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If it were taking place 20 years ago, it would have been one of the top events on the calendar for Republicans. Once upon a time, a fundraiser sponsored by former Vice President Dick Cheney and his wife Lynne, with appearances by Utah Sen. Mitt Romney, Cheneys faithful aide Scooter Libby, former Solicitor General Ted Olson, columnist Mona Charen, and a large number of wealthy donors, and hosted by veteran GOP heavy-hitter Bobbie Kilberg and her lawyer husband Bill at their Virginia home, would have been the sort of thing that anyone in the world of GOP officeholders, consultants, and fundraisers would have wanted to attend.

But the March 14 shindig is taking place in 2022, not 2002. That makes the list of sponsors and guests the political equivalent of a baseball Old-Timers Game in which the stars of the past gather to put on their old uniforms and entertain their fans with an inning or two in which they pretend to be their former selves.

But the event in question is not an exercise in nostalgia. Its a fundraiser for Rep. Liz Cheneys re-election campaign. Although the people listed as sponsors may be political has-beens or are now utterly marginal to the Republican Party, their money is still green and Cheney needs every cent she can raise from her familys old friends.

Cheney is facing the fight of her political life as she attempts to fend off a primary challenge for renomination to her at-large House seat from Harriet Hageman, the lawyer and conservative activist who has been endorsed by former President Donald Trump. Hageman has raised more than $1 million for her campaign to date and has benefited from fundraisers hosted by billionaire Paypal founder Peter Thiel.

Moreover, the party apparatus in Wyoming, which once might have shown any member of the Cheney family great deference, has abandoned her. She was censured by the state GOP for voting to impeach Trump after the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. In November, Wyoming Republicans voted to no longer recognize her as a member of the party. That came after Cheney assumed a leadership role in House Speaker Nancy Pelosis Jan. 6 Committee despite the fact that the Democrats refused to allow the Republican conference to name, as was their right, their own members.

Cheney has essentially burned her bridges to the party she grew up in by falsely claiming to be the ranking member of the committee and enthusiastically participating in its fishing expedition that seeks to drag in for questioning a wide array of former Trump administration officials, conservative media figures, and even Republican House colleagues who had nothing to do with the riot. Indeed, there is a growing movement to oust her from the Republican conference, although House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy would probably prefer to avoid a purge and let Wyomings Republican voters deal with Cheney in the August primary.

Cheney, who has seemed to grow angrier at her party with each month for its refusal to play along with the notion that Jan. 6 was an insurrection that threatened American democracy, is not going down without a fight. And she can count on other GOP celebrities from the past, such as former President George W. Bush and former House Speakers John Boehner and Paul Ryan, to assist her with fundraising.

But the idea that the 2002 GOP All-Star team can compete against contemporary Republicans with voters who have long since repudiated their partys ancien regime is an absurd strategy.

The race is being spun by the liberal mainstream media as a case of a brave, principled conservative standing up against an army of GOP zombies who have sold their souls to Trump. But as in the rest of the country, Wyoming conservatives understand that Trumps populist defense of the working and middle class is a better fit for the party than one that seemed more in line with the interests of Wall Street.

They think the Bushes exploited them while Trump fought for them. To the surprise of many, Trump wound up leading the most successful conservative administration in memory until it was brought down by a pandemic unleashed by China and a mainstream media/Big Tech alliance aimed at silencing the truth about Biden family corruption.

Republicans understand that Cheneys acceptance of Democrats branding of not just the Capitol rioters or even Trump but all Republican voters as insurrectionist traitors targets them and their beliefs. Even if they arent still questioning the 2020 presidential election results, most Republicans seem to comprehend that the real threats to democracy are the McCarthyite tactics of the Jan. 6 Committee that Cheney is helping to lead and her Democratic allies attempts to silence dissent on the Internet.

That Cheneys fundraiser is being held in Virginia is something Hageman wont fail to play up. A Jan. 6 Committee advisor also recently dropped his name from the host line-up.

Cheney lived most of her life in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., before returning to her familys home state to pursue a political career. She first attempted to muscle Mike Enzi out of his Senate seat leading up to the 2014 elections. But when he refused to roll over, she backed down and settled for Wyomings sole seat in the House in 2016.

When Enzi retired in 2020, she flirted with another chance at joining the Senate, but was outmaneuvered by Cynthia Lummis. Still, by then Cheney was on a fast track to House GOP leadership, using her famous name to parachute into the partys number three position chair of the House Republican Conference after only one term. That put her in line to be a future speaker of the House.

But like many other members of the old GOP elite, Trumps ascendancy was too bitter a pill for her to swallow. While her voting record remained generally conservative, she seized on the Jan. 6 riot to go all in on impeachment and then in trafficking in conspiracy theories about the riot aimed at burning down the party for the sin of letting Trump lead it.

That makes the Wyoming primary more a referendum on the Republican past which she represents than about the relative merits of Cheney or Hageman. Although her family name still counts for something, her claim that she and the remnant of Never Trump allies backing her are the only legitimate standard-bearers for conservative values is not a viable political strategy in Wyoming or anywhere else. GOP voters have long since moved on from the Bushes and their family retainers even as the liberal media is now finally treating the former president and Cheneys father with some respect, if only as a way to further attack Trump.

