Advocacy wins and VHF update!

As we draw an end to the first quarter of 2024, we want to share some updates and show how your advocacy and support are making a difference! No images? [Click here]( {NAME} As we draw an end to the first quarter of 2024, we want to share some updates and show how your advocacy and support are making a difference! Empowering our farmers. At the end of 2023, we launched a national call-to-action (CTA) in [support of the Prime Act]( which tells Congressional leaders that we need to give local control back to our farmers. As a result, we now have three Congressional House Representatives and one U.S. Senator signed on to the bill: - Representative Celeste Maloy from Utah - Representative Andrew Clyde from Georgia - Representative John Carter from Texas - and U.S. Senator Peter Welch from Vermont Please keep sharing the CTA and educating your friends and family. Our voices are being heard! Preserving food integrity. We are supporting a powerful and innovative bill in the Tennessee legislature that would classify food with vaccines inside them as a drug. The bill only needs to pass on the Senate floor before going to the Governor's desk! If you are a resident of Tennessee, [click here for more details on how you can support the bill](. And visit our [Food Integrity]( page to learn more about this important issue. Fighting against childhood vaccine mandates and protecting religious and philosophical exemptions. We are honored to partner with two battleground states in their work to safeguard exemptions. - West Virginia: Just this week, a pivotal bill on childhood exemptions was close to passing! Unfortunately, the Governor vetoed the bill at the 11th hour. But we won’t stop fighting and plan on coming back stronger than ever next year in defense of religious freedom. - California: Our partners at A Voice for Choice Advocacy have officially filed a lawsuit in hopes to overturn a bad law in the state that removed their religious and philosophical exemptions. You can watch our interview with their [Founder and President, Christina Hildebrand, here.]( Stopping mandates. SHF, along with our state partners and thousands of advocates, have successfully stopped a permanent mask mandate from going into effect through the Department of Labor in North Carolina. [To read more about this win, go here.]( Electing health freedom candidates. In this 2023-24 election cycle, we’ve already had 151 candidate victories and are still watching some key run off races! [And the winning has caught national attention.]( Please take a minute to watch our latest video on our [Vote for Health Freedom Initiative](. We’ve got 1,170 candidate survey responses and 5 voter guides posted so far, with many more to come! We aim to be your “go-to” resource on health freedom candidates for this consequential 2024 election. We hope this update serves as a reminder of the power of your voice! Thank you for your incredible partnership! For health freedom, Stand for Health Freedom [Facebook]([Instagram]([Twitter]([Website]( [standforhealthfreedom.com]( is a nonprofit dedicated to protecting basic human rights. We exist to educate people and for people to have the tools to educate their lawmakers. Please support our work by making a [donation today](. We rely on the generosity of concerned individuals like you so that together - through education and action - we can see a cultural shift for health freedom Please add advocates@standforhealthfreedom.com to your contact list to make sure you get our mailings. You are receiving this email because you are opted in to our Stand for Health Freedom mailing list. If this message was forwarded to you, you can subscribe to this list [here.]( [Unsubscribe](