Tens of thousands rallied in Washington, D.C. at the 53rd annual March for Life on Friday. This year’s theme: Life is a Gift. While some suggest that unborn life is a cause for parents and grandparents, thousands of young Americans joined the March for Life in a public display that defied the caricature of the pro-life movement. Some shared their stories with The Daily Signal. How Do Pro-Lifers Really Feel About the Trump Administration? @EliseMcCue It's been one year since President Donald Trump returned to the White House. We asked attendees of the annual March for Life rally in Washington, D.C., how they would grade the Trump administration’s… pic.twitter.com/ZGO7kI8RXu— The Daily Signal (@DailySignal) January 23, 2026 James, 22 and a student at the University of Central Florida, traveled from Orlando, Florida to join the March for Life. “I was actually adopted, so the pro-life movement is very important to me,” James told The Daily Signal.   “It shows that there’s other options besides abortion for unwanted babies, and I am proof that you don’t have to abort your children,” James shared.   Clara, age 19, told The Daily Signal, “it was so cool to see everyone from around the country come and join and be a part of this movement.”  “There’s so many people around us just supporting that movement, making it stronger, and knowing that you can potentially save a life,” Clara continued.   “We march for one thing and one thing only, and that is obviously life,” said Clara proudly.   Shanyce Thomas, age 25, traveled from Baltimore for her first March for Life. “I’m marching because I am a victim of the abortion pill,” Thomas told The Daily Signal. On Thursday she joined Live Action on Capitol Hill for the “Abortion Pill Exposed” press conference to share her story with members of Congress.  “The abortion pill nearly cost me my life. I was in medically induced coma for a month.” -ShanyceWe hosted a groundbreaking press conference this morning in DC:?? Exposing the dangers of the abortion pill.?? Releasing a new undercover investigationAnd demanding the FDA… pic.twitter.com/5hUtCNnoe7— Live Action (@LiveAction) January 22, 2026 Thomas suffered life-threatening injuries after being pressured by her boyfriend to take the abortion pill.   “Doctors had no choice but to perform a partial hysterectomy. In one moment, my ability to carry children in my future was taken from me, not by choice but by necessity to save my life,” Thomas shared at the press conference.   The march is “something bigger” Thomas continued. “I see what it can do, and I see how people are trying to stop [abortion] just by all of us being here and marching in front of The Supreme Court,” she said, describing what the march meant to her.  The sheer size of the March for Life is staggering Nearly 100,000 Christian patriots marching in Washington DC pic.twitter.com/a2BS69lwxE— Jack Posobiec (@JackPosobiec) January 23, 2026 Jennie Bradley Lichter, the new president of the March for Life Education and Defense Fund, shared her vision of the event with The Daily Signal in October.    “Our goal,” Lichter shared, “is to invite everyone to the irrepressible joy of the March for Life; to be swept up into a movement that transcends politics and celebrates the joy, beauty, and goodness of life itself.”    The march is a faith filled event for many. Javier, 22, traveled from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with the John Jay Fellowship to join the march. He told us he is pro-life because he is Catholic.   Javier shared that being pro-life “means affirming life, affirming the gift of life, and rejecting the culture of death.” “We’re here building for the Kingdom,” Javier said. Madeline, 23, attended her eighth March for Life on Friday. She started coming to the march when she was just 14 years old. “I want to make sure that people don’t forget that the young people care about this issue too,” Madeline told The Daily Signal. “I will not let this issue be lied about, that it’s old people that want to just control women’s control women’s bodies, and that the young in our society really do yearn for truth,” she continued.   Katie, also 23, is another long-time marcher. “This is my sixth March,” she told The Daily Signal. “My first march was in 2020, when I was a senior in high school, it was actually the march that Donald Trump came to and spoke at for the first time,” Katie said.   Before 2020, Katie says she was a “a hopeless pro-lifer.” But that year she said she was inspired to see thousands of pro-lifers standing out in the cold. “I was very inspired by their selflessness and their courage, and that inspired me to want to come back every year,” Katie said. “And here I am,” she added.   The post Yearning for Truth: Why Young Americans March for Life appeared first on The Daily Signal.

FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Secretary of Education Linda McMahon expects half of U.S. states to opt in to education freedom initiatives. “I think we’ll get at least to 25 and hopefully more,” she told The Daily Signal in an exclusive interview. McMahon said she is going to make a big announcement designating Jan. 25–31 as National School Choice Week. ?"There were dead people who were applying for loans and receiving them." ?"We have identified and saved about a billion dollars for FAFSA loans that would've been fraudulent."@DailySignal interviewed @EDSecMcMahon on the one year anniversary of Trump 47?(00:00)… pic.twitter.com/woklAtA6Yc— Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell (@TheElizMitchell) January 21, 2026 President Donald Trump’s “One Big, Beautiful Bill Act” created a new federal income tax credit of up to $1,700 per year for donations to scholarship-granting organizations. Students in states that opt in can access the funds for private school scholarships. So far, 15 states have opted in, and McMahon expects that number to increase to at least 25. McMahon said she will be traveling and talking about school choice all week. “It’s really a special week because the president absolutely believes in school choice,” she said. “He’s the first president to get a national school choice bill.” McMahon praised Iowa governor Kim Reynolds, a Republican, who spent two terms fighting for school choice in her state. The Education Secretary touted that the Department of Education increased the Charter Schools Program funding by $60 million this year, raising the program’s total budget to $500 million. “That’s a record,” she said. “We’re very happy about that.” The Treasury Department needs to begin rule making on the school choice tax credits established in the Big Beautiful Bill before next January. McMahon expects that process to be successful. “I think we’re going to be very successful in getting through this process,” she said. “I think Treasury is totally on board with it. That’s where it appropriately resides.” The post EXCLUSIVE: At Least Half the States Will Adopt School Choice, McMahon Predicts appeared first on The Daily Signal.

