How to Win the War between Good and Evil

If you believe in something, you need to have the courage to fight for those ideas - not run away from them.” Charlie Kirk

On September 10, 2025, we lost a true Family Rights hero with the assassination of Charlie Kirk. Charlie was a truth teller who courageously told the truth not only about the Trans Drug Cult attack on families - but also about the rigged 2020 election, the COVID Plandemic and the need for Christians to do more research, reach out to young people and get more involved in politics. Charlie showed us that the way to win the war between good and evil was to learn the truth and tell the truth. To win elections, we need to share the truth in order to expose the lies of those whose power depends on keeping us in the dark.

Six days earlier, there was a vicious attack on another Truth Teller – Robert Kennedy Jr – a person who has already survived multiple attempts on his life while he was running for President. On September 4, 2025, during a Senate hearing, Washington Senator Maria Cantwell, used a series lies to engage in character assassination of Robert Kennedy Jr. Cantwell called Kennedy a charlatan. It is this kind of name calling that incites mentally ill shooters. Cantwell then made a series of false statements about the benefits of GMO Clot Shots, including the false claim that GMO shots saved over 2 million lives:

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The truth is that drug companies deliberately hid the truth about the lack of effectiveness for their GMO shots in order to make billions of dollars (some of which went to the reelection campaigns of corrupt politicians like Cantwell).

Even worse, since their shot mandates went into effect, many studies have shown that those who took the GMO shots had worse outcomes than those who refused to take the GMO shots. This outcome was due to the fact that the shots increased “all cause mortality” by harming our natural immune systems ability to fight off turbo cancers. See links:

Increased cancers after mRNA vaccines

COVID-19 vaccination, all-cause mortality

High numbers of excess deaths in countries with high vaccination rates

Significant Increase in Excess Deaths after Repeated COVID-19 Vaccination in Japan

Twelve-Month All-Cause Mortality after Initial COVID-19 Vaccination

Excess mortality across countries in the Western World since the COVID-19 pandemic

Here is a graph from a September 9, 2025 U.S. Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing titled "Voices of the Vaccine-Injured":

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Note that the COVID vaccine is estimated to have caused 1,655,735 adverse events and led to 38,742 deaths. No one in the legacy media challenged any of the false claims made by Cantwell. There is clearly a war going on not only between good and evil but also between truth and lies. Our current lying legacy media has created a world where we are literally swimming in an ocean of lies.

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We may not be inspirational speakers like Charlie Kirk. But we can help better inform Independent voters by learning how to start our own Community News websites. Our course on how to set up and run your own Community News website starts on Tuesday evening, September 23, 2025 includes 12 evening sessions from 6 to 8 pm. You can learn more about our course at this link:

https://washingtonfamilyrightscoalition.org/family-rights-courses/create-a-secure-community-news-website-course-outline

In this article, we will review how creating a statewide network of Community News websites can help us win the war between Good and Evil here in Washington state.

Community News Websites: A New Way to build enduring relationships with Independent Voters
Traditional Identity politics would say that to win elections, we need to raise more money. We need to knock on more doors. We need to put up more signs and mail out more fliers. We need to pay for more costly TV ads. More annoying Robo Calls. More Facebook ads. More polls to test the best campaign slogans.

The problem with this kind of traditional Money Based Identity Politics is that no matter how much money we raise, the Crazy team (funded by groups like the Teachers Union and Drug Corporations) will always be able to raise much more. Thus, to win elections, we need to learn and adopt new ways to educate and engage with Independent voters.

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Six Problems with Traditional Money Based Identity politics
Before we describe this new and different way of winning elections, let’s review six problems with Traditional Money Based Identity politics:

#1 Traditional campaigning advice fails to consider the underlying cause of why Ferguson won in 2024. When we take a closer look at why Ferguson won, it is easy to see that he won because he got the vast majority of votes among Independent swing voters in King County.

#2 Traditional politics does not actually change the minds of Independent voters! Slick fliers and 60 second ads are not going to change the minds of Independent voters when those same voters have been bombarded for years by the mainstream media telling them what a great guy Bob Ferguson is.