Thats why the Cheney re-election campaign is so rooted in the partys past and her events have taken on the aspect of an ancien regime banquet in which pretenders to a throne lost in the past make-believe that they are about to return to power. Theyre in for a rude awakening in August.

Jonathan S. Tobin is a senior contributor to The Federalist, editor in chief of JNS.org, and a columnist for the New York Post. Follow him on Twitter at @jonathans_tobin.

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Former Vice President Mike Pence on Friday offered his most forceful rebuke of Donald J. Trump, saying the former president is wrong that Mr. Pence had the legal authority to change the results of the 2020 election and that the Republican Party must accept the outcome and look toward the future.

Speaking to a gathering of conservatives near Orlando, Fla., the former vice president said he understands the disappointment so many feel about the last election but repudiated Mr. Trumps false claims that Mr. Pence could reject the Electoral College results and alter the outcome last year.

President Trump is wrong, said Mr. Pence, in his remarks before the Federalist Society, a conservative legal organization. I had no right to overturn the election.

The comments marked the strongest rejection of Mr. Trumps efforts to overturn the 2020 election by his former vice president. Mr. Pence refused to give in on Jan. 6 to Mr. Trumps pressure campaign to change the results. Since then, he has remained relatively quiet about that decision, largely declining to directly attack Mr. Trump or assign him any blame for inciting the deadly siege on the Capitol. In public appearances last year, Mr. Pence defended his role in resisting Mr. Trump but did not go further than saying that the two men will never see eye to eye about that day.

But tensions between them have been rising in recent days. As Mr. Pence positions himself for a possible presidential bid in 2024, Mr. Trump has pushed more intensely a false narrative aimed at blaming his former vice president for failing to stop President Biden from taking office.

Mr. Pence cast his opposition on Friday as larger than the immediate political moment, implying that the false claims pushed by Mr. Trump and his followers threatened to undermine American democracy.

The truth is theres more at stake than our party or our political fortunes, he said. If we lose faith in the Constitution, we wont just lose elections well lose our country.

In a speech that largely focused on attacking the policies and record of the Biden administration, Mr. Pence described Jan. 6 as a dark day in Washington. Such a description runs counter to an attempt by some on the right to rewrite history by describing the siege as a peaceful rally and by calling the rioters political prisoners. And he urged Mr. Trump and his party to accept the results of the last election.

Whatever the future holds, I know we did our duty that day, Mr. Pence said. I believe the time has come to focus on the future.

But Mr. Pence stopped short of completely breaking with the right-wing base that remains deeply influenced by Mr. Trump.

Mr. Pence did not explicitly say that Mr. Trump lost the election and he declined to address the false claims of election fraud still being pushed by the former president and his supporters. The carefully constructed wording of his rebuke shows an effort by Mr. Pence to defend his own actions on Jan. 6, while not completely alienating a Republican base that remains animated by conspiracy theories of a stolen election. Their support could be crucial in any 2024 primary contest.

His comments came just hours after the Republican Party voted to censure two Republican lawmakers for taking part in the House investigation of the Jan. 6 attack. The lawmakers, Representatives Liz Cheney of Wyoming and Adam Kinzinger of Illinois, were censured for participating in what the partys resolution described as the persecution of ordinary citizens engaged in legitimate political discourse.

In a rambling statement issued Friday evening, Mr. Trump refrained from sharply attacking Mr. Pence. But he described Mr. Pence as being an automatic conveyor belt on Jan. 6 to get Biden elected President as quickly as possible. And he also did not back down from his assertion that Mr. Pence had the authority to change the results.

Mr. Trump added, I was right and everyone knows it. If there is fraud or large scale irregularities, it would have been appropriate to send those votes back to the legislatures to figure it out.

Legal scholars and officials from both parties say the vice president does not have the power to overturn elections. Mr. Pence agrees with that interpretation of the law: In a letter to Congress sent the morning of the Capitol attack, Mr. Pence rejected the presidents claims, writing that the Constitution constrains me from claiming unilateral authority to determine which electoral votes should be counted and which should not.

On Sunday, Mr. Trump falsely claimed that Mr. Pence could have overturned the election in a statement denouncing a bipartisan push to rewrite the Electoral Count Act of 1887. The former president and his allies misinterpreted that century-old law in their failed bid to persuade Mr. Pence to throw out legitimate election results. And on Tuesday, Mr. Trump said that the congressional committee investigating the role of his administration in the violent Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol should instead examine why Mike Pence did not send back the votes for recertification or approval.

Mr. Trumps attempts to influence his vice president have become a focus of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack, with some members seeing the participation of Mr. Pences team as vital to deciding whether it has sufficient evidence to make a criminal referral of Mr. Trump to the Justice Department. Two of Mr. Pences aides testified privately before the committee this week and Mr. Pences lawyer and the panel have been talking informally about whether the former vice president would be willing to speak to investigators.

