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</div><div> Pegasus Institute is a Kentucky-based public policy <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Think_tank" class="mw-redirect" title="Think tank" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">think tank</a> and nonprofit founded in 2016.<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Pegasus_Institute#cite_note-harris-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[1]</a> As described by its mission statement: "We believe that Kentucky has the potential to emerge as a national leader and a beacon of the New South. That potential can be unlocked with data-driven public policy solutions based in free market principles, individual liberty and responsibility, and effective, limited, and accountable government."<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Pegasus_Institute#cite_note-piabt-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[2]</a> As of August 2020, Pegasus Insitute is listed as an <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=SPN_Members" title="SPN Members" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">"Affiliate Member"</a> of the <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=State_Policy_Network" title="State Policy Network" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">State Policy Network</a>.<div id="toc" class="toc" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); padding: 7px; display: table; zoom: 1;"><input type="checkbox" role="button" id="toctogglecheckbox" class="toctogglecheckbox" style="direction: ltr; position: absolute; opacity: 0; z-index: -1; display: none;" /><div class="toctitle" lang="en" dir="ltr" style="direction: ltr; text-align: center;">
</div><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; list-style-type: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Pegasus_Institute#News_and_Controversies" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">News and Controversies</a><ul style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; list-style-type: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Pegasus_Institute#Pegasus_Claims_to_Be_First_Organization_of_its_Kind_Run_by_Millennials" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">1.1Pegasus Claims to Be First Organization of its Kind Run by Millennials</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Pegasus_Institute#Hypocrisy_on_Transparency_and_Involvement_in_Campaigns" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">1.2Hypocrisy on Transparency and Involvement in Campaigns</a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Pegasus_Institute#Ties_to_the_State_Policy_Network" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2Ties to the State Policy Network</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Pegasus_Institute#Issues" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">3Issues</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Pegasus_Institute#Funding" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">4Funding</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Pegasus_Institute#Core_Financials" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">5Core Financials</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Pegasus_Institute#Personnel" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">6Personnel</a><ul style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; list-style-type: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-9" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Pegasus_Institute#Staff" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">6.1Staff</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-10" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Pegasus_Institute#Fellows" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">6.2Fellows</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-11" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Pegasus_Institute#Academic_Advisors" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">6.3Academic Advisors</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-12" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Pegasus_Institute#Policy_Advisors" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">6.4Policy Advisors</a><ul style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; list-style-type: none;"><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-13" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Pegasus_Institute#Center_for_Academic_Excellence" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">6.4.1Center for Academic Excellence</a></li><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-14" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Pegasus_Institute#Center_for_Economic_Advancement" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">6.4.2Center for Economic Advancement</a></li><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-15" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Pegasus_Institute#Center_for_Self_Government" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">6.4.3Center for Self Government</a></li><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-16" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Pegasus_Institute#Center_for_Justice" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">6.4.4Center for Justice</a></li></ul></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-17" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Pegasus_Institute#Contact_Information" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">7Contact Information</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-18" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Pegasus_Institute#Articles_and_Resources" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">8Articles and Resources</a><ul style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; list-style-type: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-19" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Pegasus_Institute#Related_SourceWatch" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">8.1Related SourceWatch</a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-20" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Pegasus_Institute#References" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">9References</a></li></ul></div><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">News and Controversies</h2><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Pegasus Claims to Be First Organization of its Kind Run by Millennials</h3>Josh Crawford and Jordan Harris, both in their mid-20s, founded the Pegasus Institute in 2016.