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It is apparent HB 441 is born out of frustration with what often seems to be any combination of arbitrary, unfair, and nonsensical removals of speech and user accounts from the largest social media platforms.

Under HB 322, should a teacher or school district wish to inform her students of this history, she is forbidden to teach it or refer to is as deliberate, systemic racism.

Sub. SB 135 regards state institutions of higher education and free speech.

SB 181 permits public and private colleges and universities and “employers” to establish workforce-education partnership programs, and requires the Chancellor of Higher Education to create a template for colleges and universities and employers to use to establish such programs.

In 2021, it’s 1894 all over again.

HB 22 is a bill which criminalizes protest.

Since 9/11, Muslims have been subjected to unlawful state surveillance, profiling, and deportation for imagined threats to the United States. This treatment has permanent consequences for individuals and their families and is a stain on our collective conscience. In his first days in office, President Donald Trump acted on his campaign promise of “a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States” by implementing anti-immigrant executive orders. By January 27, 2017, three Executive Orders were signed by the president concerning immigration. The “Muslim Ban” restricted immigration from Iraq, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia, and Yemen for 90 days, suspended all refugee entry for 120 days, and suspended Syrian refugee entry indefinitely. On television, the president said he would favor Christian refugees. This violates the First Amendment, which mandates that no religion shall receive preferential treatment, and the Fourteenth Amendment, which guarantees equal protection under the law.