Former President Donald Trump will hold a town hall event in the heavily Democratic city of Flint, Michigan, on Tuesday, September 17, as he seeks to flip the Great Lakes State back to red in November.
The town hall is set to begin at 7:00 p.m. ET and moderated by Arkansas Republican Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, according to the Trump campaign.
&#8220;After Michigan voters have been forced to suffer three and a half years of Kamala Harris and Joe Biden&#8217;s dangerously liberal policies, President Trump will meet with Michiganders to listen to their concerns and share his vision to make America affordable again,&#8221; Team Trump said in a statement.
&#8220;The auto industry is the backbone of Michigan&#8217;s economy, and Kamala Harris&#8217; actions have only shown that she will destroy it,&#8221; the statement added. &#8220;If Kamala Harris has her way with a gas-powered car ban, Michigan will lose, at a minimum, 40,000 jobs. It&#8217;s painfully clear that Michiganders cannot afford four more years of Kamala Harris, and voters in the Great Lakes State are eager to hear how President Trump will lower inflation and protect the auto industry.&#8221;
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The Biden-Harris administration <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/20/climate/biden-phase-out-gas-cars.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">issued</a> a rule earlier this year requiring auto manufacturers to produce more electric vehicles and tightened regulations on tail-pipe emissions, which target gas-powered vehicles. The Kamala Harris campaign attempted to distance the vice president from the administration&#8217;s policies, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/harris-camp-declines-clarify-whether-kamalas-values-have-shifted-ev-mandates" target="_blank" rel="noopener">saying</a> last month that she &#8220;does not support an electric vehicle mandate.&#8221; During her first major interview as the Democratic nominee, however, Harris doubled down on her commitment to addressing the &#8220;climate crisis.&#8221;
&#8220;The most important and most significant aspect of my policy perspective and decisions is my values have not changed,&#8221; she told CNN&#8217;s Dana Bash. &#8220;You mentioned the Green New Deal. I have always believed, and I have worked on it, that the climate crisis is real, that it is an urgent matter to which we should apply metrics that include holding ourselves to deadlines around time.&#8221;
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Flint, known as &#8220;Vehicle City&#8221; for its boom during the height of the auto industry in Michigan, is now a heavily Democratic area whose population has declined for decades. When Flint was at the center of a water crisis nearly a decade ago, Trump <a href="https://www.mlive.com/news/flint/2016/09/a_look_back_at_donald_trumps_v.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">traveled</a> to the city to tour the water plant. Trump&#8217;s motorcade in 2016 was met by angry Flint residents who told him to &#8220;go home.&#8221;
Trump lost Genesee County, where Flint is the largest city, to both Hillary Clinton in <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/elections/2016/results/michigan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2016</a> and Joe Biden in <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/11/03/us/elections/results-michigan.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2020</a> by nearly 10 points. Michigan is a vital battleground state for Trump and Vice President Harris in the 2024 election. Polls currently show Harris barely leading Trump by less than one point in the state, according to the <a href="https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/president/general/2024/michigan/trump-vs-harris" target="_blank" rel="noopener">RealClearPolitics</a> average.

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Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders said during an interview this week that she believes this week&#8217;s presidential debate is going to be more important for Vice President Kamala Harris than former President Donald Trump because Harris has avoided answering questions and sitting down for interviews.
Sanders made the remarks during a Sunday interview on ABC News&#8217; &#8220;This Week&#8221; while discussing how Trump is preparing for Tuesday&#8217;s debate.
&#8220;I think it&#8217;s actually more important for Vice President Harris, somebody who doesn&#8217;t speak to the media, doesn&#8217;t take questions &#8212; in fact, at the end of this interview, I will have done more interviews during this election cycle than she has since becoming the Democrat nominee for president,&#8221; Sanders said.
She continued, &#8220;It is absurd that she does not take questions from the press, from the American people, and so I think this is actually a much more important night for her because it&#8217;s so rare that we hear from her, that we hear her take questions, or that we know anything that she actually stands for.&#8221;
Sanders said that Trump has been preparing every day for the debate throughout the entire campaign cycle because he travels around the country, talks to voters, and answers media questions often.
