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    Don’t Worry, BLM Founders Aren’t Corrupt. They’re Capitalists.

    If you’re a woke journalist, how would you frame allegations of financial misconduct against the main Black Lives Matter organization? You could ignore these financial questions about the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation, sure. Or you could frame the allegations the way New York magazine has in a recent article: by absurdly quoting people…
    Mike Gonzalez
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    Around Independence Day, Media Targets Patriotic Displays

    Independence Day is supposed to be a day of national unity. President Joe Biden proclaimed: “The Fourth of July is a sacred day in our country—a day of history, of hope, remembrance and resolve, of promise and possibilities.” Liberal Biden voters in the media did not concur. These are the people who refuse to wear…
    Tim Graham
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    What NYPD Ex-Cop and 9/11 First Responder Says About Patriotism, July Fourth

    Rob O’Donnell is a former New York City Police Department detective who was involved with the response to, and rescue efforts in, the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, as well as the response to 9/11. He joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to talk about the Fourth of July, patriotism, the contempt some show for the…
    Rachel del Guidice
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    Celebrating Founding Fathers Is ‘Structural Racism,’ National Archives Says

    Venerating and celebrating the Founding Fathers is an example of “structural racism,” apparently. That’s the conclusion of a recently released document created by a National Archives and Records Administration task force on racism. The National Archives and Records Administration is a federal agency charged with taking care of our country’s governmental and historical records, including…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    What the Music of World War II Has to Tell Us About Patriotism and Pop Culture

    Ronald Reagan once said, “Younger parents aren’t sure that an ambivalent appreciation of America is the right thing to teach modern children. And as for those who create the popular culture, well-grounded patriotism is no longer the style.” His concern about trends in the popular culture of the time were warranted, and we should be…
    Michael Deviney
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    Texas’ 1836 Project Aims to Promote ‘Informed Patriotism’

    Informed patriotism, as Ronald Reagan once suggested, is what America needs. And that’s what some Texas lawmakers aim to bring to their state after Gov. Greg Abbott signed the 1836 Project into law Monday. Texas’ revolution for independence from Mexico, which put it on the path to joining the United States, concluded in 1836. Texas’…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    Less Is More: Restoring the Founders’ Original Vision for Our Constitutional Republic

    One of the main objectives of the great American experiment was to move away from a system of top-down rule by the powerful elite over the powerless. Instead, our Founders understood that power belonged to the people, and was entrusted by the people to those elected to govern. Recognizing humanity’s fallible nature, the Framers structured…
    Rep. Michael Cloud
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    3 Quotes From Founding Fathers Remind Us Why We Are a Constitutional Republic (Not a Democracy)

    We have all heard the common talking point from the left that conservatives are destroying democracy. The response to this claim is the same time and time again: “We’re not a democracy, we’re a constitutional republic!” This leads us to ask an important question: Are there any differences between the two, and if so, why…
    Seth Griffin
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    San Francisco Aims to Strip the Names of Founders, Abraham Lincoln, and an Abolitionist From Public Schools

    San Francisco takes the war on history very seriously. Forget the pandemic, rising crime, economic uncertainty, and the buildup of human waste and tent cities on the streets. That can all wait. San Francisco’s real priority is changing school names to ensure that they all conform to the ever-evolving standards of the woke left. The…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    Mellon Foundation’s Monuments Project Pledges $250M for ‘Reimagining’ Statuary, Public Spaces

    One of America’s largest philanthropic organizations, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation,  has announced a commitment to invest $250 million in what it calls the “reimagining” of public spaces and monuments across the country.  The Mellon Foundation’s Monuments Project, it announced earlier this month, will support efforts to reshape and “recontextualize” America’s public spaces to provide…
    Nathalie Voit
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    Restoring Civics and Patriotism to American Life

    This article is an excerpt from the “2020 Mandate for Leadership: A Clear Vision for the Next Administration.” It looks back at policy decisions made by the Trump administration over the past four years. You can purchase your copy of “Mandate 2020” here. President Donald Trump’s rhetoric admittedly can be ambiguous at times and thus lead…
    Mike Gonzalez
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    Cancel Culture Comes for America’s National Monuments

    The nation’s monuments are under fire from the progressive left. A new report commissioned by D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser recommends that the federal government “remove, relocate, or contextualize” the Washington Monument, the Jefferson Memorial, and six other statues and monuments. Jarrett Stepman, a contributor to The Daily Signal and author of “The War on History:…
    Virginia Allen
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    The Mayor, the Monuments, and the Mayhem

    When D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser earlier this year created an advisory group to scrutinize the city’s monuments, memorials, and facilities for their “disqualifying histories,” the outcome of its feverish deliberations was utterly predictable: It would launch an assault on the most cherished and unifying symbols of American democracy. Like the militant Jacobins of revolutionary France,…
    Joseph Loconte
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    Founders’ Lives, Fortunes, and Sacred Honor Still Our Foundation

    In recent weeks, thousands of protesters have taken to the streets of America to declare that the lives, fortunes, and sacred honor of the Founding Fathers no longer should be considered the true foundation of the United States of America. The death of George Floyd in police custody May 25 sparked a wave of already-simmering…
    Sarah Williams
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    Monuments Are Only the Start of Radical Left’s War on Western Values

    The radical left has hijacked debate over America’s monuments to wage a cultural war. Their goal: to deny the moral legitimacy of our democratic republic. Violent attacks on statues and memorials aren’t mere vandalism. They are an assault on the United States itself and the values upon which this great nation stands. We should all stand united as Americans in the defense of our heritage,…
    Nile Gardiner
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    In Ukraine the ‘Great Patriotic War’ Is History

    KYIV, Ukraine—What a difference a day makes. Along with Europe and the United States, Ukraine on Friday marked the 75th anniversary of the surrender of Nazi Germany —a day earlier than in Russia, where “Victory Day” is celebrated on May 9, according to Soviet tradition. Nazi Germany initially surrendered to the Allies in the French…
    Nolan Peterson
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    Why MLK Is America’s Last Founding Father

    “These are the hard, brutal facts of the case,” wrote Martin Luther King Jr. from a Jefferson County jail cell in Birmingham, Alabama, on April 16, 1963.  Birmingham saw more “unsolved bombings of Negro homes and churches” than any other American city. Racist posters decorated the storefronts of its businesses. State officials worked overtime to…
    Dion Pierre
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    What the Founders Actually Thought About Slavery

    One of the ironies of the current American “elite” is that, rather than actually being elite, they have the smug self-assurance of knowing much that isn’t so. Recently, a video surfaced of South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg, a Harvard University graduate and Rhodes scholar, explaining to a group of high school students why the…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    These ‘Founders’ Aim to Improve How Schools Teach History and the Constitution

    Many students and educators agree that the history of America’s founding is sorely lacking in high school curriculums across the country. The philosophy behind the founding and the United States Constitution often gets the boot when competing with STEM-focused subjects in today’s classroom. But one Florida organization is hoping to change that with an after-school…
    Aaron Credeur
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    What Our Founders Really Thought of Slavery—and Why The New York Times Is Wrong

    For those who want to fundamentally transform our nation, the first order of business is to thoroughly discredit our past. For decades, progressives have claimed that our foundations are so cracked and broken by the original sin of slavery that reverence paid both to our Constitution and its Framers is undue.  While the left has…
    John York
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