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#3 Traditional politics is Identity based rather than Issue based.
This point is important because most independent voters align with conservatives on issues such as Parents Rights, Police Protection, Fairness in Girls Sports, Lower Taxes, Less Regulation and Lower Childcare costs. Ferguson is on the wrong side of all of these issues.
But if the choice comes down to just Democrats versus Republicans, Independents in King County will automatically check the D box. We need to give them specific issue-based reasons to check the R box.

#4 Traditional politics fails to educate voters on how to actually solve complex issues they are facing. It takes a series of articles over time to provide the kind of in-depth information Independent voters need to withstand the barrage of lies they get from the mainstream media.

#5 Traditional politics is expensive. Signs and door belling may be enough to win a local school district race where there may be only a few thousand voters. But traditional politics is much less effective at winning over Independent voters in a legislative district or statewide race where there are one hundred thousand to several million voters. In the five of the most competitive Washington State House races in the 2024 election, the Democrats won all five. They did this by outspending Republicans by $2,600,000 to $750,000 a margin of over 3 to 1.

In the 2024 Governor’s race, Dave Reichert spent $7 million while Ferguson spent over $14 million. If we are going to defeat Ferguson in 2028, we will need to find and use more effective and lower cost ways to inform and engage with Independent voters.

#6 Most important, traditional politics fails to build enduring relationships with Independent swing voters. When the election is over, all the fliers and posters and yard signs go in the dumpster.

So the question becomes:

How can we educate and build enduring relationships with Independent voters in a way that better informs them about Ferguson’s positions on issues they care about? The answer is to create a series of Community News Websites all across Washington state to tell the voters the truth every time Ferguson and his accomplices in Olympia promote another crazy idea.

Introducing Community Building Issue Based Politics
Assuming you and your friends are willing and able to donate your own time to write and post articles to your community news website, the actual cost of a Community News website is less than $2 per month. Over time, you should be able to educate and build relationships with thousands and even tens of thousands of Independent voters in your community.

Independent voters greatly outnumber both Republican and Democrat voters here in Washington state. There are one million Democrats and 800,000 Republicans in Washington state. But there are about 2.3 million Independent voters in our state. We will need to better inform and change the minds and hearts of about 400,000 of these Independent voters in order to win the 2028 election.

Assuming each community news website will be able to inform and build relationships with 10,000 Independent voters in their local community, we will need to create about 40 Common Sense Community News websites to change the outcome of the 2028 election.

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Creating a series of Common Sense Community News websites will give us a much better chance of winning the 2028 election. If we can convince enough concerned citizens to take up this challenge, I am certain we can defeat Bob Ferguson in 2028 and restore sanity here in Washington state. This is how we win the war between Good and Evil.

Crazy Policies versus Common Sense Policies
We need to begin by changing the framing of this political debate. This is not a debate between Republicans and Democrats. It is not a debate between conservatives and liberals. It is not even a debate at all - as a debate implies that there are two rational sides being considered. Instead, this is a contest between crazy people advocating crazy policies versus Common Sense candidates advocating Common Sense policies.

The only way this situation can continue to exist is with the aide of a broken news media that fails to tell Independent voters the truth about these crazy policies and instead supports, hides and normalizes these crazy policies. The key to helping Common Sense candidates win more local and statewide elections here in our state is developing a system of extremely low-cost Community News websites here in our state – by assisting and training concerned citizens to create and manage these zero cost community news websites all across Washington state.

The New Testament states “You will know the truth and the truth will set you free.” We offer two corollaries. First, “If you do not know the truth, then you are not free.” Second, “The way to help people become free is to help them learn the Truth.”

Our plan begins with helping folks start a few Community News websites in 2025. We will then expand our network of Community News websites to elect more Common Sense candidate to the legislature in 2026. We will create even more Community News websites in 2027 with the goal of helping Common Sense candidates win Statewide races in 2028.

Analysis of Independent Voters in Washington State
Independent swing voters determine the outcome of every election. Washington state has one of the highest percentages of Independent voters of any state in the nation. Washington has about 5 million registered voters. However, only 4 million registered voters voted in the 2020 Presidential Election and only 3.8 million voted in the 2024 election. Although Washington state does not allow party registration, we can determine the number and percent of Independent voters by analyzing the 2024 Washington State Presidential Primary. There were about 900,000 ballots turned in for Democrats (23%) and 770,000 ballots turned in for Republicans (19%).

