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    Democratic Socialism Presents an Opportunity for Republicans
    Every political movement eventually reveals what it truly believes. And when it does, voters have a choice to make. For years, Americans were told that the radical Left was little more than a noisy fringe, loud on social media but marginal in real life. That claim is now hard to sustain. Candidates aligned with or…
    Michael Freund
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    Victor Davis Hanson: Mamdani Is the Real Racist Polluting This Country
    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.   On July 3, the mayor of New York, Zohran Mamdani—and I don’t quite know why the mayor seems to think he…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    Smithsonian’s Museum of American History Erases American Greatness, New Report Finds
    On Saturday, Americans celebrated the 250th anniversary of our nation’s founding. Shockingly, according to a detailed new report from the White House’s Domestic Policy Council, the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History (NMAH) did not. The report, titled “Saving America’s Story: How Ideological Capture at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History Erases…
    Al Perrotta
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    Alive and Kicking: News of Woke’s Death Is Greatly Exaggerated
    RealClearWire—Just a few years ago, wearing a sombrero on Halloween could get you banished from polite society for the social crime of “cultural appropriation.” Nutrition experts argued that preventing obesity was a form of racialized “fatphobia,” even as scientific names of songbirds were purged in a moral campaign presumably aimed at white supremacy. Meanwhile, a slew of studies, papers, and articles argued that punctuality, excellence, and other forms of professionalism are “the systemic, institutionalized centering of whiteness.” Today, as universities are dismantling…
    John Murawski
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    The Left Makes Weird Comments About Usha Vance’s Normal Maternity Clothes
    The Left said Vice President JD Vance was weird when he was on the campaign trail. Now it’s obsessed with his wife’s pregnant belly. That’s weird. Usha Vance appeared on the most recent episode of “Storytime with the Second Lady” wearing a slightly off-the-shoulder, fitted coral maternity dress, and the chief fashion critic of The…
    Francesca Cella
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    Our Favorite Patriotic Tunes, Part 3: Calling on God
    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. Though the songs may be as familiar as the red, white, and blue, the stories behind them often are not. In Part…
    Al Perrotta
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    Reclaiming the Exceptionalism That Built the Greatest Nation on Earth
    RealClearWire—As fireworks light the sky this July Fourth and we mark the 250th anniversary of American independence, we celebrate more than a birthday. We honor the most successful experiment in human freedom the world has ever known—an experiment that delivered unprecedented abundance, opportunity, and dignity to ordinary people. No nation in history has lifted the…
    Kendall Qualls
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    Bill Maher, Liberalism’s Apostate
    Bill Maher is the perfect liberal, at least on paper—yet despite his talk shows being nominated for Emmy awards more than 40 times, it’s only in Donald Trump’s Washington that Maher finally gets the recognition he craves. He’s now the 27th recipient of the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, an award first won by…
    Daniel McCarthy
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    Our Favorite Patriotic Tunes, Part 2: 3 Songs Swiped From the Brits
    The skies as we celebrate America’s 250th birthday will be filled not only with fireworks, but song. Those great patriotic tunes we all know by heart, even when we can’t hit all the notes. Though the songs may be as familiar as the red, white, and blue, the stories behind them often are not. In…
    Al Perrotta
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    The New Socialist Guillotine Is Coming for the Democratic Party
    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.   We’re watching a modern-day French Revolutionary-like takeover of the Democratic Party. We could call it the Reign of Terror or…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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  • news

    China-Based Tycoon Neville Roy Singham Under Investigation
    Neville Roy Singham, a tech tycoon based in China, is facing a federal investigation for alleged financial crimes, Fox News reported Monday. Singham is known for his underwriting of socialist, communist, and Marxist causes. According to Fox News, “the grand jury in Manhattan has issued subpoenas as part of a probe launched by U.S. Attorney…
    Rebecca Downs
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    The Racist Plot to Retire Caitlin Clark From the WNBA
    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.   I don’t watch much Women’s National Basketball Association games. Apparently, most Americans have not in the past. But there was an incident the other day…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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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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