Voluntary promises aren't permanent protections. The FDA revoked its authorization for Orange B and began pursuing a broader phase-out of petroleum-based synthetic food dyes. But removing an authorization is different from removing products from shelves. Much of the broader transition still depends on voluntary industry commitments. The next test: clear deadlines, enforceable standards, and measurable results. The work has started. What happens next matters. Vote RED so Secretary Kennedy can finish making America healthy again! 🇺🇸

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MAHA’s future is on the ballot. 🇺🇸 Early voting is already underway across much of the country, with more states beginning tomorrow. Under Secretary Kennedy’s leadership, the MAHA agenda has advanced action on food dyes, dietary policy, autism research, vaccine injury care, and childhood COVID vaccine recommendations. But much of the work remains unfinished. The next Congress will have an important role in determining how these initiatives are funded, overseen, and carried forward. The work has started. The question now is what happens next. Vote RED so Secretary Kennedy can finish making America healthy again! 🇺🇸

🚨Florida parents: speak up for parental choice and access to education tomorrow in Orlando! Tomorrow, October 8th, Florida DOH will hear public comments on proposed changes to Rule 64D-3.046 affecting school and child-care immunization requirements. Guiding the Impact supports this step toward greater medical freedom, educational freedom, religious liberty, and parental authority. A medical recommendation and a condition of school attendance are different policy choices. Parents should have more room to make informed decisions for their children. Planning to speak or submit comments? Choose one topic, use your own words, and explain why it matters to your family: → Parental rights: Parents carry daily responsibility for their children’s care. Give their decisions greater weight. → Educational access: Children need continuity in their education. Support reducing attendance barriers tied to medical decisions. → Informed consent: Families need accurate information, time for questions, and room to make a voluntary choice. → Religious liberty: Preserve a simple exemption process that does not require parents to explain or defend their beliefs. → Consistent implementation: Ask for clear county instructions and updated materials so families can use the protections in practice. → Child-care access: Explain how attendance conditions affect your family’s care arrangements and ability to work. → Individualized care: An enrollment checklist should not substitute for a conversation between parents and their child’s clinician. → Trust: Support respectful communication, accessible information, and voluntary cooperation. → Further reform: Support this action while urging the Legislature to protect broader conscience objections and address the remaining mandates. The changes concern specified hepatitis B, chickenpox, Hib, and pneumococcal requirements in applicable settings. MMR is outside this rulemaking. This remains a proposal, and it does not create a general conscience exemption. Thank you, @GovRonDeSantis and @FLSurgeonGen for advancing parental choice! Hearing: October 8, 9am-12pm EST Orlando Marriott Lake Mary, Grand Ballroom E–H 1501 International Parkway, Lake Mary, FL 32746 Written comments: [email protected] Suggested subject: Support for proposed Rule 64D-3.046 Identify yourself, state your support, share one truthful example if you have one, and request adoption. Different experiences can make the case more complete. Official notice and materials: flrules.org/gateway/ruleno.a…

🇺🇸 Help protect the MAHA agenda. Take one volunteer shift this week. 🇺🇸 Healthier food. Honest science. Informed consent. Parental authority. Religious and conscience protections. These are the priorities Guiding the Impact works to advance—and they need time and congressional support to become lasting policy. President Trump gave Secretary Kennedy the opportunity to lead HHS. Secretary Kennedy needs time and congressional support to carry that work forward. Republican House and Senate majorities can give the MAHA agenda the legislative backing it needs. A Democratic House could block MAHA legislation, seek funding restrictions, and pursue impeachment against Secretary Kennedy. An impeachment resolution has already been introduced. Election Day is November 3rd. Between now and then, convictions have to become shifts on the calendar. Take one volunteer shift this week. Knock doors. Make calls. Help voters make a plan to vote Republican for the House and Senate. Bring a friend. Sign up again if you can. Start here: → Volunteer locally. Contact your county Republican Party, a local Republican club, or a Republican House or Senate campaign. Ask for the next door-knocking or phone-bank shift. New to this? Ask about training. → Help from home. Ask a campaign or county GOP whether it has a scheduled remote phone bank. You may be able to help a competitive race from wherever you live. → Find a Super Chase event. Turning Point Action’s calendar lists October volunteer events in multiple states. Choose one and confirm the details with the organizer:
tpaction.com/superchase → Travel to help. NFRW’s Strike Force organizes battleground door knocking, with hotel coverage at designated bases. Call 703-548-9688 to confirm eligibility, dates, and hotel availability. Signup requires login:
nfrw.org/form-strikeforce Find a local Republican women’s club:
nfrw.org/directory Choose your shift. Confirm it with the organizer. Put it on your calendar. Our children’s health and our families’ freedoms deserve our continued commitment. Show up, and help elect Republican House and Senate majorities on November 3rd. 🇺🇸

