Oct 26, 2020

Happy Monday! With the election just over a week away, one big question is whether election fraud will tip the results. Is it a myth like the left says? Meanwhile, Heritage President Kay C. James blasts Twitter and Facebook for bias against conservatives. And Heritage Action mounts a rally for Judge Amy Coney Barrett. Learn about all this, as well as upcoming Heritage events, and more, in this week’s Agenda.

The Left Is in Denial About Election Fraud
The left—along with the mainstream press—keeps insisting that election fraud is a myth made up by conservatives to suppress the vote. But evidence keeps piling up showing that it’s a very real problem, with a rash of recent arrests around the country, many of which involved mail-in ballots. “While many on the left dismiss these threats and insist that voting by mail has no potential for fraud, or that other types of fraud just don’t happen, these stories continue to break, dispelling that narrative,” write Heritage senior legal fellow Hans von Spakovsky and administrative and research assistant Kaitlin Samalis-Aldrich. Read their latest report to learn about the abundance of recent cases that prove voter fraud is a legitimate threat. And in a brilliant display of media bias, a total of 14 reporters were assigned to debunk Heritage’s election fraud database, only to get their facts wrong. We set the record straight here.

Enough With Big Tech’s Apologies for Anti-Conservative Bias
Twitter and Facebook are backpedaling after suppressing a New York Post story damaging to former Vice President Joe Biden, but that doesn’t erase the fact that social media platforms appear to enforce their rules differently for liberals and conservatives. “While Twitter said that it’s changing its policies to prevent similar incidents from happening again, Americans are no longer interested in repeated apologies or promises that these platforms will do better. They demand action,” writes Heritage President Kay C. James. Read her full commentary to learn more about social media’s bias against conservatives.

Heritage Action Mounts Rally for Amy Coney Barrett’s Confirmation
At a rally organized by Heritage Action for America, crowds gathered in front of the Dirksen Senate Office Building chanting “Fill the seat! Fill the seat!” after the Judiciary Committee approved Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination to the Supreme Court. The rally was part of a multifaceted grassroots campaign mounted by Heritage Action on behalf of Barrett. “We are one step closer to filling that seat,” Jessica Anderson, executive director of Heritage Action, told the crowd in kicking off the rally. Read the full article to find out more about the grassroots movement to confirm Barrett.

Closed Schools Ignore Lowered Risks and Family Needs
At what would normally be the end of the first academic quarter for most K-12 schools, millions of students still have not set foot in a classroom. Many haven’t done so since March, and won’t for the foreseeable future, because schools are remaining closed despite evidence that opening them won’t pose a large risk to students or the community, and despite the needs of families with working parents. “Local school leaders’ evaluations of the health evidence remain a mystery, and many officials have not met parent and student needs during the pandemic. Now, families are leaving, reminding everyone that we should make students the priority of policy solutions, not the system,” writes Heritage senior policy analyst Jonathan Butcher. Read the full report to find out more about why schools should open and what alternatives families have found when they don’t open.

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TUESDAY at 3 p.m., Heritage will host a virtual event to discuss Operation Warp Speed, an unprecedented public-private partnership to produce and deliver 300 million doses of a safe and effective COVID-19 vaccine by January 2021. This discussion will feature insights from Army Gen. Gustave F. Perna, who is the chief operating officer of Operation Warp Speed, and Matthew Hepburn, M.D., the head of vaccine development at Operation Warp Speed. Register for the webinar.

WEDNESDAY at 1 p.m., Heritage will examine the origin, nature, and impact of efforts to redefine civic education and demonstrate that it has a clear progressive bias, teaches our kids to protest, and leads to civic ignorance. In part three of our “America's History of Hope” series, Dr. Tom Lindsay, distinguished senior fellow of higher education and constitutional studies at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, will discuss this important study and provide a roadmap for putting Americans back on a path toward civic knowledge. Register for the webinar.

Tom Jipping, deputy director of Heritage’s Meese Center for Legal and Judicial Studies, joined Newsmax’s “Saturday Report” to recap the Amy Coney Barrett hearings, the differences in questions coming from the Republicans and Democrats, and the next steps in the confirmation process. Watch the interview.

Read Heritage’s latest report to learn about the abundance of recent cases that prove voter fraud is a legitimate threat.