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Bill Amending Oklahoma’s Anti-ESG Law Dies
A bill in the Oklahoma Legislature to amend the state’s three-year-old anti-ESG law died last week after criticism that it would water down efforts to avoid public investments in companies boycotting oil and gas companies. ESG is an acronym for environmental, social, and governance-based investing. Oklahoma’s 2022 Energy Discrimination Elimination Act bans state investments with…Fred Lucas -
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Peace Through Technological Strength: How Trump’s America Tames the Chinese Dragon
In the days around the U.S. presidential election, dozens of People’s Liberation Army warplanes cruised through Taiwanese airspace. Such behavior is a microcosm of China’s audacity and confidence to act with increasing impunity. During President Joe Biden’s tenure, the Chinese military consistently probed Taiwan’s readiness and Washington’s leadership. Data from the Taiwanese Ministry of…Shane Festa -
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Deportations Hit 100,000 Under Trump
The Trump administration has carried out more than 100,000 deportations since Jan. 20, The New York Post first reported. In fulfillment of President Donald Trump’s pledge to arrest and remove illegal aliens, Immigration and Customs Enforcement has also made 113,000 arrests. “He’s doing what he was voted in to do. Point blank!” an ICE…Virginia Allen -
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SATIRE: 10 Things Trump Will Rename This Week
After President Donald Trump’s great success renaming the Gulf of America and Mount McKinley, the president is preparing to declare he has the sole power to rename anything he wants. The Daily Signal was added to a group chat called “Top Secret Renaming Small Group” by a Snapchat user, in which the Trump administration discussed…Moira Gleason -
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Elon Musk’s ‘Mind-Blowing’ Chart Shows How Many Noncitizens Have Social Security Numbers
Elon Musk revealed a “mind-blowing chart” Sunday claiming millions of noncitizens are receiving Social Security numbers from the U.S. government. At a town hall meeting in Green Bay, Wisconsin, Musk displayed a bar chart showing a steady increase from fiscal years 2021 through 2024, topping more than 2 million Social Security numbers issued to noncitizens…R.E. Wermus -
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The Left’s Imaginary COVID-19 ‘Reckoning’
When I first came across Jonathan Chait’s new Atlantic piece, “Why the COVID Reckoning Is So One-Sided,” I assumed the answer would be that Democrats had been the ones relentlessly and tragically wrong about virtually everything during the pandemic. No such luck. In Chait’s telling, the Left remains uncannily open-minded, always striving for truth, while…David Harsanyi -
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EXCLUSIVE: Group Equips Parents to Lobby Lawmakers to Follow Trump’s Edict on Girls Sports
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—A conservative organization for parents is equipping them to challenge their elected representatives who are defying President Donald Trump’s executive order protecting women’s sports. The American Parents Coalition will send parents a form they can send to their legislators urging them to adhere to Trump’s directive keeping biological males out of…Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell -
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NPR and PBS Are Begging for Mercy. They Don’t Deserve It.
