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How Conservative College Students Can Gain a Voice on Campus
Student activism “has to be loud,” Kristin Dobson, national field director for the Leadership Institute, says. Dobson trains young people across America how to have a voice on their college campus. Through practical tools, she and her team show young people how to promote freedom and conservative principles effectively at their universities. Dobson joins the “Problematic… -
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Biden’s Wild Murder and Jim Crow Accusations
Liberals boasted that the election of Joe Biden meant a return to sober, restrained presidential rhetoric and an end to unhinged mean tweets. Biden wouldn’t be a divider; he’d be a uniter to get things done. That’s nothing like current reality. But when Biden uncorks crazy hot talk, the media are supportive repeaters. On July… -
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What Leftists Overlook About Cuba
People on the far left have become so predictable that their statements are no longer “breaking news.” They would be hilarious if they weren’t outrageous or if they didn’t contribute to the undermining of human rights and freedom in other countries. Some on the left speak favorably about the evil twins of communism and socialism…. -
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What Type of Speech Will Biden Ask Facebook to Suppress Next?
“They’re killing people.” That was the simple declarative sentence President Joe Biden uttered in response to a question a reporter asked him July 16 as he left the White House. “On COVID misinformation, what’s your message to platforms like Facebook?” the reporter had shouted as the president was walking toward Marine One. Biden turned and… -
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The Left’s Attempted Election Takeover
Politicians in Washington are trying to impose a federal takeover of elections and force changes to state laws that would allow for greater fraud and tampering. You’ve helped sound the alarm about the so-called For the People Act, or HR 1. Now, with opposition mounting, politicians have a new plan they hope to ram through… -
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During Captive Nations Week, Heed Warnings of These 3 Victims of Communism
Survivors of communism, pro-democracy activists, and political leaders gathered in Washington on Tuesday to commemorate the annual Captive Nations Week. The four-hour summit, hosted by the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, featured firsthand testimonies about, and expert analysis of, communist regimes across the globe, but it also served as a warning about the need to… -
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How Congress Keeps Putting Us Further Into Debt
We’ve made it to our first pit stop, but let’s not forget: Even the short trip to get here had its issues. Whether we make it to our final destination is still up in the air. For now, let’s use this stop to grab some popcorn and figure out how we got into this mess… -
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Woke Language Is Changing the Meaning of Words
Have you noticed how our language is changing? At a congressional hearing on “Birthing While Black,” nearly every politician used the words “birthing people” instead of “women” or “mothers.” Asked why, Shalanda Young, President Joe Biden’s budget director, said, “Our language needs to be more inclusive.” Activists have also changed “equality” to “equity” and “affirmative… -
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Congress, Don’t Let Liberals Shoehorn Harmful Energy Policies Into Budget and Infrastructure Bills
President Joe Biden has made it the policy of his administration to decarbonize the electricity sector fully by 2035 and to reach economy-wide net zero emissions by 2050. The trouble is, it’s very hard for a president to unilaterally require hundreds of millions of American businesses, industries, and energy users to comply without a law… -
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Lying About ‘Misinformation’ to Justify Tyranny
This week, President Joe Biden was asked whether he had any message for social media amid a dramatic rise in the number of diagnosed COVID-19 cases thanks to the delta variant. Biden immediately responded that companies like Facebook were responsible for murder: “They’re killing people—I mean, they’re really, look, the only pandemic we have is… -
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Biden White House Admits Using Big Tech to Silence Americans
In what rightfully can be described as one of the most anti-free speech pronouncements ever made by the U.S. government, the Biden administration has come clean on its incestuous relationship with Big Tech. The jaw-dropping news was first delivered July 15 by White House press secretary Jen Psaki when she said: “We are in regular… -
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Exploding All Those Myths About Exceptional Cuban Health Care
The myth of Cuban health care has reverberated throughout the international community for decades. Despite the communist authoritarian regime’s stifling of dissent, deprivation of basic liberties, and inhumane treatment of its citizens, members of the international community have been quick to heap praise on Cuba for what—on the surface—appears to be a (counterintuitively) successful health… -
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Media Finds Mark Levin’s ‘American Marxism’ Book Too Counterrevolutionary
We’re six months into the Biden administration, and the liberal media is still obsessing over new books full of titillating tales from anonymous sources about former President Donald Trump. Meanwhile, Mark Levin’s newest bestseller—provocatively titled “American Marxism”—is too counterrevolutionary for these journalists to take seriously. CNN’s Brian Stelter touted two new anti-Trump books that were… -
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You Have a Right to Be Transgender. You Don’t Have a Right to Expose Yourself to Women.
How many examples could one give to show what a sick world left-wing activists, the media, and the Democrats—the left’s political party—have wrought? The number is equal to the number of policies they advocate. There is no more obvious example than their position on the display of a penis in front of girls and women…. -
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Pompeo: Biden Administration Inviting UN Racism Experts ‘Enormous Mistake’
In an exclusive interview with “The Daily Signal Podcast,” former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo criticizes the Biden administration for asking the United Nations to send its racism experts to the U.S. “Our administration understood that the U.N. Human Rights Commission was simply … a bunch of antisemitic thugs who spend most of their time… -
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Maj. Sullivan Ballou Sacrificed Love of Family for His Country. His Letter Reminds Us That It Takes Courage to Preserve Freedom.
Visit a major Civil War battlefield, and chances are you will see stone monuments speckled amid the quiet and green fields and glens that form these hallowed places. These monuments are somber memorials to regiments and brigades, and ultimately, to the soldiers who fought, bled, and died on these fields. Tallies of dead and wounded… -
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The Truth About Georgia’s Voting Law
There are a lot of partisan political issues out there, but election integrity shouldn’t be one of them. What could be more basic to the very concept of representative government than having citizens trust that an election—whether it be for president or dog catcher—was fairly won or fairly lost? Yet in the recent past, this… -
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The Perverse Agenda of Black Lives Matter
Since the new wave of race consciousness that has been sweeping our country, precipitated by the graphic video of the killing of George Floyd by police officer Derek Chauvin, something very strange has happened. Somehow, what is perceived as a problem has become widely understood to be the solution. And it is endangering our country…. -
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Federal Education Officials Backpedal on Pushing Critical Race Theory in Schools
The U.S. Department of Education looked into critical race theory’s abyss and blinked. In April, the agency proposed prioritizing the theory’s racially discriminatory ideas in a small federal grant program for K-12 schools. But after receiving a “significant” number of comments on the announcement, the agency demurred earlier this week, saying it would not give… -
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Fauci v. Paul and 3 Other Takeaways From Senate COVID-19 Hearing
Another heated exchange between Sen. Rand Paul and Dr. Anthony Fauci stole the show Tuesday at a Senate hearing on COVID-19, although participants also raised other key points. Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, clashed publicly with the Kentucky Republican for at least the third time in recent months. “Sen….