The Justice Department has also been examining the ways in which Mr. Trumps attacks on Mr. Pence influenced the mob. In recent plea negotiations in some Jan. 6 cases, prosecutors have asked defense lawyers whether their clients would admit in sworn statements that they stormed the Capitol believing that Mr. Trump wanted them to stop Mr. Pence from certifying the election.

As the attackers raided the Capitol that day, some chanted Hang Mike Pence. Mr. Trump initially brushed aside calls from aides and allies to call them off. Since then, Mr. Trump has defended the chants as understandable because, as he said in an interview with Jonathan Karl of ABC News, the people were very angry about the election.

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Donald Trump 'Is Wrong' on Authority to Overturn Election, Says Pence - The New York Times

New York Times liberal David Leonhardt has had plenty of dumb things to say about the pandemic.

Exhibit A, this remark he made back in October on CNN: When people quit or get fired because they wont take the vaccine, I would think of that there is some really good news there.

A month before that, he said Republicans were rejecting vaccines at a higher rate than Democrats, in large part because conservatives had grown hostile to science. Then he acknowledged in a subsequent column that health officials were deliberately withholding information from the public, as happened with masks, and said their refusal to acknowledge uncertainty can undermine officials credibility. (When conservatives doubt what their leaders are telling them, its because theyre hostile to science. When Leonhardt does it, hes just being a skeptical journalist!)

In June 2020, he made the arrogant declaration that We know how to slow the spread of the coronavirus, and pointed to South Korea as a sterling example of one of those countries that had avoided outbreaks or beaten them back. A few months later, the deputy commissioner of the nations health department would say, We are facing our biggest ever coronavirus crisis because the current wave is neither temporary nor regional, but steady and nationwide. We dont have one central cluster that we can shut down with a focused testing and isolating campaign

And so, Leonhardt doesnt get any credit for his Johnny-come-lately attitude about how Democrat and media-championed restrictions on the economy, social life, and schools have severely retarded this country. Plenty of people knew that was the case from the beginning and when they said so aloud, elitist dummies like Leonhardt denounced them as reckless science deniers hellbent on ushering more spread of a deadly virus.

But its wild anyway that, for becoming more vocal lately about the harm Democrats have done to children and the economy with their beloved lockdowns, Politico decided it was time to let a bunch of miserable liberals trash him. And do it anonymously!

Reporter Joanne Kenen wrote last week that she had viewed a letter sent to the Times from a group of prominent pandemic experts who called Leonhardts Covid analysis irresponsible and dangerous. Who were these so-called prominent experts? We dont get to know. Kenen said when she got ahold of the letter, it came with the full list of signatures withheld.

How, then, does she know any of the names are prominent? Moreoever, how does she know theyre experts at all? Maybe we shouldnt ask. We wouldnt want to seem hostile to science.

But Kenen even declined to identify someone she interviewed directly and who said that the majority of Leonhardts opinion pieces downplay risk, downplay prevention. This assessment, according to Kenen, came from a physician at a prestigious academic medical center. If thats true, and were talking about a matter of life and death, and that a prominent writer is misleading millions of people about the risk to their health, there is literally no reason for a doctor to hide his name when making such a milquetoast accusation. And there is literally no reason for a reporter like Kenen to allow it other than that shes simply crap-stirring and continuing to feed the alarmism that invites Democrats to continue hyping up their control-freak restrictions.

These people swear that theyre not enjoying the pandemic, that everyone wants to be done with it. No, they dont.

Leonhardt isnt a sympathetic victim in this smear campaign. But hes a useful reminder that the people were told incessantly by the national media to listen to and trust are in no way forthcoming or honest.

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Media's Smear Of NYT's Leonhardt Reminds Us Why They Can't Be Trusted - The Federalist

FILE Former Vice President Mike Pence speaks at the National Press Club in Washington, Nov. 30, 2021. Pence said Friday in a speech in Florida that the former president is simply wrong when he says Pence had the right to unilaterally overturn the election. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

WASHINGTON (AP) Former Vice President Mike Pence on Friday directly rebutted Donald Trumps false claims that Pence somehow could have overturned the results of the 2020 election, saying that the former president was simply wrong.

In a speech to the conservative Federalist Society in Florida, Pence addressed Trumps intensifying efforts this week to advance the false narrative that he could have done something to prevent Joe Biden from taking office.

President Trump is wrong, Pence said. I had no right to overturn the election.

While Pence in the past has defended his actions on Jan. 6 and said that he and Trump willlikely never see eye to eyeon what happened that day, the remarks Friday marked his most forceful rebuttal of Trump to date. And they come as Pence has been laying the groundwork for a potential run for president in 2024, which could put him in direct competition with his former boss, who has also been teasing a comeback run.

In a statement Tuesday, Trump said the committee investigating the deadly Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol should instead probe why Mike Pence did not send back the votes for recertification or approval. And on Sunday, he blasted Pence, falsely declaring that he could have overturned the Election!

