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Energy Abundance and Human Flourishing: A Data-Driven Global Analysis

Authors: Kevin Dayaratna Kat Miller Download This Report EXECUTIVE SUMMARY While GDP has grown faster than energy use in advanced economies, this reflects efficiency gains and a shift toward services—not a reduced need for energy; energy remains essential to sustaining growth. More energy use is consistently associated with higher income and productivity. Across countries, those […]

AAF Files Amicus Brief Against State-Imposed Serfdom

Advancing American Freedom led a coalition of 16 other amici filing an amicus brief in Benedetti v. Marin County,  the “serf’s up!” case challenging Marin County, California’s attempt dictate the livelihood of a pair of brothers.  Arron and Arthur Benedetti, both plumbers, inherited 267 acres of land in Marin County from their father, a turkey […]

AAF Amicus Report

Road to Housing is a Dead-End for Affordability

Political Appointments Memo 3/27/2026

NRSC v. FEC Report

AAF Statement on Taibleson’s Confirmation Vote

“Advancing American Freedom congratulates Rebecca Taibleson, a former clerk to Justice Antonin Scalia  and then-Judge Brett Kavanaugh, on her confirmation to the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals.  Despite a failed smear campaign from our own side, Republican Senators stood united in supporting her confirmation. Taibleson is another win for President Trump and The Federalist Society […]

Americans Are Paying Trump’s Tariff Tax

AAF Urges FDA to Review Mifepristone Regulations

In the shadow of a recent study suggesting that the chemical abortion pill is much more dangerous than the FDA claims, the agency is considering three citizen petitions asking it to retain or loosen regulations on mifepristone. Advancing American Freedom filed comments responding to each and urging the Trump FDA to consider the evidence long ignored under previous […]

Trump’s Tariff Tax Costs Car Companies Billions

Trump’s Tariffs Are Causing A Swamp Feeding Frenzy

AAF Stands for Donor Privacy in Defense of Pregnancy Center

Advancing American Freedom led a coalition of 68 other amici standing for life and donor privacy at the Supreme Court. In First Choice Women’s Resource Centers v. Platkin, pro-life pregnancy center First Choice Women’s Resource Centers is defending itself and its supporters against a subpoena issued by Matthew Platkin, the Attorney General of New Jersey. Platkin […]

AAF Fights Back Against Radical Gender Ideologists

Advancing American Freedom led a coalition of 42 amici urging the Supreme Court to take up Lee v. Poudre School District R-1, a case challenging a Colorado school’s efforts to socially “gender transition” two middle school girls without their parents’ knowledge or consent. A teacher, Jenna Riep, invited both girls to attend after-school meetings of […]

AAF Urges Supreme Court to Hear Parental Rights Case

AAF led a coalition of 50 amici urging the Supreme Court to take up Foote v. Ludlow School Committee in which a school in Massachusetts facilitated an eleven-year old’s “social gender transition” even after the girl’s mother specifically instructed the school’s staff not to discuss those issues with her daughter. The school’s efforts included the school counselor […]

AAF Fights Unconstitutional Tariffs in the DC Circuit

Advancing American Freedom, joined by 11 other amici, filed an amicus brief in Learning Resources, Inc. v. Trump, a case currently before the D.C. Circuit challenging the President’s assertion of unilateral tariff authority. Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution explicitly and exclusively vests the federal government’s taxing power in Congress and Congress is not empowered […]

AAF Coalition Letter Calls for an End to Earmarks

AAF Leads Large Coalition of Amici Standing for Donor Privacy

Advancing American Freedom, leading a coalition of 140 amici from across the conservative spectrum, filed an amicus brief in The Buckeye Institute v. IRS in the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. AAF’s amicus brief urges the court to uphold the district court’s decision that the IRS’s intrusive donor disclosure requirement must survive heightened scrutiny. The […]

AAF Stands for Right of Religious Business Owners

Advancing American Freedom led a coalition of 31 other amici filing an amicus brief in Miller v. Civil Rights Department. In this case, Catherine Miller, a Christian and owner of Tastries Bakery in California, declined to bake a cake for a lesbian couple’s wedding celebration. In response, the California Civil Rights Department filed a complaint against her […]

