Thank you! On Feb. 16, 1973, The Heritage Foundation embarked on its mission to build a nation where freedom, opportunity, prosperity, and civil society flourish. Our members, now half a million strong, deserve special thanks. 

• This week, Heritage will mark the big anniversary with several special announcements. Stay tuned! 
• This spring, Heritage will host a Leadership Summit and gala dinner celebrating its first half-century with special guests and events. Visit our website for more details. 

Read about our impact over the past 50 years.   

This week, Heritage marks its 50th anniversary as leader of the conservative movement. With the help of our members, we’ve changed the course of history. Conservatives are in a battle for the heart and soul of America, and our Heritage Legacy Society members are leading the charge. Click here to join the fight. 

Game over: Heritage hosted lawmakers at our Capitol Hill headquarters, where they took part in an impeachment forum on Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. The Daily Signal covered the event.  

Read Heritage experts’ full legal case against Mayorkas here. 

Plus: Read Biden’s dishonest border shell game and how he’s opening the door to child smugglers. 

New Strategy: Parents in red states are standing up for their values—and legislators are listening:   

Iowa State Sen. Jesse Green described his support for the adoption of a universal choice program as motivated by the belief that “Iowans deserve to have their children educated without violating their values.” 

Heritage education policy expert Jay Greene breaks it down here.

Cash Cow: That’s how a Pfizer research director described the company’s work to mutate new viruses—and be the first to create vaccines.  

• Pfizer denies conducting dangerous “gain of function” research. But should we believe the company?  

“Lawmakers need to subpoena the appropriate Pfizer executives and the relevant documents from the corporation,” says Robert Moffit, senior research fellow in Heritage’s Center for Health and Welfare Policy. Get the full story here.  

• Response to Biden’s State of the Union Address—Kevin Roberts 
• States Need to Start Rolling Back Biden’s Medicaid, Food Stamp Expansions—Nina Owcharenko Schaefer 
• Biden Had Little Time for Border Security in State of the Union Speech—Simon Hankinson 
• Policymakers Should Use Supreme Court Cases on Racial Preferences to Launch Reform of College Accreditation—Jonathan Butcher 
• China Surpasses US in Nuclear Missile Launchers; US Unprepared to Deter Growing Threat—Patty-Jane Geller 
• 6 Takeaways From House Hearing on Twitter’s Suppression of Hunter Biden Laptop Story—Fred Lucas 
• Colorado Courts Still Don’t Understand Religious Freedom—Tom Jipping 
• Border Security Coalition Releases Third Letter to Congress—Mark Morgan and Tom Homan 
• No, Mr. President, the Equality Act Harms Women and Children—Emma Waters 
• Is Biden’s Pentagon a Warfighting Organization? Amid China Threat, You Have To Wonder—Dakota Wood 

James Carafano, Heritage’s vice president for the Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy and E.W. Richardson fellow, appeared on Fox Business to discuss the danger of President Biden’s refusal to treat Communist China as an adversary. Watch the clip here.  

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