Election Integrity
What to know: Suspecting election fraud, the Department of Justice has demanded voting records dating back to 2024.
The TPPF take: Minnesota’s election system is broken.
“Recent reporting has brought renewed attention to just how permissive Minnesota’s election framework has become,” says TPPF’s Josh Findlay. “The state allows voters to ‘vouch’ for up to eight other individuals at the polls — a practice that requires no voter identification and relies entirely on personal attestation. In isolation, that policy would raise red flags. In combination with broader governance failures and ongoing fraud investigations, it becomes a serious liability.”
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Silence in the Library
What to know: The American Library Association is sounding the alarm (again) on so-called “banned books” and the freedom to read.
The TPPF take: The ALA is committed to ensuring that children have access to pornography.
“The ALA has been at the forefront of the fight to ensure that obscenity remains in Texas libraries,” says TPPF’s Matthew McCormick. “Texas is at the top of an ALA list meant to denigrate states that allow for obscene books to be considered for removal, with the ALA framing the removals as motivated by racial or homophobic bigotry. The ALA has never met a book it could not defend being made available to children.”
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A.I.
What to know: AI is “rewiring” children’s brains, researchers say.
The TPPF take: We can’t leave kids alone with AI.
“We should not be surprised that children are drawn to these systems. AI chatbots are patient, responsive, and seemingly understanding,” says TPPF’s Hannah Bruck. “But what happens when children turn to artificial intelligence instead of parents for guidance, validation, or comfort? A child can express their anger or resentment toward parents to a chatbot and receive sympathy without context, limits, or moral grounding. Unlike a parent, an AI chatbot does not help a child work through conflict in a healthy way. It simply responds.”
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