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Leave the Hyphen Off Conservatism

Unite: Does it matter what type of conservative you are? When it comes to saving the country, no.  

  • Internal policy debates “should remind us of our common goals and lead us to be united against an increasingly radical Left,” writes Heritage president Dr. Kevin Roberts.  
  • It’s time to stop defining conservatism by what we’re against and focus on what we’re for—family, our nation’s founding, faith, and our shared traditions, he says.  

Read Roberts’ full commentary here.  

 

The Very Real—and Growing—Terror Threat of Open Borders

DEFCON 1: Over three years and 10 million illegals later, a terrorist attack on American soil appears imminent. The immense number of illegals who have crossed into America makes it impossible to pinpoint when, where, and by whom an attack could happen. 

  • “It’s pretty much a matter of time before a preventable terrorist attack is carried out in the U.S. by foreign nationals,” writes Senior Research Fellow Simon Hankinson. 

Read more here. 

 

Did DHS Fund Terrorist’s Trip to Minnesota?

Stonewalled: A Somalian terrorist spent 10 months in the U.S. before being identified and arrested in Minnesota.  

  • When pressed for answers, “DHS failed to produce a single document in response to a basic FOIA request. They have flatly ignored two letters from Congress. And they expect more of your money—without oversight,” write Lora Ries, director of Heritage’s Border Security and Immigration Center, and Congressman Tom Emmer, R-Minn. 

Read the full story here.  

 

Our Open Southern Border Is Wrecking Our Country

Leftists across America dismiss the damage caused by illegal immigration, or even celebrate it! That’s why we created The Real Costs of America’s Border Crisis.   

 

The free eBook gives you the facts to refute the Left’s lies and help others to understand just how bad illegal immigration is for America. You will also learn about public policy solutions that will fix our border crisis.    

 

Click here to get your free copy of The Real Costs of America’s Border Crisis today.   

 

How the Revolutionary Ecosystem Sustains Pro-Hamas Protesters and BLM Radicals

Surrounded: A revolutionary ecosystem of activist organizations, fiscal sponsors, donors, and radical media groups "is being tapped by the anti-Israel protesters, but they aim to do much more than destroy Israel,” write Senior Fellow Mike Gonzalez and Heritage Young Leader Mary Mobley. 

  • Socialist and Communist regimes like China, Cuba, and Venezuela that want to undermine the West are increasingly contributing resources to the revolutionary ecosystem. 

Read the report here. 

 

Top 5 Things the Left Gets Wrong About Project 2025

Fact check: In a Daily Signal feature, Senior Marketing Associate Evan Maguire debunks the myths peddled by leftists about the Heritage-led project.  

  • Project 2025 will provide the next administration with policies that more than 100 conservative groups support, and personnel eager to carry them out.  

Meanwhile, the Biden campaign has an entire page devoted to Project 2025. Check it out and see how much it gets wrong. 

 

The Woke Capture of Charter Schools

Free to choose: When it comes to school choice, parents need to do their homework. A new study finds that charter schools tend to be more “woke” than public schools, thanks to state regulations and leftist donors. 

  • “School choice could produce more woke options if those choices are highly regulated and controlled by distant regulators and philanthropists,” Heritage education experts Jay Greene and Jason Bedrick, and Ian Kingsbury of the Education Freedom Institute, warn. 

Learn what can be done about it here. 

 

Happening at Heritage

Holding China Accountable for COVID-19. Members of the non-partisan Commission on China and COVID-19 reveal the Chinese Communist Party’s role in one of the most calamitous cover-ups in history. 

 

Speakers are John L. Ratcliffe, former director of National Intelligence and commission chairman; David Feith, adjunct senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, and Dr. Jamie Metzl, founder of OneShared.World.

 

July 8, 10:15 a.m. Register here. 

 

Research and Commentary

  • Supreme Court’s Disastrous Decision Greenlights National Abortion Mandate for Emergency Rooms—Sarah Parshall Perry and Melanie Israel 
  • Big Tech’s Power to Shape Public Discourse—Daniel Cochrane 
  • Harvard Dean Threatens Faculty Who Protest School’s Mistreatment of Jews—Jay P. Greene, Ph.D., and Robert Maranto 
  • LA Synagogue Violence Springs from Same Revolutionary Global Ecosystem That Brought Us BLM—Mike Gonzalez 
  • Democracy and the Abuses of Our Ruling Elites—Steven G. Bradbury 
  • South Africa’s New Government Needs Reliable Energy—Diana Furchtgott-Roth 
  • TikTok’s Free Speech Facade—Bryan Burack 
  • The Middle Class Is Collateral Damage in Biden’s War on Wealth—EJ Antoni and Caden Wolf 
  • Endangering Israel’s Security—and Our Own—John Ratcliffe 
  • Should the USA Maintain Its Policy of Strategic Ambiguity Towards Taiwan?—Michael Cunningham 
  • The Putin Visit Could Mean Russia Makes North Korea’s Military Even Deadlier—Bruce Klingner 
  • Argentina’s ‘Milei Miracle’ Is Exposing Its Failing Socialist Neighbors—Mike Gonzalez 
  • The Art of (Culture) War Requires Knowing Your Opponent—Delano Squires 
 

In the News

 

Sarah Parshall Perry, senior legal fellow in the Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies, discusses the Supreme Court’s inadvertently released decision on the Idaho abortion case on “LiveNOW from Fox.” Watch the clip here. 

 

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