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&#8220;He&#8217;ll go in game-time ready just as he does for every interview, every rally that he does. This is not something that is a heavy lift for him,&#8221; Sanders said. &#8220;I think that&#8217;s why you&#8217;re hearing so much about the preparation for Vice President Harris because this isn&#8217;t something she does very often, and I think she has a lot to get ready for, and I don&#8217;t think that she&#8217;s up to the challenge, in large part, not just because I don&#8217;t know that she&#8217;s a great debater, but she&#8217;s so wrong on the issues that Americans care about, and she has a terrible track record to talk about.&#8221;
Sanders said that Trump will enter the debate from a position of strength because of his record as president while Harris has been tied to foreign policy disasters, the inflation crisis, and the border crisis.
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The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/arkansas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Arkansas</a> Supreme Court rejected a last ditch effort from a leftist group seeking to get an abortion amendment added to the November ballot that would roll back pro-life protections.
On Thursday, the court ruled 4-3 against a challenge from the pro-abortion Arkansans for Limited Government (AFLG) to Secretary of State John Thurston’s decision to reject their amendment liberalizing the state’s abortion laws from the ballot. Thurston rejected the ballot initiative last month, saying that the group failed to disclose who it had paid to gather 14,143 of the signatures it collected in support of ballot placement.
“This court is being asked to order another constitutional officer, the Arkansas Secretary of State, to ignore a mandatory statutory provision that he has enforced,” the majority wrote. “That is not the proper role of the court.”
“We find that the secretary correctly refused to count the signatures collected by paid canvassers because the sponsor failed to file the paid canvasser training certification,” the majority added.
The ballot <a href="https://ag-opinions.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024-004.pdf">initiative</a> would have added exceptions to existing Arkansas abortion law for rape, incest, and fetal anomaly, as well as instituting a right to an abortion up to 18 weeks after conception. At <a href="https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/pregnancy-week-by-week/in-depth/fetal-development/art-20046151">18 weeks</a>, an unborn baby’s digestive system begins working and they can hear sounds.
Dissenting Justices Karen Baker and Courtney Rae Hudson <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2024/08/22/arkansas-supreme-court-blocks-abortion-measure-00175823" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claimed</a> that Thurston had manufactured a reason to reject the proposed amendment.
“This requirement was made up out of whole cloth,” they wrote. “Regnat Populus — The People Rule — is the motto of Arkansas. Today’s decision strips every Arkansan of this power.”
Thurston said that his office was only following the law when it rejected the amendment.
“During the electoral process, my staff maintained the highest professional standards and did not allow partisan politics or misinformation to deter them from their duty to comply with the law,” he said in a <a href="https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/mid-south/arkansas-abortion-amendment-reaction/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a>. “I am dedicated to my calling to serve Arkansans and will continue to do so.”
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The court’s ruling was praised by GOP Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
“Proud I helped build the first conservative Supreme Court majority in the history of Arkansas and today that court upheld the rule of law, and with it, the right to life,” she <a href="https://x.com/SarahHuckabee/status/1826675980246949938" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a post on X.
Other red states like Florida and South Dakota will have abortion rights on the ballot in 2024, while abortion measures are pending in other conservative states like Missouri and Montana.

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While the gender theorists fumble around trying to answer the “What is a Woman?” question, Sarah Huckabee Sanders answered it with a clarion call at the Republican National Convention. Her words were beautifully woven with the purpose of femininity.
First, she honored Trump. Second, she lifted the name of God. And third, she emphasized her greatest role as a mother. 
Dressed in a cherry red dress and exuding pride in her country, Sanders praised Trump as an example of courage under fire while reminding us he is a father of five and grandfather of ten. With confidence and dignity, she modeled wisdom for younger women, which is what mothers are supposed to do. Not only is Sanders America’s youngest governor and the first female to lead “the great state of Arkansas,” but she is also the first mother to have served as White House Press Secretary, where she fielded attacks from the Left with unflinching grace.
“America was safer under Donald Trump,” she announced at the RNC, reminding the world what is top-of-mind for women: our safety and security. “The Left doesn’t care about empowering women,” she stated plainly, “Biden and Harris can’t even tell you what a woman is.” That is the God-honest truth.
While researching the creation of woman over the past few years, I discovered that not only is being a “man” an action — laying down one’s life to lift the woman at his side — but being a woman is an action too. It is the exact action Huckabee took in May of this year when she signed biological sex into law, defying Biden’s rewriting of Title IX to advance radical gender ideology. The action of womanhood is to speak on behalf of the vulnerable and to course-correct mankind when we are headed in the wrong direction.
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The word male in biblical Hebrew, zakar, means to remember who God is, what He says, and live it out. Men are responsible to carry the human family on their shoulders. Part of our purpose as women is to help them walk in that identity. While men lift us, women lift the home and family and stabilize mankind. Together, we pass on the ways of God to the next generation.
