Full of lofty sentiment, the document invokes such figures as John Adams and Ronald Reagan, and officially welcomes "to Tennessee The Daily Wire, a media company, and its co-founder and editor Ben Shapiro, who has truthfully said, 'Facts don't care about your feelings.'" Two days later, the governor signed it.

Started in 2015 as an online hub for clicky conservative news and culture-warring, The Daily Wire is closely associated with Mr. Shapiro, a crusading right-wing political squabbler and now the site's editor emeritus.

But it is Mr. Shapiro's co-founder and the company's co-C.E.O., a writer and filmmaker named Jeremy Boreing, who is leading The Daily Wire in an ambitious new direction.

For years, the Daily Wire's headquarters were in Los Angeles — the dream factory of coastal, liberal America. Then, in the fall of 2020, the company moved to Nashville, with the goal of expanding to become an all-you-can-eat buffet of conservative entertainment, complete with its own streaming platform and production house.

Many on the right believe that mainstream news and mainstream entertainment serve the same liberal agenda. In Nashville, the Daily Wire's executives imagined, they could perform such a synthesis for the right.