If you’re reading our emails, you’re someone who cares about the world, and certainly your family. Also, you’re a fighter in one way or another. You’re fighting to help your school, your church, your work, or the people you care about.

But I’d bet the fire under your fight is something beyond. What is the reason you fight?

Ann Atkinson wrote our guest blog last week about ASU limiting free speech on their campus. One group was harassed and libeled by Barrett Honors faculty for a ‘Health, Wealth & Happiness’ event with Dennis Prager and Charlie Kirk. ASU ultimately dismantled the entire T.W. Lewis Center of Personal Development for daring to spread such ‘dangerous ideas’.

Two days later, AZWOA posted a clip of an ASU Student promoting the Socialist Revolution club (Yes, it is an actual ASU-approved club).

Ann Atkinson writes our blog this week about her battle for all of us--to stand Fearless and Free in the face of blatant, unconstitutional, suppression when it happened right here at Arizona State University. Ann is a true Arizona Woman of Action! We’re grateful for her bold stand, and for sharing the truth of what happened with our subscribers of Arizona Women of Action.

If you’re lucky enough to be here in Arizona this week enjoying the ‘dry heat’, you know it’s classic August. You’ve also probably noticed those poor kids back in school, walking along sidewalks at 3pm. (I have no idea why we don’t start after Labor Day, like when I was a kid!)

Teachers have been prepping to welcome classrooms full of eager (and not-so-eager) students. Kids have gotten their backpacks, and maybe some new shoes…. What can we parents and citizens do now? (Even if you have no kids at the schools in your area, just remember those are your future leaders. Those are the future friends and colleagues surrounding your kids and grandkids.)

If you’re paying attention (and I know you are because you’re getting this email), you see the constant struggles between parents and educators over 1) who has authority and the best interests of children, and over 2) what they should learn in school versus what is literally propaganda or obscene material. This reality forces an honest question every good parent must make: “Should I home school?” Even if schools were perfect, there are still good reasons to teach your kids at home. (I did it with my five kids for three years, and they were some of the best in our family!)

As many of you know, Arizona Women of Action has joined the fight to defend the “Save Women’s Sports Act”, the law enacted in 2022 to protect the fairness and safety of Arizona girls and women in public sports. We, along with three individual moms, have filed a Motion to Intervene in a lawsuit against our state (represented by our State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Tom Horne, because our Attorney General refuses to defend Arizona law). We believe someone needs to stand up for girls and women in Arizona—and who better than Arizona Women of Action, representing some 17,000 followers and subscribers, a majority of whom are women; many moms and grandmothers.

Finding the truth amid the arguments and twisted theories is hard enough. But it’s even harder to explain the truth so people can hear and accept it.

With growing intrusion by schools, government and healthcare, a shift is taking place---either children are raised by strong families, or they will be raised by government. Which is better for children? Which is better for a thriving, caring society? Government makes a poor parent. This is why natural, healthy, strong families are one of the top goals of Arizona Women of Action.

How did ‘Pride Month’ come to the marketing madness we see now? What happened in the 1980s that started the whirlwind, and what’s with Joe Biden’s Toolkit on Transgender Equality? Tamra Farah gives us the background we need to fight back with confidence, whether speaking with friends or at a school board meeting.

Mary has written Citizen Ninja: Stand Up to Power, and her online course makes it fun and simple. She created a master blueprint for effective engagement that changes communities! Our AZWOA leaders took her training, offered by Citizens for Free Speech, and it was so practical and empowering! (Stay tuned for more in the months ahead as we connect further to become powerful, Citizen Ninjas!)….

This week our Director of the AZWOA Life in Action Team, Debi Vandenboom pulls back the curtain on what really goes on in Pregnancy Care Homes (which Katie Hobbs stripped funding from) and the sadly unhinged battle over the issue of abortion. Through all the screaming and fear, there really IS hope for understanding, compassion and healing on all sides--IF we courageously seek the truth. And if we speak it to others through love and respect. ~ Kim 

Kaylyn Foggy, a West Valley parent, writes our guest blog this week. She’s a perfect example of a normal, busy woman (young mom) who pays attention and saw the damage that leftist ideology is doing to kids in schools. So, she decided to DO something about it.

A few weeks ago our blog was on one of the many new ‘education models’--specifically “Learning 2025”--which is already here in Mesa. Read that blog if you missed it.

There’s so much confusion around the issue of gender and sexuality. Well-meaning people want to help the struggling kids who are ‘questioning’ or rejecting the sex they were born in. But is “gender-affirming care” really about helping the child? Or is it about something else? Let’s just be honest and look at the facts so we REALLY help struggling kids.