DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—The plight of corporate diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) jobs is only getting worse as the Trump administration’s crackdown takes hold, new employment research shows. As of September, job postings for diversity roles have plunged roughly 50% from pre-pandemic levels, falling to about 1,500 this year, according to Revelio Labs data reported by Bloomberg. By comparison, DEI-related postings nearly quadrupled in 2022, reaching approximately 10,000. When President Donald Trump took office in January, DEI job postings were about 6% above 2019 levels, according to the outlet. Since taking office, Trump has led a major effort to eliminate identity-based considerations in employment. He signed an executive order in January directing all federal agencies to “enforce our long-standing civil-rights laws and to combat illegal private-sector DEI preferences, mandates, policies, programs, and activities.” The Federal Communications Commission has also leveraged merger-approval processes to pressure companies to terminate discriminatory DEI policies. Financial regulators have also scaled back or canceled exams on environmental, social, and governance issues emphasized during the Biden administration, which critics say were used to push liberal priorities on private companies. In recent months, corporate giants such as T-Mobile, Paramount, Amazon, and Walmart have eliminated or cut back DEI policies and departments, aligning with the broader political and regulatory shifts. Not only are DEI roles disappearing, but individuals with DEI-related experience are increasingly viewed as a liability, prompting many job seekers to remove the DEI label from résumés or reconsider their career paths, according to Bloomberg. Some 38% of DEI employees leaving their roles moved into positions within the same company that were not DEI-focused, 55% transitioned to non-DEI roles at new organizations, and a small minority secured new DEI positions elsewhere, according to Revelio Labs. Still, concerns remain that DEI roles may simply be transferred to other corporate departments, such as human resources. Among former DEI professionals, 16% have moved into HR operations, 7.9% into education program coordinator roles, 7.1% into public affairs officer positions, and 7% into academic research, Revelio Labs found. “While the number of dedicated DEI roles is shrinking, the expertise developed in these positions is not being lost. Instead, it is being redirected into other parts of the organization, suggesting that while the DEI label may be fading, the underlying work of building equitable and inclusive environments continues to find new avenues to persist,” Revelio Labs wrote in its September report. Originally published by the Daily Caller News Foundation The post Trump’s War on ‘Illegal DEI’ Leaves Diversity Industry in Ruins, Study Shows appeared first on The Daily Signal.

The secret ballot is at risk in a populous Virginia county near Washington, D.C., amid one of the most closely watched state elections of 2025, Republicans charge.  The Fairfax County Republican Committee sent a letter calling for the county’s General Registrar Eric Spicer to correct the design for the absentee ballot return envelope that potentially exposes a vote for GOP Attorney General Jason Miyares.   The letter sent Friday said Fairfax County election officials created several risks with the envelope design.  Republicans warn that certain ballots could selectively be removed before being tabulated, which would violate federal and state laws. The problem is limited to Fairfax County, said Fairfax County Republican Chairwoman Katie Gorka. Gorka also noted the potential exposure of a votes risks the integrity of the election and undermines voters’ confidence. “The bigger story is that a lot of election changes were made during COVID-19. Why have we left all of the COVID-19 measures in place? No-excuse absentee voting, 45 days of early voting, and this weird paper shortage the county has apparently had since 2021,” Gorka told The Daily Signal.  Miyares is facing a challenge from Democrat Jay Jones, a former state assemblyman, in the attorney general’s race. Exposure to how a ballot is being cast for an attorney general candidate could at least suggest which party a voter is supporting in the governor’s race between Republican Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears and Democrat Abigail Spanberger, a former U.S. House member.   By Monday, the county office posted a statement on its homepage.  “Noting public concerns about the design of the ballot envelopes in Fairfax County, voters who are concerned about making sure their ballot is received can do the following: If you are not already planning to vote by mail, you can vote in person, early or on Election Day,” the county said in the statement.  It goes on to offer other specific guidance: “1.) If voting by mail, you should fold the ballot (vote selections facing in) so that the markings do not show. “2.) You can check the status of your mail ballot at https://fairfaxco.ballottrax.net/voter/ or by calling the Fairfax registrar at 703-222-0776. “3.) If you are concerned that your ballot was not received, you can go to your polling place on Election Day and vote provisionally. The registrar will ensure that each voter’s ballot is counted only once.” A spokesperson for Fairfax County referred The Daily Signal to the election office’s statement but forwarded specific questions to the election office. The election office did not respond to specific questions. The statement largely echoed the county GOP letter, which made the following three requests: “1) Instruct and encourage absentee ballot recipients who have not yet returned their absentee ballots to turn in all ballot materials including the return envelope at a polling place and to vote in person. “2) Instruct and encourage absentee ballot recipients who have already returned their absentee ballots to confirm that their ballots have been received using the site https://fairfaxco.ballottrax.net/voter/. If the return ballot has not been received, encourage the voter to contact the Fairfax County Office of Elections at voting@fairfaxcounty.gov. “3) Instruct voters whose only option is to vote by mail that they should insert their marked ballot into the return mailer envelope in a way that does not expose their selection for the Attorney General race.” The post Secrecy of Ballot, Election Security Could Be at Risk in Virginia Contests appeared first on The Daily Signal.

