• Restoring affordable energy — through the Power Bill Reduction Act, ensuring least-cost energy and protecting ratepayers. 
• Defending personal privacy — with the Personal Privacy Protection Act, safeguarding citizens’ right to give freely to causes they believe in. 
• Checking government overreach — by requiring legislative approval for high-cost regulations. 

• Tax reform, to let families and small businesses keep more of what they earn. 
• School choice, to give every child the opportunity to learn in an environment that fits them best. 
• Free-market housing reform, to make homes more affordable without government interference. 
• Agricultural freedom, to protect the farmers who feed and fuel North Carolina. 

1) 🚌🚌🚌 Want to pick your own traditional public school in NC? Move 

• A 2025 report by the Reason Foundation ranked North Carolina one of the worst states in the country for promoting open enrollment in traditional K–12 public schools.
  • Open enrollment allows students to choose a public school other than the one they are residentially assigned to.
  • North Carolina has no statewide policy on open enrollment, and received a national ranking score of 0/100, tying for last place.
  • The lack of choice affects the three-quarters of K–12 students who attend traditional public schools in the state.
  • Despite the lack of policy, a Carolina Journal poll in January 2025 showed strong public appetite, with 72% of respondents supporting the concept of open enrollment.
  • The report also found that more than 1.6 million students in 20 states used open enrollment to choose their public schools…
    • And participation was greater in states with stronger open enrollment laws.
• Oklahoma continues to be a national leader for open enrollment, thanks for its strong laws, which require all districts to offer both cross-district and within-district transfers.
  • Oklahoma’s laws also prohibit discrimination against transfer students, require districts to publish transparent data on capacity, and allow families to appeal rejected transfer requests.
• In 2025, North Carolina lawmakers did introduce a bill that would have required within-district open enrollment statewide, which would have significantly improved the state's ranking.
  • The open enrollment legislation was later watered down to a study bill, which passed the House, but remains stalled in the Senate.
  • Although a study bill would be a small step in the right direction, it is ultimately unnecessary. 
  • States like Wisconsin and Florida are clear examples that already demonstrate the benefits and logistical feasibility of effective open enrollment.

You can read the full report here. 

2) 🇨🇳🇨🇳🇨🇳 How socialism nearly starved out America’s first settlements

• Early American settlers quickly discerned the true consequences of socialism, most of them fatally. 
• The story of first Thanksgiving is bound up with the move from socialism to free enterprise. 
  • The very first English settlements in America, Jamestown (1607) and Plymouth (1620), initially adopted socialist principles.
  • Jamestown originally held land as a collective asset, where output was shared equally regardless of work contributed.
    • This led to widespread laziness, with settlers "shirking" from work and neglecting fishing and growing food, resulting in a cruel famine that killed most of the population.
  • In 1614, Governor Sir Thomas Dale began assigning three-acre plots to settlers for their own use.
  • The move to private ownership instantly improved productivity "at least sevenfold," leading to a transformation from "starvelings" to entrepreneurs energetically growing profitable crops like tobacco.
• The Pilgrims at Plymouth also adopted a system where everyone shared in the work and the produce, resulting in similar problems of famine and a high death toll.
  • In desperation, Governor William Bradford assigned a parcel of land to every family for their own use, moving away from collective enterprise.
  • This change made "all hands very industrious," resulting in much more corn being planted and a quick shift from famine to "plenty."
• The abundance following the move to private property and free enterprise in 1623 is what made the first Thanksgiving celebration possible.

You can read the full article here. 

3) 🦃🦃🦃 Education in NC and Thanksgiving: much to be thankful for

• Thanksgiving, the great American holiday, offers the perfect time to practice what we preach and count our many blessings…
• … So, here are 10 things that make us grateful to write about education in North Carolina:
  • Living in the United States
  • Appreciation for North Carolina
  • Deep Care for Children
  • Access to Key Data
  • North Carolina's "Can-Do" Attitude
  • Educational Choices
  • Success of the Opportunity Scholarship
  • Accountability in School Finance
  • Excellent Teachers
  • Cost-Effective Fixes

You can get the full picture here.