Who are we?
We’re not “just a blog” anymore, but the blog is where my heart always will be.
As 2023 comes to an end, I thought it made sense to explain to the readers just who we are and what we do, since there have been so many changes in the last couple of years.
Most of our readers probably don’t know how many different things we do, and may wonder why there are many days I’m not writing on the blog.
First, let me explain the structure of this place, because a lot of people don’t understand how our various websites interact. Legal Insurrection Foundation (LIF), a tax-exempt 501(c)(3), is the operating entity, launched March 1, 2019.
The “blog” (the website you are reading now) is now a platform for LIF. LIF has two other projects under its umbrella, CriticalRace.org and EqualProtect.org (the Equal Protection Project (EPP). So structurally, you have LIF with three projects.
The “blog” recently celebrated its 15th Anniversary on October 12, 2023. But because that was just days after the October 7 Hamas massacre in Israel, we called off the celebrations. But we did roll out our 15th Anniversary video, which I feel did a good job in just over 10 minutes capturing the highlights of 15 years. We limited the video to 15 milestones; we could have covered 100, but that would have resulted in an hour-long video that no one (other than me) would have watched. The narration by me was shot at a studio in Philadelphia.
CriticalRace.org was launched in February 2021. It has a unique and unparalleled set of databases documenting how deeply CRT and its variants (such as “intersectionality”, “anti-racism”, and “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion”) have spread at all levels of education.
The original database at launch was 220 colleges and universities, which now has expanded to over 500 institutions. In addition we have targeted databases covering Medical Schools, Elite K-12 Private Schools, the military service academies, and the top 10 ranked business and veterinary schools. In total across all databases, we cover over 700 institutions. Since launch, over 600,000 unique users have performed over 8 million actions on the website, which has been linked or cited in over 150 articles and other media. In 2024, we will continue to update the databases, and will focus on content creation relating to education and parents rights.
We launched the Equal Protection Project in February 2023. It has been an overwhelming success, beyond what we expected.
EPP focuses on fighting DEI distrimination, and interacts well with our CriticalRace.org website. Tips and research come in through CriticalRace.org that then feed into potential legal action to be evaluated and acted upon at EqualProtect.org. We then use the blog, our email list, and other media to get the word out. We have filed over 20 legal actions resulting in at least 9 institutions (so far) changing their discriminatory ways. Our impact has been huge in just the first nine months since launch, as these graphics reflect:
EPP will be a major area of expansion for us in 2024. Stay tuned.
As you can see, we’re not “just a blog” anymore, but the blog is where my heart always will be. I look back on those early years when I was solo with great fondness. We’ve tried to keep that spirit alive in everything we do.
That’s it, that’s the story. That’s who we are.
My thoughts as we approach this New Year are with the readers, our staff, the people of Israel who are fighing our common enemies, our American troops who are in harms way, the citizens of this country who face incredible challenges to retain our freedoms and way of life, and of course, the wife (we’re approaching our 40th anniversary, we now have six grandchildren with a seventh due soon).
[Featured image: February 2020 reader reception in Los Angeles, just days before the nation shut down.]
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and Happy New year from your often commentors and sometimes donors.
I always figured you posted when you had something to say — What a concept
Anyway, with gratitude, best wishes to everyone at L.I. for 2024.
I set a high value on the LI web site, which I check every day. Thank you for all the effort involved. And a special call out to Fuzzy Slippers for the best nom de plume!
I visit here often: you’re doing good, high-quality work.
I’m glad you are finally getting the recognition you so clearly deserve
Here’s to 2024 and taking back the freedoms we all once believed this great Country was founded on
Thank you to all the staff at LIF. I know it’s expensive and time consuming to affect real change against the goverment/educational cabal.
I truly do appreciate your stalwart, Jeffersonian anchor in light of my more mercurial, Jacobin bomb throwing.
Happy new year!
Thank you.
Thank you for everything that you and your team do for our country and our sanity, Professor Jacobson. I wish you, your family and the LI team all the best for 2024 and happy New Year!
Happy new year to all
Happy New Year, gonzo and all!
Professor Jacobson:
It’s been inspirational watching you and your team (nearly from the beginning), “stand in the gap,” shouting ”No more” at the enemy. Ever since my friend Michael sent me a link to your website, way back in the early days, I’ve attempted to follow you and see what’s happening “today” in the world. The courage you choose to display has been inspirational, bolstering my own and causing me to take a contrary stand, particularly in against the SARS-Covid-2 narrative.
A curmudgeon at my core, your Name for the website was a refreshing wake-up call to “stand firm” and “hold fast” against the propaganda machine fashioned by “our betters.” I’ve lost friends over some issues, but I won’t be cowed by ”public opinion.” If “friends” can’t/won’t accept me as I am, they never were friends, from the beginning.
One last thing, keep control of the language: George Floyd wasn’t killed: He chose to take Fentanyl, ignoring the mortal risk. When he died, it was by his own hand. By forcing the language to correctly represent the facts, truth prevails.
I wish you and your team stamina, success and the wisdom to challenge and correct the narratives that have been weaponized as a cudgel against the citizens and the country.
Thank you and Shalom.
I am very grateful there is a site where average folks can come to learn, be informed and express their views on a range of topics. I urge everyone to consider making a donation to not only keep the lights on at LI but to help fund the important work being done to help ensure our children and grandchildren inherit a Nation where they are judged by their own actions and allowed to rise on their own individual merits.
In the new year let’s try and be less antagonist among ourselves, emphasize the things we agree upon instead of the often small differences in the things we don’t. Let’s extend that to the realm of politicians who’s policies or at least the thrust of the policies which for the most we can agree with.
That doesn’t mean not debate the sometimes very contentious differences in perspective about issues among those of us on the center/right. That would be absurd. What I would love to see is less vitriol and more grace being offered as we debate and argue so that we can begin the absolutely necessary step of unifying in opposition to our true political opposition.
Whatever else ’24 holds it is beyond imperative that we oust Biden and secure a majority in the HoR and Senate. We are unlikely to ever have a Congressional majority and POTUS with which we agree on every issue. It is important to remember that the electorate in a solid red rural CD is far different than in a metro suburban CD and the candidates will have to match the perspectives of their individual CD to get elected and provide the needed majority.
IOW lets make an effort to avoid ad hominem attacks, employ common sense in evaluation of candidates that keeps in mind the composition of their CD/State Mississippi isn’t Massachusetts after all and work to find and acknowledge the things we agree upon, usually 80%+, before shifting to arguments about the 20% we disagree about.
Happy New Year
It has been very enlightening to place this blog on my daily reading ever since “George Takei and the Let’s definition of authentic blackness”
Besides reading and donating, is there any other way to help. For example, can an average business contract dispute lawyer help with the legal efforts?