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    Trump Celebrates ‘Expectation-Smashing’ GDP Report

    President Donald Trump said tariffs are the reason that real gross domestic product increased at an annual rate of 4.3% in the third quarter of 2025. In July, August, and September, GDP increased at 4.3%, according to the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, even though economists predicted the economy would grow at a 3.2% annual rate…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Truth Dies in Darkness: Washington Post Refuses to Correct Fake Heritage Quotes

    The Washington Post published an article Monday that fabricates two quotes attributed to Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts. Roberts sent an email Sunday to Heritage staff announcing personnel changes at the organization. Washington Post reporters Jacob Bogage and Isaac Arnsdorf claim to have obtained the internal email, although the two quotes they cite from Roberts…
    Robert B. Bluey
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    Victor Davis Hanson Debunks Tucker Carlson’s Claims About Israel

    Victor Davis Hanson responds to Tucker Carlson’s claims that Israel offers little strategic value to the United States, laying out Israel’s cultural importance, democratic legitimacy, military cooperation, and technological innovation—and why America benefits directly on today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words.” Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of a…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    Why Western Leaders Won’t Acknowledge ‘Radical Islam’

    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. We’ve had a lot of incidents worldwide of Islamic terrorism or threats of Islamic terrorism. The…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    EXCLUSIVE: Christmas Ad Draws Inspiration From ‘Home Alone’ to Unwrap Dangers of Illegal Vapes  

    A new Christmas ad aims to expose the “greedy criminals targeting vulnerable kids” with illegal vapes.   Illegal vapes, largely from China, have flooded the U.S. market in recent years with flavors and advertising specifically aimed at enticing children.    “This Christmas, it’s time to get those who profit from illegal vapes a supersized dose of Kevin,” the ad tells viewers, referring to Kevin…
    Virginia Allen
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    How AmericaFest Celebrated Charlie Kirk’s Legacy

    PHOENIX—In an interview just months before his assassination, Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk said, “I want to be remembered for courage for my faith, that would be the most important thing. The most important thing is my faith.” More than 10,000 gathered at AmericaFest in Phoenix over the weekend, the first major Turning Point USA conference since Kirk’s…
    Virginia Grace McKinnon
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    Accreditation Mandates Bring CRT Into Colleges and K-12 Schools

    A recent report from Defending Education has found that more than half of collegiate social work programs appear to embed anti-racism and diversity, equity, and inclusion standards into their core competencies, admissions requirements, and field work evaluations. This is not by accident. The sole accreditor of these schools, the Council on Social Work Education, requires…
    Reagan Dugan
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    Slippery Slopes Have 2 Sides

    Most conservatives are likely familiar with John Adams’ insightful observation, “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” For years, we have accepted the obvious implication of that statement: If the system isn’t working as intended, the problem is with the people….
    Steve McKee
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    EJ Antoni on Affordability: ‘Keep Your Foot Down on the Throttle, Mr. President’

    The new buzzword today seems to be affordability. Suddenly, the entire media has woken up to the fact that Americans are in a cost-of-living crisis, something that has been true for several years now.   Of course, the mainstream media had no interest in discussing the issue when Joe Biden was in office, but now they view it as…
    EJ Antoni
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    This One Issue Is Driving Gen Z to the Right

    PHOENIX—All eyes were on Gen Z this weekend as more than 10,000 students gathered at Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest, where speakers and panels discussed the issues motivating Gen Z heading into a pivotal election year. After making impressive inroads with young voters in the 2024 presidential election, the conservative movement is vigorously debating how to address…
    Virginia Grace McKinnon
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    Gas Prices Are the Lowest in Years. So Why Does Filling Up a Tank Break the Bank?

    There’s a good chance that if you’re filling up your car today, you’re paying the lowest price in four years. According to December AAA data, the national average gas price is about $2.90 per gallon—marking the first time it has fallen below $3 since 2021. Despite this decline, a Fox News poll found that 54%…
    Rep. Craig Goldman
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    DHS Encourages Illegal Aliens to Go ‘Home for the Holidays’ With $3,000 Stipend

    Illegal aliens who choose to self-deport “home for the holidays” will be given $3,000.   “During the Christmas Season, the U.S. taxpayer is so generously TRIPLING the incentive to leave voluntarily for those in this country illegally, offering a $3,000 exit bonus, but just until the end of the year,” Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said in a statement Monday…
    Virginia Allen
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    Trump Administration Announces Change to Offshore Wind Construction

    President Donald Trump’s Department of the Interior is pausing offshore wind project construction due to “national security risks.” “Due to national security concerns identified by the Department of War, Interior is PAUSING leases for 5 expensive, unreliable, heavily subsidized offshore wind farms!” Interior Secretary Doug Burgum wrote on X. “ONE natural gas pipeline supplies as…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Throw the Book at Them: American Library Association Is (Still) Grooming Our Kids

    Imagine if your 15-year-old came to my house, and I gave them a book about edgy sex positions? What if I gave your 16-year-old a book with graphic illustrations of oral or anal sex? Would you be happy with that? Or would you be mighty suspicious of me? Many parents may not know it, but…
    Dan Kleinman
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    Daily Signal Reaches 1 Million Subscribers on YouTube 

    The Daily Signal reached 1 million followers on YouTube Friday, capping off an incredible year of growth for its video content.  In 2025 alone, The Daily Signal has added over 600,000 subscribers to its YouTube channel and increased its annual video views by over 400%.  “We have provided original, smart conservative commentary and reporting, and our rapidly growing audience has shown there…
    Katrina Trinko
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    Minnesota Fraud Exposes the Baked-In Flaws of Welfare

    The U.S. welfare system is broken, and the Minnesota scandal is a blaring warning to that reality. The failure of political leaders on many fronts bears some of the blame. But the main culprit is the massive federal welfare system that annually passes hundreds of billions of dollars down to states to dole out, with the philosophy that the…
    Rachel Sheffield
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    Vance Addresses MAGA Infighting at AmericaFest

    Vice President JD Vance said Republicans have more important work to do than cancelling each other. “I didn’t bring a list of conservatives to denounce or to de-platform, and I don’t really care if some people out there—I’m sure we’ll have the fake news media denounced me after this speech—but let me just say the…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    America Is Surviving, Not Living, and It’s Breaking Us

    Life in America doesn’t feel like life right now. It feels like triage. People get up, commute, grind through work, juggle kids and side hustles, scroll through their phones in bed until their eyes burn, then do it again tomorrow. They are surviving, but they are not living. The numbers explain why. The average American…
    Armstrong Williams
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    Government Control in the Digital Age

    Politicians push government IDs. In a Transportation Security Administration announcement, Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem sternly warns, “You will need a REAL ID to travel by air or visit federal buildings.” European politicians go much further, reports Stossel TV producer Kristin Tokarev. They’re pushing government-mandated digital IDs that tie your identity to nearly everything…
    John Stossel
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    California Church Appeals to SCOTUS Over $1.2M in COVID-19 Fines

    Almost three years after the COVID-19 pandemic was officially declared over, a church in California is still facing over $1.2 million in fines for keeping its doors open to minister to the spiritual needs of the public. Calvary Chapel San Jose’s legal saga began in August 2020 when county inspectors reportedly “made 44 visits to the church”…
    Dan Hart
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