Tennessee Court Delivers Historic Victory for Second Amendment Rights While Exposing Republican Failures
A three-judge panel in Tennessee delivered a resounding victory for constitutional rights on August 22, 2025, striking down two antiquated statutes that had long criminalized the fundamental right to bear arms. The ruling in Hughes v. Lee represents not just a legal triumph, but a stark reminder of how far our elected representatives have strayed […]
The Tennessee Stands 2024 Legislative Session Recap
If you are looking for a robust breakdown of all the conservative wins and losses during the 2024 legislative session in Tennessee, this video is for you. It is by no means exhaustive, that would be a much longer video. However, it is a great overview of legislation being tracked by grassroots organizations across the […]
Continuing the school choice debate.
National pundits continue to parrot the talking points for school choice stating that no regulations are going to follow the money. But, they can cite no historical examples where regulations do not follow government funding. In an interview with the Pampleteer in Nashville, Corey DeAngelis, a self-professed school choice evangelist, acknowledges that school choice is […]
Roll call votes defeated in the House.
As the 2024 legislative session convenes here in Tennessee, the House had an opportunity, by amending its rules, to introduce more transparency into the process. Rep. Bryan Richey submitted an amendment that would require a roll call vote in every committee hearing as bills make their way to the House floor. But the rules committee […]
Bill Lee’s brand of education freedom will fund private school tuition for illegal immigrants.
This week, Governor Bill Lee introduced his plan for school vouchers, aka school choice, aka education freedom. For many, the plan sounds great. Parents get to take their tax dollars out of failing public schools and direct those funds to private schools or homeschool costs. The problem, of course, is that what might seem like […]
Who is really at the helm of your County Election Commission?
It would behoove every voter in the state of Tennessee to know the answer to that question for their respective county. In Williamson County, the answer is as plain as day. Senator Jack Johnson. And voters need to ask themselves, “Why?” Our County Election Commission (CEC) has had a string of vacancies over recent months. […]
TN Dept of Education is becoming more and more woke by the day.
About 5 months ago, I told you about Governor Bill Lee’s hire for our new Commissioner of Education, Lizzette Reynolds. If you haven’t watched that report in full, I highly suggest you do so. (see link below) https://rumble.com/v2lodqu-who-is-your-new-tn-commissioner-of-education-lizzette-gonzales-reynolds.html In that report, I went through some of Reynolds’ history with various organizations that are focused on […]
Update on the Governor’s Special Session for Public Safety (Red Flag Laws).
Tennesseans across the state have advocated loudly that voters do not want this special session. Primarily, we do not want restrictions on our 2nd Amendment rights and we do not want to debate complex topics like mental health in the abbreviated course of 3 days. Fortunately, it seems that our advocacy has taken hold and […]
We are playing with fire putting more federal money into mental health in the name of public safety.
As part of the Governor’s call for a special session on red flag laws, Bill Lee is asking the legislature to consider the following… “Directs TennCare to seek a waiver from the federal government to allow federal matching funds for Medicaid to cover services for mental illness and substance use disorders at institutions of mental […]
The abrogation of rights by rulemaking.
A couple of weeks ago, we tried to answer the question of many homeschool parents as they were registering their students through homeschool umbrella programs in Tennessee. “Why am I being asked the immunization status of my homeschool child?” The confusion came about because of the passage this year of HB252 by Rep. Jody Barrett […]