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The viewership numbers for Judicial Watch’s recent Deep State Update expert panel are through the ceiling!
 
And I know that is important news for you – a key news media gatekeeper.
 
As of this moment, panel viewership on our JWTV YouTube channel has reached a staggering 103,000…
 
Which compares pretty well to the average YouTube video – which gets 8,332 views!
 
JW’s Deep State Update panel features some of the nation’s top experts on the Deep State soft coup against President Donald Trump – including Rep. Jim Jordan, Lt. Col. Tony Shaffer, Michael Bekesha, the Daily Caller’s Vince Coglianese, and, of course, Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton.
 
In case you missed it, here is the hard--hitting one-hour panel in full – notable, quotable, and intense:
 

 
Please let me know if you have any questions.
 
Sincerely,
 

Carter Clews
Director of Communications
 
PS: If you are like me – and sometimes prefer reading to watching – click here for the full panel transcript.  

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Chris Farrell: Rod Rosenstein ‘Owes the Public an Answer’

On May 8, Judicial Watch Director of Investigations Chris Farrell appeared on “Lou Dobbs Tonight” on the Fox Business Network to discuss the ‘scope memo’ written by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. 

Yesterday, President Donald Trump submitted the largest rescissions request in history to Congress. Now he needs your help because Congress has only 45 days—until June 22—to take action.

The radical left, led by Nancy Pelosi, is not going to help cut wasteful spending. Pelosi thinks “These Republican rescissions show the hypocrisy of a GOP Congress.”

Cutting spending is what congressional Republicans have campaigned on for decades. And now President Trump is giving them an opportunity to start delivering on that promise.

>> Call your Representative today

This process will start in the House of Representatives. Every single Representative needs to hear from we the people.

We know that today’s rescission request will not change Washington overnight, but it will signal a desperately needed shift. It is time to fight back against The Swamp.

>> Tell your Representative to support President Trump’s rescissions request

Thank you for making the call.

Dan
 

Dan Holler
Vice President
Heritage Action for America

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Thanks for being a supporter of culture! Below are a few updates as well as our bi-monthly newsletter showcasing jobs, news, and what's happening all around this state in our amazing cultural sector!

1. Introducing our 2018 Annual Meetings!
2. SLC Mayor Proposes Increase for Arts Council
3. Legislative accomplishments
4. Mountain West Arts Conference
5. We have an Instagram!

#1 Introducing our 2018 Annual Meetings!

Join UCA for the first ever series of Annual Meetings for Utah's cultural sector! These meetings are an opportunity to take a deep dive into the specifics of various cultural jobs, which includes jobs at both nonprofit cultural organizations and for-profit businesses and sole proprietorships. Below you'll find details. Save the date for education: it will be June 22nd. We're also close to announcing dates for our other two meetings: Diversity & Inclusion and #801creativewomen. Trust us, you won't want to miss these!

2018 Annual Meeting: Executive Directors, CEOs and Senior Management // May 17, 2018
Get ready to learn from a roundtable of CEOs, master how to develop employees, and build partnerships with corporations. We have some pretty incredible speakers lined up:

• 8am // Registration opens & networking
• 9am // Fraser Nelson (Sorenson Impact Center): Building a Deep Bench
• 10am // CEO Roundtable: Lessons from the For-Profit Sector (Speakers include representatives from Meghan Touhig, VP of People Care at Overstock, Senator Luz Escamilla VP of Community Development Group at Zions Bank, and Darla Mears, VP of Sales at Kodiak Cakes)
• 11am // Developing Employees Discussion Facilitated by Wendi Hassan (Cache Valley Centre for the Arts) & Senator Luz Escamilla (Zions Bank)
• 12pm // Keynote Luncheon -- "pARTnership Movement"* by Jessica Stern (Americans for the Arts)
• 1pm // Networking
• 1:30pm // Policymaking discussion with Utah Cultural Alliance

Don't miss out and sign up today for this half day deep dive!

