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A perfect storm of Supreme Court decisions, pandemic recriminations and fiery culture wars has vaulted education to the top of the 2024 presidential agenda, animating Republicans who believe they have the upper hand.

Why it matters: This election will be the first to test whether four years of heated debate over COVID-19 school policies, critical race theory and gender identity will translate at the presidential level. The conservative Supreme Court could add fuel to the fire and juice turnout among young voters.

Driving the news: The Supreme Court's rejection of affirmative action at colleges today is a watershed moment for higher education one celebrated across the board by Republican candidates and condemned by President Biden, who declared that this is "not a normal court."

Zoom in: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has staked out the most aggressive education platform of any candidate, seeking to upend school systems nationwide with the same "anti-woke" blueprint he's constructed in Florida.

What we're watching: This weekend, five presidential hopefuls including Trump and DeSantis are speaking at an event run by a controversial group known for promoting book bans and leading raucous school board protests.

How we got here: Conservatives' intense focus on K-12 education policy in particular has been building for years, beginning in response to prolonged school closures and mask mandates imposed over COVID.

The bottom line: Republicans have dominated the education messaging war, with little engagement from Democrats. But recent polling from the Pew Research Center suggests it hasn't translated to shifts in public perception, with neither party holding a significant edge on education policy.

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John Andrews of Paris represents District 79 in the Maine House of Representatives. He is a co-sponsor of LD 2004.

Now Brothers never let the Kings Wicked Councilors turn your Hearts Against Me and your Brethren of this Country.

These words were written byGen. George Washington on Christmas Eve in 1776. Washington took the time to write to the chiefs of the Passamaquoddy Tribe before he faced what looked like certain death in crossing the icy Delaware River and fighting the Hessians at the Battle of Trenton. Our nations first president was a friend of the tribes and respected them.

Gov. Janet Mills should follow suit.

Ive taken the time over my five years in Augusta to meet with chiefs and tribal representatives. Ive heard them and listened to them. Their battle for liberty and respect is something that I will never know. However, I can see the struggles of my Irish ancestors in their eyes. Everyone wants to be free.

I would be remiss as a lawmaker if I did not see the equivalency of cause in the Maine tribes fight for dignity. I swore an oath to the Constitution, the Constitution that Washington signed. I intend as a legislator to hold fast to the friendship that Washington showed our states tribes. Its good policy, and its the right thing to do.

Together as a state, we can reforge the bright chain of friendship that was crafted centuries ago between the People of the Dawn and those American rebels fighting for their own independence on the banks of the Delaware River. The tribes had our backs then, and its time we had theirs now.

LD 2004would allow Maine tribes to directly communicate with the federal government to access laws and programs that would benefit their communities. LD 2004 passedthe Maine House and Senate with unanimous consent votes for enactment. This should be seen as a message to the governor.

At its core, LD 2004 is a piece of legislation that would get state government out of the way. Maine tribes would be put on the same level of access with every other federally recognized tribe. Just like they are in every other state in the nation. Maine tribes and their communities would no longer have to beg permission to plan their lives from lawmakers, and a governor and her legal counselors.

This necessary piece of legislation was vetoedFriday by Gov. Janet Mills. I believe this action is on par with every intolerable act that King George III levied against the American colonists. The game is the same, but the players are different.

LD 2004 is an issue of basic liberty. Liberty for our tribes is long overdue. That is why I am proud to be a co-sponsor on this bipartisan bill that would help people live free and have the certainty to plan their future endeavors with regard to prosperity and economic development.

Because of the 1980 settlement act, the Wabanaki tribes health, educational and economic outcomes have lagged far behindthose of other population groups in Maine and other tribes throughout the country. President Ronald Reagan was a proud supporter of tribal self determination. In 1983, the Republican said: Since tribal governments have the primary responsibility for meeting the basic needs of Indian communities, they must be allowed the chance to succeed.

Those words ring true today. Maine Republicans need to live the values of one of their iconic presidents. We as Republicans were founded as an abolitionist party. We need to get back to our roots and core values of fighting for the freedom of all people.

