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The War on White Men Is Real—Here’s the Proof
By[email protected] December 24, 2025April 22, 2026

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 quite a controversial article by one Jacob Savage in the conservative magazine Compact. In…

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Meet the Real St. Nick
By[email protected] December 24, 2025April 22, 2026

The Christmas season is filled with busy schedules, parties, decorations, and joy. It is arguably the most special time of year. Unfortunately, the secular nature of the holiday has dominated its celebration to such a large degree that we can too often neglect to remember the religious roots of the season. Of course, we…

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’60 Minutes’ Offers ‘Syrupy Minutes’ for the Left
By[email protected] December 24, 2025April 27, 2026

CBS “60 Minutes” correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi raged against the network’s Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss when she delayed her story on how the Trump administration deported illegal immigrants from Venezuela to a “notorious” prison in El Salvador. Weiss wanted more reporting and more rebuttal from the Trump administration in it. “If the administration’s refusal to participate becomes…

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Military Recruitment Exploded Under Trump. Here’s the Reason.
By[email protected] December 24, 2025April 22, 2026

The War Department announced Tuesday that the military has reached its highest level of recruitment in a decade and a half in a stunning, yet predictable, reversal from just a few years ago. “Since November 2024, our military has seen its highest recruiting percentage of mission achieved in more than 15 years,” Chief Pentagon spokesman…

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The Left Framed Trump on ‘Affordability’ Crisis. Here’s What Trump Must Do Now.
By[email protected] December 23, 2025April 22, 2026

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. The 2026 midterms, as we’ve talked about, will be determined by the economy. That was brought…

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DEEP STATE CLEARS OUT: DOJ Staff Resignations Prove Harmeet Dhillon’s Real Worth
By[email protected] December 23, 2025April 22, 2026

More than 200 former staff at the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division signed a letter condemning Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon, and in doing so, they outed themselves as deep state actors and demonstrated Dhillon’s effectiveness in restoring the division to its true mission. The lawyers wrote to “sound the alarm about the near destruction…

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Victor Davis Hanson Debunks Tucker Carlson’s Claims About Israel
By[email protected] December 23, 2025April 27, 2026

Victor Davis Hanson responds to Tucker Carlson’s claims that Israel offers little strategic value to the United States, laying out Israel’s cultural importance, democratic legitimacy, military cooperation, and technological innovation—and why America benefits directly on today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words.” Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of a…

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Why Western Leaders Won’t Acknowledge ‘Radical Islam’
By[email protected] December 22, 2025April 22, 2026

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’ve had a lot of incidents worldwide of Islamic terrorism or threats of Islamic terrorism. The…

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Why China Rejects Trump’s ‘G2’
By[email protected] December 22, 2025April 22, 2026

In the coming year, President Donald Trump may meet Chinese leader Xi Jinping up to a half dozen times, an intense period of high-level diplomacy amid unprecedented mutual trade and supply chain warfare with China. The stage was set by the leaders’ Oct. 2025 summit in Korea, which Trump described as a convening of the…

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Accreditation Mandates Bring CRT Into Colleges and K-12 Schools
By[email protected] December 22, 2025April 28, 2026

A recent report from Defending Education has found that more than half of collegiate social work programs appear to embed anti-racism and diversity, equity, and inclusion standards into their core competencies, admissions requirements, and field work evaluations. This is not by accident. The sole accreditor of these schools, the Council on Social Work Education, requires…

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Slippery Slopes Have 2 Sides
By[email protected] December 22, 2025April 22, 2026

Most conservatives are likely familiar with John Adams’ insightful observation, “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” For years, we have accepted the obvious implication of that statement: If the system isn’t working as intended, the problem is with the people….

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EJ Antoni on Affordability: ‘Keep Your Foot Down on the Throttle, Mr. President’
By[email protected] December 22, 2025April 22, 2026

The new buzzword today seems to be affordability. Suddenly, the entire media has woken up to the fact that Americans are in a cost-of-living crisis, something that has been true for several years now. Of course, the mainstream media had no interest in discussing the issue when Joe Biden was in office, but now they view it as…

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Gas Prices Are the Lowest in Years. So Why Does Filling Up a Tank Break the Bank?
By[email protected] December 22, 2025April 22, 2026

There’s a good chance that if you’re filling up your car today, you’re paying the lowest price in four years. According to December AAA data, the national average gas price is about $2.90 per gallon—marking the first time it has fallen below $3 since 2021. Despite this decline, a Fox News poll found that 54%…

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Throw the Book at Them: American Library Association Is (Still) Grooming Our Kids
By[email protected] December 22, 2025April 22, 2026

Imagine if your 15-year-old came to my house, and I gave them a book about edgy sex positions? What if I gave your 16-year-old a book with graphic illustrations of oral or anal sex? Would you be happy with that? Or would you be mighty suspicious of me? Many parents may not know it, but…

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Daily Signal Reaches 1 Million Subscribers on YouTube
By[email protected] December 21, 2025April 22, 2026

The Daily Signal reached 1 million followers on YouTube Friday, capping off an incredible year of growth for its video content. In 2025 alone, The Daily Signal has added over 600,000 subscribers to its YouTube channel and increased its annual video views by over 400%. “We have provided original, smart conservative commentary and reporting, and our rapidly growing audience has shown there…

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Minnesota Fraud Exposes the Baked-In Flaws of Welfare
By[email protected] December 21, 2025April 23, 2026

The U.S. welfare system is broken, and the Minnesota scandal is a blaring warning to that reality. The failure of political leaders on many fronts bears some of the blame. But the main culprit is the massive federal welfare system that annually passes hundreds of billions of dollars down to states to dole out, with the philosophy that the…

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America Is Surviving, Not Living, and It’s Breaking Us
By[email protected] December 21, 2025April 23, 2026

Life in America doesn’t feel like life right now. It feels like triage. People get up, commute, grind through work, juggle kids and side hustles, scroll through their phones in bed until their eyes burn, then do it again tomorrow. They are surviving, but they are not living. The numbers explain why. The average American…

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Government Control in the Digital Age
By[email protected] December 21, 2025April 22, 2026

Politicians push government IDs. In a Transportation Security Administration announcement, Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem sternly warns, “You will need a REAL ID to travel by air or visit federal buildings.” European politicians go much further, reports Stossel TV producer Kristin Tokarev. They’re pushing government-mandated digital IDs that tie your identity to nearly everything…

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This Christmas, Revive the Lost Art of Matchmaking
By[email protected] December 21, 2025April 22, 2026

Forget Christmas socks, board games, or even cash. The gift many single young adults want most is a spouse. Put on your Santa hat and keep your eyes out for potential matches. Marriage is a bedrock societal institution. It’s beneficial for those who tie the knot, too. “Today, married women live longer, earn more, and…

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The Piercing Cold of Christmas
By[email protected] December 21, 2025April 22, 2026

Christmas evokes a warmth during the winter: bright lights, roaring fires, and good cheer with loved ones. However, as St. Andrew’s Novena distinctly emphasizes, the “piercing cold” conditions of the first Christmas starkly contrast with the holiday season’s comforts, beckoning us to not only recognize Christ’s humility, but to care for the poor, forgotten, and…

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