President Donald Trump is truly addressing the “root causes” of our border problem. He’s doing this by cracking down on the crime and criminal organizations that send waves of people and illicit drugs into our country. Trump announced Sunday that he would be cutting off all aid to the nation of Colombia and blasted President Gustavo Petro for being an “illegal drug leader.” The State Department revoked Petro’s visa in September when he joined a protest in New York City and allegedly called for U.S. troops to disobey orders. Trump continued to rhetorically hammer the Colombian government just as the U.S. military continues to hammer drug traffickers off their coastline. “They make drugs, they refine drugs, they make cocaine, they have cocaine factories,” Trump said on Sunday. “They have no fight against drugs, and I’m stopping all payments to Colombia because they don’t have anything to do with their fight against drugs.”  It isn’t just Colombia that Trump has tussled with. He’s used military strikes to annihilate drug traffickers off the Venezuelan coastline while putting pressure on the regime of leftist Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro. Maduro’s government almost certainly helped the vicious Tren de Aragua gang infiltrate the United States. The president’s moves in Central and South America and the Caribbean mark a central and somewhat overlooked cornerstone of his national security policy. As I and others have noted, Trump appears to be reviving a sort of new Monroe Doctrine, where the U.S. is more focused on dealing with issues in the Western Hemisphere. Trump’s early moves regarding Greenland, the Panama Canal, and trade with Mexico and Canada suggested as much. The fact that Trump has devoted much time and attention on securing peace deals in the Middle East, Eastern Europe, and elsewhere doesn’t preclude this. In fact, I’d say it’s a part of this administration’s shifting focus. Peace far abroad, containment of China in Asia, and stability at our national doorstep. These all seem to be very much a part of the “Trump doctrine.” What’s interesting to me is that Trump is actually addressing the “root causes” that created the border and immigration crisis that the Biden administration allowed to burn out of control. Remember that back in 2021 then-Vice President Kamala Harris announced she was tasked with solving those so-called root causes. Harris said on Twitter, now X that President Joe Biden “asked me to lead our diplomatic work with Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras. To address the situation at the southern border, we have to address the root causes of migration. It won’t be easy work—but it’s necessary.” .@POTUS asked me to lead our diplomatic work with Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras. To address the situation at the southern border, we have to address the root causes of migration. It won’t be easy work—but it's necessary.— Vice President Kamala Harris Archived (@VP46Archive) March 25, 2021 The strategy ended up being like the Democrat strategy at home. There were lots of promises about addressing “inequality” and some nice words about democracy and human rights, but little seemed to get done. In fact, the problem worsened. When some countries actually did try to solve the problems plaguing the region—mainly crime and broken economies—the Biden administration acted with hostility. El Salvadorean President Nayib Bukele made it his mission to annihilate the criminal gangs destroying his country by throwing them en masse in prison. He was met by chilliness and occasional condemnation by the Biden administration and certainly their allies in the media. The result of the Biden administration’s efforts—if you could really call them that—was years of record-breaking crossings at the southern border that continued nearly unabated until Trump arrived back in office. El Salvador improved dramatically despite the frosty relationship with the U.S. government and went from “murder capital” to being one of the safest countries in the region. The explosive migration of the country has reversed, and many people are even voluntarily returning home. They are doing what every left-leaning government, seemingly across the globe, says can’t be done. They are arresting their way out of a crime crisis. And it seems to be working pretty well. Trump is doubling down on that anti-crime impulse. Instead of putting out insipid statements about “democracy” and giving South American countries handouts they are likely to waste, he is targeting the source of their dysfunction. Clearly, enforcing border laws and deporting those who broke them is having a huge impact on the border crisis, which has seemingly disappeared. But the president is willing to go a step further to ensure that the long-term problem is further mitigated by focusing on stopping crime, halting the flow of drugs, and putting the screws on hostile leftist governments. It seems to be working. The post Unlike Biden, Trump Really Is Addressing the ‘Root Causes’ of the Border Crisis appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Blake Treinen is putting his Christianity front and center yet again.Treinen is part of a pitching staff that, along with star Clayton Kershaw, has stood up for religious freedoms in the face of disturbing times in California.'Every single one of us have been given a gift ...'When a transgender-promoting, anti-Christian activist group was invited to Dodger Stadium in 2023, Treinen accused the group of "mocking the religious habits of nuns" and "mocking what [Catholics] hold most deeply."Now, ahead of the Dodgers' second straight trip to the World Series, Treinen made it clear how important his Christian faith is in his life."I think my family's name