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1/2 Jenny Clark (@ClarkRimsza) is the founder of @iheartmyschool, a former member of the Arizona Board of Education, and a featured speaker at #FreeCon Phoenix, to be held November 16.
Clark first became involved in the school choice movement after her oldest son was evaluated arned her local school district didn’t offer any special programs for such students.
“I found out about the state’s ESA program,” which provides parents with funding to customize their child’s education, Clark said. “I thought, this program is so amazing, it’s so incredible. More families need to have access to an ESA.”
At the time, the ESA program was only available to select student populations, including students with special needs. Clark became an advocate for expanding the ESA program to make every student eligible.
In 2022, Arizona became the first state to enact a fully universal school choice program. “Jenny was a huge part of that,” said @Jenna__Bentley, the @Goldwaterinst’s director of government affairs and another featured speaker at FreeCon Phoenix. “It truly was a full-circle moment.”
Now that critics of educational freedom control the governorship and both chambers of the Arizona legislature, this pivotal conservative accomplishment is endangered, as Clark, Bentley, and other FreeCon Phoenix speakers will discuss. To learn more about the @FreeConTalk event on November 16, check the comments.
Clark first became involved in the school choice movement after her oldest son was evaluated arned her local school district didn’t offer any special programs for such students.
“I found out about the state’s ESA program,” which provides parents with funding to customize their child’s education, Clark said. “I thought, this program is so amazing, it’s so incredible. More families need to have access to an ESA.”
At the time, the ESA program was only available to select student populations, including students with special needs. Clark became an advocate for expanding the ESA program to make every student eligible.
In 2022, Arizona became the first state to enact a fully universal school choice program. “Jenny was a huge part of that,” said @Jenna__Bentley, the @Goldwaterinst’s director of government affairs and another featured speaker at FreeCon Phoenix. “It truly was a full-circle moment.”
Now that critics of educational freedom control the governorship and both chambers of the Arizona legislature, this pivotal conservative accomplishment is endangered, as Clark, Bentley, and other FreeCon Phoenix speakers will discuss. To learn more about the @FreeConTalk event on November 16, check the comments.
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2/2 More on @FreeCon Phoenix here: eventbrite.com/e/freecon-phoe…
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1/2 At @NRO, @FreeConTalk co-founder @JohnHoodNC identified the Trump administration’s foolish policies on trade, and the inevitable corruption associated with them, as key explanations for the Democratic victories of 2026.
“More than a decade ago, populist activists described nt they sought to displace as ideologically moribund and the American right’s primary electoral vehicle, the Republican Party, as politically inept,” Hood wrote. “The GOP establishment, they argued at the time, seemed content to be the Washington Generals to the left’s Harlem Globetrotters, perpetual losers in a game rigged against middle America.
“Well, if yesterday’s Republicans were the Washington Generals, today’s Republicans are the Washington Corporals.” #FreeCon
“More than a decade ago, populist activists described nt they sought to displace as ideologically moribund and the American right’s primary electoral vehicle, the Republican Party, as politically inept,” Hood wrote. “The GOP establishment, they argued at the time, seemed content to be the Washington Generals to the left’s Harlem Globetrotters, perpetual losers in a game rigged against middle America.
“Well, if yesterday’s Republicans were the Washington Generals, today’s Republicans are the Washington Corporals.” #FreeCon
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2/2 For more about Hood and other #FreeCon takes on the 2026 midterms, go here: freedomconservatism.org/p/take-one
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1/2 In an interview with @RCPolitics, @FreeConTalk signatory @TimChapman of @AmericanFreedom predicted that “Democrats will overreach on what they think their mandate is, and that’s exactly what Trump did”
“Trump thought his mandate was to run the country from 1600 Pennsylvania ongress, to adopt nationalist populist economic proposals, to adopt a foreign policy that was on again off again at the whims of Trump. The beatings will continue for both parties until one party accepts some level of humility about what they’ve actually been elected to do.”
“You’re entering an environment where Republicans are going to have to scramble to rethink what they stand for as a party and rethink what their movement is all about. They’re going to have to recover some muscle memory about how to be legislative entrepreneurs themselves and how to actually propose solutions that address the problems that the American people face. And if they don’t do that, then the pain will continue.”
