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Vimeo Removes ‘Affirmation Generation’ Documentary Revealing the Medical Scandal of Transgenderism
The video platform Vimeo locked the account hosting the documentary "Affirmation Generation," a film exposing the medical scandal of experimental transgender interventions. "Our film represents that which is currently being silenced because it's unpopular with the tenets of the mainstream media," Joey Brite, the film's executive producer, told The Daily Signal in a statement Wednesday…. -
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‘Public Safety Not Something You Can Take for Granted,’ Says ‘Criminal (In)Justice’ Author
Crime is getting worse in America because of the eroding of the criminal justice system, says Rafael Mangual, author of the book “Criminal (In)Justice: What the Push for Decarceration and Depolicing Gets Wrong and Who It Hurts Most.” In a conversation with the president of The Heritage Foundation, Kevin Roberts, on “The Kevin Roberts Show”… -
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America’s Missing Tourists: COVID-19, Crime, and Long Waits Abroad
Forty mayors from 18 states have signed a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken in which they beg the State Department to speed up issuing visas to tourists, whom they want to see back and spending in their towns from Austin, Texas, to Urbana, Illinois. All those missing visas cost the U.S. economy around… -
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DOJ Tried to Keep This Secret, but Judge Orders Disclosure of Documents
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger scored a victory over the Biden Justice Department when a federal judge ruled Tuesday that the law enforcement agency has to turn over secret communications with liberal interest groups targeting Georgia’s new election reform law. In 2021, the Georgia Legislature passed and Gov. Brian Kemp, a Republican, signed into… -
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DOJ Charges 8 More Pro-Lifers With Violating FACE Act
The Department of Justice has charged eight more pro-life activists with violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act. The latest charges stem from a August 2020 incident where pro-life activists Calvin Zastrow, Chester Gallagher, Heather Idoni, Caroline Davis, Joel Curry, Justin Phillips, Eva Edl, and Eva Zastrow allegedly blockaded the entrance to a… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Mark Houck’s Family, Children Relive Harrowing FBI Encounter in Daily Signal Tell-All Documentary
KINTNERSVILLE, Pa.—Mark Houck’s children were startled awake by a loud banging on their door. The older girls looked out the window, saw flashing lights, and ran out to the landing to see what was going on. The little boys sat up in their beds, sleepy and startled. Mark Houck Jr. rushed to the stair railing… -
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Gov. Youngkin Demands ‘Full Transparency and Accountability’ From FBI in Wake of ‘Radical-Traditional Catholic’ Memo
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Virginia's Republican governor, Glenn Youngkin, expressed shock at the FBI Richmond bureau's memo on "radical-traditional Catholic ideology" that cited the leftist Southern Poverty Law Center and demanded "full transparency and accountability" in the FBI's review of how the bureau compiled and published the internal report. The FBI memo urged agents to… -
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Joe Biden Cares So Much About the Catholic Church, He Won’t Condemn the FBI Citing a Leftist Group Suggesting It’s a ‘Hate Group’
President Joe Biden, who attends a Roman Catholic church and identifies as Catholic despite his support for abortion and same-sex marriage, has remained silent after the FBI cited a left-wing smear factory that suggests the Roman Catholic Church holds pernicious views that might qualify it as a “hate group.” The Biden White House did not… -
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Catholic Leader Demands Probe Into FBI Memo, ‘Pattern of Anti-Catholic Bigotry’ That Represents ‘The New Inquisition’
Brian Burch, the president of Catholic Vote, is demanding that Congress investigate the recent FBI memo urging agents to probe the alleged nexus between racially-motivated violent extremists and "radical-traditional Catholics," citing the Southern Poverty Law Center. Burch warned against a "pattern of anti-Catholic bigotry" at the Department of Justice that represents "the new Inquisition" against… -
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EXCLUSIVE: The Daily Signal Demands Documents on FBI Targeting ‘Radical Traditional Catholics’
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The Daily Signal filed a Freedom of Information Act request this week demanding that the FBI turn over all documents related to "radical traditional Catholics" and the Southern Poverty Law Center, as news broke that the FBI had published an internal memo about "radical traditional Catholics" citing the SPLC, which brands… -