I believe the governors veto of this bill is out of bounds and just plain vindictive against Maines tribes. Even some of the governors most ardent supporters did not want her to veto this bill.

Now, in the spirit of liberty, Maine Republicans must override her veto of this bill.This week of July 4 we have a real chance to fight tyranny or support it. I suggest that my fellow Republicans in the 131st Legislature walk in the footsteps of Washington and Reagan. We do not need to have our hearts turned against our states tribes by Mills and her counselors. We as Republicans should be fighting for the freedom and liberty of our Indigenous brothers and sisters.

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DEXTER Oregons leading anti-abortion political advocacy organization and a small group of Lane County Republicans gathered on the banks of the Dexter Reservoir on Wednesday, vowing to do everything they could to make sure the areas first-term Republican state representative loses his job in 2024.

Rep. Charlie Conrad, R-Dexter, has become a top target for Oregon Right to Life, the Oregon Firearms Federation and other right-wing groups over his vote for a bill intended to guarantee access to abortion and gender-affirming care. For some voters, Conrads decision to support House Bill 2002 after researching and learning more about transgender youth served as a welcome sign of a possible return to a less polarized politics, and some community members and elected leaders interviewed by the Capital Chronicle on Wednesday described the freshman representative as a good listener and a strong advocate for rural issues.

But others have seen his endorsement of the bill, which passed, as a betrayal: Within minutes of his vote on the House floor, Conrad said he began receiving emails calling him a traitor, shameful, a pedophile.

A Wednesday press conference for the newly formed political action committee opposing Conrad garnered 11 people, including at least two Oregon Right to Life employees and a Springfield woman who doesnt live in the district. Lois Anderson, executive director of Oregon Right to Life, said the organization will use every tool it has to ensure Conrads defeat.

That starts with an already ongoing paid door-to-door and phone campaign to notify every Republican primary voter of Representative Conrads deadly record, she said. Republican state senators gave up their jobs in an effort to retain the rights of parents and to protect minors from the abortion industry. We believe that the people of House District 12 will ensure that Charlie Conrad gives up his job for trying to endanger them.

Republican senators stalled the Legislature for six weeks with a walkout over a few bills, including House Bill 2002. Anderson declined to say how much Oregon Right to Life plans to spend targeting Conrad. A political action committee formed last week to support the effort hasnt yet reported any transactions.

In May, the Lane County Republican Party approved a resolution withdrawing all support for Conrad and asking him to resign. The Washington County Republican Party, far outside his district, called on the state Republican Party and the House Republican caucus to deny any financial or volunteer support for Conrad and bar him from attending caucus meetings.

At a coffee shop in nearby Lowell on Wednesday, Conrad said he doesnt know whether to expect campaign help from fellow Republicans. He deeply respects House Minority Leader Vikki Breese-Iverson, R-Prineville, and other caucus members, he said, and he made sure to give Breese-Iverson plenty of warning about how he would vote.

Part of the reason why I respect them is because they represent their districts, and I would never ask them to sacrifice their political career and their ability to really represent their districts as they should be represented to support me, Conrad said. So well see the conversations that happen, but at this point in time, I dont plan on jeopardizing anybody else. It was my vote, and I think I represented my district.

House District 12, a sprawling district that stretches south and east from the outskirts of Eugene through several small rural communities, is closely split among non-affiliated voters, Republicans and Democrats. As of June, non-affiliated voters made up about 33% of the districts voters, followed by Republicans with 31% and Democrats with 29%.

But only registered Republicans will be able to vote in the May 2023 primary. One of Conrads constituents, Dorena resident Walt Bernard, said hed consider changing his registration to Republican if thats what it took to re-elect Conrad.

Bernard is one of the leaders of an effort to establish a fire district in the Row River Valley, an area now served by fire and ambulance services in Cottage Grove nearly 30 minutes away. Bernard first met Conrad last fall when he was a representative-elect and said Conrad has helped him get in touch with other state elected officials and connect with law enforcement and fire officials who helped supporters of a Row River Valley Fire District get off the ground.

