Shortly after the New Hampshire Senate moved to water down the House’s “campus carry” bill that would allow college students to carry firearms, Rep. Sam Farrington, the bill’s sponsor, declared the fight wasn’t over. “We still have some time to work this out,” Farrington, a Rochester Republican, wrote on social media earlier this month, vowing […]

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Four months after the death of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, the arrival of House Republicans’ CHARLIE Act in January quickly drew attention.  Officially named the “Countering Hate And Revolutionary Leftist Indoctrination in Education (CHARLIE) Act,” the state bill paid homage to Kirk, the conservative activist assassinated at a rally in September. And it sought to […]

Following years of court battles over “divisive concepts,” House Republican lawmakers have rallied around new legislation this year to bar public K-12 teachers from the “indoctrination” of Marxism and critical race theory.  But as the “CHARLIE Act” moves to the Senate after passing the House last month, the bill has an unlikely opponent: the New […]