🛑 As the COVID-19 Delta variant spreads across the country, little attention is being paid to the public health crisis at the U.S. southern border. The spread of COVID-19 among illegal migrants is a real and growing concern. 

• The New York Times reported at the start of July that COVID cases are surging at the migrant detention centers along the southern border.
• Fox News reported that 135 detainees in the Rio Grande Valley Sector tested positive for COVID-19 in the first two weeks of July alone, an increase of 900% compared to the previous 14 months.
• CBS News reported that authorities in South Texas issued a public health announcement after COVID-stricken migrants were released by Border Patrol and seen coughing, sneezing, and without masks inside a Whataburger restaurant. Local authorities say they are unable to stop COVID-positive migrants from leaving the area and moving on to another destination in the U.S.
• NBC News reported a second whistleblower complaint filed by two government employees saying HHS told workers to downplay widespread COVID outbreaks among migrant children at Fort Bliss, the largest U.S. facility housing migrant children. 

This is not a political issue. It’s a matter of public health and one that the White House cannot continue to ignore.

CHAMPION MESSAGE

“Other media tries to silence us and tell us that this isn’t really happening. This has happened to me. This has happened to my mom. This has happened to other people I know.”

- Margaret O’Neal, a high school track athlete, on how competing against transgender athletes has affected her

HURTING NOT HELPING

The Troubled Girls the Transgender Movement Ignores

DID YOU KNOW

An Interest Rate Cap Will Actually Hurt Small Borrowers

WHAT CAN YOU DO?

Get Advice on Raising Conservative Daughters

• toxic social media 
• radical indoctrination in schools
• biased agenda of Mainstream Media
• cancel culture and censorship

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• Exclusive: Athletes Fighting Biological Males in Women’s Sports Take Their Stories to Washington Read more.
• When #MeToo and Congress Team Up, Sexual Harassment Victims Lose Share this story.

TWO TRUTHS & A LIE

Ranked Choice Voting

On June 22, New York City held a Democratic primary for mayor. But the contest was “plunged into chaos” and took more than two weeks to resolve. The culprit was not simply human incompetence, but the system of Ranked-Choice Voting (RCV), used for the first time in New York this year.

Can you identify which of the following statements is not true?

A. In ranked choice elections, if a voter’s first choice gets knocked out her ballot is redistributed to the candidate she marked second.
B. Ranked Choice Voting eliminates the possibility of plurality winners and ensures that candidates are elected only with a majority of voter support.
C. Ranked Choice Voting is less transparent than single candidate voting.

• New Episode: Inez Stepman, senior policy analyst at IWF, weighs in on how Critical Race Theory will affect our students. Listen to it here.

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CAPSULE REVIEW

The Conservative Alternative To Democrats’ Paid Leave Entitlement

Having tentatively struck a deal with Senate Republicans on a $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill, it’s likely that Democrats will soon move on to consideration of a $3.5 trillion bill that includes a proposal to create a national entitlement to paid family and medical leave, which would almost certainly be funded by imposing a new payroll tax on all workers. Conservatives should resist creating a new entitlement to paid family and medical leave, which would perversely harm, rather than help, our country’s most vulnerable families. 

Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill Is Democrats’ Field of Dreams

The bipartisan, $1-trillion-plus “infrastructure” bill pending in the Senate is a treasure trove of buzzwords and concepts such as “equity” (read: socialist programs); if passed, it will empower “woke” regulators with oversight of broadband expansion, and build stepping stones for the Green New Deal.