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AMAC Action: 2024 Highlights and What’s Ahead for 2025

As 2024 comes to a close, we’re proud to reflect on the incredible milestones AMAC Action achieved this year—milestones made possible by the unwavering support of our AMAC Members. Your dedication has strengthened our mission to defend conservative values, safeguard constitutional liberties, and fight for a brighter future for America.

Here’s a look back at what we accomplished together in 2024 and a glimpse of what’s on the horizon for 2025.

By the Numbers: What We Achieved Together

• 135 Call-to-Action Campaigns: Mobilized members to address key issues, including protecting elections from noncitizen voting, opposing ranked-choice voting, supporting parental rights, and combating radical ideologies.
• 80,000+ Messages Sent: AMAC members contacted their elected officials to make their voices heard.
• 400,000-Strong AMAC Army: Our community of active members continues to grow.
• 170+ Congressional Meetings: Engaging directly with lawmakers to influence policy.
• Election Integrity Efforts: 2,588 members stepped up as poll observers and election workers in key states.
• 18 Lawsuits: AMAC or AMAC Action was involved in legal battles defending Americans’ constitutional liberties.

Critical Victories of 2024

Your support made these key wins possible:

• Election Integrity: Wisconsin voters amended the state constitution to ban private election funding (“Zuckerbucks”).
• Protecting Women’s Sports: Ohio passed legislation barring boys from competing in girls’ sports.
• Parental Rights and Education: New York’s governor backed down from a planned state takeover of public schools after pressure from AMAC members.
• Defending Female-Only Spaces: Louisiana enacted laws protecting women’s spaces.
• Gun Rights: Maine defeated a left-wing gun control bill.
• Multi-State Successes: Seven states banned ranked-choice voting, seven states banned noncitizen voting, and Florida defeated a radical abortion-on-demand amendment.
• National Recognition: House Speaker Mike Johnson personally thanked AMAC members for supporting the SAVE Act, a vital election integrity measure.

Looking Ahead: The Fight Continues in 2025

As we prepare for 2025, the stakes are higher than ever. With a new Congress and presidential administration, AMAC Action will continue to fight for:

• Extending President Trump’s 2017 Tax Cuts: Ensuring economic growth and relief for Americans.
• Securing the Border: Strengthening America’s national security.
• Protecting Election Integrity: Passing legislation to prevent illegal aliens from voting in U.S. elections.

Join the Movement for 2025

To build on this year’s momentum, we’ve set an ambitious goal: 2,025 donations of $20.25 or more by MIDNIGHT on December 31. Every contribution fuels our fight for conservative victories and helps us stand strong in the face of growing challenges.

CONTRIBUTE TODAY!

Together, we’ve accomplished so much—and with your continued support, we’ll achieve even more in the year ahead.

Action ☆ Academy 

Dennis Prager’s Guide to New Year’s Resolutions

In Fireside Chat Episode 220 – Dennis Prager’s Guide to New Year’s Resolutions, Dennis wishes you a happier new year and recommends some New Year’s resolutions. He also explains why he recommends resolutions for a new year. PragerU is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that promotes American values in short educational videos for people of all ages.

Term of the Week: Auld Lang Syne

Auld Lang Syne is a Scottish song with words attributed to the national poet of Scotland, Robert Burns. The composer is not definitely known. In English-speaking countries, the first verse and chorus are now closely associated with the New Year festival.

The lyrics of “Auld Lang Syne” are in the Scots language. The title, translated literally into standard English, is Old Long Since. The words can be interpreted as since long ago or for old times’ sake. The lyrics are about old friends having a drink and recalling adventures they had long ago. There is no specific reference to the new year.

Burns first wrote “Auld Lang Syne” in 1788, but the poem did not appear in print until shortly after his death in 1796. It was first published in volume five of James Johnson’s Scots Musical Museum. Burns, a major contributor to the compilation, claimed that the words of “Auld Lang Syne” were taken “from an old man’s singing.” However, the song has been associated with Burns ever since. As published by Johnson, the lyrics were set to a different tune from the one that later became familiar…The melody also existed before Burns wrote down the words…Not until 1799 did the words and music that are now familiar appear together, in a Scottish song compilation published by George Thomson. In the 19th century, the song was reprinted many times, and eventually, it became part of the Scottish Hogmanay (New Year’s celebration). Hogmanay celebrants traditionally sing the song while they stand in a circle holding hands.

The Canadian-born bandleader Guy Lombardo helped make “Auld Lang Syne” a New Year’s Eve tradition in North America. His band, the Royal Canadians, played the song at the turn of the new year in a series of popular radio (and later television) broadcasts that began on December 31, 1929, and continued for more than 30 years.

Many variations of wording can be found in both versions of “Auld Lang Syne” as they have been set down over the years. In fact, surviving manuscript copies in Burns’s own hand are not identically worded.

English version

Should old acquaintance be forgot,
And never brought to mind?
Should old acquaintance be forgot,
And old Lang Syne?

(Chorus)
For auld lang syne, my dear,
For Auld Lang Syne,
We’ll take a cup of kindness yet,
For Auld lang syne.

And surely you’ll buy your pint cup!
And surely I’ll buy mine!
And we’ll take a cup o’ kindness yet,
For Auld lang syne.

We two have run about the slopes,
And picked the daisies fine;
But we’ve wandered many a weary foot,
Since Auld lang syne.

We two have paddled in the stream,
From morning sun till dine;
But seas between us broad have roared
Since Auld lang syne.

And there’s a hand my trusty friend!
And give me a hand o’ thine!
And we’ll take a right good-will draught,
For Auld lang syne.

(Lewis, Robert. “Auld Lang Syne”. Encyclopedia Britannica, 20 Nov. 2024)

Class for November and December

Economics 101: The Principles of Free Market Economics

Economics is ultimately about making choices. Learn about economics and how the American Founders believed that economic freedom and property rights are rooted in the natural competition and cooperation of human beings. They believed that the best economic system should consist of private property and be allowed to operate freely. Learn more in Hillsdale College’s free online course Economics 101: The Principles of Free Market Economics. This 10-session course includes lessons on supply and demand, the “information problem” behind the failure of central planning, the rise of macroeconomics under the influence of John Maynard Keynes, and the 2008 financial crisis.

Quote of the Week

“Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.”

 — Hal Borland

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