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Audit of Apple’s Diversity Policies Demanded by Shareholders

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Washington, D.C./Cupertino, CA – Today shareholder activists will challenge Apple’s corporate leadership to show the value of their woke Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) policies. During the company’s annual shareholder meeting, Ethan Peck, an associate with the National Center for ...
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Whitley Yates: Secure the Border to Prevent Other Fentanyl Tragedies

Whitley Yates: Secure the Border to Prevent Other Fentanyl Tragedies

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"I sit before you as someone who's lost two family members this year, in 2023, to fentanyl poisoning. We buried them last week," Project 21's Whitley Yates told Newsmax hosts Bob Sellers and Katrina Szish. She added: This is a ...
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Melissa Ortiz

Melissa Ortiz: Government/Corporate Callousness Plagues Travelers with Disabilities

Melissa Ortiz describes herself as a happy warrior, but her natural optimism wasn't enough to overcome the inhumane treatment she experienced during a recent trip. Melissa, who serves as senior advisor for the National Center's Able Americans project, travelled for ...
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Scott Shepard: Fight Leftist Discrimination With National Declaration Day

Scott Shepard: Fight Leftist Discrimination With National Declaration Day

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"Here’s a plan to defeat equity-based discrimination by playing by the rules of the discriminators," writes Free Enterprise Project Director Scott Shepard at RealClearMarkets: Let’s all declare ourselves – preferably on the same day to underscore the point, but really ...
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Horace Cooper: Biden Signals to Criminals That It's Their Time to Shine

Horace Cooper: Biden Signals to Criminals That It’s Their Time to Shine

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Project 21 Chairman Horace Cooper blasted both America's top credit card companies and President Biden in a feisty discussion about crime on the Fox News Channel program "The Ingraham Angle." Responding to reports that Discover and other credit card companies ...
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Melissa Ortiz: Oh, the Places I Might Go!

Melissa Ortiz: Oh, the Places I Might Go!

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A longtime lover of all things Dr. Seuss, one of my favorite books is “Oh, the Places You Will Go!” It is a popular gift for graduations and other milestone celebrations, but it resonates with me because it is all ...
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Illegal Immigration Particularly Hurts Black Americans

Illegal Immigration Particularly Hurts Black Americans

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"The permissive attitude of our political leaders toward illegal immigration... is devastating America’s Black communities," write Project 21 Chairman Horace Cooper and Tom Homan in The Washington Times. Sanctuary city policies that attract illegal immigrants have made urban neighborhoods increasingly unsafe: ...
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Melissa Ortiz: Broken Bones or Broken Hearts?

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A popular refrain from my childhood was “sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.” It was yelled with great bravado across playgrounds, classrooms, bus aisles and anywhere else you’d find groups of children.  An ...
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Biden Threatens Veto to Protect His Ability to Politicize Your Money

Biden Threatens Veto to Protect His Ability to Politicize Your Money

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President Biden is determined to make sure your retirement savings can be used to fund leftist agendas, whether you want them to or not. As you may have heard, the Department of Labor recently issued a rule allowing retirement plan ...
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Lori Lightfoot

Chicago Voters Have Had Enough of Lori Lightfoot

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Yesterday Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot became the first Chicago mayor in forty years to lose re-election.  Several Project 21 ambassadors believe they understand why. "The people of Chicago have spoken. They have had enough of Mayor Lori Lightfoot," says Project ...
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