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BREAKING: FBI Rescinds Memo Citing Southern Poverty Law Center After Daily Signal Report
The Federal Bureau of Investigation rescinded a report on "radical-traditionalist Catholic ideology" on Thursday, one day after an FBI whistleblower published the document and The Daily Signal reached out to the FBI for comment. Former FBI agents condemned the document for citing the Southern Poverty Law Center, a left-wing smear factory infamous for branding mainstream… -
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Cleared From DOJ Charges, Mark Houck and His Family Return to Abortion Clinic to Pray
Catholic father and pro-life activist Mark Houck, cleared of the Justice Department's charges against him, returned Thursday to pray at a Philadelphia Planned Parenthood. This time, he brought his whole family. "We went because this is what we do," Houck told The Daily Signal on Thursday morning. "It’s our mission to stand up for women,… -
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6 Takeaways From House Hearing on Twitter’s Suppression of Hunter Biden Laptop Story
A key House committee put former Twitter executives on the record Wednesday about the suppression of the New York Post’s reporting on the Hunter Biden laptop story just weeks before the 2020 presidential election. “Twitter, under the leadership of our witnesses today, was a private company the federal government used to accomplish what it constitutionally… -
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WHISTLEBLOWER DOCS: FBI Cites Southern Poverty Law Center in Report on ‘Radical-Traditionalist Catholic Ideology’
According to an explosive document newly uncovered by a Federal Bureau of Investigation whistleblower, the FBI's Richmond office repeatedly cited the far-left smear factory the Southern Poverty Law Center in an intelligence bulletin, violating longstanding FBI guidelines on the SPLC's credibility. "We got briefings that SPLC was not legitimate when I was at Quantico," Kyle… -
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Catholic Dad Prosecuted by Biden DOJ, Victim of ‘Radical Left’s Abuse of Power,’ to Attend State of the Union
Catholic pro-life activist and former Biden Department of Justice target Mark Houck will attend the State of the Union as Pennsylvania Republican Rep. Scott Perry’s guest on Tuesday night, Houck shared with The Daily Signal on Monday. “Mark Houck and his family are innocent victims of the radical Left’s reprehensible abuse of power, which systematically… -
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Police Launched ‘Hate Crime’ Probe Into Anglican Leader for Tweets Opposing Sexualization of Kids
A Church of England bishop reported an elected church leader to the police over his tweets condemning so-called queer theory and the sexualization of children. Last week, the head of the entire church also sent a letter seemingly threatening to remove the man from leadership over his remarks. "There’s a vocal minority that control the… -
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Taiwanese Leader Denounces China’s ‘Assault on Religion’
Just days before Secretary of State Antony Blinken heads to China in an attempt to improve relations, Taiwan’s top legislative leader was in Washington thanking the U.S. for its support and denouncing Beijing’s “all-out assault on religion” amid a broader government effort to block the Chinese people from enjoying fundamental freedoms and human rights. You… -
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Justice Department Searches Biden’s Beach House for Classified Docs, Attorney Confirms
The U.S. Department of Justice is searching President Joe Biden’s home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, on Wednesday amid the news that Biden kept classified documents from his time as vice president to President Barack Obama, according to a statement from the president’s personal attorney. “Today, with the President’s full support and cooperation, the DOJ is… -
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Mother Tells How Daughter Fell Victim to Trafficking After School Hid Her Gender Identity. New Bill Aims to Prevent Such Tragedy.
A subcommittee in the Virginia House of Delegates voted Monday to advance a bill requiring schoolteachers and school staff to notify parents about their children’s purported gender transitions, partially in response to the horrific sex-trafficking story of Sage, a girl whose high school hid her transgender identity from her mother. HB 2432, “Sage’s law,” requires… -
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NOT GUILTY: Jury Clears Catholic Father Targeted by Biden DOJ
A jury has found Mark Houck not guilty of federal charges brought against him by President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice. The DOJ had charged Houck with two counts of violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act when, outside a Pennsylvania abortion clinic, Houck allegedly pushed a pro-abortion activist who was allegedly…