros and cons, right? It's being studied right now." (RELATED: 'Don't Take The Bait': A Whole Lotta People Aren't Buying Flock's Latest PR Move)

"We'll have an answer as to our views on it over the next couple of weeks," Trump added.

🎥WATCH: @reaganreese_ asked President Trump about his stance on Flock cameras.

"It's being studied right now... We'll have an answer sort of as to our views on it over the next couple of weeks."

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We live in an era of technological totalitarianism. Regardless of whether we are criminals, potential threats to others, or just unwitting customers who signed up for something that we do not fully understand, we are monitored by private tech companies, 24/7. George Orwell did not even predict this world in his dystopian classic, 1984.

Over the last three decades, Big Tech giants grew and acquired power at a dizzying pace, and while most of us were too enamored by their sleek products and the ease and comfort they brought to our daily lives — the convenience of Amazon Prime shipping, for example, or the technological marvel of the iPhone — they quietly built layer upon layer of digital surveillance. They harvest our data, then use it to sell products through targeted advertising. App permissions and invisible web trackers are used to build behavioral profiles. It is as if these companies know us better than we know ourselves — and maybe they do.

The 30-year U.S. Treasury yield climbed to its highest level since 2007 Monday as investors grew jittery over the federal government's fiscal crisis and the Iran war.

The yields on Treasurys rose to 5.31% as uncertainty over the end of a ceasefire between Iran and the U.S. rocked markets, with the 30-year-Treasury yield finishing at its highest rate since the lead-up to the Great Recession, according to The Wall Street Journal. Investors voiced concerns about persistent budget deficits that pushed up government borrowing costs and could lead to higher costs from everything from mortgages to credit cards.

Real 30-year rates are nearly at the same level as they were when the GFC hit in 2008 (HT: Barclays' Alexander Altmann) pic.twitter.com/u8gez7NEKJ

— Joe Weisenthal (@TheStalwart) August 17, 2026

"When it comes to longer-dated Treasury issuance, investors are increasingly focused and concerned about the growing amount of U.S. debt and America's lack of fiscal discipline. And frequent, large-scale treasury auctions are a chance for the bond market to push back against the government's eroding fiscal trajectory, as they demand

A Republican Senate aide has crossed the aisle to work for the Democrat trying to flip the Senate seat his boss is about to vacate.

James Talarico, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Texas, has brought on a policy staffer who spent five years working for Republican Texas Sen. John Cornyn, NOTUS reported Monday.

Jacob Smith, who served Cornyn as deputy legislative director and policy adviser, will take on the role of deputy policy director for the Talarico campaign.

Staff switching parties is uncommon, and the hire hints that Talarico wants to court Republican voters in a state that hasn't elected a Democrat in decades, NOTUS reported.

Texas has not elected a Democrat to the Senate since 1988. (RELATED: Paxton Defies Establishment Expectations, Enters Election Home Stretch As Top GOP Fundraiser)

Cornyn lost the May 26 Republican primary runoff to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, ending a Senate tenure that began in 2002.

The defeat made the four-term senator the first Texas Republican to lose his party's renomination for the

President Donald Trump turned to a 16-year-old lifeguard he was honoring Monday and asked the teen whether he agreed that a CNN correspondent was being rude.

The clash took place in the Oval Office, where Trump had welcomed Ryder Williams to recognize the teenager's rescue of a drowning boy, according to RedState.

During the event, CNN White House correspondent Kristen Holmes pressed the president on his North Korea policies, and Trump grew visibly irritated as she tried to follow up.

"Quiet. You're very disrespectful in front of this young man, okay?" Trump said, before turning to Williams.

"Don't you find her disrespectful?" the president asked the teen, who did not respond.

"He understands. Quiet. Who are you with?" Trump continued. (RELATED: Trump Orders US To 'Substantially Reduce' Joint Military Exercises, Citing 'Unthreatening And Respectful' Foe)

Holmes responded by identifying her network, which only seemed to increase Trump's ire.

“You're a loud, boisterous person."

"You're a fake reporter and you report fake news"

President Trump shuts down a CNN reporter during a tense exchange in the

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