<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Pegasus_Institute#cite_note-int-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[3]</a> They "believe that their Pegasus Institute is the first public policy research organization in the country founded and operated by millennials."<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Pegasus_Institute#cite_note-int-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[3]</a><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Hypocrisy on Transparency and Involvement in Campaigns</h3>In 2016, Harris committed to releasing transparent funding information in the institute's next annual report and claimed it would not get involved in political campaigns.<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Pegasus_Institute#cite_note-int-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[3]</a> Harris stepped down from his executive director position in 2019.<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Pegasus_Institute#cite_note-harris-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[1]</a> As of August 2020, no funding information nor annual reports are available on the Institute's website.<h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">Ties to the State Policy Network</h2>Pegasus is an affiliate member of the State Policy Network. <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=State_Policy_Network" title="State Policy Network" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">SPN</a> is a web of right-wing “think tanks” and tax-exempt organizations in 50 states, Washington, D.C., Canada, and the United Kingdom. As of January 2022, SPN's membership totals 166. Today's SPN is the tip of the spear of far-right, nationally funded policy agenda in the states that undergirds extremists in the Republican Party. SPN Executive Director <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Tracie_Sharp" title="Tracie Sharp" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Tracie Sharp</a> told the Wall Street Journal in 2017 that the revenue of the combined groups was some $80 million, but a 2019 analysis of SPN's main members IRS filings by the Center for Media and Democracy shows that the combined revenue is over $120 million.<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Pegasus_Institute#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[4]</a> Although SPN's member organizations claim to be nonpartisan and independent, the Center for Media and Democracy's in-depth investigation, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.alecexposed.org/w/images/2/25/SPN_National_Report_FINAL.pdf" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: url(" https="https" upload.wikimedia.org="upload.wikimedia.org" wikipedia="wikipedia" commons="commons" icons-mini-file_acrobat.gif="Icons-mini-file_acrobat.gif" right="right" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" padding-right="padding-right" px="px">EXPOSED: The State Policy Network -- The Powerful Right-Wing Network Helping to Hijack State Politics and Government</a>," reveals that SPN and its member think tanks are major drivers of the right-wing, <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=SPN_Ties_to_ALEC" title="SPN Ties to ALEC" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">American Legislative Exchange Council</a> (ALEC)-backed corporate agenda in state houses nationwide, with deep ties to the <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Koch_brothers" class="mw-redirect" title="Koch brothers" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Koch brothers</a> and the national right-wing network of <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=SPN_Funding" title="SPN Funding" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">funders</a>.<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Pegasus_Institute#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[5]</a>In response to CMD's report, SPN Executive Director <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Tracie_Sharp" title="Tracie Sharp" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Tracie Sharp</a> told national and statehouse reporters that SPN affiliates are "fiercely independent." Later the same week, however, The New Yorker's <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jane_Mayer" title="Jane Mayer" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Jane Mayer</a> caught Sharp in a contradiction. In her article, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2013/11/is-ikea-the-new-model-for-the-conservative-movement.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">Is IKEA the New Model for the Conservative Movement?</a>," the Pulitzer-nominated reporter revealed that, in a recent meeting behind closed doors with the heads of SPN affiliates around the country, Sharp "compared the organization’s model to that of the giant global chain IKEA." She reportedly said that SPN "would provide 'the raw materials,' along with the 'services' needed to assemble the products. Rather than acting like passive customers who buy finished products, she wanted each state group to show the enterprise and creativity needed to assemble the parts in their home states. 'Pick what you need,' she said, 'and customize it for what works best for you.'" Not only that, but Sharp "also acknowledged privately to the members that the organization's often anonymous donors frequently shape the agenda. 'The grants are driven by donor intent,' she told the gathered think-tank heads. She added that, often, 'the donors have a very specific idea of what they want to happen.'"<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Pegasus_Institute#cite_note-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[6]</a>A set of <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/842271-spn-budget-proposals-state-by-state.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">coordinated fundraising proposals</a> obtained and released by <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=The_Guardian" title="The Guardian" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">The Guardian</a> in early December 2013 confirm many of these SPN members' intent to change state laws and policies, referring to "advancing model legislation" and "candidate briefings." These activities "arguably cross the line into lobbying," The Guardian notes.<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Pegasus_Institute#cite_note-7" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[7]</a><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">Issues</h2>The Pegasus Institute includes a "Research Library", which consists of four main "Centers": Academic Excellence, Economic Advancement, Justice, and Self-Government.