Freedom Foundation Drains Union Membership Rolls by Promoting First Amendment

[The Daily Signal] Aug. 14, 2017 Good morning from Washington, where President Trump is expected to say more as the Justice Department opens an investigation into the violence surrounding a white nationalist rally in Virginia. Across the country, Kevin Mooney reports, a powerful labor union loses thousands of members after a nonprofit educates workers on their rights. House Republicans want the attorney general to pull the plug on a notorious anti-business program. Kelsey Harkness has the latest. Plus: Slade O'Brien on doing good where you are, and Bre Payton joins Harkness to ponder the problematic Wonder Woman. News [Freedom Foundation Drains Union Membership Rolls by Promoting First Amendment]( More than 20,000 union members leave SEIU affiliates in Washington state and Oregon after this organization's aggressive outreach with door-to-door canvassing, targeted mailings, phone calls, and television commercials. [Read More]( News [Justice Department Opens Civil Rights Probe of Violence in Charlottesville]( Attorney General Jeff Sessions announces the investigation after a 32-year-old woman is killed when a car plows into counterprotesters near an aborted white nationalist rally. [Read More]( Commentary [White Supremacists Will Not Tear America Apart. We're Better Than This.]( "The Nazis, the KKK, and white supremacists are repulsive and evil, and all of us have a moral obligation to speak out against the lies, bigotry, anti-Semitism, and hatred that they propagate," writes Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas. [Read More]( News [Lawmakers Ask Jeff Sessions to End Operation Choke Point]( Five key House Republicans request that the attorney close down an Obama administration program that critics say unfairly targets politically unpopular industries such as firearms sellers and payday lenders. [Read More]( News [Not Too Late to Stop 'Death of Europe,' British Author Says]( "We've taken a strange, unhistorical, and uninformed approach in recent years, which is to basically think that when somebody walks into Europe, they become as European as the next person," commentator Douglas Murray says. [Read More]( News [Why Wonder Woman Is a Problem for Feminists]( Find out why a certain superheroic Amazonian princess is the Problematic Woman of the Week. [Watch the Video]( Commentary [Get Involved Locally. You Might Just Save the Country.]( Look around and you'll find stories of positive change playing out daily across this great nation, probably right in your own neighborhood. [Read More]( [The Daily Signal] The Daily Signal is brought to you by more than half a million members of The Heritage Foundation. [Donate to The Daily Signal]( [Find us on Facebook]( [Find us on Facebook]( [Follow us on Twitter]( [Follow us on Twitter]( How are we doing? We welcome your comments, suggestions, and story tips. Please reply to this email or send us a note at [comments@dailysignal.com](. The Daily Signal 214 Massachusetts Avenue, NE Washington, DC 20002 [(800) 546-2843]( Add [morningbell@heritage.org]( to your address book to ensure that you receive emails from us. You are subscribed to this newsletter as {EMAIL}. If you want to receive other Heritage Foundation newsletters, or opt out of this newsletter, [please click here to update your subscription.]( -