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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 | Virginia Allen
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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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    ‘I Trust Him’: Jailed Pro-Lifers Hope for a Pardon From Trump
    In his first 24 hours in office, President Donald Trump pardoned the more than 1,500 Americans charged with crimes in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol protest. But 10 pro-lifers, convicted for praying outside abortion clinics and pleading with women to choose life for their unborn babies, continue to await a presidential pardon…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    On Inauguration Day, Trump Writes the Next Chapter of America
    Inauguration Day for the 45th and now 47th president of the United States, Donald Trump, featured a host of events in which Trump was in attendance. The inauguration, of course. The inaugural luncheon. The parade at the Capital One Arena. The Commander in Chief Ball and the Liberty Ball. And finally, his first night at…
    Armstrong Williams
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    Senate Democrats Stall Trump’s National Security Picks
    Senate Democrats are pulling out every trick in the book to delay confirmation votes for President Donald Trump’s national security Cabinet nominees, hoping to stymie the agenda that gave Trump and Republicans a mandate victory in the 2024 election. At every turn, Senate Democrats are taking advantage of procedural hurdles to prevent Trump’s national security…
    Jacob Adams
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    Branding Trump ‘Fascist’ Is Name-Calling and Historical Illiteracy
    If you really believed former Vice President Kamala Harris and her media allies, the United States has just inaugurated a fascist dictator, Donald Trump, as president of the United States. Now, you might fail to appreciate the gravity of this moment after watching former President Jimmy Carter’s funeral and a friendly Trump “yukking it up”…
    Robert Moffit
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    White House Reporter Gives Inside Scoop on Difference Between Trump and Biden
    White House reporter Reagan Reese says she had more interactions with President Donald Trump in just one day than she did with President Joe Biden over the year and a half she spent covering the Biden White House.  It was not unusual for the Biden administration to “call a lid,” a term used to dismiss…
    Virginia Allen | Kristen Eichamer | Crystal Bonham
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    ‘A Healthy Reset’: Trump Withdraws US From World Health Organization
    President Donald Trump has kept his campaign promise to protect American national sovereignty from encroaching global governance bodies by ordering the U.S. to withdraw from the World Health Organization. An executive order titled “Withdrawing the United States from the World Health Organization” says the United States will leave WHO due to its “mishandling of the…
    Ben Johnson
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