<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Pegasus_Institute#cite_note-8" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[8]</a>The Institute's policy briefs have advocated for increased labor force participation,<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Pegasus_Institute#cite_note-9" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[9]</a> increased police presence,<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Pegasus_Institute#cite_note-10" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[10]</a> charter schools,<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Pegasus_Institute#cite_note-11" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[11]</a> and removing certificate-of-need laws in the healthcare sector.<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Pegasus_Institute#cite_note-12" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[12]</a><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">Funding</h2>The Pegasus Insitute is not required to disclose its donors but some have been identified through an analysis of IRS filings:<ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%225%22" height="%2213%22%3E" ccircle="Ccircle" cx="%222.5%22" cy="%229%22" r="%222.5%22" fill="%22%23222%22/%3E" c="C" e="E" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Americans_for_Tax_Reform" title="Americans for Tax Reform" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Americans for Tax Reform</a>: $15,000 (2017)</li></ul><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">Core Financials</h2>Pegasus Institute does not have an IRS filing available for public inspection as of August 2020 so core financials are unknown.<h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">Personnel</h2>As of August 2020:<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Pegasus_Institute#cite_note-13" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[13]</a><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Staff</h3><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%225%22" height="%2213%22%3E" ccircle="Ccircle" cx="%222.5%22" cy="%229%22" r="%222.5%22" fill="%22%23222%22/%3E" c="C" e="E" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Josh Crawford, J.D., Executive Director</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Jonathan Shell, Director of State Initiatives</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Jared Crawford, Media and Operations Coordinator</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Erinn Boradus, Deputy Director of Criminal Justice Policy</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Dasha Kolyaskina, Executive Research Assistant</li></ul><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Fellows</h3><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%225%22" height="%2213%22%3E" ccircle="Ccircle" cx="%222.5%22" cy="%229%22" r="%222.5%22" fill="%22%23222%22/%3E" c="C" e="E" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Paul Coomes, PhD</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">John Garen, PhD</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Steven Gordon, PhD</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Corrie Block, PhD</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">John Wright, PhD</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Anne-Tyler Morgan, Esq.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">William Walsh, PhD</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Gary Houchens, PdD</li></ul><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Academic Advisors</h3><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%225%22" height="%2213%22%3E" ccircle="Ccircle" cx="%222.5%22" cy="%229%22" r="%222.5%22" fill="%22%23222%22/%3E" c="C" e="E" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data"><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Harvey C. Mansfield, Harvard University</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Edwin_Meese" class="mw-redirect" title="Edwin Meese" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Edwin</a><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Edwin_Meese" class="mw-redirect" title="Edwin Meese" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;"> Meese</a>, 75th U.S. Attorney General</li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;">John Paul Rollert, University of Chicago</li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;">John Sivolella, Columbia University</li></ul><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Policy Advisors</h3><h4 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Center for Academic Excellence</h4><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%225%22" height="%2213%22%3E" ccircle="Ccircle" cx="%222.5%22" cy="%229%22" r="%222.5%22" fill="%22%23222%22/%3E" c="C" e="E" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Virginia Fox, Former Education Secretary for Kentucky</li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Trey Grayson, 74th Secretary of State of Kentucky</li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Dr. Gary Houchens, Western Kentucky University</li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Heather Huddleston, Executive Director at School Choice Scholarships</li></ul><h4 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Center for Economic Advancement</h4><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%225%22" height="%2213%22%3E" ccircle="Ccircle" cx="%222.5%22" cy="%229%22" r="%222.5%22" fill="%22%23222%22/%3E" c="C" e="E" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arthur_B.Laffer" title="Arthur B. Laffer" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Arthur B.