Combined, 1.7 million voters out of 4 million “General Election active voters” participated in the 2024 Presidential Primary. This means that 2.3 million Independent voters did not turn in a ballot for either party (58%). https://results.vote.wa.gov/results/20240312/federal-all.html

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Nearly one million Independent voters in King and Snohomish counties will vote in the 2028 General Election. For the Republican candidate for Governor to win, he will need to get at least 65% or 650,000 of these one million Independent votes.

It is therefore essential to focus on the issues important to Independent voters and second to better inform Independent voters regarding how they are harmed by the current Ferguson crazy policies on each of these issues. A key fact of Independent voters is that they tend to dislike both major political parties – and often vote for the candidate they dislike the least rather than the candidate they like the best. Rather than voting based on Party Identity, voting for a candidate based on whether they are a Democrat or Republican, they are more likely to vote based on where a candidate stands on issues affecting them and their children. To win over Independent candidates, we should focus on important Common Sense issues that unite us rather than Identities and labels used to divide us.

The Most Important Issues to East King County Independent Voters are their Kids and their Pocketbooks
I have conducted door belling campaigns in several elections in East King County – knocking on 5,000 to 10,000 doors in each election. My understanding of Independent voters comes from speaking personally with more than 30,000 Independent voters in East King County over the past 16 years. Most of these Independent voters were parents trying to raise a family during difficult economic times. Many had to work two jobs just to pay their mortgage and keep food on the table.

These parents have only two concerns. Their most important concern is the harm being inflicted on their kids due to the horrible things going on in the public schools. These parents oppose the WOKE Transgender Drug Cult being used to brainwash their children. They oppose the heartless school closures, worthless zoom classes and disgusting mask mandates.

The second concern of East King County Independent voters is their pocketbook. They simply can not afford the ever increasing property taxes – which have gone up in King counties by nearly 60% during the past 6 years due to an Unconstitutional Law passed in 2017 by the Legislature called the Levy Swipe – which unfairly targeted homeowners in King county with massive property tax increases to pay for the McCleary School funding mess. The Levy Swipe robs homeowners in King (and Snohomish) county of thousands of dollars a year. These parents rightly blame both political parties for these two problems. Many told me they did not like either party. All they cared about was their kids and their pocketbooks.

If Republicans campaigned on a platform of getting rid of the WOKE agenda and repealing the Unconstitutional Levy Swipe, and thereby saving homeowners in King and Snohomish counties thousands of dollars a year, they would win the the Governors race.

All Republicans need to do is pledge to support local control of schools – which will end the WOKE Trans Drug Cult agenda – and pledge to replace the illegal Levy Swipe School Funding scam with a School funding plan which is compliance with Article 7, Section 1 of our State Constitution (which requires a uniform system of State taxes).

Reforming the tax structure does not require a majority in the State House or the State Senate. All it requires is a Governor, Attorney General and State Superintendent with the courage to tell the truth – that the Levy Swipe School Funding Scam violates several sections of our State Constitution.

Ending the Trans Cult in our Schools
For the past 8 years, Bob Ferguson has been a national leader of the Trans Drug Cult. He needs to be held accountable for this crime against our children.

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The drug industry uses the term “Gender Affirming Care” to describe giving children these toxic drugs. We will therefore use the term “Gender Mutilation” to describe giving these toxic drugs to minors – as the end result of giving minors these experimental drugs is that their sex organs will be mutilated and the child will become sterile. In addition, puberty blockers have been known to cause brain tumors. In July 2022, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the US issued a warning label about the risk of puberty blockers after six minors (ages 5-12) experienced severe symptoms of tumor-like masses in the brain. Several studies have linked cross sex hormones to huge increases in cancer rates.

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You will see throughout this report that real child development experts recommend child and family counseling as the best option for resolving problems. The goal is to help the child learn coping skills and other problem solving skills to resolve their issues.