ACTION ALERT: Attend Florida’s Public Hearing on Removing Four Vaccine Requirements 🗓️Thursday, October 8, 2026 📍Lake Mary, Florida Parents, physicians, healthcare practitioners, and supporters of medical freedom: please attend the Florida Department of Health’s public hearing and speak in support of informed consent and parental choice. WHEN: Thursday, October 8, 2026 TIME: 9:00 a.m.–noon Eastern WHERE: Orlando Marriott Lake Mary Grand Ballrooms E, F, G & H 1501 International Parkway Lake Mary, FL 32746 The hearing is open to the public and includes an opportunity for public comment. Please arrive early. What is being considered? The Department is considering revisions to Rule 64D-3.046, Florida Administrative Code, governing immunization requirements for school and child care entry. The proposal would remove existing entry requirements for four vaccines: * Hepatitis B * Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) * Varicella (chickenpox) * Pneumococcal conjugate These proposed changes concern mandatory entry requirements; they would not prohibit families from choosing these vaccines. The Department is pursuing these changes through its existing rulemaking authority because these four requirements are not specifically mandated by section 1003.22, Florida Statutes. The proposal also updates immunization documentation and Florida SHOTS opt-out provisions. Language expanding religious exemptions to include moral or ethical beliefs has been removed from the revised proposal. Your participation matters. This hearing is an important opportunity to place support for parental choice, informed consent, and individualized medical decision-making into the public record. Physicians and other healthcare practitioners who support these principles are especially encouraged to attend and provide thoughtful, professional testimony. Please bring a friend and share this alert with parents, practitioners, and community organizations. Unable to attend? The Department’s agenda states that written comments may be emailed to [email protected]. Reference Rule 64D-3.046 in your message. Show up. Speak respectfully. Help ensure families’ voices are heard.

✨NY SUMMER CAMP VACCINE MANDATE BILL UPDATE A.3254-A, which would extend New York’s school immunization requirements to children attending overnight, summer day, and traveling summer day camps, has not yet been delivered to Governor Hochul. The timing is significant. Under the bill’s current language, it would take effect on “the first of October next succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law.” Because October 1, 2026 has now passed, if A.3254-A becomes law in its current form, its effective date would be October 1, 2027. That means the bill would not affect the summer 2027 camp season. The first summer camp season affected under the current language would be summer 2028. The bill has passed both houses of the Legislature but remains pending and has not yet been presented to the Governor. Additional changes also remain possible before implementation. Guiding the Impact will continue monitoring the bill and will share updates as the process moves forward.

