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opinion
To Teach the Founding’s Principles, We Must Tell the Founders’ Stories
Nearly 250 years ago, an extraordinary generation of Americans swore their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor to the cause of freedom. Determined to hand down the long-standing tradition of American self-government, our Founders took up arms, triumphed in a hard-fought war against the world’s strongest military power, and left us—their descendants—the greatest system of government… -
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Heritage Action Labels Big, Beautiful Bill a Key Vote
Heritage Action, a Washington conservative advocacy group, is labeling the House’s passage of the “big, beautiful” budget reconciliation bill a “key vote.” For Heritage Action, a key vote is when the group urges a bill’s passage and use it as a way to score a lawmaker’s alignment with conservative policies. “In a historic move, the… -
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US Supreme Court to Take Up Two Transgender Athlete Cases
THE CENTER SQUARE—The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to take up two cases in its next term on laws banning men from participating in girls and women’s sports, based on biological sex. The Supreme Court will hear arguments on Little v. Hecox and West Virginia v. B.P.J. The cases come out of Idaho and… -
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The Secret Sauce That Made America
Friday is the Fourth of July. What will you celebrate? Freedom from the English monarchy? To me, the Fourth is about freedom, period. When the Founders signed the Declaration of Independence, they put forth a radical idea: Rights don’t come from kings or presidents. They come from being human. Government’s job is to protect those… -
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Trump Deserves the Nobel Peace Prize
President Donald Trump deserves a Nobel Peace Prize for his second term actions as president. That was the take from The Daily Signal’s Executive Editor Rob Bluey on a CNN panel that drew chuckles from the reliably liberal commentators. I agree, and not just because Rob is my boss. By the public standards of the… -
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Gaza Humanitarian Foundation Won’t Stop Aid Distribution After Hamas Puts Bounties on Workers
Hamas has placed bounties on the heads of American and local Gaza Humanitarian Foundation workers. But the Rev. Johnnie Moore, the group’s executive chairman, says, “If all of these threats are intended to shut us down, it’s just not going to work.” “Terrorists want to cause you to be afraid,” Moore said. “I’m a… -
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Why Aren’t Democrats Proud to Be American?
As we prepare to note the 249th anniversary of our country, getting ready for the great celebration next year of America’s 250th, Gallup serves up sobering data. Per polling just released by Gallup, only 58% of Americans now say they are “extremely proud” or “very proud” to be an American. When Gallup first asked this… -
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Bill Moyers, the Face of Taxpayer-Funded Propaganda
Liberal journalists dumped a barrel of glorifying adjectives upon the news Bill Moyers died at age 91. The Washington Post headline was “Bill Moyers, eminence of public affairs broadcasting, dies at 91.” AP’s Frazier Moore gushed, “the former White House press secretary who became one of television’s most honored journalists, masterfully using a visual medium… -
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House Advances Big, Beautiful Bill
The House of Representatives passed a rule to bring a massive 10-year budget framework—known as the one big, beautiful bll—to the floor, as Republican leadership attempts to send it to President Donald Trump’s desk for signature by Independence Day. The bill would extend Trump’s 2017 tax cuts and provide funding for border security and defense…. -
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Nationalism Is the Answer to Globalism
Two 2016 elections—President Donald Trump in the U.S. and Brexit in the United Kingdom—sent our global elites reeling. The only people not surprised that borders and sovereignty prevailed on both sides of the Atlantic, it seemed, were those still bold enough to call themselves nationalists. Yoram Hazony was so bold as to be an unapologetic… -
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Supreme Court Upholds Porn Age-Verification Law
Last Friday, the Supreme Court held in Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton that states can require pornographic websites to verify that users are over 18. States now have much more leeway to ensure that children are protected from internet pornography. In 2023, Texas introduced the law challenged in Paxton. The law requires pornography websites to… -
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Republican Unity Rally: Virginia Candidates Present United Front Ahead of Election
The top three Republicans on Virginia’s ballot rallied together for the first time Tuesday, presenting a united front ahead of the closely watched Nov. 4 election. Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears, the GOP nominee for governor, joined Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares and John Reid, the lieutenant governor nominee, at the Vienna Volunteer Fire Department in… -
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Nick Freitas Talks Founding Principles, Fighting Socialism, and Life After Politics
As Independence Day approaches, The Daily Signal sat down with politician-turned-Virginia’s newest “conservative influencer” Nick Freitas to talk about the nation’s founding, the internal struggles the country has had with the forces of socialism, and how his life has changed since he announced that he was not going to seek reelection to public office. >>>… -
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Border Czar Homan Credits ‘Trump Effect’ for June’s Low Illegal-Alien Encounter Numbers
Border czar Tom Homan is praising the “Trump effect” after another drop in illegal-alien encounters at the southern border in June. “Total Border Patrol encounters for the entire month of June 2025 was 6,070,” Homan wrote on X. “That is less than a single day under [President Joe Biden]. As a matter of fact,… -
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Consider the Dissenter: Justice Jackson’s Troubled Close to the 2024 Term
Ketanji Brown Jackson is a justice seeking to establish her legacy. By some lights, her mere presence as the first black women on the Supreme Court is already a legacy-cementing fact. To her credit, she understands that status alone is not enough, and thus she has been enormously active as a questioner and opinion writer… -
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Zero Illegal Aliens Were Let Into US in June
The Trump administration’s border czar Tom Homan announced on X Tuesday evening that not a single person detained at the border in June was released into the country. Last month’s border numbers are in, and they are a massive win for President Donald Trump and the rule of law. That goes alongside a dramatic decline in total border encounters… -
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John Reid Talks About Uniting the Virginia Republican Ticket for November
Politics—the concept, not the American spectator sport—comes from ancient Greek word politiká, or “affairs of the cities,” and is defined as “a set of activities that are associated with making decisions in groups.” One group that will need to work together over the next several months is the Republican ticket for Virginia’s next governor, lieutenant… -
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Turning Up the Heat: China Continues Its Years Long Military Pressure Campaign Around Taiwan
“Taiwan is, of course, a country,” proclaimed the island’s President Lai Ching-te on June 22. In his first of a series of 10 lectures, Lai reaffirmed that Taiwan’s sovereignty derives from its 23 million people, earning him a swift rebuke from Beijing. True to form, Beijing resorted to calling Lai’s speech “a ‘Taiwan independence’ declaration… -
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DOJ Sues More States Over In-State Tuition for Illegal Aliens
Attention, all parents and college students worried about the ever-rising cost of college tuition. The Department of Justice has finally—after three decades—started enforcing the federal law that prohibits states from offering in-state tuition to illegal aliens unless they also offer in-state tuition to everyone else—including all citizen students from out of state. The law it’s… -
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Media Gets It Wrong on UVA President’s Resignation
What last week’s resignation of University of Virginia President Jim Ryan wasn’t was an assault on academia and the independence of America’s universities as the media and Democrat elected officials are claiming. What it is is a serious opportunity to talk about federalism and real academic independence. First, the details. The U.S. Department of Justice…