AAF Urges Supreme Court to Hear Tariff Case

Advancing American Freedom and 9 other amici filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court urging it to take up the tariff case and rule for the small businesses that are challenging them. On Friday, August 29, the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 7-4 that President Trump’s tariffs exceed the power granted to him […]

Flashing Red Warning: Today’s Jobs Report Underscores Need to Cut Tariffs, Not Raise Taxes

AAF Encourages Trump Administration to Double Down on Pro-Growth Policies Through Free Trade with Allies WASHINGTON – In response to today’s disappointing jobs report and renewed broad-based tariffs on U.S. trading partners, Advancing American Freedom President Tim Chapman issued the following statement: “Today’s jobs report is a flashing red warning that broad-based tariffs aren’t working. […]

AAF FOIA Request: Communications Pertaining to “Radical-Traditionalist Catholic Ideology”

NEW: AAF Letter Urges Senators to Pass President Trump’s Rescissions Package

Time Is Now to Stop “Woke, Wicked, and Wasteful” Spending WASHINGTON – Advancing American Freedom President Tim Chapman and Board Chairman Marc Short sent a letter to all Senators today urging them to pass President Trump’s $9.4 billion recissions package as an important step to cut wasteful government spending. The letter calls on the Senate to stay laser focused […]

AAF Pass Rescissions Package

AAFF Independence Index

NATO’s New 5% Goal is Progress, But the Road is Long

AAF Letter to Congress Staffers on ExtendTheTaxCuts

Open Letter to the United States Senate: Reconfirm Andrea Lucas

AAF: Refine and Pass OBBB

Read the full release here.

The Debt Limit Leads to Conservative Victories

AAF: Investigate DC-5

AAF: Support the FACE Act Repeal Act

Calling Balls and Strikes: House W&M’s “One, Big, (Modestly) Beautiful Bill”

Assessing The First 100 Days of Trump’s Second Administration

AAF: Restore Tariff Authority

AAF’s Conservative Blueprint to Protect American Taxpayers

AAF Letter to Congress Urges Republicans to Stand Firm Against Tax Hikes

AAF: Ban Earmarks

AAF: Calling Balls and Strikes on the Senate Budget Resolution

AAF Tariff Tracker

AAF President Chapman to DOGE: Defund Planned Parenthood

AAF: Oppose RFK Jr. Ads

AAF Announces New Policy Advisor

Advancing American Freedom today announced an expansion of the policy team with the hire of Joel Griffith, a former research fellow at the Heritage Foundation.   “We could not be more excited to welcome Joel Griffith to our team this year,” said AAF President Tim Chapman. “In 2025 Advancing American Freedom intends to play a […]

Mike Pence’s 2024 China General Chamber of Commerce Speech

Thank you. It is an honor to be here at the 8th annual China General Chamber of Commerce Gala, the largest turnout ever. For nearly 20 years, this chamber has led the charge in building a relationship between China and the United States based on shared prosperity and mutual respect, and I am honored to […]

AAF’s letter to CBS News

Mike Pence group launches $3M ad blitz in swing states to slam Kamala Harris’ proposed $5 trillion tax hike

Former Vice President Mike Pence is launching a $3 million ad blitz in swing states to slam economic proposals from Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris — including her multitrillion-dollar tax hike. Advancing American Freedom, a nonprofit conservative advocacy group founded by Pence, will run the digital ads in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Montana. His group also […]

AAF Rail Regulations Coalition Letter

AAF Comments regarding Filing of Proposed Rule Change to Amend the NYSE Listed Company Manual to Adopt Listing Standards for Natural Asset Companies

AAF: RNC Pro-Life Letter

Pence Stakes Claim as Keeper of Traditional Conservatism

Mike Pence could not have asked for a more welcoming audience. For nearly 30 minutes, the man who served as Donald J. Trump’s vice president was repeatedly applauded as he offered a vigorous affirmation of his support for Israel at a conference of mostly conservative Jewish leaders in midtown Manhattan. He barely paused when his […]

Biden’s regulation bender will grow Big Government and kill the American dream

The Biden administration is shattering records in all the wrong ways. From the surge of illegal migrants overwhelming our border, to the alarming rise in crime rates across America’s largest cities and skyrocketing inflation, the American people are witnessing the real-time, unprecedented consequences of Biden’s failed policies. A new report from Advancing American Freedom shows […]

