National School Choice Week January 25-31– Over 32 Governors Issue Proclamations Supporting School Choice
This week is National School Choice Week. Our choice is homeschooling, but we appreciate the organization National School Choice Week https://schoolchoiceweek.com/ that is trying to help parents become aware of options to government schools.
From their website:
National School Choice Week: Celebrating Momentum and Meaningful Wins
National School Choice Week helps families learn more about the education options
available for their children. We raise equal awareness of traditional public, public
charter, public magnet, private, online, home, and nontraditional learning environments.Since 2011, National School Choice Week has shined a positive spotlight on opportunity
in K–12 education through 235,000 independent events hosted by schools, nonprofits,
and parent leaders. In 2026, NSCW will take place January 25–31.
available for their children. We raise equal awareness of traditional public, public
charter, public magnet, private, online, home, and nontraditional learning environments.Since 2011, National School Choice Week has shined a positive spotlight on opportunity
in K–12 education through 235,000 independent events hosted by schools, nonprofits,
and parent leaders. In 2026, NSCW will take place January 25–31.
Our Organization
National School Choice Week is a charitable program of the National School Choice
Awareness Foundation (NSCAF) and the National School Choice Resource Center
(NSCRC), both 501(c)(3) nonprofits.
NSCAF and NSCRC show parents how K–12 school choice can change their children’s
lives, and then guides them through each step of the school search process. NSCAF
and NSCRC also oversee the Navigate School Choice and Conoce tus Opciones
Escolares charitable programs, which provide families with free resources to help them
succeed in their school choice journeys.
NSCAF is nonpolitical and does not advocate for or oppose legislation at any level of
government.
Over thirty governors issued proclamations celebrating National School Choice Week: https://schoolchoiceweek.com/proclamations/
The Weekly Sam: How to Use Education Reform Effectively as a Campaign Issue By Samuel L. Blumenfeld
All candidates for office promise to “improve education,” but when they are elected, they
haven’t the faintest idea of how to proceed from there. That’s because the whole idea of
education reform is based more on the deliberate falsehoods produced by the educators
than on the reality of why our schools are the way they are.
I have been writing critically about education for the last forty years. My books include
The New Illiterates, How to Tutor, Alpha-Phonics, NEA: Trojan Horse in American
Education, The Whole Language Fraud, Homeschooling: A Parents Guide to
Teaching Children, The Victims of Dick and Jane, and Revolution via Education.
In those books I showed that every problem we have in public education today has been
deliberately caused by the educators themselves, and that no true education reform is
possible as long as we rely on the educators to create and implement those reforms.
Here are the realities that you as a candidate or concerned citizen should be aware of:
1, The public schools were taken over in the early 20th century by a cabal of progressive
educators whose goal it was to use the schools as a means of turning children into little
socialists who would then bring about a socialist society. The plan for all of this was
outlined by John Dewey in an article entitled “The Primary-Education Fetich”
written in 1898 and published in Forum magazine, May 1898. In it, Dewey
advocated changing the way children were taught to read so that they could be
deliberately dumbed-down. High literacy was considered an obstacle to socialism
because it developed independent, individualistic intelligence not conducive to
collectivist group think.
2, The new “sight” or “look-say” method of teaching reading was put in the schools in
the 1930s, and by 1955 the reading situation had become so bad that Dr. Rudolf Flesch
was compelled to write Why Johnny Can’t Read. In it he explained, “The teaching of
reading–all over the United States, in all the schools, in all the textbooks–is totally
wrong and flies in the face of all logic and common sense.” And believe it or not, the
situation is as bad today as it was in 1955. In fact, in 2007 the National Endowment for
the Arts issued a report on America’s declining literacy, Reading at Risk. Endowment
Chairman Dana Gioia stated: “This is a massive social problem. We are losing the
majority of the new generation. They will not achieve anything close to their
potential because of poor reading.”
3.
In order to implement these new socialist programs in the schools, the Progressive
Cabal decided to take over the National Education Association and turn it into a powerful
political instrument in order to pressure the Federal Government to pour billions of
dollars into the public schools. Their success has been achieved. Back in 1967, the
NEA’s executive secretary proclaimed: “NEA will become a political power second to no
other special interest group….NEA will organize this profession from top to bottom into
logical operational units that can move swiftly and effectively and with power unmatched
by any other organized group in the nation.” In short, the NEA is a political
organization attached to the radical left-wing of the Democratic party.
4.
The Progressive program has been fully implemented in the public schools, paid for
by the taxpayer who is barely aware of what is going on. Thus American children are at
risk in four ways in the public schools: academically, spiritually, morally, and physically.
