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The clock is ticking as Congress attempts to reach bipartisan agreement on a COVID-19 relief bill before Christmas. After multiple failed attempts to agree upon what should be included in a new aid package, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., are trying one more time to pass the package before year's end. 

Garrett Bess, vice president of government relations and communications at Heritage Action for America, the grassroots partner organization of The Heritage Foundation, joins the show to break down what you need to know about the proposal and how much it may add to the national debt. 

We also discuss these stories:

• Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton files a lawsuit against Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, and Wisconsin as a result of the presidential election.
• Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy says he will fire or suspend 14 personnel over sexual harassment and violence, including cases of suicide and homicide.
• Joe Biden selects retired Army Gen. Lloyd Austin as secretary of defense.

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There’s no denying that 2020 has been a trying year.

Churches all over the nation closed their doors because of COVID-19. Rioters burned and looted businesses in cities from Portland, Oregon, to Kenosha, Wisconsin. And a contested election has left many Americans concerned for the country’s future.

Amid the trials and tribulations of this year, Becket Law’s annual Religious Freedom Index found that religious liberty is still an essential American value. Becket Law, a nonprofit, public interest legal institute, says its mission is "to defend the free exercise of all faiths, from Anglican to Zoroastrian."

In a survey of 1,000 Americans, 78% said they believe “religion is important to providing stability to society during times of social unrest,” Becket Law reports in its index.

Caleb Lyman, director of research and analytics at Becket Law, joins the show to explain Americans’ current view of religious freedom and whether the nation's perspective on faith has changed during 2020. 

Lyman also discusses the survey’s surprising findings regarding how Generation Z (those born between 1997 and 2012) views religion. 

We also cover these stories: 

• Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger says he will recertify the state's election results.
• Conservatives push back on former Vice President Joe Biden’s pick to lead the Department of Health and Human Services.
• Federal judges in both Michigan and Georgia dismiss election-related lawsuits from lawyer Sidney Powell. 

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Allen Muench was fighting for his life when he checked into the hospital in November with COVID-19. After just 36 hours under the care of his doctors and nurses, Muench says he “felt like a new person.”

Muench, a longtime Daily Signal subscriber from St. Louis, joins the show to share his personal experience with the novel coronavirus and how Americans should prepare in case they become infected. He also explains why he’s thankful for President Donald Trump's leadership during the pandemic.

Also on today’s show, we read your letters to the editor and share a good news story about a pro-life organization called Let Them Live, which provides women with the practical resources they need to choose life. 

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Exactly how have COVID-19 restrictions on churches and other places of worship affected First Amendment freedoms?

What happened when the Supreme Court last week blocked New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's limits on religious gatherings?

What about the situation in California, where Godspeak Calvary Chapel's pastor, Rob McCoy, reportedly turned his church into a "strip club" so it could stay open?

Zack Smith, a legal fellow in the Meese Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at The Heritage Foundation, joins "The Daily Signal Podcast" to discuss these angles and more.

We also cover these stories:

• President Trump criticizes Attorney General William Barr for saying he hasn't seen evidence of widespread voter fraud in the presidential election. 
• The president still wants to repeal a legal provision that protects Facebook and Twitter from liability, although other Republicans aren’t keen on doing so. 
• The COVID-19 vaccine gets promotional star power as former Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama say they're willing to get the shot to help build Americans' trust in it.

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High schools across America are embracing a woke curriculum. Charles Fain Lehman, adjunct fellow at the Manhattan Institute, says he is troubled by a trend in education of embracing wokeness above reason and fact. 

Lehman, who is also a staff writer at The Washington Free Beacon, joins the show to discuss his recent article "American High Schools Go Woke" and how this development may affect the nation years from now. 

You can follow Lehman's work and read his other pieces here.

We also cover these stories: 

• The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says the length of a quarantine after exposure to the coronavirus may be shortened from 14 days to seven to 10 days. 
•  CDC Director Robert Redfield says America could see a massive spike in COVID-19 cases this winter. 
• Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, asks the Supreme Court to hear an emergency appeal on Pennsylvania's election results.

