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    Why Conservatives Should Oppose the Netflix-Warner Bros. Merger
    Conservatives don’t reflexively oppose corporate mergers. We believe in free markets, in the power of competition, and in the freedom of businesses to grow when they win on merit. But we also believe in limits, especially when a single company seeks to consolidate cultural and economic power in ways that threaten the marketplace itself. This…
    Joel Thayer
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    EXCLUSIVE: DHS Expands ‘Worst of the Worst’ Searchable Website
    The Department of Homeland Security’s “Worst of the Worst” website is growing. DHS has added the names, photos, and criminal backgrounds of an additional 5,000 illegal aliens to the searchable platform, bringing the number of listed criminals to 15,000.   “This new update represents just a small sample of the total number of arrests we’ve made—70% of [Immigration and Customs Enforcement]…
    Virginia Allen
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    Maduro’s Narco-Terrorism Plot Against America Unraveled by Defectors
    One by one, they are singing, the men who used to do dirty deeds for the late Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chávez and his successor, Nicolas Maduro. Nobody knows what’s going to happen, whether the United States will attack, and whether Maduro will fall. But these Venezuelans sniff change in the air. As more countries exit Venezuela’s…
    Mike Gonzalez
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    Why Shrinking the US Army Undermines Peace Through Strength
    The United States continuously monitors and engages with global conflicts and peacekeeping efforts in regions such as Gaza, Ukraine, Russia, Iran, China, North Korea, and Venezuela. The U.S Army in particular is instrumental in such efforts. Unfortunately, the world faces increasing instability and adversarial actions. America has recently deepened its involvement with Venezuela, as evidenced…
    Brad Wenstrup
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    EXCLUSIVE: How Transportation Secretary Will Help Trump Defund Woke Universities
    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is expected to revamp the agency’s university grant program after axing requirements that the schools fund diversity, equity, and inclusion and environmental initiatives, The Daily Signal can first report. Duffy plans to announce $33 million in grants to universities to “unleash American innovation.” This comes after the Department…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Military Is Tossing ‘New Age Notions’ and Will Make Chaplain Corps ‘Great Again,’ Hegseth Announces
    Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has pledged to toss “New Age notions” in America’s Chaplain Corps and make the military body “great again.”   “In recent decades, its role has been degraded in an atmosphere of political correctness and secular humanism,” Hegseth said of the Chaplain Corps in a video message released Tuesday night.   “Chaplains have been minimized, viewed by many as therapists instead…
    Virginia Allen
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    Mark Kelly Faces Escalated Review of Alleged Misconduct From Pentagon
    The Pentagon is plowing ahead in its investigation of Arizona Democrat Sen. Mark Kelly, who told service members they “can refuse illegal orders.” “The Office of the Secretary of War, in conjunction with the Department of War’s Office of the General Counsel, is escalating the preliminary review of Captain Mark Kelly, USN (Ret.), to an…
    George Caldwell
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    This Anti-Christian Group May Be Out of Power Now, But Its Popularity Among Dems Bodes Ill for the Future
    Even a year later, it’s hard to wrap your head around the upside-down world of the Biden administration: The White House celebrated transgender ideology on Easter Sunday, your tax dollars funded the settlement of immigrants who broke the law to come here, and authorities turned to an Antifa-linked group whose “hate map” inspired an act…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    Gabbard: 2,000 Afghan Refugees in US Have Ties to Terrorism
    THE CENTER SQUARE—An estimated 2,000 Afghan nationals admitted to the United States following the deadly 2021 pullout of American forces from Afghanistan have ties to terrorism, according to Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard. Gabbard made the astonishing revelation during an interview on Fox News Friday morning, following a tense House Homeland Security Committee hearing…
    Sarah Roderick-Fitch
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    Drama-Filled Vote-Trading on House Floor Ends With Passage of Massive Defense Bill
    The House of Representative passed the National Defense Authorization Act, an annual defense bill, by a vote of 312-112 Wednesday evening after a drama-filled day on the House floor. The NDAA, with over a $900 billion price tag, received support from both Republicans and Democrats, a rarity this Congress, as House Speaker Mike Johnson has…
    George Caldwell
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    NDAA Aims to Block DOW Contracts With Groups That ‘Blacklist Conservative News Sources’