In her Executive Order to Protect Women and Girls, Huckabee achieved this purpose by revisiting the original meaning of Title IX: to protect women, not harm them. When Title IX was passed into law in 1972, it was a succinct 37 words. Biden’s unilateral rewriting of Title IX resulted in 459,804 nonsensical words that divorce human beings from biological reality and put women at risk. Sanders unapologetically declared, it “turns back the clock on women’s opportunities, erodes student privacy, threatens women’s sports, and erases women,” which we can’t ignore. 
With unflinching accuracy, she called Biden on the carpet, saying it is “plainly ridiculous” for men to compete in women’s sports, receive access to women’s and girls’ locker rooms and private spaces, and snap away our scholarships. She lambasted this administration for rejecting reality and appeasing their Left-wing base over student’s safety. 
“The government should celebrate, not erase, sex differences by providing proper protections for them,” she said, plain and simple–while making it illegal in Arkansas to force the use of inaccurate pronouns. She re-established “male and female” as the one and only definition of sex in her state. It’s refreshing and simple. The result of her measure? Girls in Arkansas don’t have to compete against boys. Their sports are safe; their locker rooms are safe; and their scholarships are safe. In Arkansas, political ideology doesn’t define sex; God does. Boom. That’s a woman for you.
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Real women know we are worthy of protection. Real women honor God, men, and children. And real women speak up when it matters.
The question remains why every Right-thinking governor in the United States hasn’t followed her wise example. What would happen if strong mothers and fathers stood united as a dividing wall between children and gender ideology? What would happen? Our daughters would be safe; our sons’ bodies and minds would be preserved; and children would know they are our first priority.
In her speech to the RNC, Sanders lived up to the timeless definition of womanhood exhibited in Proverbs 8:2: “At the crossroads, she [wisdom] takes her stand.”
“Ladies and gentlemen, we are not called to stand still in the face of great danger. You and I were put on this earth at a moment in time to charge boldly ahead,” Sanders said. I hope all women will follow her example. If they do, Matthew Arnold’s words will be fulfilled: “If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.”
What is a woman? We are daughters, wives, mothers, sisters, and grandmothers. We value strong, sacrificial fathers and raise warrior sons. We protect our daughters no matter the cost. And when the world is headed in the wrong direction, we stand up — maybe even wearing a beautiful red dress — and embrace the power of the feminine voice.
Let’s not forget that in the Book of Proverbs, Wisdom is a She.
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Jennifer Strickland is former international model, TEDx speaker, host of the I AM A WOMAN podcast, and an eight-time author, including titles such as Girl Perfect, Beautiful Lies, and her most recent release, <a href="http://iamawoman.us/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">I Am a Woman: Taking Back Our Name</a>. She has worked with women of all ages for over 20 years through her ministry, U R More, and passionately aims to educate women, girls, men, and boys about the biblical truth of our identity.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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Former White House Press Secretary — and current Governor of Arkansas — Sarah Huckabee Sanders delivered &#8220;the speech of the night&#8221; on Tuesday at the Republican National Convention (RNC) in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Liberal CNN commentator Van Jones praised the GOP governor during a panel discussion recapping the convention&#8217;s second day and argued that her stories had been relatable and very &#8220;moving.&#8221;
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&#8220;Sarah Huckabee Sanders, she was incredibly compelling to me,&#8221; Jones began. &#8220;She told a — she told personal stories that landed, you know, there’s a sense of aggrievement, I think that conservatives feel, that liberal culture demeans them, attacks them, cancels them. She didn’t use rhetoric. She told a personal story, and it was moving and it was powerful.&#8221;
&#8220;And I think having a southern storyteller to bring that stuff home worked really, really well for them. So I think she gave the speech of the night,&#8221; Jones said.
Sanders brought the house down early on with a crack aimed at President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden.
&#8220;I got the chance to take my four-year-old son Huck to &#8216;bring your kid to work day,&#8217; much like Jill now drags Joe to &#8216;bring your husband to work day,'&#8221; she quipped.
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And the conclusion to her speech drew even more cheers and applause: &#8220;With God as our guide and President Trump back in the White House, we will show the world that America is the place where freedom reigns and liberty will never die.&#8221;
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Arkansas Secretary of State John Thurston on Wednesday rejected an effort from pro-abortion activists to place an initiative on the November ballot to amend the state Constitution to roll back pro-life protections.  
