MAY 11TH, 2025

May 11, 2025

Happy Mother’s Day!

On this special day, Maude and I wish to express our profound gratitude to every mother for your endless love and encouragement. Each lesson you have imparted has been a guiding light to our lives.  We celebrate every mom out there, not just today, but every day, for all you are and all you do.  Happy Mother’s Day! 🌸🌺

Gosar Votes to Codify Trump’s Gulf of America Executive Order

This week, I joined my colleagues in Congress in voting to codify President Trump’s recent executive order to permanently rename the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America.  After all, the American people have been footing the bill to protect and secure the Gulf of America’s maritime waterways so that commerce can be conducted. The Gulf is a crucial artery for America’s trade and global commerce. It is the largest gulf in the world, with the U.S. coastline along the Gulf spanning over 1,700 miles. The Gulf is also home to many fisheries teeming with snapper, shrimp, grouper, stone crab, and other species, and it is recognized as one of the most productive fisheries in the world, with the second largest volume of commercial fishing landings by region in the nation, contributing millions of dollars to our economy. The bottom line is that the Gulf’s natural resources and wildlife are an essential part of America’s economy; therefore, it’s only right that the Gulf is named appropriately.

Gosar Votes to End Chinese Communist Party Infiltration on Our Campuses

Also, this week I voted on legislation prohibiting the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) from providing funds to any higher education institution that hosts Confucius Institutes, which are nonprofit cultural and educational centers funded by the Chinese government.  That prohibition also would apply to institutions that have financial relationships with Chinese universities or colleges that meet other criteria, such as receiving funding from or providing support to elements of the CCP.

Faithful Gosar Newsletter readers will remember that I previously introduced related legislationmandating complete transparency to expose Confucius Institutes and other foreign influence programs on college campuses disguised as cultural and language programs. Institutions of higher education are the steppingstone for the development of the minds of the future leaders of America. It is important that colleges and universities are a place for the healthy debate of ideas and absent of foreign influences, including those with ties to communist regimes.

Unfortunately, foreign entities disguising themselves as cultural education institutions raise many concerns about academic freedom and autonomy in our public universities. In particular, CCP-funded Confucius Institutes operate on dozens of campuses across the United States and serve as platforms to advance China’s political agenda by allowing it to export its state censorship, control academic staff, choose curriculum, and restrict free speech and debate in college classrooms.

With the passage of this legislation, House Republicans are stopping the national security threat posed by Confucius Institutes and are ensuring that taxpayer dollars are not supporting Communist Chinese ideology.

And the Congressional Art Competition Winners Are…

This weekend, I had the pleasure of announcing the winners of Arizona’s Ninth Congressional District Art Competition. This annual contest, first started in 1982 and with over 650,000 participants since, recognizes the best art of the year from high school students. The winners were selected from a panel of local judges and the “People’s Choice” winner was selected via online voting.

The winning artist is invited to attend the annual awards ceremony in Washington, D.C. and their artwork will be displayed for one year on the wall in the walkway from the Cannon House Office Building to the United States Capitol.  The second-place winning artwork will be displayed in my office in D.C. and the third-place winning artwork will be displayed in my district office in Goodyear.  All winners will receive scholarship funds from Ottawa University and Mohave Community College.

Congratulations to all the winners.  Thank you to all the artists who submitted artwork.  Special thanks to the Desert Caballeros Western Museum for generously hosting the Congressional Art Competition, our fabulous curators who donated their time and expertise and the wonderful panel of judges!  We could not have done this without all your assistance.