Feb 22, Fox Martha MacCallum

Mike Pence’s Unexpected Encore

May 17th. 2024 Mike Pence is not on Plan A. “I was expecting to be in the fourth year of our second term, at this point,” the former vice president tells me in the D.C. office of his nonprofit organization, Advancing American Freedom (AAF). “But the American people and the good Lord had other plans. […]

AAF Antisemitism Follow-up Letter to Attorney General Garland and Secretary Cardona

AAF Calls on Kristen Clarke to Resign

Pence group pressuring Schumer on TikTok sale bill

April 9th, 2024 A political advocacy group connected to former Vice President Mike Pence is pressuring Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) to hold a vote on a bill that could ban TikTok. Advancing American Freedom has launched a new ad supporting the bill, which would require TikTok’s China-based parent company to divest from the […]

Mike Pence’s Policy Shop Launches $2 Million Ad Campaign Urging Schumer to Push TikTok Bill Forward

April 9th, 2024 Former vice president Mike Pence’s policy organization is launching a seven-figure ad campaign pushing Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to move the TikTok divestiture legislation to a full floor vote. Advancing American Freedom, Pence’s 501(c)(4) conservative advocacy group, will be spending $2 million on TV and digital ads in Washington, D.C, and […]

Conservatives demand crackdown after 8,000 pet projects in Congress cost taxpayers $15 BILLION in 2024: Republicans urged to ban earmarks that included cash for salmon research, studies on sharks and LGBTQ groups

April 9th, 2024 A coalition of conservative groups led by former Vice President Mike Pence’s Advancing American Freedom wrote a letter this week calling on congressional Republicans to once again ban earmarks. A pair of spending bills to fund 12 agencies of government over fiscal year 2024 contained some 8,099 earmarks with a total cost […]

The Left’s latest scheme to permanently change elections in America

April 9th, 2024 By Paul Teller and Jason Snead Imagine a Super Bowl referee bending the rules to give his favorite team the win. Few would call that fair. Yet that is precisely what the Left wants to do to America’s elections. From noncitizen voting to lawsuits inviting activist judges to rewrite our election laws, […]

Supreme Court should overturn FDA approval of dangerous abortion drug mifepristone

The Food and Drug Administration was established to protect public health by ensuring the safety of medicine. Tragically, when the FDA illegally approved the dangerous abortion drug mifepristone, it abdicated this duty in the name of promoting abortion.

Dozens of conservative groups call on Congress to strike down controversial SEC climate rule

March 31st, 2024 Dozens of conservative-leaning groups are calling on Congress to strike down a controversial new Securities and Exchange Commission rule that would require large corporations to issue disclosures about their carbon emissions. The SEC voted to adopt the rule, which requires companies to issue reports to investors on the effects of their operations […]

Letter to Stop the Biden SEC’s Climate Disclosure Rule

AAF: Letter to Congress to defund Biden’s Gaza Port

AAF: Letter on Holman Rule for Antisemitic Biden Staffer

Letter to Majority Leader Schumer

TikTok is digital fentanyl and Congress, Biden must act before it’s too late

March 12th, 2024 TikTok is a national security threat to the United States of America. The social media juggernaut is a Chinese Communist Party-controlled program used to surveil more than 150 million Americans – both young and old. TikTok is Chinese spyware that allows the Chinese Communist Party to manipulate the minds of young Americans […]

Will Joe Biden move beyond empty promises in tonight’s State of the Union?

March 7th, 2024 As vice president and a member of Congress, it was my honor to be in the House chamber, where three different presidents laid out their vision for America in the annual State of the Union address. When President Biden addresses the nation tonight, I’ll be watching from home in Indiana – and […]

No tax dollars for CCP companies

March 6th, 2024 Imagine if, during the Cold War, politicians not only allowed the Soviet Union to build factories on American soil but actually paid them millions of taxpayer dollars to do so. It’s an absurd idea, yet this is precisely the situation we face today with companies controlled by the Chinese Communist Party eligible […]

Conservative Groups Urge Lawmakers To Back Amendment Protecting Traditional Views On Marriage

March 1st, 2024 Dozens of conservative organization leaders are sending a letter to members of Congress on Friday demanding they adopt protections for religious Americans who support the traditional idea of marriage. The signees urged Republicans in the House of Representatives to prioritize passing the “Roy Marriage Amendment,” named after Rep. Chip Roy of Texas, […]