New York Amish Again Ask U.S. Supreme Court to Protect Their Way of Life The Court previously returned the case to the lower court to review a decision that threatens the existence of Amish community in New York State. Washington, D.C.—Several New York Amish individuals and schools asked the Supreme Court of the United States to reverse a decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit that permits the State of New York to compel Amish schoolchildren—who attend private Amish-only schools in rural Amish communities removed from the modern world—to receive vaccinations in violation of their sincerely held religious beliefs in order to attend Amish community schools. You can read the petition here. The law firms Siri & Glimstad; Chris Wiest, Attorney at Law, PLLC; and Lehotsky Cohn LLP, along with First Liberty Institute, represent the Amish clients. Shannon Denmark, partner at Lehotsky Cohn said, “For decades, New York accommodated the sincerely held beliefs of the Amish. We are simply asking the Supreme Court to protect the Amish so that they can continue to live out their faith in New York.” “The Amish desire to be left alone and practice their religion in peace, as they have done for nearly two centuries in New York,” said Aaron Siri, Managing Partner of Siri & Glimstad. “If New York wins, the Amish will be forced to flee the state.” “The Amish community in New York wants to be left alone to live out their faith just like they have for 200 years,” said Hiram Sasser, Executive General Counsel for First Liberty. For over 50 years, from 1966 until 2019, New York accommodated religious beliefs by granting religious exemptions from the State’s school vaccination requirements. But New York repealed its religious exemption for vaccine mandates for school children in June of 2019. Lawmakers referred to religious beliefs opposing vaccination as “fake” and “garbage.” In 2022, the State brought an enforcement action against the Amish Appellants, imposing catastrophic penalties. For religious reasons, the Amish educate their children in private Amish schools and have done so for hundreds of years and without vaccinations. The Amish lost in the district court and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. In 2025 we asked the Supreme Court to hear the case, and the Court sent it back to the Second Circuit with instructions to reconsider in light of the Supreme Court’s recent decision in Mahmoud v. Taylor, which held the government violated the Free Exercise rights of parents whose elementary students were forced to participate in activities contrary to their religious beliefs. But the Second Circuit said Mahmoud didn’t apply and doubled down on its prior conclusion. So we are again asking the Supreme Court to correct the Second Circuit’s errors. This case implicates the important free exercise question of whether the State of New York can compel Amish schoolchildren living in remote Amish communities to receive vaccinations that conflict with their sincerely held religious beliefs and Amish way of life. In their petition, attorneys argue, “The seriousness of this case for the Amish in New York cannot be overstated. As explained, the Amish have a profound and sincerely held religious objection to vaccination. But New York has prohibited them from exercising that religious belief in the State. Unable to practice their faith in New York, the Amish will have no choice but to pack up and seek religious refuge elsewhere. Such ‘[f]orced migration of [a] religious minorit[y] was an evil that lay at the heart of the Religion Clauses.’” firstliberty.org/media/new-y…

Final day to comment! Please see guidance below ⬇️

✨WHEN A FEDERAL RECOMMENDATION BECOMES A REQUIREMENT, HHS NEEDS TO KNOW. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is asking the public for input on how federal childhood vaccine recommendations should work — including their downstream consequences for access, informed consent, individual autonomy, and religious freedom. Comments are due September 20th. This is an important opportunity for families to put real-world experiences directly into the federal record. Please consider commenting if: 🔹 A school, college, clinical program, healthcare provider, hospital, or other institution treated a federal vaccine recommendation as though it were a requirement or condition of access. 🔹 A child or adult lost access to education, a clinical placement, otherwise appropriate healthcare, or continued care from a doctor or medical practice because a federal vaccine recommendation was treated, cited, or operationalized as a requirement or condition of access — including after declining, delaying, or raising a religious objection to vaccination. 🔹 You were told a vaccine was “required” without being clearly told who actually required it or whether the requirement came from federal law, state law, institutional policy, or simply a recommendation. 🔹 You felt pressured to accept vaccination because declining could affect your child’s education, your healthcare, a clinical placement, or your ability to continue receiving care. 🔹 You have seen the opposite problem: difficulty obtaining a vaccine that you wanted or believed was appropriate because of insurance coverage, availability, or another access barrier. Guiding the Impact believes access must be protected in both directions. Federal recommendations should support informed decision-making — not unintentionally become mandates downstream. People who choose vaccination should be able to access it, and people who decline or defer vaccination should not lose otherwise appropriate education or healthcare simply because a recommendation has been converted into a condition of access. You do not need to write a technical policy paper. Ten minutes is enough to put a meaningful experience into the federal record. The strongest comments are personal and specific. Briefly explain: • What happened • Who treated the recommendation as a requirement or condition of access • What consequence you or your family experienced • What you believe HHS should change For example, you might recommend that HHS clearly distinguish recommendations from requirements, require federally funded programs and institutions to accurately describe the source and legal status of vaccine requirements, evaluate the downstream access consequences of federal recommendations, and ensure that future recommendation frameworks protect informed consent, religious freedom, and continued access to otherwise appropriate education and healthcare. Please use your own words and your own experience. There is no need to share private medical information or identify your child by name. Submit your comment here: federalregister.gov/d/2026-1… If your family has experienced this, your story belongs in the federal record. Please share this with families who may have an experience HHS needs to hear.

