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    Trump Celebrates ‘Expectation-Smashing’ GDP Report
    President Donald Trump said tariffs are the reason that real gross domestic product increased at an annual rate of 4.3% in the third quarter of 2025. In July, August, and September, GDP increased at 4.3%, according to the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, even though economists predicted the economy would grow at a 3.2% annual rate…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Why China Rejects Trump’s ‘G2’
    In the coming year, President Donald Trump may meet Chinese leader Xi Jinping up to a half dozen times, an intense period of high-level diplomacy amid unprecedented mutual trade and supply chain warfare with China. The stage was set by the leaders’ Oct. 2025 summit in Korea, which Trump described as a convening of the…
    Bryan Burack
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    How AmericaFest Celebrated Charlie Kirk’s Legacy
    PHOENIX—In an interview just months before his assassination, Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk said, “I want to be remembered for courage for my faith, that would be the most important thing. The most important thing is my faith.” More than 10,000 gathered at AmericaFest in Phoenix over the weekend, the first major Turning Point USA conference since Kirk’s…
    Virginia Grace McKinnon
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    Slippery Slopes Have 2 Sides
    Most conservatives are likely familiar with John Adams’ insightful observation, “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” For years, we have accepted the obvious implication of that statement: If the system isn’t working as intended, the problem is with the people….
    Steve McKee
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    DOJ Decides If Government Agency Can Perform Abortions
    The Department of Justice has reversed the Biden administration’s decision to allow Department of Veterans Affairs doctors to perform abortions on the taxpayers’ dime. After the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, the Biden administration told Veterans Affairs doctors that they could perform abortions, even though federal law prohibits taxpayers from funding abortion….
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Trump Administration Announces Change to Offshore Wind Construction
    President Donald Trump’s Department of the Interior is pausing offshore wind project construction due to “national security risks.” “Due to national security concerns identified by the Department of War, Interior is PAUSING leases for 5 expensive, unreliable, heavily subsidized offshore wind farms!” Interior Secretary Doug Burgum wrote on X. “ONE natural gas pipeline supplies as…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    America Is Surviving, Not Living, and It’s Breaking Us
    Life in America doesn’t feel like life right now. It feels like triage. People get up, commute, grind through work, juggle kids and side hustles, scroll through their phones in bed until their eyes burn, then do it again tomorrow. They are surviving, but they are not living. The numbers explain why. The average American…
    Armstrong Williams
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    It Will Be OK
    On Christmas Day 1863, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote the poem we now know as the song “I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day.” Earlier in the year, Longfellow had unsuccessfully pressured his son, Charles, not to join the Union Army. On Christmas Day, Longfellow learned his beloved son had been critically wounded at the Battle…
    Erick Erickson
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    Dear Santa: Some Suggestions for Who Should Get Lumps of Coal
    I’m not one to tell Santa his business, but I hope The Other Big Guy has left some room on his Naughty List for certain folks in the political world. I’m talking politicos seriously deserving of lumps of coal. And not that “beautiful, clean coal” of ours that President Donald Trump keeps hyping. I’m talking…
    Al Perrotta
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    In Today’s Culture, Choose Meaning Over Freedom
    There’s a popular idea circulating, especially for young Americans, that the highest form of freedom means having no one need you. It usually comes packaged attractively: summers in Europe, spontaneous road trips, disappearing off-grid on weekends, money invested in “experiences.” On its face, this framing sounds harmless—just another lifestyle choice. But it reveals something deeper and…
    Danielle Franz
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    5 Ways Trump Put Pressure on ‘Rampant Fraud’ in Minnesota This Week
    The Trump administration made a series of moves this week to crack down on the fraud that has allegedly occurred in Minnesota under Democrat Gov. Tim Walz’s watch. “Under President [Donald] Trump’s leadership, the federal government is fully exposing and aggressively prosecuting the rampant fraud that was allowed to happen for years under failed Democrat…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Epstein Files Release Highlights Clinton, Makes Scant Reference to Trump
    WASHINGTON, Dec. 19 (Reuters)—The U.S. Justice Department released hundreds of thousands of pages of documents related to the late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein on Friday that made scant reference to President Donald Trump but extensively featured Democratic former President Bill Clinton. The release was intended to comply with a law overwhelmingly passed by Congress…
    Joseph Ax | Andy Sullivan
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    EXCLUSIVE: Trump Overturns Biden-Era ‘Rocks in Shoes’ Regulation
    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—President Donald Trump’s Department of Health and Human Services has proposed a new rule removing the Biden-era requirement that government-funded preschool programs have a policy to mitigate COVID-19. The direct final rule proposed by the Administration for Children and Families on Friday removes the requirement that Head Start programs have a…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    The Dumbest Assumption in All of Politics
    One of the most persistent mistakes in modern politics is the insistence on flattening all ideologies—pretending that all human beings think the same way, want the same things, and are motivated by the same forces. Every time policymakers fall into this trap, the result is not compassion or clarity but some of the worst public…
    Ben Shapiro
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    War With Venezuela Could Break Trump’s MAGA Base
    Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. There are war drums beating about the United States and the Trump administration’s interdiction of narco-trafficking,…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    Oversight Project Demands DOJ to Act on Trump Reversal of Biden Autopen Clemency
    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The Oversight Project is calling for the Justice Department to keep incarcerated prisoners whose Biden autopen clemencies were voided by President Donald Trump.  The watchdog group shared a video with The Daily Signal that focused on two individuals whose sentences former President Joe Biden had commuted.  The Oversight Project was the…
    Fred Lucas
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    SCOOP: ICE Agents Are Becoming Burned Out as Trump Administration Pushes for More Deportations
    Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are becoming burned out, according to multiple sources.   ICE agents are “maxed out,” a senior Trump administration official told The Daily Signal, and yet there is “frustration” within the administration that deportation numbers aren’t higher.   “I think it is just an enormous challenge to get 20 million people out of this country,” the official said, referring to an estimation of the number of illegal aliens…
    Virginia Allen
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    Trump Makes Blunt Remarks on Conservative Opposition to Weed
    President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday classifying marijuana as a less dangerous substance, despite concerns from GOP lawmakers that the move will “send the wrong message to America’s children.” Trump signed an order changing the classification of marijuana from a Schedule I drug, which includes the most dangerous substances, such as heroin,…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    EEOC Urges White Males to Report Discrimination—And Promptly
    White males who have faced discrimination should file a federal complaint, the head of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission says. In a video posted on social media Thursday, EEOC Acting Chairwoman Andrea Lucas advised potential victims of discrimination to file complaints in a timely manner.  “Are you a white male who has experienced discrimination at…
    Fred Lucas
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    Trump Announces How America Will Celebrate 250th Birthday
    President Donald Trump revealed how the nation’s capital will celebrate America’s 250th birthday next summer. “2026 will be a celebration of America like no other, honoring our nation and all of its glory,” he said. Trump’s plans will be carried out through a public, private partnership called Freedom 250. “We will renew the patriotism, pride…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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