Academically because of the reading programs that create dyslexia and reading failure;
spiritually, because of the undermining of the children’s religious beliefs through the
philosophy of secular humanism; morally, because pornographic sex ed, drug ed, and
moral relativism; and physically, because of school shootings and massacres, violence,
and school-bus accidents.
5.
So what is a conservative candidate to do or say when it comes to education? He or
she must support the idea of educational freedom, the right of parents to home-school,
and the right of entrepreneurs and religious denominations to create good private schools.
A conservative can support the idea of the charter school, which in reality is a public
school, provided that the charter issuing board will approve of schools with traditional
teaching programs.
As for the public schools, the conservative candidate should advocate the complete
reform of the primary school curriculum so that it includes intensive, systematic phonics,
cursive writing instruction, and basic arithmetic. It is in the primary school where the
greatest damage is done to the children. Therefore a detailed plan to completely revamp
the primary school curriculum should be the basic educational reform offered by a
conservative candidate. Such advocacy would be an excellent way to gain the support of
parents in the community. It would be very difficult for your opponents to argue against
such reforms.
The above article came from the Blumenfeld Archive: http://blumenfeld.campconstitution.net/main.htm
The Blumenfeld Archives
Louisiana Appeals Ten Commandments Ruling to Full Fifth Circuit
(This is a news release from our friends at Liberty Counsel. Our case is mentioned in it.
Jan 20, 2026
In June 2024, Louisiana became the first state to require all its public school classrooms to display the Ten Commandments. Gov. Jeff Landry signed the law which directs all public classrooms from kindergarten to state-funded colleges and universities to post the Ten Commandments in “large, easily readable font” on a poster or framed document. The law states the purpose of these displays is to educate the public on “historically significant documents” that shaped both “American and Louisiana law.”
The outcome of Louisiana’s case will also affect a similar challenge to Texas’ 2025 Ten Commandments law, which is under the Fifth Circuit’s jurisdiction. In Rabbi Nathan v. Alamo Heights Independent School District, several Texas families successfully sued the state receiving a preliminary injunction blocking the Ten Commandments in Texas schools.
Recent Supreme Court precedents show that displaying the Ten Commandments is not necessarily a religious endorsement. In American Legion v. American Humanists Association, the High Court wrote that the Ten Commandments “have historical significance as one of the foundations of our legal system” and represents a “common cultural heritage.” Then, in 2022, the cases of Shurtleff v. City of Boston and Kennedy v. Bremerton School District rejected and overruled the 1971 case of Lemon v. Kurtzman. The High Court replaced the “Lemon Test” by returning to a traditional First Amendment standard where courts must interpret the Establishment Clause by “reference to historical practices and understandings.”
Throughout this case, Louisiana officials have defended the Ten Commandments law as constitutionally valid by arguing that it has a historical and educational purpose. They cite the Decalogue’s “historical role” in developing American law and education, which displayed alongside other historical documents, would be permissible under the First Amendment. Since HB 71 also required public school classrooms to display the Mayflower Compact, the Declaration of Independence, and the Northwest Ordinance, the state’s legal team has argued that the law’s intent is not to endorse a religion but to teach where America’s longstanding moral values in civic life originate.
Liberty Counsel’s Founder and Chairman Mat Staver said, “The Ten Commandments is a universally recognized symbol of law and has indelibly shaped the Western Legal Tradition and American government. There are more than 50 displays of the Ten Commandments inside and outside the United States Supreme Court. The Ten Commandments are ubiquitous and their central role in law and government pre-date the U.S. Constitution. Passive Ten Commandments displays do not compel religious exercise, so there is no Establishment Clause violation. The en banc Fifth Circuit has a chance to correct a terribly flawed ruling and restore the Ten Commandments to public school classrooms.”
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The transition to net-zero emissions is a tax on the air you breathe Nonscientists Al Gore, John Kerry, Barack Obama, and Bill Gates support taxing the gas of life – CO2
Ronald Stein, P.E., is an engineer, columnist on energy literacy at America Out Loud NEWS, and advisor on energy literacy for the Heartland Institute and CFACT, and co-author of the Pulitzer Prize-nominated book “Clean Energy Exploitations.” He is also the recipient of an unsolicited Tribute to Ronald Stein from Stephen Heins.
Willie Soon, PhD., an astrophysicist and geoscientist, is a leading authority on the relationship between solar phenomena and global climate. He has published extensively for nearly the past 4 decades on solar and stellar physics and Earth sciences as well as public health. Dr. Soon works are well recognized by world-class scientists like Kary Mullis (Nobel Laureate in Chemistry), John Clauser (Nobel Laureate in Physics), Freeman Dyson (Wrangler at Large), Eugene Parker (Father of Solar Wind) and many more.