In a <a href="https://x.com/lbengilmore/status/1811119926066958457" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to the pro-abortion group Arkansans for Limited Government (AFLG), Thurston said that the group failed to comply with state requirements to qualify for ballot placement. 
Thurston said that the group did not disclose who it paid to gather 14,143 of the signatures it collected in support of ballot placement and invalidated those signatures, meaning the group would be 3,322 signatures short of the required 90,704 needed to qualify. 
“The first part of our review is to ensure that the sponsor has complied with all statutory requirements for submitting a petition,”  Thurston said. “Because you failed at this first step, it is my duty to reject your submission.”
The ballot <a href="https://ag-opinions.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024-004.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">initiative</a> would have added exceptions to existing Arkansas abortion law for rape, incest, and fetal anomaly, as well as instituting a right to an abortion up to 18 weeks after conception. At <a href="https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/pregnancy-week-by-week/in-depth/fetal-development/art-20046151" target="_blank" rel="noopener">18 weeks</a>, an unborn baby’s digestive system begins working and they can hear sounds. 
AFLG <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/10/us/politics/arkansas-abortion-amendment.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> that it would review the letter and fight Thurston’s decision. 
“As I have long said, changing the Arkansas Constitution involves a rigorous process, as it should, and it requires sponsors to adhere to all applicable laws and rules,” Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin <a href="https://www.kark.com/news/politics/lawmakers-respond-to-arkansas-secretary-of-state-john-thurston-rejecting-abortion-ballot-petitions/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. “In this instance, the sponsors failed to follow the law, specifically a simple and straightforward affidavit requirement that other ballot committees followed.”
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Pro-life Republicans in the state celebrated the news of the rejection. 
“Today the far left pro-abortion crowd in Arkansas showed they are both immoral and incompetent,” Arkansas Republican Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders said. 
“This is a great day for all Arkansans. Our unborn babies will continue to be protected and the next generation will receive the educational freedom they deserve,&#8221; Senate Majority Leader Blake Johnson said. 
After the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, pro-abortion activists have moved to implement abortion rights into state constitutions through ballot initiatives. They have done so in multiple states, including Republican-dominated Ohio. Red states like Florida and South Dakota will have abortion rights on the ballot in 2024, while abortion measures are pending in other conservative states like Missouri and Montana.

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Arkansas Governor Sarah Sanders rolled out a proposal on Tuesday to incentivize schools in the state to ban cell phones from the classroom, according to a letter sent to schools across the state obtained by The Daily Wire.
The idea is to improve students&#8217; mental health by separating them from their phones, temporarily removing any anxiety their phones cause, encouraging in-person social interaction with friends, and fostering a better learning environment. &#8220;The program will address the symptoms of youth mental illness as well as one of its largest causes: screen addiction and social media,&#8221; Sanders said.
The grant program will cover the cost of putting a cell phone ban into place, providing schools with secure pouches for students to store their phones during the school day. All Arkansas school districts are invited to join the pilot program, the governor and Arkansas Secretary of Education Jacob Oliva wrote in a letter to school superintendents.
&#8220;We have made this a priority in our Administration, and we are committing state resources to help with this crisis,&#8221; Sanders and Olive said. &#8220;To that end, we are excited to announce a pilot program focused on two key priorities: restricting in-school phone use and mental healthcare. We invite your district to join this statewide effort.&#8221; 
Sanders notes that youth depression, anxiety, and isolation have risen across the country, and that the average American teen now spends nearly five hours a day on social media, often while in school. Meanwhile, the teen suicide rate has spiked since smartphones became widespread, as has self-harm among girls especially. Teen math, reading, and science scores have dropped across the country.
&#8220;That&#8217;s five hours a day not with friends, not outside, and not learning,&#8221; Sanders said in a video announcing the program. &#8220;The facts are grim, but there are things we can do to help.&#8221;
&#8220;Big Tech created an addicting product and marketed it to the most impressionable population out there, our kids,&#8221; she said.
Sanders has <a href="https://freebeacon.com/politics/how-sarah-sanders-put-arkansas-on-republicans-radar/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">emphasized</a> education during her administration, saying she hopes to be known as the &#8220;Education Governor.&#8221; She successfully pushed Arkansas&#8217; legislature to pass a universal school choice bill that also removed obscene sexual materials and critical race theory from classrooms, established new education standards, and raised teacher pay.
Sanders also led Arkansas in passing a law requiring minors to get parental permission to sign up for a social media account, although that law was blocked by a federal judge.