Vice presidents play only a ceremonial role in the the counting of Electoral College votes, and any attempt to interfere in the count would have represented a profound break from precedent and democratic norms.

Pence, in his remarks Friday, described Jan. 6, 2021, as a dark day in the history of the United States Capitol.

Pence was inside the building, presiding over the joint session of Congress to certify the presidential election, when a mob of Trumps supporters violently smashed inside, assaulting police officers and hunting down lawmakers. Pence, who had released a statement earlier that day to make clear he had no authority to overturn the will of the voters, was rushed to safety as some rioters chanted Hang Mike Pence!

Pence framed his actions that day as in line with his duty as a constitutional conservative.

The American people must know that we will always keep our oath to the Constitution, even when it would be politically expedient to do otherwise, he told the group Friday. He noted that, under Article II Section One of the Constitution, elections are conducted at the state level, not by Congress and that the only role of Congress with respect to the Electoral College is to open and count votes submitted and certified by the states. No more, no less.

Frankly there is no idea more un-American than the notion that any one person could choose the American president, he added. Under the Constitution, I had no right to change the outcome of our election. And Kamala Harris will have no right to overturn the election when we beat them in 2024.

Pence also acknowledged the lingering anger among many in Trumps base. But, he said: The truth is, theres more at stake than our party or political fortunes. Men and women, if we lose faith in the Constitution, we wont just lose elections well lose our country.

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Trump is wrong: Pence says he had no right to overturn 2020 election - FOX31 Denver

A federal agency debuted a new system on Tuesday designed to record and store the information of federal employees who requested religious exemptions from the Biden administrations federal jab mandate.

According to a report by the Daily Signal, the Pretrial Services Agency for the District of Columbia, an independent federal agency designed to aid Washington D.C. courts, created the Employee Religious Exception Request Information System to track unvaccinated employees who ask for religious exemptions from President Joe Bidens federal COVID-19 shot mandate.

The Federal Register describes the new system as the best way to keep track of personal religious information that is collected in the context of a public health emergency or similar health and safety incident, such as a pandemic, epidemic, natural disaster or national or regional emergency and/or any other lawful collection of employee information or data that is necessary to ensure a safe and healthy environment for individuals. Those with concerns about the system only have until Feb. 10 to offer any public comments.

The agency claims that the database will legally allow for the collection, storing, dissemination, and disposal of employee religious exemption request information for an indefinite period of time.

The primary purpose of the secured electronic file repository is to collect, maintain, use, andto the extent appropriate and necessarydisseminate employee religious exception request information collected by the Agency inthe context of the federally mandated COVID-19 vaccination requirement, the register states.

The Daily Signal report notes that the group did not explain specifically why it needed to create a longstanding list and neither does the announcement explain why the Biden administration chose to test this policy in an agency with amajority-black staff, who are bothmore religiousandless vaccinatedthan other groups.

The legal fellows who authored the Daily Signal piece also expressed concern that the Biden administration is using [the database] to stealth test a policy it intends to roll out across the whole government.

Jordan Boyd is a staff writer at The Federalist and co-producer of The Federalist Radio Hour. Her work has also been featured in The Daily Wire and Fox News. Jordan graduated from Baylor University where she majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow her on Twitter @jordangdavidson.

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Rampant political indoctrination is a problem affecting many public and private schools in the United States, and Texas is no exception.

When leftist administrations and Democrat-linked teachers unions lobbied to keep students home and glued to iPads during Covid-19 panic, parents in Texas began to pay attention to the racism and radical LGBTQ ideologies schools and libraries have been pushing on children as young as toddlers. The problem crept through the tiniest of rural schools all the way into the top-achieving school district in Texas in the Dallas suburbs until outraged parents took action.

Its not an isolated story. Concerned parents who want more of a say in what their children are learning heavily influenced the results of the Virginia gubernatorial race last year, successfully unseated radical school board members in the Midwest, and are profoundly affecting races in Texas as well. The extremist ideologies in Texas schools have inspired a wave of conservative parents to run in the state board of educations upcoming primaries, as well as in similar races nationwide.

State board of education races can look like down-ballot elections of small significance. In reality, the candidates elected to sit on the 15-member board make decisions that profoundly affect education inside and outside the Lone Star State.

In Texas, the state education board not only determines the curriculum criteria that affect the states 1,029 public school districts, but also approves and vetoes which charter schools will be allowed to operate in Texas.

The Texas State Board of Education races are some of the most important on the ticket because of the almost 6 million Texas public school students whose lives can be irreparably damaged by the type of standards and curriculum the TSBOE adopts, Donna Garner, an education policy commentator at Education Views, noted in an analysis of the race.

This boards decisions are far from cursory. In addition to heavily influencing national education publishers who use the content and methods adopted in large states such as Texas as a model to disseminate similar materials elsewhere, the SBOE also can fend off leftist attempts to slip politically charged content into the states instruction mandates.

