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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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    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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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    Woke but Broke: How US Colleges Are Pricing Students, Themselves Out of Business

    Whether their leaders realize or admit it or not, American colleges and universities are on the verge of a crisis. And it’s a crisis, by and large, of their own making. The National Association of Scholars last month published a report by Neetu Arnold, “Priced Out: What College Costs America,” which finds, among other things,…
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    Woke Corporations Adopt Hypocritical Playbook on China

    It appears that much of corporate America has picked up the fine and proper art of virtue signaling that is so fundamental to the modern woke elite. Much has been said about how many corporations have stepped in to publicly denounce Georgia’s voter integrity law and have become “woke” on many other issues. A Yale…
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    We Hear You: Georgia Elections, Baseball, and Woke Corporations

    Editor's note: The misrepresentation of Georgia's new election law by politicians and activists on the left is a serious matter to The Daily Signal's audience. Here's a sampling of your reaction from the mailbag at [email protected].—Ken McIntyre Dear Daily Signal: Thank you for the many well-researched and incisive articles covering the lies and hypocrisy in…
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    The Left Wants Kids to See White Supremacy Everywhere, and It’s Destroying Pop Culture

    “Certain elements of our community are threatening to get people fired,” tweeted Yale professor Nicholas Christakis on Apr. 3. “Even if someone just poses a question, or expresses a conflicting view, you’re immediately labeled a problem, a white supremacist, and people will say, ‘Find out where they work.’” Christakis was quoting an excerpt from a…
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    The Woke Revolution Is Powered by the Elites

    Ed Bastian made $17 million in 2019 as chief executive officer of Delta Air Lines, Georgia’s largest employer. Bastian just blasted Georgia’s new voting law. He thinks it is racist to require the same sort of ID to vote that Delta requires for its passengers to check in. Yet most Americans believe voting is a…
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    Woke Capitalism Strikes Again in Georgia

    If the problem of “woke capitalism” wasn’t apparent before, the battle over Georgia’s new election integrity law has drawn it out into the open. The law, which adds voter ID requirements to absentee voting, extends some early voting, and places some restrictions on activist activities at polling places, has been billed by Democrats and President…
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    We Hear You: Awake or Woke in America

    Editor's note: Judging from your emails, many in The Daily Signal's audience don't recognize the "woke" country around them and long for a return to normal. Here's a sampling from the mailbag at [email protected]—Ken McIntyre Dear Daily Signal: I awoke at 5 one recent morning like something had hit me in the head. It was…
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    Woke Educators’ War on Tests

    Did you take the SATs to try to get into college? Your kids may not have to. More than 1,300 schools have become “test optional,” meaning students need not submit SAT scores. Some, like the entire University of California system, now won’t even look at scores. There are seemingly legitimate reasons to oppose the tests….
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    Cancel Culture Comes for All: How 10-Year-Old Tweets Cost This Journalist Her Job

    Alexi McCammond, 27, was widely considered an up-and-coming young journalist after her time working as a political commentator for Axios news. She had been hired as the new editor-in-chief of Teen Vogue magazine and was all set to start, before it was revealed that she had made some tweets that many considered anti-Asian and homophobic…
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    The History Behind the ‘Woke’ Invasion of Big Business

    Why is corporate America increasingly stepping in to support “woke” social justice causes? “These corporations are part of a movement that has been going on in the West and in this country in particular for the last roughly 100 years to move the culture very consistently and very aggressively to the left in order to…
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    Some Liberals Are Getting Sick of Cancel Culture

    A mounting discontent with “cancel culture” is emerging, even in some liberal circles. On a recent episode of “Real Time,” host Bill Maher dedicated a monologue to the cancel culture phenomenon. Maher is very much a man of the left, and of course used some of his time to attack Republicans. But he also noted…
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    We Hear You: Cancel Culture Reaches a Galaxy Far, Far Away

    Editor's note: The Daily Signal's audience isn't happy about a star of Disney+'s "Star Wars" prequel series "The Mandalorian" being fired for her conservative-leaning posts on social media. Here's a sampling, with some related mail. Don't hesitate to write about our coverage to [email protected].—Ken McIntyre Dear Daily Signal: Regarding Douglas Blair's commentary, I think what…
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