The Daily Signal - On Bill of Rights Day, Hope Isn’t Lost on Next Generation

Episode Date: December 15, 2021

What if former President Ronald Reagan was right? What if freedom really is never more than “one generation away from extinction,” as the then-governor of California said during his inaugural address in 1967.  A Purcellville, Virginia-based Christian youth group called Generation Joshua has heeded Reagan’s warning and is working tirelessly to empower and educate teenagers to become future leaders of our nation.  The organization exists “to teach high school students about their country, where it comes from, why it's free, and how to keep it that way,” Joel Grewe, the director of Generation Joshua, says.  Through summer camps, local clubs, and other creative events, Generation Joshua has taught thousands of teens how to protect American liberties.  In celebration of Bill of Rights Day on Dec. 15, Grewe and Jeremiah Lorrig, the organization’s deputy director, join “The Daily Signal Podcast” to share stories of the ways Generation Joshua is training and empowering America’s future leaders.  Follow these links to learn more about Joshua Generation, Constituting America, or the American History and Civics Initiative. We also cover these stories: President Joe Biden calls on Congress to pass gun-control measures to try and clamp down on gun violence. Wholesale prices rise by 9.6% since last year.  The New Hampshire chapter of the American Federation of Teachers announces it is suing the state to block a law prohibiting teachers from teaching critical race theory in their classrooms. Enjoy the show! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This is the Daily Signal podcast for Wednesday, December 15th. I'm Doug Blair. And I'm Virginia Allen. Today is Bill of Rights Day, a day set aside to remember and celebrate the ratification of the first 10 amendments of our Constitution. At a time in history when freedom is being challenged and our education system is floundering, it has never been more important to empower young people to uphold American principles of liberty and justice for all. An organization called Joshua Generation is doing just that. Joel Gruy and Jeremiah Lurig lead Joshua Generation and join the show today to share the ways they are educating teens about how our government works today and how the founding fathers intended it to operate.

But before we get to Virginia's conversation with the leaders of Joshua Generation, let's hit the top news stories of the day. During remarks commemorating the ninth anniversary of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting on Tuesday, President Biden called on Congress to pass gun control measures to try and clamp down on gun violence. Here's some of Biden's remarks via Politico. There are three common-sense bills to reduce gun violence that the Senate should pass now, right away, long overdue. One requires more extensive background checks for gun sales. One is to keep guns out of the hands of more abusers, my bill back better legislation, which would make a landmark $5 billion investment in community violence prevention and intervention

programs to support trusted leaders who work directly with people who are most likely to commit gun crimes or become gun victims before it's too late. These programs work. While Democrats have a government trifecta controlling the House, Senate, and White House, gun control legislation has thus far failed to materialize. David Chitman, Biden's controversial pick for director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, as well as an official at the Gun Control Group, Gifford's Law Center, was withdrawn after it became clear that his hard-lined gun control positions would prevent him

from getting even unified Democrat support in the Senate. As of now, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms' Director position remains unfilled. The Bureau has not had a confirmed director since 20. 15. Inflation rates are affecting all Americans. The Labor Department reported Tuesday that wholesale prices have risen by 9.6 percent since this time last year. The rise in wholesale prices directly affects retail prices as sellers have to pay more for the goods in their stores. The producer price index rose by 0.8% in November alone. Both supply chain issues and increased product demand have contributed to the soaring inflation cost. Consumer prices are also up by 6.8% from last year,

which is the largest increase in nearly 40 years. Alfredo Ortiz, president and CEO of the Job Creators Network, says the Product Price Index report is just the latest evidence that inflation is out of control, thanks to the Democrats' record spending spree and war on small business. The New Hampshire chapter of the American Federation of Teachers announced on Monday that it was suing the state in order to block a state law prohibiting teachers from using critical race theory in their classrooms. HB2 would prevent teachers from teaching that people are inferior, superior, should be discriminated against, or are inherently racist, sexist, or oppressive as a result of various aspects of their identity, including sex, religion, or race. In a tweet announcing the lawsuit, American Federation of Teachers' President Randy Weingarten said, This law puts American Federation of Teachers' New Hampshire educators in an untenable situation and creates an excruciating Hobson's choice, teach the curriculum, or be publicly flogged and potentially fired.