Nearly 15 years ago, the Texas SBOE found itself the target of national media coverage after the Texas Education Agencys director of science Christine Castillo Comer said she would not stay neutral about teaching Darwinism even though the board instructed TEA teachers to promote critical thinking in classrooms by examining multiple viewpoints about the origins of life. Contrary to the corporate media narrative, the SBOEs instruction standards did not require creationism or conversations about intelligent design in classrooms but merely asked teachers to refrain from pushing politics and unsupported theories.

As the culture war heightens, Texass SBOE has faced pressure from activists to adopt curricula that not only endorses judging students based on the color of their skin but requires schools to teach leftist politics. These leftists want mandatory workbooks and lessons that paint anti-racism as a solution instead of a problem, amplify extremist climate change agendas, and neglect human biology to promote trans ideology.

Despite Democrats efforts to purple it, Texas is still a red state with no shortage of candidates with an R next to their names on the ballot. The number of SBOE members in recent years who are willing to stand up to the lefts increasing bullying, however, has dwindled severely, prompting culture war conservatives to enter the race. In 10 of the 15 state board of education districts, at least two Republicans are fighting for a spot on the board in advance of it reevaluating key curriculum standards in 2023.

Leftist political indoctrination is a problem plaguing public school districts across the country, but in Texas, its one only the SBOE can address. Its also what inspired some GOP candidates to run this year and participate in the big battleground for a cultural tug-of-war.

One of these candidates, Aaron Kinsey, the CEO of aerial oil pipeline patrol company American Patrols and a father of three children, chose to enter the political arena for the first time after he saw the increasingly negative effects of remote schooling and political indoctrination were having on Texas students. The Republican said he believes schools should be teachingour children to love themselves, their families, their neighbors, their state, and their country, not to choose political sides.

I think youre gonna see a lot more parents getting involved, and I am one of those parents who is stepping up and saying, No, this isnt right. This isnt what we stand for,' Kinsey told The Federalist.

Kinsey is challenging Republican incumbent Jay Johnson to represent District 15, which spans a large chunk of West Texas and the Texas Panhandle. Johnson, who has served on the SBOE since 2020 after he went unchallenged in the primary election, is listed as a Republican.

But during his past term, Johnson vetoed the application of Heritage Classical, a charter school inspired by Hillsdale Colleges classical model and supported by a network of pro-America public charter schools that have been highly successful across the United States for decades. Johnson also voted to approve a charter for Essence Prepatory, which touted quotes from extremist racial grifter Ibram X. Kendi on its website. Johnson did not respond to The Federalists request for comment.

Kinsey said parents strong concerns warrant action that his primary rival might not take.

This system, as it is right now, has a lot of establishment people that are involved with it, who have been around it the whole time or for several decades. And I think its time for a change, Kinsey said. Its time for somebody else who doesnt necessarily have those past experiences and biases with the system to come in and start taking a look with a fresh perspective.

Thats like half the problem here on a lot of these cultural things, like if youre sleeping on it, youre losing, he added.

Michael Barton, a dad of two and police detective, is running for a seat in the board of educations District 7, which also encompasses part of the Houston area. Despite running in a primary crowded with three other Republicans, Barton says his plan for action and willingness to prioritize parents sets him apart from other candidates.

Parents should be front and center. No parent should have to go asking for curriculum or teaching materials from their local school district. I see no reason why this cant all be put online. The needs of the kids should be No. 1, everything else revolves around that, he told The Federalist in an email.

As the SBOE stands now, Republicans technically hold the majority with nine members. Of those, some such as Pat Hardy can be trusted to make pro-school choice and anti-indoctrination decisions.

Other incumbent board members, however, such as Pam Little in District 12, Sue Melton-Malone in District 14, and Jay Johnson in District 15, have swing-vote track records that can only be characterized as bench-warming. These board members might side with conservatives on some issues but they also lack the courage to take the new culture war by the horns.

Some Republican board members such as Matt Robinson in District 7 have decided not to run again, opening doors for new, passionate candidates to potentially take his place. Other strong, conservative SBOE candidates such as Audrey Young, Keven Ellis, and Tom Maynard have pro-school choice and anti-indoctrination track records and the boon of running unopposed.

Culture war conservatives are hoping to make gains in the March primary with new candidates while incumbents with primary challengers are fighting to keep their spot and finish the work they already started in previous terms. Will Hickman, a father of three, is running for re-election in District 6, which spans parts of Houston. He is being challenged by former educator Mike Wolfe.

Since he was elected in 2020, Hickman has voted against far-left climate rhetoric in Texas science curriculum and advocated against a series of radical gender ideology textbooks.

As a conservative, as a Christian, as a parent, I bring the parent perspective to the board, Hickman told The Federalist. Ive enjoyed the past year and Im willing to put my name forward and resume experience and work on the board and see if the voters of the district want to put me back.

Hickman believes students should be prepared for their futures, whether thats college, a career, or the military, and that teaching to a political agenda does not satisfy that.

Lets teach the science, and then leave the policy and politics for social studies. [The board] is just starting on social studies, so Im sure well have the [critical race theory] debate there. For me, CRT is racism. Although some would say its for a good purpose, I disagree. I think any racism should not be taught in Texas schools. One-hundred percent against CRT, he said of his position.

