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Battleground Wisconsin Set for Referendum on Enshrining Voter ID in State Constitution
Wisconsin, one of the seven presidential battlegrounds states, could become one of just a handful of states to have voter ID requirements enshrined in its state constitution. A total of 36 states have some form of ID requirement to vote, although only 22 require photo IDs, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. However,… -
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The Left’s Sin Is of Omission and Lost Opportunity
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. Over these first few days of the Trump administration, we’ve seen these bold measures. And it’s starting to incur a big backlash, or anger, or… -
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Cracking Down on Illegal Immigration Would Raise Wages for Lower-Income Americans
President Donald Trump signed so many executive orders on his first two days in office that many Americans were naturally left wondering how his policy changes would affect their everyday lives. One such question looms particularly large: If we deport illegal aliens, who will take their place in working low-skilled jobs? Many seem to think… -
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The Alarming Rise of Stakeholder Capitalism: Andrew Puzder Exposes the Threat
President Donald Trump appointed Andrew Puzder ambassador to the European Union this past week. But before he heads to Brussels, Puzder is warning about the left-wing scourge of stakeholder capitalism. As the former chief executive of CKE Restaurants, a major fast food corporation operating Carl’s Jr. and Hardee’s, Puzder knows what it takes to run… -
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The Cold Civil War Is Over. We Won.
The civilizational inflection point in our cold civil war happened sometime between Donald Trump’s second inaugural address on Monday and the end of his new presidency’s second day on Tuesday. At some indeterminate moment between Monday’s soaring midday speech, in which the first nonconsecutive two-term president in over 130 years artfully took a sledgehammer to… -
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Trump Was Right to Yank Security Clearances of the 51 ‘Spies Who Lie’
Amid the tsunami of good that Donald J. Trump has unleashed since returning to the presidency, one wave deserves sustained applause. As I proposed last September, Trump revoked the security clearances of the 51 intelligence operatives who intimated that Hunter Biden’s “Laptop from Hell” was mere Kremlin propaganda. These “Spies Who Lie,” as the New York Post dubbed them, earned this… -
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Convicted Defamers at CNN Lecture About ‘Deepfakes’ Under Trump
In CNN’s buildup to the Trump inauguration on Monday, anchor Jake Tapper uncorked a lecture about how five Big Tech executives in attendance “control so much of the information that we receive.” Was that a warning? Or an expression of jealousy? The leftist media hate that the American people have gone around them for information,… -
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Bureaucrats Privately Fume About Trump Abolishing DEI
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Numerous current and former government employees are complaining and commiserating about the end of internal federal diversity programs in a private Facebook group, images of which have been obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation. The bureaucrats—mostly current or former employees of the Department of the Interior’s National Park Service—likened President Donald… -
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How Education System Sacrifices Our Kids to the Detriment of Society, What Trump Can Do About It
Critical race theory, social and emotional learning, DEI, social justice, and other forms of wokeness are nothing new to the American education system. Some buy into the divisive concepts, but most parents simply want their children to be proficient in math, reading, science, and other subjects when they graduate high school. The past four years… -
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‘A Glorious Moment’: Conservative Actor Celebrates Trump Pardon After Jan. 6 Charges
A man who entered the U.S. Capitol building on Jan. 6, 2021, and was later arrested said President Donald Trump’s pardon this week was “a glorious moment.” Siaka Massaquoi, a conservative actor and former first vice chair of the Republican Party of Los Angeles County, spoke to The Daily Signal about his experiences with law… -
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Trump’s Dismantling of DEI Is Deeper and Bigger Than You Even Know
Federal diversity, equity, and inclusion hires had to know what was coming when President Donald Trump began his historic second term on Monday by rescinding the executive order that President Joe Biden started his term in 2021 with—one that ordered the promotion of racial preferences throughout his administration. But they probably had no idea that… -
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RESISTANCE EMERGING: Alex Soros Vows to ‘Fight Back’ Against Trump, Even as Many Elites Begrudgingly Embrace New President
It truly is morning in America, and even many of the elites are hopeful about Donald Trump’s second term. In fact, a recent poll showed that more of the elite 1%—urban folk with advanced degrees who make more than $150,000 a year—say they would support the new administration than oppose it. Yet not all the… -
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Hegseth Confirmed as Defense Secretary
President Donald Trump’s defense secretary nominee Pete Hegseth was confirmed in a 51-50 vote as Vice President J.D. Vance broke a tie in the Senate Friday, ending one of the most contentious and vital confirmation battles of Trump’s early administration. Vance’s tie-breaking vote to confirm a cabinet member was the second in American history after… -
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Pro-Lifers React to Trump Pardoning 23 Charged Under FACE Act
Thousands of Americans gathered in Washington for the 52nd annual March for Life on Friday, just one day after President Donald Trump issued pardons for 23 pro-life activists who were prosecuted under the Biden administration for their activism. “I’m just so delighted,” Jeanne Mancini, president of the March for Life, told The Daily Signal, commenting… -
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Debunking 4 Big Errors Made in Lawsuit to Stop Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Order
One of the most controversial of the executive orders signed by President Donald Trump in the hours after being sworn in was his order on birthright citizenship. That order directed federal agencies to stop issuing citizenship documents for children born in the United States unless at least one parent was a citizen or lawful permanent… -
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Unlikely Bedfellows, DeSantis and Teachers Union Agree on Smartphones
What do the nation’s largest teacher union and the country’s most conservative governor agree on? Smartphones—specifically, keeping them out of the classroom. In 2023, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis made his state the first to prohibit students from using cellphones during instructional time. Policymakers in other states quickly followed, including South Carolina, Indiana, and California. Now,… -
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47 of the Best Signs at the 52nd March for Life
Thousands of Americans rallied in support of the unborn Friday, marching from the National Mall to the Supreme Court in the 52nd annual National March for Life in Washington, D.C. Students, families, and church groups from across the country braved the cold for the third march since the overturn of Roe v. Wade. Vice President… -
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Who Are the Pro-Life Protesters Trump Pardoned?
Twenty-three pro-life activists who were prosecuted for their anti-abortion activism are now exonerated after President Donald Trump’s pardons Thursday. The pardons, which Trump signed on the eve of the March for Life in Washington, are a sign of solidarity from the president with the pro-life movement. Trump told the press, “We released 23 people that… -
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Judge Dismisses Charges Against Surgeon Targeted for Exposing Child Sex Changes After Trump Moves to Drop Them
A judge reportedly dismissed Friday the charges against Dr. Eithan Haim, a surgeon indicted by the Biden-Harris administration after he blew the whistle on sex-change procedures for minors. Haim initially came forward as an anonymous whistleblower to expose gender treatments being performed on minors at Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston. He was facing four felony counts of violating… -
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Partisan Episcopal Bishop Lecturing Trump Shows Why Mainline Protestantism Is Dying
My heart sank listening to Washington Bishop Mariann Budde during a post-inauguration service at Washington National Cathedral, the beautifully sculpted, limestone, crown jewel church for Episcopalians like me in the D.C. area. The majestic National Cathedral hosted similar inauguration prayer services 10 times before. This time, sadly, Budde gave the perfect illustration of why the…