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Child Development should be based on Science not Politics
We recognize that in recent years, this subject has become a political football in the United States. Currently, about 25 states led by Republicans have passed laws banning gender mutilation of minors.

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Meanwhile 20 State Attorney Generals of states led by Democrats have filed legal briefs in favor of gender mutilation of minors. Sadly, these State Attorney Generals promoting gender mutilation of minors include Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson who is current running for Governor of Washington state. Voters in Washington state need to know that if Ferguson is elected Governor this year, the future of hundreds of thousands of children in our state will be put at risk.

For more information on the harm inflicted on children by Bob Ferguson and his Trans Drug Cult, please read the following article:

https://washingtonparentsnetwork.com/1-why-promoting-gender-mutilation-is-child-abuse

Support Family Rights
We need to openly support the right of parents to make decisions regarding the upbringing of their children. This may seem like an odd issue. But half of all voters are parents and Ferguson has been a leader in attacking the rights of these parents. Letting parents know we are on their side could be a huge issue in encouraging cross over voting.

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Our goal is to protect your fundamental right as a parent to direct the upbringing and education of your child - and to protect your child’s right to have a caring and trusting relationship with you as their parent. We believe that the parent -child relationship is essential to a child’s healthy development.

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We believe that every child is unique and no one knows or loves a child more than his or her own parents. We believe that parents are the best protectors of children and that parents have a natural right and duty for the care, custody, and control for their children. We believe that no one is better able to make decisions in the best interest of their child than their parents.

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Young children often engage in magic thinking and are not capable of making serious lifelong decisions without guidance from their parents. Brain washing young children into thinking they can magically change their sex is a monstrous form of child abuse which can permanently harm a child’s ability to have a happy life. Our mission is to protect children from those who would destroy their innocence and exploit them for their own radical political agenda.

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We believe that the best way to protect children from this state-imposed child abuse is to educate parents about the danger of current Washington State policies that encourage children to change their gender without the knowledge or consent of their parents.

It is now clear that the only way we will be able to restore Parents Rights in Washington state is by organizing parents and building a political movement capable of winning elections so we can replace both Chris Reykdal and the current legislature.

Forcing Kindergartners to use gender pronouns that do not match the biological sex of a person is more than just confusing. It is child abuse in that it is the first step that might send a vulnerable child down an extremely dark path. Even worse, telling children that they should not trust their parents and that they should even lie to their parents is certain to damage their essential relationship with their parent. It is time to end the abuse of our children! Truth is power and it is time to expose the lies Reykdal has been telling us about what is happening in our public schools.

How Community News websites can help level the playing field
Never has there been a greater need for independent news sources than there is today. All of the traditional news sources from newspapers to radio to television have been taken over by wealthy multinational corporations. Our freedom of thought, our ability to communicate and our right to free and equal elections are all at risk due to the lack of honest, independent news sources. The corporate takeover of our news has also led to a dramatic decline in local news reporting – which in turn has led to a lack of community. It has also led to an inability to learn and share the truth about important issues affecting all of us. Instead, we are bombarded with fear-driven propaganda by the Information War Machine. Nearly everything they see on TV News and nearly everything they read in corporate newspapers are carefully crafted lies. We are like fish swimming in increasingly polluted waters.

Thankfully, the American people are starting to catch on to this scam. Gallup Polls used to show that two out of three people trusted the corporate media to tell the truth. Now, after decades of lying to the public, the majority of the American people no longer trust the corporate media.

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Two out of three Americans are seeking alternative sources of information. They are increasingly turning to independent news websites.

Online News Websites are already the most trusted news source
In the past 10 years, Internet news websites have passed TV, radio and newspapers as the Number One source of news. According to Pew Research, in 2024, 86% of U.S. adults say they at least sometimes get news online from a News website. Over half, 55% say they often get their news online from a news website. Only 30% say they often get their news from a TV network. Just 10% get their news from a radio station. And only 5% get their news from a traditional print newspaper.

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Every year, the shift to online news grows more apparent. It is time for a new kind of independent media – one run not for pursuit of profit but for the pursuit of truth and the sharing of wisdom. It is time that We the People reclaim control over our own local news! 

