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Hidden Camera Video Shows Texas DEI Director Discussing Transgender Sports ‘Workarounds’
A Texas school district’s DEI director resigned after being recorded on hidden camera discussing ways to circumvent state law regarding transgender student athletes. In the recording from Accuracy in Media, Hutto Independent School District Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Keyawna Glaze told an undercover journalist there were “workarounds” to Texas law requiring student… -
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USAID’s Troubling Ties to the Woke Nonprofits That Called the Shots in the Biden Administration
The U.S. Agency for International Development wasn’t just spending your hard-earned tax dollars on transgender operas overseas—USAID also has troubling connections with the leftist pressure groups that infiltrated and advised the Biden administration. My book, “The Woketopus: The Dark Money Cabal Manipulating the Federal Government,” exposes the woke activist groups that fed staff into the… -
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Numerous Reports Show Immigration Crisis Sapping US Economy
Over the past several years, the illegal immigration crisis the U.S. has been grappling with has significantly impacted the nation’s economy, both in terms of government spending and the national workforce. According to watchdog organization Open the Books, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and its Office of Refugee Resettlement spent nearly $23 billion… -
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Trump Is Right: Rogue Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Must Go
Almost immediately after the Senate named Russ Vought Office of Management and Budget director, President Donald Trump also named him the acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is a rogue agency with a long history of overreach and corruption. The agency has seen rampant internal racism and anti-woman… -
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Attorneys General Face Uphill Battle to Justify Lawsuits Against Trump Executive Orders
Attorneys general in left-leaning states have been crowding into courtrooms to sue the Trump administration. This spectacle, the growing tangle of hastily issued injunctions preventing the enforcement of presidential executive orders, might lead some to think that they are observing the reverse side of a familiar pattern—one in which the party that lost a national… -
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‘Mini-Me’ Executive Branch Agencies Run Amok. Not for Much Longer, If Trump Has His Way.
In a letter that no doubt sent shock waves through Washington’s permanent, untouchable bureaucracy, President Donald Trump’s acting solicitor general, Sarah Harris, sent a letter to Congress on Wednesday informing it that the Justice Department will no longer defend the constitutionality of federal laws that limit the ability of the president to remove the heads… -
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‘It Doesn’t Happen Often’ Is Not a Reasonable Defense for Men in Women’s Sports
Americans are gaining ground in the fight to protect women’s sports. This week, for example, the Department of Education sent a letter to the National Collegiate Athletic Association and the National Federation of State High School Associations, urging them to restore female athletes’ records. The demand comes on the heels of President Donald Trump’s executive orders to… -
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‘The Realignment’: GOP Sen. Hawley to Introduce Pro-Union Legislation
He was the first president to walk a picket line. And he crowed regularly about being the “most pro-union” president ever. But after four years as president, Joe Biden could not stop a growing working-class coalition, one that increasingly includes rank-and-file union members, from flocking to Donald Trump. Reflecting on election night about the coalition that returned him… -
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Trump Agenda on Track With Swift Cabinet Confirmations
Senate Republicans have had a productive month confirming President Donald Trump’s Cabinet nominees to enact his MAGA agenda, and Trump has just three Cabinet nominees remaining to be confirmed: the secretaries of labor, commerce, and education. Reacting to the breakneck pace of confirmations, Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., praised his colleagues in a Fox… -
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Schools That Mandate COVID-19 Vaccine Run Risk of Losing Federal Funds Under Trump Decree
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday to defund schools with COVID-19 vaccination mandates. The directive comes one day after the confirmation of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has raised questions about the safety and efficacy of the vaccine. The executive order also applies to education service agencies, and… -
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More Democrats Want a More Moderate Party, Poll Says
THE CENTER SQUARE—A new Gallup survey suggests that close to half of Democrats want their party to move more toward the middle, while more than 40% of Republicans are happy with their party. Today, 45% of Democrats and left-leaning independents surveyed indicated they would prefer a more moderate Democratic Party, up 11% from 2021, according… -
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Ukraine, It’s Time to Make a Deal
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. I’d like to talk about Ukraine. It’s been in the news lately. There’s the scent of… -
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Trump v New York
New York is getting its comeuppance. In the four years that Donald Trump was out of office, no state political establishment besides the Biden White House did more to persecute the former president through banana republic-style weaponization of courts. What’s more, New York became the poster child of what happens when you abandon Trump’s border policies and turn them… -
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Trump Signs Order Against COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates in Schools
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday cutting off federal funding to schools that mandate the COVID-19 vaccine, fulfilling a promise he made repeatedly on the campaign trail. “OK, that solves that problem,” said Trump after he signed the order in the Oval Office. The order prohibits “federal funds from being used to support”… -
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House Republicans Agree on Budget Resolution With Tax Cuts, Spending Reductions
House Republicans on Thursday approved a budget resolution that aims to fulfill much of President Donald Trump’s MAGA agenda. Fiscal hawks in the House of Representatives have been warning repeatedly that any budget bills need to show reform through spending cuts if they are to win their support. On Thursday, they successfully negotiated $1.5 trillion… -
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DEEP STATE ALLIES: Who Are the Leftist Groups Suing to Block Trump’s Reforms?
President Donald Trump has entered Washington like a bull in a China shop, shattering the Mandarin norms of the administrative state in order to undermine the deep state, but the bureaucrats are fighting back. A bevy of leftist organizations—mostly unions and woke pressure groups—have proved themselves deep state allies by filing lawsuits to block Trump’s… -
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‘Pure Fake News’: Vance, Staffers Rip Wall Street Journal for Misrepresenting Russia Remarks
Vice President JD Vance criticized The Wall Street Journal on Friday over an article it published misinterpreting remarks that Vance gave the newspaper in an interview. “Vance Wields Threat of Sanctions, Military Action to Push Putin Into Ukraine Deal,” blared the headline of the news report, which was accompanied on X with the caption: “Exclusive: Vance… -
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In Munich Speech, Vance Excoriates European Leaders on Censorship, Mass Migration Policies
Vice President JD Vance called out European leaders in a speech Friday at the Munich Security Conference, arguing that Europeans must commit to free speech and fair elections if they are to have societies worth fighting for. “The crisis this Continent is facing, the one I believe we all face together, is one of our… -
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Fact-Checking the Left’s New Attack: SAVE Act Stops Married Women From Voting
Legacy media outlets and liberal interest groups have recently claimed that a proposal requiring proof of citizenship to vote could actually prevent married women citizens from voting. At least two major outlets, Newsweek and the USA Today network, carried headlines in news stories—not opinion pieces—warning of such a threat to married women. The claim is… -
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‘MEGA Partnership for Prosperity’: Trump Touts Strong Relationship With India
At a Thursday evening joint press conference, President Donald Trump and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi unveiled a framework for increased defense and economic cooperation—although that cooperation may include tariffs imposed by the U.S. To “deepen every aspect of our partnership and our friendship,” Trump said, “the prime minister and I are announcing a framework…