Free Your Children Year In Review
Another year has come and gone as Free YOUR Children stood on the battlefield fighting for citizens in Tennessee and across the nation, all while home-schooling two children of my own. I hear often that working parents can’t home-school. The truth is they can; I know because I am one.
Free YOUR Children has become a full-time responsibility, behind only God, my family and the home education of our daughters. It is work the entire family contributes to, but work that is often funded from our own family’s personal budget. How many of you pay your employer for the privilege of going to work 70-plus hours a week? “What on earth could you possibly be doing?” you may be wondering. Here’s a glimpse of our year in review.
We logged numerous miles as we traveled to Cookeville, Memphis, Hendersonville, Jackson, and Franklin, Tennessee, to present seminars that armed attendees with information they need to better protect their families. We also ventured to Pigeon Forge, where I participated in a homeschooling panel hosted by Sam Sorbo, and to The Lake of the Ozarks in Missouri, where I spoke on multiple topics for a homeschooling conference.
As if this wasn’t keeping us busy enough, last year we drafted and filed a historic bill that garnered national attention, The FREE Act. We spent many days and weeks at the Capitol visiting our legislators, at least the ones willing to have a conversation with us. A trip to the Capitol is always an adventure. There we paid hundreds of dollars in parking fees, dragged coolers for blocks, braved below-zero temperatures, and watched as legislators bolted out back doors to avoid conversations with us. On the bright side, we definitely got our steps in as we traversed blocks and blocks in downtown Nashville to the Cordell Hull Building.
We watched the legislative circus as our “conservative” representatives killed our bill while claiming that home-school parents, if given full educational autonomy, would potentially abuse or sex-traffic their children. Ironically, all the while, these same legislators never addressed the epidemic of educator abuse happening in public schools.
Many saw this as a fail, but we at Free YOUR Children viewed it as an opportunity to expose legislators who are anything but conservative.
I also interviewed some amazing, freedom-minded individuals on the FYC podcast in 2025 and continued to expose globalists and their most recent schemes, blew the whistle on bad bills and legislators, and issued calls to action, not only for Tennessee but across the nation.
For five years now, Free YOUR Children has been diligently working for you. We have never changed our stance, never wavered, and we haven’t quit.
We have remained steadfast, giving seminars, contributing monthly to the Murfreesboro Pulse, hosting the FYC podcast, giving interviews, running our social media pages, sending out a free newsletter, tracking legislation, traveling to the Capitol to attend committee meetings and for appointments with legislators. I served as a consultant to politicians, political candidates, private school leaders, and families who were beginning their home-schooling journey.
We watched as our Facebook page grew to 18,000 followers and counting. The social media aspect of FYC is a full-time job in and of itself.
Our small but mighty team gives selflessly of their time and talents asking for nothing in return. They heap more and more responsibilities on their plates because they believe in our ministry and they know the truth. I could not do this without their help and support and I am forever indebted to them. I value and admire their dedication and am thankful for them. The workload is heavy but losing our freedom is heavier. So we keep plugging away.
Is that all you did in 2025, you may ask? Well, no. I also had the honor of being interviewed by numerous radio and podcast hosts as well as journalists who contacted me about our bill and articles I had penned for the Pulse. You can access those interviews on our website under guest appearances.
We have been blessed enormously with massive growth, but with that growth comes growing pains. Our growth has not come with the financial support needed to fund a ministry of this magnitude. We need your help. We appreciate the kind words of support that so many of you offer on a regular basis, but the truth is, it doesn’t pay the bills.
Please consider helping us cover the cost of specific business tools we need in order to continue our work. Below is an itemized list of necessities that FYC needs to purchase or allocate funding to, if you value our work and would like to see us continue:
Website host
Podcast platform
RSS feed
Business license
Printing costs
Laptop
Tablet
Tripod
The total amount needed to cover these expenses is approximately $4,800. FYC is not sponsored by large non-governmental organizations. We don’t host swanky fundraiser dinners. Our support comes directly from individual, freedom-minded citizens who believe in our ministry. Every dollar helps us purchase what we need to fight for your freedoms. We need your help. We can’t do this without your support.
Donations can be made via Venmo @FreeYOURChildrenLLC or at freeyourchildren.com/donate.
Legislative session in Tennessee and in states across the nation will soon be in full swing and we are already tracking bills we know will be coming for your freedoms. Please help us continue to fight for you in 2026.
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