Inflated numbers: For decades, leftists have taken advantage of the U.S. Census by counting illegal aliens and emphasizing racial and ethnic background in the Census questionnaire—both of which affect the funding and power of blue districts.

• But the Trump administration is moving in the right direction.
• “Unbeknownst to most people, the administration has already done a great deal of good to stop the census from balkanizing the country by quietly shuttering the Census Bureau’s National Advisory Committee on Racial, Ethnic, and Other Populations,” writes Mike Gonzalez, senior fellow in Heritage's Davis Institute.

Read The Daily Signal piece here.

Stellar choice: Heritage’s Chief Economist EJ Antoni, Ph.D., was recently nominated as commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

• “EJ Antoni is one of the sharpest economic minds in the nation—a fearless truth-teller who grasps that sound economics must serve the interests of American families, not globalist elites,” stated Heritage President Dr. Kevin Roberts.

Read the press release here. 

 

Grim reality: The Left wants you to think DC is the epitome of law and order, since the city's numbers show violent crime down 26%.

• “But those figures are under scrutiny after accusations that officials manipulated the data,” writes Heritage Research Fellow Delano Squires.
• It doesn’t help that DC prosecutors declined to prosecute 67% of cases. Heritage Senior Legal Fellow Cully Stimson has the receipts.

Read Squires’ piece in The Blaze here. 

On the farm: Heritage’s most recent public event featured an in-depth discussion of regenerative farming, which holds a promising future for agriculture.

• The panelists—which included multigenerational regenerative farmers—discussed everything from the U.S. healthcare system to recent scientific advancements in understanding human health.

Watch the recording on C-SPAN.

Villains: President Biden’s State Department leaders may have thought of themselves as superheroes, but their actions were anything but heroic.

• “Instead of crime, this crack team of political appointees fought global injustice, cis-heteronormativity and the patriarchy,” writes Simon Hankinson, Senior Research Fellow in the Border Security and Immigration Center.

Read Hankinson’s commentary here.

No right: The 8th and 10th Circuits both recently upheld state laws protecting minors from “gender affirming” medical interventions.

• “Gender warriors today are trying to use the courts to force on the American people a dangerous agenda that neither they nor their elected representatives want,” writes Heritage Senior Legal Fellow Tom Jipping. “So far, at least, they are striking out.”

Read Jipping’s full piece here. 

The American flag is under attack. It’s mocked, burned, and dismissed as a relic of the past. “Flags of Our Fathers” tells: 

• The untold history behind the flag’s creation and the meaning behind its colors, stripes, and stars 
• The story of William Carney—who was shot four times and still refused to let the flag touch the ground 
• Why attacks on the flag are really attacks on America itself. 

Get your free copy of this powerful eBook today.  

Trump’s New Counterterrorism Strategy Landscape

National security has faced growing challenges as enforcement of immigration laws weakened and border policies became more permissive. These shifts have created dangerous vulnerabilities. Join this event to delve into the Trump administration’s new approach to counterterrorism policy and the strategic changes shaping its implementation.

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• Love Your Fellow Countrymen—Kevin Roberts, Ph.D.
• The Human Cost of Biden’s Shameful ‘Children’s Crusade’ at the Border—Simon Hankinson
• AI Companions Are Harming Your Children—Annie Chestnut Tutor and Autumn Dorsey
• A Federalist Approach to AI Policy—Wesley Hodges and Daniel Cochrane
• Protecting the Unborn Means Restoring Marriage and Family—Jay Richards, Ph.D. and Elizabeth Weiss
• Is the Woke Tide Turning in American Universities?—Mike Gonzalez
• George Washington University’s ‘Indifference’ to Antisemitism—Jonathan Butcher
• Report: Reversing the EPA’s Endangerment Finding on Greenhouse Gases—Kevin Dayaratna, Ph.D., and Diana Furchtgott-Roth
• Report: Rethinking the H-1B Visa Program—Alexander Frei
• Report: Good News and Bad News About Changed U.S. Military Drone Policy—Mike Jernigan
• The Indo–Pacific’s Quiet War Loses a U.S. Ally—Brent Sadler

Senior Research Fellow Brent Sadler appeared on Newsmax in advance of President Trump’s meeting with President Putin in Alaska. Putin “knows how to manipulate people, and he has done it effectively to other world leaders,” Sadler warned. Watch the clip on X.