Cuba has been going through a summer of discontent. Thousands of protestors have emerged to condemn the dictatorship’s mishandling of the economy and its continuing food shortages, blackouts, and massive COVID outbreaks. The anguished cries for freedom against the severe, miserable living conditions are the greatest in years.

On Friday, President Trump issued three executive orders (and threatened a fourth) outlining sweeping changes he planned to make regarding prescription drug prices in the United States. One order seeks to make federal grants to federally qualified health centers contingent upon discounted insulin prices. A second would allow personal and wholesale importation of prescription drugs from overseas. The third implements rebate reform for pharmacy benefits managers (PBMs).

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This week marks the 184th anniversary of the signing of the Texas Declaration of Independence. Unfortunately, although it remains an event of massive importance to my home state, the events that transpired at Washington-on-the-Brazos during the Convention of 1836 have largely gone ignored by the rest of the country. This is unfortunate, for there are many important lessons about governance and liberty that can be learned from the Texas Revolution.

FreedomWorks is proud to announce that our bill of the month for August 2019 is the anti-socialism resolution, S.Res. 289, introduced by Sen. Steve Daines (R-Mont.), which expresses “the sense of the Senate that socialism poses a significant threat to freedom, liberty, and economic prosperity.”

Walt Disney once said, “We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.” This has always been true of the American industrial spirit and free market capitalism as the creator often seeks to make new ideas a reality. Partnering vision with response to an ever changing world, the market often provides the best technological advancements and social structures better than anything humanity could dream.

The United States is THE world leader in incarceration. Over the last 10 years, however, the justice reform community has pushed in the direction of smart, evidence-based methods to reduce crime and improve public safety. States like Texas and Georgia, and more recently Alaska, Kansas, and Maryland, have discovered value in moving away from the “Tough on Crime” stance of the 80s and seeking reforms that reduce monetary costs and bring about significant savings for taxpayers. Champions of the cause like Senator Rand Paul, Senator Mike Lee, and Representative Justin Amash, are leaders of strong conservative and constitutional values, all scoring lifetime ratings of 99 percent or 100 percent on the FreedomWorks’ Congressional scorecard.