Here are your winners:

Student Name: Maria Maldonado

Place: Honorable Mention

Grade: 11th

School: Copper Canyon High School

Title of Piece: Xochiquetzal

Medium: Graphite on Paper

Student Name: Yarihana Lopez

3^rd Place Winner

Grade: 10th

School: St. John Paul II Catholic High School

Title of Piece: My Second Love

Medium: Acrylic

Student Name: Tyler Wang

2^nd Place Winner

Grade: 10th

School: Great Hearts Trivium Preparatory Academy

Title of Piece: Cultivating Wisdom

Medium: Graphite Pencil

Student Name: Cami Sheeks

1^st Place Winner

Grade: 12th

School: Highland Prep

Title of Piece: Train on the River

Medium: Acrylic on Watercolor Paper

Student Name: Tyler Wang

People’s Choice Winner

Grade: 10th

School: Great Hearts Trivium Preparatory Academy

Title of Piece: Cultivating Wisdom

Medium: Graphite Pencil

Gosar Hosts Successful Military Academy Day

Thank you to all the High School Juniors, Seniors and parents who attended my Military Academy Day this weekend to learn more about how to receive a congressional nomination to a United States military service academy. I am very impressed with the qualifications of the students and wish them all the best as they pursue an appointment.  If you were unable to attend but are interested in attending a service academy, please contact my district office at 623-707-0530.

It’s Mail Time!

📬 I receive thousands of letters each week and do my best to respond to everyone who writes in.  Here are a few I received this week:

📨 Barbara W. from Glendale, AZ writes:

I’m writing to urge you to support articles of impeachment against President Trump now. He has committed multiple impeachable offenses, and Congress needs to do its job to hold him accountable. Trump’s return to the White House has brought unprecedented risk for our democracy. During his campaign and in the months between his election and inauguration, Trump threatened to engage in unlawful, unconstitutional conduct. He has now made good on those threats—and more. He is abusing the office for personal profit and power, carrying out horrific human rights abuses on immigrants, assaulting our cherished First Amendment rights in order to quash dissent, and openly defying court orders, all in violation of clear constitutional commands and at the expense of our democratic institutions, constitutional precedent, and the safety of our country’s most vulnerable. Trump is not a monarch. He is beholden to the Constitution, as is Congress. And as the Founders understood, if we are to preserve our democracy for the people, then Congress has a duty to remove a dangerously corrupt executive. It must do so now.

✏ Barbara, The Trump Administration has been completely transparent to the American People, responsive to their demands, and quick to act on the issues that sent him back to the Oval Office: fair trade, driving down the cost of living, cleaning up our food, ending wars, and reigniting the flame of patriotic optimism.  He has done so by reversing regulations, making trade deals with foreign powers, keeping America out of bloody foreign wars, and – most critically – by restoring sovereignty to our borders.  These actions embody the aims of our Constitutional order, as outlined by the document’s Preamble: “establish Justice, ensure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity.”  But President Trump cannot faithfully deliver on this noble mission if the federal judiciary continues to undermine him by declaring the basic execution of the law “unconstitutional.”

The federal judiciary has forfeited its credibility as an impartial, apolitical arbiter of the law.  From the first week of the second Trump Administration, left-wing activists posing as federal judges sprang into action to halt, slow, or otherwise prevent the proper execution of the law by President Trump.  While I understand that the media maelstrom has intentionally made these issues difficult to follow, I refuse to take Democrat browbeating about “the Constitution” or “separation of powers” at face value, as they actively and unabashedly engage in judicial tyranny.

These federal judges, by deliberately misinterpreting their own authority under Article III of the Constitution, are engaging in partisan, tyrannical behavior that undermines the integrity of our three-branch system.  As President of the United States, Donald J. Trump is responsible for executing the law.  Judges have stepped in to prevent him from doing so numerous times, as if they were elected instead.  

This is seen most clearly in immigration law.  In March 2025, the Administration ordered the deportation of Mahmoud Khalil, a noncitizen activist responsible for inciting domestic disturbances on Columbia University’s campus and declaring his support for a foreign terrorist organization.  A federal judge temporarily blocked the action.  When President Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act, a law that has been on the books since George Washington was alive, an incensed federal judge declared that the President was simply not allowed to do so and ordered an immediate hold on deportations.

