Freedom Foundation Drains Union Membership Rolls by Promoting First Amendment

The Daily Signal
Aug. 14, 2017

Good morning from Washington, where President Trump is expected to say more as the Justice Department opens an investigation into the violence surrounding a white nationalist rally in Virginia. Across the country, Kevin Mooney reports, a powerful labor union loses thousands of members after a nonprofit educates workers on their rights. House Republicans want the attorney general to pull the plug on a notorious anti-business program. Kelsey Harkness has the latest. Plus: Slade O'Brien on doing good where you are, and Bre Payton joins Harkness to ponder the problematic Wonder Woman.

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Freedom Foundation Drains Union Membership Rolls by Promoting First Amendment

More than 20,000 union members leave SEIU affiliates in Washington state and Oregon after this organization's aggressive outreach with door-to-door canvassing, targeted mailings, phone calls, and television commercials.

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Justice Department Opens Civil Rights Probe of Violence in Charlottesville

Attorney General Jeff Sessions announces the investigation after a 32-year-old woman is killed when a car plows into counterprotesters near an aborted white nationalist rally.

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Commentary

White Supremacists Will Not Tear America Apart. We're Better Than This.

"The Nazis, the KKK, and white supremacists are repulsive and evil, and all of us have a moral obligation to speak out against the lies, bigotry, anti-Semitism, and hatred that they propagate," writes Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas.

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Lawmakers Ask Jeff Sessions to End Operation Choke Point

Five key House Republicans request that the attorney close down an Obama administration program that critics say unfairly targets politically unpopular industries such as firearms sellers and payday lenders.

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Not Too Late to Stop 'Death of Europe,' British Author Says

"We've taken a strange, unhistorical, and uninformed approach in recent years, which is to basically think that when somebody walks into Europe, they become as European as the next person," commentator Douglas Murray says.

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Why Wonder Woman Is a Problem for Feminists

Find out why a certain superheroic Amazonian princess is the Problematic Woman of the Week.

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Commentary

Get Involved Locally. You Might Just Save the Country.

Look around and you'll find stories of positive change playing out daily across this great nation, probably right in your own neighborhood.

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