Wilberforce Institute

07/15/2026

At FreedomFest, Wilberforce Founder Liam Gray interviewed Michelle Backus for our upcoming podcast, the Incurable Fanatic Podcast. Here’s a clip.

07/11/2026

New from Wilberforce’s Meghan Miller & Patricia Miller of American Wild Horse Conservation in the Washington Examiner

For America 250, wild horses are included in the “American Icons” stamp collection.

But the Bureau of Land Management is spending hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars to round up & confine them.

06/09/2026

“Polling shows 80 percent of Americans are against horse slaughter, passing a farm bill containing the SOB language risks even more bipartisan backlash than Congress has bargained for.”

Read more from Wilberforce Fellow Meghan Miller in The Hill!

06/04/2026

In Washington Examiner, K. Liam Gray warns of the political costs of voting for “Save Our Bacon”:

“MAHA has already demonstrated its political clout, forcing Luna’s amendment to stop pro-pesticide policies; voting for the SOB Act could be ample ammunition when the MAHA primaries begin.”

05/20/2026

05/20/2026

“Prop. 12 protects animals in a way that I believe is good, meaningful, & becoming of our American values. But the question of the ‘Save Our Bacon Act’ isn’t whether or not Prop. 12 is a good law. The question is whether the federal government has the explicit Constitutional authority to override it.

Otherwise, per the 10th Amendment and Barry Goldwater, the goodness determination ‘lies not with the federal government, which is not sovereign, but with the people who are.’”

Read more from Wilberforce Founder K. Liam Gray in Townhall.com!