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Pro-Life Leader: 3 Ways Democrats Are Turning Abortion Into a ‘Sacrament’
Democrats are making abortion into a “sacrament” by completely eliminating doctors from the process, glorifying the act, and deregulating the procedure, according to the president and CEO of the world’s largest pro-life organization. Shawn Carney is the president and founder of the annual 40 Days for Life campaign, which has just concluded in a record…Ann Moreno -
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Nonprofits Influence Climate Litigation Against Major Energy Companies
Over 30 lawsuits, modeled after the tobacco cases of the 1990s, have been filed by state, county, and city attorneys against energy companies seeking damages for the alleged effects of greenhouse gas emissions. An important factor in these lawsuits is the role of third-party funding and nonprofit activists working behind the scenes to shape the…Jonathan Draeger -
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BREAKING: Trump Names Another Attorney General After Matt Gaetz’s Withdrawal
President-elect Donald Trump wasted little time in naming another attorney general Thursday after former Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida withdrew his nomination earlier in the day. Trump nominated Pam Bondi, a former Florida attorney general and prosecutor for nearly 20 years. “I am proud to announce former Attorney General of the Great State of Florida,…Tyler O’Neil -
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EXCLUSIVE: Nonprofit Laid Out Road Map for Prosecuting Trump Supporters, and Arizona’s AG Seems to Have Followed It
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—A nonprofit drafted a plan to prosecute backers of Donald Trump under Arizona law nearly a year before the state’s Democrat attorney general secured 18 indictments related to Trump’s 2020 campaign. One of the nonprofit’s founders is a former Obama White House staffer who authored books targeting Trump. The organization, the…Fred Lucas -
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‘Smirking Young Thug’ With Links to Tren de Aragua Charged in Robbery of NYC Prosecutor
An illegal alien with suspected ties to the Venezuelan prison gang Tren de Aragua robbed one of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s prosecutors, New York police say. Around 2 a.m. Sunday, police said, Brandon Simosa robbed Bragg’s employee, a 38-year-old woman, in her apartment building on 44th Street, the New York Post first reported. Simosa,…Virginia Allen -
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Heritage Launches $1 Million Campaign to Expedite Senate Confirmation of Trump’s Cabinet Picks
The Heritage Foundation and its independent partner, Heritage Action for America, on Thursday launched what they describe as a $1 million campaign aimed at expediting Senate confirmation of President-elect Donald Trump’s second-term Cabinet appointments. The campaign will officially start in the middle of January 2025 and will continue for the entirety of the Senate…Christina Lewis -
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Democrats’ Brazen Hypocrisy on Senate Filibuster
Addressing the Democratic National Committee’s summer meeting Sept. 10, 2022, in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, Vice President Kamala Harris boasted about how, as president of the Senate, she had broken “John Adams’s record of casting the most tiebreaking votes in a single term.” Harris was reliving how, a month earlier on Aug. 7, she had…Peter Parisi -
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Former Planned Parenthood Chief Needs Our Prayers, Not a Presidential Medal of Freedom
In a private ceremony Wednesday, President Joe Biden awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Cecile Richards, former president of Planned Parenthood. Established by President John F. Kennedy in 1963, this honor is awarded by the president of the United States and is “the nation’s highest civilian honor, presented to individuals who have made exemplary…Mary Szoch -
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Every Political Action Has Its Equal and Opposite Reaction. Trump’s Backlash Has Been Well-Earned.