If (Conrads) the one thats kind of under threat, I might move my affiliation to Republican so that I could vote for him in the primary, Bernard said. And it would be the same way for a Democrat, he added, citing Democratic Sen. Floyd Prozanski of Eugene, who represented the area before redistricting in 2022.

Nicole De Graff, an anti-vaccine advocate who Conrad beat by 99 votes in last years Republican primary, said she doesnt plan to run again but has met with a potential challenger. She declined to name that person.

It was clear from day one that he doesnt care what his constituents think, De Graff said. It turns out, his constituents are (Democratic Gov.) Tina Kotek and (Democratic House Speaker) Dan Rayfield.

She and other opponents said Conrad, who won in the general election with 57% of the vote, sided with Democratic leaders 85% of the time, a statistic that belies the bipartisan nature of most votes in Salem. Most of the hundreds of bills passed by legislators each year pass with broad bipartisan support.

Both Lane County Commissioner Pat Farr and his wife, Debi, represented Lane County as Republicans in the state House in the 2000s. Pat Farr, now a non-affiliated voter, said he thinks most voters care more about economic issues than a candidates stance on reproductive rights or gender, though voters have opinions on the latter.

Farr said Conrad helped deliver on needs for the district, including advocating for a $300,000 allocation included in the states final Christmas tree bill of budget additions to upgrade the water treatment plant in Lowell. He understands rural needs and can articulate them well, Farr said.

When you talk to Rep. Conrad, its not like youre talking to a politician, he said. Its like youre talking to your neighbor. Hes really easy to speak to and really easy to get the feeling that he is understanding what youre talking about.

An early primary challenge may turn out to be beneficial to Conrad, Farr said, because it will give him more time to tell voters why he believes what he does. Conrad agrees.

The fact that theyre doing it this early, it just means that we get to have the conversation in public that much longer, Conrad said. We get to have this conversation about reproductive health. We get to have that conversation in the district and people get to weigh in. Im still the representative for another 18 months or so, at least, and there are a lot of things that I still get to do for the district.

One of those things, Oakridge Mayor Bryan Cutchen hopes, is helping his small city about 40 miles east of Eugene rebuild the Willamette Activity Center, a social services hub that fell into disrepair. A new center will cost about $5 million, and Oakridge is seeking federal and state funding. The community, like others on the western slopes of the Cascades, also needs more state support with fire preparedness and response.

Cutchen, a retired Navy rear admiral, ran for state Senate in Maine as a Republican in 2016. He registered as a non-affiliated voter when he moved to Oakridge in 2019 to serve as city administrator, and he said party politics arent a big issue in his town.

Parties never come into it in Oakridge, Cutchen said. There are positions that people have that you could attribute to a party. There are fiscal conservatives, there are fiscal liberals, there are social liberals, but the idea of pointing and saying Youre a Democrat or Republican, none of that ever comes up.

Leslie Rubinstein, a former school board member who has been involved in progressive politics in Cottage Grove for more than 30 years, supported Democratic nominee Michelle Emmons in the 2022 general election. Shell almost certainly vote for a Democratic candidate in 2024, she said.

But Rubinstein said she was pleasantly surprised when she first met Conrad on a Zoom call after he took office. She and a few other people set up a call to urge him to support a bill that would have required the state to divest any investments in fossil fuels something he didnt support and that ultimately didnt pass. Conrad spent twice as long on the call as they scheduled, asked questions and was open about who else had lobbied him, Rubinstein said.

She was also impressed reading in the Capital Chronicle about how Conrad changed his mind and ended up voting for a major bill on abortion and gender-affirming care after he learned more about care for transgender young people.

I still am wary of Republican politics in general, Rubinstein said. But I realized this is somebody who was willing to investigate something and then change his vote based on the information that he got. And if he had done that investigation, and hadnt changed his vote, I still would have been impressed to read that he had asked these questions and publicly spoken about it.

