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The Daily Signal covers how woke left ideology drives cultural and political division across education, media, and public life. Featuring investigative reporting, analysis, and commentary, this section highlights the consequences of identity-driven activism and the left’s progressive agenda in America.
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    Blowing the Lid Off of the Left’s Charlottesville Narrative

    President Donald Trump never defended white nationalists in the infamous 2017 “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, but a leftist group in league with Trump’s 2020 opponent, President Joe Biden, was funding the white nationalists under the table. According to the Justice Department’s new indictment, the Southern Poverty Law Center—which raises money by presenting…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    • Opinion

    Bruce Springsteen’s Land of Hope and Dreams No Longer Welcomes All

    The first time I heard Bruce Springsteen play “Land of Hope and Dreams” during his reunion tour of 1999, I nearly wept. Summoning the spirit of Woody Guthrie’s “Bound for Glory” and The Impressions’ gospel-tinged “People Get Ready,” the soul-soaring number evoked America as a train, with “this train” welcoming “saints and sinners,” “losers and…
    Al Perrotta
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    • News

    The SPLC Was Paying the Ku Klux Klan, DOJ Indictment Claims

    The Southern Poverty Law Center has raised money for decades claiming to dismantle white supremacy, but it funneled millions of dollars to white nationalist groups, including the Ku Klux Klan, according to a federal indictment handed down Tuesday. The SPLC claims it was funding informants inside the extremist groups. While the SPLC “purports to fight…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    EXCLUSIVE: Consumer Group Wants Insurers Investigated for ‘Woke’ Policies

    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—A consumer advocacy organization is asking the House Oversight Committee to examine whether major insurance companies are allowing wokeness to shape business decisions. Consumers’ Research President Will Hild wrote a letter to Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., claiming that large insurers are “leveraging their market power, corporate governance practices, and public-facing programs to…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    • Analysis

    ‘Hollywood for Ugly People’ Finally Gets a Taste of Celebrity Treatment

    It’s often said that Washington, D.C., is Hollywood for ugly people. Well, Congress is finally getting the Hollywood treatment it has been longing for. While lawmakers are on spring break, the entertainment news outlet TMZ has joined the scrum that is covering news on Capitol Hill. As members of Congress left Washington, D.C., for a…
    Virginia Grace McKinnon
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    • Opinion

    Is Hollywood’s Political Preaching Era Drawing to an End?

    The Washington Stand—Recent years have seen a number of Hollywood stars toss out their soapboxes and urge their fellow celebrities to simply shut up about politics. During President Donald Trump’s first term, superstar and then-“it” girl Jennifer Lawrence was an outspoken critic, frequently weighing in on political matters, describing the Trump presidency as “the end of the…
    S.A. McCarthy
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    • News

    Massie Questions ‘Woke’ Opponent’s Conservative Credentials

    Rep. Thomas Massie released an ad Tuesday questioning his primary opponent’s conservative credentials. Massie, R-Ky., who has an 83% lifetime score from Heritage Action, pointed out that Ed Gallrein, who is now endorsed by President Donald Trump, changed his voter registration from Republican to Independent in 2016, the year Trump won the Republican Party’s presidential…
    Pedro Rodriguez
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    • Opinion

    Tim Tebow’s Mistake: Empowering a Radical Left Politician on Child Protection

    For years, Tim Tebow has been working with state and federal officials to raise awareness to help get laws passed to end human trafficking and child pornography. It’s a cause that is super commendable—for sure. And he’s on the verge of success. Just last month, legislation meant to strengthen investigations of sexually abusive images of…
    Rob Maness
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    5 Egregious Examples of Leftist Earmarks in Shutdown-Ending Funding Bill

    The bill President Donald Trump signed in order to end the government shutdown also included mandatory spending that will contradict his policy goals. The $1.2 trillion package included funding for specific entities—some of which the Trump administration is currently threatening to defund. Other funded entities provide legal defenses for illegal aliens facing deportation, while some…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    EXCLUSIVE: DHS Slams ‘Gross’ ICE Rhetoric at Grammys