Link in the comments. #FreeCon
“Trump thought his mandate was to run the country from 1600 Pennsylvania ongress, to adopt nationalist populist economic proposals, to adopt a foreign policy that was on again off again at the whims of Trump. The beatings will continue for both parties until one party accepts some level of humility about what they’ve actually been elected to do.”
“You’re entering an environment where Republicans are going to have to scramble to rethink what they stand for as a party and rethink what their movement is all about. They’re going to have to recover some muscle memory about how to be legislative entrepreneurs themselves and how to actually propose solutions that address the problems that the American people face. And if they don’t do that, then the pain will continue.”
Link in the comments. #FreeCon
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Freedom conservatism is the path forward. The false prophets of populism misunderstand both the American electorate and how their policy choices affect the everyday life of normal people.
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Freedom conservatism is the path forward. The false prophets of populism misunderstand both the American electorate and how their policy choices affect the everyday life of normal people.
#FreeCon
Voters in swing states approved a lot of conservative ballot measures while voting for anti-Trump candidates.
If Democrats lurch far left on policy, the voters who gave them an enormous victory on Tuesday will be strongly tempted to switch back to the GOP or stay home in future elections.
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1/2 The publication of @sladesr’s new book “Fusionism: Liberty, Virtue, and the Future of the American Right” has prompted a spate of reviews, articles, and assessments of her thesis that the American Right should champion both the cause of individual freedom and the tradition of m, she wrote, is “rooted in the idea that human beings were created by God for a purpose and that fulfilling that purpose requires cultivating good habits. Not every fusionist has the same religious views, but all share a common appreciation for the timeless wisdom of their patrimony. And unlike many on both the Left and the Right today, they know that freedom is an integral part of Judeo-Christian moral thought.”
@FreeConTalk signatory @ThomasDHowes agrees. In a @LawLiberty review of what he called Slade’s “fantastic new book,” Howes endorsed her argument that “fusionism, rather than a mere coalition that only made sense in the Cold War but not afterward, is a coherent philosophy.
“Not only is it a philosophy, but it is also the philosophy of the Founding Fathers. It is the philosophy of liberty and virtue, and even a claim that liberty and virtue are mutually reinforcing.”
Also writing in @LawLiberty, #FreeCon signatory and Hillsdale College professor @BradleyBirzer wrote that “Fusionism is one of the most important books not only of 2026, but of the first third of the twenty-first century. It is an able retelling of the past, but also a guide to the future.”
In a @CivitasOutlook forum about the book, FreeCon signatory @RichardMorrison observed that over the past decade, “right-wing political rhetoric has begun to tilt away from the traditional equilibrium of small government, economic freedom, and personal virtue — what we generally call fusionist ideas.”
“For Slade and many of her fellow critics, this is a time for choosing as serious as any in modern history,” wrote Morrison, a senior fellow at @CEIdotorg, for “action must be taken to defend the governmental restraint and commitment to due process that were once the hallmarks of principled conservatism in the American political system.”
And in @AmSpectator, FreeCon signatory @DonaldDevineco1 defended Slade’s book from critics on the Dissident Right. “Fusionism’s freedom synthesis is anchored not on an abstract ‘virtue,’ as many traditionalists would have it, but on a real history anchored on a time-tested tradition,” wrote Devine, a senior scholar at @TFASorg. “Reagan indeed followed that tradition, and it is still conservatism’s best bet for a moral and free future.”
Freedom Conservatives and all others interested in the future of the American Right should read the book. Slade will also be the keynote speaker at one of Freedom Conservatism’s three post-election regional summits: #FreeCon Raleigh on November 18. Find out more below.
@FreeConTalk signatory @ThomasDHowes agrees. In a @LawLiberty review of what he called Slade’s “fantastic new book,” Howes endorsed her argument that “fusionism, rather than a mere coalition that only made sense in the Cold War but not afterward, is a coherent philosophy.
“Not only is it a philosophy, but it is also the philosophy of the Founding Fathers. It is the philosophy of liberty and virtue, and even a claim that liberty and virtue are mutually reinforcing.”
Also writing in @LawLiberty, #FreeCon signatory and Hillsdale College professor @BradleyBirzer wrote that “Fusionism is one of the most important books not only of 2026, but of the first third of the twenty-first century. It is an able retelling of the past, but also a guide to the future.”
