The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression is challenging a land acknowledgment policy implemented by a liberal arts school in Western Massachusetts.
The organization sent a letter to Mount Holyoke College interim president Beverly Daniel Tatum calling on the school to drop or amend its land acknowledgment, arguing that the school's current policy is compelled speech. A land acknowledgment is "a statement that recognizes the Indigenous peoples who have been dispossessed from the homelands and territories upon which an institution was built and currently occupies and operates in," according to Shoreline Community College.
Has one vote ever made a difference in an election?
The most recent example occurred in New Hampshire last week. Democratic state representative candidate Maxine Mosley defeated her Republican opponent Larry Gagne by one vote in the Hillsborough 16 House District. Mosley got 1,799 votes and Gagne received 1,798 votes.
