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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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    The Trickle-Down Effects of Our Elites Embracing Wokeness

    The ideological conformity and revolutionary zeal that’s taking over Western institutions threaten to not only “fundamentally transform” society, they threaten to destroy the bedrock of what made us so successful to begin with. Political scientist Walter Russell Mead recently wrote in The Wall Street Journal that campus wokeness is hurting America’s position globally. The increasing…
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    Practical Tools to Protect Your Kids From Woke Agenda at School

    It’s back to school time! But preparing for school no longer only means buying pencils and binders and other supplies, it also requires being prepared to stand against the woke ideology that has penetrated classrooms across the country.  Parents sending their kids to public school, and even some private schools, need practical tools to equip…
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    Wokeness Is Ripping Through America’s Schools. Here’s How to Protect Your Children From It.

    It’s back to school! You bought all the school supplies and new clothes, but what about insulating your children against school indoctrination? Sadly, indoctrination resistance is now part of going back to school so you must stay vigilant and teach your children personal boundaries. Lesson plans about “social identity,” which may be called social and…
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    Dungeons and Dragons Players Face the Scariest Monster of All: The Radical Left 

    Before embarking on a quest, all good Dungeons and Dragons players know they have to check their privilege. After all, isn’t it fun to inject radical identity politics into your fantasy game?  That seems to be the idea behind “Journeys Through the Radiant Citadel,” a set of new Dungeons and Dragons adventures that take place in…
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    What Happens When the Woke Rewrite History

    For decades, schoolchildren across America have taken field trips to presidential homes such as George Washington’s Mount Vernon, Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello, and James Madison’s Montpelier. Students and adults alike have learned about the lives and legacies of the men who crafted our founding documents and stood for freedom at the risk of their own lives. …
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    Woke History at James Madison’s Montpelier Backed by Southern Poverty Law Center

    Virginia is for history lovers. George Washington’s Mount Vernon, Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello, and James Madison’s Montpelier—a triad of epicenters of our nation’s past—are all within driving distance. Those who own and operate these historic houses have a significant say over how the American Founding is taught. Unfortunately, as described in a new Heritage Foundation report, the…
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    Associated Press Injects Woke Ideology Into Its Stylebook

    Since 1953, the AP Stylebook has been a go-to manual for journalistic grammar and style at most media outlets. It lays out basic rules about grammar, punctuation, phrasing, and the like, intended to have universal applicability. In the past, it was aimed at reducing bias and creating a framework for evenhanded reporting. Those days are…
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    Fighting to Reclaim Comic Books From Woke Left, New Comic Lands First Punch 

    As consumers of pop culture are increasingly aware, the world of comic books and superheroes has gone woke. Superman no longer fights for “the American Way,” and Captain America’s archnemesis, Red Skull, is now a Jordan Peterson analog. For the fans who just want a good story free from the political moralizing the left foists…
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    House-Passed ‘Respect for Marriage Act’ Isn’t About Marriage. It’s About Complying With Woke Ideology.

    In an alarmist overreaction to the overturning of Roe v. Wade, congressional liberals this week passed radical legislation mislabeled as the Respect for Marriage Act. Although the bill’s final passage would threaten civil society and fundamental American freedoms, conservatives should see this development for what it really is: a publicity stunt. Its goal? Take the…
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    Starbucks Closures Over Crime Show How Companies Dodge Woke Consequences

    Troubled times may be ahead for the marriage between corporate America and the left. Starbucks recently announced that it’s closing over a dozen stores because of crime and safety concerns. “We’ve had to make the difficult decision to close some locations that have a particularly high volume of challenging incidents that make it unsafe for…
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    Woke Hollywood Celebrates Slavers Because They’re Black Women

    The left’s obsession with centering everything on race and sex has reached a new and despicable low with an upcoming movie called “The Woman King.”  The “historical epic film” centers around the real African kingdom of Dahomey, which existed during the Scramble for Africa in the age of empires, around 1800 to 1904.   Viola Davis plays General…
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    Woke Academic Gobbledygook Makes You Rich and Famous

    This week, a professor went viral during congressional testimony regarding the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision overruling Roe v. Wade. During her testimony Tuesday, professor Khiara Bridges of Berkeley Law School refused to acknowledge any value at all in unborn children, instead stating, “I think that the person with the capacity for pregnancy has value and…
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    The Age of Wokeness

    “And I’m proud to be an American … ” (Lee Greenwood) A Gallup poll has found only 38% of us are “strongly proud” to be Americans, the lowest on record. Another 22% say they are “moderately proud.” Some pro-choice liberals have called for boycotts of future Independence Days. What is responsible for these numbers and…
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    Military Readiness Takes Back Seat to Wokeness at the Pentagon

    Military readiness appears to have suffered yet another setback in the name of “equity.” Earlier this month, responding to a Virginia lawsuit, the Department of Defense amended its existing policy on service by personnel diagnosed with the human immunodeficiency virus. Under previous policy, military personnel who were diagnosed with HIV were barred from military deployments…
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    Buenos Aires Bans Woke Spanish in Schools

    In yet another blow to the radical left’s attempts to mangle the language of Cervantes, the capital of one of South America’s largest countries has said schools can no longer teach bastardized, woke Spanish.  Buenos Aires City Hall recently announced it was banning the use of so-called inclusive Spanish in the city’s schools. According to…
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    What Medicare Patients Should Know About Biden’s Woke ‘Anti-Racism’ Rule

    Your Medicare doctor better get to Woke School. The federal government wants her to take time away from patient care and create an “equity plan” to root out supposed “systemic racism” that allegedly pervades American health care and creates disparities in health outcomes between racial and ethnic minorities and the general population. Pursuant to final…
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    Like Dave Chappelle, Ricky Gervais Feels the Woke Heat 

    Editor’s note: This article contains quotes from Ricky Gervais’ new special that include adult language.  Move over Dave Chappelle, it’s Ricky Gervais’ turn to face his struggle session with the Twitter harpies.   The English comedian is facing blowback for his new Netflix comedy special where, among other topics, he pokes fun at transgender and LGBT…
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    Here’s How to Hold Woke Capital Accountable

    If one was to create a test to evaluate how corporate America treats freedom of speech and religious liberty, how well do you think they would do? A pair of organizations just released such a test and, perhaps to no one’s surprise, the corporations didn’t do well. If assigned by letter grade, most companies received…
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    Netflix Cracks Down on Employee Activism. Is Woke Capital in Retreat?

    Not everything that goes woke goes broke. But if you’re going broke, you better ditch the woke. That’s what’s going on at Netflix, the online subscription streaming service that’s fallen on hard times. Netflix announced that it lost over 200,000 subscribers in the first three months of the year and expects to lose millions more…
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    What Happens When Big Businesses Go Woke

    Women who want to appear to be men now can buy “compression tops” at Target to hide their breasts. Starbucks, among other companies, will pay travel costs for employees to have an abortion if they live in a state that restricts the procedure. And Disney says it’s outraged that kindergarteners can’t be taught gender ideology…
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