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EXCLUSIVE: Washington State School District Defies Trump With Race-Based Hiring Plan
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—As the Trump administration threatens to pull funding from schools with race-based hiring, a Washington state school district is standing by its discriminatory practices. Bellingham Public Schools in Bellingham, Washington, has a five-year diversity, equity, and inclusion “action plan” to prioritize the retention of “staff of color,” according to documents obtained… -
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Trump’s Counterrevolution in Washington
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 want to talk about the Trump counterrevolution, not the revolution. There’s been a lot of… -
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Defensive Gun Uses Show Faulty Premise of California Gun Laws
As wildfires raged last month in California, tens of thousands of people were forced to flee their homes, often with just minutes of warning. To make matters worse, looters took advantage of the chaos and lack of police resources, showing up in droves to ransack evacuated areas—sometimes as helpless residents looked on in horror as… -
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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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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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After Letter, Georgia State to Allow Pastor to Share Faith on Campus
THE CENTER SQUARE—Georgia State University reversed its decision to prohibit a local Christian man from sharing his faith on campus after receiving a letter from religious liberty defense group First Liberty Institute. “Georgia State University (‘GSU’) will allow Stephen Atkerson to speak with students on campus about his Christian faith when invited by students to… -
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‘Nowhere Near Over’: California and Minnesota Face Federal Investigation for Refusing to Implement Trump’s Ban on Men in Women’s Sports
Female athletes and their families are gearing up for legal battles as high school athletic associations in California and Minnesota face a federal investigation for refusing to implement President Donald Trump’s recent executive order banning men from women’s sports. The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights announced investigations Wednesday into the Minnesota State… -
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How the Justice Department Conspired to Legalize Racist Hiring in Cobb County, Georgia, Before Trump Came In
If you want to see a prime example of the lawlessness of the Civil Rights Division under the Merrick Garland-run Justice Department, look no further than the “Consent Decree” with Cobb County, Georgia, that DOJ tried to sneak through before the Trump administration took over. The consent decree aimed to institutionalize racial discrimination in the… -
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Who’s Afraid of School Choice—and Food Trucks—in Wyoming?
Teacher unions are racing to stop greater education choice from spreading to Wyoming. But parents there already know that more education options would be valuable for them, and special interest groups’ latest dirty political tactics only make them look desperate. “It’s either, you support families or you don’t,” says Mary Schmidt, a Wyoming parent who… -
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‘Tearing the School Apart’: How DEI Changed Kentucky Country Day School
“Despite the occupation, despite the apartheid, Palestine will one day be free,” declared Mahmoud Kutmah, the valedictorian of Kentucky Country Day School’s class of 2021, at the end of his graduation speech. What followed that May 2021 commencement ceremony set off a chain reaction that enabled education consultant Rodney Glasgow to enter the picture and… -
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DOGE Takes Over Washington, Literally and Figuratively
President Donald Trump's Department of Government of Efficiency, led by Elon Musk, is dominating both the federal bureaucracy and the headlines in the early days of the administration. To rein in the administrative state, DOGE has taken over the offices of what was formerly the U.S. Digital Service. The U.S. Agency for International Development and… -
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Georgia Asks AG Bondi to Drop Biden Admin Lawsuit Over Election Law
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger has asked the U.S. attorney general to drop the federal lawsuit against the state’s election-reform law, litigation that commenced during the Biden administration. In Raffensperger’s letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi, sent late Wednesday, Georgia’s secretary of state said that voting in the state increased to record levels after… -
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Washington State Bill Would Force Catholic Priests to Violate Church Law
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—A proposed law in Washington state would require priests to violate Catholic Church law by breaking the seal of confession. The bill would amend the current state law that requires law enforcement, teachers, medical professionals, or child care providers to report cases of child abuse or neglect to include church clergy that… -
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Independent in Name Only: Maine Senator Consistently Votes Liberal Democratic Party Line
Sen. Angus King of Maine bills himself as an “independent,” but his voting record is such that if it could, the Federal Trade Commission might want to charge him with false advertising. That’s because, when Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer of New York says “Jump,” King—like the Democrats he caucuses with, despite being a nominal… -
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Vance Addresses Religious Liberty Leaders in Washington
At a time when nongovernmental organizations are under intense scrutiny for what they are doing with federal funding, religious leaders, nonprofit executives, and religious liberty advocates gathered Wednesday to hear Vice President JD Vance articulate the Trump administration’s position on religious freedom. “Now, our administration believes we must stand for religious freedom, not just as… -
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Here’s How Senate Republicans Respond to California’s Devastating Wildfires
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Senate Republicans are working to eliminate the environmental regulations they think contributed to the devastation of the Los Angeles wildfires last month. In response to the wildfires, which devastated more than 60 square miles of Southern California, Sen. Cynthia Lummis, R-Wyo., joining two other senators, introduced two measures Tuesday intended to… -
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Trump Works to End California’s Man-Made Drought
California Democrats want fire victims to sue oil and gas companies. President Donald Trump wants them to have access to more water. After surveying the wildfire damage in Los Angeles, Trump issued an executive order to “ensure adequate water resources in Southern California.” He cited the problems with fire hydrants running dry and empty reservoirs…. -
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California Congressman Slams Newsom Appointee for Dismantling Volunteer Fire Unit
Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., has sharply criticized a high-ranking appointee of California Gov. Gavin Newsom for dismantling the state’s emergency response volunteer firefighting units. Shortly after Newsom appointed Matthew Beevers as adjutant general of the California Military Department in May 2023, Beevers decommissioned the Emergency Response Command, a highly trained joint command consisting of two volunteer… -
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Virginia Catholic Bishop Advocates for ‘Well-Regulated Borders’ Amid Vance Controversy
The Catholic bishop of the Diocese of Arlington, Virginia, came to the defense of secure border policies, amid debate over Vice President JD Vance’s criticism of Catholic assistance to illegal immigrants. The “Pastoral Statement on American Immigration Law” envisions a form of border security that works for the Catholic vision of the common good. In… -
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Here’s Where California Democrats Are Pointing the Finger of Blame for Wildfires
You knew this was coming. California’s Democrat legislators presented a bill Monday to allow insurers and homeowners impacted by the Los Angeles fires to sue oil companies for their losses. Senate Bill 222 aims to blame the fires on climate change caused by fossil fuels and make the oil companies bankroll the state’s underfunded insurance…