News & Brews January 22, 2026
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Pro-abortion group targeting Pa. this year’
Emily’s List, the pro-abortion group that ironically can’t define a woman yet says it’s committed to electing pro-abortion women to office (🤷🏽♀️) has “announced Pennsylvania as a key target in its 2026 State Power Plan, a … $15 million plan to secure Democratic governing majorities across nine key states by recruiting, investing in, and supporting women candidates up and down the ballot in 2026,” PoliticsPA reports. While definitions are hard for Emily’s List, the group is not alone (or wrong) in recognizing Pennsylvania as Ground Zero for the future of America.
RFK Jr. launches ‘Take Back Your Health’ tour in Pa.
At the Pa. Capitol yesterday, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. kicked off his “Take Back Your Health” tour, “which spotlights the administration’s new policies including updated dietary guidelines that come with a catchphrase: ‘Eat real food,’” the Center Square reports. “The new guidelines essentially invert the Food Guide Pyramid familiar to many…. ‘Eat Real Food’ places emphasis on whole foods including meat, dairy, produce, and high-fiber grains.”
Pa. Supreme Court upholds judge’s suspension for partisan advocacy
In what PennLive is calling a “novel ruling,” the Pennsylvania Supreme Court is “backing the suspension of a former Philadelphia judge for making waves of partisan posts on Facebook.” The judge was suspended in 2024 following a Court of Judicial Discipline ruling that he had violated Pennsylvania’s Judicial Canons, which “require judges to uphold the ‘independence, integrity and impartiality’ of the judiciary and ‘avoid the appearance of partiality or impropriety.’” While on the bench the judge in question, “advocated for legislation, cheered on Democratic politicians, implicitly endorsed a candidate for congressional office, touted his own legislative achievements as a {former] Democrat [state representative] and criticized the policies of predominantly Republican legislatures.”
Op-Ed: Inside the ‘Mississippi Miracle’
Rahm Emanuel, the former Democrat mayor of Chicago, has an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal that’s worth the read. In it, he looks at the “Mississippi Miracle,” the name given to that state’s dramatic educational turnaround that saw it go from 49th in fourth-grade reading to ninth. “Mississippi chose to spend less time on topics that dominate Washington’s education agenda and instead maintained a focus on what happens inside the classroom. It focused on the fundamentals.” While Mr. Emanuel misses the point in saying the school-choice movement believes “that the whole [public school] enterprise should be sacrificed in favor of vouchers,” the piece nevertheless has some good points. And, of course, pro-school-choice advocates believe in freeing children to attend schools that actually teach. It appears Mississippi schools have finally begun to do so.
Pittsburgh to vote on considering school building closures
WESA reports that next week, the Pittsburgh “school board is slated to entertain a motion to reconsider the November resolution that would have authorized the district to close nine school buildings and reconfigure more than a dozen others. Approving the motion would allow the board to discuss the plan at future public meetings, but would not authorize any immediate school closures.” The topic has been one of debate for some time. Yet, even if the board ultimately approves the closures, they “are unlikely to occur until fall 2027,” according to the board president.