NPR and PBS used to justify their unjustifiable taxpayer funding by telling people that poor children would be harmed if their educational programming was cut. Then, in 2015, “Sesame Street” got a private deal with HBO, and a stream of educational content came online. Now, the mantra is that without public broadcasting, there will be no advance warning systems…Mike Gonzalez -
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Memer-in-Chief: How Donald Trump Took the Digital Town Square by Storm
President Donald Trump has made massive inroads with Gen Z voters through an alternative media strategy that took the president’s message directly to the digital town square. As a deputy assistant to the president and White House deputy communications director, Kaelan Dorr is a key player in executing Trump’s digital media strategy. He joined a…Bradley Devlin -
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‘MAHA’?: New Jersey Democrat Introduces ‘Caffeine Safety’ Labeling Bill
Rep. Rob Menendez Jr. introduced the Sarah Katz Caffeine Safety Act at a press conference Monday, a bill that would require labels showing caffeine levels on beverages. Joined by the parents of children who have died from cardiac episodes after consuming highly caffeinated drinks, Menendez, D-N.J., said his bill fits with the “Make America Healthy…George Caldwell -
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EXCLUSIVE: Vance to Give Remarks at Screening of Docuseries on Christian Dissidents in USSR
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Vice President JD Vance will attend a premiere of Rod Dreher’s Angel Studios series on Christian dissidents in Soviet-era Russia on Tuesday. Vance will deliver remarks prior to a showing of a docuseries at The Heritage Foundation about Christian survivors of the USSR based on American Conservative editor-at-large Dreher’s book “Live…Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell -
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Tesla Owners Not Connected to DOGE or Musk Are Acceptable Victims, According to 31% of Democrats
A surprising number of Americans approve of the rash of violence against Teslas amid Elon Musk's work helping President Donald Trump with the Department of Government Efficiency. Self-identified atheists, Democrats, young people, and supporters of the policies of Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., are the most likely to approve of the violence and the least likely…Tyler O’Neil -
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Pfizer COVID-19 Bombshell Puts 2020 Election Into Context
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. I don’t want to go back and look at the 2020 elections, especially, but there’s some…Victor Davis Hanson -
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Illegal Alien Accused of Raping, Killing Maryland Mother Gets Pretrial Hearing
The illegal alien accused of killing Maryland mother Rachel Morin walked, shackled, into the Harford County, Maryland, courthouse on Monday for a pretrial hearing. Victor Antonio Martinez-Hernandez faces a number of charges in Morin's death, including first-degree murder and first-degree rape. “Rachel Morin is another victim of the failed policies of the Biden-Harris administration,” Rep. Michael…Virginia Allen -
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Congressional Republicans Seek to Slap Down Activist Judges, Curtail Universal Injunctions
Activist judges have courted disaster with abusive nationwide injunctions to stop policies they don’t like. Unlike the executive and legislative branches, the courts have only their reputation to give them power. With the recent spate of overzealous universal injunctions, some prominent members of Congress are threatening to intervene. It was only a matter of time….Jarrett Stepman -
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Nominally Nonpartisan, Wisconsin High Court Election Likely to Set Ideological Direction of Bench
Voters in Wisconsin head to the polls on Tuesday to decide the ideological majority and direction of their state Supreme Court. The race involves who will replace outgoing left-leaning Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Ann Walsh Bradley. Republicans are supporting Waukesha County Circuit Court Judge Brad Schimel, while Democrats are backing Dane County Circuit Court Judge…Jacob Adams -
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Pete Hegseth Announces He Is Ordering Equal Standards for Men and Women in Combat Roles
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will issue a memo setting equal standards for men and women in combat roles across the armed services, he announced on X Monday. The memo aims to implement the same set of standards for all service members involved in combat, regardless of sex, Hegseth said on X. Hegseth said the…Wallace White -
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Florida Special Elections for House Seen as Barometer on Trump Policies
Two special elections Tuesday for House seats from Florida will be a test of the popularity of the first 70 days of President Donald Trump’s second term and will decide whether or not Republicans can maintain their already slender margin of control in the House of Representatives. The stakes are high. With four seats currently…George Caldwell -
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School Choice Soon Available to Half of US Kids, But How It’s Designed Is Critical
School choice will soon hit a tipping point. If Texas enacts a universal school choice bill, as seems very likely, then more than half of K-12 students nationwide will be eligible for private school choice. Already this year, three states—Idaho, Tennessee, and Wyoming—have enacted new universal education choice policies or expanded existing ones to make…Jason Bedrick -
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Left-Wing Groups Call on Federal Election Agency to Defy Trump Executive Order
A coalition of left-leaning organizations is urging the U.S. Election Assistance Commission to defy President Donald Trump’s executive order on election integrity. Trump on Tuesday issued the order that, among other things, requires federal voter registration forms require proof of citizenship and would cut federal funding to states that count mail-in ballots arriving after Election…Fred Lucas