We’re Not Ashamed to Love America
What to know: Time magazine seems uncomfortable with the Fourth of July celebrations and the larger observance of America’s 250th birthday. It warns that “America’s 250th should not become an active celebration of people who enslaved other human beings.”
The TPPF take: Hating on America is quite fashionable these days—but it’s still wrong.
“As we mark 250 years, the antidote remains unchanged: restore serious, required study of the Declaration and Constitution at every level of education,” says TPPF’s Tom Lindsay. “In doing so, we would rediscover why the Declaration has inspired reform movements worldwide—from abolition to civil rights. We would reaffirm why the nation it helped found remains worth defending and improving—not by erasing its principles amid culture wars, but by laboring to approximate them more closely.”
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Ties to Texas
The TPPF take: Malik’s organization, the banned Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front, is still operating—from Texas.
“Across the state, a collection of terror networks and their Islamist partners are using US politicians, institutions and nonprofit infrastructure to advance violent, radical ambitions,” says TPPF’s Sam Westrop. “With political attention over-focused on Islamist movements from the Middle East, these South Asian Islamist networks have, until now, operated freely amid a dearth of scrutiny.”
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A Pause for Fairness
What to know: President Donald Trump has paused the U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade talks—a move that Congressman Adrian Smith, R-Nebraska, says will strengthen America’s position.
The TPPF take: For too long, the USMCA has been treated as though trade exists separately from the broader U.S.-Mexico relationship.
“For years, we have argued that trade policy and security policy cannot operate in separate lanes,” says TPPF’s Joshua Treviño. “Access to the American economy is a privilege. That privilege should be conditioned on measurable progress in confronting foreign terrorist networks and other transnational security threats that undermine both our nations. An annual review process would provide an opportunity to evaluate whether that progress is being made. By pausing renewal, the administration has bought itself real leverage — and it’s time to use it.”
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