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There’s a direct link between being raised in a family with a mom and dad present and a commitment to faith, according to the president and founder of Communio, a nonprofit that equips churches to work for the renewal of healthy relationships, marriages, and the family.

“Many pastors don't know that 80% of everybody sitting in the pews on Sunday morning come from a home where mom and dad stayed continuously married,” says Communio's J.P. De Gance. 

After working in public policy and politics in Washington, D.C., De Gance says he began to see that “so much of what's going on wrong in our country flows from the collapse of family and faith.” 

He started Communio to come alongside churches to help them identify how they can foster healthy families and marriages, and to equip singles with the tools to create those thriving relationships in the future, with a goal toward furthering the Gospel in America.  

De Gance joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to explain why an American revival of faith requires a restoration of the family. 

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TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down:

• Google fires 28 employees who were involved in an anti-Israel protest. 
• Jury selection continues in former President Donald Trump’s criminal case.
• Congress moves one step closer toward passing the TikTok bill.
• Challenges continue for House Speaker Mike Johnson. 
• The Senate impeachment trial against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas ended before it began. 

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The Supreme Court will determine the fate of a major Jan. 6 Capitol riot-related case. The ruling could affect hundreds of people who were in the Capitol that day in 2021, and at the center of the case is the applicability of a federal statute. 

The Justice Department has been using a statute enacted in the early 2000s to prosecute those in the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. The statute makes it a crime to “obstruct or impede or influence an official proceeding or attempt to do so,” according to Seth Lucas, a senior research associate with the Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at The Heritage Foundation. (The Daily Signal is the news outlet of The Heritage Foundation.)

During oral arguments Tuesday, the justices appeared skeptical that the statute could be applied and used in the Jan. 6 cases the way it has been.

“It was clear that enough justices were skeptical of the government's expansive reading of Section 1512(c) [of the statute in question] to make a reasonable guess that they're probably going to read the statute a little more narrowly,” Lucas said. 

Lucas joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to explain the details of the case and what the ruling will mean for those men and women who are facing charges for their actions on Jan. 6. 

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TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down:

·         Speaker Mike Johnson will back four foreign aid bills that includes nearly $100 billion in spending.

·         The Columbia University president is grilled in a House hearing on antisemitism

·         Lawmakers react to a Daily Signal story about an NGO distributing flyers urging illegal aliens to vote for Biden.

·         NPR whistleblower quits after suspension.

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A new bill in Congress would stop illegal aliens from squatting in U.S. homes. 

“We're trying to get out in front of it to protect American homeowners,” Rep. Dan Meuser, R-Pa., says.

Leonel Moreno, an illegal immigrant from Venezuela, recently went viral on social media after a video post explaining how to take advantage of squatting laws in the U.S. 

Under U.S. law, Moreno told his followers that “if a house is not inhabited, we can seize it.” 

In response to the video, and growing reports over illegal aliens squatting in homes in New York and his state of Pennsylvania, Meuser introduced the Safeguarding Homes from Illegal Entry, Living, and Dwelling Act, or the SHIELD Act. 

The bill makes trespassing “a deportable crime,” Meuser says. 

“So if an illegal were to claim squatter rights and enter an individual's home illegally without any rental paperwork or legitimate lease” then, Meuser says “they can be arrested and deported and prohibited from ever entering the United States again.”

Meuser joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to discuss the growing need for the SHIELD Act, and what, if anything, he anticipates President Joe Biden will do to address growing concern over the crisis at the southern border. 

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