Nathan Duell

Protect Educational Freedom in Arizona School choice is under attack!! And now is the time to stand up and get informed. Join us for an important event focused on protecting ESAs and securing the future of education in Arizona. This is your chance to hear directly from leaders on the frontlines and learn how you can make a difference. Bring your family. Bring your friends. Be part of the movement. Saturday, May 16, 2026 9:00 – 11:00 AM Arizona Community Church – Tempe, AZ Featuring Keynote Speaker George Khalaf Arizona families are relying on school choice more than ever—and together, we can protect it. Seats are limited—don’t wait. 📷 Register now and stand for educational freedom. Our children. Our future. votervoice.net/mobile/AZLN/Ev…

Why is @SchoolChoiceNow working with the anti-school choice group Save Our Schools Arizona to gather signatures for their dual ballot petitions to regulate the ESA? And why are their signature gatherers misleading voters about what they are signing? Video evidence below! 1/

At @CSInstituteAZ, we’ve been tracking the decline in public district school enrollment for a while, and reporting on the impact it’s had and the need to close district schools. But something is happening this school year that even we did not anticipate, and that I have seen almost no media reporting about: district enrollment in Arizona dropped by almost 30,000 students this school year. This is according to figures published by the Department of Education in January, and these numbers can change. If they hold this would be the largest drop in K-12 District enrollment since the pandemic, when the state lost 50,000 district students. Charter school enrollment has been basically flat for the last few years. So what is growing? The state’s ESA program, which grew by almost 17,000 students this school year. Meaning the remaining drop likely comes from changing demographics, again something @CSInstituteAZ and @GlennFarley14 have been warning about for some time. There are now about 825,000 kids in Arizona’s district classrooms. That’s an all-time low and lower than 2020-2021, during the peak of the pandemic. At its all-time high in 2009, there were 927,000 kids in district classrooms. According to CSI’s research, district schools have enough capacity for an additional 600,000 students in unused, taxpayer funded buildings, while total enrollment in district schools continues to decline – now even faster than our experts predicted.

In 2024, over $1 million in spending on an Arizona ballot initiative was traced back to foreign funding. Arizona needs to pass HCR 2001 to ban the influence of foreign funding in their elections from ever happening again! @Nathan_Duell

Holy smokes. This "journalist" is doubling down after he falsely reported 20% misspending for Arizona's school choice program based on a RISK-BASED audit. A random sample now shows the number is 0.3%. Retract this article now, @12News. Journalistic malpractice.

🚨THEY SHUT OFF COMMENTS?! Arizona @PBS runs a biased one sided story with rhetoric from @ArizonaEA and @arizona_sos and ESA parents jump into action commenting that the story promotes the C4 side, and NO ESA PARENTS, and what does @PBS do??? Turns off comments on IG and FB!

Great work by @matthewladner and @JasonBedrick debunking the absurd 20% ESA fraud claim being pushed by our fake news corporate media azfreenews.com/2026/02/ladner…

The bureaucratic bloat in education continues to grow while more classrooms become empty. Arizona needs to prioritize the salaries of hard-working teachers by passing SCR 1032! @Nathan_Duell

DEI policies are failing Arizonans. That’s why State Director @Nathan_Duell testified in support of HCR 2044. Arizona must remove these toxic policies and stop wasting taxpayers’ dollars.

