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“Conservative ideals are the best way to solve environmental issues,” says Benji Backer, founder of the right-leaning environmental advocacy group American Conservation Coalition.

Backer joins "The Daily Signal Podcast" to discuss how conservatives can take back the environmental conversation and advocate small-government solutions to climate issues. 

Follow the links below to learn more about the American Conservation Coalition:

ACC Membership: www.acc.eco/membership

ACC Market Environmentalism Academy: www.marketacademy.eco

Twitter: @ACC_National

Instagram: acc_national

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AmericanConservationCoalition

Also on today’s show, we read your letters to the editor and share a “good news story” about one way you can honor a Korean War veteran on his 93rd birthday.

Click here to learn how you can send a letter to Korean War Veteran Thomas Bryan Crouch on his 93rd birthday.

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Public employees across America are growing weary of unions that do not represent their interests, says Elisabeth Kines, the national executive director of Americans for Fair Treatment. 

Kines helps public sector employees, such as teachers, to understand their First Amendment rights and to stand up to union pressure. She says conservatives used to be the only ones reaching out for help. Now, she receives lots of calls from politically liberal individuals who have been abused or bullied by their union and are asking for help.

Kines joins “The Daily Signal Podcast,” to explain how unions have come to yield the power they do and what Americans for Fair Treatment is doing to serve the needs of public sector employees. 

We also cover these stories: 

• President Joe Biden announced a number of new executive actions intended to curb gun violence.
• In March, an estimated 172,000 migrants sought to cross the U.S.-Mexico border.
• The gap in Americans’ political party affiliation is wider today than it has been since 2012, according to a new Gallup poll. 

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Arkansas has just become the first state in the country to pass legislation protecting minors from being prescribed puberty blockers or gender-hormone treatments, or receiving gender-change surgery.

Arkansas state Rep. Robin Lundstrum, the lead sponsor for the bill, joins the “Problematic Women” podcast to explain why the passage of the act is a victory for children and families. Lundstrum also explains why she thinks the bill has faced so much opposition from the political left. 

We also cover these stories:

• Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer tells Democrats they need to “think long and hard” about court packing.
• Small businesses are the big losers in Major League Baseball’s decision to move the All-Star Game from Atlanta, Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp tells the Washington Examiner.  
• Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul asks Republicans to boycott Coca-Cola after it came out against Georgia’s new election law. 

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Andres Guilarte is a university student who lived in Venezuela under a democratically elected socialist regime.

Guilarte says food shortages were a daily occurrence.

Venezuelans also endure massive blackouts, political persecution, and a lack of access to health care due to the socialist government.

Guilarte joins "The Daily Signal Podcast” to share his experiences of living in socialist Venezuela.

"Living in Venezuela is way worse than people might think that they see in the news, or maybe on documentaries," he says.

"You just picture that you start convincing yourself that maybe eating three times a day is not necessary, and that the quality of the food that you have to eat probably is not that one that you expect it to be," he added. "So, you have to get used to, like I was when I was in college, that if I had that breakfast, most likely I didn't have lunch. If I had lunch, it's because I skipped breakfast."

We also cover these stories:

• The Senate parliamentarian announced Monday that Senate budget rules allow the process known as reconciliation to take place more than once in a fiscal year.
• A 38-year-old Navy medic reportedly shot and seriously wounded two Navy sailors Tuesday morning at a business park in Frederick, Maryland, before being fatally shot himself a short time later at Fort Detrick.
• President Joe Biden has moved up the goal for when all American adults will be eligible to be vaccinated against COVID-19. Biden now says that all adults should be eligible for the vaccine by April 19, two weeks sooner than the original goal. 

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More than 20 Republican state attorneys general have teamed up to oppose the energy agenda promoted by President Joe Biden. 

Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to discuss two lawsuits that he and other attorneys general have filed against the Biden administration in an effort to further American energy independence.

Carr explains that Biden’s executive actions stopping construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline and limiting oil and gas drilling not only will have negative economic effects on individuals Americans but adversely affect U.S. energy security. 

