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Protests Break Out Across US in Response to Trump Winning the Election
Leading up to the 2024 presidential election, most people believed there would be postelection violence. Outlet upon outlet reported on polls revealing just how concerned Americans were that no matter who became president-elect, anger, frustration, fear, and acts of protests would follow. A Scripps News/Ipsos poll found that over 60% of Americans believed this would be the… -
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Judge Pauses All Deadlines in Trump’s NY Case Based on Election Win
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Judge Juan Merchan paused all deadlines in President-elect Donald Trump’s New York case—including the sentencing date scheduled for later this month. Merchan, an acting justice on the New York state Supreme Court, granted a joint request by prosecutors and defense attorneys to pause the case until Nov. 19, pushing off his decision on Trump’s… -
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Federal Court Rejects Biden’s ‘Parole in Place’ for Illegal Aliens
Two days after the election, a federal court in Texas ruled against President Joe Biden’s latest unauthorized scheme to subvert immigration law: “parole in place” for illegal aliens who are the spouses of U.S. citizens. In a 73-page decision, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas upheld a challenge by 16 states… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Corporate Executives Sit on Boards of Hospitals That Perform Child Sex Changes
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Six of America's largest companies have executives on the boards of hospitals that perform child sex-change procedures. Executives of Costco, General Motors, T-Mobile, Procter and Gamble, Wells Fargo, and Kroger are board members at the 12 leading hospitals on medical watchdog Do No Harm's list of health care facilities that offer… -
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Being a Free Person Is Dangerous
The following is an excerpt from Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts' new book, “Dawn's Early Light: Taking Back Washington to Save America," released Nov. 12. Have you ever driven through a blizzard in Wyoming? Your field of vision doesn’t extend more than twenty feet. There are only the storm and the road, except for the… -
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Virginia Professors Infantilize Students and Selves Over Trump Win
If you think university students are learning to be adults in the real world, think again. Professors at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia, decided to baby their students—and themselves—in the wake of Donald Trump’s second presidential victory by canceling in-person classes due to the stress the presidential election may have wrought. That’s right, Virginia. Your… -
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Seniors Are Getting Crushed by Washington’s Recklessness
Inflation has pulverized Americans’ finances over the last four years, and a new study shows that’s especially true for the nation’s seniors, whose retirement accounts have been walloped. The losses have been so severe that would-be retirees need to work an extra six years on average before they can hang up their work boots—and they can blame… -
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Government Delivered Inflation—but No Real Aid—in North Carolina
North Carolina can’t catch a break under the Biden-Harris administration. The federal government’s appalling response to Hurricane Helene almost surely cost lives, adding insult to the injury of the inflation that has been crushing Tar Heel State residents for 3 1/2 years. In fact, prices there have risen even faster than the national average. The 40-year-high… -
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The Left’s Woke Agenda Died This Week
There were many reasons that President-elect Donald Trump won in such a resounding victory this week: inflation, the bewildering open border policy, the Afghanistan withdrawal humiliation, the world on fire, etc. But let’s not forget one of the top ones: This was a resounding defeat of wokeism. Voters have rejected wokeism—defined here as an unhealthy obsession with viewing all of… -
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Good News: Americans No Longer Listen to Mass Media
If the 2024 presidential contest proved anything, it’s that the mass media no longer drive the national conversation. They can no longer stoke fear and outrage in average voters. They can no longer prop up terrible candidates. And, like him or not, President-elect Donald Trump‘s success with black, Hispanic and Jewish voters, if exit polls… -
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How President Trump Can Help a New Generation Learn to Appreciate Our Veterans
Last Thursday, following President-elect Donald Trump’s extraordinary victory over Kamala Harris, President Joe Biden addressed the nation. His message was simple: “Setbacks are unavoidable, but giving up is unforgivable,” and he concluded by saying, “May God protect our troops.” Unfortunately for Biden, however, many people in his party have given up on fighting for America… -
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Who Did the Billionaires Back in 2024?
THE DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Billionaires favored Vice President Kamala Harris in Tuesday’s election over President-elect Donald Trump, according to Forbes’ analysis of campaign finance disclosures. Eighty-three billionaires threw verbal or financial support behind Harris, while 53 backed Trump, according to Forbes. Trump’s victory on election night came despite a massive financial disadvantage, with his campaign raising $388 million as of… -
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Democratic Voters Oust Soft-on-Crime Prosecutors
It appears that even in Democratic strongholds, voters have had enough with soft-on-crime policies that have been implemented by left-wing prosecutors in recent years. In California and Illinois, three district attorneys who enacted lenient criminal policies were ousted during Tuesday’s election. In addition, a ballot measure to toughen criminal penalties in California was passed overwhelmingly…. -
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How the Radical Left Helped Trump Win Hispanic Voters
President-elect Donald Trump won 46% of the Hispanic vote in the 2024 presidential election, a record for any Republican presidential candidate in recent history, according to Reuters. Trump did not have success with Hispanic voters because of “anything conservatives did,” but rather “things that the Left has done,” according to Mike Gonzalez, author of “A… -
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First Transgender-Identifying Man Elected to Congress
Sarah McBride will become the first openly transgender-identifying person to serve in Congress after winning Delaware’s at-large U.S. House seat Tuesday night. McBride, a Delaware state senator, is a biological man who identifies as a woman. Delaware’s only House seat was vacated by outgoing Democratic Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester, who made a successful bid for her… -
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Why Trump Won
Donald Trump. He’s back. After the most dramatic election cycle in modern American history, Trump won a sweeping victory, moving every single state in America in his direction from 2020. He didn’t just sweep the swing states. He lost New Jersey by only five points. He won Miami-Dade County in Florida—the first Republican presidential candidate… -
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How Harris’ Many Missteps Doomed Her Candidacy
On the night of the election, a member of the Trump team called me about an hour after polls had begun to close to tell me they saw signs of a win. A few hours later, a friend close to the Harris team called to tell me senior members of the campaign had begun advising… -
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WHAT HAPPENED? Pollster Examines Inaccurate 2024 Election Polls
A series of inaccurate polls that consistently favored Kamala Harris and liberal issues in the 2024 election shows that mainstream pollsters are “mouthpieces for the government” and for the corporate behemoths who own their networks, a pollster who accurately predicted the election’s outcome has said. Polls from the legacy media consistently presented the Harris-Walz campaign… -
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GO WOKE GO BROKE: The Ultimate DEI Hire Is Out of a Job, Despite Spending More to Win
It was the worst of times, it was the worst of times. Seriously, it was the worst of times! How could a half-black, half-Asian, comparatively young woman lose so handily to a straight white male?! Hasn’t Donald Trump learned that he’s the recipient of a veritable mountain of privilege? In the name of justice, he… -
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Biggest Transatlantic Loser in Trump’s Victory: Britain’s Labour Government
“Congratulations President-elect Donald Trump on your historic election,” British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer posted on X at 3:21 a.m. ET Wednesday. The best that can be said about this tepid concession is that Starmer got his concession in before Kamala Harris did. Make no mistake. This is not the result Britain’s Labour Party wanted. Starmer’s party…