In a @CivitasOutlook forum about the book, FreeCon signatory @RichardMorrison observed that over the past decade, “right-wing political rhetoric has begun to tilt away from the traditional equilibrium of small government, economic freedom, and personal virtue — what we generally call fusionist ideas.”
“For Slade and many of her fellow critics, this is a time for choosing as serious as any in modern history,” wrote Morrison, a senior fellow at @CEIdotorg, for “action must be taken to defend the governmental restraint and commitment to due process that were once the hallmarks of principled conservatism in the American political system.”
And in @AmSpectator, FreeCon signatory @DonaldDevineco1 defended Slade’s book from critics on the Dissident Right. “Fusionism’s freedom synthesis is anchored not on an abstract ‘virtue,’ as many traditionalists would have it, but on a real history anchored on a time-tested tradition,” wrote Devine, a senior scholar at @TFASorg. “Reagan indeed followed that tradition, and it is still conservatism’s best bet for a moral and free future.”
Freedom Conservatives and all others interested in the future of the American Right should read the book. Slade will also be the keynote speaker at one of Freedom Conservatism’s three post-election regional summits: #FreeCon Raleigh on November 18. Find out more below.
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2/2 For more about Slade and other #FreeCon speakers, go here: freedomconservatism.org/p/tone-hinge
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1/2 @JohnPuri2026 is the Thomas L. Rhodes Fellow at @NRO, a @FreeConTalk signatory, and a featured speaker at #FreeCon Philadelphia, to be co-hosted on November 17 by @NR_Institute and @MyCommonwealth.
In a recent magazine feature, Puri criticized the Trump administration use of nd other regulatory tools to impose the president’s personal and political preferences on private companies.
Right before the 2024 election, for example, Trump sued the television network CBS over a 60 Minutes interview with Kamala Harris that he said was deceptively edited to conceal her vacuity. Making Harris sound coherent, Trump’s lawyers alleged, was a “brazen attempt to interfere in the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election.”
“Preposterously, they demanded that CBS pay $10 billion in damages,” Puri wrote. “The network was defiant at first, affirming that the lawsuit ‘is completely without merit’ and that it will ‘vigorously defend against it.’ Its parent company, however, faced a dilemma. CBS was owned by Paramount, which was then attempting to merge with another media company, Skydance. Because the transaction would change the ownership of CBS broadcast licenses, it required FCC approval. After the election results came in, Paramount realized that the next FCC chairman would be appointed by Trump.
“A quid pro quo was never made explicit. But, as FCC review of the deal dragged on for months, Paramount sought to speed up the process. The company’s controlling stakeholder, Shari Redstone, pushed CBS to settle Trump’s lawsuit, as executives believed it was holding up the sale to Skydance. Paramount decided on July 1 to give in, settling with the president for $16 million. The payment was nothing compared with the $8 billion merger at stake.”
In a recent magazine feature, Puri criticized the Trump administration use of nd other regulatory tools to impose the president’s personal and political preferences on private companies.
Right before the 2024 election, for example, Trump sued the television network CBS over a 60 Minutes interview with Kamala Harris that he said was deceptively edited to conceal her vacuity. Making Harris sound coherent, Trump’s lawyers alleged, was a “brazen attempt to interfere in the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election.”
“Preposterously, they demanded that CBS pay $10 billion in damages,” Puri wrote. “The network was defiant at first, affirming that the lawsuit ‘is completely without merit’ and that it will ‘vigorously defend against it.’ Its parent company, however, faced a dilemma. CBS was owned by Paramount, which was then attempting to merge with another media company, Skydance. Because the transaction would change the ownership of CBS broadcast licenses, it required FCC approval. After the election results came in, Paramount realized that the next FCC chairman would be appointed by Trump.
“A quid pro quo was never made explicit. But, as FCC review of the deal dragged on for months, Paramount sought to speed up the process. The company’s controlling stakeholder, Shari Redstone, pushed CBS to settle Trump’s lawsuit, as executives believed it was holding up the sale to Skydance. Paramount decided on July 1 to give in, settling with the president for $16 million. The payment was nothing compared with the $8 billion merger at stake.”
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2/2 For more about Puri and other #FreeCon speakers, go here: freedomconservatism.org/p/hating-speech
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1/2 Jenna Robinson (@jarobinson1) is president of @AcademicRenewal, a @FreeConTalk signatory, and a featured speaker at #FreeCon Raleigh, to be co-hosted on November 18 by the @JohnLockeNC, @CarolinaJournal, and @CEIdotorg.