Conrad tries to make it to every meeting hes invited to, said Melanie Stanley, a Blue River business owner who lost her home and the store her family ran for nearly 30 years during the 2020 Holiday Farm Fire, one of the largest in Oregon history. Stanley said she has always tried to stay in touch with her state representatives, but the fire and continuing recovery made her become more involved.

Stanley is a registered Democrat so she can have a voice in primaries, she said, but she considers herself more of a centrist. Shes impressed by any candidate who will think for themselves instead of following a party line.

I think if a party is going to base representation on a single bill, then we have a problem and that goes for both sides, Stanley said. Because, and I told Representative Conrad this, I respect his ability to stand up even if hes standing alone because it means that he is holding true to what she thinks and how he believes, not just what the party thinks.

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A political action committee supporting Robert F. Kennedy Jr.s presidential campaign has raised a total of $10.25 million, one of its leaders said on Monday, a signal that his long-shot challenge to President Biden has gained traction among donors, including many Republicans.

The precise level of fund-raising by the super PAC, American Values 2024, will not be known until later this month, when political action committees file midyear reports with the Federal Election Commission. But Tony Lyons, Mr. Kennedys publisher and the super PACsco-chair, said that the $10.25 million included two very large donations that each exceed $1 million, and that the contributions came from a right down the middle mix of Republicans and Democrats.

Mr. Kennedy, a 69-year-old environmental lawyer and prominent skeptic of vaccines and prescription medications, often cites contorted statistics and unfounded theories. He has gained a foothold in the race, even as he has railed against the Democratic Party, accused public health authorities of corruption and increasingly embraced conservative figures and causes.

Mr. Kennedy will not come close to summoning the kind of financial support that will flow to Mr. Biden, who as the incumbent has the might of the Democratic National Committee and a robust donor infrastructure behind him.

Mr. Kennedys support among Democrats has reached as high as 20 percent in polls, although a poll conducted in June by the Saint Anselm College Survey Center put his Democratic support in New Hampshire at 9 percent.

He has also appealed to prospective voters outside the party: A Quinnipiac University poll in June found that 40 percent of Republicans viewed him favorably, compared with 31 percent of independents and 25 percent of Democrats.

Mr. Bidens campaign has not yet announced fund-raising numbers.

The super PAC American Values 2024 was formed last year as the Peoples Pharma Movement, and wasinitiallyfinanced by $500,000 in contributions from Mark Gorton, a New York City investor, records show. Mr. Gorton, who is supporting Mr. Kennedys candidacy, has said he knows Mr. Kennedy through the health freedom movement, which broadly opposes vaccinations and the regulation of health practices.

The committee was renamed this past spring, after Mr. Kennedy entered the race for the Democratic nomination in April. A majority of the $10.25 million has come since then, Mr. Lyons said. As recently as the first week of June, the PACs total haul was $5.7 million, committee officials said, indicating that nearly $5 million more arrived in the weeks before the June 30 reporting deadline.

The range of political affiliations among the donors, Mr. Lyons said, showed that there really are people across the political spectrum who feel hes going to fight corruption in government and corporate takeover of government agencies.

In recent speeches and appearances, Mr. Kennedy has leaned on his familys storied political history, and framed his race as a bid to heal the divide in American politics, which he has described as being captive to corporate power.

The PAC is separate from his campaign, which last week sent out requests to hit a $5 million goal to close out its first full quarter of fund-raising. On Friday, the campaign boasted of a $1 million haul in a 24-hour period.

Dennis Kucinich, the former presidential candidate and former Ohio congressman who is serving as Mr. Kennedys campaign manager, said the campaign expected to make a fund-raising announcement this week. Official numbers will be filed with the F.E.C. this month.

A second group supporting Mr. Kennedy, Common Sense PAC, was formed in Los Angeles in April by Sofia Karstens, an actress who has been active in the health freedom movement.Common Sense hosted a fund-raiser for Mr. Kennedy last month in San Francisco along with two tech investors, David Sacks and Chamath Palihapitiya. That event raised nearly $1 million, Ms. Karstens said.

Ms. Karstens did not have the PACs latest total fund-raising immediately available on Monday.

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