The Alamo, Remember?
What to know: As predicted, the revisionists have come for Texas history. Time magazine has a new piece titled, “We’ve Been Telling the Alamo Story Wrong for Nearly 200 Years. Now It’s Time to Correct the Record.” It’s as bad as it sounds.
The TPPF take: Revisionist history is precisely why TPPF launched our “Forging Texas” film series—to tell the real story of the founding of Texas.
“The story of the Texas Revolution is the story of ourselves—who we are, how we came to be, and what it means to truly be Texan,” says TPPF’s Kevin Roberts. “Texas is the extension of America’s founding, based on the principles of ordered liberty, self-government, and equality. Texas’ story is a reflection of our national identity and we continue to fight for the same ideals.”
For more on “Forging Texas,” click here.
Short Answer: Yes
What to know: Even the liberal Vox.com, seeing the successful reopening of Texas without a new surge of COVID-19 deaths, is asking of the lockdown measures imposed by other states, “Was it all for nothing?”
The TPPF take: For many Americans, the lockdowns were worse than the disease. They were particularly hard on children.
“Kids have been subjected to stifling lockdowns even though there has been overwhelming evidence that children are at low to no risk of experiencing severe symptoms or transmitting COVID-19,” says TPPF’s Vance Ginn. “The pandemic did not do this to our children. Government-imposed lockdowns did.”
For more on the lockdowns, click here.
Woke Investing
What to know: ESG—Environmental, Social and Governance—investing is all rage among some of the nation’s biggest investment managers.
The TPPF take: The ESG movement will hurt American companies—and everyday Americans—in the long run.
“The ESG movement wrongly bullies corporations into ignoring their duty to provide profitability for shareholders, in order to appease a vocal minority of progressive activists,” says TPPF’s Jason Isaac. “And some major firms are capitulating. Efforts to divest from fossil fuels would yield no significant environmental benefits but come with an extreme economic cost.”
For more on the ESG movement, click here.