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TAKE ACTION:

• Buy extra copies of “Throwing Children Under the Cannabis” and distribute to friends and family.

• Do not socially accept the use of marijuana. Social pressure works!

• Educate your friends and community. Marijuana is particularly dangerous to mothers and newborns. Marijuana used by fathers doubles the chance of miscarriage. Since THC is stored in body fat and is not water-soluble, any use of cannabis within the month and driving is not sober driving.

• Talk to children and young adults about the dangers. Cannabis use can lead to psychosis, schizophrenia, violent behavior, suicidal ideation, and other mental illnesses. The younger people are when they start using marijuana, the higher their risk of developing lifetime illnesses.

• Follow science. Marijuana is not medicine and is not FDA-approved. Medicine provides benefits that have been proven through double-blind studies. In medicine, the patient never determines the dosage.

• Demand community standards. Local municipalities have many options to regulate pot shops: location (not near schools or churches), no public consumption, signage and advertising that make marijuana seem fun, hours of operation (no drive-through or all-night sales), cultivation and manufacturing, and odor control. Most municipalities already have regulations on obnoxious odors; get your community to enforce the law with regard to the public nuisance of marijuana.

• Demand that cannabis-related products should only be sold at cannabis stores. Demand clear labeling. Hemp products with THC should not be available at convenience stores and farmers’ markets.

• States should set limits on the potency of their legal marijuana. The high-potency THC causes more health problems.

• Be on the lookout for new psychedelics with new names. Psychoactive drugs are being peddled as cure-alls without having had the necessary FDA testing. These dangerous drugs are marketed as “safe” alternatives to opioids.

• Kratom (gas station heroin) is not regulated federally, but FDA warns against using. It is illegal in some states, but most states do not regulate kratom. Get your state to regulate or outlaw kratom.

• Ibogaine is a Schedule I drug, which is marketed as a cure for PTSD.

• Psilocybin (magic mushrooms) is a Schedule I drug but is legal in some states (Oregon and Colorado).

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• Recent changes to CMS guidance affecting voting assistance in nursing homes and other long-term care facilities

• Real-world experiences illustrating why families and communities should understand what happens with residents’ ballots

• Vulnerabilities surrounding voter registration, ballot distribution, voting assistance, ballot handling, and reporting in residential care settings

• Identifying vulnerable-voter facilities within targeted congressional districts

• Using the Protecting Vulnerable Voters Toolkit to understand CMS guidance, state procedures, facility outreach, documentation, and reporting

• EIN’s 7-Week Plan for moving from identifying facilities to education, engagement, observation, documentation, and continued follow-up

• How state coalitions, Policy Authentication Groups, and Citizens’ Election Research can work together to support the Vulnerable Voters project

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Kris Ullman bio

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Outline: Lessons learned from the last 25 years.

Since 9/11, American patriots and the Christian church have grappled with the Islamic issue for the past 25 years. They have come to realize that Islam and Muslims are not only increasing in numbers but also gaining influence that surpasses their demographic representation in the United States.

What went wrong:

• Focus on terrorism

• Feeding the victim mentality

• Missing the goals of Islam

• Manifestations of the rise of Islam in the USA

• Political rise

• Education infiltration

• Christianity & the interfaith movement

• Financial success & influence

• Medical field dominance

• Population growth & demographics

• Saudi, Qatari & Emirate investment access

Mark Christian bio and Action Items

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Daniel Di Martino bio

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• Why: What is the purpose of the data centers?

• Resource use: propaganda or real concerns?

• Location: If a data center is right for your community, where should it go?

• Language: How do we fight and require both our government and these companies to do better?

YouTube: https://youtu.be/yV4WpMlCSZs

Outline:

● Innovation is in America's DNA, from air flight to the internet, and AI could be the most life-changing, life-giving, and life-saving technology in history.

● But change happens at the speed of trust, and right now, only 25 percent of Americans trust AI or the people building it.

● Balancing innovation and security is how we build AI Americans will trust.

● The current policies that need urgent trust-building are:

○ Kids Safety: If we demand it, AI can redeem what social media broke and be a force for good in our homes instead of a fight over screens.

○ Public Safety/National Security: We can keep America’s superpower status by getting the balance between innovation and security right - not by overreacting or underreacting.

○ Jobs and the Economy: We can balance innovation with intentionality, ensure the economic pie grows larger, and opportunity extends to all Americans, not just those building the technology.

● The challenges and opportunities that AI brings demand action now.

YouTube: https://youtu.be/tYSAp0Pxnjo

• Political arguments are always about a civic means to a moral end.

• For over 100 years, the left has engaged in a “long march through the cultural institutions” to deconstruct the Judeo-Christian moral worldview on which our Republic was founded and still depends and to replace it with a worldview more suited to their radical political agenda.

• As a result of the dangerous caricature of conservative beliefs, the far left is emboldened to use more authoritarian means to suppress disagreement with their agenda. We also cannot assume voters understand the moral grounding of our political policies.

• We can improve the power of our messaging by understanding the role of unconscious and emotional factors such as moral framing, word selection, and the Drama Triangle in shaping how people react to political ideas.

• Effective messaging follows four rules: Controlling the moral high ground; controlling the frame of the argument; framing our messaging in simple, compelling terms; and avoiding defensive traps by using the Recognize-Reframe-Refocus technique.

• Messaging for the midterms should focus on a short list of issues on which the moral differences between left and right are especially clear.

YouTube: https://youtu.be/YeJpLY6E-i4

This week on American Radio Journal: Lowman Henry talks with Kris Ullman of Eagle Forum about returning education to the states.

Originally published: American Radio Journal

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