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Gosar and House Conservatives Push Back on Critical Race Theory 

Critical race theory (CRT) is a Marxist far-left ideology that believes racism is systemic in America and that laws should discriminate based on race to remedy past discrimination. CRT seeks to teach Americans they are either racists or victims based on the color of their skin, while rejecting the principle that “all men are created equal.”

The premise of CRT is that the United States was founded on racism, built on racism and continues to be the most racist nation in the world.  All of this is false and defames our ancestors and founders. The CRT “solution” to all this fake racism is what they call “deconstruction.”  Deconstruction is exactly what it sounds like:  the CRT advocates vow to destroy all of our social institutions including our churches, our monuments and statues, our economy, our schools and universities and even our buildings and architecture. The ultimate deconstruction is our Constitution and our Republic.   

I pledge to each of you to fight these cultural and political Marxists with all I’ve got and I ask you to join me. These people pose an existential threat to our way of life and everything we cherish that is right and good. 

Unfortunately, CRT is now finding its way into government institutions and even the classrooms of our children. In response, my Republican colleagues and I introduced the Combatting Racist Teaching in Schools Act and the Stop Critical Race Theory Act. These two bills would prevent CRT from being taught in elementary and secondary schools and universities and would ban it from being taught in the federal workforce. This poisonous ideology seeks to undermine our society by pitting people against each other to justify government control over all Americans.

I am proud to support these bills to keep America unified and to continue to advance our shared mission to form a more perfect union. 

Biden Administration Seeks to Shutdown More Public Lands 

As many of you know, Arizona and many western states have very little private land.  Between national and state parks, monuments, tribal lands, and other designations, most land is off limits to Arizonans for anything other than snapping a picture - if that. 

In 2015, I noted that 81.8% of Arizona land was publicly held and only 18.2% was open to private owners. The Arizona Republic thought I was wrong and “fact checked” me but concluded that “Gosar correct on private land in Arizona.” 

Not content with owning a majority of all land already, the Biden Administration is seeking to take even more. The goal is to stop energy and mining in our country under the deconstruction strategy to weaken our nation. If we can’t mine or drill in our country we will have to rely on China, Russia and other countries that believe in themselves and their own sovereignty. 

The Biden Administration and the Department of Interior released its initial strategy for its “30 by 30” initiative, a measure to lock up millions of acres public lands and water from economic productivity. Locking up vast swaths of land and water under onerous designations ignores the scientific principles embodied in numerous federal, state and local fish and wildlife laws. True conservation supports communities by providing both a cleaner, healthy environment and a robust economy. Conservation means caring for what you have, not using more than you need and managing your precious resources for this and future generations. Common-sense, practical solutions that rely on science and leverage the knowhow of local stakeholders are the best path forward to ensuring we have a healthy environment that we will leave better than we found it. In response, I cosponsored the 30x30 Termination Act to terminate this Executive Order, ensure no net loss of non-federal land, and prevent withdrawing federal lands from mineral development. 

I want to provide you with a quick update regarding the backlog at the National Personnel Records Center (NPRC).  As you may know, the backlog has severely impacted our veterans and their families who need their records to receive VA claims, hold family funerals, and more. I wrote to NPRC to remedy this problem back in November of 2020, but the issue remains. This week, I joined several of my colleagues and once again wrote to the Archivist of the U.S. to request detailed information on how they plan to solve this issue for our nation’s veterans. I will keep you updated on any progress concerning this troubling issue.

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