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    New Social Media Platform Gettr Says No to Cancel Culture, Yes to Free Speech

    Amid the debates over Big Tech companies and censorship, a new social media platform has emerged to champion free speech. The platform Gettr officially launched July 4 with a mission of “fighting cancel culture, promoting commonsense, defending free speech, challenging social media monopolies, and creating a true marketplace of ideas,” according to the platform’s website….
    Virginia Allen
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    How One Man Leads the Charge Against Woke School Boards

    When it comes to fighting back against woke indoctrination and critical race theory in schools, Ian Prior is perhaps the happiest of warriors. Prior is executive director of Fight for Schools, an organization dedicated to exposing bad actors in the public school system in Loudoun County, Virginia, and mobilizing parents to improve education for their…
    Douglas Blair
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    Stop Surrendering Education to the Radical Left

    This Independence Day, a poll from Issues & Insights revealed that only 36% of adults aged 18-24 said they were “proud to be American,” compared with 86% of those over the age of 65. This shouldn’t be surprising. America’s children have been raised in a system dedicated to the proposition that America itself is evil,…
    Ben Shapiro
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    Why This Veteran Worries Wokeness Is Poisoning Our Military

    Jason Beardsley served his country in the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Army Special Forces before taking the helm as executive director of the Association of the United States Navy. Today, he’s speaking out to urge military leaders to focus on their primary mission of defending America—not advancing the left’s woke agenda. Beardsley recently wrote…
    Rob Bluey
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    These Woke Firms Are Sponsoring China’s Genocide Games

    This article has been corrected to reflect that General Electric has not taken a position on Georgia’s voting law and is not a current sponsor of the 2022 Olympic games. “I never said that I hated the country,” third-place hammer thrower Gwen Berry told CNN after turning away from the United States flag as the…
    Conn Carroll
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    What the Music of World War II Has to Tell Us About Patriotism and Pop Culture

    Ronald Reagan once said, “Younger parents aren’t sure that an ambivalent appreciation of America is the right thing to teach modern children. And as for those who create the popular culture, well-grounded patriotism is no longer the style.” His concern about trends in the popular culture of the time were warranted, and we should be…
    Michael Deviney
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    Woke Corporate Culture Is ‘Social Justice Scam,’ Author Says

    What is “wokeness” in America today? How did we get here?  Are “woke” corporations a threat to this country? What risk do we run if we don’t push back?  Vivek Ramaswamy, the author of the forthcoming book “Woke, Inc.: Inside Corporate America’s Social Justice Scam,” joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to discuss wokeness and the dangers it poses…
    Rachel del Guidice
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    Want to Put the Pressure on Woke Big Businesses? This Organization Has Advice

    Amy Lannom Wilhite is executive director at 2ndVote, which keeps track of major companies’ positions on social issues such as the transgender agenda. “You wouldn’t support [certain positions] at the ballot box with a candidate that you vote for, so why would you spend your dollars there?” asks Wilhite, who joins “The Daily Signal Podcast”…
    Rachel del Guidice
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    America’s Navy Is Leaving Readiness and Morale in Its Wake to Be More Woke

    Proponents of wokeness have pulled a fast one on all of us. They say they want the same things we want, such as ending racism and extremism. What they don’t say out loud is that they hope to get there not by building some beautiful new society, but by destroying everything in its path. The…
    Jason Beardsley
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    We Hear You: Woke Employees, Race in Schools, and Defunded Police

    Editor’s note: The Daily Signal’s audience appreciates the commentary by a nonprofit leader about countering wokeism on her staff. Here's a sampling of the response on this and our coverage of related issues, from the mailbag at [email protected].—Ken McIntyre Dear Daily Signal: I just read Grace Daniel's article on resisting a mutiny by employees of her…
    Ken McIntyre
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    My Woke Employees Tried to Cancel Me. Here’s How I Fought Back and Saved My Nonprofit.

    By now there are enough “cancel culture” stories to fill volumes. After my own story about standing up to a woke mob—and succeeding—went viral on Twitter, I decided to speak out, because I am convinced that Americans need more encouraging stories about standing up to cancel culture, and information on how they can do it…
    Grace Daniel
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    The New Business of Woke Corporate Consulting

    In 2017, Nandini Jammi helped launch a company called Sleeping Giants to pressure corporate advertisers into boycotting conservative media. With little more than a Twitter account, a Facebook group, and a gift for incendiary rhetoric, the company reportedly prompted a range of corporations, from Pfizer to Walmart, to pull advertising from Fox News and other…
    Mark Hemingway
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    Finished Before He Started: One Techie’s Canceling by Woke Apple

    A San Francisco Bay Area-based entrepreneur might have broken the record for the quickest cancellation in history, with Reuters reporting his firing less than 48 hours after he was hired by Apple to work on its fledging advertising program. Like seemingly every other large company these days, Apple bent the knee to a vocal minority…
    Douglas Blair
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    7 Ways to Survive Cancel Culture

    As a black conservative for more than 40 years, I’m an expert on being canceled. I was canceled by the political left long before cancel culture was all the rage. If there’s one thing liberals and leftists dislike more than a conservative, it’s a black conservative.  Liberal America doesn’t want to hear from African American…
    Kay C. James
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    What Conservatives Can Do to Fight Corporate Wokeness

    Corporate wokeness increasingly is part of American society. Justin Danhof, general counsel for the National Center for Public Policy Research, argues that Americans can and should stand up to woke ideology. “The shareholder base of even large companies that are woke, like Facebook, Alphabet, Nike, they’re not monolithically left, but that’s what the vote looks…
    Rachel del Guidice
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    The Woke Mob Comes for Lincoln

    The Department of Veterans Affairs was born of war. In the most biblically righteous inaugural address ever delivered by an American president, an exhausted Abraham Lincoln called upon his countrymen to care for those who had taken up arms in defense of the nation—risking their all in battles that raged from Pennsylvania farm fields and the desert brush of the New…
    Robert Wilkie
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    Woke Takeover of US Military Endangers Us All

    Lt. Col. Matthew Lohmeier was fired this month as commander of a U.S. Space Force unit. His “offense”? Speaking the truth about critical race theory’s rapid inroads among America’s armed forces. The woke left views the military as a crucial ideological battlefield. And much of the brass and civilian leadership at the Pentagon are prepared to…
    Mike Gonzalez
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    Biden Administration Appeals to Woke, Shuts Down Garden of American Heroes Project

    Can Americans find no shared history or heroes to celebrate now? On Friday, the Biden administration very quietly canceled the Garden of American Heroes project that President Donald Trump created via executive order on Jan. 18. Trump first announced the project in a Fourth of July speech at Mount Rushmore. Among other things, President Joe…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    Diversity in Cybersecurity Tools a National Security Issue

    As a former head of the third-largest department in the federal government, I know the critical importance of being able to communicate with key staff quickly and clearly to make operational decisions. But what if your communications have been disabled or compromised? As a leader or manager, what would you do in that situation? Do…
    Chad Wolf
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    Woke Companies Fail in Efforts to Hurt States Passing Conservative Legislation

    Corporate America: heavy on threats, light on action. After the big blow-up in Georgia, most businesses probably thought they’d scared the daylights out of Republicans by going on MSNBC and ranting against the state’s election law. Turns out, the people who should be scared are the woke CEOs. Not only did Major League Baseball’s All-Star…
    Tony Perkins
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