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Category: Fighting Back

Stop Government Bureaucrats From Taking Your Gas Stove

Posted on by McKenzie Holmes

Did you know DC politicians and unelected bureaucrats are trying to ban gas stoves?

It’s true!

In recent years, radical green activists have been able to use powerful federal officials to jam through onerous, job and business-crushing regulations free from the democratic process. This ensures that the public has no say in regulatory decisions that do great harm to the American economy.

That’s precisely what’s occurring today with one much-loved kitchen appliance.

On December 21, 2022, Representative Don Beyer (D-VA) and a coalition of House and Senate Democrats sent a letter to the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), which is an independent federal agency charged with reducing the unreasonable risk of injuries and deaths associated with consumer products. This agency can pull a product from the marketplace or issue recalls on products at will.

In the letter, the lawmakers claimed gas stoves exacerbate respiratory conditions and asthma in children. This claim was based on a deeply flawed study produced by a green activist organization laser-focused on undermining the natural gas industry worldwide. Based on this flimsy evidence, the lawmakers asked the CPSC to consider a wide range of regulatory moves to make buying a gas stove more difficult (and likely much more expensive) for consumers.

In response, CPSC member Richard Trumka Jr., said the agency would consider a ban on gas stoves.

It’s time to kick these guys out of our kitchens!

Use the form below to urge members of Congress to stop pushing for a ban or more costly regulations on gas stoves.

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Support Education Freedom in Virginia

Posted on by Victoria Coley

Virginia parents, help is finally on the way in the form of education policy that will actually empower parents and make it easier to hold public schools accountable.  

Virginia Delegate Glenn Davis recently introduced HB 1508, which will establish Education success accounts (ESA) to K-12 students in Virginia. This bill sets aside a portion of the state education funding allocated to each child and deposits it into an education savings account, and parents can direct the funds to eligible education expenses, including tuition, tutoring, textbooks, and therapies. 

Virginia’s students must be allowed to escape the residentially-assigned public schools that are not educating them. The education savings account proposal provides approximately $4,500 each year for each child. Public school and rising kindergarten students who are not already enrolled in a private school or homeschool would be eligible to leave the public school system and access ESAs.

Ten states already have education savings account programs in place. It’s time for Virginia families to have education freedom as well.

Virginia Lt. Gov Winsome Sears has asked parents to share their support for school choice and education savings accounts with state legislators. Help us send that message! 

Tell your Virginia state legislators to support education savings accounts and HB 1508.

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Stop The Lopsided Midwest Gender Identity Summit

Posted on by McKenzie Holmes

On January 13, 2023, Sanford Research Center plans to host the 3rd annual Midwest Gender Identity Summit in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, in partnership with Transformation Project SD, an activist organization that promotes transitioning children under the age of 18. 

Those organizing this conference are pushing their view that vulnerable, but otherwise healthy, children and young adults can properly consent to experimental, life-altering, and irreversible treatments that are associated with transitioning. These organizations will not provide attendees with research documenting the harms associated with medical transitioning, nor will attendees hear from any individuals who say that their gender dysphoria resolved after puberty or regret having pursued a medical transition.

This summit will push the myth that there is medical consensus on diagnosing and treating gender dysphoria and that it is ethical to prescribe puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones or to recommend surgery to minors without parental consent. Lastly, summit organizers and speakers will kill dissent by pressuring practitioners to transition minors against their best medical judgment. 

Take Action! 

Write to Bill Gassen, President & Chief Executive Officer of Sanford Research Center, and demand that he include speakers who can provide balance to this topic and address the harms associated with medical transitioning, particularly for minors, or cancel this lopsided summit.

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Don’t Cancel Freelancers: Oppose DOL’s Independent Contractors Rule

Posted on by McKenzie Holmes

President Biden wants to use government power to push for widespread unionization.

