In recent years there has been an argument raised that America "doesn't have culture." Dr Jason Edwards, professor of Education and Humanities at Grove City College, and Grace Reilly strongly disagree. In this episode of Restoring America with Grace Reilly, Dr Edwards walks through our iconic history and culture, from the American West to our present political struggles today. He touches on why the American Dream is alive and well along with the core problems we are seeing in the education system today. The recent controversy at the Smithsonian is only one example of a much bigger problem.

The Republican Party was founded in a Wisconsin schoolhouse in 1854. Now the DSA is claiming the same state as socialist ground, and running to lead it.

In this episode, I talk with Dominic Davis, a Restoration News researcher who grew up in Wisconsin, about the governor's race and the history fight underneath it. We get into the Democratic primary, DSA state Rep. Francesca Hong, the "sewer socialism" talking point the left keeps reaching for, and a property tax fight that is squeezing farmers and families out of homes they have owned for decades.

Dom's argument is that if the DSA can win a whole state, it stops being a Milwaukee story and starts being leverage over the national Democratic Party.

A parent received a message inviting her kid into a school "Fellows program." It was really campaign work for a Democrat running for Congress, on the taxpayer's dime.

In this episode, I sit down with Victoria Manning, Senior Investigative Researcher at Restoration News and a former school board member, to talk through what she uncovered at a Virginia high school and why this keeps showing up in red districts, not just blue ones.

We get into the teachers unions behind the recent May Day walkouts, who's really funding and organizing them, Restoration News' new District Watch project for keeping an eye on your own district, her book, Behind the Wall of Government Schools, and more.

Special Guest: Victoria Manning.