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    Why Eisenhower Believed ‘Under God’ Was Vital to America’s Identity and Victory in the Cold War
    It was both a spiritual and strategic move when President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed a bill adding the words “under God” to the Pledge of Allegiance. “From this day forward, the millions of our schoolchildren will daily proclaim in every city and town, every village and rural schoolhouse, the dedication of our nation and our…
    Fred Lucas
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    Lawsuit Exposes Virginia’s Neo-Confederate Approach to Immigration
    Democrats of 2026 bear an uncanny resemblance to Democrats of 1861 when it comes to seeking to nullify federal law. In 1861, Democrats led efforts to “secede” from the Union to oppose Abraham Lincoln, a Republican who opposed the expansion of slavery into the Northern Territories, an expansion expressly forbidden by Congress in the Missouri…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    Catholic Bishops Consecrate US to Sacred Heart of Jesus for America 250
    On the eve of the Catholic Church marking the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops honored America’s 250th birthday by consecrating the nation to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. What Is the Sacred Heart and Why Consecrate? As Louisville Archbishop Shelton J. Fabre shared, the Sacred Heart is…
    Rebecca Downs
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    ‘Young Washington’ Is Angel Studios’ Superhero Movie for American Youth
    Before he became a general in the American Revolutionary War and the first president of the United States, George Washington was a young Virginian colonist who could not enlist in the British army because he was not a qualified English gentleman.  Angel Studios’ film “Young Washington,” set to release in theaters July 3, captures how…
    Francesca Cella
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    Daughters of the American Revolution to Vote on Definition of ‘Woman’ Amid Criticism of Transgender Policy
    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The Daughters of the American Revolution currently allows men who identify as women to join, but the group will vote on a resolution to reverse that policy and formally define “woman,” the Daily Signal has learned. “Members of the Daughters of the American Revolution will take an historic vote to define…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    We Owe American Security to Those Boys on the Beaches of Normandy
    Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for the Daily Signal.   This past week was June 6, 2026. That’s the 82nd anniversary of the D-Day landings in World War II that took…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    Jonathan Mayhew and the Biblical Source of the American Revolution
    John Adams once said the American Revolution began not on a battlefield but “in the minds and hearts of the people.” Among those who lit the fuse was the influential Boston preacher, Rev. Jonathan Mayhew. His 1750 sermon on the limits of obedience to government became, in Adams’ view, one of the founding texts of…
    Gillian Richards
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    SEAN SPICER: How Trump’s Wilderness Years Made Trump 2.0 Successful
    Donald Trump wasn’t just playing golf those four years out of office. In this segment from the latest episode of “Signal Sitdown,” former press secretary Sean Spicer goes into the “wilderness years” and his new book on President Donald Trump’s historic first year back in the White House. Bradley Devlin: We’re here to talk about…
    Bradley Devlin
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    Reconciliation 3.0 Is the Best 250th Birthday Present Congress Can Give America
    Leave it to the legacy media to turn a commemorative currency proposal into a five-alarm constitutional crisis. By now, you’ve probably heard about the scene at last week’s White House press briefing when CNN’s Kaitlan Collins confronted Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent about a proposed $250 bill featuring President Donald Trump. “Do you think politically it’s…
    Robert B. Bluey
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    The Story of Churchill’s Great Speech Before Congress
    Winston Churchill made 16 visits to America in his lifetime. He traveled here as a soldier, a tourist, and a lecturer, but his winter visit to America in 1941 as a wartime leader was perhaps his most important. The story of that trip—and the speech he delivered to a joint session of Congress the day…
    Lee Habeeb
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    Why the American Colonists Rebelled
    The following is a lightly edited transcript of a speech delivered on May 28, 2026, at the “Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death” Reenactment at The Heritage Foundation. Britain’s seven year war with France came at a great cost. Its consequences would alter the world. England accumulated a substantial amount of debt throughout the…
    Brenda Hafera
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    Artists Pull Out of Great American State Fair, Citing Partisanship and ‘Threats’
    Several musical artists scheduled to perform at the Great American State Fair in honor of America’s 250th birthday have withdrawn from the event after SPIN Magazine highlighted President Donald Trump’s connection to the fair. The Great American State Fair will showcase all 50 states, as well as the District of Columbia and U.S. territories. It…
    Al Perrotta
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    The Debate Over the Women’s Museum Was Never About Women
    “House Democrats oppose a bill for a Smithsonian women’s history museum.” This is not a sentence I ever expected to read. Aren’t Democrats supposed to be the feminists? The champions of inclusion? The self-appointed defenders of the “disadvantaged”? And on top of that, they are the ones who pushed for the women’s museum to begin…
    Anna Gustafson
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    Victor Davis Hanson: The 1.2 Million Reasons America Exists Today
    Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for the Daily Signal.   This Monday was Memorial Day. It commemorated all the Americans who died on behalf of the United States from…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    How Culture War of Andrew Johnson’s Senate Trial Resonated in Clinton, Trump Impeachments
    As the first presidential impeachment trial was drawing to a close, newspaper titan Horace Greeley’s New York Tribune ran a bold headline: “CONVICTION ALMOST A CERTAINTY.” If by “certainty” the paper meant falling one vote short of the two-thirds needed to remove President Andrew Johnson, the headline proved accurate. On May 26, 1868, Johnson slipped…
    Fred Lucas
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  • opinion

    Bob Woodson Lived a Life Dedicated to the Least, the Last, and the Lost
    Robert L. “Bob” Woodson passed away earlier this week at the age of 89, leaving behind a rich legacy of faith, service, and patriotism.  Born in Philadelphia, Woodson and his four siblings were raised by their mother after his father died when he was nine. He quit high school at 17 and joined the Air…
    Delano Squires
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  • opinion

    Memorial Day and the Oft-Forgotten Dead
    The rolling hills, dappled paths, and white crosses make Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia a place of quiet repose, deep emotion, and somber reflection. Dutifully, the nation honors its military dead there, and on this 158th Memorial Day, countless Americans will rightfully and respectfully pay homage to those who gave the last full measure of…
    David Holmes
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  • opinion

    America’s Love Affair With the Road Endures
    BEDFORD, Pennsylvania—For the briefest of moments, a line of vintage Rolls-Royce automobiles chugged along the curving Cumberland Road. They passed over the Cumberland Run a handful of times and wound themselves down the mountains, away from Pennsylvania and toward the city of steeples, Cumberland. The sight gives the bystander a moment to imagine what it…
    Salena Zito
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  • opinion

    How George Washington’s Farewell Address Fulfilled the Declaration of Independence
    Welcome to the first in our series, Landmark Speeches in American History. Over the next several months, we will celebrate America’s 250th anniversary with articles by prominent authors about how some of the greatest speeches in our history—by celebrated orators like Ronald Reagan, Abraham Lincoln, and Martin Luther King Jr.—honored the vision of our founding…
    Daniel McCarthy
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  • opinion

    Democratic Control of Government Means Redefining Religion, Family, and America
    Per USA Today columnist Chris Brennan, the Rededicate 250 event, held on the National Mall to rededicate our country as One Nation Under God, violated both our national spirit and our Constitution. Per Brennan, the Christian character of the event, and the Protestant content, flies in the face of the national value of religious diversity….
    Star Parker
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