by admin | Jul 1, 2025 | Misc, News and Updates
Among many issues, the past two elections have been a referendum on the public school system throughout our country. And that’s especially true here in Arizona. The people have shown that they are tired of the leftist indoctrination, wasted taxpayer dollars on declining test scores, attacks on parental rights, and more.
Immediately after his inauguration, President Trump proved that cleaning up our schools wasn’t just a campaign talking point. He issued an executive order (EO) ending radical indoctrination in K-12 schooling, and the U.S. Department of Education took action to eliminate harmful Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives. It’s been a breath of fresh air, frankly, but the woke crazies in our state are not going down without a fight.
Back in February, a teacher at Marana High School was suspended after he challenged President Trump’s denial of the existence of more than two genders during a classroom lecture. Then, in May, an advocacy group released audio from inside a Catalina Foothills School District (CFSD) ninth grade health classroom where an alleged teacher gave a “lesson” on LGBTQ issues and criticized religious texts. What any of this has to do with “health” is beyond us, but it certainly shows the lengths these crazies are willing to go in order to push their radical message.
Not wanting to be outdone, Scottsdale Unified School District (SUSD) also decided to get into the mix. But instead of relying on leftist teachers to spearhead the work, the district itself adopted a curriculum that contains lessons on Black Lives Matter, January 6th, climate change, LGBTQ rights, illegal immigration, police brutality, and more. The move even prompted local law enforcement to push back, with one police officer association president sending a letter to SUSD asking them to reject the anti-police propaganda.
On top of all this, we’ve seen school districts like Deer Valley Unified School District buck at the Trump administration’s directive to end DEI. And there’s Kyrene School District, which voted to openly defy Trump’s guidance by adopting a policy that further embeds DEI into its day-to-day operations.
Clearly the left is undeterred in its efforts to use our K-12 system as a liberal indoctrination camp. And while President Trump’s efforts to fight back have been swift and bold, we can’t stop there.
Right now, it is critical for conservatives throughout our state to stay vigilant at both the state and local level. That means partnering with the Trump administration in identifying schools that are not in compliance with the president’s EOs. It means fighting back against leftist school boards looking to adopt radical curriculum and other woke policies. But most importantly, it means defending school choice at every turn against attacks from Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs and the radical left.
Since then-Governor Doug Ducey signed universal school choice into law back in 2022, Arizona’s teachers’ unions, the radical left, and other anti-school choice groups have been doing everything they can to attack the popular program. When they began gathering signatures for a ballot initiative aimed at overturning Empowerment Scholarship Accounts (ESA), conservatives met them every step of the way. When Hobbs came into legislative session in both 2023 and 2024 with her top priority being to regulate ESAs out of existence, conservatives fought back with only minor changes being made through the budget. And when the far left spent millions to push state legislature candidates with a long track record of being anti-school choice, conservatives mobilized and crushed them in the 2024 election.
We can’t sit back now and expect President Trump to solve all our problems. Over 85,000 students are currently enrolled in the ESA program. It continues to grow in popularity while serving as a model policy for states across the country. That’s why the left wants to tear it down.
Stay vigilant, conservatives. And remember, as the left continues to push its craziness on our students, they’re no match for us when we stand up, speak up, and fight back.
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by admin | Jun 27, 2025 | News and Updates, Regulatory
PHOENIX, ARIZONA – On Tuesday, June 24, the Prescott City Council held another meeting to vote on the city’s proposed General Plan. This document contained various sections of woke policy such as Vision Zero, road diet language, and pushes for pricey, unreliable energy. Had it been approved, the City Council would have sent it to the ballot for an upcoming election.
However, the public made their voices heard during multiple meetings, urging the council to vote the plan down. The plan failed to obtain the required supermajority (five votes) for referral to the ballot. Prescott Mayor Phil Goode spoke out in strong opposition to the proposal which, as written, reflects policies that many fear could begin to turn Prescott into Los Angeles or San Francisco. The mayor, along with two other council members, heeded the calls from grassroots residents by voting against the original, problematic General Plan—and when a slightly revised version came up for a vote, it too failed, this time with four voting against and only three in favor.
Mylie Biggs, Associate of Government Affairs for the Arizona Free Enterprise Club, said, “This is a major win for the people of Prescott and the members of the Council that stood firm. Every other city in Arizona should be cautious of the language in their own General Plans and follow Prescott’s lead in rejecting wokeness in their cities.”
