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What the Protests in Cuba Tell Us About the Left’s Agenda for America
As the American left argues openly for socialism, it’s helpful to keep in mind just how dreadfully those policies have failed—and just how viciously socialists have responded to those who got in the way—in countries throughout the world. Watch the recent protests in Cuba and you will see how regular people feel about the direction… -
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‘Let Them Die,’ Intolerant PTA, NAACP Official Says of Critical Race Theory Foes
If you oppose critical race theory, you should die. That was the message sent Thursday by an official of both the Virginia Parent Teacher Association and the state NAACP to a group of critical race theory supporters. Here’s what Michelle Leete, vice president of communications for the Virginia state PTA and first vice president of… -
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Democrats Openly Assault Honest Elections, Ohio’s Top Election Official Says
The partisan divide in Washington is clear on a bill in Congress to eliminate most state voter ID laws while nationalizing election laws, but bipartisan consensus exists among local election officials, Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose says. “I can tell you in Ohio, as I talked to election officials—men and women that actually work… -
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‘Woka-Cola’: Ad Trolls Coke for Defending China, Giving Americans Diabetes
Consumers’ Research, a consumer advocacy group, launched a series of advertisements Thursday calling out Coca-Cola’s “woke hypocrisy” for its reported defense of China and alleged health concerns associated with its sugary drinks. Part of the campaign is a video advertisement satirizing a Coca-Cola commercial, which is set to music with lyrics like “Just drink Coke, the road… -
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Why Are Defense Department Schools Transitioning Students’ Gender Behind Parents’ Backs?
Our men and women in uniform are prepared to lay their lives on the line every day to uphold the Constitution and protect the nation from enemies who would do us harm, but what many service members may not realize is that a personal threat to their families exists much closer to home. As parental… -
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Ensuring Competition Requires Economic Freedom, Not an Executive Order
President Joe Biden’s July 9 executive order, “Promoting Competition in the American Economy,” states: “The American promise of a broad and sustained prosperity depends on an open and competitive economy.” The directive further notes: For workers, a competitive marketplace creates more high-quality jobs and the economic freedom to switch jobs or negotiate a higher wage. … -
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Inconvenient Truth: No One Actually Changes Gender, Only Persona
If they only knew the truth, they would be more likely to not attempt what is impossible to do. Language matters. The meaning of words matters. That’s especially true when it comes to the idea that gender or sex can change. Gender identity is an invented term that obscures the truth. Gender identity, which refers… -
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White House Working With Facebook to Flag ‘Disinformation,’ Psaki Says
White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Thursday that the White House is not only working with Facebook to flag disinformation on vaccines—it’s also asking Facebook to share data on the reach and engagement of posts deemed disinformation. “We’re flagging problematic posts for Facebook that spread disinformation,” the White House press secretary said. Facebook, which… -
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Free to Learn Coalition Wants to Take Politics Out of Classroom
The Free to Learn Coalition is a nonpartisan organization that wants to take politics out of the classroom. Alleigh Marre, president of the coalition, joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” today to discuss how she hopes to do that. “We started to hear a lot more about how there’s been more of an emphasis on activism,… -
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Arizona Senate Seeks More Voter Data as Election Audit Raises Questions
The Arizona Senate will seek more voter information from the state’s most populous county after a hearing Thursday about an audit’s findings on election results there, The Arizona Republic reported. The findings on Maricopa County’s presidential election results prompted auditors to pursue a door-to-door canvassing of suspect voters. This was a step that the Republican-controlled… -
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6 Things to Watch During Cuba Protests
The pro-freedom protests in Cuba are fluid, but the communist dictatorship there seems willing to soften its tone and allow travelers to bring in food and medicines amid the unrest. Still, mass arrests and detention of peaceful protesters continued. In the United States, Republicans called for the Biden administration to be more active in supporting… -
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Black Lives Matter Comes Out in Support of Cuban Regime, Blames America for Its Problems
Black Lives Matter supports the communist Cuban regime and the bad things happening in Cuba are surely America’s fault. That’s the message of the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation, one of the largest BLM organizations in the country. In a statement on its official Instagram account on Wednesday, Black Lives Matter castigated the United… -
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Chicago Schools to Give Free Birth Control to Fifth Graders
Chicago Public Schools’ top doctor, Kenneth Fox, has been a pediatrician for 30 years. As Chicago schools move to make condoms available to students in the name of “prevention,” Fox is leading the way. According to an article in the Chicago Sun Times, Fox believes, “Young people have the right to accurate and clear information to… -
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Democratic Party Won’t Admit It’s Become Party of Wealth
How often during the last year of wokeness have middle- and lower-class Americans listened to multimillionaires of all races and genders lecture them on their various pathologies and oppressions? University presidents with million-dollar salaries virtue signal on the cheap their own sort of “unearned white privilege.” Meghan Markle and the Obamas, from their plush estates,… -
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Another School Falls to Woke Culture by Erasing Its Catholic History
California schools are obsessed with race. One school district in the Bay Area has enforced mandatory, critical race theory-based “ethnic studies” lessons beginning in preschool. In another district, a San Diego high school principal and school board skirted the law in their rush to erase California history and the legacy of a Catholic saint after… -
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Republicans Didn’t Vote to Defund Police, ‘Fact-Checkers’ Grudgingly Admit
Here’s an easy test to see whether fact-checking websites can make any claim to being “independent” and nonpartisan in tone: Biden staffers claimed Republicans “defunded the police.” That’s a bald-faced lie. On the June 27 “Fox News Sunday,” White House aide Cedric Richmond claimed that because Republicans uniformly voted against President Joe Biden’s massive American… -
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Our Government Spent $19,762 Per Person Last Year. That Compares to $780 Back in 1920.
Two years after World War I ended—in fiscal year 1920—the federal government spent approximately $6,358,000,000, according to Historical Table 1.1 published by the White House Office of Management and Budget. At the same time, the government collected approximately $6,649,000,000 in taxes—and ran a surplus of $291,000,000. When that federal spending of $6,358,000,000 is adjusted for… -
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‘Subverts the Right and Duty of Parents’: Bowser, DC Sued for Allowing Children to Get Vaccinated Without Parental Consent
Multiple parents have filed lawsuits against Washington, D.C., for allowing children to receive vaccines without parental knowledge or consent. In a lawsuit filed Monday by the Children’s Health Defense and Parental Rights Foundation against D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, four parents call for a preliminary injunction prohibiting D.C. from enforcing the D.C. Minor Consent for Vaccinations Amendment Act of… -
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As Unions Go Woke, PRO Act Forces Dissenters to Pay Dues
Los Angeles school teacher Glenn Laird has been a union stalwart for almost four decades. He served as a co-chair of his school’s delegation to United Teachers Los Angeles—the second largest teachers union in the country—and proudly wore union purple on the picket line. But Laird is now suing to leave United Teachers Los Angeles and… -
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Research Used to Justify California’s ‘Equity’ Math Framework Doesn’t Add Up
The push to create “equity” and more “social justice” in public schools in California, America’s largest state, rests on this basic premise: “We reject ideas of natural gifts and talents,” declares the current draft of the California Math Framework, which also states that it rejects “the cult of genius.” Informed by that fundamental idea, the 800-page…