    The National Defense Authorization Act includes a provision aimed at defending conservative media.   The NDAA prohibits the Department of War from forming contracts for the purpose of advertising for military recruitment with “advertising firms like NewsGuard that blacklist conservative news sources,” according to the House Armed Services Committee summary of the bill.   “Major advertising agencies have been effectively censoring conservative media by blocking ads and their…
    Virginia Allen
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    The Navy Declares War on Bureaucratic Inefficiency
    The U.S. Navy publicly launched its new Rapid Capabilities Office, which is designed to improve the critical capabilities procurement process in a bid to ensure American maritime dominance into the next century. At the kickoff event hosted at the Capital Turnaround in Washington on Tuesday, Secretary of the Navy John Phelan explained that the new…
    Jacob Adams
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    Chinese Organized Crime and the US Cannabis Market
    Few Americans are aware of the extent to which Chinese Transnational Criminal Organizations (TCOs) have infiltrated the cannabis (more colloquially known as marijuana or pot) market in the United States. By purchasing and leasing property in the U.S., Chinese TCOs have exploited the state-lawful, domestic U.S. cannabis industry in ways that legalization advocates never foresaw and have not yet admitted.  The Expanding Illicit Market  According to the Whitney…
    Paul J. Larkin | Isabel Guerrero
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    Keep on Truckin’—If You Are Rightly Licensed
    WASHINGTON—What happens when rules designed to ensure public safety fray so much that undocumented residents can obtain commercial driver’s licenses for big rigs, even if they are not qualified to drive them and do not speak English? In 2025, Americans saw the danger of allowing unvetted migrants to drive big rigs without obtaining bona fide…
    Debra Saunders
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    Victor Davis Hanson: ‘It’s Road Warrior Out There’: Illegals Plaguing Our Highways and Health Care
    On this episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words,” Victor Davis Hanson and Jack Fowler dig into the danger of tens of thousands of illegal immigrants racing tractor-trailers down our nation’s highways, and millions of illegal aliens flooding our health care system. Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of a segment…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    White House Updates Monroe Doctrine in National Security Strategy
    President Donald Trump’s new National Security Strategy is garnering support across the conservative movement. On Friday, the Department of State released its new National Security Strategy—a policy paper detailing the administration’s priorities across the world. To some in the conservative orbit, it is a 33-page crystallization of just how the Trump movement wants to rethink…
    George Caldwell
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    Don’t Feed the Beast: America Should Not Be Sending H200 Chips to China
    Recent reports suggest the Trump administration is considering a request by Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang to ease export controls in order to sell more advanced Artificial Intelligence chips to China. Specifically, Huang is lobbying the White House to permit Nvidia to sell China significant quantities of its H200 chip. This would be a colossal mistake….
    Jeff Smith
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    The F-47: Next Generation Air Dominance
    The next generation of air dominance will be arriving soon, as the Engineering and Manufacturing Development phase of the Next Generation Air Dominance program was awarded to Boeing in an announcement on March 21, 2025, by President Donald Trump, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, and former U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff General David Allvin.  The new aircraft being developed has been officially designated the F-47, and it is expected…
    Michelle Thomason | Wilson Beaver
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    New Tool Allows Americans to Learn Identities of Illegal Aliens Arrested in Their Communities  
    The Department of Homeland Security has rolled out a new searchable website allowing Americans to see the names and faces of the “worst of the worst” criminal illegal aliens arrested across all 50 states since the start of the Trump administration.   Now, Americans from Springfield, Ohio, to San Diego to Boston can learn the identities of some of the illegal aliens Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have detained in…
    Virginia Allen
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    House Moves to Pass Defense Bill With Major Policy Changes
    The House of Representatives will vote this week on the National Defense Authorization Act—the annual defense budgeting bill that authorizes programs and sets spending goals. “This year’s National Defense Authorization Act helps advance President [Donald] Trump and Republicans’ Peace Through Strength Agenda by codifying 15 of President Trump’s executive orders, ending woke ideology at the…
    George Caldwell
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