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Dear friends,
As you know, 2024 is a very important time. It’s election season again, and we have our work cut out for us. Be informed and be engaged. There are many ways to support your choice of candidates. Here are two tools to help us be informed:
2024 Republican Primary and Runoff Election Endorsements
Your Guide to the 2024 Presidential Primary Season - As Americans gear up to select their preferred candidate, here are 31 common questions and answers about the presidential primaries and caucuses in 2024.
And here are the Texas 2024 Republican Primary Ballot Propositions. Some of these items will become Republican ‘priorities’ which are supposed to be goals for the legislature to accomplish during the biennial session.
The power of collective action. Troops and vets defending the military from its own leadership.
On the first day of 2024, senior military leaders received an email with a letter attached called the Declaration of Military Accountability.
Here is the document including signatures.
Here is the Newsweek article on this topic.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was hospitalized last week and out of touch for days without notifying the White House, the National Security Council, or the media that he was having emergency care.
True the Vote Wins 'Monumental' Election Case Against Stacey Abrams' Fair Fight
California expanded its state health care coverage to cover “medically necessary” sex-change surgeries for illegal immigrants. Analysts say the expansion could cost taxpayers an estimated $3.1 billion. (More)
This is from IFApray. And Texas is one of the states to have a U.S. Capitol Police satellite office.
Why Are U.S. Capitol Police Opening Satellite Offices?
Religious freedom anyone?
Australia Bans Prayer in Name of Fighting Conversion Therapy
Victoria’s law condemning certain forms of prayer seems beyond the pale for Americans, but 27 states, along with Washington, D.C., and one U.S. territory have laws banning “conversion therapy” for minors, according to the pro-LGBTQ Movement Advancement Project.
Fantasy. See the numbers in this article for reality about giving up fossil fuels. If only climate change proponents would use logic…
Boom Boom: Out Go the Lights! - Biden Oscillates Between Eco-Fantasy and Enviro-Tyranny
I first ran across Bari’s writings after she left the NY Times and started Common Sense which has changed to The Free Press. Bari is a liberal, but she wasn’t radical enough for the NY Times.
Bari Weiss is a journalist and an author. From 2017 to 2020, Weiss was an opinion writer and editor at The New York Times. Before that, she was an op-ed and book review editor at The Wall Street Journal and a senior editor at Tablet Magazine.
DEI must end, Bari Weiss, Dec 2023 (22 minutes)
5 Major Cases That Highlighted Supreme Court’s 2022-2023 Term
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"If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom." – Dwight D. Eisenhower
“Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.” – Ronald Reagan
Do your own research; make up your own mind.
Until next time…
Please share your thoughts in the comments. Or email me, and let’s have a problem-solving conversation. I welcome ‘letters to the editor’ type emails and may publish yours. I hope we can create a caucus with positive, back-to-the-founders’-dream-for-America results. Have a topic you want to know more about?
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Thanks again for reading! I’m glad you’re here!
Blessings,
Ellen
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