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Warning: This report contains images and language that may offend some readers. Hundreds gathered Saturday at Dupont Circle in Washington to watch the city’s Capital Pride Parade, sponsored by Marriott International. The smell of marijuana hung in the air as hundreds of onlookers lounged on the grass and sidewalk, waiting for the parade to begin. …
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Republicans in the House of Representatives have filed a resolution defending parental rights groups such as Moms for Liberty after a leftist group branded them "extremist" and put them on a "hate map" alongside Ku Klux Klan chapters. The resolution, which Rep. Lisa McClain, R-Mich., filed Thursday, declares that "it is…
The president of the Job Creators Network is voicing his support for a package of legislation introduced by a group of Republican senators to reduce the costs of higher education and student loan debt. “While we wait on the Supreme Court’s ruling on Job Creators Network Foundation’s challenge to the Biden administration’s illegal student loan…
Miami Mayor Francis Suarez, a Republican, announced Thursday that he is running for president of the United States. “I have always been a runner. It’s the best place to charge my body and clear my mind. We lived right here in Miami. This is where my parents began their American dream,” Suarez said in a…
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL: A health sharing group is urging the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops to address reports that Catholic hospitals are performing hormonal and surgical sex-change operations on young people. Solidarity HealthShare's June 14 letter asks the bishops "to vote to revise their Religious and Ethical Directives for Catholic Health Care…
“China’s malign influence is growing exponentially, and its encroachment into the Western Hemisphere poses a clear and present danger,” Rep. Michael McCaul, the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said at a hearing Wednesday. “Now is the time to act and address this with the seriousness it deserves,” McCaul, R-Texas, said at the hearing,…
The Justice Department backtracked on its 2021 memo urging the investigation of concerned parents, but the Left and the Biden administration seem to be gearing up for another round. President Joe Biden’s White House did not respond to The Daily Signal’s request for comment about the ties between the administration and the Southern Poverty Law…
While a number of companies have faced public criticism for promoting LGBTQ Pride Month in June, federal organizations promoting “pride” activities have mostly flown under the radar. One of the few times a federal entity came close to being scrutinized occurred when the Navy deleted a pride post on its Instagram account. Even after that…
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—A Republican candidate for the Virginia Senate has responded to the Southern Poverty Law Center’s attack on parental rights groups such as Moms for Liberty by pledging to introduce a Parental Bill of Rights Act in the Legislature should she win election in November. The SPLC last week added parental rights…
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has been “derelict in his duty,” according to Republicans and border experts. “The mountain of evidence this committee has gathered proves that Alejandro Mayorkas has been derelict in his duty as the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security,” Rep. Mark Green, R-Tenn., said during a hearing Wednesday. “Secretary Mayorkas…
A majority of voters think there should be a higher bar for the FBI to clear before being allowed to access the private information of Americans, a recent Scott Rasmussen national survey finds. The poll, which queried 1,000 registered voters June 6 and 7, discerned their attitudes toward FBI access to personal information, such as…
After Heritage Foundation scholar Jonathan Butcher began looking into the racially and sexually charged practices of publishing and education behemoth Pearson, links and videos started to disappear from the corporation's website and YouTube channel. Butcher’s new report for Heritage, released Wednesday, shows that the largest education corporation on the planet has made a considerable commitment…
The Republican Study Committee has introduced “the most pro-life congressional budget ever produced, with dozens of policies that support our fight to protect and uphold the sanctity of life,” Rep. Ben Cline, R-Va., told The Daily Signal. The budget’s release on Wednesday comes just 10 days before the one-year anniversary of the Supreme Court decision in…
An LGBTQ+ "Pride Mass" scheduled to take place Wednesday evening at President Joe Biden's preferred parish appears to have the support of the Archdiocese of Washington. Asked if the archdiocese supports the Mass, Paula Gwynn Grant, secretary of communications for the Archdiocese of Washington, pointed The Daily Signal to "our Holy Trinity parish website." She…
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Sen. Ted Cruz introduced a bill Wednesday aiming to abolish a federal agency that arguably duplicates work that other agencies already do and that does not rely on Congress for its funding. Cruz, R-Texas, and Sen. Mike Braun, R-Ind., filed the bill to abolish the Office of Financial Research, an agency…
Former President Donald Trump denounced the federal case against him as “the most evil and heinous abuse of power in the history of our country” during a primetime speech from his Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey. Trump called it a “sham indictment put forward by the Biden administration.” “This day will go…
A California state senator told a gathered crowd of parents at the California Senate Judicial Committee to flee the state on June 13 during a hearing on a bill which would put parents who don’t affirm their child’s “gender transition” in danger of child abuse charges. Sen. Scott Wilk, R-Santa Clarita, is one of the…
Republican Ohio Sen. JD Vance announced a new step Tuesday that will make it harder for judicial nominees to get confirmed, criticizing Attorney General Merrick Garland for “going after his political opponents.” “We have to grind this department to a halt until Merrick Garland promises to do his job and stop going after his political…
The Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra defended a policy overseen by his department that required 2-year-olds to wear masks through the COVID-19 pandemic during a Tuesday House Committee on Education and the Workforce hearing. Republican California Rep. Kevin Kiley asked Becerra what the benefits were of a mask mandate on 2-year-olds put in…
The special counsel investigating the classified documents kept by President Joe Biden could face pressure to act after last week’s indictment of former President Donald Trump, according to a government watchdog group. Robert Hur, a former Trump-appointed U.S. attorney in Maryland, was appointed special counsel by Attorney General Merrick Garland in January amid revelations that…