    The Department of Homeland Security on Monday shot back at criticism of immigration enforcement from celebrity artists at the 2026 Grammy Awards.   “It’s gross Hollywood would choose to demonize our law enforcement as they are putting their lives on the line to arrest murderers, pedophiles, rapists, kidnappers, and robbers from our communities,” Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia…
    Virginia Allen
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    • Opinion

    ‘We Were Anti-Nazi, but Not Anti-Communist’: Hollywood’s ‘Come to Jesus’ Moment That Never Was

    In this wide-ranging edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words,” guest host Jack Fowler sits down with Elizabeth Spalding, chairman of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, to confront the forgotten truths of communism’s deadly legacy. From Hollywood’s willful blindness to the rise of socialism at home, Spalding explains why communism and socialism…
    Jack Fowler
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    Foreign Aid Bill: Bridge Financing for the Radical Left?

    On Thursday night, the U.S. House of Representatives passed its National Security, Department of State, and Related Programs Appropriations Act 2026. The bill provides the foreign aid industry $50 billion in taxpayer funding, $20 billion over the president’s budget request. The foreign aid industry praised it “as a long-awaited break for a beleaguered development community.”…
    Max Primorac
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    Hollywood vs Individualism

    Many popular movies make a constructive point: If you work hard enough and push through tough times, you can achieve your dreams. In “The Pursuit of Happyness,” a struggling father tells his son, “Don’t let anyone tell you, you can’t do something.” The movie is a true story about a man who overcomes homelessness and…
    John Stossel
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  • 2 Polls in Va. Governor’s Race Paint Very Different Pictures. Why Is Media Only Showing Democrat-Friendly One?

    The “unofficial” start to summer 2025 has arrived, and with it, Virginia’s campaign season with its national implications—it’s touted as a barometer for how the electorate feels about the party in power in Washington. The state never has an “off year”—what pundits call election years without a federal or statewide elections. Every year in Virginia…
    Joe Thomas
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  • Minneapolis’ Rogue Prosecutor Orders Assistants to Discriminate Based on Race

    Minneapolis’ disgraced-public-defender-turned-prosecutor, Mary Moriarty, put out a memo innocuously entitled “Negotiations Policy for Cases Involving Adult Defendants.” But the policies she puts forward in it are far from innocuous. In fact, they’re illegal. Beginning on Monday, April 28, she has ordered prosecutors in her office to begin treating people differently based on their race. Of…
    Zack Smith
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  • The House’s Harness Race of the Horrible

    When I was little, I lived down the street from Rosecroft Raceway, a harness racing track just outside the Washington Beltway.   Occasionally, we’d go watch the races at night or simply hear the race calls and roar of the crowd echo through the neighborhood.   When the wind was right you could smell the manure from…
    Al Perrotta
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  • The Left’s Continued Obsession With Race and Voting—and Why Courts Keep Feeding It

    Left-wing activists sued Louisiana for not having enough black-majority populated congressional districts. But after creating an additional black-majority district, the state was then sued by voters for creating the district on the basis of race, which is illegal. Also on the legal front, activist judges are imposing nationwide injunctions to try to stop President Donald…
    Tony Kinnett
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  • South Africa Denies Elon Musk’s Accusations of Racial Genocide

    South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Monday denied Elon Musk’s claim that white people are being persecuted in that country, calling it a “completely false narrative.” Musk, a native of South Africa, drew attention to a political rally last Friday at which black leaders of a far-left opposition party sang a song that includes the lyrics “Kill…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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  • Republican Race for Virginia Governor Intensifies as Nation Watches

    Virginians are bracing for another onslaught of national politicians and pundits hell-bent to prove during the commonwealth’s upcoming off-year gubernatorial election that Donald Trump’s win in November was either a mandate or a fluke. And for once, there appeared to be a clear, primary-free, path for Republicans in the state to rally early around a…
    Joe Thomas
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  • When a Judge Incorrectly Rules Race as Legit in Naval Academy Admissions (Part 3 of 3)

    Can the U.S. Naval Academy continue to use race and ethnicity in admissions decisions, even though the Supreme Court last year expressly forbade the use of race in college admissions in two related cases, Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard and Students for Fair Admissions v. UNC?  The answer is "yes," according to U.S. District Court Judge Richard D. Bennett,…
    Cully Stimson
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