Either way, it denies kids the opportunity to learn. That's why we are suing. But New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu, a Republican, disagreed. In a statement to Fox News, the governor said, nothing in this language prevents schools from teaching any aspect of American history, such as teaching about racism, sexism, or slavery. It simply ensures that children will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, gender, sexual identity, or religion.

Now stay tuned for my conversation with Joel Gruy and Jeremiah Lourich, as we discuss their work at Joshua Generation to empower the next generation of America's leaders. Never has it been more important for us to fight for. America. Each day we see the penalties of progressive policies across our nation. Our elections are under assault. Our economic freedom is on the decline, and our culture is turning its back on the founding principles that have made us the freest, most prosperous nation in history. That's why the Heritage Foundation developed a plan to take on the left and take back our country. The Citizen's Guide to Fight for America provides a series of heritage recommended action items delivered

on a regular basis to your inbox. Make an impact in your community and in our country. Sign up for the Citizens Guide at heritage.org slash citizens guide and join in the fight for America today. Today, December 15th, is Bill of Rights Day, a day we commemorate the ratification of the Bill of Rights. And to celebrate, I am so excited to highlight one fantastic organization called Generation Joshua that is working to ensure

that American freedoms and liberties are passed down to the next generation. So I am joined here today by the director of Generation Joshua, Joel Gruy, and the deputy director, Jeremiah Lurig. Gentlemen, thank you so much for being here. It's a pleasure. Thank you so much for having us. All right. So let's just jump right in. It's Bill of Rights Day. This is exciting. I would love to start by just talking about what is Generation Joshua. What's your mission? What do you all do? And we'll start. Let's start with Joel. Let's jump in with you.

All right, sure. So Generation Joshua is a civics education initiative of the homeschool legal defense association. And that's a technical answer. And it's not terribly helpful. I get that. But really what it means is that we exist to teach high school students about their country, where it comes from, why it's free and how to keep it that way.

And we come out of largely the homeschool movement. Because frankly, if you, 30 years ago, homeschooling was not free in the United States of America. Parents were put in jail for homeschooling their kids and the kids were put in foster care. Like that was that was where we come from. And in that process from, you know, the actually this point, 40 years ago now, the 80s to now, the homeschool movement discovered that it had to work very hard to win and keep its freedoms, okay, to make sure those freedoms that existed were applied properly. Generation Joshua came out of that history and it was designed to say, all right,

homeschooling is now free in all 50 states. But just because something is free doesn't mean it stays free. You have to keep maintaining that. Just like our founders understood, you have to keep putting energy and effort into maintaining those freedoms. One of those things is that you have to know you're free and you have to know why you're free and how to keep the fact that you're free. And so we do that working specifically with high school students, some middle school, in all 50 states designed to teach them where they come from and how to keep that freedom. I love it. Well, in your work was just recently recognized by the Heritage Foundation. Generation Joshua is one of three winners to receive the honor of Heritage's Folner Institute Civics Expo. So congratulations to you all. It's really

a huge honor. Yes. Well, such a, such a wonderful organization to highlight. We love getting to shine a spotlight on people like you that are doing the work on the ground to be empowering the next generation. The other two winners were constituting America and the American History and Civics Initiative. We'll chat a little bit more about those in a little while. But Jeremiah, what exactly is the background behind the name of Generation Joshua? Where does that name come from? So it comes from the biblical story of Moses and Joshua. And what it is is when Moses passes the torch of leadership to the next generation. So every generation of high school students we view as the Joshua generation. And so Generation Joshua is designed around that concept of passing the

torch of leadership. And it's not a new concept to us. This is something that our country was built on. I don't know if many people quite realize this, but many of the founding fathers and mothers of our country were in their teens and early 20s when the Declaration of Independence was signed. And so So we have this long-standing American tradition of passing that torch of leadership. And I think of, for example, George Washington and Alexander Hamilton. Alexander Hamilton was a young kid when the war broke out. And he wanted to step out and be engaged in the process. And so he was equipped by George Washington and took under his wing and given the ability to step up and lead.

