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EXCLUSIVE: Heritage Action Scores Bill Defining Male, Female as Key Vote
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Heritage Action for America is treating the Defining Male and Female Act, a bill that would define sex based on biology, as a key vote in scoring how lawmakers stand on issues of concern to conservatives. Rep. Mary Miller, R-Ill., introduced the legislation at the end of July to establish in federal… -
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Universities Have Vital Partnerships With Military, but More Security Needed
Higher education drives some conservatives and even some leftists crazy, but conservatives should support universities’ historic role in advancing national security interests. Republican leadership’s ongoing investigations into national security risks involving institutions of higher education are both praiseworthy and, from a national security point of view, absolutely necessary. But maintaining universities’ role in national security—while… -
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What Is Secret Service Hiding About Trump Assassination Attempt?
It’s been six weeks since the attempt on former President Donald Trump’s life at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, and the American public’s questions about the nature of the attack and the security failings that led to Trump’s brush with death largely remain unanswered. Jason Chaffetz, a Fox News contributor and former Utah congressman… -
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Trump vs. Kamala on Inflation
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of the accompanying video from professor Peter St. Onge. How would Donald Trump and Kamala Harris do inflation differently? With her brain-dead price controls, Kamala is finally fleshing out an economic plan. So far it’s pretty bad: more spending, taxes, mandates, amnesty, subsidies for the rich, and… -
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Government-Encouraged Censorship of Conservatives May Only Get Worse
The Supreme Court had multiple opportunities during the last term to end the censorship of conservatives by social media. It chose a different path. Now, Democrats are free to double down on the Biden-Harris administration’s massive censorship enterprise. There is every indication they intend to do so. The bedrock of American democracy, the First Amendment,… -
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WATCH: Gabbard, RFK Jr. Declare ‘All Hands on Deck’ for Trump
On the latest episode of “The Tony Kinnett Cast,” we examine the fallout from the the Democratic National Convention and the Robert F. Kennedy Jr. endorsement of former President Donald Trump. Every pollster has his or her own take—and, as usual, no one is using their common sense. With former Democrat Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard… -
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Anti-Trump PAC Continues to Shuffle Millions of Donor Dollars to Firms Owned by Insiders
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Roughly one-third of the funds spent by The Lincoln Project, a political action committee founded by former Republican political consultants with the aim of stopping former President Donald Trump, this election cycle has gone to firms controlled by its senior operatives, Federal Election Commission records show. The Lincoln Project has spent $12.8… -
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Free Speech Victory for New York Pro-Life Pregnancy Centers
A federal district court ruled Thursday that pro-life pregnancy centers in New York may inform women “that the abortion pill reversal (‘APR’) protocol is safe and effective for a pregnant woman to use, with her doctor, to reverse the effects of a first chemical abortion pill and thereby, help to save the life of her unborn child.”… -
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Why Did Advocate of Diversity and Nuclear Disarmament Get Key Job in This Nuclear Security Agency?
The Biden-Harris administration announced early this year that Sneha Nair would become a special assistant in the Energy Department’s National Nuclear Security Administration, which is the government agency charged with building the nation’s nuclear warheads and maintaining its nuclear stockpile. What the National Nuclear Security Administration does is one of the most critical elements—and technically… -
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Secret Service Has ‘Routinely’ Misled American Public, Ex-Congressman Says
The Secret Service has a “culture of deception,” former Rep. Jason Chaffetz says. “What they tell the public has routinely been inaccurate, if not an outright lie,” said Chaffetz, a Republican who represented Utah’s 3rd Congressional District and who is now a visiting fellow with The Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project. The former congressman made his… -
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‘Indoctrination’: Colorado Parents Outraged by Elementary School LGBTQ History Standards Launching This Fall
Colorado's new LGBTQ social studies standards, which include first grade lessons on LGBTQ history, transgenderism, and the rainbow flag, is age-inappropriate and pushes a radical agenda, some parents in the state complain. "I don’t want my first grader learning anything about LGBTQ issues at all in school," a Colorado father of a first grader who… -
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‘Large Number’ of Illegal Aliens Will Vote in 2024 Elections, Most Americans Say
Many on the Left suggest that concerns about illegal aliens casting votes in a presidential election are unfounded. After all, illegal aliens can’t legally vote. Yet a new poll suggests that most Americans expect that illegal aliens will be allowed to vote in the Nov. 5 election. When asked, “How likely is it that a… -
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What Harris’ Voters Don’t Know About Her Could Hurt America
Ignorance is bliss. It’s also Vice President Kamala Harris’ secret weapon. The American people can make wise voting decisions, but only when they have quite enough information to do so. Alas, an Aug. 14 Media Research Center survey confirms that most 2020 Biden-Harris voters know shockingly little about her far-left record. Staggering majorities of the… -
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Harris Breaks Silence on Deaths of Service Members in Afghanistan as Trump Visits Arlington National Cemetery
Vice President Kamala Harris broke her silence on the deaths of 13 U.S. service members in Kabul on the third anniversary of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. She released a statement as her opponent in the 2024 presidential race, former President Donald Trump, honored the 13 in a ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery. “Three years… -
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Are We Already In a Recession?
The U.S. is racing toward a national debt of $36 trillion and will likely surpass this benchmark before the end of the year, according to public finance economist EJ Antoni. In homes across the country, Americans are indirectly feeling the weight of the national debt through inflation, and Antoni, who serves as a research fellow… -
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Harris Plays Coy on Child Gender Transitions, But Far-Left Groups Endorsing Child Sex Changes Have Her Back
Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris has avoided addressing whether she supports transgender surgeries for minors—a far-left position that most Americans do not support. Yet a number of LGBTQ groups that endorse attempted gender transition procedures for children are eagerly backing Harris and her running mate Tim Walz. A few of these top LGBTQ groups are… -
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COVID-19: The Preventable Pandemic
When The Heritage Foundation released its comprehensive report on the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, headlines tended to focus on the cost to the U.S. That’s not surprising: At an eye-popping $18 trillion, it’s almost 10 times the projected 2024 budget deficit. Arguably, however, the commission’s most infuriating conclusion was this: The global pandemic was “totally preventable,” in the… -
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DNC Protesters Are Symptomatic of a Culture Committing Suicide
My colleague Tony Kinnett captured a rather revealing declaration at the anti-Israel protests in Chicago ahead of the Democratic National Convention this past week. A protester shouted, “Reproductive justice means Palestinian liberation.” This leftist gobbledygook is nonsensical on its face (abortion isn’t exactly legal under Hamas and the Palestinian Authority, and legal protections on abortion… -
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Court Rules in Favor of Christian Teacher Forced to Use Trans Pronouns
A federal court ruled last week that an Ohio school district violated the First Amendment rights of a Christian teacher, which experts are hailing as a victory for free speech and religious liberty. Hired as a full-time English teacher at the end of the 2021 academic school year, Vivian Geraghty had resigned from her position in 2022 after being… -
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‘Cardboard Boxes … Unsecured Sacks’: Wisconsin Struggles to Set Standard for Ballot Drop Boxes
Voters will use ballot drop boxes again this fall in Wisconsin, among a few battleground states that could decide the Nov. 5 presidential election, prompting concern among election integrity advocates. The dissenting opinion in the state Supreme Court ruling reinstating the drop boxes argued that insufficient standards could allow “unattended cardboard box” or an “unsecured…