How to Solve the Information War Problem
The only way to solve this Information War problem is to start winning elections. But this will not happen until voters are better informed!

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Our plan is to help voters become better informed by helping concerned citizens learn how to start their own Community News websites all across Washington state. In this course, we will show you how to create your own Community News website the right way – using a series of online security tools. You do not need to be a computer programmer. We show you how to use each of these security tools with clear step-by-step instructions. If you can bake a cake, you can run a secure Community News website.

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During our online course sessions, we cover every step needed to create and run a secure News website:

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During the course, you will learn how to customize your own news website by building a series of practice news websites. We also cover how to enlist community groups to help you run and expand your Community News website:

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Join us and help inform your local community!
If you are feed up with corruption and want to help voters become better informed, then take our course and start your own community news website. Creating your own news website requires a commitment of time and effort – not only to research the content for your news website but also to learn how to transfer that content to the Internet and display it in a well organized manner on a secure news website.

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If you are willing to put in this time and effort, we will show you how it is done!

Top Ten Features of our Community News websites

#1 Extremely low operating cost… about $2 per month!

#2 User-friendly interfaces… no need to learn coding.

#3 Simple article creation and editing process

#4 Customizable templates and page layouts

#5 Topic and Time based Content management of both articles and images

#6 Complete control over your news website content and appearance

#7 eCommerce and ad revenue support

#8 Free Newsletter component

#9 Free Event Management component

#10 All ad revenue stays with your News team.

Create a Secure News Website Course

I have created a course that explains in detail how to create your own secure News Website. Here is a link to our course curriculum: https://createasecurenewswebsite.com/

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In this course, students learn how to create their own secure News website by building a series of practice News websites over a period of about 3 months. I have also created a Community News Demo website where you can see what the end result looks like.

Here is a link to the Demo Site: https://our.communitynews.us/

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Here is the link to sign up for this course:

https://washingtonfamilyrightscoalition.org/family-rights-courses/sign-up-for-our-community-news-website-course

In addition, we will review this course at our next Family Rights meeting this Sunday September 14th from 4 to 5 pm. For a link to our next online meeting, just reply to this email or send an email to David @ Washington Family Rights Coalition.org with your name and the county you live in. Please RSVP by NOON SUNDAY September 14th. We will email you back with a link to the meeting.

Finally, we now have a Donation page for anyone who wants to help us expand our Washington Family Rights Coalition. Here is the link:

https://washingtonfamilyrightscoalition.org/donate

Regards,
David Spring M. Ed.
Director, Washington Parents Network
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Sign Up for our Effective Initiative Writing Course

Our goal in this course is to help you learn how to write effective and constitutionally valid initiatives. This course includes 4 evening sessions from 6 to 8 pm. These sessions will be onTuesday nights, beginning August 5, 2025. In addition to the 2 hour online weekly meetings, this course requires 2 hours of reading and practice assignments each week.

Course Cost Options: This is a free course. If you wish to make a donation, feel free to make a donation of any amount you feel you can afford to our Washington Family Rights Coalition.org website or mail a check to:
David Spring, 6183 Evergreen Way, Ferndale, WA 98248

Note: Graduates of this course will be eligible to participate on (but are not required to participate on) our committee to draft our comprehensive Washington Family Rights Initiative.

Questions? Feel free to email us!

If you are interested in reserving a spot in our next Constitutional Initiative writing course, please fill out this form below so we can know more about you.

Create a Secure Community News Website Course Outline

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Course website: https://createasecurenewswebsite.com/
Instructor: David Spring M. Ed. Email: davidspring@protonmail.com
12 week online class sessions, Tuesday evenings 6 to 8 pm, plus between class reading assignments about 4 hours per week

Assignments to prepare for Class 1:
Read Create a Secure Website.com Welcome article and 1.1 Create a Secure Linux Computer and 1.2 First Steps after reflashing to Linux. Write at least one question on the readings to ask at our first class session

Class 1: Introductions and First Assignment
First Hour: Introductions and Plan Overview

Second Hour: Why and how to get a secure Linux laptop
Assignments to prepare for Class 2:
Begin process for getting your secure Linux Laptop
Read 1.3 Create a Secure Virtual Private Server
Read 1.4 Use Midnight Commander to change VPS settings
Write at least one question on the readings to ask at our next class session