Due to redistricting, a new wave of strong Texas SBOE candidates are up for election or re-election, some shortly after they assumed office for the first time in 2020. The timing couldnt be more perfect as Texas parents, angered by the leftist lies being shoved down little throats, beg for opportunities to challenge radicalism in public schools.

Texas is a large statem and the decisions its SBOE makes will have a large impact on the entire nations education markets. Texas parents are stepping up to keep activist ideologues from messing with Texas students, like parents in other states. The fight to give parents a voice in their childrens education in Texas and across the nation is only beginning.

Jordan Boyd is a staff writer at The Federalist and co-producer of The Federalist Radio Hour. Her work has also been featured in The Daily Wire and Fox News. Jordan graduated from Baylor University where she majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow her on Twitter @jordangdavidson.

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Indoctrination Prompts Wave Of Candidates For Texas Board Of Education - The Federalist

Despair is in the air. Three-quarters of Americans believe their own country is in decline.

Its hard to dispute that when you see things like junkies destroying U.S. infrastructure while governors who liberally micromanage law-abiding people throw up their hands.

I do think there are major problems in our country that are not likely to get seriously addressed in the near future. I do think they matter, and that because of rampant terrible American leadership (and acquiescence to such leadership by the people), millions will continue to suffer.

Yet I also think there are lots of amazing opportunities happening right now that people need to awake to and seize. To seize these opportunities, Americans must break out of societal conventions, ways of thinking, and life scripts that clearly dont work any more but feel comfortable and without viable alternatives. The people who are willing to take such risks to make fresh choices that fit our new reality will overall be handsomely rewarded.

That brings us to college. The everyone should go to college mantra is brittle, false, failing, and harmful. Deep down, we all know it, and weve known it for a long time. Those promised returns to income from starting life in deep debt are simply not materializing like they used to. That Boomer windfall is long gone, if it ever existed in the first place.

But lots of young people and their parents dont know their other options, or they know about them but are scared of the social pressure to live by failed narratives. Other great options are in fact plentiful, and partly because of our societal decline. Pertinent to the college discussion is the desperation of employers to find talent and their motivation to train that talent. It has never been higher in my lifetime (Im in the middle of our lifes journey as an older millennial) and in the lifetimes of most working-age people today.

If you havent heard, employers are starved for employees thanks to stupid lockdowns and stupid attempts at medical coercion. A friend in the trades recently told me he knows hiring managers in construction who are combing active build sites to try to find people to hire and train for skilled labor jobs that are lifelong career opportunities.

He sent a recruiting flyer boasting jobs in plumbing, welding, HVAC, and the like starting at $30,000 plus benefits worth some $20,000 more per year, and by the fifth year of employment or when a comparable peer would be finishing college a salary of $60,000 plus benefits. Thats making more than the U.S. median household income in five years of work, with no college debt or timewasting. Its well above the typical white-collar job trajectory, and can lead to salaries of six figures annually after a decade or so, as well as the possibility of starting ones own business.

Not to mention, the work has excellent prospects. Plumbing and welding cant be outsourced to China or India, and the average age of trades workers is well above the U.S. median. This is just one illustration of whats happening in hundreds of thousands of companies and industries, and its an amazing shift in the job market.

When I was looking for my first job during the Great Recession, employers generally didnt want to train people. They wanted people to walk onto the job ready to go. They would train, but not extensively. Employers wanted employees to ideally spend years of free labor and training in college and unpaid internships just to get an entry-level professional job. Employers wanted other people to pay the price of training potential hires.

But now, many employers will take almost any warm body that moves. They will train it, dress it, pay it, and smooch it good morning every day if it just shows up to work. This is an amazing opportunity for everyone who needs a better or more substantive job, or whose school or employer is abusing him with political ideology and none-of-their-business surveys about what injections hes recently put into his body and whats up at the tippy top of his nasal cavity.

This is also an opportunity to rip apart the damaging go to college, everyone paradigm. A college education can be useful for some people, but lets be real: Most colleges do not provide an education, they just provide a very expensive and largely socially wasteful sorting function for big corporate. This is very well established with good data, and has been true for decades.

On the flip side of the go to college, get set in your career for life false claim are the real costs that the college-for-all mentality imposes on young people right as they are the most vulnerable and inexperienced in their adult lives. Most notably is the debt college puts young people in, which damages their lifetime happiness by retarding and even completely aborting their family formation.

There are also other less-remarked and just as significant costs to pushing young people into not just four-year but also now graduate degrees. One is soaking up young peoples wonderful energy into make-work for four, five, six, seven, eight of the most energetic and potentially productive years of their lives.

College-for-all converts young people from potentially creative producers, doers, and entrepreneurs into passive consumers, not just while they are stashed in dorm rooms but also for the decade or more after college it takes to pay the debt they accumulated for a degree that will not put millions of young people ahead in their lives or careers.

This is a massive waste of time and talent. Significant research has shown that the majority of young people exit college having learned nothing or actually losing intellectual ground.

