This week, Debi and Sam are joined by Kris Hutson, superintendent of Dream City Christian Schools.

Kris, Debi and Sam discuss the importance of Christian education.

Children spend roughly 16,000 hours of their lives in school from kindergarten through high school. Are those hours being used to disciple or indoctrinate children? As culture grows increasingly hostile to a biblical worldview, Christian influences become more important.

Kris, Debi and Sam also discuss school choice laws in Arizona and how they can help parents make the best educational decisions for their children. They explain ESAs and STOs, how they can help make Christian education affordable for families and how taxpayers, both individuals and businesses can get a dollar for dollar tax credit for STO donations to help other families.

To learn more about Dream City Christian Schools visit hhttps://dreamcityschools.org/

To learn about STOs for Christian Schools visit https://acsto.org/

Kris Hutson's book recommendations: "Raising Spiritual Champions" by George Barna, "Indoctrinating our Children to Death" by Alex Newman, and "Battle for the American Mind" by Pete Hegseth

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This week, Debi and Sam host a solo episode to provide a crash course of federal, state and local government.

The national political landscape takes most of the public focus but we can have the most impact at the local and state level.

Debi and Sam explain the basics of what each level of government is responsible for managing, how the Founders intended for that separation to work, and how those lines have become murkier over time.

They also go over some real life examples of how federal and local entities' powers overlap and affect our day to day lives. A breakdown of Federal and State powers https://govfacts.org/explainer/understanding-federalism-vs-states-rights-a-citizens-guide-to-power-in-the-u-s/

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This week, Debi and Sam are joined by Mayra Rodriguez. Mayra is a former Planned Parenthood trainer and clinic director who is now a national pro-life activist.

Mayra, Debi and Sam discuss taxpayer funding and Planned Parenthood. Last year, Planned Parenthood received almost 800 million dollars in taxpayer funding, almost 2 million dollars per day. They discuss why executive orders cannot fully defund Planned Parenthood and other abortion mills.

Mayra, Debi and Sam discuss Title X and Medicaid and the ways in which Planned Parenthood abuses the system, takes money from other federally qualified health centers that provide a wider range of services, and often double and triple count services to gain access to more funding. They also discuss why this practice means that their reported percentages of services are not accurate. For example, they dishonestly claim that abortion only makes up 3% of their services.

There is a current Supreme Court case, Medina v Planned Parenthood South Atlantic, related to state's rights to defund Planned Parenthood through Medicaid and the "Big Beautiful Bill" passed the US House containing language to defund Planned Parenthood, also through Medicaid. This episode explains why this type of defunding is critical.

To learn more about Mayra visit https://mayrarodriguez.org/en_us/

To learn about Planned Parenthood's most recent reported numbers visit https://lozierinstitute.org/fact-sheet-planned-parenthoods-2023-24-annual-report/

Planned Parenthood and Medicaid fraud https://adflegal.org/press-release/false-claims-and-fraud-lawsuit-exposes-planned-parenthood-deception/

South Carolina Supreme Court case https://adflegal.org/article/deceiving-women-is-what-their-business-is-all-about-former-planned-parenthood-director/

https://adflegal.org/case/medina-v-planned-parenthood-south-atlantic/

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