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    Capitol in Lockdown as Pro-Trump Protesters Breach Building

    Hundreds of protesters loyal to President Donald Trump made their way into the Capitol building Wednesday afternoon, interrupting lawmakers’ debate of the presidential election results and forcing the evacuation of Vice President Mike Pence as Capitol Police struggled to contain the situation. Police had moved to block thousands of pro-Trump protesters from getting too close…
    Ken McIntyre
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    Why These 2 Floridians Are Traveling to DC to March for Trump

    Supporters of President Donald Trump from around the country will gather Wednesday in Washington, D.C., to hold a March for Trump near the White House to “demand transparency and election integrity.”  Stephanie Maxey and Teri Regnier traveled on a bus up from Florida to join the event, and they join “The Daily Signal Podcast” live…
    Rachel del Guidice
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    Preserving America’s Past Through Trump’s 1776 Commission

    The future of America rests largely upon the rising generation, a generation that is being taught to embrace far-left progressive ideology about America and its founding. To combat the rising anti-American sentiment taught in classrooms across the country, President Donald Trump appointed 18 political and thought leaders to the President’s Advisory 1776 Commission. Carol M….
    Virginia Allen
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    Trump Honors Catholic Martyr St. Thomas Becket for Defense of Religious Liberty

    President Donald Trump declared Dec. 29 the anniversary of the Roman Catholic martyr St. Thomas Becket, honoring the 12th-century English bishop as “a lion of religious liberty.” “Thomas Becket’s death serves as a powerful and timeless reminder to every American that our freedom from religious persecution is not a mere luxury or accident of history,…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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    Trump Shouldn’t Pardon Dark Web ‘Pirate’ Ulbricht

    Some are urging President Donald Trump to consider pardoning a pirate.  It’s been some time since anyone has uttered those words, but make no mistake, this pirate is just as dangerous and deserving of punishment as those who sailed the high seas centuries ago. Ross Ulbricht used “Dread Pirate Roberts” as his sobriquet as he…
    Zack Smith
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    Under Trump’s Tenure, Promises Made Were Promises Kept

    A retrospective on President Donald Trump’s four years in office must be put in perspective of what he himself promised to accomplish when he ran: Make America Great Again. To answer the question requires, of course, defining what makes America great and asking to what extent Trump put the nation on course toward this goal….
    Star Parker
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    Trump Announces Members of Commission Focused on Teaching Youth About America’s Founding

    President Donald Trump has called upon 18 conservative leaders to serve on a new commission focused on teaching the next generation the truth about America’s Founding Fathers and the principles contained in the Constitution. At the White House Friday, Trump named the members of the President’s Advisory 1776 Commission, which was first announced Nov. 2….
    Virginia Allen
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    Justices Punt on Census Apportionment, Toss NY Injunction Against Trump

    So, will illegal aliens be included in the population count used for apportionment of the House of Representatives? We still don’t know.  In a 6-to-3 decision Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court held that it was too early to make a decision on the issue and that New York and the other states challenging the Trump…
    Hans von Spakovsky
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    2 Paths for Biden: Adopt Trump Tactics or Tailspin

    There is as yet no known, easily accessible cure for COVID-19. Over the past year, lots of old and new drugs and supplements—Ivermectin, azithromycin, Remdesivir, hydroxychloroquine, vitamin D, vitamin C, zinc, aspirin, Pepcid, and others—have shown at least some anecdotal value in ameliorating the effects of early-stage COVID-19. Clinical physicians treating patients in hospitals often…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    Media Will Treat Biden Very Differently Than Trump

    For four years, we heard that President Donald Trump is a threat to freedom of the press. The Washington Post signaled its own faux bravery by adopting the slogan “Democracy Dies in Darkness” at the top of its masthead. CNN began running commercials about facts being facts, and apples being apples rather than bananas (unless,…
    Ben Shapiro
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    The House Voted a Year Ago to Impeach Trump. Here’s What You Need to Know About That.

