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‘Jane’s Revenge’ Claims Another Pregnancy Center Victim
Vandals attacked a pro-life Minneapolis pregnancy center early in the morning on Saturday before a pro-abortion protest against the center and its work. Attackers broke seven windows of First Care Center and vandalized the building with messages like “If abortions arn't safe neither r u" [sic] and "Jane was here” on Friday night, according to… -
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These States Are Leading the Charge in the Fight Against the Left’s Marxist Agenda
You don’t need a political science degree from the Sorbonne to know there are forces attempting regime change in America. Diversity, equity, and inclusion; critical race theory; environmental, social, and governance—these are the strategies that nonelected entities are using to alter how we live. Now to the rescue comes a functioning branch of representative democracy. State governments, particularly… -
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Fighting Back Against the ‘School-to-Scalpel Pipeline’ With Ian Prior
OXON HILL, Md.—America First Legal filed a lawsuit last week demanding documents from the Food and Drug Administration regarding how strictly the FDA monitors the use of so-called puberty blockers and other hormone drugs for so-called gender-affirming care. Ian Prior, the legal organization’s senior adviser, explained his group’s efforts against the transgender movement in an… -
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Energy Department Report on Lab Leak Is ‘I-Told-You-So to Nth Degree,’ Ex-Trump Communications Staffer Says
OXON HILL, Md.—A former White House communications staffer said the Department of Energy report lending credence to the theory that COVID-19 leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology lab represents an “I-told-you-so to the nth degree” after the legacy media and Big Tech cracked down on then-President Donald Trump and others for suggesting it. “Much… -
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I’m a College Volleyball Player. The Equal Rights Amendment Would Destroy My Sport.
In their renewed attempt to ratify the so-called Equal Rights Amendment, Senate Democrats are quick to erase 50-plus years of progress and opportunity for women. Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill., chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, shamelessly mocked the accomplishments of thousands of female athletes as he joked Feb. 28 about the “fate of field hockey”… -
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The Woke Wrecking Machine
Almost everything that has followed from the woke mass hysteria gripping the nation since 2020 has proved disastrous. Wokeism destroys meritocracy in favor of forced equality of result, history’s prescription for civilizational decline. If we continue with the woke hiring of administrators, air-traffic controllers, ground crews, pilots, and rail workers, there will be even more… -
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7 Key Questions for New House Select Subcommittee on Coronavirus Pandemic
It’s no longer a “conspiracy theory.” There’s growing evidence that COVID-19 probably originated in a lab in Wuhan, China, and not from a viral transmission from an animal to a human in nature. The Wall Street Journal reports, based on the most recent intelligence, such is the considered judgment of senior analysts at the U.S…. -
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SPLC Lawyer Arrested in Atlanta Molotov Cocktail Riot, Faces Terrorism Charges
Authorities arrested Sunday a staff attorney at the Southern Poverty Law Center, a left-leaning civil rights group notorious for branding mainstream conservative and Christians nonprofits "hate groups," on terrorism charges, with police saying he took part in a violent riot where agitators threw rocks, Molotov cocktails, and fireworks at police at a training center near… -
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The Biden Administration Has Been ‘Making the Fentanyl Crisis Worse,’ Republican Warns
OXON HILL, Md.—The crisis at the southern border is both unending and unrelenting. As The Daily Signal previously reported, more than 1 million migrants have been encountered at the southern border since the start of fiscal year 2023 on Oct. 1. Rep. Mark Green, R-Tenn., chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, recently traveled with… -
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If WWIII Breaks Out, ‘It’s Because We Have a Weak President,’ Sen. Rick Scott Says
President Joe Biden does not understand the threat China poses to America, according to Sen. Rick Scott. “He pacifies [Chinese President Xi Jinping] all the time,” Scott, R-Fla., says of Biden’s relationship with the leader of the Chinese Communist Party. China and Russia pose a threat to American freedom, Scott says, because “both of them… -
