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Nebraska Volunteer Firefighter Denied Full-Time Job for Being Homeschooled
THE WASHINGTON STAND—The United States Armed Forces allows homeschoolers to enlist, but the city of Fremont, Nebraska appears to think they are unfit to join their local fire department. Now, the governor’s office is investigating. Andrew Coates, a 22-year-old volunteer firefighter at Fremont Fire Department, hoped to turn his charity work into a full-time job…. -
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‘We Are In a Spiritual Battle for The Soul of Our Nation,’ Key Florida Rep Says
A top player in Florida’s political scene championed the Sunshine State’s legislative achievements during his time at Heritage Action’s Sentinel Summit on Saturday in an effort to motivate grassroots leaders across the country to replicate these examples in their home states while protecting the integrity of the conservative movement. “Understand what’s at stake, we are… -
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Virginia’s Energy Mix May Include Fusion, But Will Require Natural Gas
Virginia’s economic future depends on access to reliable, affordable energy. The Commonwealth already hosts more than a third of the planet’s hyperscale data centers, for example, and plans are on the drawing board to deliver even more capacity in the decades ahead. New data centers may be required to supply their own power at peak… -
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Ramaswamy’s Saving Grace? State Legislature to Return for Vote on Gas Tax Suspension
With Ohioans paying too much at the pump as Election Day approaches, both candidates for governor have suggested a gas tax suspension. The idea was raised last week by both Democrat Amy Acton and Republican Vivek Ramaswamy, with the latter seeking to act along with fellow Ohio Republicans. Although the state legislature was not set… -
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The Letter Virginia Pastors Want Every Voter to Read Before Nov. 3
More than 125 Virginia pastors have signed an open letter urging voters to reject two proposed constitutional amendments on abortion and marriage. The letter adds a broad coalition of Protestant voices to the growing faith-based opposition ahead of the Nov. 3 election. “We believe these two amendments must be rejected for the Commonwealth of Virginia… -
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Ground Broken on a Rust Belt Powerhouse: Shippingport’s Data Hub Rises in the Age of AI Anxiety
SHIPPINGPORT, Pa.—The last time that I stood on these grounds along the Ohio River in Beaver County was 1976, 19 years after the first commercial nuclear power plant in the United States opened here. My Perry High School physics teacher, David Burrows, had loaded a handful of us into a van for a field trip… -
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When Local Bureaucracy Pays Better Than the Oval Office: Fairfax County’s Salary Problem
Fairfax County Public Schools Chief Equity Officer Nardos King makes $288,064 this year—more than every single member of the president’s Cabinet—Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent, all of them—each of whom earns $253,100 to run a federal department. King’s job is to oversee equity initiatives… -
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White House Cites Decline in Transgender Violent Deaths to Defend Trump Policies
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The Trump White House is pointing to data compiled by transgender advocacy groups as evidence against the claim that Republican transgender policies contribute to violence against transgender people. “The data proves the president’s law-and-order policies have benefited all Americans,” White House spokeswoman Lauren Bis told the Daily Signal in a statement… -
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Faith Drives Heritage’s Mission, Its Scholars Say
A panel of Heritage Foundation scholars explained to Heritage Action’s Orlando Sentinel Summit attendees on Saturday how faith fuels the organization’s public advocacy mission. “This constitution will NOT work without a faith-filled people,” E.J. Antoni, Heritage Foundation chief economist, said on Saturday. “Faith builds our four cornerstones, then all of our public policy stems from… -
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End of the Clipboard? Activists Say Going Digital Could Get Fraud Out of Citizen-Led Ballot Measures
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—A conservative group advocating greater use of citizen ballot initiatives has created a platform to allow secure digital signatures to replace traditional handwritten signatures, arguing technology could lower the cost of petition drives and reduce fraud. The Prosperity for US Foundation contends that modernizing petition laws to permit verified and authenticated… -
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Cornell’s University Reform Report Sidesteps the Real Reason Americans Have Lost Trust in Higher Education
Higher education is suffering through a self-inflicted crisis of declining public confidence. Only now are its faculty members and administrators starting to recognize that fact, but they collectively remain incapable of acknowledging the heart of the issue. That’s my take from a recently released report from Cornell University titled “Report of the Committee on the… -
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Hollywood Feminist Makes Over Jesus to Sound Like Meryl Streep
Conservatives expressed grave concern when director Greta Gerwig happily announced that her forthcoming movie “Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew” would star Meryl Streep as the voice of Aslan—the lion that author C.S. Lewis clearly used as a Christ figure. This kind of gender confusion gives off vibes of James Talarico announcing that God is “nonbinary.” She’s… -
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Cuban American Leaders Back Trump’s UN Warning to Cuba
Leading voices of the Cuban American community backed President Donald Trump’s warning to Cuba this week during his United Nations address, where he claimed that his administration is “seeking a fundamental change,” before calling the country a “failed state” that will soon “fall.” The president’s remarks come after the Cuban people have suffered totalitarian rule,… -
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Victor Davis Hanson: AI and the Same Old Politicized Hysteria
The midterm elections are six weeks away. Suddenly, a debate has erupted over the existential dangers of artificial intelligence. Jacob Coxon, a little-known Silicon Valley researcher who worked at OpenAI and Anthropic, resigned and went public with a dire warning: AI now threatens the future of the world. Shortly beforehand, news broke of the Hugging… -
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The Democrat Plan to Redistribute Wealth to the Wealthier
Two hypothetical college graduates who are married now have a combined annual income of $240,000; they each earn $120,000 per year. Should an American who graduated from high school but never went to college—and who now works as a delivery truck driver, earning $43,950 per year (the median annual earnings for that job) be forced… -
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The Camp Mystic Flood Tragedy Exposed a Systematic Failure
The New York Post reported on Sept. 23 that Texas Rangers are investigating whether crimes, including manslaughter, were committed in the deaths at Camp Mystic during the July 2025 floods. Investigators are seeking evidence; no finding of criminal guilt has been made. Whatever that inquiry concludes, it raises broader questions: Why do we keep building… -
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The Network of Conservatives Working for Freedom in Your State Capital
The State Freedom Caucus Network was founded to advance conservative legislation at state capitals across the country. Now, the group’s biggest obstacle isn’t Democrats—it’s so-called Republicans who don’t govern like it once they take office. The State Freedom Caucus Network is a group of conservative state lawmakers determined to cut spending, secure American elections, and… -
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Women Hurt by Abortion Pill Urge Trump Nominee to Lead Change
Three women who regret taking the abortion pill are urging Dr. Heidi Overton to renew the in-person dispensing requirement on mifepristone if she is confirmed as Food and Drug Administration commissioner. “I believed it was safe, and I put my life on the line,” Elizabeth Gillette, 39, said on Friday in an interview with the… -
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Introducing the American Investor Initiative
The Heritage Foundation’s Free Enterprise Initiative is now the American Investor Initiative, a name that says plainly what its predecessor implied: that the American economy runs to no small degree on the decisions of ordinary people who own shares—in their 401(k)s, their pension funds, their modest brokerage accounts—and who have a personal stake in how… -
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Alex Clark on What It Will Take to Make America Healthy Again
Do you really know what’s in your food? The Make America Healthy Again movement is top of mind for swathes of Americans concerned about what they’re putting into their bodies. To understand more about these Americans, I sat down with Turning Point USA’s Alex Clark, host of the “Culture Apothecary” podcast, and discussed the fight…
