1. United States
2. Letter

Your America First movement defends local autonomy, private property, and equal justice under law. These principles face testing through attacks on Arkansas’s “Return to the Land” (RTTL) homesteading project. Facts are straightforward: settlers bought remote acreage with private funds, invited only consenting adults, and committed no violence, intimidation, or forced exclusion. Yet officials and media demand shutdowns and federal intervention—solely because of residents’ race-based self-identification. If government can dissolve peaceful communities on that basis, every MAGA voter in faith-based, gun-friendly, or conservative enclaves faces risk. The double standard is blatant. Black Land & Power, the National Black Food & Justice Alliance’s #DefendBlackLand campaign, 40 Acres/40 Cities Juneteenth actions, and Liberia resettlement models are celebrated as self-determination. Counties praise “safe Black space,” philanthropies fund “reparations farms,” and federal agencies steer grants toward Black-only cooperatives. Courts uphold these efforts when voluntary and non-violent. Equal protection demands identical tolerance for any group following identical rules. Conservatives need not embrace racial separatism, but must defend neutral, content-blind principles: Freedom of Association: First Amendment protects private membership organizations—Black nationalist land trusts, Hasidic villages, or any homesteads. Property Rights: Fair Housing Act bars public market discrimination, yet case law holds private clubs on private land, funded by dues rather than real-estate listings, fall outside scope. Using civil-rights statutes to dissolve RTTL creates precedent to seize churches, mosques, or veterans’ clubs admitting only co-religionists. Equal Application: Government may regulate violence, pollution, or fraud, but cannot impose ideology tests. Targeting RTTL while applauding ethnically specific settlements is viewpoint discrimination—anathema to constitutional conservatism. Strategic Wisdom: Abolishing non-violent enclaves feeds leftist narratives that “free speech” and “small government” are empty slogans. Defending equal treatment exposes progressive hypocrisy and strengthens coalitions opposing weaponized civil-rights bureaucracy. MAGA should propose universal standards: if communities are voluntary, privately funded, non-violent, and transparent about bylaws, government interference ends. Attach this to property-rights legislation or DOJ guidance blocking selective enforcement. Supporting neutral rules doesn’t endorse RTTL’s rhetoric any more than defending due-process endorses unpopular defendants. It prevents bureaucrats redefining “civil rights” as cudgels to crush disfavored citizens today—and conservative strongholds tomorrow. Protect principles now, and protect every church camp, traditional-marriage retreat, veterans’ ranch, and co-op next. That’s how America First keeps government small, liberties large, playing fields.