📣 Florida families: there is still time to submit public comments on an important Department of Health proposal affecting school and child-care immunization requirements. Guiding the Impact reviewed the December 2025 rule-development materials against the formal proposal published in August 2026. The proposal includes two significant changes: ✅ DOH would remove four additional vaccine requirements from the administrative schedule — hepatitis B, varicella, Hib and pneumococcal, depending on the setting. ✅ Florida’s Religious Exemption from Immunization form would state that religious tenets or practices “may include a sincerely held moral or ethical belief.” The proposed Guidelines also preserve two protections that are especially important for families exercising a religious exemption: ➡️ The exemption form “must be issued upon request.”
➡️ “No other information should be solicited from the parent or guardian.” What this proposal does NOT do: This is a Department rule proposal, not a change in Florida statute. It does not eliminate Florida’s school-immunization law. The seven diseases expressly named in state law — polio, diphtheria, measles (rubeola), rubella, pertussis, mumps and tetanus — remain subject to Florida’s statutory immunization requirements and exemptions. Guiding the Impact supports final adoption of the proposal. If you would like to submit a public comment, it does not need to be long or technical. You may wish to tell the Department that you support: • retaining the proposed immunization-schedule revisions;
• retaining the DH8033 language stating that religious tenets or practices may include a sincerely held moral or ethical belief;
• preserving the requirement that the exemption be issued upon request without additional questioning of parents;
• conforming the Immunization Guidelines to the same “may include” wording used on DH8033; and
• ensuring consistent implementation across Florida’s county health departments. Sample comment: “I support the proposed amendments to Rule 64D-3.046. Please retain the revised immunization schedule and the DH8033 language recognizing that religious tenets or practices may include a sincerely held moral or ethical belief. I also strongly support retaining the requirement that the exemption be issued upon request without requiring parents to provide additional information about their beliefs. Please conform the Immunization Guidelines to the same ‘may include’ language used on DH8033 and ensure the final rule is implemented consistently across Florida.” Please add a sentence in your own words about why this issue matters to your family, your county, or your experience. Personal comments help the Department understand how its rules affect Florida families in practice. Public comments are open through September 14, 2026. 🔗 Official rule proposal:
flrules.org/Gateway/View_not… At Guiding the Impact, our focus is on clear, consistent and fairly administered protections for families exercising a religious exemption. Florida has long recognized a religious exemption from school immunization requirements. This rulemaking is an opportunity to clarify the Department’s forms and guidance and preserve safeguards that help ensure the exemption is administered consistently statewide. Please consider submitting a comment and sharing this information with other Florida families who may wish to participate.

This is the distinction policymakers need to keep front and center: A medical recommendation is not the same thing as a government mandate. Asked about Florida’s move to remove four school-entry vaccine requirements, Secretary @RobertKennedyJr put the principle plainly: “The decision should be between the parents and the physician — not the state.” Parental authority. Informed consent. Individual medical decision-making. Florida should keep moving in that direction. @GovRonDeSantis @FLSurgeonGen @ByronDonalds @ErikaDonalds

🚨FLORIDA UPDATE: A major step forward in the vaccine-rule process. The Florida Department of Health has now formally proposed amendments to Rule 64D-3.046 that would remove the four school-entry vaccine requirements imposed by DOH rule rather than Florida statute. The proposed rule also includes expanding Florida’s religious exemption language to include moral or ethical objections as well as changes to other immunization procedures. This is important: the rule is not final yet. Florida has now entered the formal proposed-rule stage, which creates a new opportunity for Floridians to provide input before final adoption. The public comment process is open, and a public hearing may also be scheduled if one is timely requested. We are grateful to @GovRonDeSantis and @FLSurgeonGen Dr. Joseph Ladapo for continuing to move this effort forward and putting parental authority and informed decision-making at the center of Florida’s approach. Guiding the Impact is reviewing the proposed rule and incorporated forms closely — particularly the provisions affecting religious exemptions and meaningful access for families. We will share additional guidance on the public comment process and any issues families may want to consider before submitting comments. 📣 Floridians: this is your opportunity to be part of the official rulemaking record. View the official Florida proposed-rule/public comment information here:
 flrules.org/Gateway/View_not… Policy is shaped not only in the Legislature, but through the administrative rulemaking process. Families deserve to know when the door is open — and how to make their voices count. We’ll have more soon. Also notable: @ByronDonalds said on Face the Nation this weekend that he agrees with the decision to put these rule-based vaccine decisions in parents’ hands. We appreciate his support for this important step toward greater parental choice in Florida. 🇺🇸