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  • Abortion Pill and the Law -- J. Marc Wheat, JD

    • For 26 years, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has delayed safety reviews for the dangerous chemical abortion drug mifepristone and defied every attempt to subject the drug to normal medical scrutiny. In fact, rather than subject mifepristone to a standard review process when it approved the drug in 2000, the FDA wrongly approved mifepristone under Subpart H.

    • It is clear that the FDA prioritized politics over women’s health. What is not clear, however, is why the French drug manufacturer repeatedly refused to allow mifepristone to enter the U.S. market, what happened in years of closed-door meetings between the FDA and the French manufacturer that resulted with mifepristone’s introduction in the U.S., and what political pressures were applied to approve mifepristone.

    • Thanks to an AAF Freedom of Information Act request and subsequent lawsuit we have some hints. Though AAF has yet to receive confirmation from the FDA, the agency at one point informed our counsel, Judicial Watch, that it had identified 125,000 pages of responsive documents.

    • The FDA redacted much in these pages. What remains, however, suggests that pro-abortion activists supplied the FDA with tools and detailed blueprints for inflicting political pressure and to help ensure that mifepristone be introduced into the United States.

    • When the FDA approved mifepristone in 2000, it implemented corresponding safety protocols, called the Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy (REMS), to mitigate mifepristone’s adverse effects. Though not perfect, these protocols at least provided women with some protection but have been almost entirely repealed by the Obama and Biden FDAs.

    • Because of the FDA’s weakened protections, pro-life states are not able to enforce their own laws banning abortion against abortionists that mail mifepristone from other states. Several pro-life states, including Louisiana, are currently litigating against the FDA.

    • The FDA claims, as it recently told the Fifth Circuit during oral arguments in Louisiana v. FDA, pro-life states such as Louisiana lack standing to sue the agency over its chemical abortion regulations.

    • Rather than deliver on its promises to review mifepristone, the FDA has continued to stonewall, approved a new generic chemical abortion pill, and now is fighting pro-life states in the courts. Since the executive branch refuses to act, we propose solutions through the judicial and legislative branches.

    • First, the Courts could and should rule for pro-life states in these cases to ensure they can enforce their own pro-life laws. Second, the Senate could question FDA Commissioner nominee Heidi Overton about her robust pro-life record and confirm her if she remains committed to her pro-life statements.

    • Finally, as liberty must always be safeguarded, some may be called to make protecting life the “great object” of their life. This route is the hardest of the three but one of the greatest things we can do.

    YouTube Video

    27 min
  • Bought and Sold: Why Surrogacy and IVF are not Pro-life or Pro-Child – Katy Faust

    Big Fertility violates three primary child rights

    Right to Life

    • Only 2-3% of IVF children will be born alive

    • Grading embryo quality

    • Genetic testing

    • Sex selection

    • Frozen storage

    • Selective reduction

    Right to Mother and Father - A child's own mother and father

    • Children most likely to be safe and loved

    • Access to biological identity

    • Provide optimal development Third-party reproduction

    • Sperm/egg selling → identity struggles

    • Womb rental/commercial surrogacy→trust and attachment challenges Surrogacy: splices one woman into three

    • Genetic mother

    • Birth mother

    • Social mother

    None of these mothers are optional to children Right to be born free- not bought and sold

    • Paying genetic/birth parents to relinquish parental rights Adoption ≠ third-party reproduction

    • Mend a wound vs inflict a wound

    • Open vs anonymous

    • Safe placements vs baby buying

    • Child-centric institution vs adult-centric marketplace

    YouTube Video

    25 min
  • Plan Red: Communist China's Project to Destroy America -- Gordon G. Chang

    • Today’s wars could merge into a global conflict. China is using Russia, Iran, and North Korea to encircle America.

    • China is trying to take down the current international system and replace it with worldwide Chinese rule.

    • China’s regime has declared a “people’s war” against the U.S.

    • China, to destroy America, is waging “unrestricted warfare” against us.

    • China, as part of its campaign to take down our society, is using fentanyl to kill Americans.

    • China is preparing to fight Americans on American soil, including launching biological weapons attacks.

    • Americans need to immediately remove China’s regime from America. 

     

    YouTube Video

    31 min
  • Andrew Jackson: The Presidency, the Power, and the People - Frances Arthur

    • Andrew Jackson’s military career and rise from the Tennessee frontier to the presidency

    • The elections of 1824 and 1828 and the changing relationship between presidential candidates and the American people

    • Jackson’s understanding and expansion of presidential power

    • The Bank War, the Nullification Crisis, and Indian removal as defining—and controversial—tests of that power

    • The influence of Jacksonian democracy on political participation, campaigning, and the modern presidency

    • Andrew Jackson’s complicated legacy and what it teaches us about leadership, constitutional authority, and the responsibility of citizens

     

    YouTube Video

    26 min
  • What America's Children Are Learning from the Gamblification of Everything -- Kavita Fischer, MD

    • Today's children are growing up in a world where gambling-like experiences are embedded throughout daily life, from sports betting and online casinos to video games, social media rewards, fantasy sports, stock-trading apps, and increasingly, predictive markets that allow people to wager on elections, economic events, and current affairs.

