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    Trump’s Health Care Cost Transparency Action is a Dose of Good News
    Americans grappling with affordability just got a helpful boost from the Trump administration, which on Friday announced a new push to reduce health care costs.  The move helps patients get health care prices upfront rather than astronomically high surprise bills later. The new Transparency in Coverage (TiC) proposed rule will improve data structure, reduce unnecessary…
    Carrie Sheffield
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    America Must Continue to Heed the Lessons of the Battle of the Bulge
    As America soon celebrates its 250th anniversary, it would be wise to look back to understand what allowed a small collection of colonies on the edge of the world to rise to the great power it became. This year marks the 81st anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge, which began on Dec. 16, 1944,…
    Jarrett Stepman
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  • opinion

    Meet the Real St. Nick
    The Christmas season is filled with busy schedules, parties, decorations, and joy. It is arguably the most special time of year.   Unfortunately, the secular nature of the holiday has dominated its celebration to such a large degree that we can too often neglect to remember the religious roots of the season. Of course, we…
    Thomas Griffin
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  • news

    A Christmas Gift to the World? Wars and Conflicts Trump Says He Ended in 2025 
    On Jan. 20, 2025, the American people knew President Donald Trump’s agenda included securing the southern border, removing criminal illegal aliens from the country, ending woke policies within the federal government, and increasing American energy production. But what Americans did not realize was just how concerned Trump would be during his first year in office with ending conflicts around the world.   “I’ve restored American strength, settled eight wars…
    Virginia Allen
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    Supreme Court Won’t Let Trump Deploy National Guard in Illinois
    THE DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—The Supreme Court declined Tuesday to allow President Donald Trump to deploy the National Guard in Illinois. The government has not shown it is permitted under the law “to federalize the Guard in the exercise of inherent authority to protect federal personnel and property in Illinois,” the Supreme Court majority held. “At this preliminary…
    Katelynn Richardson
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  • opinion

    Military Recruitment Exploded Under Trump. Here’s the Reason.
    The War Department announced Tuesday that the military has reached its highest level of recruitment in a decade and a half in a stunning, yet predictable, reversal from just a few years ago. “Since November 2024, our military has seen its highest recruiting percentage of mission achieved in more than 15 years,” Chief Pentagon spokesman…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    The Left Framed Trump on ‘Affordability’ Crisis. Here’s What Trump Must Do Now.
    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. The 2026 midterms, as we’ve talked about, will be determined by the economy. That was brought…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    EXCLUSIVE: Trump Bars Global Censorship Agents From Entering US
    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—President Donald Trump is barring five “agents of the global censorship-industrial complex” from entering the United States, The Daily Signal can first report.  The State Department has taken steps to impose visa restrictions on five European individuals “whose entry, presence, or activities in the United States have potentially serious adverse foreign…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Stephen Miller Bashes Birthright Citizenship as ‘Illegal’
    White House deputy chief of staff for policy Stephen Miller says birthright citizenship is essentially an “illegal” immigration program.   “One point not made enough on immigration: when you have a national program (an illegal suicidal one) of granting ‘birthright’ citizenship to the child of any and every foreigner who sets foot on your soil, you must be infinitely more cautious about who to…
    Virginia Allen
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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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  • opinion

    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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  • opinion

    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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  • opinion

    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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  • news

    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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