If Only I Knew Then: Sunday Reflection

The late, great Angelo Codevilla had a way of cutting through the fog of foreign policy.In the Claremont Review of Books in 2019, he asked, “What’s Russia to us?” He didn’t ask because he had any special admiration for Russia. He asked because Washington had turned Russia into a utility: a convenient villain that justified budgets, scolded dissent, and kept the governing class in charge. Codevilla’s point was simple but brutal. Strategy begins with interests. Interests require discrimination. Most of what passes for “grand strategy” amounts to habit and vanity.Greenland touches national defense. Greenland touches Arctic geography. Greenland touches the supply chain for advanced systems. Those facts don’t bend around Davos etiquette.That question — his question — fits the Greenland uproar better than any of the Davos hand-wringing last week.European leaders want this story to be about Trump’s manners and apparent recklessness. They want it to be about “norms,” about “tone,” about the precious feelings of the alliance. They want Americans to believe the true scandal lies in a U.S. president speaking too plainly or belligerently.Trump did speak plainly. In Davos on Wednesday, he pushed for “immediate negotiations” to acquire Greenland and ruled out the use of military force. He also floated a “framework” tied to Arctic security after meeting NATO’s secretary general, while walking back tariff threats that had rattled allies and markets.Fine. Trump being Trump shouldn’t surprise anyone.But Europe’s reaction should surprise people, because it revealed how unserious the continent has become — even about something as serious as Greenland.Instead of handling business like adults — hard bargaining among allies over a piece of real estate that actually matters — European capitals staged indignation, offered lectures, and then produced the usual substitute for seriousness: a symbolic “show of force” meant for domestic consumption.The numbers tell the laughable story. Sweden sent three officers. Norway sent two. Finland sent two liaison officers. The Netherlands sent one naval officer. The U.K. sent one officer. France sent around 15 mountain specialists. Germany sent a reconnaissance team of 13. Denmark led with about 100 troops. Reuters called it “modest.” That word was kind.But that’s the European governing class in a nutshell for you: Perform alarm, then perform resolve, then declare victory over a crisis they helped manufacture.All of this theater tried to sell one idea: Greenland needs protection from the United States.Preposterous.Greenland matters because it helps defend the United States. Pituffik Space Base — some Americans may still know it as Thule — sits where U.S. forces can track threats coming over the pole. The Arctic doesn’t care about European speeches. Missiles don’t fly around Greenland out of respect for allied etiquette. Geography dictates capability, and Greenland sits where the map says it sits.RELATED: Pressed on Greenland, Trump tells Davos the US has weapons he ‘can’t even talk about’ Photo by Fabrice COFFRINI/AFP via Getty ImagesEurope’s commissioners understand that. They just hate saying it out loud because it reminds them of the arrangement they prefer to obscure: America provides the real security; Europe provides the indignant boo-hoo commentary.The Greenland tantrum exposed another reality that should make America’s sensible policy planners sweat, assuming they still exist: The industrial foundations of power have become strategic again, and the West has behaved like an empire that forgot how to build.Rare-earths sound like an investor pitch until you remember where they go. Modern weapons systems and advanced electronics depend on them. We need minerals you have likely never heard of — neodymium, dysprosium, samarium, and yttrium — to keep our F-35s flying and our missiles precision-guided.But the supply chain runs through the part nobody wants to talk about: processing and refining. China dominates that bottleneck — especially the heavy rare-earth elements that sit in the highest-end systems. One major estimate put China’s share of global heavy rare-earth processing at more than 90%. That’s a massive national security hole.Greenland matters because it offers a way out — not a magic wand, but an exit. Greenland holds serious mineral potential. That potential shifts the long-term strategic balance only if development happens.Greenland’s own politics have made development tricky. In 2021, Greenland reinstated a uranium ban that effectively froze the Kvanefjeld project, one of the world’s most significant rare-earth deposits, because uranium appears alongside rare-earth ore and triggers the political and regulatory trip wires that make major mining projects difficult to sustain.Greenland’s voters have every right to weigh environmental costs. Strategy still counts consequences. But the practical result of the ban didn’t restrain Beijing. It protected Beijing’s advantage.The Europeans, of course, love a green virtue-signal that imposes no serious cost on Europe. Through it all, however, the continent remains dependent on America’s military might, dependent on Chinese processing, and increasingly dependent on slogans to conceal both.So yes — Trump’s aggressive posture creates complications. Acquisition talk puts Denmark in a public box and turns what should be an alliance negotiation into a freak show. It hands European leaders a stage they don’t deserve and an excuse to treat American interests as a moral problem.RELATED: Trump announces ‘framework’ of ‘great’ deal with NATO on Greenland Photo illustration by Cheng Xin/Getty ImagesBut Europe’s leaders made fools of themselves by trying to address a strategic reality through choreography. A reconnaissance team, a few liaison officers, and a weekend of headlines don’t secure Greenland against anyone. Their “show of force” invited contempt, not respect.Codevilla’s 2019 essay mocked the way our establishment inflates foreign threats to discipline the home front. The Greenland episode shows a mirror image: European elites inflating a U.S. negotiating push into a crisis because they can’t handle an America that talks like a serious country.Greenland touches our national defense. Greenland touches Arctic geography. Greenland touches the supply chain for advanced systems. Those facts don’t bend around Davos etiquette.So use Codevilla’s test. Strip away the moral fog. Rank interests and act like the answers matter.What’s Greenland to us?A hell of a lot.

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