Co-authored by Ronald Stein and Willie Soon
Al Gore, John Kerry, Barack Obama, and Bill Gates all have lifestyles with large personal mansions and travel by planes, cruise liners, and automobiles, that are all built with fossil fuels, the same fossil fuels they wish to rid the world of. And these “average D students”, according to Richard Lindzen of MIT, in science insisted to tax the air all life depends on. The great weather forecaster, Joe Bastardi, recently provided an estimate that some $10-12 trillion dollars had been wasted over the past 30 years because these pseudo-activists sold the world the idea of “fake energy” by wind turbines and solar panels.
- These green delusionists seem to be oblivious that wind turbines and solar panels may produce “zero” emission, but ONLY generate electricity. Those wind turbines and solar panels are incapable of making any of the products or transportation fuels demanded by the 8 billion now on this planet.
- These “green” mandators for transitioning from ICE vehicles to EV’s would only eliminate gasoline used in ICE vehicles, which is only 1 of the more than 6,000 products made from fossil fuels. The EV, like the ICE vehicle, continues to be 100% made from those oil products, inclusive of tires, computers, wiring and insulation, and all the electronics of those so-called “zero emissions” vehicle.
- These so-called “political leaders” CANNOT explain how wind turbines and solar panels can make any of the other 5,999 products that are now made from hydrocarbons that we see in operating hospitals, airports, offices, shopping centers, datacenters, etc. or how those renewables will support the 50,000 merchant ships, 300 cruise ships, 20,000 commercial aircraft, and 50,000 military aircraft on this planet that did not exist 200 years ago?
Sustainable development and green business based on renewable energy. Reduce CO2 emission concept. Renewable energy-based green businesses can limit climate change and global warming
CO2 is a gas of life that makes the world greener and the plants more water-wise. CO2 concentration levels:
- 8,000 ppm: Naval Submarines
- 5,000 ppm: Space Station
- 4,000 ppm: Abundant Life
- 1,600 ppm: Average
- 800 to 1,500 ppm: Greenhouses enrich the air to boost plant growth and yield by providing more carbon for photosynthesis.
- 425 ppm: TODAY, with nonscientists Al Gore, John Kerry, Barack Obama, and Bill Gates promoting LESS CO2.
- 200 ppm: Ice ages, which contributed to global cooling
- 140 ppm: Death, i.e. CO2 starvation levels when humans, animals, and plant life CANNOT survive.
Why on earth are those so-called political leaders promoting that the world moves toward starvation levels of CO2? Is it a way to generate tax on our air to lessen the US budget deficit?
- The current US budget deficit is more than $38.46 Trillion, but we’ll get back to that in a moment.
In the 1800’s (before oil) life expectancy was around 30 to 40 years of age, and the world population was about 1 billion.
As you know, no one uses that black tar commonly referred to crude oil until it is processed into oil derivatives that are the basis of more than 6,000 products and various transportation fuels today that did not exist in the 1800’s.
After oil, the world populated from 1 to more than 8 billion in less than 200 years, not from that useless black tar, but from the products we have today from PROCESSED crude oil.
We may not need those hydrocarbons, but we do need those 6,000 products and transportation fuels, that did not exist 200 years ago, that are MADE from hydrocarbons to support the 8 billion on this planet.
Today, we’re a materialistic society based on more than 6,000 products and transportation fuels based on hydrocarbons. We need the products not fossil fuels, BUT we have no back up plan to replace the hydrocarbons that are supporting the supply chain of all those products and transportation fuels that were the basis for the world population growing from 1 to 8 billion in less than 200 years.
We know that wind and solar can ONLY generate electricity, but wind and solar CANNOT make any of the 6,000 products and transportation fuels that are based on hydrocarbons. In the event COP30 get their wishes that we eliminate hydrocarbons BEFORE we have a replacement identified, the world’s population will most likely decline by billions of people as we would be unable to support the supply chain of products and transportation fuels demanded by those on this planet.
Getting back to the US budget deficit of $38.46 Trillion. It is heavily caused by Medicare and Social Security expenses for the growing numbers of older people that are here because of the products made from hydrocarbons that have contributed to an exceptional health care infrastructure that did not exist in the 1800’s that is contributing to today’s longer longevity.
Current CO2 levels of 425 ppm are well below what Navy personnel breath in submarines, and well below what our Astronauts beath on the Space Station, and well below what plants breath in greenhouses, yet Gore, Kerry, Obama, Gates, and California Governor Newsom, all want to over regulate the emissions from our use of hydrocarbons that are only being demanded by people’s addiction to the products made from hydrocarbons.
In 1800, when the atmospheric CO2 level was said to be about 270-280 ppm, it was considered the pre-industrial baseline before large-scale fossil fuel burning supported the world’s population growth from 1 to 8 billion in less than 200 years.
