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House Republicans Call for Ban on Big Tech Private Funding of Election Administration
Some House Republicans are urging federal action to bar private money from bankrolling election administration after a Big Tech-aligned group that made controversial grants in 2020 is issuing another round of grants aimed at the 2024 elections. “Private money has no place in public election infrastructure,” Rep. Jim Banks, R-Ind., told The Daily Signal in… -
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Progressive Journalists Can’t Read a 3-Page Bill. Calling It ‘Don’t Say Gay’ Bill Is Easier
The Indianapolis Star has joined a long line of news outlets that find it easier to frame Florida’s Parental Rights in Education Act as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill than to read the three-page piece of legislation. The only daily newspaper in Indiana’s capital, also known as IndyStar, now claims that the Indiana Legislature is… -
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Forgery Cases Give Supreme Court Opportunity to Hold Unions Accountable for Shady Tactics
In its landmark Janus v. AFSCME ruling four years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a decades-old precedent that 22 left-leaning states used to justify forcing millions of public employees to join or fund a labor union against their wishes. Despite this decision, several unions have used legal action—and illegal actions—to try to prevent… -
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Elite University Department Bans Use of Word ‘Field,’ Claiming It’s Too Racist
The University of Southern California Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work will no longer use the word “field” in its curriculum or its practices as part of its anti-racist framework, according to an email reportedly sent Monday. The school reportedly stripped the word from use due to alleged ties to “anti-Black” and “anti-immigrant” rhetoric, according to the… -
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Numbers Don’t Lie: America’s Border Crisis Is Biden-Made
The Biden administration’s open-border policies and its refusal to fully enforce federal immigration laws have imposed huge costs on local communities across the country. Border states are groaning under the enormous cost of sheltering, feeding, educating, policing, and providing medical care for tens of thousands of illegal aliens. There are humanitarian costs, as well, paid by those… -
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DeSantis Tackles Divisive ‘Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion’ Programs on College Campuses
The average American university has more than 45 individuals with jobs devoted to promoting so-called diversity, equity, and inclusion. DEI programs push divisive identity politics as well as distorted narratives about American history. But Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration is once again leading on this issue, taking a first step in clamping down on these… -
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Times Square Attack Reminds Us That Terrorism Still Looms
While we’d all like to think that the threat of Islamist terrorism is but just a bad memory, the machete attack on police officers in New York City’s Times Square on New Year’s Eve is a stark reminder that the possibility still looms. On that evening, NYPD police said, a machete-wielding man identified as Trevor… -
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Here’s Why Merrick Garland Tapped a Trump Appointee to Investigate the Joe Biden Documents
Attorney General Merrick Garland has assigned a Trump-appointed U.S. attorney to investigate classified documents dating to Joe Biden’s vice presidency discovered two months ago at a pro-Biden think tank, according to news reports. A senior legal expert at The Heritage Foundation explained the move to The Daily Signal. Garland tapped John Lausch, U.S. attorney for… -
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Just Say ‘No’ to Spring Forward/Fall Back: Leaving Clocks Unchanged Is One of Best Decisions I’ve Ever Made
I took a stand on Nov. 6. While millions of Americans were dutifully resetting all their clocks and convincing themselves that they gained an hour, I did nothing. I left my clocks alone. I got up at the same time the next day as I did the day before. I went to bed at the… -
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3 Things to Know About Biden’s Trip to Mexico
President Joe Biden traveled to Mexico on Sunday night and spent Monday meeting with Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. On Tuesday, Biden will attend the summit of North American leaders with Obrador and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Why do these meetings matter, and what will the leaders discuss? Mateo Haydar, a research assistant… -
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7 Key Reforms in New House Rules
The new Republican-controlled House approved a sweeping rules package Monday night that could rein in the bureaucracy, control government spending, and put the top lawmaker’s leadership in jeopardy. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., gained the top post in the House early Saturday after 15 rounds of voting over four days, but made concessions to pull… -
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Forget Biden’s Border Photo-Op. Real Crisis Demonstrated by Democrat Governor Who Bused Illegal Immigrants Out of State.
As President Joe Biden briefly toured a small segment of the southern border Sunday and talked about why the illegal immigration crisis there is not really a crisis, and if it is then it isn’t his fault, other interesting developments highlight the depth of the problem. Colorado Gov. Jared Polis, a Democrat, announced Saturday that… -
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Biden Grew National Debt $3.67 Trillion in 2 Years, Yet Underfunded Border Protection
President Joe Biden, working with a Democrat-controlled Congress, increased the federal debt in 2022 by approximately $11,374 per every American worker. On Dec. 31, 2021, according to the U.S. Treasury, the federal debt was $29,617,214,856,051.75. By Dec. 30, 2022, it was $31,419,689,421,557.90. So, in calendar year 2022, the federal debt increased by $1,802,474,565,506.15. As of… -
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‘Wokeness’ at the Fed Could Easily Create Another Banking Crisis
You expect your money to be safe in a bank, but if the Federal Reserve gets its way, that may not be the case soon. That’s because the Fed, which has a tremendous amount of regulatory power over the nation’s financial institutions, has begun using its authority to put politics before fiscal stability. If the… -
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West Virginia Wins Day on Fairness in Women’s Sports but Plot Thickens on Title IX
The game’s afoot on the legal definition of “sex.” What was once a commonsense understanding of “sex” as meaning the biological distinctions between male and female has—under recent leftist claims that sex includes “gender identity”—become a flashpoint for the culture wars and clogged the federal courts. Parents, legislators, and educators across the country are navigating… -
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EXCLUSIVE: YouTube Censors Doctors, Heritage Foundation Expert for ‘Medical Misinformation’ on COVID-19
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL: Nearly three years after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic and just after President Joe Biden effectively claimed the pandemic is over by trying to reverse Title 42, YouTube removed footage of a panel involving doctors and a Heritage Foundation expert discussing COVID-19 and restrictions imposed on religious liberty in… -
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Idaho Supreme Court Refuses to ‘Read Fundamental Right to Abortion’ Into State Constitution
In Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the Supreme Court held in June that the U.S. Constitution “does not confer a right to abortion” and, therefore, abortion advocates will be challenging pro-life laws in state courts under state constitutions. On Thursday, the Idaho Supreme Court upheld that state’s ban on abortion, holding that “we cannot… -
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Biden Justice Department Dishonestly Rewrites Law Against Sending Abortion Drugs by Mail
The Biden administration keeps coming up with new tactics to keep abortions happening. The latest is Justice Department advice to the U.S. Postal Service that a federal law prohibiting using the mail to send abortion drugs doesn’t mean what it says. By overruling its decisions inventing a constitutional right to abortion, the Supreme Court held… -
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America Has a ‘Pandemic of Fatherlessness’ Contributing to Gender Confusion, Suicide, and More, Author Says
America is suffering from a pandemic that is not a virus, it “is a pandemic of fatherlessness.” That’s according to Pastor Kris Vallotton, author of the new book “Uprising: The Epic Battle for the Most Fatherless Generation in History.” “Fifty-one percent of all children in America right now are born out of wedlock, 51%,” Vallotton,… -
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Greg Abbott Has Some Choice Words for Biden as the President Finally Makes His Way to the Border
President Joe Biden traveled to the southern border over the weekend, marking the first time he has done so since taking office. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott hand delivered a letter to Biden after Air Force One touched down at the El Paso International Airport. “Your visit to our southern border with Mexico today is $20 billion too…