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Heritage’s One-of-a-Kind Election Fraud Database Hits 1,500 Cases
The Heritage Foundation’s Election Fraud Database, the only such database in existence, now contains over 1,500 proven cases of election fraud. The sampling of cases vary from lone wolves stealing one vote to conspiracies that stole many votes, defrauding citizens and candidates of honest elections and sometimes changing the outcome of an election. (The Daily… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Illinois, Chicago Leaders Say What Biden Won’t on Illegal Immigration, Emails Show
President Joe Biden has said he wouldn’t call the situation at the southern border a crisis, but officials in Chicago—host to this summer’s Democratic National Convention—appear to differ. Chicago city officials, as well as Cabinet secretaries and senior staffers for Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker, a Democrat, routinely refer to a “crisis” in emails and other… -
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Yet Another Example of Why Taxpayers Shouldn’t Fund One-Sided, Woke Public Broadcasting
A conservative president or Congress that does not defund public broadcasting does not understand what the moment requires—or, in the parlance of the day, they don’t know what time it is. Across the board, government must stop funding services set up with taxpayer money ostensibly to serve all Americans, but which cater only to one side. NPR is a prime… -
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Christian, Jewish Leaders Condemn Ongoing Political and Spiritual ‘Persecution’ of Paivi Rasanen
An interfaith coalition has offered prayers of solidarity to two evangelical Christians facing their third trial for declaring that homosexuality violates the Bible, a position prosecutors call “war crimes and crimes against humanity.” Despite two unanimous acquittals, Finland’s state prosecutor has taken an elderly member of Parliament and a Lutheran bishop before the Supreme Court… -
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Leaked Messages Reveal E. Jean Carroll Allegedly Supported Christine Ford to Protect Roe v. Wade
E. Jean Carroll, who just won $83.3 million in damages in her defamation trial against former President Donald Trump, allegedly said that she supported Christine Blasey Ford’s sexual assault allegations against then-Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh out of a desire to protect Roe v. Wade. Tara Reade, the woman who accused President Joe Biden of… -
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VA Hospital Plans to Ramp Up Sex-Change Surgeries, Double Down on Gender Ideology, Documents Show
A Department of Veterans Affairs facility in Seattle requested more than $600,000 in fiscal year 2023 to build and staff a surgical facility for performing gender-transition surgeries, although the VA has yet to approve such procedures, documents obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation show. The facility has offered hormone therapy, minor surgeries, hair removal,… -
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Strive Offers Investors Alternative to ESG-Driven Companies
In the investment and financial services industry, the dominant players like BlackRock, State Street, and Vanguard are beholden to stakeholder activism, which drives them to a greater focus on leftist ideas like DEI—diversity, equity, and inclusion—and ESG—environmental, social, and corporate governance. Strive takes a different approach. It’s focused on maximizing value for investors—and it’s having… -
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2 Articles of Impeachment Filed Against Mayorkas
The House Homeland Security Committee on Sunday released two articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. “His lawless behavior was exactly what the Framers gave us the impeachment power to remedy,” Rep. Mark Green, R-Tenn., said of Mayorkas. The two impeachment articles “lay out a clear, compelling and irrefutable case for… -
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Biden Doesn’t Have Any Legal Authority to Seize Control of Texas National Guard
Texas Democratic politicians, such as Rep. Joaquin Castro and failed gubernatorial and Senate candidate Beto O’Rourke, are urging President Joe Biden to seize control of the Texas National Guard, which Republican Gov. Greg Abbott has mobilized to help secure the Texas border. Abbott did so in the face of the deliberate and intentional inaction by… -
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School Choice Revolution Empowers Homeschoolers, Too
A school choice revolution is sweeping the nation. Ten states have passed universal education choice initiatives in the past two years. In addition to private school tuition, most of these new programs allow families to use their children’s taxpayer-funded education dollars to cover certain homeschool expenses. The loudest and most influential pushback against school choice comes from… -
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SHOCKING: Catholic University Brought in ‘Abortion Doula’ Who Coaches ‘Pregnant Men’ Through Giving Birth
A self-declared “abortion doula” spoke this week to Catholic University of America students about her experiences coaching women through delivering or aborting babies, as well as coaching “pregnant men” to deliver in what she called a “seahorse birth,” according to audio of the class lecture obtained by The Daily Signal. A Catholic University nursing student described… -
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No Such Thing as a Free Lunch: The Cost of Unchecked Illegal Immigration on Americans—The BorderLine
The BorderLine is a weekly Daily Signal feature examining everything from the unprecedented illegal immigration crisis at the border to immigration’s impact on cities and states throughout the land. We will also shed light on other critical border-related issues like human trafficking, drug smuggling, terrorism, and more. ——————————————————— “There’s no such thing as a free lunch” used to… -
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Crime Rates Are High, No Matter What the Media Say
As the old saying goes, you reap what you sow. It seems that liberal politicians who sowed the specious seeds of their version of “criminal justice reform” in blue cities across the country now don’t like their crop: high crime rates. Gallup polls show that 63% of Americans think the crime problem is “extremely or… -
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‘This Is Not a Political Debate,’ Tucker Carlson Warns. ‘This Is a Destruction of You.’
Canada is facing an existential crisis like much of the rest of the West, and Canadians need to understand that to finally fight back against the people in power there. That was the message from former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, who delivered an impassioned speech in Calgary, Alberta, on Tuesday. His Calgary speech was… -
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Latest Biden Move Against American Energy Would Increase Inflation, Be ‘Gift to Putin,’ Experts Warn
President Joe Biden announced a temporary pause on exports of liquefied natural gas to countries without free trade agreements Friday, a move that experts warn will drive up the price of energy and empower Russian President Vladimir Putin. “President Biden has been clear that climate change is the existential threat of our time—and we must… -
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The Transgender Administrative State
Woodrow Wilson, the father of the American administrative state, once wrote: “Government does now whatever experience permits or the times demand.” Well, the times now “demand” the construction of a massive transgender architecture across the labyrinth of the federal government. Perhaps if Wilson were able to gaze a century into the future and see the… -
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You Can’t Defend ‘Democracy’ and the Administrative State
The government shows up at your business and demands you pay the salaries of the regulators who lord over you. If you refuse, you’ll be ruined. You have little recourse. You’ve never even voted on the policy because no law implementing it exists. Bureaucrats in D.C. cooked up the idea, and a political appointee signed… -
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State Department: Blinken Doesn’t Consider India, Nigeria Persecuted Countries
Secretary of State Antony Blinken determined that Nigeria and India do not meet the threshold to be designated as “countries of particular concern” under the International Religious Freedom Act, the State Department confirmed to The Daily Signal. Though the State Department is still refusing to designate either of those nations as a “Country of Particular… -
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University of California Officials Delay Plan to Hire Illegal Immigrant Students
The University of California Regents delayed a plan that would have allowed illegal immigrant students to have jobs on campus, Politico reported. The UC Regents voted on Thursday to put the plan on hold for at least a year, according to Politico. The Department of Homeland Security previously pressed UC officials to reconsider the plan, which it saw as… -
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The Patriarchy’s New Way to Quash Women’s Happiness
Is 2024 the year of polyamory? “How Did Polyamory Become So Popular?” wonders The New Yorker in a late December article. The New York Times gushes in a Jan. 13 article: “How a Polyamorous Mom Had ‘a Big Sexual Adventure’ and Found Herself.” More articles rapidly followed. New York Magazine’s Jan. 16 cover article was…