On what authority do these judges base their disagreement with a plain-text reading of the Constitution, which authorizes the President, not the judiciary, to enforce the laws that Congress enacts?  These actions are not motivated by a good-faith misunderstanding of the Founding document.  Rather, they signal a malicious intent to usurp the Executive’s authority to enforce immigration law.  In February 2025, Vice President JD Vance rightly observed that “judges aren’t allowed to control the Executive’s legitimate power.”  

Stephen Miller, senior advisor to the President, laid out the game plan to Newsmax: “What [the Left will] do is they’ll find a radical communist, somebody who hates our civilization, hates our way of life. They’ll install them in some little-known district court somewhere in the country … Then Donald Trump gets into power, and then that district court judge now assumes the full powers of the presidency.”  Stephen hit the nail on the head.  This is judicial tyranny, and it cannot stand if the President is to remain the head of his own Branch.

You mention our “democracy” and the Founders.  We do not have a democracy as our Founders expressly rejected mob rule by simple majority.  We have a constitutional republic that protects our rights from the tyranny of the majority.  It is an important distinction we should not gloss over.  

Whether left-wing activists masquerading as avatars of sound jurisprudence like it or not, Donald J. Trump is President of the United States.  Article III of our Constitution tells them how to do their jobs; Article II tells the President how to do his.  That is why I helped pass H.R. 1526, the No Rogue Rulings Act, which limits the ability of woke, activist judges to block President Trump’s agenda.  I will continue to fight for a lawful, Constitutional separation of powers that allows the Executive Branch to execute the law.

📨 Patty M. from Surprise, AZ chimed in with this letter:

On April 25th, Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan was arrested by the Trump administration and charged with obstructing Trump’s deportation forces. The arrest itself is deeply troubling, but also the manner in which this arrest was handled — in that it was deliberately turned into a public spectacle by administration officials, including the FBI Director — represents just the latest example of a broader campaign against the judiciary and Americans’ fundamental freedoms.

Donald Trump is not a king, yet his administration consistently works to erode judicial independence with intimidation tactics, public attacks on judges who issue what the Trump administration perceives to be unfavorable rulings, and blatant disregard for court orders.

FBI Director Kash Patel’s public politicization of law enforcement in this matter demonstrates this administration’s calculated strategy to weaken checks and balances through political theater designed to intimidate the judiciary.

These assaults strike at the very heart of our democratic system and must be recognized for what they are — a direct threat to the constitutional principles that safeguard the liberty of all Americans.

Please urge Trump to drop all charges against Judge Dugan and tell him to stop this abhorrent and authoritarian practice of arresting judges with whom he disagrees.

✏ Patty, let’s start with the facts: Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan was arrested on charges of obstructing or impeding a proceeding before a department or agency of the United States, a felony, and concealing an individual to prevent his discovery and arrest, a misdemeanor. The charges were based on her allegedly escorting Eduardo Flores-Ruiz, an accused criminal alien, and his lawyer through a jury door before questioning federal law enforcement agents in the hallway. Judges are not above the law —even if they’re trying to protect illegal alien thugs. The fact is that activist judges have tried to obstruct President Trump and the American people’s mandate to make America safe and secure our homeland. This judge’s actions to shield an accused violent criminal illegal alien from justice is shocking and shameful.The left, including activist judges like Hannah Dugan, continues to object to anything President Donald Trump supports, particularly his deportations of violent illegal aliens. No one is above the law, especially those responsible for administering it. Judge Dugan should not be immune from prosecution simply because of her position.

Tweet of the Week:

Photo of the Week:

Christopher L. from Lake Havasu City shares this amazing photo of a mountain lion crossing the river a few miles up from Lake Havasu.  Great picture, Christopher!  Thanks so much for sharing.

Do you want the chance for your photograph to be featured as our “Picture of the Week?”   If so, send your best shots along with a brief description to Anthony.foti@mail.house.gov.  Remember to include your name and where you live.

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