</a><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arthur_B.Laffer" title="Arthur B. Laffer" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;"> Laffer</a>, Founder and Chairman of Laffer Associates</li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Nikki Jackson, Senior V.P., Louisville Branch of the Federal Reserve</li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Lawrence_Reed" title="Lawrence Reed" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Lawrence Reed</a>, President, <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Foundation_for_Economic_Education" title="Foundation for Economic Education" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Foundation for Economic Education</a></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Morris "Mo" Miller, Chairman, Lincoln Trail Venture Group</li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Suzanne Bergmeister, Forscht Center, University of Louisville School of Business</li></ul><h4 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Center for Self Government</h4><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%225%22" height="%2213%22%3E" ccircle="Ccircle" cx="%222.5%22" cy="%229%22" r="%222.5%22" fill="%22%23222%22/%3E" c="C" e="E" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Judge David Williams, President of Kentucky State Senate, 200-2012</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Steve Robertson, Sen. V.P., Civic Point</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Brook Parker, V.P., Civic Point</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Kristen Webb-Hill, Frost Brown Todd</li></ul><h4 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Center for Justice</h4><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%225%22" height="%2213%22%3E" ccircle="Ccircle" cx="%222.5%22" cy="%229%22" r="%222.5%22" fill="%22%23222%22/%3E" c="C" e="E" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Ray Larson, Frmr. Commonwealth Attorney</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Robert "Bob" Lawson", University of Kentucky Law School</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Judge Jerry Bowles, Former Circuit Family Court Judge</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Judge Tommy Turner, Judge Executive of LaRue County</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Dr. John Wright, University of Cincinnati</li></ul><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">Contact Information</h2>Pegasus Institute
235 S. 5th Street
Louisville, Kentucky
40202

Website: <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://www.pegasuskentucky.org/" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" overflow-wrap="overflow-wrap" break-word="break-word" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">https://www.pegasuskentucky.org</a>
Email: contact@pegasuskentucky.org
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Podcast: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://soundcloud.com/user-655954676" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">Pegasus Institute Podcast</a>
Twitter: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://twitter.com/pegasuskentucky" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">@PegasusKentucky</a>
<h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">Articles and Resources</h2><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Related SourceWatch</h3><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%225%22" height="%2213%22%3E" ccircle="Ccircle" cx="%222.5%22" cy="%229%22" r="%222.5%22" fill="%22%23222%22/%3E" c="C" e="E" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arthur_B.Laffer" title="Arthur B. Laffer" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Arthur B. Laffer</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Edwin_Meese" class="mw-redirect" title="Edwin Meese" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Edwin Meese</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Foundation_for_Economic_Education" title="Foundation for Economic Education" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Foundation for Economic Education</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Lawrence_Reed" title="Lawrence Reed" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Lawrence Reed</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Reason_Foundation" title="Reason Foundation" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Reason Foundation</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=SPN_Members" title="SPN Members" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">SPN Members</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=State_Policy_Network" title="State Policy Network" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">State Policy Network</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Think_tank" class="mw-redirect" title="Think tank" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Think tank</a></li></ul><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">References</h2><div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns" style="column-width: 30em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><ol class="references" style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 3.2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li id="cite_note-harris-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;">↑ <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Pegasus_Institute#cite_ref-harris_1-0" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="user-select: none; top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up to:1.0</a> <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Pegasus_Institute#cite_ref-harris_1-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">1.1</a> Lane Report Editors, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.lanereport.com/115940/2019/08/executive-director-of-pegasus-institute-to-step-down-nov-1/" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">"Executive director of Pegasus Institute to step down Nov. 1"</a>, Lane Report, August 12, 2019, accessed August 25, 2020.</li><li id="cite_note-piabt-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Pegasus_Institute#cite_ref-piabt_2-0" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">↑</a> Pegasus Institute, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.pegasuskentucky.org/" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">Our Vision</a>, organizational website, accessed August 24, 2020.</li><li id="cite_note-int-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;">↑ <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Pegasus_Institute#cite_ref-int_3-0" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="user-select: none; top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up to:3.0</a> <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Pegasus_Institute#cite_ref-int_3-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">3.1</a> <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Pegasus_Institute#cite_ref-int_3-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">3.2</a> Tom Loftus, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/politics/ky-general-assembly/2016/11/28/millennials-create-conservative-ky-think-tank/94290984/" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">"Millennials create conservative Ky think tank"</a>, Courier Journal, November 28, 2016.