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‘They Think They’re God,’ Tulsi Gabbard Says of People ‘Trying to Erase Us as Women’
OXON HILL, Md.—Former Democratic presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard condemned certain powerful elements in the modern Democratic Party, telling The Daily Signal on Friday that some Democrats undermine Americans’ “God-given rights” and weaponize federal agencies against the “very people they’re supposed to be serving.” Speaking of the Democrats and others pushing transgender ideology, Gabbard said, “they… -
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Rep. Dan Bishop Mentions ‘a Long List’ of ‘Fundamentally Unconstitutional’ Things Biden Has Done
OXON HILL, Md. – Rep. Dan Bishop, R-N.C., is weighing in on which Biden administration officials, in addition to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, he thinks have engaged in questionable activity worth investigating and why. “The thing about Secretary Mayorkas, first, is that he’s just utterly flouted American immigration law,” Bishop, a member of the… -
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Swimmer Riley Gaines Tied With Lia Thomas, but Only 1 Person Received a Trophy
OXON HILL, Md.—Swimmer Riley Gaines wants to know, “Where are the feminists” in the fight to protect women’s sports? “I think it's extremely ironic that the people advocating for this are the same party, the same people who were once advocating for the empowerment of women,” Gaines said. Gaines, a 12-time All-American and three-time Southeastern… -
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Trump Pledges to ‘Totally Obliterate the Deep State’: ‘I Am Your Retribution’
OXON HILL, Md.—Former President Donald Trump spoke about his accomplishments in the White House and his future plans in a speech Saturday to conservatives gathered at the Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC, just outside the nation’s capital. “We are going to complete the mission,” Trump said in the closing speech at CPAC. “We are… -
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China’s Xi Set to Consolidate Control as Legislature Convenes
Chinese leader Xi Jinping is expected to increase his already unassailable power after his country’s rubber-stamp legislature, the National People’s Congress, convenes Sunday. The gathering represents the most important political event in Beijing since October’s National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, held every five years, which saw Xi consolidate his control over the party… -
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Nikki Haley ‘Primes’ CPAC Audience With Jabs at Don Lemon, Hunter Biden as Well as Joe Biden
OXON HILL, Md.—Nikki Haley made her pitch for a new generation of leadership in remarks Friday to conservatives gathered just outside the nation’s capital. This change is imperative for standing up to China and other enemies abroad, the former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations said. “China thinks the American era has passed. So do… -
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Red Tape Strangles Charities
A recent Gallup poll shows Americans see the government as the top problem facing the nation. For the most vulnerable Americans this may be especially true as new research shows that excessive government burden is having a negative impact on the organizations that struggling individuals and families rely on: charities. For the first time, a new study… -
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Merrick Garland’s Unsatisfactory Answers to Senate Judiciary Committee’s Legitimate Questions
After what seemed like an eternity getting him there, Attorney General Merrick Garland finally went face-to-face on Wednesday with the Senate Judiciary Committee, Republican members of which were looking to get answers on a number of contentious issues. Those included an unfortunate FBI memo that has since been withdrawn, as well as complaints surrounding the Department of… -
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Amid Big Tech Layoffs, Demand Still High for Foreign Workers With H-1B Visas. Something Doesn’t Add Up.
Economist Milton Friedman’s maxim that “nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program” applies to work visas that are supposed to be temporary. Every week brings a new headline about layoffs in the tech sector amid falling share prices, rising inflation, and the end of cheap money. Still, the decreasing demand for labor doesn’t… -
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ADL Attacks Crowdfunding Platform That’s Helping People in East Palestine
OXON HILL, Md.—Heather Wilson, co-founder of the crowdfunding platform GiveSendGo, told The Daily Signal that the Anti-Defamation League, a prominent Jewish legal advocacy group, smeared her organization. “The Anti-Defamation League defamed us [without] having any facts behind it,” Wilson said, emphasizing the word in an interview Thursday at the Conservative Political Action Conference. She said…