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    Chincoteague Ponies Hit the Beach
    Virginia’s most famous roundup is underway at Chincoteague Island. The 101st annual pony swim brought about 150 adult wild ponies and more than 60 foals that live on Assateague Island down to the channel, where they swim across to Chincoteague during “slack tide” (when there is no current) so the young horses can be auctioned…
    Rich Tucker
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    Matthew Spalding Tutors Congress on How the Smithsonian Has Attacked Our History
    “When in the course of human events …” With those words, Thomas Jefferson began the Declaration of Independence and gave voice to a proposition that would change the world. The phrase is not ornamental. It is the architecture of political history. Nations are born, tested, defended, and sometimes squandered by human events: decisions made by…
    Cully Stimson
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    The Filibuster: An Accident Turned Into Tradition
    The filibuster is unconstitutional. Our Founding Fathers spoke against requiring a supermajority threshold to pass regular measures in Congress, yet the erroneous practice continues today via the filibuster. Current Senate practice reaches beyond our Founders’ original plan that a supermajority vote was only to be used for the five instances listed in the Constitution and…
    Rep. Josh Brecheen
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    How to Live a Blessed Life
    This is an adapted excerpt from Frank Kelly III’s recent book “Love & Go: 12 Powerful Truths for a Blessed Life,” released Feb. 24, 2026 from Gordon Publishing. My newest book,“Love & Go: 12 Powerful Truths for a Blessed Life,” weaves together the call to “Love” and the mission to “Go,” creating a transformative guide for…
    Frank Kelly III
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    Trump’s America Involves ‘the Same Arguments’ as the Historical Period That Gave Birth to the Klan, Barack Obama Says
    Former President Barack Obama recently gave America another reminder of how his presidency—once expected to bring the country together—left us more divided on race. Obama compared America under President Donald Trump to the tumultuous period after the Civil War that gave birth to the Ku Klux Klan. He said the U.S. is “having the same…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    Great Seal of Virginia Turns 250
    Virginians were busy 250 years ago this month. In Philadelphia, of course, Virginians were leading the 13 Colonies into the war that would free them from the British Empire. But others remained in Williamsburg, where the Virginia Convention was hard at work shaping what an independent state would look like. It ratified the Virginia Declaration…
    Rich Tucker
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    Daniel Oliver Understood That the Liberty Tree Demands an Offense
    America lost a great patriot just as she prepared to celebrate her 250th birthday. Daniel Oliver died on June 26, 2026, after a life spent in the vineyards of the conservative movement—as a lawyer, editor, public servant, Reagan administration official, chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, chairman of National Review, leader and trustee of conservative…
    Andrew Olivastro
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    From Viral Hearings to Key Bills, Brandon Gill’s Doing What It Takes to ‘Save the Country’
    Rep. Brandon Gill, R-Texas, is a freshman congressman known for his viral moments at Capitol Hill hearings. He had another such moment Tuesday as he sweetly, but devastatingly, dissected the director of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History over her woke stewardship of the taxpayer-funded entity. Shortly after the exchange, Gill spoke with…
    Rebecca Downs
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    Soccer, America, ‘Country Roads,’ and the World
    The country roads of America brought the world across our land, as our role hosting the World Cup fittingly coincided with America 250. The sprawling event on a grand stage reminded the world—and us—about important realities of our nation at its quarter-millennial birthday. Now, like most Americans, I hugely prefer our football—which starts soon. We…
    Steve Cortes
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    From Monroe to Clinton, How the American Presidency Changed 
    Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words” from Daily Signal senior contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to Victor Davis Hanson’s own YouTube channel to watch past episodes. Sami Winc: Your presidents today are, as you’ve been speaking of, Bill Clinton and then also [James] Monroe, who followed on…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    Frederick Douglass’ Message for Conservatives Today
    Welcome to the fifth in our series, Landmark Speeches in American History. We are celebrating 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 document, the Declaration of Independence….
    Kevin Roberts
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  • opinion

    The American Spirit Is Alive in South Carolina
    The American Revolution was won in South Carolina. Over 200 battles were fought in the Palmetto State between 1775 and 1782—more than in any other state. South Carolinians understand this, but these facts are often lost in other places. Many of us are working to rectify this as we celebrate the nation’s Semiquincentennial. After the…
    Jim Sanderlin
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  • opinion

    Erasing Little Italy Is About More Than a Map
    New York City has long been celebrated as a city of immigrant neighborhoods. Little Italy, Chinatown, Harlem, Washington Heights, Brighton Beach—these communities tell the story of generations of newcomers who helped build America’s largest city while gradually becoming part of it.  That history makes one omission from Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s recently released map of immigrant…
    Ben Shapiro
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  • opinion

    Colonial America Already Ran the Socialist Experiment. It Failed.
    New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani told ABC’s Jonathan Karl last month that a democratic socialist can win any office in the country. He may be right about the contemporary politics, but he is dead wrong about the underlying economics, and Colonial America proved it four centuries before he took the oath of office. The…
    Jay Rogers
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    If We Don’t Teach Liberty to the Next Generation, We’ll Lose It
    As America begins its next 250 years, conservatives face a challenge that cannot be solved by winning the upcoming election cycle alone. We must win the next generation. For decades, conservatives have rightly fought to reduce taxes, restrain government, protect constitutional liberties, and defend free markets. Those battles remain essential. But they will ultimately prove…
    Michael Freund
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    Victor Davis Hanson: Why Mamdani Wants to Erase Europeans From New York’s Immigration History
    Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words” from Daily Signal senior contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to Victor Davis Hanson’s own YouTube channel to watch past episodes. Jack Fowler: Bill Jacobson, my pal—I love Bill. He’s the founder of Legal Insurrection.  He’s just a great guy. He posted this on X…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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  • opinion

    Why I Named an International Airport After President Trump
    America has a strange habit of waiting until its leaders are gone before deciding they are worthy of honor. We name buildings after them; place their portraits on our walls; and speak about their courage, accomplishments, and place in history; but by the time we do, the person being honored is no longer here to…
    Meg Weinberger
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  • opinion

    Christopher Nolan Tries Making a Blockbuster Worthy of Homer
    “Tell me, Muse, of the man of many ways, who was driven far journeys … longing for his wife and his homecoming.” So begins Homer’s “Odyssey” (in Richard Lattimore’s translation), the poet recounting Odysseus’ travels back to wife, kin, and homeland after 10 years’ battle in Troy. The epic is, above all, a story of…
    Paul O’Reilly
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  • news

    New Bill Addresses Transgender ‘Governance Crisis’ at Daughters of the American Revolution
    A new bill in Congress would amend the charter of the Daughters of the American Revolution to clarify that men who claim to identify as women cannot join the ladies’ genealogical society. A key leader of a coalition against men in the DAR told the Daily Signal that the bill would “solve all our problems.”…
    Tyler O’Neil
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  • opinion

    Victor Davis Hanson: Was George W. Bush Treated Unfairly?
    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. Victor Davis Hanson: If you look at George W. Bush, people—his reputation has gone up a little bit because he broke with [Donald] Trump, the next Republican. I’m not…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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