Isaac Newton’s third law of motion famously states that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction: If you push an object, for example, the object pushes back against you with equal force. It turns out this isn’t just a law of physics. It’s a law of politics. President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet picks…Ben Shapiro -
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What Trump’s Pick for NATO Ambassador Says About Likely Foreign Policy in Trump’s Second Term
As President Joe Biden’s administration attempts to handcuff President-elect Donald Trump’s ability to secure a just peace through unnecessary escalation in Ukraine, Trump has chosen a bull in the china shop as his NATO ambassador. Former acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker will serve as the next U.S. Ambassador to NATO, with Trump making that announcement…Bradley Devlin -
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BREAKING: Matt Gaetz Withdraws Attorney General Nomination
In a surprise move Thursday, former Rep. Matt Gaetz withdrew his nomination to become attorney general in President-elect Donald Trump’s second term. Gaetz—who had won reelection Nov. 5 to a fifth term representing Florida’s 1st Congressional District before abruptly resigning the seat on Nov. 13—said the move followed many “excellent meetings” with senators, who would…Tyler O’Neil -
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MSNBC Host Tells Dems to Ignore Voters and Keep Pushing ‘Transgender’ Athletes in Women’s Sports
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—MSNBC host Jen Psaki urged Democrats not to go along with what she claimed was a “manufactured panic” about biological men playing in women’s sports. The Trump campaign ran ads featuring Vice President Kamala Harris discussing how she pushed “behind the scenes” for “transgender” prisoners to receive sex changes, while now President-elect Donald Trump…Harold Hutchison -
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Lesson of Pennsylvania: Biden 2020 Was the Fluke, Not Trump in 2016
President-elect Donald Trump’s win two weeks ago in Pennsylvania was always right in front of you if you were objectively listening to the concerns of the people and the data showing the most important, but misread trend of all: The Republican Party had now become the party of work. In interview after interview, waitresses, welders,…Salena Zito -
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10 Examples of Defensive Gun Use Show It’s Time to End War on Lawful Gun Owners
Major gun control groups are already lamenting the outcome of the Nov. 5 election, decrying the results as detrimental to public safety. In reality, though, President Joe Biden’s yearslong war on law-abiding gun owners repeatedly and wrongfully placed them at the center of the federal government’s target. But ordinary lawful owners of firearms never have…Amy Swearer -
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Heritage President Kevin Roberts Can’t Thank Harris Campaign Enough
In the aftermath of a presidential election campaign in which Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts and The Heritage Foundation were constantly in media headlines, Roberts joined “The Signal Sitdown” to discuss his new book “Dawn’s Early Light.” In my interview with Roberts, we reflect on the election results and the unorthodox, previously unimaginable coalition that…Bradley Devlin -
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‘War on Gender’: GOP Lawmakers Forge Game Plan to Protect Children From Transgender Ideology
Republican lawmakers laid out their game plan to purge transgender ideology from American society at a Wednesday panel discussion. Republicans will soon introduce the STOP Act, or the Safeguarding the Overall Protection of Minors Act, to prohibit transgender medical interventions for children, said Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan. “Everybody changes after you get your hormones,” Marshall…Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell -
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Democrats Sold 2024 as ‘Last Election,’ but Now Promise ‘Peaceful Transfer’ of Power?
John Adams demonstrated what a transfer of power ought to look like in America when he handed over the presidency to his successor, Thomas Jefferson. The 1800 presidential race between Adams and Jefferson was an intense battle between two friends-turned-adversaries. But despite a contentious press and a heated political climate, neither the Federalists nor the…Christina Lewis -
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Michigan Democrats Want to Teach Minors About Abortion as ‘Family Planning’ Option
Michigan Democratic lawmakers have sponsored a bill to remove the state’s ban on teaching abortion as a “method of family planning” from the sex education curriculum. State Rep. Rachel Hood, D-Grand Rapids, introduced an overhaul of Michigan’s sex ed standards, crossing out the sentence: “Clinical abortion shall not be considered a method of family planning,…Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell -
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Biden Met 3 Times With Leader of Genocidal Regime
President Joe Biden met last week for the third time with Chinese President Xi Jinping—the leader of a regime Biden’s own administration has repeatedly declared is engaging in genocide. No White House statement about any of these three meetings has indicated that Biden specifically made this genocide an issue with Xi. The day before Biden…Terence Jeffrey -
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Call Your Governor: Florida College Shows How to Reform Woke Public Universities
A new book out this week gives a blueprint for freedom-loving governors to fight back and stop the waste of taxpayer money subsidizing public universities that are cesspools of Marxism and propaganda undermining Western civilization. This book, which supplies a path out, is titled “Storming the Ivory Tower: How a Florida College Became Ground Zero…Carrie Sheffield