Recently, the Department of Labor released proposed new restrictions on independent contracting that would replace the current common-sense rule implemented under the Trump administration with a more complex and severe standard for who can be classified as an independent contractor. If enacted, tens of millions of freelancers and self-employed professionals across the country could lose their independent status — thereby unionizable — even though they overwhelmingly oppose such a status change. Independent contractors, at least half of whom are women, choose independent work rather than traditional employment for flexibility and other reasons.

The proposed independent contractor rule could have the same impact as California’s AB5 law, which has devastating outcomes on women, older people, the disabled, students, and professionals across the state. People from across the political spectrum representing hundreds of occupations continue to report losing income, flexibility, and their livelihoods such as musicians, florists, tutors, event planners, family caregivers, and many more. (Read eye-opening stories at IWF’s Chasing Work website.)

The Biden administration will stop at nothing until California’s hardship becomes a national experience. 

Take action today, and tell the Department of Labor that you oppose the proposed independent contractor rule and want to protect independent contractors from being reclassified.

If you are an independent contractor or freelancer, please add your story and why retaining this status is important to you into the pre-drafted comment.

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COMMENTS CLOSED: Support Gov. Youngkin’s Model Policies to Protect + Respect All Students and Parents

Posted on by McKenzie Holmes

COMMENTS CLOSED: The revised state guidance states that “schools shall respect parents’ values and beliefs” and “schools shall defer to parents to make the best decisions with respect to their children.” A victory for parental rights in Virginia!

Gov. Glenn Youngkin is standing up for parents’ rights. He is revising Department of Education model policies to clarify that school districts shouldn’t keep parents in the dark about their children’s mental and emotional health, including if their children are embracing a new gender identity.

This should be common sense. Of course, parents have every right to know what’s happening with their children, especially when it involves critical health issues. 

School districts that oppose this change suggest that parents can’t be trusted to be involved in this process, presuming that they will harm their children by failing to support them. Yet the presumption should be that parents can and should be involved. If there are serious concerns about a parent’s fitness, then there already is a process in place to protect children when it is necessary. That process should be followed, rather than excluding parents as standard operating procedure. 

Take action today, and tell the VA Department of Education that you support these revised model policies and want parents involved in their children’s lives.

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Save My 401k: Stop Woke ESG Investing

Posted on by McKenzie Holmes

Did you know your retirement and investment funds are being used to fund left-wing causes?

It’s true! 

In recent years, corporations and investment companies have used Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) principles to guide investing. ESG principles can be commendable, such as when companies pledge to use products manufactured without using slave labor. Yet many ESG principles are misguided, like companies committing to unrealistic net-zero carbon emissions, or requiring employees to complete “anti-racism” training or diversity quotas on corporate boards.

Mostly, ESG principles are a way for businesses (big and small) to virtue-signal and promote left-wing, socialist, and even communist policies in order to stave off left-wing activists. This is making the world more politicized, dangerous, divisive, and far less free.

The investing public needs to know that their investments could be at stake! In financial terms, ESG investments aren’t as profitable as advertised. Harvard Business Review notes, “…ESG funds certainly perform poorly in financial terms.” And in a recent Journal of Finance paper, University of Chicago researchers found that the high sustainability funds did not outperform the lowest-rated funds.

In other words, this is costing you money and retirement security!

Vanguard, an investment firm founded by the late John Bogle (a Republican) in 1974, is now basing investments on the “E” (Environmental) in ESG, committing nine Vanguard funds that manage roughly $290 billion to companies that say they want to reach the completely make-belive net-zero goal by mid-century. Using hard-earned retirement funds to prop up more expensive and less reliable energy sources like wind and solar is not only harming investment returns, but also undercutting our energy grid and national security. Unfortunately, Vanguard’s CEO and chairman, Tim Buckley, said Vanguard “…will continue to thoughtfully expand our ESG lineup.” 

It is becoming increasingly difficult for investors to protect their money as more and more companies choose to embrace ESG. 

Urge Vanguard and CEO Tim Buckley to stop using ESG guidelines for investments!

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