Voters in Conway, Roland, and the Highway 10 corridor west of Little Rock are being offered a choice between an increasingly conservative Republican and a liberal ‘Republican.’ In the last session, Senator Mark Johnson moved considerably to the right, voting correctly on all medical freedom bills except one he missed due to the dedication of the new Petit Jean State Park Visitor Center. His opponent, Representative Spencer Hawks, voted with the democrats against the SAFE Act, which prevents the state from paying for chemical castration of children. After Asa vetoed the bill, Hawks STILL voted with the democrats against the override. He also failed to vote to override Asa’s veto of SB301, returning the unconstitutional Covid fines to small businesses. These are just a couple of examples of how out of touch Spencer Hawks is with conservative Arkansas voters. If you are in District 17, do yourself a favor, and vote for the steady, conservative leadership of Senator Mark Johnson, who receives the formal endorsement of Reopen Arkansas.
Johnson policy positions important to Reopen Arkansas:
At least 58% of U.S. population has natural antibodies from previous Covid infection, CDC says
QUOTE:Three out of every 5 people in the U.S. now have antibodies from a previous Covid-19 infection with the proportion even higher among children, demonstrating how widespread the virus was during the winter omicron surge, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The proportion of people with natural Covid antibodies increased substantially from about 34% of the population in December to about 58% in February during the unprecedent wave of infection driven by the highly contagious omicron variant. The CDC’s analysis didn’t factor in people who had antibodies from vaccination.
The CDC published the data in its Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report on Tuesday.
The increase in antibody prevalence was most pronounced among children, indicating a high rate of infection among kids during the winter omicron wave. About 75% of children and teenagers now have antibodies from past Covid infections, up from about 45% in December.
2.) Events today:
(Scroll down for full list through the weekend.)
3.) Liberal Democrat-Gazette columnist calls Sarah Huckabee Sanders a TINO (Trumper in Name Only); correctly proclaims that Doc Washburn is the conservative candidate who agrees with Trump
Planned Parenthood, Other Pro-Abortion Groups To Spend $150 Million On Midterms
QUOTE:Planned Parenthood Action Fund and other major pro-abortion groups are investing $150 million toward the 2022 midterm elections nationwide.
Planned Parenthood Action Fund, along with NARAL Pro-Choice America and EMILY’s List, are targeting the political funding into paid ads and other initiatives across nine states, including Georgia, Nevada, Arizona, Michigan, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, California, Kansas, and Wisconsin.
Six of the nine states include competitive Senate races, according to Politico.
Alexis McGill Johnson, president of Planned Parenthood Action Fund, claimed the plan serves as “a warning” to pro-life candidates.
“Let this be a warning to the out-of-touch politicians standing in the way of our reproductive freedom: People are watching. People are furious. And this November, the people will vote you out,” Johnson said in a statement shared with Politico.
2.) Every step you take…… Newly released documents showed the CDC bought location data to monitor millions of phones using Covid-CCP as their excuse.
CDC Tracked Millions of Phones to See If Americans Followed COVID Lockdown Orders
QUOTE:The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) bought access to location data harvested from tens of millions of phones in the United States to perform analysis of compliance with curfews, track patterns of people visiting K-12 schools, and specifically monitor the effectiveness of policy in the Navajo Nation, according to CDC documents obtained by Motherboard. The documents also show that although the CDC used COVID-19 as a reason to buy access to the data more quickly, it intended to use it for more general CDC purposes.
Location data is information on a device’s location sourced from the phone, which can then show where a person lives, works, and where they went. The sort of data the CDC bought was aggregated—meaning it was designed to follow trends that emerge from the movements of groups of people—but researchers have repeatedly raised concerns with how location data can be deanonymized and used to track specific people.
The documents reveal the expansive plan the CDC had last year to use location data from a highly controversial data broker. SafeGraph, the company the CDC paid $420,000 for access to one year of data to, includes Peter Thiel and the former head of Saudi intelligence among its investors. Google banned the company from the Play Store in June.
2.) Studies prove that most politicians and experts handled COVID terribly
QUOTE:During the 2020 election, multiple public health “experts” claimed President Trump had “blood on his hands” and was responsible for “preventable” loss of life. They expressed confidence that things would improve with a Biden administration, “which is likely to bring a science-based approach to containing the virus.” An editorial in the highly regarded and allegedly apolitical New England Journal of Medicine, wrote that “inappropriate government policies” were responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands, labeled the Trump administration as “dangerously incompetent” and directed its readers (without mentioning his name) to vote for Biden who would set things right. Things didn’t work out that way.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has just released data showing that 60,000 more Americans died in 2021 from COVID-19 than in 2020. The rate of COVID-19 associated deaths in 2021 rose 20% from 2020, despite the benefit of vaccines that only became widely available in 2021, multiple new therapies, more clinical experience resulting in improved treatment protocols, and a nationwide travel mask mandate imposed immediately after Biden’s inauguration at the beginning of 2021.
The data highlight the failure of policies promoted by experts, in and outside of government, to effectively address COVID. Many of the policies lacked an evidentiary basis. Some ineffective, harmful policies were prolonged for political reasons. We now know that, throughout 2021, the pandemic was mishandled.
The verdict is in: The experts were too cautious in ways that hurt schoolchildren, the economy and the general population without improving health outcomes. They imposed ineffective policies on everyone instead of protecting older Americans and those with co-morbidities who represent the vast majority of COVID deaths.
Candidate Joe Biden opined, “Anyone who is responsible for that many [Covid-19] deaths should not remain as President of the United States of America.” It will be interesting to see what President Biden says now.
Republican voters in Northwest Arkansas’ District 32, including Rogers and Lowell, could have no better choice for State Senator than Joshua Bryant. A long-term member of Reopen Arkansas, Josh holds one of the most conservative voting records in the House. He supports complete medical freedom with liability imposed on any entity or employer that tries to enforce a mandate. Last year, he not only supported, but sponsored and / or helped author the medical freedom bills we supported. Bryant fights for true school choice where the money follows the student, complete abolition of abortion, and state sovereignty. In the senate, Bryant will champion other conservatives to remain conservative under pressure. We are confident that he will quickly become a leader of the new conservative movement underway in the state senate. For these reasons, Reopen Arkansas fully supports and enthusiastically endorses Joshua Bryant for State Senate District 32.
Bryant policy positions important to Reopen Arkansas:
Late Friday, Defending the Republic filed its supplemental briefing in Bongiovanni v. Austin….
… pushing back against the efforts by the Biden Department of Defense to deprive a group of military service members the opportunity the challenge the unlawful COVID-19 vaccine mandate.
These service members, who filed their lawsuit collectively, are fighting the DOD vaccine mandate on the grounds that it is unlawful in its implementation (as it mandates vaccines that are not FDA approved) and that it violates their religious freedoms guaranteed under the First Amendment and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
The government seeks to sever their claims so that they have to pursue them individually. In effect, this would cause delays in the litigation and allow the Biden Administration to continue their plan to remove these military service members from the military.
As we informed the court: the Biden Administration is pursuing a battle of attrition, as opposed to resolution of this case on the merits, because they think “that is a battle they can win with their effectively unlimited resources and manpower.”
What the government’s unlimited resources can’t buy, however, is what Defending the Republic has earned: the support of the people. They can try to delay the inevitable, but there’s no doubt Defending the Republic will be victorious in exposing how the Biden Administration is violating the civil liberties of the patriots who defend this country.