The American Solutions Project

Pence Launches $20M Effort To Defend Conservative Principles

February 21st, 2024 Former Vice President Mike Pence has a $20 million blueprint for building out an organization meant to defend the sentiment that conservatism, when properly defined, “is bigger than any one moment, election, or person,” RealClearPolitics is first to report. This was part of the Pence platform while a presidential candidate when he […]

It’s Time to Strike Back at Iran

February 8th, 2024 Escalating Iranian aggression cost the lives of three U.S. soldiers in Jordan. These intolerable acts of violence by the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism can no longer go unpunished. The U.S. must respond with an immediate and unequivocal show of force that will begin to restore the deterrence that has decayed […]

FOIA Request Communications Pertaining to “Radical-Traditionalist Catholic Ideology”

Read the statement here.

Over 70 Activists, Former Lawmakers Demand Biden Admin End Funding For UN Agency Over Hamas Scandal

February 5th, 2024 Over 70 policy experts, activists and former lawmakers sent a scathing message to Congress Monday, demanding that the United States permanently withdraw its funding from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) after multiple employees were found to have aided Hamas, according to a letter obtained exclusively by the Daily Caller […]

Pence-Founded Group Urges Biden Administration to Target Iran, Not Proxies

February 1st, 2024 As the Biden administration prepares its response to the most recent act of Iranian aggression that saw three United States service members killed, former vice president Mike Pence pointed to his administration’s “maximum pressure” campaign and use of force in the face of the Islamic Republic’s attacks. A memo released by the […]

Mike Pence’s AAF sends memo to lawmakers: ‘Biden doesn’t seem to want Israel to win’

January 31st, 2024 Former Vice President Mike Pence’s nonprofit political advocacy group sent a memo to Congress on Monday urging lawmakers to “hold the Biden administration” accountable for “slow-rolling” Israel’s war efforts. The memo from Advancing American Freedom (AAF), titled “Biden Doesn’t Seem to Want Israel to Win” and obtained by Fox News Digital, outlines […]

America must stand firm in upholding religious freedom at home and abroad

January 30th, 2024 By Mike Pence Americans have always believed that every man and woman should have the right to live, work, and worship according to their own conscience. But sadly, millions of people around the world are still persecuted for their religious beliefs every year. Since the pilgrims landed on the shores of Plymouth […]

SEC Narrowly Avoids Biggest Scam Since Snake Oil – For Now

January 29th, 2024 This column is co-authored by Derek Kreifels and Paul Teller. Imagine a business that doesn’t manufacture any product, doesn’t sell anything of value and literally doesn’t earn a single dime in revenue – but still manages to raise millions of dollars on the New York Stock Exchange with the government’s approval. The […]

Christian and Jewish Leaders Condemn ‘Political, Spiritual Persecution’ of Paivi Rasanen

January 29th, 2024 An interfaith coalition has offered prayers of solidarity to two evangelical Christians facing their third trial for declaring that homosexuality violates the Bible, a position prosecutors call “War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity.” Despite two unanimous acquittals, Finland’s state prosecutor has taken an elderly member of parliament and a Lutheran bishop before […]

Letter of Support for Finland Bible Trial Christians

WHO pandemic treaty ‘equity theater,’ Pence advocacy group says, urges US withdraw from ‘unsalvageable body’

January 23, 2024 The non-profit advocacy group founded by former Vice President Mike Pence published a letter Tuesday blasting the proposed World Health Organization (WHO) pandemic treaty, questioning the United States’ continued membership in the international body. Pence’s non-profit, Advancing American Freedom (AAF), is urging the U.S. government to withdraw from the WHO, citing the […]

Defending Life

January 19th, 2024 Protecting the lives of the unborn is more than a political cause – it is the calling of our times. Defending life is defending the future of our nation, and our society will be judged by how we treat the most vulnerable, including mothers facing crisis pregnancies and unborn children. Though Roe […]

The Biden Administration’s Houthi Half Measure

January 18th, 2024 After three months of disruption of international shipping through the Suez Canal by the Iranian-proxy Houthi militia group, and the recent targeting of American military vessels, the Biden administration has finally begun to take the problem seriously. After its joint strike against Houthi sites in Yemen alongside the United Kingdom, the United […]

