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China Openly Infiltrates Our Political System, and America’s Media Doesn’t Seem to Care
The American media has been liberal for decades, but the utter disregard for the truth that pervades much of the reporting today is something new. With all the alarm over misinformation on the Right, little attention has been paid to the much broader form of misinformation that dominant corporate media perpetrates today. One of the… -
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Chinese Defense Spending Rises 7.2% to $225 Billion, but Data Gaps Indicate It’s Higher Than That
As its annual National People’s Congress gets under way this week, China has announced a 7.2% increase in military spending for 2023. That comes amid rising tensions over Taiwan and as part of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s goal of achieving a world-class military that is fully “mechanized & informationized” by 2027. China will be boosting… -
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Southern Poverty Law Center Has Long History of Carrying Water for Antifa Extremists
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation charged a staff attorney at the Southern Poverty Law Center with domestic terrorism for his involvement Sunday in a violent attack on police officers at the construction site for a police training facility near Atlanta. Although the SPLC claimed the attorney was a legal observer, the agitators were dressed in… -
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Conservatives Should Zero in on ‘Preserving Sanctity of Family,’ Newsweek’s Josh Hammer Says
OXON HILL, Md.—The conservative movement needs to focus on defending the family, preserving parents’ rights and protecting children, by going on the offensive against the woke Left, Newsweek Opinion Editor Josh Hammer told The Daily Signal at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC, on Friday. Hammer said “the focal point of the new… -
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BREAKING: Yard Signs Supporting Pro-Parent School Counselor Stolen
Police in Pendleton, Indiana, have confirmed that they are investigating the theft of several signs from the yards of community members in support of a suspended counselor. These signs, which say “Keep Kathy” (pictured below) indicate community support for Kathy McCord, a counselor who is currently suspended and facing termination by the South Madison Community… -
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Congressional Hearings About Team Biden Die in Liberal Media Darkness
The easiest layup in proving the “mainstream media” is hyperpartisan is to study how they cover congressional hearings. After two years of obsessive media promotion and congratulation and live coverage of the Pelosi-picked panel on Jan. 6, the network “newscasts” can’t locate a hearing now with two hands. On March 1, the Senate Judiciary Committee… -
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Why the Left Is Pro-Mask
The world’s most trusted evaluator of medical studies, the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, has just released as close to a conclusive report on the effectiveness of masks against respiratory viruses such as COVID-19 as we are likely to have for the foreseeable future. The report assessed data from 78 different studies, including 11 new… -
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Ramaswamy Presidency Would Bring ‘National Revival,’ Not ‘Divorce,’ Candidate Says
America is amid a national identity crisis, and the solution is not a “national divorce,” as Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., called for, but a “national revival,” Vivek Ramaswamy said in his Friday speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC. “We have celebrated our diversity in our differences so much that we… -
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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…