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Week in Review: $117K to see what a school is teaching?

Goldwater Fights Outrageous $117K Fee for School Records When a Rhode Island teacher made headlines for publishing videos celebrating the..

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Honoring Courage: Elijah Stacy, Goldwater’s 2025 Freedom Award Winner

The Goldwater Institute is proud to honor Elijah Stacy as the recipient of our 2025 Freedom Award. Elijah’s unwavering courage,..

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Benjamin Franklin and the Birth of American Liberty—11/21 Virtual Event

Benjamin Franklin—statesman, inventor, and journalist—stands among the great heroes of American history. And who better to tell his story than..

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Week in Review: Restoring Faith in Federalism

As civic education continues to slide and the federal government grows outside its bounds, a key pillar of our constitutional..

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Podcast: How This Pastor Rebuilt a Community—Without DEI

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Blueprint for Federalism: Goldwater Launches Civics Initiative to Add the 10th Amendment to State Constitutions  

America’s founders wisely recognized it from the beginning—the best chance for a sprawling young republic to survive would be for..

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Week in Review: Trailblazing for Liberty

The Goldwater Institute continues to blaze trails for liberty in courtrooms, classrooms, and statehouses, fighting for freedom and against government..

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Goldwater 2025 Freedom Gala: Trailblazing for Liberty 

Challenging illegal taxes and government censorship in court. Backing free-market housing reforms. Breaking down barriers to work. Standing up for..

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Podcast: DEI Is Destroying Our Universities

What happens when America’s most prestigious universities stop educating and start indoctrinating? In the latest episode of the Goldwater Institute’s..

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Week in Review: Vaporizing Oregon Censorship

Walk into any store in America, and you’ll see labels describing everything under the sun. But in Oregon, the state..

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We are grateful for your support of the Goldwater Institute’s efforts to advance and defend liberty throughout the United States. For over 36 years, we’ve been defending the rights of Americans to live their lives free from government interference.

And Goldwater is unique in that we direct our efforts to the 50 states where we introduce and advance innovative ideas that expand freedom. And we fight in courtrooms and capitals nationwide to defend individual liberty.

In 2024 alone, we scored over 50 policy and litigation victories defending liberty!

And that’s just the beginning.

Our plans for 2025 include:

  • Stopping pernicious DEI and other woke programs in America’s universities.
  • Ensuring that patients suffering from rare and terminal diseases have access to cutting-edge, lifesaving medical treatments, without having to first seek permission from the government.
  • Defending parental rights across the United States so that parents can send their kids to the school that best fits their needs, free from leftist indoctrination.
  • Eliminating government interference in the fundamental right of individuals to own property and use it as they see fit.
  • And much, much more

We seek to restore the presumption of liberty; that people are free to act without first asking permission from the government.

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