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Fox News Just Beat 2 Broadcast TV Networks
Fox News Channel closed out June by beating two broadcast networks in weekday primetime viewers while also easily outpacing its cable news rivals. According to Nielsen data released this week, Fox News drew 2,628,000 weekday primetime viewers in June, compared with 2,419,000 for NBC and 2,049,000 for CBS. Fox News also led all of cable… -
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Army ROTC Taught Me Never to Call Independence Day ‘the Fourth of July’
Most Americans think nothing of calling our nation’s birthday “the Fourth of July.” But I learned the hard way not to do that in my Army Reserve Officer Training Corps days in college. I’ll never forget the day Sgt. Thayer, a regular Army soldier, decided to randomly quiz our ROTC squad on American history while… -
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GOP Senate Reaffirms Israel Support Amid Islamic Terrorism Fight
Key conservative senators have intensified their support for the state of Israel amid rising support for anti-Israel intervention efforts, as well as American political candidates who champion Israel’s enemies. A recent report from Axios found support is declining in an unprecedented fashion among the political Right, which historically has favored Israel’s fight against Islamic terrorism…. -
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Texas Students Can Handle the Bible
Texans, hide your kids—or else they’ll be forced to hear that “love is patient, love is kind.” Yes, the radicals on the Texas State Board of Education have decided that public school students in the Lone Star State should become just a little familiar with the work that arguably influenced American history and Western literature… -
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America at 250: Freedom, Capitalism, and the Future of the American Dream
This article is adapted from Maria Bartiromo’s segment on Fox News “Sunday Morning Futures.” Watch the video. In the history of the world, America has quickly ascended to become the number one global superpower, thanks in large part to capitalism and the rule of law and a Constitution that protects freedom and property. Together, it… -
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America’s Founders Show Us How To Defeat Socialism
Can America survive if the next generation meant to preserve it believes our best days are behind us? As the Daily Signal has worked on a special project for America’s 250th birthday, I’ve been fixating on this question and struggling to answer it. But we might soon know the answer. A recent study from Pew Research found that just… -
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Bill Maher, Liberalism’s Apostate
Bill Maher is the perfect liberal, at least on paper—yet despite his talk shows being nominated for Emmy awards more than 40 times, it’s only in Donald Trump’s Washington that Maher finally gets the recognition he craves. He’s now the 27th recipient of the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, an award first won by… -
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This Is America: Introducing the Heritage Guide to Historic Sites
The following is a lightly edited transcript of a speech delivered on Oct. 27, 2026, at Mount Vernon for an America’s 250th Leaders Reception and Dinner. It is my great pleasure to introduce the Heritage Guide to Historic Sites, the 13 original colonies version. Many of you have probably noticed that exhibits at our nation’s… -
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Victor Davis Hanson: Leftist Immigrants Want the Rib Eye but Hate the Host
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words” from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to Victor Davis Hanson’s own YouTube channel to watch past episodes. Victor Davis Hanson: So my point is this: If in 2024 the Democrats ran with a socialist and felt the socialist… -
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Rep. Mark Harris: The Faith That Made America Free
As America approaches her 250th birthday, we will look back to Philadelphia; to the signing of the Declaration of Independence; and to the courage of the men who pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor to the cause of liberty. The declaration was not written merely in rejection of England’s rule. It was… -
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Next Gen Missile Defense Can Enforce Trump’s Iran Redlines
Critics of President Donald Trump’s recently signed memorandum with Iran worry about future Iranian cheating, particularly after Trump leaves office. As a hedge against cheating, the president has kept a formidable array of naval and air power nearby—a force clearly capable of retaliating against Iranian missile launches or other violations of current or future agreements. But there’s another, more preventative… -
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GOP Lawmakers Move to Scrap Federal Rule Critics Say Unfairly Targets Career Schools
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Rep. Mark Harris, R-N.C., is set to introduce a bill to repeal a federal rule skewing higher education funding. Currently, career and technical schools are being singled out while traditional public and nonprofit colleges and universities are exempt. “Washington should not pick winners and losers in higher education,” Harris told the… -
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Ultimate Civics Showdown: Trump Meets Homeschooled Winner of Presidential 1776 Award Competition at the Oval Office
President Donald Trump met with the three top scorers for the Presidential 1776 Award competition Wednesday in the Oval Office and gave them each a Presidential Challenge Coin. According to a U.S. Department of Education press release, the “Ultimate Civics Showdown” is a “nationwide civics challenge created to celebrate America’s top high school students and their knowledge of our nation’s founding… -
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Our Favorite Patriotic Tunes, Part 2: 3 Songs Swiped From the Brits
The skies as we celebrate America’s 250th birthday will be filled not only with fireworks, but song. Those great patriotic tunes we all know by heart, even when we can’t hit all the notes. Though the songs may be as familiar as the red, white, and blue, the stories behind them often are not. In… -
The Feminist Fashionistas Uncork Ugliness Against Usha
One way our nation’s most “prestigious” newspapers show they’re Democratic Party propaganda sheets is when their fashion critics apply all of their tawdry partisan biases to their evaluations of the clothes of politicians (or their spouses). Robin Givhan of The Washington Post was a transparent Democrat, and so is Vanessa Friedman of The New York… -
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Is America Collapsing as It Celebrates 250 Years? Why Victor Davis Hanson Is ‘Very Worried’
The following is an excerpt of Daily Signal Politics Editor Bradley Devlin’s interview with Victor Davis Hanson for the “Signal Sitdown,” which premieres on the Daily Signal’s YouTube page at 6:30 a.m. EDT on July 2. Portions of this interview are featured in the Daily Signal’s new documentary “Sacred Honor: The Declaration That Defines a… -
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Bringing 1776 to Life: Harlan Institute Recognized for Revolutionary Civic Education Program
Imagine debating whether the American Colonies should break free from England as the Founding Fathers did in the shadow of the actual Declaration of Independence. Some high schoolers didn’t have to imagine, thanks to a grant from The Heritage Foundation. The Harlan Institute was awarded an America’s 250th Innovation Prize, a program supporting creative projects that educate Americans about the nation’s founding principles, strengthen civic… -
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Republican Aims to Reaffirm Declaration of Independence Amid Rise of Ideology ‘Antithetical’ to It
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Rep. Matt Van Epps, R-Tenn., told the Daily Signal he will introduce a bill on the House floor Thursday to reaffirm the values of the Declaration of Independence in honor of its 250th anniversary and in response to the sweeping rise of socialism. “Socialism is antithetical to the principles of the… -
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The New Socialist Guillotine Is Coming for the Democratic Party
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’re watching a modern-day French Revolutionary-like takeover of the Democratic Party. We could call it the Reign of Terror or… -
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States-Only Abortion Experiment ‘a Failure’: An Inside Look at the Pro-Life Movement’s Federal Strategy
A pro-life leader told the Daily Signal that returning the issue of abortion to the states was a strategic failure of the movement, adding that pro-life advocates must now turn to a federal strategy. Marjorie Dannenfelser, the president of SBA Pro-Life America, said the movement is “not better off” following the Supreme Court’s 2022 Dobbs…
