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    Joe Biden Turns America’s Government Into Wokeness Inc.

    As Presidents Day weekend loomed last week, the Biden administration dropped a little-noticed executive order. That executive order happened to be one of the broadest, most transformative executive orders in modern American history; it turned the federal government into one giant machine designed for the propagation of woke principles. Biden’s so-called Executive Order on Further…
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    ‘Why We Have to Win This War’ Against the ‘Woke Army,’ According to Asra Nomani

    Asra Nomani, author of “Woke Army: The Red-Green Alliance That Is Destroying America’s Freedom” and co-founder of Save Merit, is emphasizing the necessity of “winning this war against the woke army.” “It is not an exaggeration to say that the future of America depends on our winning this war against the woke army,” Nomani says….
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    Well-Intentioned AmeriCorps Now Rotten to Core After Falling to Woke Left

    AmeriCorps, an independent federal agency that provides stipends for more than 5 million Americans who do volunteer work, misled the public on how much it spends in its grant program.  A program launched under President George H.W. Bush, AmeriCorps was expanded under President Bill Clinton and officially became a corps under Bush’s son, President George W. Bush….
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    Senate Should Reject Radical Leftist FCC Nominee Sohn

    Even by Washington’s appallingly low ethics standards, Gigi Sohn gives “pay to play” a bad name—even though she would surely deny that was, for all practical purposes, what she was doing. At a hearing of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee last week, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, called out President Joe Biden’s nominee to…
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    Woke Left Pushed to Remove Discipline From Classrooms. Consequences Have Been Tragic, Teacher Says.

    Children are always going to misbehave, teacher Daniel Buck says, and that’s why discipline is needed in the classroom. “I think the idea that we’re going to solve misbehavior is kind of utopian,” Buck says, adding that is “what the progressive idea is.” “If we just get the system right, then kids are going to…
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    Texas Universities Demand That Job Applicants Pledge Woke Allegiance

    There never has been a better time to combat the publicly funded racist advocacy that has become prevalent in Texas universities.  Entire departments at Texas Tech University and the University of Texas spend millions of taxpayer dollars each year on pseudoscientific nonsense—setting divisive standards that are stoking racial tension instead of easing it. One bill…
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    America’s Pop Culture Is Stagnating. Here’s Why That’s a Problem.

    Americans seem to be stuck in a cultural rut. In 1981, a mere 16% of the most popular movies in the country were sequels, spinoffs, or remakes of other films. In 2019, that number shot up to 80%. Just this week, multiple outlets reported that Mattel’s Barney, the purple dinosaur from the 1990s, is getting…
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    How Woke Can You Go? Majority-Minority Groups Automatically Disqualified for ‘Food Equity’ Grant If CEO Is White

    Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Foundation is offering a three-year, $300,000 grant to advance "healthy food equity," but many organizations that work to expand access to healthy food in minority populations need not apply. Indeed, some organizations that employ a majority nonwhite staff and have a majority-nonwhite board of directors automatically are disqualified…
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    Woke Finance Is Hurting Americans. Here’s How the Hoosier State Is Trying to Stop It There.

    The Indiana General Assembly will continue consideration this week of a commonsense bill that would help protect Indiana’s economy and retirees from the threat of the woke environmental, social, and governance movement. House Bill 1008’s purpose is simple: Asset managers who invest for Indiana would be required to make investment decisions based on financial factors,…
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    Florida Shows How Americans Can Fight Back Effectively Against Woke Institutional Power

    Americans need to curtail the power of the radicals who control higher education. Perhaps now we have a blueprint to really turn things around. On top of entirely changing the leadership of the New College of Florida, rooting out critical race theory and gender ideology in K-12 schools, and pressuring the College Board into revising…
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    10 Woke Offenders: These Companies Push Radical Left Agenda, Fire Conservative Staff

    A new database can help conservative consumers identify which companies actively work to promote leftist ideology and, in some cases, fire conservatives.  The 1792 Exchange, a nonprofit focused on the dangers of “woke capitalism” that urges companies to be neutral on ideological issues, last month released a database of over 1,000 companies.   The database…
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    The Threat of Woke Corporations and the Response of the Red States

    Resistance to environmental, social, and corporate governance investing is taking center stage in a number of Republican-leaning state legislative sessions this year. The question is how red states can prevent asset managers from investing their states’ funds—or exercising shareholder rights (such as proxy voting)—to advance ESG-related political and social goals rather than maximizing returns for beneficiaries. There…
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    Grotesque, Woke Art in Public Spaces Is Next Phase in War on History, Culture

    Get used to grotesque works of “art” being injected into every public space. Last week, an 8-foot-tall, golden statue was unveiled atop a New York state courthouse in New York City. It stands alongside several other, older statues of classical design.  According to the artist, Shahzia Sikander, the statue is meant to be a representation…
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    Rep. Good Aims to Combat ‘Woke Agenda’ in Schools With New CHOICE Act

    A Republican congressman from Virginia on Tuesday introduced the Children Have Opportunities in Classrooms Everywhere Act in the 118th Congress, seeking to strengthen students’ ability to attend the schools of their choice.   Rep. Bob Good’s CHOICE Act aims to counter what he sees as leftist control of the education system by providing low-income families with…
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    DeSantis Deals Blow to Woke Takeover of Education

    The College Board has backed down to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, and now will revise its national Advanced Placement course in African American studies. This happened following a week in which left-wing media went apoplectic, unleashing a torrent of bad press portraying the Republican governor as a dangerous fanatic and insinuating that he’s racist.  One…
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    College Board Concedes to DeSantis on Woke African American Studies Course

    The College Board will revise its Advanced Placement African American Studies course for high school students after Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, rejected it as “indoctrination,” according to a Tuesday afternoon announcement.   “Thanks to Gov. Ron DeSantis’ principled stand for education over identity politics, the College Board will be revising the course for the…
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    ‘Duck Dynasty’ Star Is Role Model for Young Women on Remaining Grounded in Woke World

    While America tells young women they need to blend in with the secularized culture, reality TV star and author Sadie Robertson Huff teaches them how to remain tethered to their purpose and stay confident in their beliefs when the culture says otherwise. And her example of living for God through her own fame gives her…
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    Woke Diversity and Equity Programs Have Failed; We Don’t Need More of Them in Our Schools

    School districts across the country have established diversity, equity, and inclusion, or DEI, offices to reduce discrimination, and the federal Department of Education regularly touts the value of DEI programs to quell bias. Yet nationwide, school officials reported a “record number” of discrimination complaints last year. How can this be? In truth, studies show that…
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    ‘Wokeness’ at the Fed Could Easily Create Another Banking Crisis

    You expect your money to be safe in a bank, but if the Federal Reserve gets its way, that may not be the case soon. That’s because the Fed, which has a tremendous amount of regulatory power over the nation’s financial institutions, has begun using its authority to put politics before fiscal stability. If the…
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    George Santos, Child of Woke America

    By now, just about everyone has heard about the massive campaign of lies that Republican George Santos fabricated that just got him elected to a congressional seat from New York. In his various appearances and interviews to explain himself, the lack of shame he seems to feel is almost as uncanny as the lies themselves….
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