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    Victor Davis Hanson: The WNBA’s Racist Agenda Toward Caitlin Clark
    Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words” from Daily Signal senior contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to Victor Davis Hanson’s own YouTube channel to watch past episodes. Jack Fowler: Most Americans don’t care about women’s basketball. We do here in Connecticut—you know, University of Connecticut women’s basketball,…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    Ohio Amendments Saved for November 2027
    Last October, at the Daily Signal-sponsored Essential Summit hosted by the Center for Christian Virtue, a panel warned of the upcoming ballot initiatives in Ohio. One would enshrine same-sex marriage into the state constitution, while the other would apply “gender identity and expression” to the list of protected citizens. However, the group behind the initiatives…
    Rebecca Downs
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    The Conservative Movement and ‘The Odyssey’
    Just a few weeks after our nation’s 250th anniversary, Christopher Nolan’s film adaptation of Homer’s 3,000-year-old epic “The Odyssey” will hit theaters. The conservative movement can learn something from Odysseus, the “man of twists and turns,” nearly three millennia after the poem was composed. As colossal as the poem’s story is—being stretched over 10 years…
    Ty Ruddy
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    Our Favorite Patriotic Tunes, Part 1: ‘God Bless America’ vs. ‘This Land Is Your Land’
    As we celebrate America’s 250th birthday, the skies will be filled with not only fireworks but song. Those great patriotic tunes we all know by heart, even when we can’t hit all the notes. (Yes, “Star-Spangled Banner,” I’m thinking of you.) Though the songs may be as familiar as the red, white, and blue, the…
    Al Perrotta
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    ‘ASK MERCY OF GOD’: Republicans Slam Dems Over Endorsement of Leftist Group Under Federal Indictment
    Republicans are calling on their Democrat opponents to distance themselves from a leftist group accused of propping up the Ku Klux Klan in order to fundraise against it. Kevin Martin, a Republican challenging Rep. Lucy McBath in Georgia’s 6th Congressional District, called the Southern Poverty Law Center a “wolf in sheep’s clothing” because the group…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    ‘CULTURAL CORRECTION’: 10 Major Brands Dial Back the LGBTQ Pride
    Companies have been dialing back their LGBTQ+ Pride messaging since President Donald Trump took office last year, and analysts say that contributes to a less divisive marketplace. “This is both a market correction and a cultural correction,” Allen Mendenhall, a senior adviser for The Heritage Foundation’s Free Enterprise Initiative, told the Daily Signal. “After years…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    EXCLUSIVE: Judiciary Committee Threatens to Hold the SPLC in Contempt for Withholding Documents
    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The House Judiciary Committee is threatening to hold the Southern Poverty Law Center in contempt of Congress for failing to hand over documents related to the SPLC’s use of “field sources” inside extremist groups and its work with the Justice Department under President Joe Biden. “The committee has made several good-faith…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    Radical Islam Infiltrating the Democratic Party, GOP Reps Say
    After House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries refused to answer the Daily Signal’s question on his party’s pro-radical Islam problem, conservative lawmakers exclusively told the outlet that this is a result of “importing people that hate America.” “The Democrats have nominated a Nazi and an al-Qaeda terrorist; the Democratic Party has fetishized Islamic terrorism,” Rep. Randy…
    Pedro Rodriguez
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    NOT JUST AN ‘IDEA’: How Trump Admin Is Holding Antifa Accountable For Violent Threats
    During the 2020 presidential debate with President Donald Trump, Joe Biden infamously declared that Antifa was “an idea, not an organization,” echoing a leftist talking point that deflected from the violent riots that summer. Yet the Justice Department’s prosecutions of Antifa agitators in this second Trump administration should dispel this notion once and for all….