2018 Annual Meeting: Cultural Marketing Staff // May 17, 2018
This particular meeting has ample opportunities for networking with fellow cultural marketing staff and members of the press! There are also some fantastic speakers ready to give advice on marketing trends and policy making. Below are a the featured speakers:

• 11:30am // Registration opens & networking
• 12pm // Keynote Luncheon -- "pARTnership Movement"* by Jessica Stern (Americans for the Arts)
• 1pm // Networking
• 1:30pm // Marketing Trends -- Mark Stevenett (Love Communications)
• 1:30pm // concurrent session // Policymaking discussion with UCA
• 2:30pm // New Trends in Social Media, PPC, and Google Grants -- Michelle Church & Team (Utah Digital Services)
• 3:30pm // Speed-dating with the Press (see list below for RSVPs)
• 4:30pm // Networking

Learn more about this opportunity and RSVP here!

2018 Annual Meeting: Cultural Fundraisers // September 13, 2018
Are you a cultural fundraiser? Then be sure to come to this annual meeting! You'll get feedback on grant applications, receive phenomenal advice and learn from seasoned consultants.

• 8:30am // Registration opens & networking
• 9am // Planned Giving and Donor Advised Funds (Jeffrey Mathis of Fadel Law Firm & Jeff Kemp of Raymond James)
• 10am // The Grant That Got Away (Laura Berbusse, Granted Fundraisers)*
• 11am // Keynote: Sheila Smith, Minnesota Citizens for the Arts
• 12pm // Keynote: Eddie Torres, Grantmakers in the Arts
• 1pm // Funders Panel, hear directly from funders about what they like to see in requests and applications

Learn more about this meeting and RSVP here!

Additional Annual Meetings: Educators (June 22), Diversity & Inclusion (fall), and Gender Parity (fall), stay tuned for more details!

#2 ICYMI: SLC Mayor Proposes Increase for Arts Council

Salt Lake City Mayor Biskupski announced her budget proposal this morning and it includes a $30,000 increase for the SLC Arts Council! We thank Mayor Biskupski for her support of Salt Lake's cultural sector. Here's some history on the funding levels the last 14 years.

The power of the purse is ultimately up to the legislative branch (city council in this case). If you are a resident of SLC, you can contact your city council rep here and ask them to support a budget increase.

We're not just focused on SLC's cultural sector. We work with municipalities around the state to better Utah's arts & humanities. We made a nifty check list for municipalities to evaluate if they are friendly to arts & humanities. You can see it here. Feel free to send it to your municipal government! Next step: grading municipalities on their friendliness to culture.

#3 Legislative Accomplishments

I've been getting a lot of questions lately about what happened at the legislature from those who didn't attend our wrap up last month. Here's a short list:

• Nearly $9 million in NEW MONEY for the cultural sector (more than double last year)!!
• If you include entities that aren't UCA members, the total is $13 million
• $1.3 million of the 9 was for arts & humanities education projects
• $2.3 million went to Department of Heritage and Arts and its 6 divisions
• $300,000 will go to the state's arts acquisition budget to help help purchase Milk Money paintings from school districts around the state! (you may recall, we worked to block Logan City School District's sale. We didns't stop Logan, but this will help protect the remaining collections)
• We helped pass a bill to send a statue of Dr. Martha Hughes Cannon to DC by 2020!
• Additional passed bills: Art Collection Amendments, State History Amendments, State Dinosaur Amendments, Charity Registration Amendments, and more
• See the full list of budget line items and bills here. We were BUSY working to better our sector!

#4 Mountain West Arts Conference THIS THURSDAY!

I invite you to join our partners, the Utah Division of Arts & Museums, for their Mountain West Arts Conference on May 10th. Register here!

#5 We have an Instagram!
UCA finally bit the bullet and got an Instagram! You can follow us at @utculture for photos of our events, news and more. If members have any advertisements they'd like us to feature on our Instagram please email staff@utculture.org.

Make it a creative week!