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    EXCLUSIVE: Nonprofit Laid Out Road Map for Prosecuting Trump Supporters, and Arizona’s AG Seems to Have Followed It

    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—A nonprofit drafted a plan to prosecute backers of Donald Trump under Arizona law nearly a year before the state’s Democrat attorney general secured 18 indictments related to Trump’s 2020 campaign. One of the nonprofit’s founders is a former Obama White House staffer who authored books targeting Trump. The organization, the…
    Fred Lucas
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    Lesson of Pennsylvania: Biden 2020 Was the Fluke, Not Trump in 2016

    President-elect Donald Trump’s win two weeks ago in Pennsylvania was always right in front of you if you were objectively listening to the concerns of the people and the data showing the most important, but misread trend of all: The Republican Party had now become the party of work. In interview after interview, waitresses, welders,…
    Salena Zito
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    Trump Responds to Laken Riley Murder Conviction

    Jose Antonio Ibarra has been found guilty of murdering Georgia nursing student Laken Riley. Ibarra, 26, is an illegal alien from Venezuela. He waived his right to a jury, leaving his fate in the hands of Superior Court Judge H. Patrick Haggard, who sentenced Ibarra Wednesday to life in prison without parole. Haggard found Ibarra…
    Virginia Allen
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    4 Key Takeaways From FEMA Head’s Testimony After Supervisor Told Staff to Avoid Houses With Trump Signs

    House Republicans pressed Deanne Criswell, administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, about bias at FEMA after a supervisor directed staff to avoid helping Florida residents with signs supporting Donald Trump. A FEMA supervisor, Marn’i Washington, told workers in a message to “avoid homes advertising Trump” as they canvassed Lake Placid, Florida, to identify residents…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    Getting New Leadership Confirmed Quickly for Next Trump Admin

    The new Republican majority in the 119th Congress has to prove its worth, beginning with how it handles President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet nominees. Trump should give Republican senators a chance to do so, but be ready to take action if they fail to carry out their sworn duty to quickly and efficiently give him the…
    Hans von Spakovsky
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    Democrats Once Gave Trump’s New Border Czar an Award for Mass Deportation of Illegal Aliens

    The gnashing of teeth and tearing of hair have begun. Trump-haters in newsrooms are sounding the alarm about the anticipated separation of families under “Operation Aurora,” the mass-deportation of illegal aliens that president-elect Donald Trump promises and which 58% of Americans support, according to an Oct. 16 Marquette University survey. “If Trump gets his way,…
    Deroy Murdock
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    Election Deniers? Same Left-Wing Group That Tried to Kick Trump Off Ballot Now Demands Recount

    The same left-leaning nonprofit advocacy group that unsuccessfully attempted to disqualify Donald Trump from the November ballot in several states is now calling for a recount of the votes, alleging a mass breach of voting systems.  The organization, Free Speech for People, recently publicized a Nov. 13 letter it sent to Vice President Kamala Harris…
    Fred Lucas
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    Trump’s Spring-Loaded Administration

    On the latest episode of “The Tony Kinnett Cast,” we prepare for Donald Trump’s incoming administration as the new Republican coalition—from the establishment, conservatives, and populists to the new converts and centrists—prepares for the largest out-of-the-gate “Day One” of any administration in U.S. history. We’ll dive into recess appointments, Senate hearings, executive orders, and the…
    Tony Kinnett
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    Young Voters Shifted to Trump. Here’s Why.

