The U.S. Department of Energy has closed a $3.26 billion loan to AEP Texas, one of the principal developers of the controversial 765-kilovolt transmission network proposed for...
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USDA, SBA Announce Partnership to Fight Weaponized Regulations
American Stewards of Liberty executive director Margaret Byfield joined administration officials and other stakeholders at a lawfare roundtable last week in Washington, D.C.,...
The Land Grab Georgia Thought It Stopped
This week we have Georgia on our minds, and railroads, too, but don’t think we’re heading out for a nice lunch of Fried Green Tomatoes at the WhistleStop Cafe. Instead, we’re...
Court Reasserts Presidential Authority Over Independent Agencies
In a 6-3 ruling last week, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the nearly century-old precedent established in Humphrey’s Executor v. United States, returning what the court says...
America at 250: Private Property Made Liberty Possible
This week we celebrate America’s 250th birthday, and it is an infancy in some ways—we are a nation certainly not yet nearing retirement, and in many respects we are still...
From Property Rights to Personal Servitude
Out in Marin County, California, along the rich ranch land of the coast, Willie Benedetti spent four-and-a-half decades building and running his pride and joy—an iconic...
Before Taking More Water, Fix What Is Already Broken
Keith McNickle, whose family has lived along Rattlesnake Creek in Kansas since the late 1800s, now faces a prospect once thought unimaginable: His and his family’s land could be...
Data Center Fights are Being Won Locally
In Walterboro, South Carolina—also known as the “front porch” of the state’s famed lowcountry—the biggest event in town is usually the annual Rice Festival, simmering up tasty...
South Carolina Goes All In for 50-Percent Government Control of Land
If South Carolina legislators aren’t rushing enthusiastically to protect their state from unregulated data centers, they are far more thrilled with the notion of taking private...
Lee Takes on Administrative States’ Unconstitutional Tribunals
U.S. Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah) has introduced legislation that would upend how certain disputes with the U.S. Department of the Interior are resolved by giving citizens and...
Cruz, Arrington Move to Codify Defeat of Muleshoe Land Grab
After helping defeat the Biden administration’s proposed expansion of the Muleshoe National Wildlife Refuge, American Stewards of Liberty is backing legislation by U.S. Sen. Ted...
Forced to Fight Without a Jury?
Washington ranchers Wade and Teresa King are fighting more than a wetlands enforcement action—they’re fighting for what they say is a fundamental constitutional right. Facing a...
ASL Seeks Pause on Determining Need for Transmission Line
As Robert Montoya of Texas Scorecard reports, American Stewards of Liberty has asked the Public Utility Commission of Texas to postpone determining whether four proposed 765-kV...
When Property Rights Go Up in Smoke
There’s something about a cigar lounge that the government simply does not like. Around the country, as demand for them increases, a growing number of entrepreneurs willing to...
USFWS Finalizes ESA Protection for Rusty-Patched Bumblebee
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) has finalized habitat protection for the rusty patched bumble bee, designating some 1.5 million acres as critical habitat for the...
Study Urges Pause on 765-kV Transmission Lines
As Texas considers the proposed building of three 765-kilovolt transmission lines, a new study is challenging the underlying assumptions of one of the largest infrastructure...
GOP Divide Emerges Over Wind and Solar Subsidies
A small group of House Republicans recently moved to extend federal tax-credit support for wind, solar, hydrogen, and other favored alternative energy projects, even as other...
Trump Emergency Memorandum Prompts Fear in Pipeline States
A new Trump administration energy emergency determination designed to fast-track critical infrastructure projects primarily because of the war in Iran is raising concerns among...
Hageman Bill Aims for Permanent Repeal of Roadless Rule
A congressional push to permanently repeal the controversial 2001 federal Roadless Rule gained momentum on May 21 as witnesses told a House subcommittee that the Clinton-era...
Local Commission Seeks Answers About ESG in Transmission Lines Project
Local officials in rural Texas are raising new questions about massive proposed transmission lines intended to move power to the Permian Basin, with concerns ranging from impacts...
“This Land Is Your Land… Until It Isn’t – American Energy Works”
Season 1, Episode 19 | 2026 | 31:18 American Energy Works’ Molly Vogt interviews an organic farmer in Erath County, Texas, whose organic farming methods could be revoked if...
Parker County Conservatives Hear Warning on Data Centers and the 765kV Land Grab
Last Thursday, American Stewards of Liberty Executive Director Margaret Byfield joined an impressive lineup of speakers at the Parker County Conservatives meeting in Weatherford,...
Trump rescinds Public Lands Rule
On May 15th, the Trump administration’s Office of Budget and Management (OMB) published a notice to rescind the Biden-era Bureau of Land Management Conservation and Landscape...
CFACT Exposes the Endangered Species Act – It Simply Does Not Work
Citizens for a Constructive Tomorrow, or CFACT, has recently released three articles reporting on how environmentalists profit from the Endangered Species Act (ESA) at the...




