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by admin | Jun 24, 2025 | News and Updates, Regulatory
Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill (BBB) that passed the House of Representatives last month contained numerous wins for the American people: permanent tax relief, funding for border security, an expansion of Health Savings Accounts, and even a new program to expand school choice. But arguably the most impactful accomplishment in the BBB was their success in taking a machete to the labyrinth of green new scam tax subsidies created by Joe Biden and the Democrats through the inflation-creating Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). That alone makes it the most beautiful feature of the Big Beautiful Bill.
The House’s version included key provisions sunsetting some of the worst subsidies authorized under the IRA, including:
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- Ending the Clean Electricity Production Tax Credit (PTC) and the Clean Electricity Investment Tax Credit (ITC) for any project that doesn’t start within 60 days of the enacting legislation and isn’t in service by 2028;
- Ending the Clean Electricity Investment Credit and Transferability of Tax Credits for Wind and Solar;
- Eliminating the Tax Credit for Residential Solar and Rebates for “Green” Products;
- Repealing the Electric Vehicle Credit designed to Force Manufacturers to Abandon Gas Powered Vehicles.
The rollback of these subsidies in the House BBB was a monumental feat, especially given the army of lobbyists hired by the green energy grifters to defend these subsidies on Capitol Hill. In fact, the big spenders in the GOP caucus almost succeeded in stopping the subsidy rollback. If not for the stalwart efforts of the House Freedom Caucus and the White House stepping in at the last minute of negotiations, the green scam subsidies would not be on the chopping block.
But now the bill is in the Senate, and the initial draft released of the revised Big Beautiful Bill by Senate Finance Chair Mike Crapo is anything but big or beautiful. As detailed by energy expert Alex Epstein, almost every IRA subsidy that was rolled back in the House is revived in the Senate version of the legislation.
The green energy lobby must be giddy. The Senate version reinstates subsidies for green energy suppliers, reopens loopholes such as the transferability of tax credits, and most importantly it eliminates the hard “placed in service” 2028 deadline for new projects, replacing it with a toothless “construction begins” deadline. Taken altogether, these changes would guarantee that these subsidies would continue long after Trump’s term ends in 2028. Which means all of these subsidies will be renewed at some point, and America will be stuck with Biden’s green new scam for decades to come.
The Senate’s resurrection of the Biden green subsidies in the BBB didn’t escape the attention of President Trump. “They are largely a giant SCAM. I would much prefer that this money be used somewhere else, including reductions. ‘Anywhere’ would be preferable!…None of it works without massive government subsidy (energy should NOT NEED SUBSIDY!).” As usual, Trump knows a Washington, D.C., grift when he sees it.
Additionally, Trump is correct that America’s energy development, production, and generation should never require subsidies. Yet over the last decade, wind and solar have consumed hundreds of billions in R&D refundable credits, loan guarantees, grants, and other subsidies. Just in the Inflation Reduction Act alone, $96.7 billion was earmarked for “clean” energy grants, mostly directed at solar and wind.
These IRA subsidies are why every major public utility in Arizona and across the country is adopting grid crushing resource plans that rely solely on wind, solar, and battery storage for new generation capacity. Energy Secretary Chris Wright said it best earlier this month while testifying to the House subcommittee on energy, “If you’re not there at peak demand, you’re just a parasite on the grid, because you just make the other sources turn up and down as you come and go.” Solar and wind alone can’t carry our grid, yet these subsidies drive out the very sources that solar and wind require to operate. One needs to look no further than Spain to see what happens when you try to power your economy on intermittent sources of energy.
America cannot afford to have our grid ruined because Republicans in Congress can’t say no to the green grift lobby. The current subsidies not only represent hundreds of billions of dollars of waste, but they are dangerous to the reliability of our nation’s grid. And anyone who cares about that should reach out to their representative to restore the big, beautiful end to green scam subsidies.
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by admin | Jun 19, 2025 | News and Updates, Tax
Around the country, the “war on cars” has become apparent. From New York’s congestion pricing scheme to the onslaught of road diets and protected bike lanes to “reallocate” the public space away from cars, there is hardly anywhere you can travel without experiencing the increased hassle and cost of driving your personal vehicle.
Despite the Trump administration’s efforts to reverse the woke transportation trends at the U.S. Department of Transportation under former Secretary Pete Buttigieg, many state and city governments remain committed to punishing drivers.
One specific tool being used to implement the anti-car, woke transportation agenda is vehicle mileage limits and taxes. For example, in Washington State, they passed a law that sets a target of reducing vehicle miles traveled per capita by 50% by 2050. Their department of transportation is empowered to create policies and strategies that would effectively force people to give up their cars. And of course, for our neighbors to the West, California lawmakers have proposed a mileage tax or “road charge” determined by how many miles a person drives in an effort to reduce carbon emissions and endlessly subsidize their failed transit system. Implementing this would require invasive measures such as reporting odometer readings or installing “special plug-in devices.” This kind of Orwellian intrusion on our freedom to travel privately has no place in any American city, even in California.