    President-elect Donald Trump made huge inroads with young voters this past election cycle. Fifty-six percent of young men aged 18-29 voted for Trump this year, a major flip from 2020 when 56% of them voted for Joe Biden. Trump also made inroads with young women, who shifted 11 points toward him compared to four years ago. While…
    Victoria Marshall
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    Trump Confirms He’ll Use Military to Help Deport Illegal Aliens 

    The new Trump administration will declare a state of emergency and use military assets to deport illegal aliens, President-elect Donald Trump has confirmed.   “Reports are the incoming [Trump] administration [is] prepared to declare a national emergency and will use military assets to reverse the Biden invasion through a mass deportation program,” Judicial Watch President…
    Virginia Allen
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    DRAIN THE SWAMP: 4 Woke Bureaucrats Trump Should Fire First

    The once and future president, Donald Trump, has already begun the gargantuan task of selecting staff for his incoming administration, but he should also keep an eye out for specific woke bureaucrats to fire as soon as he enters office on Jan. 20, 2025. Trump didn’t just win the Electoral College on Nov. 5; he…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    Pro-Lifers Share How Trump Can Protect Pregnancy Help Centers Undermined by Biden DOJ

    The forthcoming Trump-Vance administration has the opportunity to protect pro-life pregnancy resource centers that have been targeted, ignored, and undermined by the Biden-Harris Justice Department.  “President Trump, more than almost anyone, understands what it’s like to have the entire weight of the federal law and investigatory power of the federal law against him,” said Chelsey…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Trump Can Fire 2.9 Million Federal Workers

    This is a lightly edited transcript of the accompanying video from professor Peter St. Onge. In a very satisfying headline, CNN is reporting a widespread “Feeling of Dread” among the millions-strong deep state—er, federal bureaucracy—that Donald Trump will fire them. In case you’re curious why they used your tax dollars to try to influence the…
    Peter St. Onge
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    ‘MAKE AMERICA GREAT AND HEALTHY’: Trump Taps RFK Jr. for Health and Human Services

    President-elect Donald Trump announced Thursday that he would nominate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for secretary of health and human services. “I am thrilled to announce Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as The United States Secretary of Health and Human Services,” Trump posted on Truth Social. “For too long, Americans have been crushed by the industrial food…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    The Trump Foreign Policy Doctrine Doesn’t Get Credit It’s Due

    Donald Trump’s foreign policy was, during his first term, not only successful; it was the most successful foreign policy of any president since Ronald Reagan. Yet thanks to their animus for Trump personally, pseudo-experts on foreign policy have refused to give Trump credit for his obvious wins: a quiescent Russia, a contained Iran, Middle Eastern…
    Ben Shapiro
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    Trump Faces Tough Fights Even With House, Senate Majorities, This Hill Veteran Says

    Republicans have earned an electoral mandate unlike anything the party has seen since the 1980s. Rachel Bovard, vice president of programs at the Conservative Partnership Institute and veteran of over a decade of working on Capitol Hill, told me on the latest episode of “The Signal Sitdown” that conservatives “cannot waste it.” For the first…
    Bradley Devlin
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    6 Trump Appointments That Surprised America

    “Well, I didn't see that coming” has been a somewhat common refrain on Capitol Hill this week as President-elect Donald Trump announces his picks to lead his forthcoming administration. Trump has built his brand on breaking the mold of politics and continues the trend with his Cabinet appointments.  Not every choice has been a surprise….
    Virginia Allen
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    Trump Has Another Opportunity to Defang the Deep State

    One of the defining features of the second Trump administration will almost certainly be the battle between the elected, constitutional branches of government and the vast federal bureaucracy. With Republicans in control of both the House and Senate, President Donald Trump will have a significant mandate for leadership in the next few years. The most…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    Elected Democrats Say They’ll Stand in Trump’s Way to Protect Illegal Aliens

    THE DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Democratic governors and other liberal elected officials have lined up to declare that they will fight back against President-elect Donald Trump’s hard-line agenda against illegal immigration. Trump, who won the Nov. 5 election, has promised to conduct mass deportations across the country and withhold federal funding from sanctuary cities, along with…
    Jason Hopkins
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    ‘CHAMPION OF THE RULE OF LAW’: Trump Taps Matt Gaetz for Attorney General

    President-elect Donald Trump announced Wednesday that he would nominate Florida Republican Congressman Matt Gaetz attorney general. “Matt is a deeply gifted and tenacious attorney, trained at the William & Mary College of Law, who has distinguished himself in Congress through his focus on achieving desperately needed reform at the Department of Justice,” Trump said in…
    Tyler O’Neil
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