1. United States
2. Texas
3. Letter

I urge you to publicly call on the Department of the Interior to abandon its appeal of the federal court order requiring the restoration of historical and scientific materials removed from our national parks and monuments. The court was right. National parks are often called America’s largest classroom, welcoming more than 330 million visitors each year. They exist to preserve and interpret our nation’s full history—not a politically sanitized version of it. A federal judge found that removing exhibits about slavery, the Civil Rights Movement, Indigenous peoples, climate change, and other documented history likely violated laws governing the National Park Service and attempted to replace history with a selective political narrative. History education is not propaganda. It is the foundation of an informed democracy. Americans deserve the truth—the inspiring chapters of our past as well as the painful ones. We cannot learn from history if the government edits it to fit a political agenda. This effort to erase facts from our parks mirrors the growing campaign to censor classrooms, ban books, and intimidate educators. Congress must reject these attacks on the freedom to learn. Students deserve honest history. Families deserve public schools that teach facts, not ideology. Future generations deserve access to the complete American story. Taxpayer dollars should not be wasted defending censorship in court. They should be spent preserving our national treasures and ensuring they remain trusted places of education for generations to come. Please demand that the Interior Department comply with the court’s ruling, restore every removed exhibit, and end this assault on historical truth. Then pass legislation protecting accurate, evidence-based historical and scientific education in every public school across America.