Public schools that participate in Arkansas&#8217; new program will be rewarded with additional funding, including extra funding for telehealth mental health services. They will also get extra support in navigating mental and behavioral health care, substance abuse care, and social services for students, families, and school employees, as well as help with navigating insurance.
Last month, Sanders and the state education secretary met with several Arkansas superintendents and took their recommendations into account when crafting the program, the governor&#8217;s office said. The grant program will be available for schools next academic year.

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Arkansas Governor Sarah Sanders (R) is ordering her state to follow state law over the Biden administration&#8217;s new interpretation of Title IX, prohibiting men from competing in women&#8217;s sports.
In an executive order obtained by The Daily Wire that Sanders will unveil on Thursday afternoon, the governor slams the Biden administration for its attempt &#8220;to unilaterally rewrite federal law to advance its radical gender ideology against women and girls.&#8221; Sanders calls it a &#8220;plainly ridiculous change&#8221; and says it will lead to biological males &#8220;unfairly competing&#8221; against females and violating their bathroom privacy.
Earlier this month, Biden&#8217;s Education Department unveiled new Title IX regulations blocking schools from enforcing blanket bans on transgender-identifying males in girls’ sports. Title IX is the 1972 federal civil rights law prohibiting sex-based discrimination at schools that receive federal funding. The new rules are set to take effect in August.
In her order, Sanders said female students must not be denied equal athletic opportunities or forced to risk their safety by playing with biological males. The order also says Arkansas public schools must not force students to shower or undress with members of the opposite sex, and should abide by state law that guarantees their privacy, the order says.
Arkansas policy is that &#8220;sex is an immutable characteristic of the human body, rooted in biology and the created order,&#8221; and &#8220;the government should celebrate, not erase, sex differences by providing proper protections for them,&#8221; the order says.
The order also says students and public school employees may not be forced to use &#8220;false pronouns,&#8221; citing the First Amendment.
Sanders ordered the Arkansas education department to provide &#8220;specific guidance&#8221; on how to enforce Arkansans&#8217; rights &#8220;despite&#8221; Biden&#8217;s &#8220;unlawful&#8221; new Title IX rules.
&#8220;At no point should Arkansas law be ignored,&#8221; the order reads.
&#8220;The Biden administration’s facially absurd redefinition of sex in Title IX turns back the clock on women’s opportunities, erodes student privacy, threatens women’s sports, and erases women,&#8221; Sanders&#8217; order reads. &#8220;The Biden administration redefines &#8216;sex&#8217; to fit its own absurd political ideology — not science — and imposes it on women, girls, and children.&#8221;
The administration has &#8220;rejected reality and chosen to appease their left-wing base over students’ safety and best interests,&#8221; the order says.
Riley Gaines, former NCAA championship swimmer, will speak at the executive order&#8217;s announcement. Gaines is a vocal advocate for women’s sports who argues that trans-identifying males should not be allowed to compete alongside women and girls.
Sanders also warned that Arkansas is prepared to sue the Biden administration if schools lose any funding due to the new regulations. At least nine states have already <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/more-states-file-flurry-of-lawsuits-against-biden-admin-over-transgender-title-ix-rules" target="_blank" rel="noopener">filed</a> lawsuits over the new rules.
