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| | | | | WHAT WE'RE WATCHING | | 🤥 Harris doubled down on debunked claims in her closing speech. Vice President Kamala Harris gave her "closing argument" speech in Washington DC, repeating assertions that have previously been debunked. Harris alleged that Trump sent an "armed mob" to the Capitol, holds an "enemies list" for prosecutions, and would "ban abortion nationwide," despite abundant evidence refuting these points. | 🚨 Trump sounded the alarm on Pennsylvania voter fraud. Donald Trump spotlighted Pennsylvania's York and Lancaster Counties, claiming thousands of fraudulent voter registration forms and ballots were submitted. The York County batch came from a third-party group, and Lancaster identified roughly 2,600 suspicious registrations. | 🗳 Tens of thousands of ballots were made unusable in California. An error affecting 77,000 mail-in ballots in Nevada County, CA, has raised red flags, as imperfections in the barcodes rendered them unreadable by ballot scanners. County officials diagnosed the problem as an ink overspray on some barcodes, and are meticulously pulling affected ballots for a rescan to ensure they're counted correctly. | 🎙️ Steve Bannon returned from prison "empowered." Freshly released from a 120-day prison term for defying congressional subpoenas, Steve Bannon took to his War Room podcast, urging Americans to turn out for Trump. Bannon claimed Nancy Pelosi's sending him to prison did not break him as she intended but, in fact, "empowered" him. |
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| | | WHAT WE'RE HEARING | President Biden called Trump supporters "garbage." JD Vance clarified that Donald Trump wants to remain in NATO. Batya Ungar-Sargon made her case for why American Jews should vote for Trump. Ben Shapiro defended Ryan Girdusky after he got kicked off CNN, and called Mehdi Hassan a "terror apologist." Sam Harris and Ben Shapiro had a conversation on whether Trump's policies were better for Jews.
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| | | IN THE LOOP | JD Vance will appear on Joe Rogan's podcast today. Donald Trump currently has a slight lead in Michigan. Puerto Rico's Shadow Senator, Zoraida Buxo, endorsed Donald Trump for president. The Washington Post reports it lost 250,000 subscribers after it declined to endorse Kamala Harris. Tackle your credit card debt by paying 0% interest until 2026. If you have credit card debt, a 0% intro APR card can help. You can also earn up to 20,000 miles after spending $500 in 3 months with this popular low interest card.*
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| *Indicates content from our sponsors | | | WASHINGTON | Woke ideology in schools would flourish under Harris. Trump wants to eliminate it entirely. | | Trump pledges to eliminate leftist ideology in schools and abolish the Department of Education The Biden-Harris administration tore down women's protections in favor of transgender-identifying students Trump promises to revoke the current administration's changes
| Where Trump stands | During his campaign, Donald Trump has committed to a comprehensive overhaul of the American education system, with a primary focus on eliminating woke ideology. | Conservatives have sharply criticized public schools for promoting concepts like critical race theory, and for implementing programs supporting or encouraging transgenderism. He's proposed using federal power to investigate schools that adopt race-based or gender-based discrimination policies. | By targeting specific programs, Trump also aims to curb diversity initiatives and stop schools from integrating lessons on systemic racism or white privilege. | During Trump's presidential administration, he reauthorized and funded Washington, DC's school voucher program, benefiting low-income black students — instead of pushing ideology that divides students based on their skin color. | Additionally, his 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act allowed families to use 529 savings plans to save for their children's K-12 education. And in direct opposition to priorities favored by Biden-Harris and the Democratic Party, the Trump administration in 2020 announced new Title IX enforcement aimed at combating sexual assault in K-12 schools while restoring due process protections for those accused of it. | Trump's appointment of three conservative Supreme Court justices also led to their outlawing of affirmative action policies, often used by universities to lower admissions standards and prioritize admissions based on race, not merit. | A central tenet of Trump's current platform is the abolition of the Department of Education (DOE). He argues that education should be managed at the state level, claiming that federal oversight allows schools to indoctrinate children into leftist ideology. Trump suggests shifting all education-related responsibilities to state governments, allowing them to decide on curriculum and policy independently. | Additionally, Trump has proposed policies to protect young women in sports. He's pledged to revoke the Biden-Harris administration's Title IX regulations that allow boys who identify as girls to dominate sports, among other policies. | Finally, Trump's stance on "universal school choice" would allow public funds to cover tuition for private and charter schools, expanding parents' options beyond traditional public schools. | His proposals also include the passage of a Parental Bill of Rights, which would allow parents to access educational material and ensure parental consent for any discussions on gender or sexuality. | Where Harris stands | Though she has a history of pushing progressive ideology in schools, a significant portion of Kamala Harris' current education platform is dedicated to ending "the unreasonable burden of student loan debt" that she claims hinders Americans from reaching the middle class. | Under President Joe Biden's administration, he took multiple actions to pass student debt relief, though he faced challenges from the Supreme Court, which struck down some of his plans as unconstitutional. However, he has been able to get around them, still managing to wipe out nearly $170 billion in student debt. | During Harris' vice presidency, the government implemented policies that have reshaped federal guidelines for schools, including controversial updates to Title IX that rewrote it to include "gender identity" protections. | This new interpretation of Title IX explicitly inverts the legal meaning of "sex" to allow anyone access to facilities like bathrooms and locker rooms of the opposite sex and to participate in sports teams aligned with their gender identity. | These protections, however, have spurred legal challenges from 15 US states. | Proposed guidelines from the Biden-Harris administration also sought to include the teaching of critical race theory to students, and cited the widely discredited 1619 Project that contained lessons on how America is fundamentally racist. | Conservatives argue that these concepts are divisive, alienate students, and are not historically accurate. Nevertheless, Harris maintained that these lessons are vital for fostering an inclusive education. | While attempting to moderate her stance for the general election, Harris is choosing to tamp down her previous progressive loyalties to focus on student debt and supporting the middle class. | Why it matters | Public schools across America are already ideological battlegrounds over which presidential administrations fight for control. The Biden-Harris administration fought to include radical gender and racial ideology into children's curriculums, while President Trump kept schools free of these. | Donald Trump's administration saw real improvements for all students, regardless of race or sex. A Harris administration would likely try to force schools to teach a divisive curriculum and, perhaps most importantly, force transgender "protections" that permit boys to intrude in girls' bathrooms, locker rooms, and sports teams. | | |
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| | | OUR QUESTION TO YOU | 📊 Would you trust today's public schools to educate your child?Poll results will be in tomorrow's newsletter | | | POLL RESULTS FROM YESTERDAY | Should social media platforms be forced to abide by the First Amendment? | 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 👍 Yes (727) | ⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ 👎 No (40) | ⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ 🤔 Unsure (39) | 👍 Yes: "At this point social media censorship is analogous to phone companies censoring phone calls." — Mark 👍 Yes: "Social media is today's public square." — Zoe 👎 No: "The first amendment protects free speech from the government, not the private sector. Let the free market govern the private sector meaning citizens decide on what social media platform to follow." — Michael 🤔 Unsure: "The first amendment is about Freedoms. Should not be forced!" — Russ 🤔 Unsure: "Social media needs to be, frankly, kinda killed off. It's doing nothing good for anyone." — Anonymous | | | | 806 votes |
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| Today's newsletter was written by Brandon Goldman and Ari David. | |
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