During a recent podcast appearance with the Furman Free scussed the expansion of free-speech protections on campuses in her home state. “North Carolina has more green-light schools than any other state in the nation,” Robinson said, citing ratings by @theFIREorg, but where universities are still “lagging” is “free speech culture.”
“Policies are absolutely necessary to get right, and that’s what I spend most of my time working on. But culture is also necessary. Policy alone will not do all the work of free speech reform.”
As for academic freedom, Robinson said that it “governs what a faculty member can research and what they teach in their courses. It’s not the purview of a board or a state to say, ‘You can’t research race relations’ or ‘You can’t research LGBT issues.’ That would be a violation of academic freedom. But to say, ‘You have to teach the course we are paying you to teach’ — that’s an entirely legitimate limit. You cannot say you’re going to teach Physics 101 and then go in and rant about President Trump. That would be an abuse of academic freedom.”
“There’s also a difference between academic freedom and free speech. If a faculty member mouths off on Twitter, that’s a free speech question. What they say in class is an academic freedom question. They intersect, but they’re not the same.”
During a recent podcast appearance with the Furman Free scussed the expansion of free-speech protections on campuses in her home state. “North Carolina has more green-light schools than any other state in the nation,” Robinson said, citing ratings by @theFIREorg, but where universities are still “lagging” is “free speech culture.”
“Policies are absolutely necessary to get right, and that’s what I spend most of my time working on. But culture is also necessary. Policy alone will not do all the work of free speech reform.”
As for academic freedom, Robinson said that it “governs what a faculty member can research and what they teach in their courses. It’s not the purview of a board or a state to say, ‘You can’t research race relations’ or ‘You can’t research LGBT issues.’ That would be a violation of academic freedom. But to say, ‘You have to teach the course we are paying you to teach’ — that’s an entirely legitimate limit. You cannot say you’re going to teach Physics 101 and then go in and rant about President Trump. That would be an abuse of academic freedom.”
“There’s also a difference between academic freedom and free speech. If a faculty member mouths off on Twitter, that’s a free speech question. What they say in class is an academic freedom question. They intersect, but they’re not the same.”
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2/2 For more about Robinson and other #FreeCon speakers, go here: freedomconservatism.org/p/hating-speech
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1/2 Clint Bolick is a justice on the Arizona Supreme Court, former vice president for litigation at the @GoldwaterInst, and co-founder and former vice president for litigation of @IJ. On November 16, Bolick will be the keynote speaker at #FreeCon Phoenix, hosted by Goldwater, the er partners.
In a broadcast interview discussing the public reaction to Charlie Kirk’s murder, he bemoaned the use of government power to punish or discourage freedom of speech. “I think Charlie Kirk himself had said it best: There is no such thing as legal hate speech that can be regulated or curtailed,” Bolick said. “It is speech, and all speech is protected.”
When the FCC subsequently threatened the broadcast licenses of ABC stations after Jimmy Kimmel’s comments about Kirk, it exceeded its legal role, he explained. “The moment that the government puts its fingers on the scale and coerces speech, that is clearly improper.”
One of most critical protections of the First Amendment is the U.S. government’s separation of powers, especially the exertion of authority between the legislative and executive branches, he argued. “We either have universal free speech rights that apply to all of us, or we do not have free speech rights at all.” #FreeCon
In a broadcast interview discussing the public reaction to Charlie Kirk’s murder, he bemoaned the use of government power to punish or discourage freedom of speech. “I think Charlie Kirk himself had said it best: There is no such thing as legal hate speech that can be regulated or curtailed,” Bolick said. “It is speech, and all speech is protected.”
When the FCC subsequently threatened the broadcast licenses of ABC stations after Jimmy Kimmel’s comments about Kirk, it exceeded its legal role, he explained. “The moment that the government puts its fingers on the scale and coerces speech, that is clearly improper.”
