Author: The Daily Signal

Disconcerting similarities exist between the modern progressive left and the communist movement. Take it from someone who knows.

Tony Salinski, once a student radical and now an expert on communist ideology, identified as a communist for several years during the Vietnam War era. Salinski joins the podcast to explain why he was drawn to communism as a youth and to identify similarities between communism and socialism. 

Learn more about the work of the Anticommunism Action Team here. And click here to learn more about Tony Salinski.

Also on today's show, we read your letters to the editor and share a good news story about a school principal who is using his skill as a barber to mentor his students.  

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Patriot Week, launched in 2009, is a week dedicated to honoring America’s past and studying its founding principles. Every year, Sept. 11 marks the first day of Patriot Week and Constitution Day, Sept. 17, brings it to a close. 

Judge Michael Warren of Oakland County, Michigan, and his daughter, Leah, founded Patriot Week to celebrate national pride and educate Americans about the history of our country.

Warren joins the podcast on this first day of Patriot Week 2020 to explain how you and your family can take part in remembering our past over the next seven days. Click here to register for Patriot Week.

We also cover these stories:

• About 857,000 workers file for unemployment insurance for the first time. 
• Presidential daughter Ivanka Trump says she will take the coronavirus vaccine, when it comes, on “The View.”
• A new poll by Gallup and Knight Foundation finds that 69% of Americans say there is bias in the news others consume, while only 29% worry that the news they consume contains bias.

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A new podcast from The New York Times suggests that “Nice White Parents” are the reason for failures in the education system. The podcast, according to The Heritage Foundation's Mary Clare Amselem, cites “examples of parents getting involved in the day-to-day operation of the school, and paints this involvement as an affront to public schooling," implying parental involvement is somehow detrimental.



Amselem joins the podcast to discuss it.

We also cover these stories:

• About 2,000 American troops are coming home from Iraq this month. 
• Attorney General Bill Barr said Wednesday during a press conference that a federal program called Operation Legend is cracking down on Chicago’s surging crime, making more than 500 arrests and charging 124 people with federal criminal counts since the beginning of the program. 
• The Department of Justice announced Tuesday that it will represent President Donald Trump in a defamation case filed by E. Jean Carroll, a woman who claims to have been raped by Trump in the 1990s. 

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The U.S. Marshals Service found 39 missing children in Georgia over two weeks in a mission called Operation Not Forgotten. The rescued children “were considered to be some of the most at-risk and challenging recovery cases in the area,” the agency said.

How did Georgia state officials work with the Marshals Service to rescue these children, many of whom were being sold for sex? Georgia Attorney General Christopher Carr joins "The Daily Signal Podcast" to discuss.

We also cover these stories:

• Georgia's secretary of state says that 1,000 voters double-voted in the state's primary election. 
• Postmaster General Louis DeJoy is the subject of a new investigation by the House Oversight and Reform Committee. 
• The U.S. has its lowest numbers of coronavirus cases since June. 

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Retail plays a significant role within the nation’s economic health. About 17 million Americans work for brick and mortar stores, according to Abby Jagoda, vice president of government affairs at Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield, which specializes in owning, developing, and managing retail assets.

And despite the narrative that retail is dying to e-commerce, she says, sales at physical stores have climbed in recent years. Jagoda joins the podcast to explain the important role retail plays on the road to economic recovery. 

We also read your letters to the editor and share a good news story about how a classic American company is stepping up to help Hurricane Laura victims. 

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Americans are buying guns at a record pace. A surprising number of the sales are from first time firearm owners, says Stephen Gutowski, a reporter at the Washington Free Beacon and a certified National Rifle Association instructor.

Gutowski joins the podcast to explain some of the reasons for the spike in gun sales and to offer safety tip for first time gun owners.

We also cover these stories:

• President Trump is threatening to cut federal funding to four American cities that have allowed violence to spike. 
• White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany says Trump did not tell voters to vote twice.
• Trump criticized New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo for his handling of New York nursing homes during the pandemic. 

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The nation's monuments are under fire from the progressive left. A new report commissioned by D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser recommends that the federal government "remove, relocate, or contextualize" the Washington Monument, the Jefferson Memorial, and six other statues and monuments.

Jarrett Stepman, a contributor to The Daily Signal and author of "The War on History: The Conspiracy to Rewrite America's Past," joins the podcast to discuss the report from the DCFACES Working Group and explain the intrinsic threat that cancel culture poses to American history.

To read the working group's report to the mayor, click here. And for more analysis of the report, read the commentary for The Daily Signal by Joseph Loconte, director of the B. Kenneth Simon Center for American Studies at The Heritage Foundation, headlined "The Mayor, the Monuments, and the Mayhem."

We also cover these stories:

• Secretary of State Mike Pompeo imposes new restrictions on Chinese diplomats. 
• United Airlines announces plans to put 16,000 employees on involuntary furlough or cut their jobs entirely, beginning in October.
• Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler plans to move because of the number of protests outside his condo building.

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Jacob Blake, 29, was shot seven times in the back by a police officer Aug. 23 after police responded to a report of a domestic dispute in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Kyle Rittenhouse, 17, is accused in the fatal shootings of two men who his lawyers say attacked the teen Aug. 26 as he was trying to protect property from rioters in the wake of the Blake shooting.

What is the media alleging about Rittenhouse, and what are the known facts? Amy Swearer, a legal fellow in the Edwin Meese Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at The Heritage Foundation, joins "The Daily Signal Podcast"to discuss.

We also cover these stories:

• President Trump visits Kenosha, despite the wishes of state and local politicians who asked him not to come. 
• Chad Wolf, acting secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, tells Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler in a letter that the federal government will get involved if local leaders don’t quell the ongoing violence since the May 25 death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
• The Department of Justice is looking into possible criminal activity by the Black Lives Matter organization.  

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Gabe Johnson was sitting in his apartment Saturday night in Portland, Oregon, when he heard the gunshots that took the life of a man later identified as Aaron "Jay" Danielson. 

Johnson, a Marine Corps veteran and Portland local, has watched the violence unfold in his city over the past three months. He also watched with frustration as the media often failed to report what is actually happening there. 

After he heard the gunshots Saturday night, Johnson said, he was concerned that the media would not report the incident accurately, so he walked the four blocks to the scene of the crime to see the situation firsthand. 

Johnson joins the podcast to explain what he witnessed and what it has been like living so close to the ongoing riots in Portland.

Click here to support Johnson's fundraiser for police chaplains in and around Portland, Oregon.

We also cover these stories: 

• President Trump is going to Wisconsin despite a request by Gov. Tony Evers that he not visit the state.
• The case of former national security adviser Michael Flynn will continue to weave its way through the courts. 
• The number of coronavirus cases reported in the United States is now over 6 million.

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The left largely has ignored the Trump administration's role in negotiating the recent peace agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates. 

The Abraham Accord, announced Aug. 13, normalizes relations between the Jewish state and the UAE. Helen Raleigh, policy fellow at the Centennial Institute and a senior contributor at The Federalist, calls the agreement a historic achievement. 

Raleigh joins the podcast to explain how the Israel-UAE accord could affect diplomatic relations in the Middle East for years to come, and why the mainstream media has chosen to ignore its significance. She also discusses how the Chinese Communist Party strategically spreads propaganda on American college campuses. 

Plus, we read your letters to the editor and share a good news story about a nonprofit that converted its parking lot into an outdoor learning center and tutoring hub for children who are distance learning this fall. 

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