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Mike Hixenbaugh (@mikehixenbaugh.com)

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First Focus Campaign for Children @campaign4kids.bsky.social · 21d

This piece by @mikehixenbaugh.com highlights two critically important issues facing children:

1) the threat people like Robert Morris pose to public education
2) the cover-up of sexual and physical child abuse that institutions in our country repeatedly engage in

This must be stopped. ✋

Got to see where the filmed “Killers of the Flower Moon” and write this update on a story I started covering a little over a year to go.…

How the Supreme Court’s Shadow Docket Fuels Presidential Power and a Government Shutdown

First Focus Campaign for Children @campaign4kids.bsky.social · 29d

How the Supreme Court’s Shadow Docket Fuels Presidential Power and a Government Shutdown brucelesley.substack.com/p/how-the-su...

Washington is back at the brink.

brucelesley.substack.com

First Focus Campaign for Children @campaign4kids.bsky.social · Sep 26

A good news update: Sinclair has now agreed to restore @jimmykimmel.com @jimmykimmellive.bsky.social to the airways with its local affiliates. A step forward for #FreedomOfSpeech and, as I wrote, for…

First Focus on Children (@firstfocus.bsky.social)

First Focus Campaign for Children @campaign4kids.bsky.social · Sep 26

Urging you to follow and subscribe to our President @BruceLesley’s Kids Can’t Wait blog on Substack. He provides the “child and family” perspective on policy issues before Congress and in the news.…

First Focus Campaign for Children @campaign4kids.bsky.social · Sep 25

Millions of Children Left Behind: The Truth About the Latest Child Tax Credit…

Beth Bourne, who has in the past come under fire for over-the-top anti-LGBTQ+ stunts, removed her pants and top at a Davis school board meeting.

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First Focus Campaign for Children @campaign4kids.bsky.social · Sep 22

Moms For Liberty Chapter Chairperson Takes Off Clothing At School Board Meeting

Silencing Kimmel Hurts Kids, Too

First Focus Campaign for Children @campaign4kids.bsky.social · Sep 21

Silencing Kimmel Hurts Kids, Too open.substack.com/pub/bruceles...

@jimmykimmellive.bsky.social @jimmykimmel.com

Jimmy Kimmel has often spoken for kids when other voices were missing.

First Focus Campaign for Children @campaign4kids.bsky.social · Sep 18

Dr. John Kuhn speaks out in defense of his teachers, students, and schools as superintendent of Abilene ISD in Texas.

A Superintendent Speaks Out from the Front Lines of Our Public Schools…

Republicans Say Their Big Bill Is Family Friendly. Not So Fast … – DC Journal - InsideSources

First Focus Campaign for Children @campaign4kids.bsky.social · Sep 17

Republicans Say Their Big Bill Is Family Friendly. Not So Fast … – Chad Bolt - DC Journal - InsideSources dcjournal.com/republicans-...

The White House has told Republican lawmakers to get out there and start selling the “One Big Beautiful Bill” as chock-full of family-friendly

dcjournal.com

First Focus Campaign for Children @campaign4kids.bsky.social · Sep 16

Advocates warn child poverty could rise again after federal cuts to social programs - WMNF 88.5 FM

www.wmnf.org

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First Focus Campaign for Children @campaign4kids.bsky.social · Sep 10

“Historic and Unprecedented”?

@brucelesley.bsky.social examines that claim below…

Previous HHS secretaries oversaw: ✅ The creation of Medicare and Medicaid, which was passed with the help of Secretary Kennedy’s father and uncle in the Senate (significantly cutting the uninsured…

R.L. Stollar (@rlstollar.bsky.social)

First Focus Campaign for Children @campaign4kids.bsky.social · Sep 9

"This idea that parents’ control should be absolute runs directly against a long line of court decisions that affirm children are not just extensions of their parents. Children are rights-bearing…

From Idaho to Texas to Florida: The Harm of Sweeping ‘Parental Rights’ Laws

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First Focus Campaign for Children @campaign4kids.bsky.social · Sep 8

From Idaho to Texas to Florida: The Harm of Sweeping ‘Parental Rights’ Laws brucelesley.substack.com/p/from-idaho...

Texas’s SB 12 proves what child advocates have long warned: sweeping parental control laws deny kids even the most basic protections.

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First Focus Campaign for Children @campaign4kids.bsky.social · Aug 28

A caandidate runs for office in Iowa (Catelin Drey), runs on kids’ issues, and soundly defeats the culture wars playbook thrown at her.

Mom For Iowa Gonna Turn State Into Woke Hellhole Of Funded Schools With Books And Stuff ... For Kids! www.wonkette.com/p/mom-for-io...

Mom For Iowa Gonna Turn State Into Woke Hellhole Of Funded Schools With Books And Stuff ... For Kids!

A nice time!

www.wonkette.com

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First Focus Campaign for Children @campaign4kids.bsky.social · Aug 28

Children are struggling and policymakers are failing them. Here are some thoughts on how we might find a path away from Trump’s “war on children.”

Saying ‘No’ to Culture Wars, Crumbs, or Capitulation: Building a Child Advocacy Movement open.substack.com/pub/bruceles...

Saying ‘No’ to Culture Wars, Crumbs, or Capitulation: Building a Child Advocacy Movement

Children may be only 22% of the U.S.

The Party of Neglect: When Democrats Forget About Kids

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First Focus Campaign for Children @campaign4kids.bsky.social · Aug 27

Catelin Drey (D-IA) just overturned an Iowa Senate seat by double digits in a +10 Republican district. Rather than neglecting children’s issues, Drey centered children in her campaign. 👇

Children’s issues > culture wars (1)

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First Focus Campaign for Children @campaign4kids.bsky.social · Aug 27

The Party of Neglect: When Democrats Forget About Kids open.substack.com/pub/bruceles...

Democrats need a wake-up call with respect to their deficit with parents on children’s issues.

While children may be only 22% of the population, they are 100% of the future.

First Focus Campaign for Children @campaign4kids.bsky.social · Aug 27

Catelin Drey committed to making child and family issues a centerpiece of her campaign and won.

#VoteKids 👇

How did Catelin Drey (D-IA) resoundingly overturn that Iowa State Senate seat by double digits? Drey (Moms for Iowa) made children’s issues, including public education, health care, and children’s…

Ossoff Report Details ICE Abuse of Pregnant Women and Children

First Focus Campaign for Children @campaign4kids.bsky.social · Aug 24

Ossoff Report Details ICE Abuse of Pregnant Women and Children open.substack.com/pub/migranti...

A Senate investigation documents 510 human rights violations, including miscarriages, child neglect, and sexual assaults in ICE custody.

First Focus Campaign for Children @campaign4kids.bsky.social · Aug 21

To Democratic politicians,

Ignore the political consultants.

It is past time to stand up and champion children. Be loud and proud.

It is in your self-interest.

The Party of Neglect: When Democrats Forget About Kids https://open.substack.com/pub/brucelesley/p/the-party-of-neglect-when-democrats?r=f8l9&utm_medium=ios Democrats need a wake-up call with respect…