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    Proposed ‘Trump Wildlife Preserve’ Draws Strong Reactions

    A wildlife preserve in Ohio could be the latest government-run facility to bear the president’s name, but not in the way one might expect. The Ohio Department of Natural Resources recently unveiled a proposed rule to rename the “Charles O. Trump Wildlife Preserve” to the “Trump Wildlife Preserve.” The 128-acre area located in Pickaway County…
    Rebecca Downs
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    Trump Demands More From NATO as Gulf States ‘Hit So Hard’ 

    President Donald Trump on Tuesday continued his call for more NATO assistance in the Middle East.  When asked by The Daily Signal’s White House Correspondent Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell if he wanted the Gulf States to be more involved in the ongoing operation against Iran, Trump said, “A little bit, but more—more NATO.”   “I think our Gulf allies have been pretty good, to be honest with…
    Reagan Campbell
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    Pesticides and the Fight for America’s Health

    “You cannot have human health until you first have soil health,” says Rick Clark, a fifth-generation regenerative farmer.  Clark joined public health and public policy experts Monday at The Heritage Foundation to discuss “Feeding America Safely: A Practical Path Forward on Pesticides.”  The discussion focused on the importance of openness and transparency, the negative effects of pesticide residues in…
    Paul Nguyen
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    Heartland Polling: Iran War Is Unpopular, But Not Hurting Trump

    Fresh new polling from the key battleground state of Wisconsin reveals that Midwestern voters take a skeptical view of the Iran war, with 40% approval and 50% disapproval. Right now, the split is very partisan with Democrat voters at net -71% approve, GOP voters at +60%—while independents come in at -19%.  Seventeen percent of Republican voters against…
    Steve Cortes
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    EXCLUSIVE: Critical Swing State Poll Shows Trump Retains High Support Among Base

    Ahead of the 2026 midterms, polling from a critical swing state found that President Donald Trump is retaining a vast majority of his voting base. A new League of American Workers survey showed that 85% of Wisconsin voters who voted for Trump in 2024 remain favorable of the president after he announced the commencement of…
    Pedro Rodriguez
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    Republicans Pitch Trump on Funding All of DHS But Deportations

    A group of Republican senators is pitching President Donald Trump on a plan to fund part of the currently shutdown Department of Homeland Security, while allowing for a future party-line budget bill to cover deportations later. Republicans already acceded to Democrat demands in February, when they agreed to separate the DHS funding bill from a…
    George Caldwell
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    Documents Shed New Light on How Far the ‘Arctic Frost’ Probe Reached

    Newly released Justice Department documents provide details on former special counsel Jack Smith’s subpoenas for phone records of current administration officials and members of Congress. The documents were made public shortly before a hearing by the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Federal Courts, Oversight, Agency Action, and Federal Rights, titled “Arctic Frost: A Modern Watergate.” They reveal…
    Fred Lucas
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    EXCLUSIVE: Congress Probes Role of Left-Leaning Groups in Census Miscounts

    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The House is seeking more information about the Census Bureau’s partnership with left-leaning organizations ahead of the 2020 census, during which it potentially incorrectly awarded Democrat congressional districts and Electoral College votes. House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., wrote Tuesday to acting Census Bureau Director George Cook seeking…
    Fred Lucas
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    Delta Suspends Special Services for Congress Amid Shutdown

    Amid a five-week Department of Homeland Security shutdown that has led to reduced airport staffing, Delta Air Lines is suspending special services for members of Congress. The airline’s special desk at airports enables members to bypass the public queue to arrange travel between Washington, D.C., and their homes. “Due to the impact on resources from…
    George Caldwell
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    Trump Tells Senators to Pass the SAVE America Act ‘for Jesus’ 

