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Gary Duzan@gduzan

September 22, 2023

The latest newsletter from the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship:

A future where families can thrive
This week in our ARC Vision Series, we bring you a better story for families and communities – a story that restores children and families to the centre of society so that each of us can thrive in community.

Too often, we overlook the value of the family. Family is our first connection in life and often our last. At the family dinner table, our shared stories and fundamental values are passed to the next generation. In the rough and tumble of being brother and sister, we learn how to forgive. It is as we look on a newborn baby that we learn the true meaning of gratitude.

The evidence is overwhelming that there is no better model than the family for our core human relationships. The family is the primary crucible for character formation. Strong families, deeply embedded in wider communities, create a thick, resilient, and interconnected social fabric.

The fragmentation of our social fabric
Yet, over the last 50 years, Western societies have been progressively abandoning this original model for human relationships, and public policy makers and the media have failed to promote a positive vision of the family. This has had profound consequences.

Today, we are witnessing a teenage mental health crisis, an epidemic of loneliness, sky-high separation rates, instability about identity, widespread fatherlessness, and falling birth rates. One-third of young adults aged 18 to 25 in the US have some form of mental health problem.

The fraying of our social fabric is not only damaging the wellbeing of children and adults, but it also it leaves people poorer, more at risk of social injustice, and with fewer opportunities.

We cannot go on like this.

A better story for families and communities
At ARC, we believe that decline is not inevitable. These trends can be reversed.

Drawing on wisdom from our roots, we will renew a vision of society that puts children and families at its heart. We will promote and celebrate the central role of family unity in providing identity, stability, and responsibility. We will seek to develop policy solutions which provide a genuinely viable alternative pathway forward.

Each person’s life fundamentally matters, and we all have something to contribute. The trust and confidence that a strong social fabric brings releases each of us to contribute and thrive in community. For our own sakes, and for the sake of the next generation, children and families must be restored to the centre of our societies.

There is a better story.

ARC Research - Coming Soon
We are pleased to announce that next week we will begin releasing research papers commissioned by ARC. These papers, written by leading thinkers and researchers across the world, will provide deep analysis and offer solutions across the following topic areas:

Culture, story, and history
Family and community
Business and free enterprise
Energy and the environment
We will also be releasing short videos with each research paper which we will include in our newsletters and on our social channels.

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This was a request from a community member - a 24/7 Live Chat.

To run parallel to all streams and chats. If it goes down. will set up another.

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Robert Barnes@RobertBarnes

July 03, 2026

The Barnes Brief: July 4th weekend, 2026

I. THE INTRODUCTION

Just a few tickets left https://www.1776lawcenter.com/

A. Art of the Day

They raise the flag of liberty, replacing the image of the King, but the painting speaks more than just that celebration of the Revolution. A mother holds up\ her child. Women dance. Young and old alike volunteer. but look a bit closer, and you see the true source of the revolution: as the aristocrats walk away, the commoiners lift the flag of liberty. The founding Fathers weren’t just a few folks writing documents; it was the ordinary people taking dramatic action, peopling the volunteer army, sacricing for boycotts, smuggling information and goods across enemy lines, voicing their independence in taverns and community halls, taking their freedom into their hands for themselves and their posterity, the true founders of America.

B. Wisdom of the Day

"If all else fails, I will retreat up the Valley of Virginia, plant my flag on the Blue Ridge, rally around the Scotch-Irish of that region, and make my last stand for liberty amongst a people who will never submit to tyranny whilst there is a man left to draw a trigger." George Washington.

C. Appearances

Dialogue Works.
Moral Resistance.
Mario Nawfal.

D. Daily Picks

https://sportspicks.locals.com/post/8043723/official-picks-friday-july-3-2026

E. Guest Speaker Resume

Dr. Bowden

II. THE EVIDENCE: BARNES LIBRARY

A. Cultural

Supergirl fails.

B. Economics

AI's flaw.