This week, Arizona legislative Republicans took a huge step to protect our state from these insane California-style, anti-car policies. With the passage of SCR1004 (the Freedom to Move Act), sponsored by Senator Jake Hoffman (Queen Creek), Arizona voters will decide in November 2026 whether to enshrine a first-in-the-nation constitutional protection against taxing, tracking, and limiting our vehicle miles traveled.
“The Arizona Free Enterprise Club has been fighting for the Freedom to Move Act since 2023,” said Scot Mussi, the Club’s President. “We are thrilled that our Republican-majority legislature chose to give voters the ability to protect their way of life by preserving our freedom to travel by personal vehicle in our state.”
President Trump and Secretary Duffy are doing critical work at the federal level to reverse the wokeness that has infected transportation policies and funding at the department and across the country. Now Arizona is leading the way on showing other states how they can pass their own protections for drivers and keep their states free too.
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by admin | Jun 13, 2025 | Corporate Welfare, News and Updates
One of President Trump’s most important campaign promises was to bring accountability and transparency to federal government spending. Under the newly created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), his administration didn’t waste any time getting to work.
Within weeks of Trump’s inauguration, DOGE had uncovered billions of dollars in waste and abuse of taxpayer funds under the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Here are just a few of the ways the Trump administration discovered USAID was spending your tax dollars:
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- $1.5 million to “advance diversity, equity, and inclusion in Serbia’s workplaces and business communities.”
- $2 million for sex changes and “LGBT activism” in Guatemala.
- Millions to EcoHealth Alliance — which was involved in research at the Wuhan lab.
- $1 million to boost French-speaking LGBTQ groups in West and Central Africa through the State Department.
- $15 million for condoms to the Taliban through USAID.
This list barely scratches the surface of the waste and abuse that was discovered. But now, it appears it’s not just the federal government that’s been throwing your money around to outlandish woke initiatives. Arizona may have its very own USAID scandal.
A group of Republican lawmakers led by Rep. David Marshall recently completed an investigation into the City of Phoenix, and what they found was eye-opening. Over the past five years, the city has distributed more than $28.5 million of taxpayer funds to over 100 private organizations with a shocking lack of oversight. And what causes do you think they’re supporting? Certainly not conservative ones.
The investigation revealed that Phoenix’s USAID slush funds are being used to bankroll non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that support liberal causes and enrich political friends. Groups like Phoenix Film Foundation, Phoenix Pride Inc., Mexican Baseball Fiesta LLC, the Arizona Science Center’s Galaxy Gala, and many more received subsidies under vague labels including “Sponsorships,” “Grants and Subsidies,” “Emerg[ency] Assist[ance],” or “Miscellaneous.” (You can see the full list here.)
Of course, this is illegal. But the city is trying to use an outdated ordinance to justify these giveaways. Incredibly, it claims that its department directors can just pass out $32,000 to any organization it wants to! You read that right. The bureaucrats in the City of Phoenix actually believe that they can create these USAID slush funds and dole out the money to any special interest at the sole discretion of a single city employee. On top of that, the city doesn’t even track these donations by nonprofit status, so it has no idea how much taxpayer money it has handed out.
While this investigation has focused solely on Phoenix, it’s likely that it’s not the only city doing this. It’s been an open secret for years that various liberal non-profits have been gravy training off local governments, just like what’s been happening at USAID. All of this serves no other function than to fund the Democrat operation in Arizona while filling the coffers of their political friends (and family members). It’s something Governor Katie Hobbs has perfected with things like a $700,000 contract for Urias Communications, owned by the brother of her former Office of Tourism Director Lisa Urias, to create a new state logo.
These USAID slush funds must be cut off throughout our state, and it’s great that these three legislators flagged it. It’s even better that the Goldwater Institute has stepped in ask for a deeper investigation from Arizona’s Attorney General and has pledged to explore further legal actions if she declines. But we shouldn’t stop there.
City and local governments should not be spending your tax dollars without the clear legal authority to do so. And these “expenses” are a clear violation of the Arizona Constitution’s Gift Clause, which prohibits the government from subsidizing private organizations. It’s time for our legislature to consider conducting audits of various cities and political subdivisions in the state. The people of Arizona deserve to know if NGOs are grifting off taxpayers. And if they are, it must be stopped immediately.
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