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    Why Hasan Piker Mocks the Murdered Charlie Kirk
    Hasan Piker is deeply envious of Charlie Kirk. The hard-left influencer debated Kirk in 2017 and was set to do so again before Kirk was murdered last year. Yet now Piker is going around mocking Kirk’s assassination, leading a crowd last weekend, during his live podcast tour, in a sarcastic singalong of an AI-generated song…
    Daniel McCarthy
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    Trump Admin Links Jane’s Revenge to Foreign Network Supporting Antifa Violence
    An Italy-based organization provided key infrastructure for violent leftist movements in the U.S., including Antifa and Jane’s Revenge, the Trump administration announced this week. The State Department and the Treasury Department exposed how Autistici/Inventati, also referred to as the A/I Collective, provided key online services for Rose City Antifa in Portland, the Stop Cop City…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    WOKE ALERT: Major Companies Are Rebranding DEI or Sticking With It
    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—While corporate America has dialed back the woke messaging in recent years, as the second administration of President Donald Trump cracks down on “diversity, equity, and inclusion” efforts, some companies are still pushing DEI, climate, and LGBTQ+ initiatives, while some have rebranded the programs under new names. “Woke companies want you…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    Victor Davis Hanson: The Radical Left Wants to Destroy America and Rebuild It
    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 often associate leftist movements, anarchists of the 19th century, Jacobins of the 18th century, Marxists,…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    Virginia Navigates Changing NCAA, Federal Policies
    College students across the Commonwealth are moving back into dorms and classrooms this month for the upcoming academic year. Things are heating up on the sports fields as well, where the University of Virginia boasts an impressive record heading into the 2026 campaign. Already this year the nationally ranked women’s soccer team is off to…
    Rich Tucker
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    Smart, Strong, Elegant Women Have Always Had Trump’s Ear
    The effort to concoct a scandal around President Donald Trump’s executive assistant, Natalie Harp, ignores one of the peculiar, if underreported, facts about Trump. For decades, the president has had an archetype of the person he trusts and heeds: strong, smart, elegant women. Oh, I hear the cackles from half the country. They could drown…
    Al Perrotta
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    ‘The Sound of Regret’: Trey Gowdy Pens New Crime Thriller
    Former South Carolina Rep. Trey Gowdy has traded the halls of Congress for the shelves of your local bookstore. This Tuesday, he and co-author Christopher Greyson will release the crime thriller “The Sound of Regret,” a sequel to the bestselling novel “The Color of Death.” “For those of you who thought there were a couple…
    Al Perrotta
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    ‘Spoiled Brats’ Make Up the Leadership of the Progressive Left, Official Says
    Recent reports note that top members of the Democratic Socialists of America and a renowned Democrat political strategist have shown that the individuals are further from the struggling middle class than they claim. Morris Katz While Morris Katz is not a dues-paying member of the Democratic Socialists of America, the 26-year-old Democrat political strategist played…
    Pedro Rodriguez
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    RVA Duck Fest Flocks to CarMax Park
    Ducks are popular guests at Richmond’s new baseball stadium. So far this year, the Eastern League’s Flying Squirrels have hosted the Akron RubberDucks 12 times and sport a 10-2 home record against the accommodating Cleveland Guardians farm team. The Squirrels are now biding their time after winning the first-half title and will host playoff games…
    Rich Tucker
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    The DEI Admissions Scam Is Catching Up With Elite Universities
    The higher education racket is being exposed in America as diminishing standards, collapsing public trust, and a cult-like, often unlawful devotion to DEI ideology pushes its mid-20th century model past the point of breaking. For several generations, going to a premier public or private university provided a smooth path to success for most Americans. Sure,…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    Victor Davis Hanson: The Truth About Jason Arday’s Death
    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.   What or who killed Jason Arday? That’s the question that’s being asked in the English-speaking intellectual,…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    Survey: Gen Zers Use Investment Money for Sports Gambling
    THE WASHINGTON STAND—A recent survey of American retail investors reveals concerning trends in how the youngest generation of American adults treats its money. More than half (52%) of Generation Z investors said they had redirected investment money into sports betting over the past year, and 26% of Gen Z investors treat sports betting as an…
    Joshua Arnold
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    Gaming the System
    I had a personal friend lose his job programming a popular radio station and have to leave the United States in order to keep working because a record company representative took him to a New York Yankees game. The New York state attorney general decided that crime was so well under control in the state…
    Joe Thomas
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    NASCAR Roars Through Richmond
    Three-time NASCAR Cup Series champion Joey Logano led for 95 of the 400 laps at Richmond Raceway this weekend on his way to a narrow victory over Chase Briscoe in the Cook Out 400. “Kind of a fun, back-and-forth battle. Had some strategy there, too. A typical Richmond race,” Logano said afterward. It’s the third…
    Rich Tucker
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    Duke Law Case Shows Why the Fight Against DEI in Higher Education Isn’t Over
    The battle to end DEI in higher education is one that can only be won through attrition against a stubborn enemy that won’t back away from the ideology that created it. One might think that the Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard Supreme Court decision that prohibited racial discrimination in college admissions would have put…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    The Humiliating Fall of an ‘Expert’ on the Far Right
    One of America’s most influential “experts” on combating hate just got arrested on charges of fraudulently funneling cash to white supremacist groups and financing her romantic relationship with a leader of a neo-Nazi group. In a 2021 testimony to the House Committee on Veterans Affairs, Heidi Beirich declared, “There is no question that the major…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    Trump Makes Appearance in Ohio as Patriot Games Conclude
    The Patriot Games came to a conclusion on Tuesday night at Spire Academy in Geneva, Ohio, where male and female high school athletes from all 50 states and some territories were competing for $125,000 scholarships. President Donald Trump, who announced the event last year as an initiative celebrating America 250, was present for the finale….
    Rebecca Downs
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    No Distinction Between Socialism and Communism, Survivors Say
    Daily Signal journalism fellow Pedro Boccalato Rodriguez-Aparicio and Manhattan Institute fellow Daniel Di Martino drew on their own experiences under Venezuela’s communist regime to expose the intentions behind the new push for “democratic socialism” in the United States. In a special Daily Signal podcast, the fellows explained how socialism and communism are the same, despite…
    Pedro Rodriguez
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    WNBA Can’t Define Womanhood—but DC Residents Know Men Don’t Belong in Women’s Sports
    A task force for the Women’s National Basketball Association reached no conclusion on the definition of a woman after it met Wednesday to discuss eligibility rules for players. “Today’s meeting covered a wide range of topics, including ongoing discussions on transgender athletes and the continued hate and vitriol directed at players online,” a WNBA spokesman…
    Emma Dayton
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    BREAKING: Former SPLC CFO Arrested, AG Blanche Confirms
    Authorities arrested Heidi Beirich, the former chief financial officer of the Southern Poverty Law Center, Tuesday as part of the fraud case against the SPLC, Attorney General Todd Blanche announced. “My understanding is, today there was an arrest made and there is a new indictment that includes the former CFO of SPLC,” Blanche said in…
    Tyler O’Neil
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