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RVA Duck Fest Flocks to CarMax Park
Ducks are popular guests at Richmond’s new baseball stadium. So far this year, the Eastern League’s Flying Squirrels have hosted the Akron RubberDucks 12 times and sport a 10-2 home record against the accommodating Cleveland Guardians farm team. The Squirrels are now biding their time after winning the first-half title and will host playoff games… -
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The Wait Is Over: Sean Duffy’s ‘Great American Road Trip’ Debuts
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Department of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is taking his family on “The Great American Road Trip” and bringing America along, too. The long-awaited reality TV series is here, and the Daily Signal got a first look at the family’s first two trips: Philadelphia and Texas. In the six-episode series, Duffy; his… -
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The Family Isn’t a Political Talking Point. It’s a Public Health Necessity.
Say the word family in public, and watch what happens. For some, it evokes religion. For others, patriarchy, control, or exclusion. It has become a rhetorical Rorschach test. Before anyone asks whether a family is healthy, someone has already decided whether it’s progressive or regressive. That should concern all of us. Because the family isn’t a political… -
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Vanessa Sivadge Shares the Story Behind America’s First-Ever Detransition Clinic
In a historic $10 million settlement, Texas Children’s Hospital agreed to open the nation’s first-ever detransition clinic by October and fire five physicians after the hospital allegedly funded gender-transition procedures using Texas Medicaid. Vanessa Sivadge, the whistleblower who sounded the alarm in May 2023, explained that working as a nurse at Texas Children’s Hospital was… -
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The Real Reason Women Freeze Their Eggs
When Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently announced her decision to freeze her eggs, she said she was “empowered.” “This is a choice that I am making to feel more in control of my life,” the 36-year-old Democrat said in a social media video. “If people want to make assumptions about my decision, let them make those… -
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Reckless Border Policy Took Anne Fundner’s 15-Year-Old Son. It Would Not Take Her Voice.
Anne Fundner made a promise to her son Weston the day he was born: I will always keep you safe. She had no idea a pill laced with fentanyl would break that promise 15 years later. Fundner spoke Saturday to grassroots leaders at Heritage Action’s Southwest Sentinel Summit, which focuses on the most pressing social… -
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How to Live a Blessed Life
This is an adapted excerpt from Frank Kelly III’s recent book “Love & Go: 12 Powerful Truths for a Blessed Life,” released Feb. 24, 2026 from Gordon Publishing. My newest book,“Love & Go: 12 Powerful Truths for a Blessed Life,” weaves together the call to “Love” and the mission to “Go,” creating a transformative guide for… -
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‘The Odyssey’: The Great Western Love Story
With its star-studded cast and wildly successful director, Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” is expected to be one of the highest-grossing films of 2026. But amid rave reviews of first screenings on the one hand and backlash against inauthentic casting and dialogue on the other, little has yet been said about the heart of the story…. -
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In Texas, Parental Rights Are Only as Strong as the Parents Willing to Enforce Them
In 2025, Texas did something parents had spent years demanding: It wrote parents back into their own children’s education. In a single session, lawmakers passed a package of parental rights bills, handed parents real control over the books that sit on school library shelves, and ordered the state to spell out those rights in plain… -
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DeWine Signs Success Sequence Into Law for Students
Heritage Action is celebrating Gov. Mike DeWine’s, R-Ohio, decision to sign into law Tuesday the Success Sequence, a life framework to be taught in grades 6-12. The Center for Christian Virtue also celebrated the move. According to the bill, SB 276, “Success Sequence” is a three-pronged framework to teach students that completing at least a… -
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My Family Never Had Generational Wealth, but Trump Accounts Are Providing That for My Kids
My grandmother came to the mainland from Puerto Rico not knowing a word of English. My grandfather, born in Hell’s Kitchen, worked four to six jobs at a time just to keep the lights on—groceries sometimes bought on credit—before spending his career as a detective sergeant with the NYPD. On my father’s side, my grandparents… -
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Restoring Obscenity Regulation: Lessons From America’s Founding Era
Americans born after the mid-1990s have lived their entire lives in a world awash with hardcore pornography. Never has so much pornography been so available to so many at so little cost. Our laws leave much pornography effectively unregulated. Our technology, especially smartphones, brings portable, private porn shops to everyone’s phone. Like today, there were… -
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Obscenity Is Still Illegal—It’s Time to Enforce Laws Against Pornography
The internet delivers an endless stream of hardcore pornography into American homes and pockets through laptops and mobile phones. Porn once confined to seedy bookstores is now ubiquitous, free, and increasingly violent. Most youngsters, especially boys, encounter hardcore pornography before they can drive. Marriages strain under its influence. The sexual dance is compromised by suspicion… -
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The Left Makes Weird Comments About Usha Vance’s Normal Maternity Clothes
The Left said Vice President JD Vance was weird when he was on the campaign trail. Now it’s obsessed with his wife’s pregnant belly. That’s weird. Usha Vance appeared on the most recent episode of “Storytime with the Second Lady” wearing a slightly off-the-shoulder, fitted coral maternity dress, and the chief fashion critic of The… -
The Feminist Fashionistas Uncork Ugliness Against Usha
One way our nation’s most “prestigious” newspapers show they’re Democratic Party propaganda sheets is when their fashion critics apply all of their tawdry partisan biases to their evaluations of the clothes of politicians (or their spouses). Robin Givhan of The Washington Post was a transparent Democrat, and so is Vanessa Friedman of The New York… -
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‘The House Is on Fire’: House Passes Online Protections to Shield Children From Porn
The House successfully passed its internet safety package for children while the Senate continues to stall. The Kids Internet and Digital Safety Act includes a key amendment that would protect children from viewing sexual content online, a statistic that continues to grow. “To use figurative language, the house is on fire,” Rep. Mary Miller, R-Ill.,… -
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Ohio Amendments Saved for November 2027
Last October, at the Daily Signal-sponsored Essential Summit hosted by the Center for Christian Virtue, a panel warned of the upcoming ballot initiatives in Ohio. One would enshrine same-sex marriage into the state constitution, while the other would apply “gender identity and expression” to the list of protected citizens. However, the group behind the initiatives… -
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How to Grow Closer to Your Family This Summer
Summer is a time for relaxation. Most people have more time away from work and more time with their families to travel or simply relax. Since most children are off from school over the summer, many families take this time to go on vacation and plan warm weather events. While all this is fun, it… -
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When the Culture’s View of Family Invades the Church
This is an adapted excerpt from Timothy S. Goeglein’s recent book (with Craig Osten) “What Really Matters: Restoring a Legacy of Faith, Freedom, and Family,” released April 8 from Fidelis Publishing. The late James Q. Wilson, former professor of government at Harvard University, once said, “It is not money, but the family that is the foundation of… -
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Heritage Foundation Awards $1M in Prizes to Nonprofits
The Heritage Foundation on Thursday announced the recipients of its annual “Innovation Prizes,” a program that awards $1 million in prizes to nonprofit organizations for their work to strengthen society. This is the sixth year that Heritage has given the awards to organizations that put conservative principles into action. Recipients of this year’s prizes include…