In the event these so-called “political leaders” get their wish by taxing our air and we rid the use of crude oil, it will most likely result in a depopulation of billions on this planet if we rid the use of crude oil before we can clone it to support the supply chain of products for humanity. And, like the 1800’s, when we had no products from hydrocarbons, nobody will live past 60 years of age, and thus the $38.46 Trillion deficit problem will be resolved with a drastic decrease in the numbers eligible for Medicare and Social Security as they die off, AND virtually nobody will live long enough to be added to Medicare and Social Security.
The transition to net-zero emissions is a tax on the air we breathe.
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When They Come for the Churches The storming of a Minnesota church is not politics. It is good versus evil. How long will Christians stay silent? by Alex Destino
Anti-ICE, Democrat Party foot soldiers are now storming Christian church services in Minnesota. That alone tells you exactly where this country is headed.
This is not protest. This is spiritual warfare. Good versus evil. When activists invade a House of God, frighten children, and intimidate worshipers in the middle of a church service, they are not acting on their own. This is organized. This is funded. This is protected.
And there is a reason for it.
The Democrat Party cannot win elections without importing millions of illegal aliens. Without that pipeline of future voters, their coalition collapses. So they will defend that system at any cost — even if that means trampling churches, terrorizing children, and intimidating pastors.
This is not random. These are foot soldiers for a political machine that depends on chaos and lawlessness to survive.
We have seen this pattern before.
After the Bolshevik Revolution in the early 1920s, communist mobs stormed churches across Russia, shut them down, assaulted priests, desecrated altars, and turned sanctuaries into prisons and propaganda halls. They understood that faith was their greatest enemy. Karl Marx taught that communism advances by tearing down religion, family, truth, and national identity. Destroy faith first, and everything else collapses after it.
Now look at Minnesota and tell me this is not the same pattern.
If you’ve followed anything I’ve written, you know I’ve said for a long time that this is spiritual warfare. This is no longer right versus left. It is good versus evil.
And if you think this cannot happen in your town, you are badly mistaken.
We saw a preview of it right here in Gloucester, Massachusetts.
During Gloucester’s 400th anniversary, I proposed that the city fly the Christian flag on Good Friday to recognize the contributions of the Christian community over four centuries — the faith that shaped not only America, but Gloucester itself. That was all it was meant to be: an acknowledgment of history and gratitude for the people who built this city.
The response exposed something far darker.
The attacks were immediate. The hatred was vicious. The tolerance vanished the moment Christianity appeared in public.
What most people never saw were the messages that came privately.
So many good people reached out to tell me they agreed, that they supported it, that they were grateful someone finally said it out loud. But they were afraid to say it publicly.
Afraid of whom?
Afraid of the same people who now storm churches.
Many of you saw what they tried to do to me. I’m not afraid. But you should ask yourself why so many decent people are.
Scripture is very clear about this. “For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and a sound mind.” And again, “Whoever acknowledges Me before men, I will also acknowledge before My Father in heaven.”
We are not called to hide our faith. We are called to be bold in it.
Christians need to wake up.
This is no longer about politics. This is about whether you will be allowed to worship freely in your own country without intimidation. Christians are not a minority in the United States. We are the majority. But a silent majority is a defeated majority.
If Christians stood up together, this madness would stop.
Protect your churches. Protect your pastors. Protect your families. If you don’t know what security your church has, ask your pastor. If there is none, demand it. This is not paranoia. This is prudence. And I can assure you of this: this nonsense would not happen at my church.
And understand this clearly: what happened in that church in Minnesota is not just immoral — it is illegal.
Federal law, the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, makes it a felony to use force, threats, or physical obstruction to intimidate people because they are exercising their religious freedom at a place of worship. The video is public. The conduct is obvious.
If the law means anything at all, those who entered that church to disrupt worship and terrorize worshipers should be in handcuffs today.
These are not normal times.
If you are not awake now, when will you be?
Stand up for your faith. Stand up for your churches. Stand up for your communities and your families. Because the people doing this do not want coexistence. They want submission. And history is very clear about what happens when good people stay silent for too long.
The Weekly Sam: Book Review of “Marva Collins’ Way” by Sam Blumenfeld
(This is a review from Sam’s June 1987 newsletter titled “Eugenics and the Making of a Black Underclass.”) http://blumenfeld.campconstitution.net/1987/BEL%2002-06%20198706.pdf
Marva Collins is the black educator who spent 16 years teaching in the Chicago public school system before deciding that she had had enough. “The longer I taught in the public school system, the more I came to think that schools were concerned with everything but teaching,” she says. In September 1975 Marva began a private school of her own with four students and one classroom.
