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What are the Twitter Files? And why should you care about them? To steal from my Stand Together colleague Neil Chilson, at some point last year the social media platform Twitter became the world’s leading place to get breaking news about Twitter — and it seemed as though Twitter was the topic of the day […]
ARLINGTON, VA—Today, Americans for Prosperity (AFP) announced the launch of its new podcast, American Potential. The show, hosted by AFP Regional Vice President Jeff Crank, will showcase the stories of extraordinary Americans who are taking action in their communities to address the pressing challenges facing our country. It is easy to feel cynical about the […]
Who knows what your community’s health needs are better than you and your neighbors? Well, according to many state governments around the U.S., they know better than you do. And they’ll overreach to show it. In 1979, Georgia’s General Assembly established a Certificate of Need (CON) to prevent new health care facilities from being built […]
Arlington, VA – Today, the House of Representatives took an important first step to help improve our nation’s energy security and reduce costs for millions of Americans by passing the Strategic Production Response Act (SPRA). Among Americans for Prosperity’s (AFP) top legislative priorities is unleashing America’s energy resources. This legislation, sponsored and driven by House […]
Dear Representatives, On behalf of Americans for Prosperity activists in all 50 states, I urge you to support H.R. 21, The Strategic Production Response Act. H.R. 21 prohibits releasing crude oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) for reasons other than a severe energy supply interruption until a plan is issued to increase oil and […]
Updated on January 27, 2023 On January 26, the House of Representatives passed the Strategic Production Response Act. The SPRA would hold the current administration accountable for lowering the U.S. strategic oil reserves to their lowest level — roughly 380 million barrels — in almost 40 years. In fact, the administration has reduced the reserves […]
Arlington, VA- Today, Americans for Prosperity Foundation (AFPF) filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Energy and the U.S. Department of State for failing to produce records regarding the Biden Administration’s abuse of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, its alleged request that OPEC+ hold production cuts until after the midterm election, and the President’s […]
Happy belated Martin Luther King, Jr., Day! There’s so much to celebrate about Dr. King. He was perhaps the most significant non-president in American history. His courage changed America and advanced the cause of justice, equality, and freedom for every American. But because of the means through which he brought about that change — peaceful […]
Federal borrowing has reached the statutory debt limit, yet Treasury has another five or six months of “extraordinary measures” until the real deadline in June or July. The federal government must avoid default this year while ending the debt accumulation’s march toward slower growth, fiscal crisis, and global instability. Closely divided government means a debt […]