And we try to do the same thing with our students, where our students can come in and they may not be old enough to vote. I mean, they're high schoolers. They're not old enough to vote. But they can make a difference. And we do that by setting up civics clubs in their local communities, where they can come and work on student action teams, where they go to the closest political races around the country and volunteer and they learn how democracy works, hands-on. Or they can come to one of our simulations and learn how government works by taking on the role of a congressman or a senator or a candidate. And all of these things are designed to equip.

them just like Betsy Ross and Alexander Hamilton and all those young people who were around at the birth of our nation to carry that torch of liberty from one generation to the next and then they'll pass it on to their children as well. I love that. And I think it raises the standards for young people. When we recognize young people are powerful, they have influence. And gosh, you know, so many like you mentioned, so many folks back at the founding of our very nation at the time of the revolution were so.

so young and we're doing great things. And there's no reason why young people today can't also be doing great things and have that civic engagement. So if you all would, talk a little bit more about the programs that you offer. I know you say you kind of break things down into five divisions. What exactly do you all offer for teens? The first thing is kind of your classic kind of classes and civics material, right? Okay, we have online classes. We have curriculum material. People can, And if they want to download it and take it as a semester course or something, we can do that. We call it I-Citizen. And there's a whole series of things that are kind of part of that.

So that's one thing. And it's fairly straightforward. Anybody can engage that no matter where you are. If you have an internet connection, you're good to go. Okay. Fairly simple. And that's good. What we have, when we kind of step beyond that, there was we recognize that politics and civics

does not exist as a solo entity, right? It's not something you do as an individual. It's something you always do in community. And so a lot of the other programs we have exist within communities. One of them is a local club. We call them Generation Joshua Clubs, a real creative name, right? But it's these local clubs that exist all around the country, and our goal is to eventually have one in every single congressional district in the country with a group of engaged high school

students. And I'm sorry to interrupt. Are those usually connected with schools, or do they stand alone? They certainly can stand alone. They can be connected with schools, libraries, homeschool co-ops, churches, community organizations, doesn't matter. But it's a club that is actually led by the high school students. Parents are there to provide backup and oversight, right?

But you let the kids get their kind of hands-on leadership. And their role is to be engaged in their community from a kind of civics and good governance perspective, but also a community engagement perspective all around the country. So that's one option. When you step a little beyond that, we have kind of a more intensive approach to learning leadership. We have a series that we call I govern. And it is a week-long summer leadership program. It is unlike anything else I've found.

And admittedly, I'm biased. But it's an incredible opportunity to learn government by doing. Because one of the things that the trap we fall into all across America is that we think the best method of teaching someone is to talk at them for 60-minute increments. And preferably while they're sitting, not standing, so it's more sedentary. And maybe if that doesn't work, we'll just give them sheets of paper, right? And it's not necessarily for research and otherwise the best form of education. Yeah.

The more we engage, the more senses we engage, the more emotions engage, the more we remember. But if you want to have a way to learn that is the least engaging, we've come up with a pretty good model. Now, it lets us do lots of people, but that doesn't mean they retain much. So we try and kind of flip the model on its head and we say, if we want people to remember and understand freedom and how to keep it, we have to approach that in a multisensory approach that engages the emotions. And so we build a government simulation where it's not that you learn about government, you become government. You are a congressman or a senator. Or maybe if you win the election, you become the president. Or maybe in another week you're doing international work where you're representing

another country in the UN or maybe you're working as part of the FBI or maybe, I don't know, part of the Defense Department. And you learn our government how it works by doing it. And so we do a series of those over the summer. Beyond that, we have our student action teams. I'll actually let Jeremiah take student action names because he's kind of the living, breathing expert on what those are. Do you want to explain? Sure. So our student action teams are those opportunities, as I just mentioned, where a team of volunteers, Generation Joshua volunteers, can go and make a difference in the closest political races around the country. The most recent example of that was the Virginia governor's race. We had deployed students all across Virginia working not only on the statewide races, but also

on the House of Delegates races. And so one of the races that we engaged in, we had about 35, 40 students volunteering in that small district. They talked to about five, thousand voters in that in four days, which was incredible. And then on election night, the candidate won by 115 votes. If one of those students, one of those high schoolers had decided to stay home and play video games, that race would have gone differently. It's incredible what a young person can do. And you mentioned Bill of Rights Day. It reminds me of those core principles of what make America great. And it's that engagement where we have rights as outlined in the Bill of Rights, but also responsibilities. And those responsibilities include participating in our democracy,