Today, her Westside Preparatory School is considered the nation’s most successful private alternative in a black community. Its success has been widely acclaimed by the media but not by the public educators of Chicago who continue to do what they do best: miseducate. I have known Marva for many years through my association with the Reading Reform Foundation. She has been one of America’s strongest and most vocal advocates of intensive phonics in the teaching of reading. Because of this she is not very popular among reading professionals and specialists who use look-say basal programs.
Marva Collins’ Way is an important book for anyone who wants to understand what one woman is doing to pull black children out of the underclass. Mrs. Collins writes: “I prepared my children for Iife.” And I bluntly told them to face that fact that no one was going to hire them for a job if they walked into an office wearing picks in their hair, if they slinked into a room as though their hips were broken, or if the boys wore earrings or high-heeled shoes or wide-brimmed hats. I teach them to become universal citizens of the world. encourage people,
She writes “I did not teach black history as a subject apart from American history, emphasize black heroes over white, or preach black consciousness rather than a sense of the larger society. My refusal to do so was a sore spot between me and some members of the black community. “I’d say to my students, ‘Is there anyone in here who doesn’t know he’s black?’ And the children would shake their heads and laugh. Then I’d ask, ‘Is there any black child in here who plans on turning white?’ Again, there would be laughter. ‘In that case let’s get on with the business of learning,’ I’m opposed to teaching black English because it separates black children from the rest of society; it also implies they are too inferior to learn standard language usage.” I was convinced black English was another barrier confining my students to the ghetto, “Instead of teaching black pride I taught my children self-pride.
All I wanted was for them to accept themselves. I pointed out that in many ways the ghetto is a state of mind. If you have a positive attitude about yourself, then no one can put you down for who you are or where you live.” This book will also teach you more about education then you’ll ever learn in a teachers college. It goes against everything John Dewey, Cattell, Thorn dike, Gates, Judd, Gray, and the others stood for. It’s what every teacher and student teacher in America should read. But let’ s face it. How many teachers actually read any more books for pleasure?
(The book is available on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Marva-Collins-Way-P/dp/0874773105/ref=monarch_sidesheet_title#
And the movie:
The Wind Turbine Lie Comes Apart Gloucester’s wind turbines never produced what politicians promised. Not even close.
News out of Gloucester is that the city’s remaining wind turbines are being “retired.” Finally—thank God. I stood with many others who fought bringing these turbines to Gloucester, and we were right. From the beginning, we warned they would not produce the energy politicians promised. The projections were inflated, the assumptions were fantasy, and the output never came close to what the public was sold. Because the energy never materialized, the savings never did either. We warned that maintenance costs would overwhelm any benefit—and they did. Ask yourself a simple question: have your energy bills gone down since those turbines went up? Of course not. They’ve gone up—dramatically. Nationwide, onshore wind turbines average about a 30% capacity factor—meaning they produce less than one-third of their advertised maximum output. Yet communities are sold these projects as if the power is steady, reliable, and capable of justifying the cost. It never was. We also warned that these massive industrial towers didn’t belong in a beautiful, historic waterfront city. They scarred Gloucester’s skyline. We warned they would leak oil. We warned they would fail mechanically. That’s exactly what happened. And none of this was hard to predict. These failures had already happened all over the country. But facts, data, and results mean nothing to left-wing politicians. They convince themselves they’re “saving the planet,” even as they actively degrade the community they claim to care about. Just look at Good Harbor Beach. A third of one of the most beautiful beaches in New England has been fenced off in the name of plover protection. Three years ago, residents were told this operation saved three eggs. Three. Since then, more of the beach has been taken—and officials refuse to share any updated data with the public. Instead, we get enforcement. Self-appointed monitors patrol the beach covered head to toe in full sun-protection gear, binoculars in hand, standing guard like it’s a military exclusion zone. The Karens lead the charge, scanning the sand for violations, with their low-T beta-male husbands tagging along to make sure no one dares step into the plover-protected zone. This is what passes for environmental policy in Gloucester now. Complete nonsense. Same mindset. Same playbook. Ideology first—consequences last. Then reality intervened in the most dramatic way possible: one turbine lost a massive blade. By sheer luck, no one was killed. Nearby residents lived with relentless noise and disruption while politicians kept calling this disaster “progress.” And Gloucester isn’t unique. Look at Cape Wind—years of hype, millions wasted, nothing to show for it. Across the country, wind projects are being retired early because the math never worked and the risks were always downplayed. Wind isn’t the answer to our energy needs. It’s a boondoggle that enriches manufacturers, developers, and green consultants while communities absorb the cost, the damage, and the danger. These turbines may now be “retired”—let’s hope they’re taken down as soon as possible. Until ideology stops outweighing results at the ballot box, Gloucester should expect more failures like this—just wrapped in new slogans and sold by the same people. |
Hey Somalia, Can I Come to Your Country and Start a Christian Church? We Called Their Embassy to Find Out
I recently called the Somalian Embassy to ask if I can visit the country and start a Christian Church. Prior to the call, I read a report about how Christians under Sharia Law are viciously persecuted in Somalia.
