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    How Trump Can Beat Beijing at Its Own Game

    President Donald Trump took office on Jan. 20 with a pledge to help America “win like never before.” Winning the competition with China will be key to achieving that outcome. Outcompeting China requires a mixture of creative policymaking, hard-nosed geopolitical posturing, and high-stakes engagement that Trump is uniquely qualified to lead. His strong mandate and…
    Michael Cunningham
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    Let’s Review Lessons From Trump’s Second First Week

    WASHINGTON—What did President Donald Trump learn during his four-year hiatus from the White House? For one thing, he seems to have learned how to listen. But also, to judge by the first week of his second term, Trump 2.0 seems more focused, mission-driven, and prepared to get things done at warp speed. Here’s a short…
    Debra Saunders
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    EXCLUSIVE: President Trump to Sign Executive Order Launching US Iron Dome

    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—President Donald Trump will sign an executive order Monday to build an American version of the Israeli “Iron Dome” missile defense system. An expert in national security—and in the Iron Dome, in particular—praised Trump’s action as the fulfillment of President Ronald Reagan’s strategic defense plan. According to a news release provided…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    Trump’s Aggressive Response Pressures South American Country to Finally Accept Criminal Illegal Aliens, White House Says

    President Donald Trump has already begun deporting illegal aliens who have been convicted of other crimes, and one South American country has refused to allow a U.S. plane carrying criminal illegal aliens to land, in what Trump says is a violation of its legal obligations. Trump announced tariffs, a travel ban, and sanctions against members…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    Is Donald Trump the Second Coming of Andrew Jackson?

    The portrait of Andrew Jackson has returned to the wall of the Oval Office, put up in time to greet President Donald Trump as he reentered for the first time as the 47th president. It’s a choice Democrats are poorly positioned to criticize, even though the seventh president owned slaves and ordered the Southeastern Indians…
    Michael Barone
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    Trump Was Right to Yank Security Clearances of the 51 ‘Spies Who Lie’

    Amid the tsunami of good that Donald J. Trump has unleashed since returning to the presidency, one wave deserves sustained applause. As I proposed last September, Trump revoked the security clearances of the 51 intelligence operatives who intimated that Hunter Biden’s “Laptop from Hell” was mere Kremlin propaganda.  These “Spies Who Lie,” as the New York Post dubbed them, earned this…
    Deroy Murdock
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    Convicted Defamers at CNN Lecture About ‘Deepfakes’ Under Trump

    In CNN’s buildup to the Trump inauguration on Monday, anchor Jake Tapper uncorked a lecture about how five Big Tech executives in attendance “control so much of the information that we receive.” Was that a warning? Or an expression of jealousy? The leftist media hate that the American people have gone around them for information,…
    Tim Graham
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    How Education System Sacrifices Our Kids to the Detriment of Society, What Trump Can Do About It

    Critical race theory, social and emotional learning, DEI, social justice, and other forms of wokeness are nothing new to the American education system. Some buy into the divisive concepts, but most parents simply want their children to be proficient in math, reading, science, and other subjects when they graduate high school. The past four years…
    Karen Hiltz
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    ‘A Glorious Moment’: Conservative Actor Celebrates Trump Pardon After Jan. 6 Charges

    A man who entered the U.S. Capitol building on Jan. 6, 2021, and was later arrested said President Donald Trump’s pardon this week was “a glorious moment.”   Siaka Massaquoi, a conservative actor and former first vice chair of the Republican Party of Los Angeles County, spoke to The Daily Signal about his experiences with law…
    R.E. Wermus
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    RESISTANCE EMERGING: Alex Soros Vows to ‘Fight Back’ Against Trump, Even as Many Elites Begrudgingly Embrace New President

    It truly is morning in America, and even many of the elites are hopeful about Donald Trump’s second term. In fact, a recent poll showed that more of the elite 1%—urban folk with advanced degrees who make more than $150,000 a year—say they would support the new administration than oppose it. Yet not all the…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    Pro-Lifers React to Trump Pardoning 23 Charged Under FACE Act

    Thousands of Americans gathered in Washington for the 52nd annual March for Life on Friday, just one day after President Donald Trump issued pardons for 23 pro-life activists who were prosecuted under the Biden administration for their activism. “I’m just so delighted,” Jeanne Mancini, president of the March for Life, told The Daily Signal, commenting…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Who Are the Pro-Life Protesters Trump Pardoned?

    Twenty-three pro-life activists who were prosecuted for their anti-abortion activism are now exonerated after President Donald Trump’s pardons Thursday. The pardons, which Trump signed on the eve of the March for Life in Washington, are a sign of solidarity from the president with the pro-life movement. Trump told the press, “We released 23 people that…
    George Caldwell
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    Judge Dismisses Charges Against Surgeon Targeted for Exposing Child Sex Changes After Trump Moves to Drop Them

    A judge reportedly dismissed Friday the charges against Dr. Eithan Haim, a surgeon indicted by the Biden-Harris administration after he blew the whistle on sex-change procedures for minors. Haim initially came forward as an anonymous whistleblower to expose gender treatments being performed on minors at Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston. He was facing four felony counts of violating…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Partisan Episcopal Bishop Lecturing Trump Shows Why Mainline Protestantism Is Dying

    My heart sank listening to Washington Bishop Mariann Budde during a post-inauguration service at Washington National Cathedral, the beautifully sculpted, limestone, crown jewel church for Episcopalians like me in the D.C. area. The majestic National Cathedral hosted similar inauguration prayer services 10 times before. This time, sadly, Budde gave the perfect illustration of why the…
    Carrie Sheffield
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    What Trump and Vance Told March for Life Crowd

    On Friday thousands of supporters of the pro-life cause gathered to participate in the annual March for Life in Washington, D.C., and heard from President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance, who were sworn into office earlier this week. In a prerecorded video, Trump pledged that in his second term his administration would “again…
    Jacob Adams
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    Congressman Wants to Give Trump More Power on Trade

    Freshman Rep. Riley Moore, R-W.Va., introduced the “United States Reciprocal Trade Act” to Congress Friday, offering President Donald Trump sweeping powers to fulfill his campaign promise of tariffs on foreign rivals. “American manufacturing has endured decades of decline under the globalist system that has hollowed out our industrial base and shipped countless jobs overseas,” reads…
    George Caldwell
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    What Americans Think of Trump’s Early Actions on Border, Gender

    A blitz of early executive orders relating to issues ranging from immigration to gender came out of the Oval Office on Monday night as newly seated President Donald Trump wasted no time after his inauguration enacting his agenda.  Now, early polling indicates the American public is reacting positively to Trump’s actions, according to a new…
    Moira Gleason
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    Why Trump Threatens Davos

    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. This is the week of the inauguration of Donald Trump, but it also coincides, not just with Martin Luther King’s birthday—on the same day as…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    Trump Declassifies Files on JFK, RFK, MLK Assassinations

    Update: President Donald Trump signed an executive order declassifying files about the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. “Their families and the American people deserve transparency and truth.  It is in the national interest to finally release all records related to these assassinations without…
    S.A. McCarthy
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    ‘They Should Not Have Been Prosecuted’: Trump Pardons Pro-Lifers Convicted Under FACE Act

    President Donald Trump pardoned 23 pro-lifers who were convicted for actions including praying outside abortion clinics and encouraging women in unplanned pregnancies to choose life. “They should not have been prosecuted. Many of them are elderly people. They should not have been prosecuted,” the president said. “This is a great honor to sign this,” he…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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