FREEDOM WORKING 06/28/2020 VALUABLE CONSERVATIVE NEWS

Patriots, let’s talk about the facts. Since the start of the Coronavirus Lockdown: Over 42 MILLION Americans have lost their jobs Over 100,000 small businesses have PERMANENTLY closed their doors  The unemployment rate for African-Americans and women has nearly TRIPLED The average child has been set SEVEN-MONTHS behind academically Congress has added $3.7 TRILLION to the national debt in wasteful spending We simply cannot afford to keep our country on lockdown anymore. We cannot afford to allow states to restart their lockdowns and continue to cripple the livelihoods of millions of families. To do so would be to doom our country to the devastation we haven’t seen in nearly a century. It would doom our nation to be taken advantage of by Leftists looking to expand their power. We don’t have to keep our great nation shut down to protect the most vulnerable among us from this dangerous virus. We CAN and MUST #ReopenAmerica, but that won’t happen unless YOU take action. Contact your governor right now. Urge them to stay the course and help President Trump #ReopenAmerica! In the meantime, check out the stories we’ve been following this week. For Freedom, Noah Wall and Parissa Sedghi Fornwalt FreedomWorks     Media Begging for a 'Second Wave'   Via RealClearPolitics The media is churning out countless alarmist stories each day about the threat of COVID-19 and the dangers of societal reopening. "Risk of new lockdown rises with fear of second COVID-19 wave," writes Reuters, as one example of the genre. These stories generally incite, rather than inform. They cherry-pick facts and lack context. Only when the COVID picture is viewed in perspective are people able to make wise decisions about their actions. It should be safe for society to continue broadly reopening while directing resources to specific at-risk populations, such as nursing homes and prisons, which are more vulnerable. The media has focused on increasing numbers of positive tests and hospitalizations in parts of the country to imply reopening is reckless. "Confirmed coronavirus cases have risen by double-digit percentages in 16 U.S. states that have gradually loosened restrictions since Memorial Day,” says Marketwatch. READ MORE HERE     Democrats Open Door to Marxist Totalitarian Rule Through Attacks on Police, History and Institutions   By Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) Via The Washington Times It has been said that Washington politics is like a NASCAR race, everyone is constantly making left turns. Democrats are turning left at 180 miles per hour while Republicans take the left turns at 120 miles per hour. Republicans need to stop racing. Get off of the track. Don’t like that analogy? How about this one: Stop digging the hole, it is already deep enough. How about this metaphor: Democrats are kicking in the door to Marxist, totalitarian rule, while Republicans are turning the doorknob. Why do we always fight on the radical left’s turf? Democrats have gone hard left. We don’t need to follow them. READ MORE HERE     Freedom Fighters, Pelosi's Obamacare Expansion, & The Kentucky MASSIEcre | Pardon The Disruption   The gang talks about Nancy Pelosi's ObamaCare expansion bill, Rep. Thomas Massie's epic primary victory, and FreedomWorks' 2019 FreedomFighter Award winners on this week's episode of Pardon The Disruption. Subscribe to "Pardon the Disruption" on iTunes HERE! WATCH & LISTEN TO FULL PODCAST HERE!     A Movement to Repeal and Replace 'Qualified Immunity' Is Brewing   By FreedomWorks VP of Legislative Affairs Jason Pye Via Inside Sources Last week the Supreme Court fumbled a tremendous opportunity to fix the doctrine of “qualified immunity” — the very mess it created decades ago. This policy has helped perpetuate police misconduct for more than 50 years. No other single reform is as critical in this moment. Qualified immunity is not grounded in the Constitution, its history or statutory text. Today, this well-intentioned creation of the courts has metastasized into near-complete immunity for any police wrongdoing. We both have unique perspectives on this issue. One of us is a former police officer and the other was raised by one. We respect and appreciate the job that law enforcement performs in our communities. But we also believe in liberties protected by the Constitution, and demand accountability when government officials, including police, deprive people of their rights. READ MORE HERE     Dems Double Down on On-Size-Fits-All Health Care   Via FreedomWorks Senior Policy Analyst Josh Withrow Democrats are expected to vote early next week on a bill, H.R. 1425, entitled the “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Enhancement Act.” The bill is exactly what it explicitly claims to be - a doubling down on the original structure of ObamaCare, with some extra patches added in. This is likely a foreshadowing of the push we’ll see to take the next step in expanding government control of health care should Democrats succeed in taking the White House in 2020. ObamaCare, as we’ve often pointed out, was at its core an exercise in massive centralization, aiming to force as much of the private market in health care payments into a top-down framework as possible. We’ve all seen how that has worked out. Although of course a slice of the population did benefit from forcing insurance companies to offer uniform benefits and to have to cover all pre-existing conditions, insurance premiums on the individual market rose sharply, as did deductibles and out-of-pocket maximums, ultimately diminishing the quality of health care for all. READ MORE HERE     SOCIAL SHARE OF THE WEEK     Anyone else think this is one of the worst ideas in the history of bad ideas? #ampFW SHARE ON FACEBOOK and INSTAGRAM!     Stop the Madness of Congressional Spending   By Chairman of FreedomWorks Task Force on Economic Freedom Stephen Moore Via Fox Business The coronavirus shutdown has flattened multiple industries across America -- everything from airlines and manufacturers to hospitals, retailers, oil and gas producers, and restaurants. Many of the 30 million small and large businesses in the country have reported a 30 percent reduction in revenues. Amid the carnage, one sector of the economy is thriving like never before in the history of the republic: the government. Congress has already spent more than $2 trillion on phases one, two, three and 3 1/2 of coronavirus relief packages. The latest irresponsible bill from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi would raise that spending total to $5 trillion, which is on top of the $4.71 trillion that Congress already authorized. We are getting very close to an unfathomable $10 trillion federal budget, which is more money in one single year, adjusted for inflation, than the nation devoted to fighting the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, World War I, World War II and the Vietnam War combined. READ MORE HERE         Roger Stone Faces New Scrutiny | Inside the Story With The Washington Times   The Washington Times' Jeff Mordock goes Inside the Story on new developments and revelations in the prosecution of Roger Stone! WATCH FULL INTERVIEW HERE!     THE REGULATORY UPDATE Green Thumbs Down   FreedomWorks Foundation's Regulatory Action Center (RAC) has published an issue brief on the environmental regulations the Trump administration has rolled back. You can read the paper excerpted below or in its entirety in the attachment at the bottom of this post or HERE. READ MORE HERE     1 in 5 Ballots Rejected as Fraud Is Charged in N.J. Mail-In Election   Via RealClearPolitics Following accusations of widespread fraud, voter intimidation, and ballot theft in the May 12 municipal elections in Paterson, N.J., state Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal (pictured) announced Thursday he is charging four men with voter fraud – including the vice president of the City Council and a candidate for that body. With races still undecided, control of the council hangs in the balance. Paterson is New Jersey’s third largest city and the election will decide the fate of a municipal budget in excess of $300 million, in addition to hundreds of millions more in education spending and state aid. In the City Council election, 16,747 vote-by-mail ballots were received, but only 13,557 votes were counted. More than 3,190 votes, 19% of the total ballots cast, were disqualified by the board of elections. Due to the pandemic, Paterson’s election was done through vote-by-mail. Community organizations, such as the city’s NAACP chapter, are calling for the entire election to be invalidated. READ MORE HERE   FreedomWorks In Action