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Meet the Companies Helping to Trans Kids and Hide It From Parents
It’s been a while since Americans could actually sit back and enjoy June. Now, instead of bumping into rainbows in every aisle and choking on the colored logos of every conceivable brand, there’s some freedom from the suffocating fumes of Pride Month. In these last two years, the march to pull companies back to neutral…Suzanne Bowdey -
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Friends With Benefits: Stacey Abrams Funneled $20 Million to Her Lawyer
A nonprofit founded by Georgia Democratic politician Stacey Abrams to protect voting rights paid more than $20 million to a lawyer who is a close friend and helped set up two of her private businesses, according to tax and state incorporation filings and other records obtained by RealClearInvestigations. Abrams’ Fair Fight Action redirected the tax-exempt donations…Paul Sperry -
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Texas Is First State to Authorize Statue on Capitol Grounds Honoring Pregnant Mother and Child
Texas will erect the Texas Life Monument, a statue honoring mothers and the sanctity of life, after Republican Gov. Greg Abbott signed a resolution Tuesday authorizing the monument be built. The legislation passed with a large majority of support in the Texas Legislature. According Tim Van Dohlen, co-founder of the St. John Paul II Life…Quinn Delamater -
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Harvard Is the Enemy
During his 2024 campaign, President Donald Trump correctly assailed elite universities like Harvard as controlled by “Marxist maniacs and lunatics.” He received a popular mandate to take them down. They deserve it. The bill of indictment against Harvard is long. It is teaching students to hate America, to become modern-day Benedict Arnolds. It is teaching…Armstrong Williams -
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How Democrats Can Stop Alienating Young Men: Some Unsolicited Advice
Last November, Donald Trump soundly defeated Kamala Harris among young men 18 to 29 years old, racking up about 56% of their votes according to the Associated Press. That represents a huge decline from 2008, the climax of the Barack Obama coalition, when the Democrat candidate won 62% of the young male vote against GOP…Josh Hammer -
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Religion Without Faith Will Never Bring Fulfillment
In the introduction of his 1984 book, “The Naked Public Square,” then-Lutheran pastor Richard John Neuhaus wrote about the relationship between religion and politics in society, Politics and religion are different enterprises, and it is understandable that many people would like to keep them as separate as possible. But they are constantly coupling and getting quite mixed up…Timothy Goeglein -
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The New Politics of Metropole vs. Heartland
You see the same pattern over much of the world. In three consecutive presidential elections in the United States. In the latest polls in Britain, where the 2016 Brexit referendum was the first notable outbreak. In France’s most recent national election and in Germany’s. In Canada’’ election last month. And maybe in Poland and South…Michael Barone -
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Modern Feminism Gets a Whole New Meaning Under the Trump Administration
It’s ironic, isn’t it? The modern feminist movement began as a cry for liberation—yet in recent years, it seems to have circled right back to restriction. The script has flipped, and instead of championing real choice, mainstream feminism is now dictating which choices are acceptable, rewarding women not for excellence but for optics. Many women…Hannah Brusven -
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Got Whole Milk? Senate Panel Moves to End Low-Fat Only Rule in School Lunches.
The Make America Healthy Again movement claimed another win this week when the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee unanimously passed a bill on Tuesday that would once again allow whole and reduced-fat milk to be served in school cafeterias. “I’m encouraged to see the Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act advance. This common-sense, bipartisan…Jacob Adams -
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How Trump’s Administration Has Protected Whistleblowers Bullied by Biden’s
When Dr. Eithan Haim blew the whistle on illegal sex-change procedures for minors at the Texas Children’s Hospital, the Biden administration weaponized the Justice Department to silence him, plunging Haim and his wife into than $1 million in debt. By contrast, had Haim shed light on the gender transitions that violated Texas law under the…Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell -
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Italian Referendum Would Speed Up Path to Citizenship
Italians are heading to the polls Sunday for a two-day referendum on whether to accelerate the citizenship process and change labor laws—proposals opposed by the country’s conservative prime minister. As immigration concerns mount across Europe, the citizenship question would usher in a sweeping change in Italy by cutting in half the required period of residence…Lorenzo Prieto -
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The Partisan Media Hate Any Praise of Trump’s Broad Media Access
Jack Blanchard at Politico’s Playbook newsletter made the leftists angry by praising President Donald Trump’s energetic availability to the press. While CBS star Scott Pelley wailed at a college commencement that they are “the fierce defenders of democracy,” “the seekers of truth” and “the vanguard against ignorance,” Trump grants them access. Blanchard wrote on May…Tim Graham -
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CBS Errs as It Airs Radical Professor on ‘Misinformation’
The liberal media viscerally hate anything the Donald Trump administration is doing to defund the federal government pushing leftist ideology and squashing conservative counterpoints. One major field has been “misinformation research,” in which professors equate conservative arguments with falsehoods. In the Joe Biden years, “misinformation” experts at major universities worked with the federal government and…Tim Graham -
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The Quiet Economic Boom of Trump 2.0
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. The Trump budget is making its way through the Senate. And people on both sides of the issue of fiscal sobriety are arguing because the Biden…Victor Davis Hanson -
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Artificial Intelligence Regulation Hotly Debated on Hill
An unexpected issue has emerged as the House-passed “big, beautiful bill” is debated in the Senate—whether or not states will lose the ability to regulate artificial intelligence in the future. Since Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., called out a provision in the House’s “big, beautiful bill” that blocks states from regulating AI, the Senate is…George Caldwell -
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WATCH: Kilmar Abrego Garcia Returns to Be Democrats’ Albatross
Salvadoran MS-13 gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia is being returned to the United States after the Department of Justice demanded he be tried on criminal charges, including human trafficking. Meanwhile, House Minority Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., humiliates his party. Democrat members of Congress have taken their biggest opportunity to look good in months and…Tony Kinnett -
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The Myth of Mexico’s ‘American Gun Problem’
This week, the Supreme Court tossed out the Mexican government’s lawsuit against seven major U.S. gun manufacturers, holding that a federal statute called the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act barred Mexico from filing the lawsuit in the first place. In the suit in question, Mexico alleged the gun companies were civilly liable for…Amy Swearer -
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Judge Who Ruled Twice Against Trump Gave Almost $500,000 to Democrats
A federal judge who has ruled twice to halt executive actions by President Donald Trump previously gave about $500,000 in campaign contributions to Democrats The judge, U.S. District Judge John McConnell of the District of Rhode Island, will also preside over yet another case involving Trump. All three cases involve federal funding. In one case,…Fred Lucas -
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In the Swim of Things, Is America Ditching LGBTQ for Traditional?
In recent years, a trip to a Target department store on June 1 was the only reminder needed that the month is dedicated to celebrating “gay pride,” but not so this year. Instead of a prominent display of chest binders and swimsuits designed for “tucking” private parts, as seen at Target in the summer of…Virginia Allen -
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Illegal Alien Deported to Salvadoran Prison Brought Back to US to Face Human Trafficking Charges
Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, an illegal alien removed from the U.S. to his native El Salvador earlier this year, has been brought back to the U.S. following legal challenges to his deportation. But the Trump administration is welcoming Abrego Garcia back from a Salvadoran prison to the U.S. with an indictment from the Justice…Virginia Allen