Class 2: Virtual Private Servers & Hestia Control Panel
First Hour: Important and Selection of a Virtual Private Server

Second Hour: Installing Debian Linux and Hestia Control Panel
Assignments to prepare for Class 3:
Complete process for getting your secure Linux Laptop
Get Proton Mail email account
Read 2.1 Use Hestia to Install Joomla
Read 2.2 Joomla First Steps & 2.3 Add Joomla Extensions
Read 3.1 News Website Topic Categories & Folders
Write at least one question on the readings to ask at our next class session

Class 3: Begin work on your Demo Community News Website
First Hour: Joomla Security, Setup and Extensions

Second Hour: News Website Folders and Topic Categories
Assignments to prepare for Class 4:
Read 3.3 Write and Post News Articles

Read 4.1 Use Libre Draw to create Featured Images
Read 4.2 Manually resize Images
Read 4.3 Add Featured Images
Write at least one question on the readings to ask at our next class session

Class 4: Joomla News Articles and Featured Images
First Hour: Use Libre Writer to write and post your first article
Second Hour: Use Flameshot to Capture Images. Libre Draw to Create Featured Images & Gthumb to Resize Featured Images
Assignments to prepare for Class 5:
Read 5.1 Create Menu Item Links

Read 5.2 Create Category Menu Items
Read 5.3 Create Article Menu Items
Write at least one question on the readings to ask at our next class session

Class 5: Menu Items and Links
First Hour: Create Category and Article Menu Items

Second Hour: Create Menus and Menu Modules
Assignments to prepare for Class 6:
Read Article 6.1 Style Custom Modules

Read Article 6.2 Style Custom Modules with CSS
Read Article 6.3 Use Preset Classes to Style Modules
Read Article 6.4 Use Rainbow Presets to Style Modules
Write at least one question on the readings to ask at our next class session

Class 6: Custom Modules and Module Classes
First Hour: Module Basics

Second Hour: Module Classes and Presets
Assignments to prepare for Class 7:
Read 7.1 Organize and Display News Articles

Read 7.2 Create a Child Template Part 1
Read 7.3 Create a Child Template Part 2
Read 7.4 Child Template Layout Tips
Write at least one question on the readings to ask at our next class session

Class 7: Child Templates and News Page Layout
First Hour: Display News Articles and Create a Child Template

Second Hour: Child Template Layout Tips

Assignments to prepare for Class 8:
Read 8.1: Create a Community News Team

Read 8.2: Joomla Access Levels
Read 8.3: Finish and Test News Member Groups
Read 8.4: Manage a Reader Comment System
Write at least one question on the readings to ask at our next class session

Class 8: Author Submissions and Reader Comments
First Hour: Joomla Groups and Access Levels, Author Submission Process

Second Hour: Manage a Reader Comment System
Assignments to prepare for Class 9:
Read 9.1: Manage an Email Newsletter

Read 9.2: Manage an Events Calendar
Write at least one question on the readings to ask at our next class session

Class 9: Newsletters, Events, News Site Promotion and Management
First Hour: Email Newsletter Templates, subscribers and sending

Second Hour: Events Calendar Management
Assignments to prepare for Class 10:
Read 9.3: News website legal structure options

Read 9.4: News website update and backup
Write at least one question on the readings to ask at our next class session

Class 10: Use Community News Clone to Set up real news website
First Hour: News Website Legal Structure Options

Second Hour: News website update and Backup

Assignments to prepare for Class 11:
Log into your News Real Website and review initial steps

Write at least one question to ask at our next class session

Class 11: Customize real news website
First Hour: Customize real news website

Second Hour: Promote and Manage your real news website
Assignments to prepare for Class 12:
Prepare your News Website for your class presentation

Class 12: Promote and Manage your real news website
First Hour: Student Class Presentations and Feedback

Second Hour: Forming a Statewide Community News Association

Our Plan to build a Statewide Pro-family Community News Network

Our goal is to better inform independent voters about the harms being inflicted on families by the current “corrupt and crazy” crowd running Olympia. To achieve this goal, we intend to train common sense citizens how to start their own secure community news websites. We will do this by offering a series of 12-week courses.