C. Politics/Law

New book on Trump. https://www.vanityfair.com/story/trump-book-regime-change-maggie-haberman

D. Historical

The declaration’s origins. https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2026/07/the-chaotic-collaborative-contentious-origins-of-the-declaration-of-independence/

E. Geopolitical

The anti-war, cross idealogical coalition. https://tritaparsi.substack.com/p/so-they-tried-to-deport-me

*Bonus: Board Post of Note

July 4th film recommendation. https://vivabarneslaw.locals.com/post/8043072/robertbarnes-its-a-big-country-https-www-youtube-com-watch-v-lec0dyspy6i-one-of-my-favorite

III. CASES FOR SUNDAY

SCOTUS: Men in girls sports https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/24-43_2b35.pdf
SCOTUS: Campaign finance https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/24-621_h315.pdf
SCOTUS:Birthright citizenship https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/25-365_new_5if6.pdf
SCOTUS: Election Day https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/24-1260_g3cn.pdf
SCOTUS: 4th Amendment https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/25-112_0am4.pdf
SCOTUS: Federal reserve https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/25a312_5468.pdf
SCOTUS: Right to fire https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/25-322_new_4gcj.pdf
SCOTUS: Vaccine mandates https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/24-1015_hfjm.pdf
SCOTUS: Defamation https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/25-770_2c8f.pdf
SCOTUS: Immunity https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/25-943_h3ci.pdf
SCOTUS; Death penalty https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/25-5749_qol1.pdf
SCOTUS: Speech on campus https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/25-906_e2qg.pdf

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Robert Barnes@RobertBarnes

June 26, 2026

The Barnes Brief: Friday, June 26, 2026

I. THE INTRODUCTION

*Note: Limited tickets available. 1776lawcenter.com

A. Art of the Day

The blue heron showed up outside my rental home here in upstate New York, my totem according to some native tribal traditions. The totem represents your spirit animal, your analogue in the animal world. A few common tidbits of this totem as “heron medicine” — know yourself to uncover your gifts and discover your limits; follow your intuition; embrace self-reliance and feel free to be your own, unafraid of the challenges that come to the nonconformist; be a place for unique wisdom, expressing the best of that most American spirit — independence.

B. Wisdom of the Day

“You can’t kill your way out of every security concern.” J.D. Vance

C. Appearances

LIVE w/ Daniel Davis
LIVE w/ Dialogue Works
LIVE w/ Sulaiman Ahmed
LIVE w/ Romanian TV
LIVE w/ Mario Nawfal
LIVE w/ Rick Sanchez

II. THE EVIDENCE: CURATED ITEMS FROM BARNES LIBRARY

A. Cultural/Historical

Critical role of monogamy. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3260845/

B. Economical

Housing reform. https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/6644/text

C. Political

SAVE Act https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/06/26/breaking_down_the_save_america_act_photo_id_154264.html

D. Legal

Fraud schemes unraveled. https://unherd.com/newsroom/trumps-fraud-crackdown-is-an-easy-win/?edition=us

E. Global

Russia warns. https://sonar21.com/putin-warns-the-west-russia-is-ready/

*Bonus: Board Post

Beauty of birth. https://vivabarneslaw.locals.com/post/8027913/well-the-third-decided-to-wait-till-the-end-of-her-due-day-then-decided-to-go-from-zero-to-hello-wor

III. HOMEWORK: SUNDAY SCHOOL

SCOTUS: Glysophate https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/24-1068_n7ip.pdf
SCOTUS: Immigration, TPS https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/25-1083_f204.pdf
SCOTUS: Immigration Asylum https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/25-5_86qd.pdf
SCOTUS: 2nd Amendment https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/24-1046_nmio.pdf
SCOTUS: Alien Torts https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/24-856_kjfm.pdf
SCOTUS: Cuba https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/24-699_f204.pdf
SCOTUS: Right to sue https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/23-1197diff_h315.pdf
SCOTUS: Taxes, Forfeiture & Takings https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/25-95_dc8e.pdf
SCOTUS: Immigration Removal. https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/25-429_h3ci.pdf
SCOTUS: Habeas https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/25-748_4g1o.pdf
Tate extradition. https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewhc/admin/2026/1600
AI & copyright. https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Richner-publishers-openAI-complaint.pdf

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Robert Barnes@RobertBarnes

June 05, 2026

Weekend Barnes Brief: June 5, 2026

I. THE INTRODUCTION

*Limited tickets available. 1776lawcenter.com

A. Art of the Day
“She’ll be riding 7 white horses when she comes, when she comes. She’ll be riding around the bend when she comes, when she comes.” So may father sang some version of his own of the famed spiritual son that used to echo off the ridges and mountains and riverbeds that make Chattanooga home as returned from our morning paper route beneath the mountains and by this famed river bend.

B. Wisdom of the Day

"From the hands of the mother and daughter, Through the mists of the past revealing, The herbs and the cinnamon water, Hold all the mysteries of healing." The Sorrow Songs, preceding the Blues.

C. Appearances