U.S. Issues Sanctions Against Foreign Organization that Aided Violent Pro-Abortion Group “Jane’s Revenge”

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Above: Arsonists firebombed the Wisconsin Family Action office in Madison on Mother’s Day in 2022. The pro-abortion domestic terror group Jane’s Revenge took credit for the attack. In 2023, Hridindu Sankar Roychowdhury pleaded guilty for the firebombing.

Last month, the federal government imposed sanctions on a left-wing terrorist organization accused of aiding violent groups like Jane’s Revenge.

In May of 2022, a draft opinion of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade was leaked to the media. After the leak, the domestic terror group Jane’s Revenge fueled violence against dozens of pro-life organizations and claimed credit for attacks like the 2022 firebombing of Wisconsin Family Action.

In response, more than 100 congressmen — including all four congressmen from Arkansas — urged the U.S. Department of Justice to take action against Jane’s Revenge, and U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton (R – AR) wrote a letter urging the DOJ to investigate Jane’s Revenge as a domestic terror group.

Four members of Jane’s Revenge were eventually brought to justice. Now the United States government is issuing sanctions against a foreign terrorist group it says supported Jane’s Revenge, Antifa, and other violent organizations.

On August 26, the U.S. Department of State designated Autistici/Inventati (A/I Collective) as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist.

In a statement, the department said, “The A/I Collective is an Italy-based extremist group that supplies the digital infrastructure for Antifa cells and other radical left-wing networks in the United States, Europe, and elsewhere across the world.”

The State Department says A/I Collective provided encryption tools and digital infrastructure to anarchist terror cells in Europe and the United States — including Jane’s Revenge — writing:

“The violent far-left extremists, ‘Jane’s Revenge,’ who waged a firebombing campaign against crisis pregnancy centers across the United States, relied on A/I Collective tools and services to publish official communiqués and claims of responsibility for violent and criminal acts and to incite copycat attacks. Four members of the group were later charged for violating federal law and engaging in a ‘conspiracy against rights’ through threats of force and intimidation.”

It’s taken a long time to reach this point, but the federal government is finally taking action not only against Jane’s Revenge, but also against the other people who aided and abetted the violence Jane’s Revenge caused.

Hopefully, this means we will never again see the kind of pro-abortion violence that we did in 2022.

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Family Council Joins Amicus Brief Defending Parental Rights Before 9th Circuit Court of Appeals

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Last week, Family Council joined an amicus brief defending parental rights in a federal lawsuit currently before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit.

The case is Mirabelli v. Bonta. Parents and teachers are challenging a school district policy that requires teachers to deceive parents about their child’s gender transition at school.

On September 2, Advancing American Freedom filed an amicus brief on behalf of Family Council and dozens of other pro-family organizations urging the 9th Circuit court to affirm parental rights and stop a California school district’s secret social gender transition policy.

The brief argues that “the fundamental right of parents to direct the upbringing of their children is essential to liberty and is deeply rooted in American tradition and practice,” and that schools undermine parental rights when they deceive parents about a child’s gender dysphoria or social transition at school.

Unfortunately, the school policy in California is not an isolated incident. Pro-LGBT activists have used public schools to promote transgender ideology and gender confusion to kids in many different ways.

Our friends at Alliance Defending Freedom have spoken out about how schools are hiding important information about students from their parents. But policymakers, legal experts, and parents are pushing back.

Last year, the U.S. Department of Education announced it was investigating four school districts in Kansas for secret gender transitions after a complaint alleged that school officials let male students into females’ private spaces and sports at school and hid students’ sexual identity confusion from their parents.

Family Council joined dozens of other pro-family organizations from across the country last year in an amicus brief regarding a New York school district that treated a middle-school girl as if she were a boy without her mother’s knowledge or consent.

Arkansas has enacted good laws to help prevent schools from socially transitioning children or promoting radical pro-LGBT ideology in the classroom. These are good laws that protect children and affirm parental rights.

But federal court cases like the one in California could affect schools nationwide. That’s why it’s important for us to stand up for students and parents in this case.

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Arkansans On Track to Wager Almost $1 Billion on Sports This Year

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An analysis from Family Council shows Arkansans could wager almost a billion dollars on sports betting this year.

The figure does not take into account “prediction market” wagers on sports or illegal sports betting.

Nationwide, sports betting is legal in 39 states — including Arkansas — but a growing body of evidence shows this type of gambling is causing serious financial harm.

Last week, Family Council reported that data from the Arkansas Department of Finance and Administration shows that from January 1 through July 31, sports bets totaled more than $529 million — an average of roughly $2.5 million per day.

At that rate, Arkansas is on track to wager as much as $912.5 million on sports by the end of December. Even if that daily average were cut in half this fall, Arkansas’ sports betting for the year would still top $700 million.

That estimate does not include “prediction markets” that exploit loopholes in federal law to bring casino-style gambling to anyone with a smartphone. We have written before about how the companies running “prediction markets” claim they just let people “invest” in the future outcome of a ballgame. But calling it an “investment” does not change what it is: It’s gambling.

Studies show people who gamble on sports may be twice as likely to suffer from gambling problems. When sports gambling happens online, the rate is even higher.

More than half of men ages 18-49 now have an active sportsbook account online, and the Institute for Family Studies (IFS) reports almost one in four young men say they gamble daily.

A study by Northwestern University found that for every dollar spent on sports betting, household investment falls by an average of $2.

The Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the Ethics and Public Policy Center, researchers at UCLA, and bankruptcy attorneys across the country all say sports betting is driving a wave of financial problems like credit card delinquencies and bankruptcies.

Sports betting is out of control. It’s corrupting sports, and it’s ruining lives.

Can Arkansas really afford to wager a billion dollars on sports every year?

As powerful corporations try to make gambling part of everyday life, it’s important for Arkansas to protect its citizens and families from predatory gambling. Otherwise, gambling addiction will simply continue wrecking lives and hurting families in our state.

Articles appearing on this website are written with the aid of Family Council’s researchers and writers.

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