</li><li id="cite_note-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Pegasus_Institute#cite_ref-4" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">↑</a> David Armiak, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2019/11/13/revenue-state-policy-network-state-affiliates-tops-120-million/" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">Revenue for State Policy Network and State Affiliates Tops $120 Million</a>, ExposedbyCMD, November 13, 2019.</li><li id="cite_note-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Pegasus_Institute#cite_ref-5" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">↑</a> Rebekah Wilce, Center for Media and Democracy, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.alecexposed.org/w/images/2/25/SPN_National_Report_FINAL.pdf" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: url(" https="https" upload.wikimedia.org="upload.wikimedia.org" wikipedia="wikipedia" commons="commons" icons-mini-file_acrobat.gif="Icons-mini-file_acrobat.gif" right="right" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" padding-right="padding-right" px="px">EXPOSED: The State Policy Network -- The Powerful Right-Wing Network Helping to Hijack State Politics and Government</a>, organizational report, November 13, 2013.</li><li id="cite_note-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Pegasus_Institute#cite_ref-6" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">↑</a> Jane Mayer, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2013/11/is-ikea-the-new-model-for-the-conservative-movement.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">Is IKEA the New Model for the Conservative Movement?</a>, The New Yorker, November 15, 2013.</li><li id="cite_note-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Pegasus_Institute#cite_ref-7" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">↑</a> Ed Pilkington and Suzanne Goldenberg, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/05/state-conservative-groups-assault-education-health-tax" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">State conservative groups plan US-wide assault on education, health and tax</a>, The Guardian, December 5, 2013.</li><li id="cite_note-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Pegasus_Institute#cite_ref-8" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; 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</div><div></div><div>ref</div><div>eg BS  a sort of flier brief on anti-slapp but gives not examples why we need them, bad frosh work, just says other neighbor states have them</div><div><a href="https://923c91f5-6c37-4af9-ac8a-aca1b179cc9c.filesusr.com/ugd/45f2de_6e837af449c74f81af0b059970fe3b24.pdf">https://923c91f5-6c37-4af9-ac8a-aca1b179cc9c.filesusr.com/ugd/45f2de_6e837af449c74f81af0b059970fe3b24.pdf</a></div><div>=</div><div><a href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/the-pegasus-institute/">https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/the-pegasus-institute/</a></div><div>501c3</div><div><div class="profile-main-content the-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 60px;">Pegasus Institute is a non-partisan, millennial-led public policy think tank that advocates for individual liberty and responsibility, free enterprise, and limited and accountable government. The Institute aims to improve the lives of people in Kentucky by conducting research that support data-driven public policy solutions based on free-market principles. <a class="profile-referencelink" href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/the-pegasus-institute/#note-1" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 2px; display: inline-block; opacity: 0.7;">[1]</a>The Pegasus Institute operates Centers for Justice, Academic Excellence, Self-Government, and Economic Advancement.The Pegasus Institute is an affiliate member of the <a href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/state-policy-network/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s;">State Policy Network</a>, a coalition of free-market state-level policy organizations. <a class="profile-referencelink" href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/the-pegasus-institute/#note-2" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 2px; display: inline-block; opacity: 0.7;">[2]</a> While the Pegasus Institute is non-partisan, members of its staff and academic advisors have affiliations with the Republican Party.<div class="profile-toc" id="profile-toc" style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; padding: 24px; border: 1px solid rgb(226, 226, 226); max-width: 400px; min-width: 225px;"><h4 class="profile-tocheading" style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 24px; text-transform: uppercase; letter-spacing: 1px; text-align: center;">CONTENTS</h4><div class="profile-tocinner" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-type: none;"><li class="first" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0.4em;"><a href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/the-pegasus-institute/#activity" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; font-weight: 700;">Activity</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0.4em;"><a href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/the-pegasus-institute/#funding" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; font-weight: 700;">Funding</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0.4em;"><a href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/the-pegasus-institute/#financials" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; font-weight: 700;">Financials</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0.4em;"><a href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/the-pegasus-institute/#people" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; font-weight: 700;">People</a></li><li class="last" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0.4em;"><a href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/the-pegasus-institute/#academic-advisors" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; font-weight: 700;">Academic Advisors</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0.4em;"><a href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/the-pegasus-institute/#references" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; font-weight: 700;">References</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px;"><a href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/the-pegasus-institute/#non-profit-info" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; font-weight: 700;">Form 990 Information</a></li></ul></div></div><h2 id="activity" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 40px; margin-bottom: 24px; padding-bottom: 7.5px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(202, 202, 202);">Activity</h2>The Pegasus