In the last year, the Goldwater Institute has worked with our partners around the country to dismantle radical DEI in higher ed, expanded school choice to millions of families in numerous states across the U.S., helped concerned parents get the answers they deserve from “woke” public education bureaucrats, broke down barriers to work for countless Americans, enacted lifesaving healthcare reforms, and much more.
Do you want to work with us in your state as we fight to empower all Americans to live freer, happier lives? Email us at info@goldwaterinstitute.org to get connected. Here are some of the highlights of how we win.
Radical, racist political ideologies are crippling higher education, but the Goldwater Institute is showing the country how to rein in the “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) regime in America’s public colleges and universities.
The Goldwater Institute has partnered with individuals and organizations to create and enact state-level reforms that are ending the corrosive impact of DEI initiatives at the administrative and classroom level, while upholding academic freedom of students and faculty. That includes banning the use of progressive loyalty oaths (also known as diversity statements) in hiring and admissions, abolishing DEI bureaucracies, and prohibiting mandatory DEI indoctrination trainings.
To date, Goldwater has dismantled DEI regimes in10 states. Meanwhile, the Institute is exposing the illegal use of DEI in universities and its litigators are defending educators’ rights. Learn more here.
It started more than a decade ago in Arizona, when Goldwater created the nation’s first education savings accounts (ESA) program to empower parents to give their children the education they deserve. Goldwater then worked with partners to enact ESAs in 20 states.
In 2022, Goldwater won America’s biggest school choice victory ever, expanding ESAs to Arizona’s more than one million students in the new gold standard for school choice. Since then, Goldwater’s leadership has paved the way for universal school choice reforms in a total of 12 states.
We’re also ensuring that parents know what’s being taught in the classroom with our Academic Transparency Act so that they can exercise informed choice in education. And we’re defending parents’ rights in court—and winning. Learn more here.
Countless Americans in every state in the nation have the freedom to save their own lives, thanks to the Goldwater Institute’s Right to Try law. Now, Goldwater is fighting to expand that freedom even further by ensuring Americans can access the most cutting-edge treatments available.
Nearly 10 years ago, the Goldwater Institute created the Right to Try, a healthcare reform that protects terminally ill patients’ right to seek potentially lifesaving treatments without begging the federal government for permission. Goldwater enacted Right to Try in 41 states, and it became law of the land in 2018. Now we’re taking it to the next level with the Right to Try for Individualized Treatments, which opens the door for patients to access genetic treatments that cannot go through the FDA’s outdated regulatory process. This Right to Try expansion is now law in six states, with more on the way.
Goldwater is also putting power in patients’ hands through its groundbreaking telehealth law, which frees people to access care through their phones, tablets, and computers—another patient-centered reform we plan to enact nationwide. Learn more here.
Work hard. Profit from your talents. Make something out of nothing. Create a better life for you and your family. That’s the American Dream, but for too long, the government has stood in the way. Thanks to the Goldwater Institute, countless Americans are free to pursue their American Dream without having to beg the government for permission to do it.
In more than half the states in the nation, Goldwater has passed our landmark Breaking Down Barriers to Work law so that experienced, licensed professionals can exercise their right to earn a living without jumping through needless and costly bureaucratic hoops.
In myriad other ways, government bureaucrats make it difficult or impossible for Americans to practice a trade or start a business. Goldwater is there to fight for hardworking Americans. Learn more here.
The Goldwater Institute’s Scharf-Norton Center for Constitutional Litigation strikes at the very heart of government overreach. From state courts to the Supreme Court, our attorneys win victories that have an immediate impact on defending and expanding freedom, while also effecting lasting change. We also have lawyers in every state that can help our partners who don’t have their own litigation centers or aren’t able to take on every case.
We challenge illegal taxes so that Americans can keep more of their hard-earned money. We defend parents’ rights against public school bureaucrats who want to cut them out of their kids’ education. We stand up against government unions when they abuse their power. We safeguard free speech, and we uphold the Second Amendment. And we protect Americans’ right to use their property as they see fit.
Goldwater’s American Freedom Network—a pro bono network of nearly 1,000 attorneys nationwide—works closely with the Institute on cases and projects to advance liberty around the country, including with our sister organizations. AFN members work on matters ranging from free speech to taxpayer rights to government transparency. The Goldwater Institute matches cases and clients to AFN attorneys, and we provide litigation and media communications support along the way.
We love partnering with our sister organizations to accomplish these groundbreaking wins for freedom across the country. We can provide you with model policies, research and technical drafting support tailored to your state, expert legislative testimony, legal assistance, and more.
Do you want to work with us in your state as we fight to empower all Americans to live freer, happier lives? Email us at info@goldwaterinstitute.org to get connected.
