The Border Crisis: Effects of Policy Failures Extend Beyond Border Communities

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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Alejandro Mayorkas will be testifying in front of the Senate Appropriations Committee this week, defending the Biden Administration’s $13.6 billion border supplemental request and the administration’s failed policies along our southern border. Mayorkas claims that the border security and…

FY 2023 Border Statistics Breakdown

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A “No” Vote on Colorado Prop HH Means Taxpayers Get to Keep Their Hard-Earned Money

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Proposition HH (“Prop HH”) is a ballot measure that offers to slow the pace of property tax increases, without offering any actual cuts. It would do so in exchange for reducing or even eliminating the TABOR (Taxpayer Bill of Rights) refunds that currently protect Coloradans from excessive growth in state…

Colorado Proposition HH: A Tax Hike in Sheep’s Clothing

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America is experiencing a cost-of-living crisis, and Colorado workers and families are feeling the pinch. Decades-high inflation since 2021, fueled by massive federal spending and anti-work, anti-energy policies, has resulted in a 17% increase in consumer prices nationwide. Real household incomes for the typical family are down by about $4,000…

Cherry Creek School District Records Request

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The America First Policy Institute, in partnership with the Colorado Parent Advocacy Network (CPAN), received thousands of results from a Colorado Open Records request (CORA) of one of the Nation’s 100 largest school districts: Cherry Creek School District (CCSD) located near Denver, Colorado. The information recovered in this request revealed…

AFPI Issues Scorecards That Grade Each State’s Voter Protection Measures in Advance of the 2024 Election

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The America First Policy Institute established its Center for Election Integrity (CEI) in 2021 with the goal of making it easy to vote, but hard to cheat. Reaching this goal will help boost American confidence in elections and ensure the sacred right to vote is protected. In two years since…

EXPERT INSIGHT: Ukraine End State

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The largest war in Europe since the end of World War II continues. As a direct result of Russia’s unwarranted invasion of a sovereign neighboring nation, hundreds of thousands of Russian and Ukrainian soldiers have been killed in action. At the same time, Ukrainian towns and cities have been destroyed—almost…

Pushing For Ukraine’s NATO Membership Threatens to Derail an End to the War

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U.S. Ambassador to Moscow, William Burns, to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in 2008: Ukrainian entry into NATO is the brightest of all redlines for the Russian elite (not just Putin). In more than two and a half years of conversations with key Russian players, from knuckle-draggers in the dark…

30 State Higher Education Policy Priorities of the America First Agenda

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I. Combat divisive DEI programs, which are direct offshoots of Critical Race Theory. Critical Race Theory (CRT) posits that racial inequity and racial oppression are deeply embedded in the fabric of American society and perpetuated by its governing institutions. The movement’s leading theorists maintain that the only way to remedy…

To Impact Culture, the FBI Needs to Value Integrity First and Foremost in the Hiring Process

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Introduction Law enforcement agencies, especially large organizations with diverse responsibilities like the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), can operate efficiently only when they are based upon a foundation of trust, both internally and with the public they serve. At the heart of this trust lies integrity—a steadfast adherence to a…