Citizens for Renewing America
Secular conservativehttps://citizensrenewingamerica.com · founded 2021
Conservative policy advocacy organization founded by Russell Vought, former director of the White House Office of Management and Budget under the Trump administration and co-author of Project 2025. CRA's documented legislative activity is in CRT curriculum law — its model legislation prohibits instruction on 'divisive concepts,' ideas from the 1619 Project, and social-emotional learning in K–12 classrooms (not library book removal directly). Per Education Week's 2021 investigation, Idaho HB 377 and a Tennessee HB 0580 amendment (both 2021 CRT curriculum bans) 'most closely match language used in Citizens for Renewing America's model legislation' — but those laws are outside Banned Index's book-ban scope and are not in our DB. CRA's own state tracker does not claim drafting credit for any specific bill. As of a 2026-04-23 research pass, no primary source directly attributes CRA to any book-ban law in our DB, which is why this group has 0 law_organizations rows.
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Primary source: Education Week, 'Who's Really Driving Critical Race Theory Legislation? An Investigation' (July 2021). https://www.edweek.org/policy-politics/whos-really-driving-critical-race-theory-legislation-an-investigation/2021/07 Russell Vought is also the co-author of Project 2025 and was renominated as OMB director in the second Trump administration.
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