One of most critical protections of the First Amendment is the U.S. government’s separation of powers, especially the exertion of authority between the legislative and executive branches, he argued. “We either have universal free speech rights that apply to all of us, or we do not have free speech rights at all.” #FreeCon
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2/2 For more about Bolick and other #FreeCon speakers, go here: freedomconservatism.org/p/hating-speech
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Check out our @LawLiberty forum on @sladesr's new book! We've got contributions from @ThomasDHowes, @bradleybirzer, and L&L's own Michael Lucchese:
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1/2 @tannernau15 is a reporting fellow at @nro, a former editorial fellow at @thefp, and a @FreeConTalk signatory.
In a recent National Review piece, Nau reported on a new @americanfreedom paper chronicling the cost of the Trump administration’s taxes on imports from Canada and s a tool for strengthening America’s manufacturing sector.
The study compared the year before tariffs (March 2024 to February 2025) with the latest year of trade data (July 2025 to June 2026) and concluded that manufacturing rose by just 0.4%. “Although imports from Canada fell, the United States turned to imports from other trading partners rather than spurring domestic manufacturing,” the report found.
“The U.S.-Canada trade war has not just resulted in a shifting of the North American economic order,” Nau continued, “but has produced tremors in this year’s midterm elections, becoming an issue in key battleground states like Michigan and Maine.
“The National Taxpayers Union Foundation estimates that the tariffs levied against Canadian imports cost the state an estimated $23 billion, and $5,619 per Michigan household, the largest per-household cost in the nation.”
In a recent National Review piece, Nau reported on a new @americanfreedom paper chronicling the cost of the Trump administration’s taxes on imports from Canada and s a tool for strengthening America’s manufacturing sector.
The study compared the year before tariffs (March 2024 to February 2025) with the latest year of trade data (July 2025 to June 2026) and concluded that manufacturing rose by just 0.4%. “Although imports from Canada fell, the United States turned to imports from other trading partners rather than spurring domestic manufacturing,” the report found.
“The U.S.-Canada trade war has not just resulted in a shifting of the North American economic order,” Nau continued, “but has produced tremors in this year’s midterm elections, becoming an issue in key battleground states like Michigan and Maine.
“The National Taxpayers Union Foundation estimates that the tariffs levied against Canadian imports cost the state an estimated $23 billion, and $5,619 per Michigan household, the largest per-household cost in the nation.”
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2/2 For more about Nau and other #FreeCon signatories, go here: freedomconservatism.org/p/why-robot
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1/2 @JordanMcGillis is a fellow at @InnovateEconomy, the former economics editor at @CityJournal, and a @FreeConTalk signatory.
Reporting the findings of a new @EchelonInsights survey conducted for EIG, McGillis wrote that “American workers across partisan divides think the enda has failed them — and on the single issue they care about most, the cost of living, workers say the president’s policies have made their problems worse.”
Workers place high prices, housing affordability and taxes at the top of their priority list, explained McGillis and coauthor John Lettieri.
“And it’s on this paramount cost-of-living issue that workers disapprove of the president’s performance the most. Only 22% of workers grade President Trump’s performance on inflation and the cost of living as good or excellent, compared to 62% who say it’s been poor. Even among those who voted for Trump in 2024, only 46% give him positive marks.”
“American workers are dissatisfied with the direction of the economy and dissatisfied with economic policies that fail to deliver higher wages and greater purchasing power. The lesson of recent elections is that these sentiments spell bad news for the incumbent party — even when other economic indicators, such as job growth and the stock market, are robustly positive.” #FreeCon
Reporting the findings of a new @EchelonInsights survey conducted for EIG, McGillis wrote that “American workers across partisan divides think the enda has failed them — and on the single issue they care about most, the cost of living, workers say the president’s policies have made their problems worse.”
Workers place high prices, housing affordability and taxes at the top of their priority list, explained McGillis and coauthor John Lettieri.
“And it’s on this paramount cost-of-living issue that workers disapprove of the president’s performance the most. Only 22% of workers grade President Trump’s performance on inflation and the cost of living as good or excellent, compared to 62% who say it’s been poor. Even among those who voted for Trump in 2024, only 46% give him positive marks.”
“American workers are dissatisfied with the direction of the economy and dissatisfied with economic policies that fail to deliver higher wages and greater purchasing power. The lesson of recent elections is that these sentiments spell bad news for the incumbent party — even when other economic indicators, such as job growth and the stock market, are robustly positive.” #FreeCon
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2/2 For more about McGillis and other #FreeCon signatories, go here: freedomconservatism.org/p/why-robot
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