We also cover these stories:

• The Supreme Court throws out a lawsuit over former President Donald Trump’s now-deleted Twitter account.
• Google wins a major Supreme Court case against the computer technology corporation Oracle.
• Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., says President Biden should cut his $2 trillion "infrastructure" plan to $615 billion.

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Human trafficking is the fastest-growing crime in the world, but too few people are talking about it, says Sophia Fisher, executive director at Stop the Demand Project and a fierce foe of human trafficking. 

Fisher joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to discuss her fight against human trafficking, how America is dealing with this horrible crime within its own borders and abroad, and what conservatives can do to lead the charge against it.   

Follow Fisher's work on social media using the handles below:

Instagram: @stopthedemandproject

Tiktok: @stopthedemand

Facebook: @stopthedemandproject

Twitter: @demandstop 

Also on today’s show, we read your letters to the editor and share a good news story about a church that took the time to personally thank some of the unsung heroes of the coronavirus pandemic. 

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Shelley Luther made national news at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic when she was arrested and jailed for a week in the spring of 2020 for reopening her North Dallas, Texas, salon contrary to the county's stay-at-home edict.

"You get a lot of moments of silence by yourself," Luther said of her week in jail. "So, you do a lot of praying and wondering what's going on outside."

She joins "The Daily Signal Podcast” to share her story as well as how the the coronavirus pandemic restrictions affected her small business—and those of others across Texas.

"The biggest problem is the media scaring everybody to where you can't go anywhere," Luther said.

"You can't do this without a vaccine, but then you get a vaccine, and you still have to wear a mask, and I think there's a lot of our older clientele that are still afraid to come get their hair done because of all of the mass hysteria," she said.

We also cover these stories:

• President Joe Biden announced a $2 trillion infrastructure plan on Wednesday. 
• House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., says Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., will lose his committee seats, including his seat on the House Judiciary Committee, if allegations of sex trafficking against him prove to be true. 
• 49% of American voters are in favor of retaining the Senate filibuster, according to a new Rasmussen poll. 

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The state of Georgia enacted election reform legislation, signed into law last week, that has drawn harsh criticism from the left. President Joe Biden and others have likened it to the Jim Crow era.

What does the election law accomplish, and how is Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp responding to the criticism?

"The bill makes it easy to vote and hard to cheat," he said. "It replaces an arbitrary signature match on absentee ballots by mail with the voter ID, which is free in Georgia."

Kemp joins "The Daily Signal Podcast” to discuss what's in the new law, and contrary to what its critics claim, what's not.

We also cover these stories:

• Kemp says calls to boycott businesses in Georgia over the newly passed election law, which strengthens voting regulations, are “ridiculous.” 
• The United States has signed on with 13 other countries indicating concerns about a report from the World Health Organization regarding where the coronavirus came from. 
• The Biden administration announced Tuesday that it plans to take action to combat anti-Asian violence in America. 

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The Department of Homeland Security said two weeks ago that illegal border crossings are on pace to reach their highest level in two decades.

Meanwhile, President Joe Biden's administration is making claims such as that border crises happen every year and that former President Donald Trump’s policies didn’t reduce illegal crossings.

Lora Ries, senior research fellow for homeland security at The Heritage Foundation, joins "The Daily Signal Podcast” to discuss those claims.

We also cover these stories:

• The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, warned Americans that a fourth coronavirus surge could be on the way if more precautions aren’t taken.
• The CDC said in a new study that the Moderna and Pfizer coronavirus vaccines prevent about 90% of infections. 
• In the opening arguments of the trial of Derek Chauvin, a former Minneapolis police officer, prosecutors said that he “betrayed” his badge by using unnecessary force on George Floyd, who died in police custody last May.

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A direct link exists between criminal organizations and illegal immigration, former federal prosecutor Josh Jones says. 

Jones, now senior fellow in border security at Texas Public Policy Foundation, joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to discuss his recent report, “Joined at the Hip: Organized Crime and Illegal Immigration." Jones explains how gangs and other criminal groups in El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala lead illegal immigrants to the border and often exploit the migrants for their own profit. 

Also on today’s show, we read your letters to the editor and share a "good news story" about a foster child who was adopted by his teacher. 

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