Coincidence? Think not: The leftist media want Americans to think that the riots in Los Angeles were spontaneous. Turns out, they’re being financed by the same money that funded the BLM protests and riots, says Mike Gonzalez, senior fellow at Heritage, on the “Heritage Explains” podcast.

• “What is happening is a lot of organizations that are deeply invested in dismantling the United States, destabilizing our country and our society, will use any crisis, no matter which one, to do just that,” Gonzalez explains.

Listen to the podcast episode here. Read his New York Post op-ed here.

Also, read Heritage President Dr. Kevin Roberts' op-ed in the Daily Wire on why we need mass deportations now, which you can find here.  

Crime magnets: Sanctuary cities put criminals before citizens. But an innovative new strategy is flipping the script.

• “Operation Guardian Angel closes the loophole in sanctuary cities’ blatantly lawless schemes that allow them to simply ignore administrative ICE detainer warrants,” write Heritage Senior Legal Fellows Cully Stimson and Hans von Spakovsky. ICE made 13 arrests in 5 days using Operation Guardian Angel.

Read the full story here.

Folly: Senate Republicans want to cut money for border security in the “reconciliation” bill.

• “The original House version provided just $5 billion in Department of Defense support to the border security mission,” writes Wilson Beaver, senior policy analyst for defense budgeting at the Center for National Security. “The newest Senate version cuts this by moving $1.7 billion into other priorities.”

Read Beaver’s op-ed in The American Conservative.

ICE is the government agency tasked with securing America’s borders and deporting the illegal aliens who have invaded our country. 

• The liberal media are spinning vicious lies about these brave ICE agents.  
• In the face of these attacks, we want to know what you think about ICE’s immigration-law enforcement. 

Please complete The Heritage Foundation’s ICE Survey to make your voice heard. Just click here. 

Dawn’s early light: While many believe that America’s best days are behind us, Heritage President Dr. Kevin Roberts is here to set the record straight: America’s Golden Age lies ahead.

• “I believe we are witnessing the dawn of a golden age. Not because of one man—though he has been a battering ram through the fortress of the ruling class. But because of what this moment now makes possible: a return not just to strength or prosperity or sovereignty—but to the permanent things,” Roberts said in a recent speech at the Academy of Philosophy and Letters conference.

Read the transcript on American Mind. Watch a clip of Roberts’ speech here.

All aboard: Last week, New Hampshire expanded its trailblazing Education Freedom Accounts to cover all K-12 students. This brings the total number of states that offer parents universal education choice to 17, up from zero just four years ago.

 

Get the scoop on The Daily Signal.  

 

Plus: Lindsey M. Burke, Ph.D., longtime director of the Center for Education Policy at Heritage, was tapped as deputy chief of staff at the Department of Education.

 

Read the press release here.

Getting real: After announcing that the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) won't recommend COVID-19 shots for pregnant women and healthy children, Health and Human Services Sec. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. axed all members of a CDC vaccine panel.

• “Kennedy has a golden opportunity to repair and reinvigorate public health agencies,” writes Robert E. Moffit, Ph.D., senior research fellow in the Center for Health and Welfare Policy.

Read more here and here.

No joke: “In an age when the radical Left seeks to criminalize truth and outlaw laughter, The Babylon Bee stands as a bold, brilliant force for both,” said Heritage President Dr. Kevin Roberts as Heritage awarded the Bee’s CEO, Seth Dillon, this year’s Salvatori Prize for American Citizenship.

• The humor site has in the past been censored by Twitter, YouTube, and Facebook for the crime of making fun of the Left.

Read more about the prize here.

Free press: Two years ago, President Biden revoked The Daily Signal’s White House credentials. Last week, the Signal’s White House correspondent, Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell, sat in the Trump administration’s “New Media” chair and asked two questions at the daily press briefing.

• Launched by Heritage 11 years ago, The Daily Signal is now a thriving, independent news outlet.

See a clip of the press conference on X here and read Mitchell's Daily Signal piece here

Launch of “American Founders” & Presentation of America’s 250th Anniversary Innovation Prizes

“American Founders: Leaders at the Creation of the Republic" examines the lives, characters, careers, ideas, and selected primary speeches or writings of 16 leading Americans of the founding generation. We will also announce the winners of the America’s 250th Anniversary Innovation Prizes. 

 

June 24, 4 p.m. Register here. 

• Here’s a Rundown of the Court Fights the Trump Administration Has Won So Far—Hans A. von Spakovsky
• Report: Rescinding Woke and Weaponized Government Funding—Max Primorac and Mike Gonzalez
• Heritage Foundation Applauds President Trump’s Move to End California’s EV Mandate—Diana Furchtgott-Roth
• Report: Toward a Nationalist Internationalism: The Case for Building a National Conservative Alliance—Nathan Levine
• Taxpayers Will No Longer Underwrite NPR’s Battle with the Truth—Edwin J. Feulner, Ph.D.
• Federal AI Power Grab Could End State Protections for Kids and Workers—Daniel Cochrane
• Faith, Freedom, and Child Formation—Jason Bedrick and Thomas Jipping
• Trump’s Executive Orders Are the First Steps in a Nuclear Revolution—Jack Spencer
• It’s Time to Restructure the U.S. Military’s Command Plan—Robert Peters
• Revitalizing Shipbuilding by Expanding Warship Orders—Wilson Beaver
• How the Philippine Senate Elections Could Affect U.S. National Security—Dan Green and Parker Goodrich
• Europe’s Woke Trade Policies Threaten Transatlantic Ties—Grace Melton and Max Primorac

After Israel launched strikes against Iran's nuclear and military infrastructure, the media turned to Heritage experts for analysis. Victoria Coates, vice president of the Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy, appeared on Fox News to talk about the development, noting that it reaffirms President Trump’s long-standing stance: Iran must not obtain a nuclear weapon. Watch the clip on X here.