Instead of treading water intellectually, professionally, and personally until their mid-30s, young people can instead use these amazing first two decades of their adulthood to develop real skills, professional relationships, and authority. They just have to get a job and use it to learn skills instead of wasting their lives in college. Or they could lean into a skill or useful hobby and see if they can develop it as a side hustle and ultimately their own business.

Today there is even more weight to this situation because, amid the Covid panic, colleges have turned into internment camps. Truly, some college Covid policies are or have been on par with the literal Covid internment camps in Australia and China. Some send security to grab young adults and lock them away alone for two weeks based on being a close contact who in almost all cases will never develop Covid during this insanely abusive and utterly unprecedented quarantine of the healthy.

College-age Americans are at a near-zero risk of disastrous outcomes from a bout with Covid. According to world-famous epidemiologists, it would have been far better if the young, healthy, and low-risk had been set free to create natural societal immunity to protect the vulnerable sick and elderly instead of restricted with lockdowns. So not only have the colleges treating them this way put the young people in their care at risk from the ill effects of quarantining the healthy, they have increased the Covid risks to the vulnerable.

As with K-12 school shutdowns, quarantines, and masking, the mass higher education abuse of young adults negates whatever intellectual and moral credibility they had left after decades of defrauding students of a genuine education while charging their futures for this injustice. Its high time for young people and their families to stop allowing this disgustingly corrupt credentialing industry to hold their entire life cycle hostage to lies.

The corruption is real, but so is the opportunity to make something good of your life. You dont need these disgusting educrats to certify your worth. In fact, you are better off having nothing to do with them.

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Mollie Ziegler Hemingway has been named editor in chief of The Federalist, company co-founder and Chief Financial Officer Sean Davis announced on Monday. In this new role, Hemingway who has been a Federalist senior editor since its founding in 2013 will now oversee all of The Federalists editorial operations.

Im thrilled to announce Mollie as The Federalists editor in chief, Davis said. Mollies leadership, temperament, journalistic experience, and especially her courage make her the perfect choice to set the editorial direction of The Federalist.

America is at a crossroads right now, Davis continued. We are locked in a battle that will decide whether our nation will defend and uphold the values and ideals of our Founding, or whether we will allow deranged left-wing activists, corrupt media and Big Tech outlets, and a feckless political establishment to rewrite history and destroy everything that has made America the greatest and most free nation on earth.

Since The Federalist was founded in 2013 by Davis and Ben Domenech, the publication has served as the tip of the spear against the bogus narratives and hoaxes peddled by the corrupt corporate media. From unmasking the Russian collusion hoax, to reporting the truth about the attempted character assassination of Brett Kavanaugh, to combatting the never-ending attempts of the left to thwart and unseat President Donald Trump, to chronicling the reality of what happened during the 2020 election, to fighting Big Techs Orwellian declaration of war against free speech, The Federalist has placed itself on the front lines of the lefts war against Americas founding principles.

In each of those battles, Hemingways fearless work for The Federalist set the tone and led the way for the entire conservative movement.

Mollie is far and away the smartest pundit and journalist working in politics today, Davis added.

One of the most popular and beloved contributors on Fox News, Hemingway also serves as a senior journalism fellow at Hillsdale College, where she teaches a class on journalism. In 2021, her distinguished reporting and commentary earned her the prestigious Bradley Prize, which is awarded for extraordinary contributions to American scholarship and debate. In 2019, recognizing her journalistic integrity and willingness to stand alone beside the truth, the Heritage Foundation conferred on Hemingway its Salvatori Prize for American Citizenship.

She is also the co-author of the No. 1 national best-seller, Justice On Trial: The Kavanaugh Confirmation and the Future of the Supreme Court, and the author of the best-selling Rigged: How the Media, Big Tech, and the Democrats Seized Our Elections, the definitive historical account of the 2020 presidential election.

My goals for The Federalist are to continue our courageous and ground-breaking journalism, Hemingway said. From our founding, we have fought every false corporate media narrative out there, from the Russian collusion hoax, to the Kavanaugh smears, to the irregularities surrounding the 2020 election. So much more needs to be done to protect America from a corrupt media complex thats hell-bent on destroying the country. Thats why Im so excited for this new role at The Federalist and so honored to be working with our team of amazing, fearless journalists.

As editor in chief, Hemingway will lead The Federalists coverage and work closely with the publications senior editorial staff, including Executive Editor Joy Pullmann and newly named Senior Editor John Davidson, along with Davis and Domenech. Founded in 2013 by Davis and Domenech, The Federalist quickly became one of the most fearless and influential political publications in the country and is a daily must-read for everyone interested in the nexus of politics, culture, and religion in America.

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Chelsea Greene Publishing is suing Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren for allegedly abusing her political authority to push Amazon to censor their book titled, The Truth About COVID-19.The publisher alleges serious First Amendment violations.

On September 7, 2021, Warren sent an official letter to Amazon CEO Andy Jassy urging him to suppress the bestseller written by Joseph Mercola and Ronnie Cummins in Amazons search results for perpetuating dangerous conspiracies about COVID-19 and false and misleading information about vaccines.