🚨@AZHouseGOP Speaker @SteveMontenegro: Union-Backed Ballot Initiative Targets Parents’ Right to School Choice STATE CAPITOL, PHOENIX (Friday, February 6, 2026) – House Speaker Steve Montenegro today responded to the filing of a union-backed ballot initiative targeting Arizona’s Empowerment Scholarship Accounts, warning that the proposal is a deliberate attempt to regulate the program out of existence after repeated failures by ESA opponents at the Legislature. The measure would strip parents of educational freedom and force thousands of students back into district systems that families have already chosen to leave: “The ballot campaign announced by ESA opponents has one clear goal: to strip parents of the freedom to choose the best education for their children. If successful, it would gut Arizona’s Empowerment Scholarship Account program and force tens of thousands of students out of schools that work for them and back into district systems that have already failed too many families. This effort is not about accountability or improvement. It is a direct attack on parents—working families, military families, rural families, and families of children with special needs—who finally have options and refuse to give them up. ESA opponents are willing to sacrifice students’ futures to protect an education bureaucracy that puts its own power ahead of kids. This push comes on the heels of coordinated teacher sick-outs that shut down district schools across Arizona, disrupted learning, and left parents scrambling for childcare. The same forces that supported those closures are pushing to eliminate school choice. Make no mistake: they will not stop until families are once again forced into district systems where unions call the shots and parents have none. House Republicans built the strongest school choice program in the nation because parents, not government or union bosses, know what their children need. Arizona families will not be pushed back into one-size-fits-all education, and we will not allow activists or special interests to rip opportunity away from students who are succeeding. We stand with parents. We will defend ESAs. And we will make sure voters understand exactly what this ballot scheme would do to Arizona children and families.” azleg.gov/press/house/57… #AZHouseGOP #SchoolChoice #AZLeg

I asked three Democrat lobbyists a simple question: "Should you have to be a citizen in order to vote in Arizona's elections?" Just wait until you see their answers!

.@SenJackyRosen continues voting to keep the government shut down. Some of our Nevadan grassroots activists gathered in their state this week calling on her to vote to reopen the government!

We stand for America!!!! 🔥🇺🇸 🇺🇸 I’m so grateful to all the amazing grassroots leaders & freedom warriors who stood with me for the #AntiShutdown protest in front of Senator Rosen’s office @tpaction at the Federal Courthouse in Vegas! 💪🇺🇸 @NRCGOPClub @CCRPNV The people’s voice is LOUD & CLEAR @LaurelDarrell @JJRogersUSA

Rich Rosen. Stop the shutdown. Vote for Nevadans! ⁦@reviewjournal⁩ ⁦@JackyRosen⁩

Everyday Americans, including our own Heritage Action Sentinels, are being negatively impacted by the Schumer Shutdown. Now they’re speaking up and demanding that the Democrats quit using Americans as political leverage and pass the clean CR to end the government shutdown.

We are saddened to inform friends that our dear brother, Voddie Baucham, Jr., has left the land of the dying and entered the land of the living. Earlier today, after suffering an emergency medical incident, he entered into his rest and the immediate presence of the Savior whom he loved, trusted, and served since he was converted as a college student. Please pray for Bridget, their children, and grandchildren. Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints. – Psalm 116:15 founders.org/articles/the-d…

