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A Modest Proposal To Control Illegal Immigration: Follow the Law

Jan 20, 2023

By Dr. Thomas Patterson | Nobody seems to know what to do about our illegal immigration crisis. Somehow, no other nation in the world seems helpless to control unlimited, illegal immigration. Democrats alternately claim it is being handled, and that it is the fault of...

Republicans Should Take These Critical Next Steps on Election Integrity

Jan 18, 2023

By the Arizona Free Enterprise Club | From their pulpit at press conferences, they shrugged off questions and concerns about the potential for long lines on election day and whether they would have their voting centers properly equipped. For weeks, the mainstream...

As Katie Hobbs Spouts Lies About K-12 Education Spending, Republicans Must Push Back

Jan 14, 2023

By the Arizona Free Enterprise Club | For the last two years, Republicans have been winning the education debate, and Democrats are not happy. Public education has long been their baby, using it to indoctrinate children with their radical ideas all while deceiving...

Affordable Housing Decisions in Chandler Should Belong to the People, Not Special Interest Groups

Jan 12, 2023

By The Voice of Chandler | Last month, the City of Chandler unanimously passed Resolution 5656 to reject the proposed ‘Landings on Ocotillo’ high-density housing project. From the start, the developer has been smearing our neighbors for no other reason than we support...

I Thought Our School Was Safe

Jan 11, 2023

By Charlotte Lawrence | During the 2021-22 school year, I’d been hearing about parents finding books and materials on gender identity at their children’s school. I thought that would never happen at my kids’ school. We live in Chandler, part of Chandler Unified...

Republicans Have a Chance to Get off to a Great Start – If They Don’t Blow It

Jan 2, 2023

By Dr. Thomas Patterson | Decades of institutional self-neglect have left Congress dysfunctional and unfit to fulfill its constitutional role as the most consequential branch of government. Government of the people has morphed into government by bureaucrats, by the...

Five Tangible Pro-Liberty Goals for the 2023 Legislative Session

Dec 27, 2022

By Ben Beckhart | In January, Arizona’s 55th legislature will convene with new challenges. Republicans managed to maintain slim majorities in both chambers, but what can we possibly accomplish with a Democratic Governor? It will certainly be more difficult to get...

The Anti-Tax Mood Among the People of Arizona Is a Great Source of Hope

Dec 24, 2022

By the Arizona Free Enterprise Club | Arizona taxpayers are tired. It’s bad enough that our state has been getting crushed by the highest inflation rate in the country, but during this past November’s election, the government tried to swoop in and take more of...

Republicans Get One More Chance to Do the Right Thing

Dec 23, 2022

By Dr. Thomas Patterson | The last time Republicans lived up to their reputation for sound fiscal policy was almost 30 years ago. In March 1995, Speaker Newt Gingrich and the Republican House caucus, to the jeers of skeptics, resolved to balance the federal budget...

We’re Suing to Protect Donor Privacy and Free Speech from the Unconstitutional Prop 211

Dec 18, 2022

By the Arizona Free Enterprise Club | In this past November’s election, Arizona voters were misled into passing Prop 211. Billed as the “Voters’ Right to Know Act” that’s supposed to “Stop Dark Money” in our state, it sounds harmless enough. But that was all a part of...

Developing Trade School Pathways for Students Is Essential

Dec 14, 2022

By Kurt Rohrs | Not all students in our schools are destined for college, but this does not mean that they are lesser in their social standing. Every student is different, and each one deserves the opportunity to explore alternative pathways with equal standing in...

The November Election Shows That the GOP Won the Education Debate

Dec 11, 2022

By the Arizona Free Enterprise Club | The public school system in Arizona is a complete mess. But during the past few years, it really hit a new low. Attempts to indoctrinate children with Critical Race Theory and radical gender theory have been spreading throughout...