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This Business Owner-Turned-Congresswoman Will Go to DC to Fight for American Jobs
The House of Representatives will welcome new conservative members in January. Rep.-elect Yvette Herrell, R-N.M., is one such member, and today she joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to discuss how she plans to further and protect American’s founding principles in Washington. As a former business owner, Herrell, who is of Cherokee descent, says her top… -
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We Hear You: Making Sense of the Election Results
Editor's note: We're back with some of your letters, this time focused on the presidential election. Send your emails to [email protected].—Ken McIntyre Dear Daily Signal: After the exciting Election Day—and predicted impasse—several good friends reached out and said they're worried about America. Me too. I'm worried because the two major parties have ceased being coalitions… -
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Election Overtime: 6 States With Voting Litigation, Controversies
The presidential election has continued into overtime in the courts on multiple fronts as President Donald Trump declines to concede the contest to Democratic challenger Joe Biden. Even as states kept counting ballots, no state had certified results, and lawsuits began to work their way through the courts, major media outlets announced four days after… -
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Here’s Who Progressives Want to See in Biden’s Cabinet
Two leading progressive groups released a list comprised of left-wing politicians, activists, and union leaders Wednesday who they would like to see in former Vice President Joe Biden’s future Cabinet. Justice Democrats and the Sunrise Movement created a list outlining the groups’ top three picks for several Cabinet positions like secretary of state and attorney general and… -
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Calls for ‘Unity’ Really Calls for Capitulation
Political unity is an ugly, authoritarian idea. No free place has domestic political unity, nor should it aspire to it. What “unity” really means, of course, is capitulation. America is once again being subjected to the inane brand of pseudo-patriotic sloganeering we saw during President Barack Obama’s tenure. Now, as then, the media will pretend… -
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Mexico’s Efforts to Undercut Oil Competition Should Concern US Policymakers
A recently revealed memo from the president of Mexico, written by Mexican officials, highlights a deepening of statist economic policy in that country. Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has purportedly directed authorities to further undo the 2014 energy liberalization by granting state-owned oil giant Petroleos de Mexico primary access to the country’s electrical grid—meaning,… -
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Dreading Thanksgiving Conversations? Keep These 3 Points in Mind for a Civil Discussion
It’s that time of year again. Many of us soon will travel to celebrate Thanksgiving with friends and family. As we eat our Thanksgiving turkey and pumpkin pie, it’s almost unavoidable that politics will come up at the dinner table. Someone says something controversial, another fires back, and 10 minutes later mother is removing the… -
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Portland Amends City Charter to Be ‘More Inclusive of All Gender Identities’
Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler, a newly reelected Democrat, announced Thursday that the City Council approved removal of “feminine and masculine terms” from the Oregon city's charter. “The language of the documents that guide the City should reflect our community,” Wheeler wrote on Twitter. “Today, Council authorized the City Auditor to remove feminine and masculine terms… -
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Not Just Talk: How Congress Can Reduce Health Care Premiums and Improve Access to Care
If there’s one thing Americans agree on, it’s the need for change in our health care system. The pandemic has further exposed the need for reform to lower health care costs and make it easier to see the doctor of your choice. Leaders on the left try to claim that only big-government solutions driven from Washington can… -
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Media Didn’t Earn a Vote of Confidence With 2020 Coverage
Wednesday was Veterans Day, but in 2020 we all know who really deserves our thanks for preserving the American way of life—the press. “The media never fully learned how to cover Trump. But they still might have saved democracy,” read a headline in The Washington Post earlier this week. The column was authored by Margaret… -
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No Longer the Democratic Party of JFK
In this current era of no compulsory military service, Veterans Day takes on personal meaning to fewer and fewer Americans. When the country transitioned to a voluntary military in 1973, about 1% of the population served on active duty. Today, it is less than one-half of 1%. But perhaps we can take it further and… -
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10 Counties With 21% of COVID-19 Deaths Have Just 11% of the Population
As Heritage Foundation researchers have demonstrated throughout the pandemic, the spread of COVID-19 in the U.S. has been heavily concentrated in a small number of states—and among a small number of counties within those states. In recent months, the number of new cases has been more geographically dispersed, but COVID-19 fatalities remain highly concentrated. >>> What’s the best way for America to reopen… -
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National Native American Veterans War Memorial Honors Great American Patriots
“There were terrible moments that encompassed a lifetime, an endlessness, when terror was so strong in me, that I could feel idiocy replace reason. [Yet,] I have never left my position, nor have I shirked hazardous duty. Fear did not make a coward out of me.” When asked about his call to duty, Woodrow Keeble… -
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Religious Liberty on Trial in Supreme Court’s Foster Care Case
Foster parents offer hope and critical support to children facing tremendous challenges. But the city of Philadelphia has threatened that hope by telling longtime foster parents that they can’t work with Catholic Social Services because of the religious organization’s belief in marriage as the union of one man and one woman. The case Fulton v…. -
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Will Trump Ride Off Into the Sunset?
I once wrote that whenever Donald Trump exits office, he will likely leave as a “tragic hero.” Over two millennia ago, the Athenian tragedian Sophocles first described the archetype in his portraits of an angry and old but still fearsome Ajax, and heroic but stubborn and self-fixated Antigone. In the iconic John Ford Western “The… -
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Here Are the Lessons We’ve Learned So Far From the 2020 Election
The last thing anyone wanted in 2020 was a complicated post-presidential election debacle. Unfortunately, a combination of factors created a perfect storm for election chaos this year, and we are suffering in its aftermath. Although the litigation, audits, and recounts are far from over, several lessons have emerged that, if implemented, could help avoid similar problems… -
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Federal Appeals Court Sides With Harvard in Race Discrimination Lawsuit
A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that Harvard University’s admissions process did not violate the civil rights of Asian Americans, Reuters reported. The decision, which comes after the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments less than two months ago, upholds a decision from District Court Judge Allison D. Burroughs that favored Harvard after… -
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GoFundMe Censors Billboard Fundraising Campaign
GoFundMe, the private fundraising website, has halted the ability of a group of parents to raise money for a giant billboard that would expose transgender disinformation. GoFundMe claims the fundraising efforts violated its user rules. Parents wanted to erect a billboard that says, “Puberty is not a medical condition,” along with a graphic of Abigail Shrier’s book, “Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters.” … -
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Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick Offers Up to $1 Million for Evidence of Voter Fraud
Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, a Republican, is offering up to $1 million of his own money for anyone who comes forward with evidence of voter fraud. The reward is to “incentivize, encourage, and reward people who come forward and report voter fraud,” Patrick said Tuesday, reflecting President Donald Trump’s own efforts to amplify claims… -
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When ‘Unity’ Means ‘Shut the Hell Up’
On Saturday evening, presidential front-runner Joe Biden—who doesn’t actually become president-elect until vote counts are certified—gave a preliminary victory address. In that address, he spoke of his mandate to govern: a mandate, he said, that extended to marshalling the “forces of decency … fairness … science … hope.” Which is a pretty vague mandate, as…