Fred Lucas

Chief News Correspondent and Manager of Investigative Reporting Project for The Daily Signal; Freelance Political Writer for Fox News Digital.

United States

I am the Chief News Correspondent for The Daily Signal and regularly report on politics for FoxNews.com. I have also written for Newsweek, National Review, Washington Examiner, History Magazine Quarterly, Newsmax, The National Interest, Stateline, The Weekly Standard, Townhall, and other outlets.

My books are "The Myth of Voter Suppression: The Left's Assault on Clean Elections;" "Abuse of Power: The Three-Year Campaign to Impeach Donald Trump" and "Tainted by Suspicion: The Secret Deals and Electoral Chaos of Disputed Presidential Elections."

Before coming to Washington, I covered state capitols in Kentucky and Connecticut. Fred earned an M.S. at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and a B.A. at Western Kentucky University.

Portfolio
Fox Business
02/09/2021
Google reverses decision to stop anti-court packing group from running ads

Google on Monday said it is reversing an earlier decision to block ads from an anti-court packing group after Fox News asked questions about the move - a sign of the tech giant's challenges ahead in defining what's "political" less than a month after adopting a policy to block political ads in the wake of the Capitol riot.

The Daily Signal
06/17/2019
19 Arrests Later, a Texas Town Is Torn Apart Over Voter Fraud

EDINBURG, Texas-The story that thrust a Rio Grande Valley city into the national spotlight is hardly a new anomaly, say residents such as Richard Monte. "Down here, voter fraud is not all that unusual," says Monte, a city planning consultant in a brown suit jacket, sitting with other activists at a table in Coffee Zone on McColl Road.

The Daily Signal
03/25/2019
EXCLUSIVE: Here's Who's Bankrolling the Popular Vote Movement

The nonprofit organization building a coalition of states that favor choosing the president by popular vote promotes itself as nonpartisan, but is financed by millions of dollars from left-leaning groups. Some of the leaders of the movement are prominent Republicans, and most of the funding for the nonprofit, National Popular Vote Inc., has come from a wealthy Democrat and a billionaire independent.

History Magazine Quarterly
02/01/2020
Impeachment and the Press

After Vice President-elect Andrew Johnson took the oath of office, seemingly intoxicated, the Democratic newspaper New York World opined, “To think that one frail life stands between this insolent, clownish creature and the presidency! May God bless and spare Abraham Lincoln!” Shortly thereafter ... the New York World would become perhaps the most staunch Johnson defender in the American press.

National Review
04/12/2021
Regulation-Happy EPA Is Forgetting to Inspect Hazardous Waste | National Review

They had one job. A recently released watchdog report underscores how the Environmental Protection Agency may be ignoring core responsibilities, even as it pursues ever-expanding regulatory schemes that go well beyond its ambit. The inspector-general report determined the EPA has failed to adequately monitor about half of the country's nonoperational hazardous-waste storage sites, known as Treatment, Storage, and Disposal Facilities (TSDFs).

Fox News
Dead? No problem - your check is in the mail

After admitting to spending nearly a decade fraudulently cashing her dead mother's Social Security checks, Pamela Thompson, 63, of Algiers, Louisiana, was sentenced in February to three years probation and restitution of $297,325 for theft of government services. Death can be lucrative.

Fox News
01/02/2019
The terrorist next door: States consider sex-offender-style registries for released terror inmates

Dozens of inmates convicted of terrorism-related crimes will be released from prison over the next five years, and lawmakers in several states think local law enforcement have the right to know if they're moving into their neighborhood. That's why officials are pushing for a new kind of registry, modeled after sex-offender registries that exist in most states - only for terrorists.

Fox News
02/11/2019
Antifa activist facing assault charges was tied to Democratic policymakers

What a difference a year made for Joseph Alcoff. On Monday, the 37-year-old has a court date in connection with charges he's facing in Philadelphia that include aggravated assault and ethnic intimidation for allegedly being part of an Antifa mob in November that attacked two Marines, Alejandro Godinez and Luis Torres, both Hispanic.

Newsweek
06/08/2017
Here are six crimes Mueller should investigate

This article first appeared on the Daily Signal. What ousted FBI Director James Comey has told Congress could set the tone for what his predecessor, now the special counsel investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election, looks into.

Newsweek
08/08/2017
Should the seriously ill be allowed to try experimental drugs?

This article first appeared on the Daily Signal. Laura McLinn's son Jordan was diagnosed at age 4 with muscular dystrophy, a terminal illness with no cure. But, McLinn says, matters could be much worse. That's because after the family tried for years, Jordan, now 8, qualifies for clinical trials for an experimental drug manufactured by NS Pharma.

Fox News
September 19, 2019
‘Fort Trump’? US boosting military ties with Poland in bid to deter Russia

WARSAW, Poland – The small European country that played a central role in two seminal events of the 20th century – the beginning of World War II and the fall of Soviet communism – is today key to deterring Russia’s aggressive military ambitions, officials say as they anticipate a strong U.S. military buildup.

TheBlaze
02/27/2015
Special Report: The Government's Most Secretive Agency

From secret, unidentifiable email addresses to destroyed records to far-left pressure groups funded by billionaire progressives, the EPA has something to hide. And they'll try to take down anyone who dares demand transparency. It was called the "fishbowl memo," sent to all employees of the Environmental Protection Agency by Lisa Jackson, the agency's first administrator under President Barack Obama.