making the Republic work. And that's what Generation Joshua is all about, is giving young people the vision to say, I may not be old enough to vote, but that doesn't mean I'm not old enough to make a difference. And our country is worth fighting for. And those core principles are something that inspire us all. That's excellent. Thank you all so much for sharing all those different tenants. You all are busy. You do a lot. We are. We are. We can. Yes. Yes. We are. We do. So tell me about some of the students. Tell me about the young people that participate in these programs. What are their stories? So a couple of them. First of all, the one nice thing about being a non-government mandated school, because we're not a school and we're not government run,

is that the people that come to learn want to. And that, that is amazing. Because as a rule, when you're dealing with a generation Joshua kid or you're dealing with a kid in the program, they are usually there because on some level they choose to be there. I mean, granted, some of them start where mom says you go, right? And they say, okay? So that's one of the things you run into. But I think, secondly, they are people who have, as a rule, an understanding of history and an understanding of where we come from that says, this is, it's important, it matters. And I need to, that work of maintaining the Republic, to quote Jeremiah from a minute ago. Okay, that is, that is an aspect of what they are. Now, what does that mean in practice? It means these are the kids

who actually show up at a city council meeting or town council meeting. They might be at the committee hearing on a bill in their state legislator. They may even be legislature. They may even be speaking on it. I remember a story from a couple years ago. We had a young lady who was the president of her local club. And her local club, this was out in Hawaii, happened to be right in Honolulu. So that was really convenient.

And so whenever the state legislature went into the session, they just decided that it was good practice that one of their club members was always on Capitol Hill. So basically, if. If the building was open, someone was on station. Okay? And it meant that every time there was a committee, those kids were there. They may not speak, sometimes they did, but they were there. And what that meant is that pretty soon they got to know. And keep in mind, this is not a particularly conservative state.

Okay, they got to know most of the legislature on both sides of the aisle. They knew the staff. They knew their way around the building. In fact, sometimes they were better than some of the staff as far as getting the way around the building. But it also meant that when at one point the governor said, hey, I have a piece of legislation that I'm trying to decide I'm convening a special cabinet to get advice on what to do with the legislation because it's not something I have an answer for. And this involves the future of our state.

And it's going to affect families and that will affect kids. I need some politically interested teenagers. Has anyone found any? The very, very left speaker of the House at the time said, well, there's not many, but there's one group. And they're called the Guardians of Liberty. That was the name of the local club. And they're here all the time. And you're not going to like them.

They're conservative. but they're here. So if you want to talk to a politically interested teenager, I know one. And that resulted in a very interesting phone call on a Monday night where it's, hi, is Haley home? This is the governor's office. Haley's 14. You can imagine how that conversation went down with mom where mom's like, Haley, the phone's for you and why is the governor calling, right? Well, the governor's calling because the governor wanted Haley as the representative politically active teenagers in Hawaii to serve on her cabinet.

Okay. And she did. and that's what and not to say every kid has that moment right but some of them do some of them and there's their stories all across the all across the u.s okay of kids in in the moment where the opportunity knocks it's kind of that that to quote the hamilton the room where it happens they get to be in the place because they care and they were they were engaged enough that when they needed to be something they needed someone they get tapped yeah wow do you mind if I pop in with a story okay one of my favorite stories is a guy named Tim. I almost called him a kid. He's not a kid anymore. No. But he started

in our program. And one of the things that we really believe is that leadership is like a muscle. It grows when you use it. And this kid was in the program and he was doing kind of some of the standard things that our clubs are encouraged to do. They're registering people to vote, writing letters to the editor, that kind of stuff. And after a few months of that, he started to get noticed in his local community. And somebody called him up and said, hey, I'm working with several kids. candidates who are running for office, would you be willing to come and volunteer and help make a difference? I can see by your letters to the editor that you are passionate and engaged and you're articulate. We'd love to have you involved in these campaigns.

He said, sure. He volunteered there. He ended up working with a state legislature who he got along with Great. And then a couple of years later, he turns 18, and she is looking at running for Congress now. So she runs for Congress here in Washington, D.C. And she says, you know, Tim, I think you should run to replace me in the state house. Wow. And so he did.

And he became the youngest representative in Indiana's state legislature. And he's still there working, representing the people. Now he's grown up a little bit more. Now he's a pastor as well. So he's got lots of things going on in his life. But it's really cool to see when we allow them to use that, leadership muscle and exercise it, even in what seems like very small ways, that can grow and grow to the point where they can step in and actually become a leader in their state or in their

community. Yeah, that's so neat. Yeah, I mean, I imagine for teens that are really immersed in this from such a young age, probably many of them get that bug for politics and say, hey, this is actually where I want to invest and this is where I want to be giving my time. If I can jump on that for a second, I think one of the other things that I should just note is that there is an assumption that if there are kids involved in Gen J, they're political nerds. And we have plenty of them.

