The Wyoming state legislature is under solid Republican control. However, in recent years, across the country, that has not meant that policies favored by Republican voters are promoted and passed by Republican elected officials.
In the Cowboy State, however, Republicans in the Freedom Caucus movement have been delivering for their constituents on key issues like election integrity, illegal immigrants, and tax relief.
The same challenges Trump has faced fighting the deep state and DC swamp parallel the challenges these state leaders are facing while trying to enact an America First agenda in state budgets and while writing state laws.
The GOP holds a supermajority in the current Wyoming legislature. 56 of the 62 seats in the House and 29 of the 31 seats in the Senate are held by Republicans. The Wyoming Freedom Caucus has recruited challengers who unseated the former House Speaker Albert Sommers and the House Speaker Pro Tem Clark Stith.
The Wyoming Freedom Caucus proposed a “Five and Dime Plan” that would push five key issues in ten days in a legislature that only meets two months each year.
The five key issues the Freedom Caucus Identified in their “Five and Dime Plan”:
- Requiring proof of residency to vote, and ensuring non-citizens cannot vote.
- Invalidating driver’s licenses issued by other states to illegal immigrants.
- Ending D.E.I. Marxist programs at state colleges.
- Banning environmentalist-investment-priorities from the state’s trust fund.
- Cutting state property taxes by at least 25%.
The Associated Press’ Mead Gruver reported on the Wyoming Freedom Caucus in January, claiming that they had low support and likely wouldn’t get much done.
By the end of January, all five bills had sailed through the Wyoming House.
Two days ago, the Associated Press’ Mead Gruver had to admit that they obtained the approval of most of their priorities.
Last week, state media outlets were saying the property tax reduction was about to be passed, and local bureaucrats were facing revenue reductions ‘beyond comprehension.’ Wyoming Public Radio is complaining that DEI programs are about to end. And the Governor, Mark Gordon, reluctantly allowed the bill banning drivers licenses for illegals to pass over his objections.
The five-and-dime plan’s bills for election integrity failed in the Senate, and the bill to regulate environmentalist investing shenanigans was similarly stalled in the Senate after the media fearmongered that the state would lose $5 billion if the conservative legislation was approved.
These major policy victories serve as an inspiration to other legislators. A rust belt state legislator told the Gateway Pundit, speaking about Wyoming’s Freedom Caucus wins, “We’ve been fighting RINO Republican leadership for so long, that to see a state that was able to cut taxes, secure elections, fight illegal immigration, and end DEI, is an inspiration.”
The nationwide State Freedom Caucus movement has 13 official state chapters, operating in Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Arizona, South Dakota, Oklahoma, Missouri, Illinois, Louisiana, Georgia, South Carolina, Pennsylvania, Maryland. An informal member also exists in Michigan. A former Freedom Caucus chapter in Texas was active in the 2010s before being killed by RINO Texas State Rep. Jeff Leach.
