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    How Conservatives Are Winning the War on Transgenderism
    The following is a preview of Daily Signal Politics Editor Bradley Devlin’s interview with Terry Schilling, president of the American Principles Project, on “The Signal Sitdown.” The full interview premieres on The Daily Signal’s YouTube page at 6:30 a.m. Eastern on Jan. 29. For the first time in my lifetime, conservatives are dominating a battle…
    Bradley Devlin
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    The Unhinged Rage of White Liberal Women, Explained
    Agatha Christie never spun a mystery as perplexing as that of white liberal women going all in on protecting criminal illegal immigrants. Screaming, screeching, blowing whistles, cursing like sailors with Tourette’s who just hit their thumb with a hot hammer. The other day, a poor Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent tried to explain to horn-honking…
    Al Perrotta
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    EXCLUSIVE: ICE Arrests Foreign Terrorists Living in US
    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The Department of Homeland Security in the past year has arrested multiple illegal aliens it says have known ties to terrorist organizations, including ISIS and al-Qaeda. According to the agency, the illegal aliens include members of al-Qaeda, ISIS, the Islamic Republic Guard Corps of Iran, and MS-13, which President Donald Trump designated a foreign terrorist organization when he returned to office.   “Just…
    Virginia Allen
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    Letitia James Fires Lesbian Who Warns That ‘Gender-Affirming Care’ for Kids Is Consumer Fraud
    Some Democrats realize they have a problem with transgender orthodoxy, but not New York Attorney General Letitia James—she’s doubling down. Last week, she fired Glenna Goldis, the assistant attorney general at the Consumer Frauds and Protection Bureau, apparently for the crime of expressing concern about the mutilation of children. Goldis announced her departure in a…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    Another Schumer Shutdown? Top Dem Vows Senate Dems Won’t Support DHS Funding Bill
    DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Hours after Border Patrol fatally shot an armed man Saturday in Minneapolis, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said he and other Democrats will not back a legislative package including a bill funding the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), potentially risking a partial government shutdown. The Senate has until Jan. 30 to pass…
    Anthony Iafrate
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    ‘War Was Visited Upon These People’: Play About Oct. 7 Comes to DC
    After his first interview of a survivor of the Oct. 7 terrorist attack, playwright Phelim McAleer says he knew he had to write a play telling the true story of that day. Following performances in New York City, the play “OCTOBER 7” will be performed at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 28….
    Virginia Allen
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    The Warmth of Collectivism
    “Replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism!” says my new socialist mayor. Sounds so nice … No more greedy capitalists hoarding wealth. People share. It’s the socialist dream. What will replace capitalism and individualism? One model is the commune—that socialist system where people share, rather than greedily chasing money. In my…
    John Stossel
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    Mace Warns Walz and Omar to ‘Be Afraid’ of MN Fraud Probe
    On Wednesday’s night’s episode of “The Tony Kinnett Cast,” Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., said elected officials, such as Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., and Democrat Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz should “be afraid” of the Treasury Department’s investigation into recently reported fraud in Minnesota. During her interview, Mace added that she “is deeply frustrated” over the “lack…
    Pedro Rodriguez
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    ‘No Idea’ of Threat Posed by Afghan Parole Program, Senator Warns  
    The U.S. has “no idea” of the possible threat posed by some Afghan nationals admitted to the U.S. during the Biden administration, according to Sen. Josh Hawley.   About 200,000 Afghans were allowed into the U.S. during and after the U.S. withdrawal from the country in 2021 under President Joe Biden. Among those paroled, “we have no idea of their potential terrorist…
    Virginia Allen
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    Heritage Report Warns: Family Decline Threatens America’s Next 250
    The Heritage Foundation released a new report last week outlining a plan to save the American family. The report, titled “Saving America by Saving the Family: A Foundation for the Next 250 Years,” encapsulates how policy and culture can solve what the organization expects will be a bipartisan issue: saving the deteriorating American family. On…
    Virginia Grace McKinnon
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    Venezuelan Warns His Country ‘Isn’t Free Yet’
    Franklin Camargo was only six years old when he stood in a Florida grocery store and stared at the variety of Oreo cookies. In that moment, he says he began to understand that the U.S. was very different from his home country of Venezuela.   When a child “can tell the differences, the huge differences, when it comes to prosperity, happiness, [and] safety between a country and the other one, that’s…
    Virginia Allen
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    Vance Announces New Plan to Combat Nationwide Welfare Fraud
    Vice President JD Vance announced that the Trump administration has created a new assistant attorney general position to crack down on fraud nationwide. The new official will have “nationwide jurisdiction over the issue of fraud,” Vance said at Thursday’s White House press briefing. “Unfortunately, the American people have been defrauded in a very nationwide way,”…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    How the US Military Demonstrates It’s Tactically Flawless
    From the botched Afghanistan withdrawal to plummeting recruitment levels, the reputation of the U.S. military suffered greatly in recent years, leading many—including our adversaries—to believe that its capabilities were dramatically and irreversible dulled. This led to a renewed wave of global insecurity with war breaking out in Europe and the Middle East, as dictators launched…
    Robert Peters | Andres Martinez-Fernandez
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    Hilton’s Swift Response to DHS Snub Shows How the Left’s Institutional Power Has Faded
    The swift response of Hilton Hotels to one of its locations booting ICE agents shows just how dramatically the political and cultural environment has changed in just a few years. That change is very much for the better. On Monday, reports came out that a Minneapolis hotel associated with Hilton Hotels & Resorts had refused to allow…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    Maduro Capture Prompts Congressional Debate Over Trump’s Military Authority
    The successful capture of ousted Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in the early hours of Jan. 3 has sparked a debate in Congress over the legality of the executive branch’s use of military force, especially in the Western Hemisphere. So far, most Republicans in Congress have expressed public support for “Operation Absolute Resolve,” which involved the…
    George Caldwell
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    Why the US Is Worried About China’s Military Drills
    On Dec. 29, Washington, D.C., woke up to an array of news stories, but the one meriting greatest attention is China’s surprise military drills around Taiwan. These drills are not merely exercises—they are full dress rehearsals for a blockade and invasion of Taiwan. Deterring such an invasion and larger conflict is in America’s vital national…
    Brent Sadler
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    Not in My Own Words, But in AI’s
    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 content was recorded by Victor Davis Hanson prior to his Dec. 30 medical operation. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. I’d…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    The ‘Swamp Fox’ Who Put the British Lion on the Run and Changed War for a Century
    A quarter of a millennium ago, a “Swamp Fox” and his rag-tag group of compatriots put the lion of the British Empire on the run—and changed how wars were fought on the North American continent for a century. This Swamp Fox was Francis Marion. Marion was born in Berkeley County, South Carolina, during the 1730s….
    George Caldwell
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    The War on White Men Is Real—Here’s the Proof
    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. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. There’s been quite a controversial article by one Jacob Savage in the conservative magazine Compact. In…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    Military Recruitment Exploded Under Trump. Here’s the Reason.
    The War Department announced Tuesday that the military has reached its highest level of recruitment in a decade and a half in a stunning, yet predictable, reversal from just a few years ago. “Since November 2024, our military has seen its highest recruiting percentage of mission achieved in more than 15 years,” Chief Pentagon spokesman…
    Jarrett Stepman
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