I mean, we're in the Heritage Foundation right now. Political nerds are kind of our thing, right? I'm a political nerd. But I think one of the wonders about Generation Joshua is that, yes, it attracts the political nerds. If you care about the minutia, absolutely, you're going to love this. But if you also just care about the future of your country and you want to be a competent citizen, you're still going to love this. Because our goal is to be something that is accessible to anyone from anyone,

from anywhere so that you walk out and you say, I might be a veterinarian, I might be an architect, I might be waste management professional, pick your title, whatever the job is, I don't care, whatever your career choice is, or not. But I understand the basics of citizenship in my country, and I understand the responsibilities incumbent on me as a citizen. Nothing more than that, just a citizen, but what it takes to actively engage my country, my government, to understand process, to know how to find information and make good decisions and apply principles to the, and then, and then vote. And then I also know enough that, frankly, my friends who probably may not know all that

will come ask, and I have good answers for them. Because we see that at every community level. There are almost at every level, every community. There are people who may not be an elected office, but they are trusted in their community because they've shown the conduct and character necessary for communities to trust them. And what does that mean? It means that when elections come up, people go, hey, you know about this stuff. What should I do?

And it gives them a platform for influence and leadership, whether they're in the first, field of politics and policy or not. And I have some bad news or maybe good news, but I think it's bad news for the people listening to these podcasts. The reality is the people who listen to your podcast are more engaged than the average American, which means that they have a responsibility to help lead their local community. Their family and their friends are looking to them when election day comes saying, oh, wait, who should I be voting for?

And that's what we're doing with the kids as well. All the Generation Joshua students, because they're coming in and they're learning some of these foundational truths, they now are already more equipped than many citizens. And in 20 years, 30 years, 40 years, they're going to be the people who are looked to in their community. I like to tell, you know, the student action teams, I just mentioned where we go and make a difference on the campaigns. I love to talk about those because, yes, we elect some really great candidates, like that mom who won. by 115 votes. But that's not the real investment that Generation Joshua is doing.

What we're investing in is the 40 students who were volunteering for her because if they get a little bit of that passion and maybe they'll run for office or they'll just be communicating with their friends and family, they'll become leaders

and they take on the responsibility of democracy and they make our republic stronger. So good. Yeah, please, Joel. I can add one more thing. Sorry, and now we're on a roll. One of the story, I was talking to a mom a couple of years ago. It was pre-pendemic when we were sitting there chatting about one of her kids.

And she goes, I don't know how you teach what you teach, but I wanted to just tell you a story. She goes, earlier this year, and it was a debate on Capitol Hill, right? One of the things the House was working on a bill, some people liked it, some people didn't. There was a lot of back and forth. And she was sitting there watching the news. And something happened, a procedural vote on the House. And she looked at it. She goes, that's not okay.

And she started to get all worked up about it. And her daughter was in the kitchen, you know, sitting there at the table working on something. She was, oh, that's nothing. And the mom's like, wait, what? I didn't even know you were paying attention. She was like, oh, no, no, what this is. And she sat there and explained the parliamentary process, admittedly, this is a nerd moment, right? Okay.

To mom saying, that's not a big deal. But that vote coming up there in 15 minutes, that's a huge deal. That's the one that matters. And mom's like, how did you know this? She goes, oh, well, we did this at camp. Oh, and she goes, I don't really care. but I guess I actually know something and then went back to doing what she was doing.

Not that she was trying to be the nerd to kind of show it up, but she understood her process. And I think one of the things that kills us sometimes in our country is that the complicated components of our government, which admittedly exist for reasons, are sometimes inaccessible to people. But if you grow up knowing that process and knowing why it exists, because often those process come from the idea of due process,

they matter because we care about how we get to laws and we care about justice and keeping those principles in play, well, that takes some of the mystique out of governance in a way that becomes accessible to people. And that 14-year-old kid was explaining something to her mom who then explained it to her friend, who then explained it to et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. And you saw that ripple effect. But it started with a 14-year-old kid at the table who'd been to camp last year and understood what was going on and literally just followed it over what she heard over broadcast.

