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2026 Legislative Recap

A Complete Review of the Wyoming Legislative Process & What Happending During the 2026 Budget Session   Wyoming’s Legislative Process: Structure, Sessions, and Budget Authority The Wyoming Legislature operates as a citizen legislature, meaning it meets part-time for a limited number of days each year. It functions on a biennial cycle, with a total of…

Education Oversight Collapse: Megan Degenfelder and the Department of Education Destroy Trust with Wyoming Families

In Wyoming, parents are repeatedly assured that public schools have a clear, orderly process for addressing parental concerns. Start with the teacher, then escalate to the principal, district administration, the superintendent, and finally the locally elected school board. If every local step fails, the system promises one last safeguard: the state itself. That final responsibility…

Outrageous: Wyoming School Wants $5,000–$8,000 to Let a Mom See the Sex Ed Curriculum Pushing Pronouns and Sexual Role Play on Kids

CLICK HERE TO SIGN THE PETITION In August 2025, the Federal Department of Health and Human Services sent a letter to the Wyoming Department of Health regarding school curriculum developed with federal funding, raising concerns about sexually explicit content intended for use in Wyoming’s 7th–12th grade sex education courses. This publicly funded material encourages students…

The League of Extraordinarily Progressive Voters

Wyoming is one of the most conservative states in the country, and the people who call it home live accordingly—building businesses, helping their neighbors, serving in their churches, and instilling those same values of faith, family, freedom, and heritage in their children. But Wyoming’s conservative culture is increasingly under pressure from out-of-state progressive organizations that…

It’s Time To Turn The Page on the Wyoming Library Association

In 2022, the Campbell County Public Library board voted to withdraw from the American Library Association (ALA) and its affiliate, the Wyoming Library Association (WLA). It’s time for the rest of Wyoming’s libraries to do the same. In Wyoming, a state where registered Republicans outnumber Democrats nearly 10-1, the WLA serves as the ALA’s local…

The Wyoming Hospital Association’s War Against Patients

This past legislative session, Wyoming Hospital Association (WHA) President Eric Boley marshaled his organization’s resources to sink a sensible bill that would have required hospitals to be up front about the prices they charge patients. Boley, who runs one of Wyoming’s most powerful lobbying groups, had a creative explanation for why Wyoming families pay exorbitant…

How National Medical Lobbyists & Their Wyoming Operatives Tried To Steer The Pediatric Transgender Debate

Even though Wyoming is a deeply conservative state, full of sensible people who know the difference between boys and girls, transgender ideology has nevertheless reached our borders and become a divisive issue in our politics. Who is to blame for forcing these manufactured narratives on us? Although there are many culprits, one of the most…

Wyoming Medical Society Chooses Woke Medicine Over Wyoming Families

One of Wyoming’s oldest and largest healthcare lobbyists opposes conservative values and represents the interests of the largest healthcare companies in the world.  And who is that? Allow us to introduce you to the Wyoming Medical Society (WMS).   Founded in 1903, the WMS states that it “serves our membership, and their patients, and works to…

Indoctrination Inc., brought to you by the Wyoming Education Association

Public education in Wyoming is at a crossroads. Funding is up, test scores are plummeting, and classrooms are increasingly breeding grounds for progressive social advocacy and indoctrination. For many parents today, public schools seem to bear little resemblance to the ones they attended as children. There are good reasons for thinking schools no longer reflect…

Cowboy State Daily…Your Bias Is Showing Again

Cowboy State Daily’s political bias was once again on full display as writer Clair McFarland tried to put together a hit piece to protect favored political allies.  Ms McFarland was tasked with reporting on an issue with the Wyoming Legislative Service Office and their admitted quarantining of constituent emails to lawmakers, as detailed in this…