The full text of the order obtained by The Daily Wire can be read below:
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E.O. 24-06:       EXECUTIVE ORDER TO PROTECT ARKANSAS STUDENTS, WOMEN, AND GIRLS
WHEREAS:   Title IX was signed into law in 1972 and contained a succinct 37 words;
WHEREAS:    Title IX was passed to protect women, not harm them;
WHEREAS:    The Biden administration is attempting to unilaterally rewrite federal law to advance its radical gender ideology against women and girls;
WHEREAS:    On April 19, 2024, the U.S. Department of Education released its final rule, in a document with a staggering 459,804 words, “reinterpreting” Title IX;
=WHEREAS:    The new Title IX rule will unilaterally expand the long-standing prohibition based on “sex” discrimination to include “gender identity”;
WHEREAS:    The Biden administration redefines “sex” to fit its own absurd political ideology—not science—and imposes it on women, girls, and children;
WHEREAS:    The Government should celebrate sex differences between men and women – not erase them. See Executive Order 23-30 to Eliminate Woke, Anti-Women Words from State Government and Respect Women, signed October 19, 2023;
WHEREAS:    The Biden administration’s facially absurd redefinition of sex in Title IX turns back the clock on women’s opportunities, erodes student privacy, threatens women’s sports, and erases women;
WHEREAS:    The Biden administration’s rewriting of Title IX discrimination on the basis of “sex” to include discrimination on the basis of “gender identity” is a plainly ridiculous change that will lead to males unfairly competing in women’s sports; receiving access to women’s and girls’ locker rooms, bathrooms, and private spaces; and competing for women’s scholarships;
WHEREAS:   The Biden administration has rejected reality and chosen to appease their left-wing base over students’ safety and best interests;
WHEREAS:    “Sex” has long been understood as binary biological characteristics – male (an individual who has, will, or would but for a medical abnormality produce the male reproductive gamete) or female (an individual who has, will, or would but for a medical abnormality produce the female reproductive gamete);
WHEREAS:    The Arkansas legislature has defined sex in Act 317 of 2023, on the basis of biology;
WHEREAS:    The Arkansas legislature has enacted law, Act 317 of 2023, ensuring that public schools designate restrooms based on sex;
WHEREAS:    Act 317 of 2023 further ensures that students share sleeping quarters with students of the same sex or are provided with single-occupancy sleeping quarters;
WHEREAS:    The Arkansas legislature enacted law in Act 461 of 2021, Fairness in Women’s Sports Act, that mandates that when schools choose to make a designation, they must do so based on biological sex – male or female;
WHEREAS:    The Arkansas legislature enacted law in Act 542 of 2023, the “Given Name Act,” which makes clear that employees of public schools and state-supported institutions of higher education do not shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at work;
WHEREAS:   The State of Arkansas will pursue legal action, to the extent available by law, from the Biden Administration for any financial loss, including loss of funding, incurred by the state due to the passage of the Biden administration’s unscientific agendas;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, SARAH HUCKABEE SANDERS, acting under the authority vested in me as the Governor of the State of Arkansas, do hereby proclaim:
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<li style="font-weight: 400;">It is declared to be the policy of this state that sex is an immutable characteristic of the human body, rooted in biology and the created order. The government should celebrate, not erase, sex differences by providing proper protections for them.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">The educational institutions of Arkansas will continue to enforce state law guaranteeing the right of students to maintain their privacy. Students must not be forced to shower or undress with members of the opposite sex.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">Female students must not be denied equal athletic opportunities or forced to risk their safety by having biological males placed into female-designated sports leagues.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">Students and employees of Arkansas’ educational institutions may not be forced to use false pronouns. The right to refuse to speak a lie is guaranteed in the First Amendment. My administration will continue to protect this fundamental right.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">All accused individuals must be given robust, traditional due process rights if they are accused of harassment under the Biden Title IX Amendment.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">The Arkansas Department of Education is ordered to provide specific guidance on how to enforce the rights of Arkansans to equal opportunity, free speech, due process, and privacy under the U.S. Constitution, Title IX, and state law, despite the Biden administration’s unlawful administrative rule. At no point should Arkansas law be ignored.</li>
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IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and cause the Great Seal of the State of Arkansas to be affixed this 2nd day of May, in the year of our Lord 2024.
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Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders says the upcoming Netflix <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxOdrBoYzKg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">series</a> that follows inmates at an Arkansas detention center who are given nearly unlimited freedom as part of a social experiment was built around a &#8220;reckless decision&#8221; by the local sheriff and is &#8220;insulting&#8221; to law enforcement.
“Unlocked: A Jail Experiment,” set to be released on April 10, films inmates after Pulaski County Sheriff Eric Higgins announces his plan to remove locks and officers to let the prisoners “be a community.” The Arkansas Democrat Gazette <a href="https://edition.arkansasonline.com/article/7926679989172240" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that the experiment at the jail near Little Rock took place over two months last year and allowed inmates in one cell block to live without cell doors and move freely without any law enforcement.
The experiment and corresponding Netflix series was a mistake, Sanders told The Daily Wire.
“Turning our prisons into a free-for-all all reality show is dangerous and insulting to our brave law enforcement officers who put their lives on the line to apprehend violent criminals,” Sanders said. “This is a reckless decision by the Pulaski County Sheriff and highlights the need for our new state prison to keep repeat violent offenders off our streets and our communities safe.”
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The trailer shows inmates using drugs and making alcohol, while some insist they want things to go well so they can see their families again. Typically, a deputy is stationed inside the cell block and prisoners are kept in their cells for up to 23 hours a day. For the experiment, a deputy was stationed outside the cell block for safety.
