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Helping 200 Teachers Abandon Indiana’s Largest Teachers Union
On Dec. 20, I helped my 200th teacher leave the Indiana State Teachers Association. This behemoth of a pyramid scheme charges Indiana teachers $1,000 per year to lobby for progressive political goals at the state and national level—while claiming to be integral in salary negotiation and legal defense. Over the last five years, I’ve enjoyed… -
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Mom Explains What It Took to Rescue Daughter From Transgenderism
Erin Friday’s daughter was introduced to gender identity ideology in a comprehensive sex-ed class in seventh grade. “The seed was planted after that class,” Friday says. “And in fact, all of her friends, there were five, sat in my front yard saying what their new labels were.” Friday says she was “alarmed by the language… -
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Radical Activists Illegally Protest Outside Amy Coney Barrett’s Home
FAIRFAX, Virginia — Far-left activists sang, cursed, and shouted as they protested numerous political causes outside the home of Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett. Activists with Our Rights DC marched into the Barrett family’s quiet Virginia neighborhood on Sunday evening, despite a federal law (18 U.S. Code 1507) that forbids picketing or parading “in… -
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We Hear You: Defending a ‘Jesus Saves’ T-Shirt, Reaching Gen Z, and Sitting Out LGBT Pride
Editor’s note: After too long an absence, "We Hear You" is back to round up your responses to The Daily Signal's coverage. Here’s a sampling from the mailbag at [email protected].—Ken McIntyre Dear Daily Signal: It's shameful that security guards at the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota, asked a gentleman to remove his T-shirt with the… -
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Alliance of Big Tech, Dark Money Groups Partners With Counties in State That Bans ‘Zuckerbucks’ for Elections
The group that distributed most of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s controversial election grants in 2020 has designated at least two Utah counties as part of a new effort, despite a state ban on private money funding election operations. The two local juridictions are Cache County, with a population of 137,00, and Weber County, population 267,000…. -
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Big Tech-Aligned Group Wants to Go ‘Nationwide’ in Shaping Election Operations
A Big Tech-aligned group funded through liberal dark money is moving to expand “nationwide,” even though about half the states have banned using private money to run elections. The Center for Tech and Civic Life launched the U.S. Alliance for Election Excellence in partnership with organizations funded by the liberal Arabella Advisors and Democracy Fund,… -
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California’s Radical Effort to Transform America’s Auto Industry: Not Your Forefathers’ Idea of Federalism
Gov. Gavin Newsom and his climate regulators at the California Air Resources Board, or CARB, have promised to phase out all gas-powered cars and force automakers to sell 100% electric vehicles by 2035. CARB’s purpose is not really to improve local air quality in any part of California but rather to fight the specter of… -
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The Real Differences Between Biden and Trump Document Troves
Former President Donald Trump for now certainly seems to have had more documents labeled “classified” at Mar-a-Lago in Florida than did President Joe Biden at his various homes in Delaware. Yet otherwise, the comparisons between the two cases, contrary to popular punditry, hardly favor Biden. First, a stranger would face a far greater challenge entering… -
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Progressivism Versus Popular Sovereignty
Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall sent a letter Thursday to U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., on behalf of himself and 15 other state attorneys general. Marshall’s letter, which pertains to Biden administration policy on COVID-19, is important on its own merits, insofar as what it urges the new Congress to do. The letter also… -
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The Left Abuses State Constitutions for More Than Protecting Abortion Rights
Abortion advocates are setting their sights on the states after the Supreme Court last year declared that the U.S. Constitution “does not confer a right to abortion.” They are not only attacking pro-life laws under state constitutions, but they are also trying to change those charters to explicitly protect abortion. Successful campaigns in Michigan, California,… -
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The Fed Is Punishing Americans for the Problems It Created. It’s Time to Rein It In.
The Federal Reserve has become borderline schizophrenic and downright destructive toward the American people. First, it created trillions of dollars to feed the government’s out-of-control spending, bringing sky-high inflation. Now, in an attempt to fix the inflation problem, it has chosen to go after the American people instead of cutting off the government from its… -
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‘Fact-Checkers’ Not Interested in Tracking Hunter Biden’s Aid to Other Dissolute Bidens
In mid-January, a hullabaloo broke out about an application form Hunter Biden signed in 2018 to seek a rental in California. It listed the address on his driver’s license to Joe Biden’s house in Wilmington, Delaware—the same house where they just found classified documents. The form also suggested the “monthly rent” on his “current residence”… -
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I Know From Experience: Transgender Identities Devalue, Dehumanize, and Destroy
If you want to know how transgender identities devalue, dehumanize, and destroy people, just ask any of the growing numbers of detransitioners. “I literally lost organs,” Chloe Cole says, referring to her double mastectomy at the ripe old age of 15. At 12, Chloe decided she was transgender, and her complicit doctors prescribed puberty blockers… -
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House Votes Expose Democrats as Pro-Violence, Abortion-Loving, Infant-Hating Extremists
President Joseph Robinette Biden last fall accused Republicans of “doubling down on an extreme position” on abortion. Then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., shrieked: “With Roe now out of their way, extreme MAGA Republicans are gleefully charging ahead with their deadly crusade to punish and control women’s health decisions.” Well, look who’s extreme now. Pelosi’s successor,… -
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For National School Choice Week, Sen. Lee Wants to Empower Parents, not Educrats
Teachers unions have long opposed efforts to give parents more choices in education. But parents today should quote something from Samuel Gompers, who founded the American Federation of Labor in the 19th century, to union members: “Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment.” That surely applies… -
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The Debt Ceiling Debate, Explained
The debt ceiling fight continues in Washington, more than a week after the U.S. hit its legislated debt limit of $31.4 trillion. “The Treasury Department has hit the federal borrowing limit at $31.4 trillion, and they’re going to be able to use cash-management techniques to be able to extend what we call the ‘X date’… -
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‘Asleep at the Wheel’: DeSantis Highlights Justice Department’s Abortion Double Standard
It’s no secret that the Biden Justice Department appears to be highly politicized—and now Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is underscoring that. Asked Thursday about the indictment this week of two pro-abortion activists in Florida on charges of spray-painting threats on the exterior of a pregnancy resource center, DeSantis said he was “surprised” the case had… -
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As Media, Biden Scramble to Explain Document Scandal, the Real Issue Is Unaccountable Bureaucracy
Even more classified documents were discovered recently at President Joe Biden’s home in Wilmington, Delaware. This news came shortly after the announcement that classified materials had been found earlier at Biden’s former private office at a supposed Washington think tank, the Penn Biden Center. You can see the media narrative morph in real time, from… -
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Big Tech Firm Temporarily Censors Former GOP Nominee for Minnesota’s Top Elections Office Over Election Integrity Post
LinkedIn initially removed a post from former Minnesota Republican Secretary of State nominee Kim Crockett regarding potential noncitizen voting in the state, claiming it was “misinformation.” But the social media site restored the post about an hour after an inquiry from The Daily Signal about the removal. The network notified Crockett that it removed the… -
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How Government Race Preferences Discriminate Against Interracial Couples, Business Partners
Government programs that give preferences to businesses owned by racial and ethnic minorities are popular tools among liberal politicians and bureaucrats. Their proponents defend them as necessary to advance “racial equity” and “social justice,” though they are morally wrong. But there’s another reason to reject these programs: They have the unintended side effects of discouraging…