On Tuesday of this week, Margaret Byfield, with American Stewards of Liberty, was one of three panelists asked to discuss how the growing lawfare against our nation’s farmers and...
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Senate Passes Rep. Stauber’s Resolution to Nullify Biden’s Mining Ban
On April 16th, the U.S. Senate passed H.J. Res. 140, a joint resolution filed by House Committee on Natural Resources Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources Chairman Pete...
Restricting Foreign Ownership of Land in Texas
During the 89th Legislative Session held in 2025, the Texas Legislature passed SB 17 that created a new state law restricting the purchase or acquisition of Texas real property...
Senate Looks to Fix Outdated ESA
Last month, the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Subcommittee on Fisheries, Water, and Wildlife, chaired by Sen. Pete Ricketts (R-NE), held a hearing on the Endangered...
American Stewards Still Standing in 765kV Intervention
American Stewards is leading the fight on multiple fronts against the State of Texas first ever 765kV transmission line project defending the private property rights of thousands...
USDA Announces Farmer and Rancher Freedom Framework to End Agricultural Lawfare
Last month, USDA announced a new and bold program to end abusive government overreach and protect farmers, families, and private property. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L....
USDA and DOI Launch Plan to Increase Livestock Grazing on Federal Lands
Between the US Department of Agriculture and Department of Interior the two agencies administer nearly 240 million acres of rangelands across 28 states. There are approximately...
USDA Moves Headquarters to Salt Lake City
On March 31st, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Forest Service announced it will move its headquarters to Salt Lake City, Utah, and begin a sweeping restructuring of...
ASL Signs Coalition Letter to Pass ESA Amendments Act of 2025
Last week, American Stewards and 19 other national organizations, joined in a letter of support with Pacific Legal Foundation, supporting Chairman Bruce Westerman’s H.R. 1897 ESA...
Automatic Delisting of Endangered Species
American Stewards of Liberty (ASL) is calling on Congress to include a provision in the upcoming budget reconciliation package that would require endangered species listings to...
Rein in Federal Agencies, Restore Local Control Over Land Decisions
American Stewards of Liberty (ASL) is calling on Congress to include reforms in the upcoming budget reconciliation package that would strengthen coordination between federal land...
Reforms to Halt Federal Land Expansion and Restore Productive Use
American Stewards of Liberty (ASL) is urging Congress to include a set of land and conservation policy reforms in the upcoming budget reconciliation package aimed at reducing...
Senate Interim Charges Filed on 765-kV Transmission Project
Last week, Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick, President of the Texas Senate, filed Interim Charges for Senate oversight hearings on dozens of issues affecting Texas. One of the...
Sierra Club, EarthJustice Prioritize Wildlife Over Humans
Written by Peter Kotara The City of Corpus Christi, Texas, is facing an emergency water shortage that threatens the city’s citizens, its robust oil industry, and the Texas...
Oil-rich Texas to build power lines for renewables, and landowners face possible eminent domain
Published by Just the News Despite being one of the most prolific oil and gas regions in the world, the state of Texas is proposing to build 200-foot high high-voltage power...
Representative Hageman Addresses Land & Liberty Summit
U.S. Representative Harriet Hageman (R-WY) sat down with Margaret Byfield at the 2026 Land and Liberty Summit in Fort Worth last month where she discussed several critical...
Utah Delegation Moves to Overturn Biden-Era Grand Staircase-Escalante Land-Use Rule
On March 4, 2026, Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) Chairman of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, joined with all Utah’s congressional delegation to introduce a Joint...
KNRC Wins Federal Case to Remove Lesser Prairie Chicken
On March 29, 2025, the Kansas Natural Resource Coalition (KNRC) won a victory in the Western District Court of Texas vacating the U.S. Fish and Wildlife’s 4(d) Rule for the...
Update on Texas’ 765kV Transmission Lines
American Stewards has now intervened as a plaintiff in two of the five segments proposed for the 765kV transmission lines to transmit unreliable solar and wind energy to the...
Sec. Brooke Rollins at ASL’s Land and Liberty 2026 Summit
American Steward’s Land and Liberty 2026 Summit was one of our most successful to date. One reason - USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins was our opening speaker. Accompanying her was...
Rep. Arrington Makes Sure Another Muleshoe Never Happens Again
Last week, House Budget Chairman Jodey Arrington (R-TX-19) introduced H.R. 7348, the Transparency in Federal Land Acquisitions Act that would require a public comment period in...
Sec. Brooke Rollins Featured Speaker at ASL’s Land and Liberty 2026 Conference
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins was the featured speaker at the American Stewards of Liberty (ASL) Land and Liberty 2026 conference last Friday. Rollins, who grew up in Glen...
LASSO Act Ties Federal Lands to Social Security Trust Fund
In a brilliant move, Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) introduced H.R. 34, “The Land and Social Security Optimization Act (LASSO) that allocates ten percent of revenues generated from the...
Texas 765kV Transmission Lines Update
American Stewards of Liberty has now intervened in two of the five segments for the transmission lines being proposed under the Public Utilities Commission of Texas’s Permian...




