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Elitism, not racism, is the biggest obstacle in overcoming poverty, says Robert Woodson, today's guest on "The Daily Signal Podcast." Woodson is founder and president of Woodson Center, a D.C. nonprofit that operated as the Center for Neighborhood Enterprise before a name change in late 2016.

Woodson's new book “Lessons From the Least of These: The Woodson Principles,” examines what this veteran civil rights leader and locally focused activist describes as the wisdom of "healing agents" who are transforming lives in some of America's poorest, most toxic neighborhoods. From such leaders, he says, he distilled 10 principles to guide others who wish to help intervene to change the "worst circumstances" of low-income communities.

What kind of strategies have contributed to rehabilitating such neighborhoods? Can some of those strategies or reforms also be applied to healing the nation's divisions? Bob Woodson fields these and other questions.

We also cover these stories:

• Attorney General William Barr says the Justice Department has not seen evidence of widespread voter fraud.
• President Trump files a lawsuit against Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers, a Democrat, arguing that the results of the presidential election in the state are inaccurate because of fraud and other irregularities. 
• Congressional Democrats and Republicans work together to advance a $908 billion bill to provide more COVID-19 relief.

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The military strength of the United States again is rated as only “marginal” in a new report, the "2021 Index of U.S. Military Strength", from The Heritage Foundation.

Russia is identified as the main threat to the U.S., but China is identified in the report as “the most comprehensive threat that the U.S. faces, [and] continues to modernize and expand its military and pay particular attention to its space, cyber, and artificial intelligence capabilities.” How should these challenges be addressed?

Dakota Wood, senior research fellow for The Heritage Foundation’s Center for National Defense and the Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy, joins "The Daily Signal Podcast" to discuss.

We also cover these stories:

• Biotechnology company Moderna is asking the Food and Drug Administration to give it an emergency authorization for the coronavirus vaccine. 
• The results of Georgia’s presidential election continue to be contested. 
• The White House is ready for Christmas! First lady Melania Trump announces that the theme for this year’s decor is "America the Beautiful." 

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Radical Muslims are persecuting thousands of Christians in the West African nation of Nigeria. Much of the Western world knows little about the hardships these Christians face, but the Rev. Johnnie Moore and Rabbi Abraham Cooper hope to change that.

 

Moore and Cooper, two globally recognized human rights advocates, co-authored the new book “The Next Jihad: Stop the Christian Genocide in Africa.” The rabbi and the reverend join the show to explain what is happening to Christians in Nigeria and why they chose to come together to shed light on a situation the media is largely not covering. 

Plus, we read your letters to the editor and share a good news story about a family who was once homeless themselves, but is now giving back to those in need. 

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Are lockdowns ever necessary? Will the new COVID-19 vaccines be safe? How risky is it to travel for the holidays? What new medical treatments do we have for COVID-19? Dr. Kevin Pham, a visiting policy analyst at The Heritage Foundation, and Doug Badger, a senior fellow in health policy at The Heritage Foundation join the podcast to discuss all this and more.

We also cover these stories: 

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• In spite of legal challenges from the Trump campaign, both Pennsylvania and Nevada have certified their election results.
• The Dow Jones Industrial Average surpassed 30,000 points for the first time in history.
• The governor of New Mexico has shut down some grocery stores for two weeks.

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The mainstream media has sacrificed fact-based reporting in favor of promoting its own social and political agenda, says Sharyl Attkisson, author of the new book, “SLANTED: How the News Media Taught Us to Love Censorship and Hate Journalism.”

Attkisson, host of the TV show "Full Measure” and a five-time Emmy Award-winning investigative journalist, joins the podcast to explain how the deterioration of fact-based journalism began. From reporting on Black Lives Matter to the 2020 election, media outlets have become consumed with promoting a specific narrative, even if it means censoring the truth. 

We also cover these stories: 

• Former Vice President Joe Biden names former Secretary of State John Kerry as his special presidential envoy for climate.
• Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak, a Democrat, mandates a three-week “statewide pause” due to an uptick in coronavirus cases. 
• AstraZeneca announces encouraging results in its COVID-19 vaccine trials. 

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