Our next Community News Website course starts on Tuesday night September 23, 2025 and continues for 12 weeks through Tuesday night December 9, 2025. During this course, we give students the opportunity to build practice community news websites and then help them set up their own community news websites.

It you would like to reserve a spot in our next course, go to our Washington Family Rights Coalition.org website and fill out our News Website Course Interest form.

Course graduates are given the opportunity to continue learning by acting as mentors for the students of the next course. Our next course will be January, February and March 2026 followed by another course in April, May and June 2026.

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During 2027 and 2028, we will continue our courses with the goal of helping start a total of 40 Pro-family Common Sense Community News websites to help Common Sense candidates running for the State legislature and pass our Family Rights Initiatives during the 2028 election.

Effective Initiative Writing Course Outline

Instructor: David Spring M. Ed. Director, Washington Family Rights Coalition
4 week online class sessions: Tuesday evenings 6 to 8 pm,

plus between class reading assignments about 2 hours per week

Assignments to prepare for Class 1:
Read Legal Failings of Past Initiatives
Write at least one question on the readings to ask at our first class session

Class 1: Legal Failings of Past Initiatives
First Hour: Complying with Article 2, Section 19 The Single Subject Rule

Second Hour: Complying with Article 2, Section 37 The Full Text Rule
Assignments to prepare for Class 2:
Read How to Conduct an online legal search 
Write at least one question on the readings to ask at our next class session

Class 2: How to conduct an online legal search of state & federal court rulings
First Hour: Review of our state & federal court systems

Second Hour: How to search state & federal court rulings.
Assignments to prepare for Class 3:
Read How to write a Comprehensive Family Rights Initiative
Write at least one question on the readings to ask at our next class session

Class 3: How to write a Comprehensive Family Rights Initiative
First Hour: Why it is better to amend comprehensive bills drafted by the legislature rather than writing new comprehensive Initiatives.

Second Hour: Amending House Bill 1296
Assignments to prepare for Class 4:
Read Why we should submit Initiatives directly to the People

Write at least one question on the readings to ask at our next class session

Class 4: Why we should submit Initiatives directly to the People
First Hour: Drawbacks of writing Initiatives to the Legislature

Second Hour: Review of past and future effective versus ineffective Initiatives

Note: Graduates of this course will be eligible to participate on (but are not required to participate on) our committee to draft our comprehensive Washington Family Rights Initiative.
Questions? Feel free to email us!
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Sign up for our Community News Website Course

Our goal in this course is to help you learn how to create your own secure news website. Graduates of this course will be given a FREE Custom Common Sense Community News Website hosted on our secure servers. This course includes 12 evening sessions from 6 to 8 pm. These sessions will be on Tuesday nights, beginning September 23, 2025. In addition to the 2 hour online weekly meetings, this course requires 2 to 4 hours of reading and practice assignments each week. For Security reasons, whoever is posting to your News website should use a Linux computer. We will review options for getting a Linux computer during our first class session and we will help you get a Linux computer and learn how to use it. But it is similar to a Windows 7 computer. To view our course curriculum, visit: CreateaSecureNewsWebsite.com

Linux Laptop Cost: If you have an old Windows 7, 8 or 10 desktop or laptop computer, we will help you reflash it to Linux at no charge. The process takes about one hour. Alternately, you can buy a used Dell Laptop for about $300 or a new Linux Pinebook Pro laptop for about $300. Either way, we will help you reflash it to Linux Debian at no charge prior to or during our course.

Course Cost Options: The normal fee for this 12 week course is $240 – or $20 per week. However, we do not want the course fee to prevent you from taking this course. If you are on a limited budget, we still want you to take the course! So feel free to ask for a fee waiver. To pay for the course, you can either pay online by going to Washington Family Rights Coalition.org and making a donation of any amount you feel you can afford or mailing a check (or request for a fee waiver) to:
David Spring, 6183 Evergreen Way, Ferndale, WA 98248

If you are interested in reserving a spot in our next Community News website course, please fill out the form below so we can know more about you.