And that's all took. I love that. That's so cool. So about how many students come to camp every year, do you know how many your generation Joshua is touching through camp, through your clubs on an annual basis. Sure. So camps are usually a couple hundred kids a year. About 400.

About 400. And then to be fair, it's a week. You're traveling. There's more involved in that. It's probably a more complicated investment, as it were. So there's that aspect. As far as the whole program, we're usually training a couple of thousands of kids a year. Okay, it would be our numbers.

I think we're at about, I want to say, 30-ish-thous thousand aggregate. And that number has gone up every year. So if you look at the first year, it was like 400 kids, right? And so you keep kind of growing. And so that number has been increasing. I mean, even just when the pandemic, even in the pandemic, we saw a growth in the number of kids we were teaching that year over the year before. And this year it has exceeded that year.

And so that is kind of on an increasing climb as far as the number of people we work with. But usually it's at least thousands every year. And that's, I find it kind of remarkable because high schoolers tend to be a pretty transitory bunch. They don't last very long at high school, at least hopefully not. They move on, right? And so we're constantly bringing new people. And if we're turning out thousands every year that have gone through this,

that have kind of wrestled with these ideas and issues, that's good for the nation. The investment early lasts far longer than working with someone who's like, all right, I'm done with my career, I retired, I'll run for office. That's great. Please do that, right? But I would rather have someone who said, hey, I'm looking at starting my career. And by the way, part of that plan is that I'm going to run for office. And they've already thought that through because they've decided that these principles matter and they want to engage.

So we're kind of trying to engage earlier rather than later. Yeah, that makes sense. So for those listening who are either young people listening and thinking, I want to go to camp, I want to be a part of this, or for parents thinking, oh gosh, my child would love this. How do they get involved? How do they get all the information? Well, the easiest way is to go on our website, GenerationJoshua.org. That's where you can find all kinds of information. We'll be posting our camp registration soon.

We just finished our student action team thing. But go there and sign up for the emails because then you'll get updated as to things happening all around the U.S. Also feel free to call our office, and you can find our phone number there on the website as well. But that's the way to get involved in Generation Joshua. But remember, Generation Joshua is a stepping stone to being engaged as a citizen. Like I keep thinking, today is Bill of Rights Day. So we want to make sure that we are all as citizens looking at the Bill of Rights for what it is and how valuable it is and take on that responsibility with the rights, because we have rights and responsibilities,

and say, okay, what can we do to keep these principles of freedom strong? Yeah, that's so, so critical. Well, and again, that website is generationjoshua.org. All of the information there. Joel and Jeremiah, congratulations to you all again on being one of the winners of the Heritage Foundation Civics Expo. Thank you. Great honor.

So thank you all so much. What a privilege. Well, and we're going to take just a moment to highlight the other two organizations as well that receive this honor of Heritage Foundation Civics Expo. They are Constituting America and American History and Civics Initiative. So let's begin by listening to a few remarks by Janine Turner, the founder and co-president of Constituting America. What is Constituting America?

Our mission is to educate students and adults about the relevancy of the Constitution. Because when my daughter was a tween, they weren't teaching that in school. So we've created a wonderful 11 years later, wonderful multi-tiered organization. and I want to tell you about teaching tools just for you. What is the George Washington speaking initiative? Who? Elementary, middle school students, high school students, college. What speeches?

We get two speeches. What is the relevancy of the Constitution? And the other is how to have a civil, civic conversation. When per request? Where? In person in the classroom where we can zoom into your classroom. I've given over 500 of such speeches. How?

You just free. You just sign up. Are we the future contest? Who? Elementary, middle, high school, college students, educators, what categories, poem, art, song, PSA, essay, sim, speech, and for teachers, lesson plans. And now, let's take a moment to hear from Jonathan Greenberg, Director of the Freedom Initiative at the Jack Miller Family Foundation, Greenberg represents the American History and Civic's

Initiative, our final Expo winner. So the American Civics and History Initiative exists to help communities and patriotic policymakers create a teaching core of content experts. It's a first of its kind partnership between three nationally recognized organizations, the Jack Miller Center, the Bill of Rights Institute, and the Ashbrook Center. And the goal is to provide ongoing, high-quality, content-based teacher training to as many middle and high school civics and history teachers as possible. And to learn more about all of these organizations, you can follow the links in our show. us. And that'll do it for today's episode. Thanks so much for listening to The Daily Signal

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