Institute’s Center for Justice conducts research and advocates for policy addressing Louisville’s rising homicide rates. In August 2020, the Institute published a paper showing a correlation between an increase in self-initiated policing and a decrease in homicides. <a class="profile-referencelink" href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/the-pegasus-institute/#note-3" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 2px; display: inline-block; opacity: 0.7;">[3]</a> Additionally, the Institute advocates for increased funding to the <a href="https://www.influencewatch.org/government-agency/department-of-justice/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s;">Department of Justice</a>’s Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) in order to hire more police officers nationwide through its Universal Hiring Program (UHP). The Pegasus Institute claims that an increase in police officers reduces crime and cites a 2015 report from the <a href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/william-j-brennan-center-for-justice/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s;">Brennan Center for Justice</a> that found an increase in officers had a “downward effect on crime in the 1990s.” <a class="profile-referencelink" href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/the-pegasus-institute/#note-4" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 2px; display: inline-block; opacity: 0.7;">[4]</a>The Pegasus Institute’s Center for Academic Excellence advocates for school choice. In January 2020, the Institute published a joint report with the <a href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/reason-foundation/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s;">Reason Foundation</a> in support of publicly funded charter schools in Kentucky. The report claims that access to public charter schools increases academic achievement, improves public safety, reduces teen pregnancies, and may even reduce crime. The report further claims that the city of Louisville could see economic benefits such as saving $13 million annually in public education spending and $6 million in costs associated with crimes, while earning an additional $54 million from additional high school graduates and $138 million as a result of increases in academic achievement. <a class="profile-referencelink" href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/the-pegasus-institute/#note-5" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 2px; display: inline-block; opacity: 0.7;">[5]</a>The Pegasus Institute’s Center for Economic Advancement advocates for tax reform in Kentucky. The Institute recommends eliminating the progressive income tax in favor of a flat income tax rate of 3% with a goal of ultimately removing the income tax. Additionally, the Institute recommends that the majority of Kentucky’s tax base should come from consumption taxes, as opposed to production taxes. The Pegasus Institute claims that the current corporate tax structure puts an undue burden on businesses, which prevents entrepreneurship, drives down wages, and ultimately limits opportunities. <a class="profile-referencelink" href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/the-pegasus-institute/#note-6" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 2px; display: inline-block; opacity: 0.7;">[6]</a>The Pegasus Institute’s Center for Self-Government advocates for passing an anti-SLAPP (strategic lawsuits against public participation) statute in Kentucky to protect freedom of speech against vexatious litigation. <a class="profile-referencelink" href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/the-pegasus-institute/#note-7" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 2px; display: inline-block; opacity: 0.7;">[7]</a><h2 id="funding" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 40px; margin-bottom: 24px; padding-bottom: 7.5px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(202, 202, 202);">Funding</h2>The Pegasus Institute is funded by donations from individuals, foundations, and corporations. While the Pegasus Institute does not disclose its donors, tax filings confirm donations from the Coalition for Public Safety ($57,500 in 2018), <a class="profile-referencelink" href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/the-pegasus-institute/#note-8" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 2px; display: inline-block; opacity: 0.7;">[8]</a> <a href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/americans-for-tax-reform/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s;">Americans for Tax Reform</a> ($15,000 in 2017), <a class="profile-referencelink" href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/the-pegasus-institute/#note-9" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 2px; display: inline-block; opacity: 0.7;">[9]</a> and the Nicklies Foundation ($10,000 in 2018). <a class="profile-referencelink" href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/the-pegasus-institute/#note-10" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 2px; display: inline-block; opacity: 0.7;">[10]</a><h2 id="financials" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 40px; margin-bottom: 24px; padding-bottom: 7.5px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(202, 202, 202);">Financials</h2>The Pegasus Institute self-reported $101,385 in contributions, grants, and gifts in 2017 to Guidestar. <a class="profile-referencelink" href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/the-pegasus-institute/#note-11" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 2px; display: inline-block; opacity: 0.7;">[11]</a> As of late 2021, the group did not have any copies of tax returns posted at the IRS’s tax-exempt organizations search page. <a class="profile-referencelink" href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/the-pegasus-institute/#note-12" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 2px; display: inline-block; opacity: 0.7;">[12]</a><h2 id="people" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 40px; margin-bottom: 24px; padding-bottom: 7.5px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(202, 202, 202);">People</h2>Josh Crawford is a co-founder and executive director of the Pegasus Institute. Crawford is a former chair of the Young Republicans Club at Penn State University and a former fellow at the Criminal Justice Legal Foundation. <a class="profile-referencelink" href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/the-pegasus-institute/#note-13" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 2px; display: inline-block; opacity: 0.7;">[13]</a>Jordan Harris is a co-founder and former executive director of the Pegasus Institute. Harris is a former fellow at the <a href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/pioneer-institute/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s;">Pioneer Institute for Public Policy Research</a> and the <a href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/charles-koch-institute/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s;">Charles Koch Institute</a>.  <a class="profile-referencelink" href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/the-pegasus-institute/#note-14" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 2px; display: inline-block; opacity: 0.7;">[14]</a>Erinn Broadus is the deputy director of criminal justice policy at the Pegasus Institute. Broadus formerly worked as an associate at the <a href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/pew-charitable-trusts/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s;">Pew Charitable Trusts</a>, a policy analyst at the <a href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/reason-foundation/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s;">Reason Foundation</a>, and an economic and policy analyst for the State of Florida. <a class="profile-referencelink" href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/the-pegasus-institute/#note-15" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 2px; display: inline-block; opacity: 0.7;">[15]</a>John Garen is a senior fellow at the Pegasus Institute and the founding director of the Institute for the Study of Free Enterprise at the University of Kentucky. Garen is a former visiting scholar at the <a href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/mercatus-center-george-mason-university/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s;">Mercatus Center</a> and serves on the board of scholars at the Bluegrass Institute for Public Policy Solutions. <a class="profile-referencelink" href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/the-pegasus-institute/#note-16" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 2px; display: inline-block; opacity: 0.7;">[16]</a>Abigail Hall is a senior fellow at the Pegasus Institute and a research fellow at the <a href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/independent-institute/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s;">Independent Institute</a>. <a class="profile-referencelink" href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/the-pegasus-institute/#note-17" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 2px; display: inline-block; opacity: 0.7;">[17]</a>Anne-Tyler Morgan is a senior fellow at the Pegasus Institute. Morgan formerly worked as a senior policy advisor for the Kentucky House of Representatives, as a deputy commissioner for the Kentucky Department for Medicaid Services, and as a senior advisor to the Secretary of the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services. <a class="profile-referencelink" href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/the-pegasus-institute/#note-18" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 2px; display: inline-block; opacity: 0.7;">[18]</a>Gary Houchens is a senior fellow at the Pegasus Institute and serves on the board of EdChoice Kentucky (not to be confused with <a href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/edchoice-2/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s;">EdChoice</a>). <a class="profile-referencelink" href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/the-pegasus-institute/#note-19" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 2px; display: inline-block; opacity: 0.7;">[19]</a><h2 id="academic-advisors" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 40px; margin-bottom: 24px; padding-bottom: 7.5px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(202, 202, 202);">Academic Advisors</h2>Harvey Mansfield is a professor of government at <a href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/harvard-university/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s;">Harvard University</a> and a former senior fellow at the <a href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/hoover-institution/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s;">Hoover Institution</a>. <a class="profile-referencelink" href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/the-pegasus-institute/#note-20" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 2px; display: inline-block; opacity: 0.7;">[20]</a>Edwin Meese served as the seventy-fifth U.S. attorney general. Meese is a distinguished fellow and holds the Ronald Reagan Chair in Public Policy at the <a href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/heritage-foundation/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s;">Heritage Foundation</a> and is a former distinguished visiting fellow at the <a href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/hoover-institution/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s;">Hoover Institution</a>. <a class="profile-referencelink" href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/the-pegasus-institute/#note-21" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 2px; display: inline-block; opacity: 0.7;">[21]</a>John Sivolella is a senior fellow in law and policy at the <a href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/pioneer-institute/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s;">Pioneer Institute</a>. Sivolella is a member of the Massachusetts State Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and formerly served on the “Better Government” transition team for Governor <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Charles_D.Baker" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s;">Charlie Baker</a> (R-MA). <a class="profile-referencelink" href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/the-pegasus-institute/#note-22" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 2px; display: inline-block; opacity: 0.7;">[22]</a></div><div class="profile-section" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><h4 class="content-box-subheading" id="references" style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 12px; margin-bottom: 30px; border-top: 4px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding-top: 10px; display: flex;"><div class="content-box-subheadingtext" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex-grow: 1;">References</div><div class="content-box-subheadingtext" style="font-style: italic; box-sizing: border-box; flex-grow: 1;">...</div></h4></div></div><div>
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