How the Transgender Movement Lost the Power to End Debate https://www.dailysignal.com/2026/08/23/how-transgender-movement-lost-power-end-debate/?_bhlid=34b9c4725ec462487343518d5c1e79d96b585d8b Transgender activists once used maximalist legal arguments to force their worldview on American society, but now they’re arguing defensively. Activists are accusing the government of trying to silence them and take away their health care benefits. To some degree, this strategy represents a legal response to President Donald Trump’s reelection, but it also reveals an important cultural development. “The social and cultural permission gatekeepers on the Left have sort of lost the battle on whether or not you can speak out on these issues and have a different opinion than the Left and continue to function in civil society,” Hiram Sasser, executive general counsel for First Liberty Institute, tells the Daily Signal.

Supreme Court Backs Trump Election Integrity Order in Mail Ballot Fight https://www.dailysignal.com/2026/08/24/supreme-court-backs-trump-election-integrity-order-in-mail-ballot-fight/ The Supreme Court on Monday sided with President Donald Trump in a mail-in ballot case stemming from his election integrity executive order. The case is not over, but the high court allowed the federal government to continue implementing the election integrity policies while the case is on appeal. The justices decided in a 6-3 shadow docket ruling to stay a district court ruling that blocked Trump’s executive order on election integrity and held that the states challenging the order lacked standing. Democrat officials in 23 states and the District of Columbia, led by California Attorney General Rob Bonta, sued to block Trump’s March executive order, which, among other things, created a list of eligible voters. The executive order required the U.S. Postal Service to deliver mail ballots only to people on those lists.