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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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    College Board Concedes to DeSantis on Woke African American Studies Course
    The College Board will revise its Advanced Placement African American Studies course for high school students after Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, rejected it as “indoctrination,” according to a Tuesday afternoon announcement.   “Thanks to Gov. Ron DeSantis’ principled stand for education over identity politics, the College Board will be revising the course for the…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    ‘Duck Dynasty’ Star Is Role Model for Young Women on Remaining Grounded in Woke World
    While America tells young women they need to blend in with the secularized culture, reality TV star and author Sadie Robertson Huff teaches them how to remain tethered to their purpose and stay confident in their beliefs when the culture says otherwise. And her example of living for God through her own fame gives her…
    Moriah Johnson
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    Woke Diversity and Equity Programs Have Failed; We Don’t Need More of Them in Our Schools
    School districts across the country have established diversity, equity, and inclusion, or DEI, offices to reduce discrimination, and the federal Department of Education regularly touts the value of DEI programs to quell bias. Yet nationwide, school officials reported a “record number” of discrimination complaints last year. How can this be? In truth, studies show that…
    Jonathan Butcher
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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…
    EJ Antoni
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    George Santos, Child of Woke America
    By now, just about everyone has heard about the massive campaign of lies that Republican George Santos fabricated that just got him elected to a congressional seat from New York. In his various appearances and interviews to explain himself, the lack of shame he seems to feel is almost as uncanny as the lies themselves….
    Star Parker
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    Comic Book Fans Shun Superheroes’ Woke Makeovers
    Did you know that Superman’s son is bisexual? So is Batman’s sidekick, Robin, and lots of other superheroes created by Marvel and DC Comics. The author of the bisexual Superman story says gay people write to say they “burst into tears” when they saw that the characters had become gay. While it’s nice to make…
    John Stossel
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    The Weird, the Woke, the Wasteful: 10 Flavors of Pork for 10 States Bringing Home the Bacon
    You can learn a lot about a man by seeing how he spends his money. You can learn about a congressman by seeing how he spends everyone else’s money. Congress is—yet again—preparing to spend nearly $2 trillion of taxpayers’ dollars in a massive omnibus spending bill. Some in Congress are reluctant to keep overspending taxpayer…
    Preston Brashers
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    12 Woke Earmarks in Omnibus Spending Bill
    Congressional leadership released a massive $1.85 trillion “omnibus” spending bill early Tuesday. This 4,155-page bill is filled with woke policies to advance the Left’s extreme agenda to remake America using your tax dollars. It is unprecedented for a lame-duck Congress to jam through an omnibus spending bill after the American people voted out the majority…
    Matthew Dickerson
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    Welfare Programs Based on Race and Gender Identity Demonstrate Where Institutional Wokeness Is Going
    What happens in Oakland doesn’t stay in Oakland. In 2021, the California city announced a universal basic income program created specifically for so-called BIPOC, or black, Indigenous, and people of color. It was set to give $500 a month to 600 low-income families for 18 months in partnership with a nonprofit organization. Shortly after it…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    How This Mother Rescued Her Daughter From Woke ‘Cult’ After College Indoctrination
    Annabella Rockwell was thrilled when she learned she had been accepted at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts, the oldest women's college in America.  “I was so excited,” Rockwell said. “I was so eager to learn.” But the more she learned in her college classes, the more her joyful personality waned, her mother says.  By junior…
    Virginia Allen
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    Do We Want Woke Institutions Deciding Who’s Worthy of Life? A Warning From Canada
    Remember when the idea that government-run health care could lead to “death panels” was scoffed at as absurd? Well, the absurd is coming closer to reality as Canada—which has a universal, publicly funded health care system—extends medical assistance in dying (MAiD) laws to include a wider variety of conditions.  Since Canada passed its law in…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    Public Library Pays Ibram X. Kendi $22,500 to Deliver Woke, ‘Anti-Racist’ Message
    A woke sermon—from a well-paid minister who speaks his truth—is coming to a public library near you. Controversial author Ibram X. Kendi spoke Wednesday evening at the Fairfax County Public Library in Virginia, just outside the nation’s capital.  Kendi, director of the Center for Antiracist Research at Boston University, is the author of the 2019…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    Cultural Marxism and How to Combat It 
    Combating cultural Marxism must begin on college campuses, because universities are the “source of the poison” of leftist ideology.   That was a major takeaway from a panel discussion, “How Cultural Marxism Threatens the United States—and How Americans Can Fight It,” last week at The Heritage Foundation. (The Daily Signal is the news outlet of Heritage.)  One of…
    Wallace White
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    Churchill in Disrepute as Woke Indoctrination in Schools Spreads Throughout West
    Woke attitudes are becoming pervasive among young people, even outside the United States. Recently released research by Eric Kaufmann, a professor of politics at the University of London, shows how concepts such as critical race theory and radical gender ideology have become common concepts taught in U.K. schools. The research was based on a YouGov…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    Christian Series ‘The Chosen’ Hits Big Screen, Outpaces Multiple Hollywood Films at Box Office
    Questions, struggle, pain, fear, and an overwhelming commitment to follow Jesus through it all: welcome to “The Chosen” season three.   The first two episodes of the third season of “The Chosen,” named “Homecoming” and “Two by Two,” hit the big screen on Friday, kicking off a five-day theatrical release in more than 2,000 theaters worldwide….
    Virginia Allen
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    ‘Florida Is Where the Woke Goes to Die,’ Gov. Ron DeSantis Proclaims After Landslide Reelection
    Wokeness isn’t welcome in Florida, and the Sunshine State is a place where it “goes to die,” Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, who was reelected in a landslide, said in a Tuesday night victory speech. DeSantis defeated Democratic U.S. Rep. Charlie Crist, a former Republican and former governor, by nearly 20 percentage points with…
    Samantha Aschieris | Tyler O’Neil
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    Fighting Woke Agenda, Tampon-Maker Says ‘Only Women Can Have Periods’ 
    When Macy Maxson began using her tampon-subscription company Garnuu as a platform to say that “only women can have periods,” some called her a liar.    “A lot of people were saying that I was spreading lies to people,” Maxson told The Daily Signal on the “Problematic Women” podcast.   Maxson said she received emails from…
    Virginia Allen
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    A Governor Who Understands That Woke Corporations Undermine American Interests
    “ESG is kind of rewriting how you invest. Instead of focusing on value for your shareholders, it’s more of a political agenda.” These are the prudent words of Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt about environmental, social, and corporate governance standards, dubbed ESG, which are nonfinancial yardsticks applied to firms and used by money managers in decision-making…
    Anthony B. Kim
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    Tulsi Gabbard Leaves Democratic Party, Says Democrats ‘Driven by Cowardly Wokeness’
    Former Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard announced that she is leaving the Democratic Party over its authoritarianism and anti-white racism in a Tuesday video. “I can no longer remain in today’s Democratic Party that is now under the complete control of an elitist cabal of warmongers driven by cowardly wokeness, who divide us by racializing every…
    Gillian Richards
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    How Woke Leftists Are Taking Over a Founding Father’s Home
    Each year over 100,000 people visit Montpellier—the home of Founding Father and fourth U.S. President James Madison—expecting to glimpse into the mind of Madison and his role in founding a nation.  Instead, they find a distorted version of American history.
    Philip Reynolds
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