    Tyler O’Neil
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    Taking Out the Trash in America
    Although major sports wins bring celebration, the festivities are often marred in big cities by unruly behavior. That was particularly the case in New York, following the Knicks’ June 13 clinching of the NBA championship. The parade that followed brought more chaos. Following that victory over the San Antonio Spurs—the Knicks’ first title in 53…
    Rebecca Downs
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    A Pride-Dominated Capital? That Era May Be Fading
    June is widely referred to as Pride Month, a narrative heavily pushed by progressives and the Biden administration. But this year, June feels different. Conservatives have and are actively taking a stand against it. Earlier this month, Rep. Mary Miller, R-Ill., declared June “Nuclear Family Month” to “rededicat[e] our Nation to the importance of this…
    Virginia Grace McKinnon
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    How One Leftist Group Prevents Corporate Employees From Supporting Conservative Nonprofits
    Major employers systematically—though perhaps unintentionally—blacklist conservative nonprofits from their employee charitable giving programs through a third party. Corporate generosity platforms such as Benevity act as middlemen, connecting employers such as AT&T, Coca-Cola, McDonald’s, and Starbucks to a host of nonprofits. Benevity, for example, connects “nearly 1,000 enterprise companies” to a network of 513,000 nonprofits after…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    Victor Davis Hanson: Why America’s Universities Are Falling Apart
    Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for the Daily Signal. There’s been a lot of news lately about the university’s higher education crisis, and universities are now competing for students…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    5 Things to Know About the SPLC’s Incoming CEO
    The Southern Poverty Law Center has announced its next president and CEO amid a federal indictment into alleged fraud regarding payments to members of the Ku Klux Klan. Ryan P. Haygood, who serves as president and CEO of the New Jersey Institute for Social Justice, will formally join the SPLC in August, the center announced…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    The Left Gears Up for US 250th Anniversary by Dialing Up the America-Hating
    Rolling into the 250th anniversary of the United States, liberals, leftists, Democrats, and democratic socialists are united behind one message: America stinks. At the counterprogramming to the White House UFC match over the weekend, a bunch of miserable-looking, aging celebrities held a “#resistance” rally or something like that. Robert De Niro, an aging Hollywood gazillionaire…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    NFL Subscriptions Stir Controversy
    The National Football League has privatized much of its viewership, which is drawing criticism from leading lawmakers, such as Republican Sen. Mike Lee of Utah, and President Donald Trump. The controversy comes as NFL fans are now expected to spend up to $1,000 across roughly 10 different subscriptions if they wish to have access to…
    Pedro Rodriguez
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    EXCLUSIVE: DoorDash to Stop Blacklisting Conservative Nonprofits in Employee Giving Program
    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The delivery marketplace company DoorDash has begun the process of allowing employees to donate to conservative nonprofits, even if they appear on the Southern Poverty Law Center’s “hate map.” The conservative Christian law firm Alliance Defending Freedom, working with the Catholic financial advisory firm IWP Capital, urged DoorDash to reconsider its…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    Trump Celebrates Birthday With UFC Freedom 250 Event
    WASHINGTON, June 14 (Reuters) – Donald Trump hosts a card of seven mixed martial arts fights to be held on Sunday inside a specially built arena on the White House’s South Lawn on his 80th birthday, a spectacle spotlighting his norm-defying style at a tense moment in his presidency. Seventeen months into his second term…
    Trevor Hunnicutt | Jacob Bogage
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    SHOT TO THE HEART OF DEI: How the Trump Admin Is Dismantling the Legal Basis for Government-Endorsed Discrimination
    The Department of Justice under President Donald Trump just took a pivotal step toward removing government-endorsed discrimination from America’s legal system and undermining the institutional apparatus of critical race theory. Critical race theory teaches that America is systemically racist and that even racially neutral policies are truly racist if they result in better outcomes for…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    June Starts Strong for Fox News, While Kimmel Can’t Catch Gutfeld
    While Fox News started June at its familiar perch atop the cable news ratings—and No. 2 behind ESPN overall on cable—the news channel also managed to knock off two of the television networks in primetime. Fox News ended the week of June 1 with 2.7 million weekday primetime viewers and 245,000 viewers in the crucial…
    Al Perrotta
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