Go woke, go broke: Last year, Heritage Senior Fellow Mike Gonzalez co-authored a piece exposing a preview exhibition for the Smithsonian’s new National Museum of the American Latino. The op-ed called the exhibit “an abashedly Marxist portrayal of history, religion, and economics.” Last week, Time magazine and the New York Times reported that as a result of the op-ed, The Smithsonian decided to pull the plug on a second planned exhibit about youth movements. That's not the end of the story.

• This July, a group of Latino Republican congressmen led a vote to eliminate the museum’s funding in next year’s budget, calling its view of Latinos insulting and inaccurate.
• Then on Friday, 23 Hispanic leaders and activists, including Gonzalez, sent a letter to lawmakers saying that it would “be very naïve for Congress to be swayed by any assurances from the Smithsonian’s leadership that they will take action to rectify the museum’s content.”

Gonzalez appeared on Fox News and called the museum a “travesty.”

Divisive: George Mason University’s president is attacking Heritage’s latest report on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) bureaucracies at colleges and universities.  

• Heritage analysts Jay Greene and Mike Gonzalez found that GMU has 7.4 DEI staff for every 100 faculty members, one of the most bloated in the country.  
• GMU’s president emailed all 40,000 students trying to refute the findings. 
  

Read the full story here.  

Spooked: The Left is running scared as Project 2025 doubles down on its commitment to gut the deep state.  

• MSNBC aired a 15-minute segment that called Project 2025 “a radical, far-right plan to purge and restructure the U.S. government.”
  
• Project 2025 director Paul Dans said: “We could not produce this kind of advertisement if we tried.” 

Read why the Left should fear Project 2025.

Catching up: New details surfaced about China’s defense budget, including that it may be closer to the size of the U.S. budget than previously thought.  

• Wilson Beaver, senior policy analyst for the Center for National Defense, writes that the U.S. government now estimates the Chinese defense budget at $700 billion, which is more than double the previous estimates.  

Read more here. 

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• Day 1 of Formal Biden Impeachment Inquiry: 7 Big Takeaways—Fred Lucas 
• Heritage Oversight Project Sues Biden Administration on Behalf of Moms for Liberty—Mike Howell 
• Why U.S. Is Staring Down the Barrel of Another Recession—EJ Antoni 
• Biden’s $6 Billion Ransom Payment to Iran Fuels Their Terror Machine—James Phillips 
• Hiding Students’ Gender Identities From Their Parents Is Immoral—Sarah Parshall Perry 
• 3 Things Parents Should Know as Kids Head Back to School—Madison Marino 
• Dressing Down an Unserious Senate—Eric Teetsel 
• North Korea and Russia: How Far Could Their Partnership Go?—Bruce Klingner 
• Russia’s War on Ukraine Heats Up Great Power Competition in the Middle East and North Africa—Nicole Robinson 
• The Georgia Fake Electors Scheme: What Does Legal and Political History Tell Us About These Charges?—John Malcolm 

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Heritage President Dr. Kevin Roberts joined the Fox News Sunday panel yesterday to discuss the border crisis, the spending fight on Capitol Hill, and a possible summit between President Biden and China's General Secretary Xi Jinping. Watch the segment here.