The Gazette noted that the prison where the Netflix series was filmed already operated an open-plan arrangement in its A and B blocks, but the show follows its conversion of H block. After the experiment was over, Sheriff Higgins continued to operate H block in an open-plan fashion.
Before the experiment, only inmates who were designated as best behaved were allowed to live in the open-plan blocks, the Gazette reported. The experiment, however, included inmates who were not classified as well-behaved, and it appears some inmates had to be removed from the block during the experiment. The outlet noted that the inmates “who remained” at the end of filming were now considered best behaved.
While the trailer appears to show inmates with drugs, the Gazette reported that only one inmate was charged with allegedly possessing cocaine, but the charges were dropped after testing was revealed to be a false positive.
The series has created controversy throughout Arkansas. Democrat Pulaski County Judge Barry Hyde and other court members are looking into Sheriff Higgins’ agreement with the film crew. Hyde said the agreement was illegal and that Higgins had no authority to make it, according to the Gazette.
The local Justice of the Peace, a Republican named Phil Stowers, told the outlet that deputies who were offered payment of $40 per hour to work during filming also may have violated the law.
Under Arkansas law, public servants are barred from receiving gifts and compensation other than their income and benefits from the government. Deputies can work off-duty jobs, but because they were paid to work their government jobs by the film producers, it could violate the law. These deputies were hired to provide “additional security” during the show’s production, the Gazette reported.

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Arkansas Republican Governor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/sarah-huckabee-sanders" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sarah Sanders</a> said on Tuesday that the state would ban the use of “X” on driver&#8217;s licenses and that state IDs must identify the individual as either male or female, according to an announcement first shared with The Daily Wire. 
Sanders’ office announced that the Arkansas Department of Finance and Administration (DFA) would rescind previous administrative procedures that allowed people to use an &#8220;X&#8221; designation instead of male or female on state-issued IDs. The ID must now align with the gender on the birth certificate of the resident. 
“This policy is just common sense,” Sanders told The Daily Wire. “Only women give birth, men shouldn’t play women’s sports, and there are only two genders. As long as I’m Governor, Arkansas state government will not endorse nonsense.”
Current Arkansas residents who have &#8220;X&#8221; on their IDs can continue to use them as they will be valid until they expire, then must be updated with either male or female. The new policy requires the gender marker to be in compliance with a person’s original or amended birth certificate. 
The policy allowing the use of X on IDs first rolled out in 2010, was flagged for DFA Secretary Jim Hudson after he began reviewing department policies in August 2023. Hudson said that the new policy was made in conjunction with Arkansas law.
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“This change announced today reflects a commonsense approach that ensures a license or ID issued by the State of Arkansas is based on objective, verifiable information,” Hudson said. “All of our stakeholders in law enforcement, other government agencies, caregivers, schools, and businesses depend on DFA-issued licenses and IDs to keep our communities safe and to prevent fraud. The discontinued policy is not supported by Arkansas law and was never subject to public comment and review by the Arkansas Legislative Council (ALC), as required by the Administrative Procedures Act.”
On Tuesday, the DFA will submit an emergency rule to the Arkansas Legislative Council’s executive subcommittee for review. 
“We are committed to implementing this new policy in a manner that is respectful towards all of our customers,” Hudson said.
Sanders previously issued an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/gov-sanders-eliminates-woke-anti-women-language-from-arkansas-government-documents-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">executive order</a> to remove “woke, anti-women” language from government documents, replacing words like “pregnant people” with things like “pregnant women” or “pregnant mom.”

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EAGLE PASS — Thirteen governors joined Texas Gov. Gregg Abbott at the southern border in Eagle Pass on Sunday to show support for his ongoing feud with the Biden administration over the border crisis, and see for themselves how Texas has stepped up where the federal government has failed.
“Governor Abbott has been stepping up where the federal government is dropping their duty,” Gov. Sarah Sanders of Arkansas told The Daily Wire after a briefing at the border. “So states are coming together, working together, to help do the job of the federal government.”
The visit to the border comes amid a border crisis, with more than <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/2455010/illegal-border-crossers-total-over-10-million-since-biden-inauguration/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">10 million</a> illegal immigrants crossing the border since Joe Biden took office. After the federal government failed to secure the border, Abbott took matters into his own hands by taking control of Shelby Park and reinforcing the border.