A few random observations after the Charlie Kirk memorial service: I wish I was about 30 years younger so I could live for several more decades in the America we are on the cusp of creating. Obviously, things could get derailed. Nothing is guaranteed. But the trajectory we are on is encouraging. The future is bright. The Republicans are stacked with men who would make great Presidents and successors to Trump in carrying forward the MAGA torch. (Vance is my favorite at this point.) More importantly, it is obvious there is a renewed interest in Christian faith, not only as the way of eternal salvation, but as a civilization-building force. This is especially true of young men who have found in Charlie a man worthy of emulation. Obviously not all the speeches were equally great, but many of them were explicitly Christian and proclaimed the gospel. To hear the VP of the United States openly declare that, "It is better to be persecuted for your faith than to deny the kingship of Christ” was quite amazing. Rob McCoy, Frank Turek, and Marco Rubio gave very clear gospel presentations to millions of people. The Secretary of War declared Jesus’ kingship. Tucker Carlson called on everyone to humbly repent of their own sin. Erika Kirk gave amazingly biblical counsel to men (“Be a leader worth following”) and women (“If you are a mother, that is the single most important ministry you have”). She was a model of what a godly wife should be in that situation. Trump Jr. displayed the kind of common sense we need - like the goal of making one income families the norm again and renouncing political violence. It was very impressive and encouraging overall. Maybe the most powerful moment was when Erika Kirk talked about how her husband was trying to reach disaffected, missionless young men, precisely like the one who killed her husband. I know some people will criticize her for forgiving the murderer apart from his repentance. But I think that’s nitpicking. We should be willing to forgive, even if the transaction of forgiveness remains incomplete because the offender will not confess and repent, and she demonstrated that willingness. Also, from the sum total of the speeches, it’s obvious that personal forgiveness and civil justice (in the case the death penalty) are not at all at odds. A murderer can be forgiven while still suffering the consequences of his actions. The use of the sword to bless the righteous and terrorize the wicked is clearly built into the MAGA program at this point. MAGA is all about law and order, and restoring the rule of law in our land. Charlie Kirk’s character and courage were honored. His political convictions were certainly clear in the service. But most importantly, his faith in Jesus was set forth as the center of his life and the key to everything he did. Charlie was honored; but Jesus was honored even more, which is what Charlie would have wanted. Charlie was presented as a Christian who was guided by his faith when he got involved in politics, not someone who instrumentalized his faith for political purposes. The service showed how much a man with a vision and a work ethic can accomplish. It’s astounding to consider how much Charlie transformed our nation in his all too short life. What we witnessed in the memorial service was Christian nationalism in nascent, immature form. Not everyone who spoke was a Christian - and Christian nationalism doesn’t require that. But what we saw is even people who do not share Charlie’s faith in Jesus showing open respect for Christianity. Everyone at the service was operating under the Christian gaze. We cannot make America great again without making America Christian again, which means making America Biblical again. MAGA needs MACA and MABA. Republicans in the past paid lip service to a god - a vague faith that never got defined. In this service, many politicians were explicitly Christian in their faith. It’s a remarkable shift in a very short period of time. Whatever Charlie’s eschatology was, he was a practical postmillennialist. As the left gets more Satanic, the right gets more consistently Christian. The lines are more clearly drawn than ever. The service and the events of the last 10 days clearly demonstrate that. If ever the Christian right, as the Christian right, as a political movement, was going to resort to the kind of anarchic violence we see on the left, this would have been it. The most famous and popular rightwing Christian apologist was murdered in broad daylight. And yet what do we see? No riots. No gunshots. No violence. Instead, we got a massive prayer meeting in a packed stadium, live-streamed to millions more all around the world. And we saw a wife (now a widow) who forgave her husband’s killer. The two sides are not the same. There is no moral equivalence here. Reformed Christians might be tempted to look down on the style of worship and music in the service and the imprecise theology on display. We should resist that temptation. What good is mature theology if you don’t enter the fray and get into the battle? Evangelicals charging the gates of hell with slingshots and BB guns are more effective than Reformed Christians who leave their jet fighters in the hangar and their battleships in the dock. An immature theology combined with courage and a willingness to act will always be more effective than mature theology and worship that never enter the fray. Reformed Christians love to be the Monday Morning Quarterback who criticize the normie evangelicals in the arena, but those who are in the arena are the ones through whom God is working to bring change. Perhaps the most important thing of all is that Charlie Kirk’s legacy was accurately portrayed. Charlie always made clear the cultural, political, and civilizational impact of Christian faith. Charlie was willing to connect the dots in a way that many pastors are not; he linked his faith to his economics, to his convictions about marriage and family, to his views of immigration and nationhood, to his belief in limited government, etc. In other words, he presented the Christian faith as a comprehensive system of truth that works in the real world. He challenged people (especially college students) with a biblical worldview, showing that Christian faith answers coherently and compellingly all the pressing personal *and* political questions of the day. That came through in the memorial service, and for that I am grateful.

Charlie Kirk’s name, mission, and legacy will live on for generations to come.

Charlie Kirk 1993-2025 “All death can do to the believer is deliver him to Jesus.” Quote by John MacArthur

More than anything else, more than TPUSA or his memorable debates or his role as a family man, let it be known that Charlie Kirk loved Jesus, and is resting in the arms of his savior.