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August 10, 2026
Iowa: The Great American Comeback
On January 1, 2025, Iowa’s income tax became a single flat 3.8% rate—down from graduated rates topping out at 5.7% in 2024 (Iowa Capital Dispatch, 2025a), reform that lifted Iowa to #17 overall and #11 on the individual income tax component of the Tax Foundation’s 2026 State Tax Competitiveness Index (Tax Foundation, 2026a). Now the Working Families Tax Cuts (WFTC), enacted as the One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB) and signed July 4, 2025, stack federal relief on top of that state advantage—in a state where unemployment runs a full point below the Nation’s.
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August 10, 2026
South Dakota: The Great American Comeback
South Dakota shows what pro-growth policy delivers: no state income tax, the Nation’s lowest unemployment rate, an economy that just topped $80 billion for the first time—and now the largest federal tax relief for working families in a generation under the Working Families Tax Cuts (WFTC), enacted as the One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB) and signed July 4, 2025.
Public Comment
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August 10, 2026
Comment in Support of Proposed Rule, “Agricultural Foreign Investment Disclosure Act of 1978”
The America First Policy Institute submits these comments through its China Policy Initiative, which researches foreign adversary ownership of American agricultural land and agricultural infrastructure and has published on the matters addressed in this rulemaking. We write in support of the Department of Agriculture’s (hereafter "Department” or “USDA”) proposed revisions to the regulations implementing the Agricultural Foreign Investment Disclosure Act of 1978 (AFIDA), and we urge the Department to finalize the rule with its adversary-specific provisions intact. The proposed rule rests on a correct and long-overdue conclusion: The national security risk presented by foreign holdings of American agricultural land is a function of the identity, location, and control structure of the holder rather than a function of acreage, and ultimately of whether said holder answers to an adversary government.
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August 10, 2026
Alaska: The Great American Comeback
The Working Families Tax Cuts (WFTC), enacted as the One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB) and signed July 4, 2025, deliver what supporters call the largest federal tax relief for working families in a generation, just as the state’s unemployment rate breaks out of a years-long rut.
Expert Insights
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August 10, 2026
Felony Murder Sentencing After Commonwealth v. Lee, Restoring Constitutional Punishment Without Abandoning Public Safety
In 2014, Derek Lee took part in an armed robbery of a Pittsburgh home. While Lee was in another room, his co-defendant shot and killed the homeowner during a struggle. A jury acquitted Lee of first-degree murder, but he was found guilty of second-degree murder.
Statement
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August 7, 2026
AFPI Commemorates Purple Heart Day by Honoring Those Who Defend America
The America First Policy Institute (AFPI) proudly commemorates Purple Heart Day by honoring the brave American service members who have been wounded or killed in defense of our Nation.
Bill Analysis
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August 6, 2026
Analysis: Demystifying College Sports Proposals in Congress
College athletics may well be one of the last redeeming features of an American university system that is otherwise mired in ideological conformity, domineering liberal elites, and defined less by intellectual rigor than by politicized indoctrination. Moreover, a federal court’s recent approval of a settlement agreement has many worried about the futures of the Olympic pipeline and college non-revenue sports. President Trump’s Saving College Sports[1] orders are long overdue.
Fact Sheet
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August 6, 2026
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS: PROTECT COLLEGE SPORTS ACT, TITLE IX, AND STATE LAWS ON WOMEN’S SPORTS
Claim: Does the Protect College Sports Act (PCSA) “gut Title IX”?
Reality: Section 127 of the revised PCSA expressly preserves Title IX:
SEC. 127. TITLE IX SAVINGS CLAUSE. Nothing in this title or the amendments made by this title shall be construed to override, modify, or amend the applicability of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (20 U.S.C. 1681 et seq.).
Expert Insights
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August 6, 2026
The Great American Recovery: The 2026 National Drug Control Strategy’s Historic Reignition of Faith in Our Communities
Over 1.2 million Americans have died from drug overdoses since 1999, a loss felt in nearly every family and community across the nation.
As part of the Trump Administration’s ongoing efforts to end this devastation unleashed by illicit drugs, this May, Drug Czar Sara Carter published the National Drug Control Strategy for 2026. This Strategy outlines a whole-of-government approach to confronting addiction and the ongoing drug crisis. It is built on two equally important fronts: a campaign to disrupt the illicit drug supply, paired with a comprehensive public health effort to reduce demand and consumption.
Issue Brief
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August 6, 2026
Exporting American AI to Create Jobs, Grow Our Economy, and Beat China
America must export its world-leading AI stack abroad. Promoting the export of American AI technology is one of three pillars in the White House’s AI Action Plan and, as President Trump said, we must “turn America into an AI export powerhouse” (Kratsios et al., 2025). Doing so will create American jobs, grow the economy, and reshore manufacturing.