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Dear Jack,

This week, it emerged that the newly appointed head of America’s NPR (National Public Radio) hates the US Constitution. Speaking in 2021, she described the First Amendment which safeguards free speech as “a challenge.”

How could it be that the head of America’s public broadcasting service, established by an act of Congress, has such contempt for the US Constitution?
Katherine Maher, the ‘woke’ new head of NPR, supports state censorship.
In her previous role running Wikipedia, the online encyclopaedia, Katherine Maher rejected a “free and open internet” as a guiding principle. Such principles are, in her words, a “white male Westernized construct," according to reports.

Katherine Maher, reports say, support efforts to censor opinions that do not conform with her leftist world view. She spoke of the truth as being “a distraction”.

Sadly, Katherine Maher is not a one off. She is fairly typical of the sort of people now running many of America’s institutions, HR departments, government agencies and universities.

Ms Maher’s social media posts might read like parody. There is nothing funny about the way that people with Ms Maher’s outlook and opinions are busy subverting America’s Founding principles, and replacing them with a grim leftist dogma that risks destroying America and the West.

Conservatives need to push back, but how?
Christopher Rufo on Fox News exposes NPR bias.
Until now, many conservatives have been better at identifying the problem than at tackling it.

To defeat DEI, we need to pass laws, reform institutions, appoint the right people and set the right incentives. Most of all, however, we need to counter bad ideas with good ideas.

Florida’s Governor, Ron DeSantis, has shown that states can take the lead against DEI, signing an Executive Order, restricting the use of public money for DEI programs. State leaders in Oklahoma, Utah and Texas have also done something similar. We need to see similar action here in Mississippi.

Two years ago, MCPP lead a successful campaign for a bill to combat Critical Race Theory here in Mississippi. The new law goes some way to addressing the issue, but not far enough.

If we are serious about restricting DEI dogma, we need to ensure that your tax dollars cannot be spent promoting this divisive ideology.

MCPP has been advocating for legislation to prevent your tax dollars being spent on DEI programs.

Leftists protest against Florida’s Ron DeSantis.
Did you know that some Mississippi public universities use your tax dollars to promote Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) programs?

One of our leading public universities has an “institutional diversity, equity, and inclusion plan” governing every aspect of campus life. DEI shapes not only university admissions, administration and faculty hiring, but what young people are taught, with the development of an academic equity scorecard.

Sunlight is the best disinfectant. That is why MCPP is working energetically to expose how many of your tax dollars are being spent to DEI programs here in Mississippi.

Instead of more DEI hires, the University of Florida recently decided to eliminate all DEI employee positions. Last month, the University of Texas at Austin fired dozens of employees who used to work in diversity, equity and inclusion programs. Mississippi needs to do the same.
The best antidote to the ‘woke’ mind-virus.
The best way to defeat bad ideas is with good ideas. Teaching young people the following truths about America will give them immunity against the ‘woke’ mind virus.

* America is built on liberty. This country got started because people living in 13 former British colonies had had enough of being bossed about by a British king.
* The US Constitution is the best system of government in the world.
* America is a force for good. On three occasions – World War I, World War II and the Cold War - the United States intervened to save the free world.
* Americans are inventive. From the first flight to the advent of the iPhone, there is one country that has proved extraordinarily inventive: the USA.
* Judeo-Christian ideals have shaped America.


Here’s how we are working to ensure young people learn about American exceptionalism.
Reaching young minds - our Leadership Academy works!
Our Leadership Academy, now in its third year, takes a group of young Mississippians and teaches them about some of the underlying principles on which America is built.

With input from state leaders and academics, we give students insights that will stay with them for life.
The Book of American Patriotism – teaching the next generation of Americans the truth about their country.
It is never too early to teach young people about American exceptionalism. With that in mind, MCPP will soon be publishing a children’s book aimed at 5 – 10 year olds.

The Book of American Patriotism teaches six key insights about our country that every American needs to know (but aren’t being taught at school).

A generation ago, the conservative movement focused on things like tax cuts and red tape reduction. Those things remain essential, but we also need to ensure that we are promoting America’s Founding principles.

This is a fight that we can win. One day we will look back and think it absurd that someone with Katherine Maher’s outlook could be put in charge of public service broadcasting. But there is a great deal that we need to do right now in order to get there!

Thank you for reading about our plan to combat DEI dogma, and please have a wonderful weekend!

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Warm regards,

Douglas Carswell
President & CEO

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