Chelsea Greene responded by filing a lawsuit accusing Warren of violating the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution by seeking to stop booksellers from selling and/or promoting their book. The lawsuit cites the Supreme Court case Bantam Books v. Sullivan, which held that government officials violated the First Amendment by sending letters to booksellers warning the sale of certain books was potentially unlawful.

The ruling established that even though private companies have the right to censor speech within their platforms, they cant do it on behalf of a government agent. It is unconstitutional for state officials to pressure a private company to suppress objectionable speech.

According to Warrens letter, a search on Amazons website using the keywords COVID-19 and vaccine would list the book as the first result. Warren concluded the letter by calling Amazon to modify its algorithms so that they no longer do so.

Chelsea Greene Publishing released a statement explaining their allegations against Warren.

The term vaccine misinformation, as Warren uses it, refers to any speech challenging the safety and efficacy of the COVID vaccines, even when that speech consists of factually accurate information or reasonable and protected opinion, the statement said. Plaintiffs allege Warrens letter contained blatant falsehoods and unsubstantiated accusations about the book and that Warrens claims, even if correct, would not alter the books constitutional protectedness.

Author Joseph Mercola accused Warren of violating his First Amendment rights, noting that protecting free speech is central to our democracy.

I believe successful treatments for COVID-19 have been suppressed, and there are real conspiracies that have been revealed that are essential to public well-being, said Mercola.

Margot Baldwin, president of the publisher, pointed out that, historically speaking, suppressing books indicates dangerous government trends..

The government trying to ban books is a very dangerous slippery slope to totalitarianism and cannot be allowed, said Baldwin. Weve been here before in history and we know where it leads: tyranny! First burning books, then banning books, then disappearing books from search results. Its all the same thing.

As a result of Warrens letter, Barnes and Noble, the largest bookseller chain in America, announced it would no longer sell the ebook of The Truth About COVID-19 on its digital platforms, a decision which was reversed a few days later.

Many observations about Covid-19 that were previously considered conspiracy theories by Democrat politicians have since turned out to be correct. For a few examples: after two years of lies, the Centers for Disease Control finally admitted that its Covid death and hospitalizations numbers were being inflated, 75 percent of Covid victims had at least four comorbidities, the vaccine doesnt prevent transmission, and cloth masks were always political theater.

This is not the first time Democratic politicians have colluded with powerful private corporations to shut down speech that poses an inconvenience. Recently, President Joe Biden urged social media companies to deal with the misinformation and disinformation on their platforms. Last year, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki revealed the White House was regularly working with Facebook to flag problematic posts that spread disinformation.

Nathan J. Arnold, a lawyer for the plaintiffs, said he doesnt believe that there is any misinformation in the book, but even if there was, it would be irrelevant since it is speech protected by the First Amendment.

I know that the political landscape that were all operating in is terribly partisan, but we dont want unpopular opinions being suppressed by whoevers in power, said Arnold. It really transcends party politics.

Sam Neves is a former leftist and a correspondent for Campus Reform. He is a marketing major at Emerson College. After graduation, Sam plans to attend law school and continue his mission to fight for people who do not have a voice.

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Warren Sued For Asking Amazon To Suppress Covid Book In Searches - The Federalist

Wisconsin became the latest state to pass a resolution calling for an Article V convention of states on Tuesday, with the goal of proposing amendments to the U.S. Constitution that would limit the power of the federal government.

Passed by the Wisconsin Assembly last year, the resolution was approved by the Senate in a 17-16 vote, with four Republicans joining all Democrats in opposition. According to the measure, Wisconsins legislature seeks to call a convention of states limited to proposing amendments to the Constitution of the United States that impose fiscal restraints on the federal government, limit the power and jurisdiction of the federal government, and limit the terms of office for its officials and for members of Congress.

As written in Article V of the U.S. Constitution, state legislatures are provided the power to call a convention to propose amendments to the nations founding document without the approval of Congress. Under the current process, two-thirds of states are required for a convention to be called, with three-fourths of states necessary for any amendment proposed to be ratified.

Times like these are precisely why the Founders created the mechanisms in Article V, said state Rep. Dan Knodl. Federal overreach has thrown our country into chaos, and its time for the states to exercise their authority as granted to them in the constitution to restore order, states rights, and limited, constitutional government. Im incredibly proud that our state has officially thrown its support behind this movement.

State Sen. Kathy Bernier also expressed her excitement at the resolutions passage, noting how thankful she is that the Constitution provides the states and the people a framework to step in and save the Republic when Congress will not.

Today we sent a message that Wisconsin stands ready to rein in federal overreach, she said.

In addition to Wisconsin, 15 other states have also passed similar resolutions calling for a convention to address federal term limits, spending, and governmental overreach.

Shawn Fleetwood is an intern at The Federalist and a student at the University of Mary Washington, where he plans to major in Political Science and minor in Journalism. He also serves as a state content writer for Convention of States Action. Follow him on Twitter @ShawnFleetwood

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