‘Bait and Switch’: Biden Decision To Water Down Houthi Terror Designation Draws Outrage

January 17th, 2024 The Biden administration moved to reapply sanctions this week on the Iran-backed Houthi rebels, but did so under a weaker federal statute that will not criminalize support for the terrorist group or force American banks to seize their assets, current and former U.S. officials told the Washington Free Beacon. After months of […]

AAF Coalition Letter to Secretary Blinken concerning Nigeria

Religious, human rights groups urge Blinken to punish Nigeria over mass killings of Christians

January 16th, 2024 The Biden administration is facing pressure from numerous human rights and religious groups for failing to designate Nigeria as a Country of Particular Concern (“CPC”) for the brutal killing of over 200 Christians last month. In a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken, two dozen interest groups, led by Advancing American […]

AAF Support the Roy Amendment Letter

AAF Defund TANF Letter

Pence Group Announces $20M Investment to Fight Populism

February 22nd, 2024 Former Vice President Mike Pence’s political advocacy group on Wednesday announced a $20 million investment to defend conservative principles. Advancing American Freedom, a 501©(4) organization advocating for conservative values and policy proposals, will hire new staff and bring on “faces familiar to the conservative movement” as part of a $20 million blueprint […]

Pence announces $20 million American Solutions Project to promote conservatism

February 22nd, 2024 Former Vice President Mike Pence and the Advancing America Freedom conservative political advocacy organization intend to spend $20 million to emphasize conservatism over populism and socialism. The funds will fuel the new American Solutions Project, which The Hill reported has three primary objectives. One is to create a platform that conservative candidates […]

AAF: Calling Balls and Strikes on $95 Billion Foreign Aid Package

FACE Act Repeal Letter

Conservative Leaders Call on Jordan, Johnson to Repeal ‘Weaponized’ FACE Act

February 7th Conservative leaders are calling on House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan and Speaker of the House Mike Johnson to pass the FACE Act Repeal Act of 2023 “as soon as possible.” “In the aftermath of additional pro-life activists being convicted by the Biden administration under the FACE Act for peacefully protesting outside an […]

Pence-Founded Group Leads Call for Blinken to Re-Designate Houthis a Terrorist Organization

January 2nd, 2024 Advancing American Freedom (AAF) led a group of more than 40 prominent conservatives in calling on United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken to re-designate the Iran-backed Houthi militia as a terrorist organization. AAF was founded by former vice president Mike Pence and promotes what it describes as a “freedom agenda.” The […]

Putting the family back in the driver’s seat

December 8th, 2023 This week, the United States House of Representatives voted to block a proposed environmental regulation from the Biden administration that could have huge unintended consequences for American families. Under Biden, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is trying to implement a partial ban on gas-powered vehicles. The proposed rule would require that two-thirds […]

AAF in the Arena: Stop Pushing Illegal Abortions and Irreversible Surgeries on Confused Children

Hamas is just one part of the threat to Israel and the West

December 5th, 2023 In the wake of Hamas ’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel, most people, especially those on the Right, quickly recognized that Israel ’s battle to destroy Hamas was and is completely justified. Unfortunately, fewer seem to grasp that the destruction of Hamas, while necessary, is not sufficient for Israel’s security. The fact is Hamas is just […]

AAF in the Arena: Comment on ACF Rule Discriminating Against Religious Foster Care Families

Continuing Resolution Continues Republican Dysfunction

November 17th, 2023 The American people were told the effort to oust former House speaker Kevin McCarthy (R., Calif.) was about setting the country on a more sustainable fiscal path and securing much-needed funding for our border. It was about oversight for funds sent to overseas conflicts and about prioritizing who America’s allies are and […]

Tucker Carlson is Wrong: Putin Practices Religious Persecution, Not Zelensky

Tucker Carlson recently claimed that Zelensky has “banned the Christian faith in his country and arrested nuns and priests.” Though purporting to speak on behalf of religious liberty, in reality Carlson is playing fast and loose with the truth and endangering the lives of Ukrainian believers.

Will the Conservative Impulse Save the Pro-Life Cause in Ohio?

Early voting is already underway in Ohio, the nation’s next abortion battleground. On November 7, as polls close, votes will be tallied to determine whether or not Ohioans decided to enshrine “an individual right to … abortion” within their state constitution.