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‘I WILL … ERADICATE YOU’: Moms for Liberty Threatened, Treated as ‘Subhuman,’ After SPLC Attack
Images in this article contain swear words. FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Moms for Liberty has received countless death threats, but the messages spiked after the Southern Poverty Law Center put the parental rights group on its "hate map," its cofounders say. "It gave people permission to treat us as subhuman," Tiffany Justice, one of the… -
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Liz Murrill BLASTS Legacy Media Coverage of Biden Big Tech Case: ‘Demonizing the First Amendment’
Last week, a federal judge ordered the Biden administration to stop strong-arming Big Tech into silencing Americans’ free speech online in a first-of-its-kind temporary injunction. Rather than celebrating this move to uphold free speech, many legacy media outlets appear to be demonizing the very idea of protecting speech from government censorship, according to one of… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Documents Reveal Rush to Target Trump’s National Security Pick in Obama’s Waning Days as President
Heavily redacted documents from the National Security Agency tell at least part of the story of a final-month rush by the outgoing Obama administration to torpedo the incoming presidency of Donald Trump. The Daily Signal obtained 217 pages of documents from the NSA through a Freedom of Information Act request. The documents reveal that Obama… -
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CDC’s Perverted Guidance on ‘Chestfeeding’ Shows Ideological Corruption of Administrative State
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention actually has issued official guidance for “nonbinary” people on how to “chestfeed” infants. This latest woke lunacy isn’t just a disturbing policy. In a larger sense, it demonstrates how powerful governmental institutions have been co-opted on behalf of a larger, elite-driven cultural revolution. The CDC guidance, in isolation,… -
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‘Unacceptable and Irresponsible’: GOP Congresswoman Raps NYC Mayor’s Plan to House Illegal Aliens in Schools
New York City Mayor Eric Adams is under fire after announcing tentative plans to house illegal aliens in public schools over the summer. “Our schools and educational resources should be dedicated to our children, not diverted to support unvetted migrants who are entering our country illegally,” Rep. Claudia Tenney, R-N.Y., told The Daily Signal…. -
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A Matter of Life and Death: America’s Military Academies Must Return to Meritocracies
The Supreme Court has finally reversed its 2003 decision that first injected racial preferences into university admissions. However, it failed to extend the ruling to America’s military service academies, where a system based on recruiting the most capable to lead service members into battle can ultimately mean the difference between life and death. The court’s… -
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Man Begs for Funds So His Doctor Can Help Him Make ‘Transgender Milk’
Twitter users are questioning the health risks of “transgender milk” after a male posted a TikTok video expressing his desire to produce milk for others’ babies. “I have always wanted to lactate,” the man, who appears to identify as a woman, explains while telling viewers he wants to set up a GoFundMe page so he… -
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Zuckerberg’s Twitter Rival Is Already Censoring People for Questioning Gender Ideology
The popular conservative social media account Libs of TikTok has already experienced censorship on tech giant Meta’s new text-based app Threads, according to a screenshot shared with the Daily Caller News Foundation. Libs of TikTok, which is run by Chaya Raichik, posted that “[n]on-binary isn’t real” on Threads Friday morning, and the newly launched app… -
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Trump Signs ‘Presidential Promise’ to Fight for ‘Dignity of Women and Motherhood’
Former President Donald Trump has signed a presidential pledge to uphold the dignity of women and motherhood should he again become president of the United States, according to a national women's group. "As president of the United States, I promise to uphold the truth that women are exclusively female," the pledge says. "Only women can… -
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Texas Heartbeat Act Has Saved Nearly 10,000 Babies from Abortion, New Study Estimates
Since September 2021, the Texas Heartbeat Act has protected unborn children from abortion after a heartbeat can be detected—as early as six weeks of gestation. It became the first enforceable law in the United States to protect unborn life within the first trimester since Roe v. Wade. In fact, the law went into effect nearly… -
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Democrats’ Assault on ‘Our Democracy’
At least as far back as the inauguration of President Donald Trump in January 2017 and the “Women’s March” that followed the next day, Democrats and left-wing activists have invariably complained about the imminent perils threatening “our democracy.” Time and again, Democrats have depicted virtually any action they do not approve of—from uncouth Trump tweets… -
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2024 GOP Candidates Condemn CDC Promotion of ‘Chestfeeding’
Top candidates vying for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination are weighing in on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s promotion of trans-identifying men and women “chestfeeding” infant babies. In guidance on feeding infants posted on the CDC’s website, the federal agency stresses that “transgender and nonbinary-gendered individuals may give birth and breastfeed or feed… -
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House Seeks Secret Service Briefing on Cocaine at White House
The House Oversight and Accountability Committee wants answers from the Secret Service about the cocaine found in the White House over the Fourth of July weekend. Meanwhile, White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said any White House staffer who brought the substance will face “appropriate consequences.” President Joe Biden so far has ignored… -
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Scandal Questions Get Short Shrift in Biden White House Briefing Room
White House briefings in the Biden years are often sleepy meetings compared with the Jim Acosta shriek-fests we remember under then-President Donald Trump. President Joe Biden pledged he would be so much nicer to the press corps. He promised to “bring transparency and truth back to the government.” But the press is much nicer to… -
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House Republicans’ Diplomatic Spending Bill Prioritizes Indo-Pacific, With China in View
Democrats in Congress have adopted a simple if cynical strategy to continue growing the national debt: just threaten that any spending cuts will lead to China’s world domination. In mid-March—six weeks before House Republicans’ spending bills were available—Senate Appropriations Chair Patty Murray, D-Wash., said those bills would “give the Chinese government our spot as the… -
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‘Shameful’: Expert Assails State Department on Afghanistan ‘After Action’ Report
The State Department has released an “After Action Review on Afghanistan” nearly two years after the U.S.’ catastrophic military withdrawal from that country, which concluded on Aug. 30, 2021. The report was released following a 90-day review and included more than “150 interviews with current and former State Department officials at all levels of the… -
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Biden’s Cruel Erasure of Navy Joan Roberts Highlights Pro-Abortion Mentality
“Does the president acknowledge this little girl as his granddaughter?” That question, lobbed by Wall Street Journal reporter Catherine Lacey, should have been easy for Karine Jean-Pierre to answer. But in the White House briefing room Wednesday afternoon, the press secretary refused to do so. “I don’t have anything to share from here,” she said,… -
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Left Is Challenging State Bans on ‘Transgender’ Procedures for Minors
A federal judge is allowing Georgia’s ban on “gender-transition” drugs and surgeries for minors to go into effect, despite protests from left-wing organizations. The Southern Poverty Law Center and the American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit last week seeking a temporary injunction against Senate Bill 140, arguing the legislation denies parents of children identifying… -
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STOPPING Government Grand Theft Auto: Hundreds of Thousands Voice Opposition to Biden Rule on Gas Cars
More than 180,000 Americans sent in comments on the Biden administration’s stringent emissions rule, which threatens to remove cheaper and more reliable gas cars from the market in favor of less popular electric vehicles. A total of 15,995 Americans submitted comments opposing the new rules through a portal created by Heritage Action for America, the… -
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Robert Kennedy Jr. Proves He’s Willing to Bow to the Woke Rage Mob
Moms for Liberty, a group that advocates for parental rights in education, announced on June 20 that Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. would be speaking at its annual Joyful Warriors National Summit in Philadelphia. One week later, the Kennedy campaign released a statement announcing that Kennedy’s “schedule changed” and that he could “no…