See The People That Liberal White Women and Feminized Beta Males Are Risking Their Lives For by Alex Destino
The Democratic Party has somehow persuaded its base—mostly white, middle-aged women and feminized beta males— and turn them into foot soldiers to act directly against their own self-interest: abandoning their jobs (if they have them) families, embracing personal risk, and confronting law enforcement on behalf of criminals who illegally invaded our country and stole Americans’ hard-earned money.
Many of these criminals are now loose on the streets, including child rapists and violent offenders. That’s who they’re trying to protect from law enforcement.
I don’t know what kind of voodoo the Democrat propaganda machine uses, but convincing people to do this is truly remarkable.
Below is a list of the criminals arrested during this ICE surge in Minnesota. Look at the horrific crimes (in the comments below ). A week ago, these demons were walking the streets, and these are the people the Democrat Party is protecting.
ICE has provided a list of the most egregious criminal aliens they’ve arrested during their surge in the sanctuary state of Minnesota, & it’s the most disturbing list I’ve ever seen, including numerous convicted child rapists/sodomizers & ten convicted killers, most with deportation orders going back many years. Several from Laos, Somalia, and Sudan.
WARNING GRAPHIC – Highlights below:
Sriudorn Phaivan, a Laotian illegal alien convicted of strong-arm sodomy of a boy & strong-arm sodomy of a girl with a deportation order since 2018.
Tou Vang, a Laotian illegal alien convicted of sexual assault and sodomy of a girl under age 13 and procuring a child for prostitution with a deportation order since 2006.
Chong Vue, a Laotian illegal alien convicted of the strong-arm rape of a 12-year-old girl and kidnapping a child with intent to sexually assault her, with a deportation order since 2004,
Ge Yang, a Laotian illegal alien convicted of strong-arm rape, aggravated assault with a weapon, and strangulation with a deportation order since 2012.
Pao Choua Xiong, a Laotian illegal alien convicted of rape and child fondling with a deportation order since 2003.
Kou Lor, a Laotian illegal alien convicted of rape, rape with a weapon, and sexual assault with a deportation order since 1996.
Hernan Cortes-Valencia, Mexican illegal alien convicted of sexual assault of a child and DUI with a deportation order since 2016.
Abdirashid Adosh Elmi, a Somalian illegal alien convicted of homicide.
Gilberto Salguero Landaverde, a Salvadoran illegal alien convicted of three counts of homicide with a deportation order since June 2025.
Gabriel Figueroa Gama, a Mexican illegal convicted of homicide who has been previously deported in 2002.
Galuak Michael Rotgai, a Sudanese illegal alien convicted of homicide.
Thai Lor, a Laotian illegal alien convicted of two counts of homicide with a deportation order since 2009.
Mariana Sia Kanu, an illegal alien from Sierra Leone convicted of two counts of homicide with a deportation order since 2022.
Aldrin Guerrero Munoz, a Mexican illegal alien convicted of homicide with a deportation order since 2015.
Abdirashid Mohamed Ahmed, a Somalian illegal alien convicted of manslaughter with a deportation order since 2022.
Mongong Dual Maniang Deng, a Sudanese illegal alien convicted of attempt to commit homicide, weapon possession, and DUI.
Aler Gomez Lucas, a Guatemalan illegal alien convicted of negligent homicide with a vehicle and DUI with a deportation order since 2022.
Shwe Htoo, a Burmese illegal alien convicted of negligent homicide.
ICE says all of these criminal aliens were roaming freely in the sanctuary state of Minnesota prior to arrest, and that these are the type of people that politicians and activists are referring to as their “neighbors” as they attempt to interfere with ICE.
Camp Constitution 2025 Annual Report
Our Annual Family Camp
While our numbers were down from last year’s camp, we still had an excellent turnout with attendees coming as far as Alaska, Wyoming and Utah.
