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Campaign includes gas station TV and targeted digital advertisements Baton Rouge, La. – Americans for Prosperity-Louisiana (AFP-LA) launched a robust statewide campaign combining new series of ads this week urging lawmakers to reject the proposed gas tax hike for the kickoff of the legislative session. The grassroots group supports Rep. Mark Wright’s proposed bill (HB […]

CONCORD, NH – Americans for Prosperity-New Hampshire (AFP-NH) tonight congratulated Bill Boyd for his hard-fought victory to replace the late Speaker Dick Hinch’s seat in the New Hampshire House of Representatives. The grassroots group endorsed Boyd due to his fiscal leadership and commitment to be a good steward of taxpayer dollars. AFP-NH made over 10,000 […]

Arlington, Va. – Americans for Prosperity today issued the following statement after government regulators recommended pausing usage of the coronavirus vaccine produced by Johnson and Johnson. In an announcement, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended the pause after six people who received the vaccine developed rare […]

Farahn Morgan has a way with words. Her talents took her from her rural hometown in southwestern Virginia to Washington, D.C., where the publicist quickly found success — and the sense of rootlessness that sometimes comes with a busy, full-time job. “I lived in a kind of abstract haze, removed from the daily challenges even […]

COLUMBIA, SC – Americans for Prosperity-South Carolina (AFP-SC) announced Candace Carroll as the interim state director for the chapter. Carroll will continue efforts to enact criminal justice reform, root out corporate welfare, and help make health care reforms issued by Governor McMaster last year permanent. Andrew Yates is taking a position at yes. every kid, […]

Jo Beth McDaniel started her career as a journalist early, freelancing for newspapers in Alabama while still a teenaged college student. After graduating, she began working for major newspapers and magazines in the Atlanta area. Over time, she discovered the newsroom environment wasn’t as glamorous as she had hoped. She describes working in an office […]

OKLAHOMA CITY, OK — Today, Americans for Prosperity-Oklahoma commended Governor Kevin Stitt for signing into law S.B. 913, a transformative bill that will provide for a more expedited review of state regulations and give the Legislature additional oversight of agency rules. AFP-OK continues to work closely with Governor Stitt to reduce regulations and foster a […]

TOPEKA, Kan. – Americans for Prosperity-Kansas (AFP-KS) issued the following statement as the grassroots organization awaits Gov. Laura Kelly’s signature on two key reform bills. The grassroots group applauds both chambers of the Legislature for passing both bills that will enable Kansans to find fulfilling work and allow workers to keep more of their hard-earned […]

The One Central Project in Chicago is a giant corporate welfare boondoggle that would hand over $6.5 billion in taxpayer money to private developers. Brian Costin, deputy state director of Americans for Prosperity-Illinois, writes in a Chicago Tribune op-ed that the project could “exceed the total cost of all corporate welfare projects recorded in modern […]