COMMENTARY AND OP-EDS
Lori Lightfoot is trying to ‘rig the system’, it’s not fair: Ken Blackwell | Fox Business Video
Former Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell reacts to Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot limiting interviews to Black and Brown journalists, calling her move 'a dodge.'
Ken Blackwell: “The left is creating chaos”
Ken Blackwell discusses "The left is creating chaos" with David Brody on the Water Cooler, Real America's Voice News.
Ken Blackwell: Fake Accusations of Racism Reduce Police Responsiveness
Police officers are less likely to “make split-second decisions to save lives” to use force if they fear being falsely accused “of being racist,” Ken Blackwell, former mayor of Cincinnati and the former secretary of state of Ohio, said on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Sunday with host Joel Pollak.
ACRU’s Blackwell: Radicals Push One Step Closer to Historic Power Grab with S. 1
Radicals are cramming a federal takeover of elections through a key vote on the 'Corrupt Politicians Act,' part of their plan with Joe Biden and Kamala Harris to transform America into a permanent one-party socialist nation.
ACRU’s Blackwell: S1, the Corrupt Politicians Act, Would Make Pennsylvania Chaos an Election Norm
HR1 / S1, the "supposed" For the People Act is really a thinly-veiled power grab by DC politicians. The #CorruptPoliticiansAct is all about seizing control of elections, thereby ensuring a one-party, socialist national government. Do we really need more election chaos?
ACRU’s Blackwell: SCOTUS to Decide Whether Second Amendment Protects Concealed Carry
The Supreme Court announced Monday that it will decide a core gun rights issue: Whether the Second Amendment requires states to give permits to law-abiding citizens to carry concealed weapons.
ACRU’s Blackwell: How low will Democrats go on pushing Jim Crow narrative?
Many on the left claim that voting integrity measures, such as voter ID, are throwbacks to the Jim Crow era. Since Jim Crow laws were enacted by Southern Democrats to force racial segregation and block economic and political power among Black Americans, Democrats should know their current claims are preposterous. As the old saying goes, “they have a lot of nerve.”
ACRU’s Blackwell: Goodbye, Election Day. Hello Corrupt Politicians Act
A notorious bill moving through Congress – H.R. 1 – contains a swarm of bad ideas. But little noticed is a provision that makes Election Day obsolete. We’ve lost so many unifying cultural events that bring Americans together, it is no surprise that H.R.1 not only would start the election weeks earlier, but also prolong the election well after Election Day.
ACRU’s Blackwell Exposes Real Racism in WMAL’s Mornings on the Mall Show
ACRU Policy Board Member Ken Blackwell joined the Mornings on the Mall Show to expose the blatant hypocrisy by "woke corporations" and the left's insistence that minorities aren't capable of obtaining identification. Blackwell wonders why Major League Baseball and others require IDs routinely while insisting it's racist to require an ID to vote.
ACRU’s Blackwell: Baseball strikes out on protecting American voters
ACRU's Ken Blackwell is a shareholder of the Cincinnati Reds, and has a wonderful family association with the history of black baseball. In this interview on Chicago's The Answer radio program, he gives his view on the MLB moving the All Star game away from the workers of Atlanta based on the lie that the Georgia voting law is racist. Vote safety laws protect ALL voters of every race.
ACRU’s Ken Blackwell Discusses Risks of a “More Muscular” Central Government on CL Bryant Show
Listen as ACRU's Ken Blackwell fearlessly defends liberty and the "risk" people must be willing to take to stay free in his interview with Rev. CL. Bryant. Amb. Blackwell notes ACRU is "in the middle of the fight to save our Constitutional Republic" by educating people about the dangers of the For The People Act, which will move us toward oppressive one-party, centralize rule -- and away from freedom.
ACRU’s Blackwell: American Exceptionalism in Crosshairs of Radical Left
ACRU'S Amb. Ken Blackwell is the face of today's battle for liberty and the very essence of our rights -- which are being chipped away by the left and their political allies. As Amb. Blackwell notes in this brilliant piece, "Democrats’ Corrupt Politicians Act (aka "For the People Act") pending in the Senate is a frontal assault on our Constitution’s federalist recipe for freedom, putting Congress in complete control of its own elections."
ACRU’s Blackwell: MLB commissioner ‘didn’t do his homework’: Cincinnati Reds minority owner [VIDEO]
ACRU Policy Board Member Amb. notes that the MLB ought the lie that GA voting laws are "suppressive" and caused a $100M "catastrophe" for Atlanta's economy and African American community when it moved the All Star game. Ken explains vote safety measures protect ALL VOTERS--including minority voters.
ACRU’s Blackwell: Who Really Defends the Votes of Black Americans?
As ACRU's Amb. Ken Blackwell notes, there was a time when African Americans were murdered for voting, and the left's attempt to falsely tie requirements for voter ID to lynchings, Jim Crow and being killed over ballots is unpardonable. In this powerful piece, Amb. Blackwell reveals the truth about history, what group really suppresses black votes, and the left's lie about vote security.
ACRU’s Blackwell: Corporate Wokesters Betray Shareholders’ Trust by Bashing Election Integrity Laws
ACRU Action Fund Board Member Ken Blackwell castigates Georgia-based companies like Coca-Cola, Delta and also Major League Baseball for giving into the woke mob over their unfounded and absurd objections tying racism to new ballot safeguards its state leaders passed.
Media Availability: ACRU’s Blackwell on Corporate ‘Wokesters’ Reaction to Voter ID Laws
Naples, FL—American Constitutional Rights Union Policy Board Member Ken Blackwell castigates Georgia-based companies like Coca-Cola, Delta, and also Major League Baseball for giving into the woke mob over their unfounded objections to new ballot safeguards its state leaders passed. In his most recent article for Breitbart, he notes these companies [...]
ACRU’s Blackwell: The Left’s Hoodwinking of America
In his latest blockbuster piece, ACRU Policy Board Member Ken Blackwell likens the suppression of voice and vote during the Nazi regime to the falsely named For the People's Act, proposed by liberals and awaiting Senate action. It is important that every American understand its dangerous implications and the ease in which it would usher in political corruption and totalitarian one-party rule.
ACRU’s von Spakovsky: HR1/For the People Act imperils free and fair elections
H.R. 1, the deceptively entitled "For the People Act," has arrived in the U.S. Senate after a party-line vote in the House of Representatives. It is without doubt the most dangerous and irresponsible election bill I have ever seen. If it becomes law, it will interfere with the ability of states and their citizens to determine the qualifications and eligibility of voters, to ensure the accuracy and validity of voter registration rolls, to secure the integrity of elections, and to participate and speak freely in the political arena.
ACRU’s Von Spakovsky: Biden’s immigration order – this is how policy will hide crimes, ignore victims
On his first day in the Oval Office, President Biden signed a record 17 executive orders, many of them voiding commonsense policies enacted during the Trump administration. One of the worst – and most dangerous – was his "Revision of Civil Immigration Enforcement Policies and Priorities." A more apt title would be "Providing Sanctuary for Criminal Aliens."
ACRU’s Lori Roman interviewed on religious liberty during Covid
It seems that Maryland churches are being targeted by Maryland healthcare department crisis tyrants. ACRU President Lori Roman, and a Maryland pastor targeted by the local health department, explain why this is an abrogation of everyone's rights.