Just hours after the Kentucky Supreme Court unanimously ruled that public dollars cannot fund charter schools, @KYHouseGOP filed House Bill 1 to create a workaround. They are not listening to Kentuckians who have said no to vouchers over and over again.

Senator Murphy: I was a bit puzzled by your question because while I have on occasion referred to "White culture" in my speeches and writings, by far my greater concern is with our common American culture. Contrary to your assertions, I am, of course, not a White nationalist, and actual White nationalists have criticized me and my work very harshly (and indeed, many have blocked me on X) because they understand that I am an American civic nationalist, very concerned with the preservation of our common culture and our unity as a nation, something I stressed several times during our hearing. The "White culture" then that I was referring to was simply the culture of the overwhelming majority of Americans who lived here prior to the passing of the Hart-Celler Immigration Act of 1965, which radically transformed American demographics. It incorporated everything from the sports we played (football, baseball etc.) to the foods we ate (Hamburgers, Pizza etc.) to the music we listened to and the TV shows we watched. This culture has its roots in England, the ancestral home of the vast majority of American citizens when we won our independence. But of course, it incorporated the cultures of many other White ethnic groups over time, from Germans, to Italians, to the Irish, and of course it also incorporated influences from African American culture as well. Asking to define it is a challenge because it's like asking a fish to define the ocean. It is simply the environment that the vast majority of all Americans were swimming in. Now here's the great news: I firmly believe that Americans of *every* race or cultural background can ultimately share in and contribute to that culture. And the culture is going to change over time (The Pilgrims weren't eating pizza)-- and that's okay! But the bad news is that the culture can only change so quickly before cultural unity is damaged and our cultural identity as a nation becomes unclear. I believe that the rapid pace of immigration over the last several decades, especially from peoples and cultures far different than the American mainstream pre-Hart Celler, has damaged that unity. And that was damage was particularly exacerbated by the decision of Joe Biden and your fellow Democrats decision to effectively turn America into an open-borders nation during his term. You and I are about the same age senator, and while the America of our childhood was certainly imperfect, you can not possibly honestly claim with a straight face that today's America is somehow more unified and our cultural identity more clear than it was in our childhood. In fact, so much of our extremely fractious politics today is downstream of that cultural upheaval. Thank you for your attention to this matter.