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Sometimes it’s hard to find great sources of news and information that is effecting our country. We’ve chosen to highlight just a few of the places we look to find out what’s going on. Please note that we do not necessarily endorse the ideas presented at any of these sites; we are merely making their presence known.
Helpful conservatively minded resources and grassroots organizations:
Parents
“Exists to protect children by empowering parents through the passage of the Parental Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, and by defeating U.S. ratification of the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child.”
“A national leader in promoting school vouchers and scholarship tax credit programs.”
Home School Legal Defense Association
“A nonprofit advocacy organization established to defend and advance the constitutional right of parents to direct the education of their children and to protect family freedoms.”
“Conducts policy analysis, promotes responsible and informed citizenship, facilitates strategic leadership involvement, and influences public opinion.”
Focus on the Family
“To cooperate with the Holy Spirit in sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ with as many people as possible by nurturing and defending the God-ordained institution of the family and promoting biblical truths worldwide.â€
Students
“The Leadership Institute’s mission is to identify, recruit, train, and place conservatives in politics, government, and the media.”
Young America’s Foundation
“Young America’s Foundation is committed to ensuring that increasing numbers of young Americans understand and are inspired by the ideas of individual freedom, a strong national
defense, free enterprise, and traditional values.â€
Students for Academic Freedom
SAF’s “goal is to end the political abuse of the university and to restore integrity to the academic mission as a disinterested pursuit of knowledge.â€
Women
Concerned Women for America (CWA)
“The nation’s largest public policy women’s organization with a rich twenty-nine years of helping our members across the country bring Biblical principles into all levels of public policy.â€
“Builds support for a greater respect for limited government, equality under the law, property rights, free markets, strong families, and a powerful and effective national defense and foreign policy.”
Professionals
National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB)
“Promote and protect the right of our members to own, operate and grow their businesses.”
National Right to Work Committee (NRTW)
“A nonprofit, nonpartisan, single-purpose citizens’ organization dedicated to the principle that all Americans must have the right to join a union if they choose to, but none should ever be forced to affiliate with a union in order to get or keep a job.”
Competitive Enterprise Institute
“We believe that individuals are best helped not by government intervention, but by making their own choices in a free marketplace
General
Top Conservatives on Twitter
This group, started by @michaelpleahy and @rneppell, helped spark the Tea Part Movement. The TCOT site is a database of conservatives who are active in talking about the political issues of today on Twitter.
Recovery.gov
One of the first promises of the Obama administration was to be transparent with the Nations’s finances and recovery funds. Recovery.gov is the place to go to find information about what our Government is doing with our money.
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