    Dec. 18 will mark one year since the House of Representatives voted to impeach President Donald Trump. Looking back, what happened “behind the scenes” of the impeachment proceedings? Fred Lucas, the chief national affairs correspondent for The Daily Signal and author of “Abuse of Power: Inside the Three-Year Campaign to Impeach Donald Trump,” joins “The…
    Rachel del Guidice
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    In Blow to Trump, Supreme Court Rejects Texas’ Election Lawsuit

    In a dramatic blow to President Donald Trump’s attempts to challenge the unofficial election results, the Supreme Court on Friday evening rejected a Texas lawsuit seeking to overturn the outcome in four battleground states.  The high court’s one-page opinion said Texas did not have standing to sue over election procedures in Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and…
    Fred Lucas
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    Trump Is Still Winning on the Economy

    Some people can’t handle success. The latest jobs report shows that despite the pandemic, President Donald Trump’s policies of lower taxes and reducing regulations continue to work. Raising taxes and imposing regulations, as former Vice President Joe Biden has pledged to do, has historically had the opposite effect, but there are people who continue to…
    Cal Thomas
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    Trump Won His Other Campaign—to Destroy Media Credibility

    Convinced that President Donald Trump lost his bid for reelection, the media suddenly became less hysterical. Just like that, the media, at least to some degree, rediscovered concepts such as fairness and perspective, AWOL the last four years. Two weeks after the election, New York Times Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Nicholas Kristof haltingly, grudgingly, and reluctantly,…
    Larry Elder
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    It Will Be Hard for Biden to Undo Trump’s Gains. But Be Prepared.

    Even if President Donald Trump isn’t in the White House for the next four years, he’s leaving the next president with a whole lot to remember him by. As the days tick on, more liberals are starting to realize that even if Joe Biden wins, upending all that Trump did will be a much harder…
    Tony Perkins
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    If Voters Had Known About 8 Stories Media Ignored, Trump Would Have Won, Says Media Watchdog

    The head of a media watchdog organization says the media’s failure to cover eight stories may be the reason President Donald Trump lost the election.  “The media can talk all day long about Donald Trump and all day long about things that he’s doing wrong,” Brent Bozell, founder and president of the Media Research Center,…
    Rachel del Guidice
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    Trump Faces Critical Choice About His Political Future

    Donald Trump is nearing a crossroads. Those who allege that he has endangered the tradition of smooth presidential transitions by not conceding immediately after the media declared him the loser suffer amnesia. When Trump was elected in 2016, the Washington establishment lost its collective mind. The top echelon of the FBI and CIA were still…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    ‘On Her Own’: Trump Legal Team Distances Itself From Sidney Powell

    The legal team for President Donald Trump distanced itself from Sidney Powell Sunday evening, announcing that she has no official role with the campaign or the president himself. The announcement came from former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and Jenna Ellis, both of whom have represented the Trump campaign in its lawsuits attempting to…
    Andrew Trunsky
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    Taking a Closer Look at the Trump Campaign’s Battle to Recount Legal Votes

    Ken Blackwell, advisory board member of the Trump/Pence 2020 campaign, and J. Christian Adams, president and general counsel of the Public Interest Legal Foundation, join “The Bill Walton Show” to discuss the latest on the Trump campaign’s battle over the counting of legal votes. Read a portion of the transcript, lightly edited, below, or watch…
    Bill Walton
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    Biden to ‘Racist’ Trump Voters: ‘Let’s Heal.’ That’s Easy for Him to Say.

    After four years of Democrats attacking President Donald Trump as “illegitimate,” “fascist,” “Nazi,” “tyrant,” “dictator,” “racist,” “anti-Semitic,” “Russian stooge,” “traitor,” “grifter,” “xenophobe,” “sexist,” “homophobe,” “ignorant,” “fat,” and “lazy,” former Vice President Joe Biden now says, “Let’s heal.” In his “victory speech,” Biden said, “And to those who voted for President Trump, I understand your disappointment…
    Larry Elder
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