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We spoke to Arkansas Governor <a href="https://twitter.com/SarahHuckabee?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SarahHuckabee</a> earlier today at the southern border, where she says Texas is proving it can do the job the Biden administration says is impossible 
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Speaking in front of national guard troops, Abbott touted his administration&#8217;s success in significantly reducing the number of border crossings and blasted the Biden administration.
“Joe Biden has completely abdicated and abandoned his responsibility to enforce the laws of the United States,” Abbott said. “As opposed to detaining any illegal immigrants, Biden has instead let them all loose across the entire country with no ability to accurately determine their whereabouts.”
Gov. Greg Gianforte (R-MT) praised Abbott for his state&#8217;s success in lowering the number of crosses in the Eagle Pass area from thousands to single digits.
“They have virtually shut down crossings here in Eagle Pass,” Gianforte told The Daily Wire. “They showed pictures of 3,500 people in a detention center right here in this park … in the last couple of weeks — since they’ve taken the actions here to secure the border — they’ve had single digit crossings each day.”
Gianforte, whose state borders Canada, said he’s been to the southern border four times because the drugs coming across the borders have harmed his state.
“We’ve been able to shut down Montana Meth but now we have Mexican Meth in Montana along with the fentanyl, and it&#8217;s breaking up families, it&#8217;s increasing violent crime,” Gianforte said, adding that Montana’s National Guard troops were on the southern border for most of last year. &#8220;We need to secure our border and put it to an end.&#8221;
While 25 governors signed onto a letter in support of Abbott last week, his press conference at Shelby Park was attended by just about half of the signees. In addition to Sanders and Gianforte, the trip to the border included Georgia Governor Brian Kemp, Idaho Governor Brad Little, Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb, Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds, Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry, Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves, Missouri Governor Mike Parson, Nebraska Governor Jim Pillen, New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu, Tennessee Governor Bill Lee, and Utah Governor Spencer Cox.
Sanders said the group of governors does not intend to abandon the mission until the Biden administration steps up.
“Hopefully the federal government sees that Texas and other states are capable of doing the job they claim is impossible, and that they’ll start helping in the process,” Sanders said. “If they don’t, you’ll continue to see states step up because we know that we have to protect our border and protect the people of our states.”
Texas authorities denied a request from the Biden administration to hand over control of the park to Border Patrol, with the Texas National Guard and Department of Public Safety instead maintaining control and even reinforcing existing border barriers with additional razor wire.

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Former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> officially received the endorsement of Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders at a rally in Hialeah, Florida, on Wednesday.
Sanders, who working under the former president as White House press secretary, teased her endorsement earlier this week. Trump took the stage for his rally in Florida as five of his GOP primary competitors took another stage together in Miami for the third primary debate. Trump has skipped the primary debates, citing his lead in the polls.
“Our country has never needed Donald Trump more than we do right now,” Sanders told the cheering crowd. “Tonight, I am so proud to endorse my former boss, my friend, and everybody’s favorite president, Donald J. Trump.”
Trump took the stage after Sanders, thanking his former spokeswoman for her support and launching into a roughly 45-minute speech. The former president repeatedly attacked the sitting president, Joe Biden, over his handling of the economy, the southern border, international relations, and other issues. Trump also repeated his nickname for the president, “crooked Joe,” a reference to the influence peddling scheme the Biden family has allegedly engaged in for years with foreign agents.
“Crooked Joe Biden and the radical Left Democrats are turning the United States into Communist Cuba, and you know because we have a lot of great Cubans here,” Trump said to cheers from the Florida crowd. “We have a lot of great Cubans here, and nobody ever did more for Americans that love Cuba than a gentleman named Donald J. Trump when he was president.”
Trump estimated that 15 million immigrants will have crossed the U.S. southern border and entered the country by the end of Biden’s first term. He pledged to launch the “largest domestic deportation operation in American history” on the first day of his second term.
Trump also touted the results of a recent <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/05/us/politics/biden-trump-2024-poll.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">poll</a> from The New York Times and Sienna College that showed the former president leading Biden in five of six swing states.
“It means we’re going to have strong borders, great education, you’re going to be able to buy a house, we’re going to have interest rates come down, we’re going to have a great military, we’re going to have safety and security. It means everything. It means we’re going to have a country, because you’re not going to have a country left if we don’t win this election,” Trump said.
Toward the end of the rally, the Republican mayor of Hialeah, Esteban Bovo, joined Trump on stage and presented him with a mock road sign touting the former president’s name: “President Donald J. Trump Avenue.” Bovo said he would bring a proposal up to rename a street after Trump to the city council next week.
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