    With Congress’ spring break scheduled to start this week, President Donald Trump is demanding that the Senate stay in Washington, D.C., to pass the SAVE America Act and fund the Department of Homeland Security “for Jesus.” Rather than tackle DHS funding and the SAVE America Act separately, Trump is now pushing the Senate to bundle the…
    Virginia Grace McKinnon
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    Trump’s Mueller Comments and What Andrew Breitbart Told Me When Ted Kennedy Died

    There was plenty of outrage yesterday after President Donald Trump took to Truth Social and posted the following reaction to the death of former FBI Director Robert Mueller: “Robert Mueller just died. Good, I’m glad he’s dead. He can no longer hurt innocent people!” Predictably, the response was swift and condemning. Critics called the statement…
    Jon Fleischman
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    Phyllis Schlafly, a Hero for Today’s Women 

    This is an adapted excerpt from Emma Waters’ new book “Lead Like Jael: 7 Timeless Principles for Today’s Women of Faith,” out March 24 from Regnery Faith.  In the autumn of 1973, the Illinois State Capitol in Springfield became an unlikely battlefield. As legislators prepared to vote on the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment…
    Emma Waters
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    Blue States—and a Few Red States—Taxing the Trump Accounts

    Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has staked out an anti-Donald Trump resistance position on nearly every issue, but backs changing his state’s tax law for children’s accounts bearing the president’s name.  “Minnesota does not adopt federal tax law changes automatically. The state Legislature must pass a tax conformity bill in order to adopt federal tax law…
    Fred Lucas
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    Trump Has a New Plan to Solve Homeland Security, Voter ID Disputes

    President Donald Trump is demanding that any deal with Democrats to fund the Department of Homeland Security include an agreement on requiring photo identification and proof of citizenship in federal elections. The demand merges two battles that Congress has failed to resolve. “I don’t think we should make any deal with the Crazy, Country Destroying,…
    George Caldwell
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    Battered Christopher Columbus Statue Blessed With New Home From Trump

    The White House installed a statue of Italian explorer Christopher Columbus early Sunday, constructed from the remains of a monument that was destroyed in a 2020 Black Lives Matter protest. The new statue is located outside the Eisenhower Executive Office Building next to the White House. The original statue was located in Columbus Piazza in…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Trump Stops Strikes on Iran’s Energy Infrastructure  

    President Donald Trump says the United States will not conduct strikes on Iranian power plants for the next five days. “I am pleased to report that the United States of America, and the country of Iran, have had, over the last two days, very good and productive conversations regarding a complete and total resolution of…
    Virginia Allen
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    Trump Deploys ICE Agents to Assist TSA at Airports

    March 22 (Reuters) — President Donald Trump’s border czar said on Sunday that having immigration agents bolster short-staffed Transportation Security Administration teams will speed up airport lines, but the union for TSA workers said that doesn’t solve what they see as the underlying problem of pay.  In appearances on Sunday news shows, border czar Tom…
    Reuters
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    America Didn’t Lose Its Village—We Stopped Building One 

    They say it takes a village—but what does that really mean? In the past few decades, it’s taken really anything but a village to raise a child. iPads, Ms. Rachel, and Bluey—yes. A village—not so much.  This idea is essentially what social scientists call “social capital”: the value we gain from our relationships with other people. That value translates into…
    Reagan Campbell
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    No, Following the Money Behind Antifa Is Not an Attack on the First Amendment

    For years, the Left tried to gaslight Americans into thinking that Antifa was a fake threat, even though we could see the political violence before our own eyes. Now, the Trump administration isn’t just bringing charges against Antifa rioters, it’s taking aim at the potential funding networks behind the violence. When Antifa agitators set cars…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    How Trump Is Protecting Parents’ Rights to Reject Children’s Transgender Identity

    The Department of Health and Human Services is protecting parents’ rights to keep their children under their care, according to Assistant Secretary for Health Adm. Brian Christine. “If you have a set of parents and their child has gender dysphoria and there are threats to remove that child from your care, that’s absolutely wrong,” Christine…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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