Returning instructors included Professor Willie Soon, one of the world’s top atmospheric scientists, who attended with his family, Pastor David Whitney of the Institute on the Constitution, Rev. Steve Craft who serves at the camp chaplain, Mrs. Catherine White of the Constitution Decoded, Dr. Felecia Nace, author of several books, and author and host of the Liberty Sentinel program, Alex Newman. Guest instructors included Michelle Gallagher, author of A Guide to the Forefather’s Monument, Mr. Kurt Hyde, an expert of election fraud, and Mr. Chris Burke who taught an optional class on the use of HAM Radios. A link to our YouTube playlist of classes and activities at our camp:
https://studio.youtube.com/playlist/PL7jnzBzBiNYDeD_94loNG8mUcUMFM2m2N/videos
Camp Constitution Ladies Annual Spring Fling
We had our largest turnout for the Ladies “Spring Fling held for the 2nd year at the Alton Bay Christian Conference Center in early May. Our guest speakers were Karen Testerman, author and gubernatorial candidate, and Sue Ianni, a January Sixer. The ladies also took a field trip to the Belknap County Sportsmen’s Club to do some marksmanship training.
Camp Constitution in the News
Our “Shurtleff v Boston” case was cited in the the 3-0 decision of the First District Federal Court in its Scaur v Nashua https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca1/25-1356/25-1356-2025-12-22.html announced a few days before Our case was mentioned during “Pride Month” when towns and cities refuse to fly rainbow flags. And .our case was cited in a decision by the University of Massachusetts Amherst when the “Pride” flag was removed from a building, and in February our case was mentioned in a controversy at the Marblehead, MA High School.
The publisher of the Rochester Voice, an on-line news for Greater Rochester, NH, gave us a monthly column. -the Camp Constitution Report. Our monthly article now runs in four media outlets “The Boston Broadside” ‘The Weirs Times.” “The Granite Grok” and “The Rochester Voice.”
Camp Constitution on the Air
In December, The Tamara Scott Show interviewed us on the subject of Bill of Rights Day. Tamara also had on for President’s Day. In September, we were interviewed by Landry Crawford, a 16 year-old homeschooler who hosts HisStory podcast. We were also return guests on the Duke Pesta Show, The Sentinel Report hosted by Alex Newman, and The Chuck Moscowitz Show. And first time New Hampshire Gospel Radio, and by Shawn Crenshaw, the host of the Biblical Conservative Show on the subject of Planned Parenthood.
The Camp Constitution Report
In late August we received this E-mail regarding our podcast:
“My name is Anuj Agarwal, I’m the Founder of FeedSpot.
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As a result, we have received some interesting requests for interviews.
We did 25 shows including interviews the Write Side Blonde, Pastor Max Lyons of The Biblical Thinker, Alex Kocman of Baptists for World Evangelism, Pastor Jackson Lahmeyer of the White House Faith Initiative, Adam Swart, founder of Crowds on Demand Jody Underwood of New Hampshire Educational Options, Karen Siegmund, President of the American Freedom Alliance, Woodrow Johnson, CEO of Revere Solutions, Michelle Gallagher, author of The Forefathers Monument Guidebook, Elena Barbera, producer and director of the documentary “American Groomer.
This show airs on our YouTube Channel, Rumble, Podomatic, Spotify, and about five other podcast formats: https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/shurtleffhal/episodes/2025-05-22T05_29_44-07_00
Working with with the Matric Coalition, a New Hampshire based entity whose mission is to donate poster of the Forefathers Monument, and copies of The Forefathers Monument Guidebook to local schools. We donated several copies of the book and framed copies of the poster to Manchester Public Schools. We donated hundreds of pocket copies of the U.S. Constitution to the Winnipesaukee Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, numerous libraries Cornerstone Christian School in Ossipee, NH, and two Trail Life Troops in MA and NH.
We have donated individual copies as well as cases of Alpha-Phonics to homeschool parents and several homeschool organizations and several Christian schools.
In October, we hosted a field trip to the Forefathers Monument in Plymouth where we had a guided tour of the monument by our friend Leo Martin of the Jenney Museum. In December, we hosted Leo and his wife Nancy at our annual “Reason for the Season” potluck.
We had floats in the Alton, NH Old Home Day Parade where we distributed 400 pocket copies of the U.S. Constitution, and a float in Lexington. MA’s 250 Anniversary Celebration of the Battle of Lexington. The evening before the Lexington Parade, we hosted our 3rd Annual Patriot’s Day Overnight at the Lane House where we took in the reenactments of the Midnight Ride of Paul Revere and the Battle of Lexington. We had information tables at six New Hampshire Education Options expositions.
The Freedom Project Academy led by our friend Dr. Duke Pesta sponsored an essay contest for his students and offered three families free tuition at Camp Constitution’s annual family camp. We had the opportunity to conduct an on-line class for a group of students both national and international. The topic was the U.S. Constitution. We did a video for the Potomac Tea Party that was aired on Independence Day.