    • These platforms share the same psychological architecture, using uncertainty, variable rewards, near misses, social validation, and constant engagement to keep users coming back, while blurring the line between entertainment, investing, predicting, and gambling.

    • As betting becomes normalized across sports, politics, finance, and digital culture, young people are learning that nearly everything can be turned into a wager, potentially altering how they view risk, achievement, decision-making, and even civic engagement.

    • Parents, educators, healthcare professionals, and policymakers have struggled to keep pace with this rapid cultural shift, while powerful industries continue to expand products that monetize attention and human behavior.

    • Protecting children does not require banning innovation or limiting freedom, but it does require establishing commonsense guardrails that prevent the commercialization of childhood and ensure that the next generation is not raised to see every outcome as an opportunity to place a bet.

    32 min
  • Working with Your State AGs to Protect Faith, Family & Freedom -- TN AG Jonathan Skrmetti

    As Tennessee’s top lawyer, he leads an extraordinary team with a track record of fighting 

    and winning for Tennessee all the way up to the Supreme Court of the United States.  He 
    successfully defended the constitutionality of Tennessee’s ban on irreversible gender 
    transition treatments for kids in the landmark case United States v. Skrmetti.  He has 
    repeatedly stopped unconstitutional federal overreach, most notably by eliminating the 
    Biden administration’s Title IX rule.  And he has successfully protected Tennessee 
    consumers from some of the most powerful corporations in the world, including 
    BlackRock, Google, and Purdue Pharma. 

    30 min
  • Understanding and Winning Gen Z -- Victor Nieves

    • Gen Z could be the one to reverse course and save the nation, but only if we know how to win them! Our founding fathers were young!

    ▪ Hamilton was 21 when he became a prominent officer in the Revolutionary War, Monroe was 24 when he served as a delegate in the Continental Congress; Jay was 28 when he became president of the Continental Congress; Madison was 29 when he helped lead the Constitutional Convention; Jefferson was 33 when he wrote the Declaration of Independence!

    ▪ Charlie Kirk as a shining example of the next generation. 1 Timothy 4:12 - Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith and in purity. Their views on the economy, social issues, tradition, and how to win their votes.

    • Young people are looking to YOU as an “influencer,” an ambassador for your ideas. People are looking to you for both the good and the bad. Growing up, I had the blessing of a wonderful family that taught me how to think, not what to think.

    ▪ Share the story of my first amateur boxing match where I thought I was prepared, only to gas out in the second round. A lesson learned at the end of another man’s fist.

    ▪ Use your experience to train the next generation. I travel the country teaching pro-life advocates how to argue convincingly in an increasingly polarized culture. I teach students: Be Prudent; pick your battles. Know the difference between your enemy and someone who might disagree with you. They are not always the same.

    ▪ Genuine, good faith questions are NOT attacks. Attacks are not good faith questions. ▪ Not every fight is worth engaging in. Save your powder until it is worth it. Know your objectives. Why are you saying/doing the things you do?

    ▪ What are you trying to accomplish? Every scenario is different and every person is different. To be a good ambassador for conservative principles, we must have clear goals for what we do. The importance of effective communication. Good ideas lose to bad ideas that are presented well.

    ▪ History is full of examples of horrible ideas gaining absurd popularity. Hitler, Mao, Stalin, etc., all managed to get people on board despite their faulty ideology.

    ▪ Lies are easier to spread than truth. If we want to be competitive, we must communicate with excellence.

    ▪ Take action! Get involved! Our country is at an impasse. The stakes could not be higher; what will YOU do?

    The Democratic Socialists of America are gaining power on the left; political violence is all too real. The left has made clear they want to stack the Supreme Court, push abortion to birth, gender transition our children and destroy the 2nd Amendment.

    24 min
  • Parental Rights: Stopping Discrimination in Education -- Rhyen Staley

    • Overview of Defending Education and the scope of its work

    • What is FERPA? And how are schools violating this federal law?

    • PPRA, Mahmoud, and how schools keep parents in the dark.

    • Calling schools out for violating the law – filing federal complaints

    Action Items:

    • Raise awareness of what rights parents have in education

    • Understand how school districts and universities violate federal education laws

    • Expose violations to the public

    • File federal complaints against schools

    41 min

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