On Thursday, Secretary of State Antony Blinken testified at a hearing of the House Appropriations Committee regarding the State Department's 2024 budget. In one particularly revealing interaction, Blinken was asked about a State Department grant that was approved for an LGBT project in Ecuador and a grant offer in Botswana.

Over the last few years, I've noticed a phenomenon happening within the conservative movement that continually vexes me. It is this: Staunchly conservative commentators - who otherwise would be the first to condemn sexual immorality and abuse as well as murderous violence that happens in real life - are continually taken in by fictional movies and TV shows that prominently feature said content, so much so that they produce articles and videos that publicly sing the praises of these movies and shows.

This week, at Family Policy Alliance's SoConCon Social Conservative Policy Conference, TWS's Joy Stockbauer sat down with Lori Kuykendall, president of Beacon Health Education Resources. In this conversation, we explore how her organization is fighting back against exploitative progressive sexual education curricula - and teaching kids about the beauty of God's creation.

On a recent panel at Family Policy Alliance's SoConCon Social Conservative Policy Conference, Family Research Council hosted a discussion between detransitioners Chloe Cole and Walt Heyer as well as FRC's director of the Center for Biblical Worldview, David Closson. The panel, titled "From Woodstock to Bostock: Is the Sexual Revolution Derailing?" centered on the roots of gender ideology - both in the culture due to the influence of the sexual revolution and in the personal lives of those taken in by gender ideology.

Sterilization, electric shock torture, and brainwashing are hallmarks of the Chinese Communist Party's treatment of the Uyghur people, according to prison camp survivors. "Genocide is occurring. This time at the hands of the Chinese Communist Party," Rep. Mike Gallagher, R-Wis., said at the start of the Select Committee on the CCP hearing Thursday night.

On Thursday mornings, DirecTV subscribers turned on their screens and saw something they hadn't seen in a while: Newsmax. After 81 days, and the delivery of more than 17,000 signed petitions from Family Research Council, cable provider DirecTV has restored Newsmax, which vanished from its channel lineup at the stroke of midnight on January 25.