is great in the eyes of God, but in the eyes of the world, nobody really knew the Treinens," the pitcher told CBN Sports. "I don't really care if they do," he continued. "I want them to see Christ's greatness and what he's accomplished in my career."Treinen said he wanted to see everyone go to heaven while also expressing care for others, saying, "I don't want to see any of my teammates or anybody in the stands or anybody in this world face the alternative.""How do we make heaven crowded?" Treinen asked. "That's really my goal.""Every single one of us have been given a gift, and our way of repaying it to the Lord is how do we honor Him with that gift?" he concluded. "When I am welcomed into the gates of heaven, I want to hear 'job well done, good and faithful servant.'"RELATED: Christian LA Dodgers pitcher defies Pride Night with subtle in-game protest Teammate Kershaw, meanwhile, stood out for his own religious fervor earlier this season when the Dodgers celebrated gay Pride Night.While Kershaw took issue with the same event as Treinen in 2023, on Pride Night this June, the pitcher participated in wearing his team's rainbow-themed cap — but added a caveat."Gen 9:12-16," Kershaw's hat read. The player had written a Bible passage next to the Pride logo.In the King James Bible, the passage states the following:And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations: I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth. And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud: and I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh. And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.The Dodgers have been mired in controversy all year as the team seemingly battles the ethics of a far-left California setting with its generally conservative baseball fan base.Also in June, an activist singer purposely sang the national anthem in Spanish at a Dodgers game to protest against the deportation of illegal immigrants who are Hispanic.RELATED: Make-A-Wish exec resigns and loses job after threatening to call ICE on Dodgers fan at Brewers baseball game Photo by Josie Lepe/MLB Photos via Getty Images There were also reports in June of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents using Dodgers property as a staging area; the team and ICE gave conflicting reports on the matter.Furthermore, in July, the Dodgers were hit with an anti-discrimination lawsuit over alleged diversity hiring initiatives. Lastly, a Make-A-Wish foundation executive resigned in October after being caught on camera threatening to call ICE on a Dodgers fan at a playoff game against the Milwaukee Brewers.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

The Sept. 10 assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk failed to scare the conservative group off college campuses. The fact that students across the country have stood their ground and continue to hold events has evidently enraged leftists.On Friday, a 27-year-old teaching assistant at Illinois State University allegedly attacked a TPUSA booth where students were advertising their group as well as their Oct. 20 event featuring BlazeTV host Alex Stein.'The left has no impulse control.'Footage of the incident seems to show the man-bunned teaching assistant Derek Lopez of El Paso, Illinois, confront student members of the conservative group — one of whom appears to have been smashed in the face with a pie — and motion toward their table stating, "Jesus did it. So you know I gotta do it, right?"A pinned tweet on an X page that appears to belong to Lopez states, "A reminder to students who see TPUSA chapters on their campus: those are Nazis."Lopez can be seen in the footage apparently yanking the table, then turning it over, then later yanking down flyers for the event. Lopez apparently admitted to flipping over the table in an Instagram post.RELATED: ‘Grandpa was Antifa’ may be the dumbest meme of the decade Photo by Eric Thayer/Getty Images Hours after the incident, Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon noted, "This is outrageous anti-speech conduct by a state employee. What's up @IllinoisStateU?!"The following day, the university told Dhillon that the institution "recognizes the diverse perspectives represented on our campus," and indicated that Lopez, confirmed to be a graduate student and teaching assistant at the university, was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct and criminal damage to property.Chief Aaron Woodruff of the Illinois State University Police Department said in a statement, "We are committed to protecting the First Amendment rights as well as [the] safety of everyone in our campus community. We encourage all members of our community to learn more about free speech rights and responsibilities at Illinois State University, including constructive ways to respond when encountering speech they may disagree with."According to campus police, Lopez could face additional charges and university disciplinary action over the incident.Blaze News has reached out to Lopez for comment.Alex Stein, who was himself viciously attacked over the weekend by unhinged liberals at a No Kings protest, told Blaze News, "It's sad that it's not even surprising anymore when something like this happens.""Radical leftists have made sure to infiltrate the education system so they can try and radicalize more students, and then want to get violent/physical when they see something they don't agree with," continued Stein. "It's obvious at this point the left has no impulse control. I'm looking forward to my event tonight at Illinois State and am proud of the students who stood their ground against the student teacher."Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

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