For the 17th year in a row, (with the exception of the Covid lockdown) we had info tables at the Mass HOPE homeschool convention, Homeschoolers of Maine, and the Crown of Maine’s Balloon Festival in Presque Isle. For the 2nd year in a row, we had an info table at the Londonderry, NH’s Old Home Day, and we co-sponsored Patriot Camp- a day camp program in Rockport, Maine hosted by Camp Constitution instructors Jessica Whitworth and Victoria Buckland.
(Lexington Parade Float) (Patriot Camp Rockland, ME)
Camp Constitution Media
We videotaped numerous presentations including “The Pilgrim Story” by Leo and Nancy Martin, A Tour of the Forefathers Monument by Leo Martin, the Sixth Annual Christian Education Initiative held in Lynchburg, VA in September, events at the last day of Patriot Camp held in Rockport, Maine, the classes and activities at our family camp, the Memorial Day Parade in Alton, NH sponsored by the American Legion and a presentation .by Dr. Chris Gnanakan of Liberty University.
YouTube, and Rumble
We got 455 new subscribers for the 2025 giving us close to `17,270 subscribers overall. We received 126,000 views this year, and 2,134,000 lifetime views. We uploaded 177 videos and now have a total of 1,800 videos on our channel.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN7ME18Q1xiqcrPEn5h5FbA
Our Rumble channel received 6,155 views giving us 172,000 all time views. . We have uploaded some documentaries including “Operation Keelhaul” and “MAAFA 21 Black Genocide in the 2oth Century” as well as some classic anti-communists movies.
https://rumble.com/account/content?type=all
Camp Constitution Report on Podomatic and Other Platforms
We have received 342 plays and 2,512 downloads of our shows. And since we created the account, we are in the top ten for the category of conservative-right. In addition to our weekly show, we have uploaded some classic interviews and speeches by Dan Smoot, Gary Allen, and E. Merrill Root. A link to our show: https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/shurtleffhal
Camp Constitution Press
We reprinted in an 81/2” x 11” format, the free market classic “Frogs and Freedom” and produced T-Shirts with a quote from Pastor Voddie Baucham.
A link to purchase copies of these: https://campconstitution.net/product/frogs-and-freedom-free-market-classic/
Speakers Bureau
In September, we spoke at the Goffstown, NH Homeschool cooperative. We spoke at the August meeting of the Faith and Freedom Coalition’s Massachusetts chapter. Also in August, we did three presentations in Aroostook County, Maine titled “Borders and Banners: The Biblical View.” We gave a presentation at the Homeschoolers of Maine’s annual convention in May. We were the keynote speaker at the Berkshire (MA) Republic Committee’s annual Lincoln-Reagan where we gave a presentation on our Christian flag lawsuit to a very receptive group. Rev. Steve Craft was a speaker at an event sponsored by the Massachusetts Republican Assembly in late March.
Website
We have received 23.4 thousand views with 13.7 thousand visitors. Twenty percent of our views come from foreign nations We published 190 articles on our blog. https://www.campconstitution.net
Sam Blumenfeld Archives
We received 932,974 hits. 1791 downloads of the “Alpha-Phonics” workbooks, 1014 downloads of the “How to Tutor” books, and 1,248 “Alpha-Phonics manuals, 3,772 downloads of Sam’s ‘How to Marry a Rockefeller.”
A link to the archives: http://blumenfeld.campconstitution.net/main.htm
The Blumenfeld Archives
Facebook Page
We have close to 3.6 thousand likes and over 3,600 following our page. We also manage six other groups and one other page-all of them growing in members
Stopping An Article V Convention
We helped defeat an Article V Convention resolution and a “faithful delegate bill in New Hampshire.” We are part of a nationwide movement to protect the Constitution from an Article V Convention. Thousands have read our articles, blogs and videos on the subject as well as downloading our on-line resources.
Massachusetts recently rescinded all of its applications for an Article V convention. While we were not directly involved in this effort, we think that our years of educating state elected officials on this issue played a role in this success.
Looking into 2026
We have a media event in Lynchburg, VA with author Vince Ellison on January 10. A field trip to the 250th celebration of the Henry Knox Trail on January 17. Several New Hampshire Education Option fairs, at least two homeschool shows. We are gearing up for our Ladies “Spring Fling” in May, our 18th annual family camp and celebrating our nation’s 250th Birthday.
How You Can Help
Make a monthly donation or a one-time donation. Donations may be made via our PayPal account accessed from our website’s homepage https://www.campconstitution.net Donations can be earmarked to help pay camp fees for worthy youngsters and families.
If you own a business or are involved with a non-profit, consider a sponsorship for a minimum of $100. A year.
And please keep Camp Constitution in your prayers.
Thank you for helping to make Camp Constitution possible.
Blessings.
Hal Shurtleff, Director
Camp Constitution
Alton, NH