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137    <!-- Page Header Scripts -->
138	
139	<!-- Theme Color -->
140		
141	<style type="text/css">
142		/* --------------------
143		   Theme General
144		-------------------- */
145		.color-theme {
146			color: #a9353a !important;
147		}
148		
149		.color-theme-secondary {
150			color: #091F40 !important;
151		}
152		
153		.bg-theme {
154			background: #efefef;
155		}
156		
157		
158		
159		
160		/* --------------------
161		   Anchor Text 
162		-------------------- */
163		a, a.anchor-theme {
164			-webkit-font-smoothing:antialiased;
165			text-rendering:optimizelegibility;
166			text-decoration: none !important;
167			transition: none;
168		}
169
170		a:hover {
171			color: #a9353a;
172			opacity: 1 !important;
173		}
174
175		a, a.anchor-theme {
176			font-family: 'Work Sans', sans-serif;
177			font-size: 0.875rem; /* 14px */
178			letter-spacing: 0.02rem;
179			line-height: 1.375rem;
180			font-weight: 400;
181			color: #a9353a;   
182		}
183		
184		a.anchor-theme:hover,
185		a.anchor-main-nav:hover {
186			color: #091F40;
187			cursor: pointer;
188		}
189
190		.anchor-main-nav {
191			font-family: 'Work Sans', sans-serif;
192			font-size: 0.875rem; /* 14px */
193			letter-spacing: 0.02rem;
194			line-height: 1.375rem;
195			font-weight: 400;
196			color: #091F40;
197		}
198
199		.anchor-main-nav:visited {
200			color: #091F40;
201		}
202
203		.anchor-sub-nav {
204			font-family: 'Work Sans', sans-serif;
205			font-size: 0.875rem; /* 14px */
206			letter-spacing: 0.02rem;
207			line-height: 1.375rem;
208			font-weight: 400;
209			color: #091F40;
210		}
211
212		.anchor-main-nav:visited {
213			color: #091F40;
214		}
215
216        .anchor-footer-nav {
217            font-family: 'Work Sans', sans-serif;
218            font-weight: 700;
219            font-size: 1rem; /* 16px */
220            letter-spacing: 0.02rem;
221            line-height: 1.375rem;
222            color: #a9353a;
223        }
224		
225		
226		
227		
228		/* --------------------
229		   Buttons 
230		-------------------- */
231		.btn {
232			font-family: 'Work Sans', sans-serif;
233			font-weight: 700;
234			font-size: 1rem; /* 16px */
235			letter-spacing: 0.02rem;
236			line-height: 1.375rem;
237		    border-radius: 25px;
238		    padding: 12px 50px;
239			-webkit-transition: all ease .2s;
240		    -ms-transition: all ease .2s;
241		    -moz-transition: all ease .2s;
242		    transition: all ease .2s;
243		}
244		
245		/* Theme Button */
246		.btn-theme {
247			background: transparent;
248			border: 1px solid #0182b5;
249		}
250		
251		/* Theme Button Hover */
252		.btn-theme:hover,
253		.btn-theme:focus {
254			background: #0182b5;
255			border: 1px solid #0182b5;
256			color: #fff !important;
257 		}
258		
259		.btn-red-bd {
260			background: transparent;
261			border: 1px solid #a9353a;
262			color: #fff;
263		}
264		
265		.btn-red-bd:hover,
266		.btn-red-bd:focus {
267			background: #a9353a;
268			border: 1px solid #a9353a;
269            color: #fff;
270		}
271		
272		.btn-red {
273			background: #a9353a;
274			border: 1px solid #a9353a;
275			color: #fff;
276		}
277		
278		.btn-red:hover,
279		.btn-red:focus {
280			background: #091F40;
281			border: 1px solid #091F40;
282            color: #fff;
283		}
284				
285		/* WP Search Button */
286		input.search-submit {
287			background: #a9353a;
288		}
289		
290		
291		
292		
293		/* --------------------
294		   Border 
295		-------------------- */
296		.border-theme {
297			border-bottom: 1px solid #0182b5;
298		}
299
300
301
302
303		/* --------------------
304		   Icons 
305		-------------------- */
306		.social-icon a {
307			height: 25px;
308			width: 25px;
309			background: #0182b5;
310			color: #fff !important;
311			border-radius: 50px;
312			font-size: 15px;
313			-webkit-transition: all ease .2s;
314			-ms-transition: all ease .2s;
315			-moz-transition: all ease .2s;
316			transition: all ease .2s;
317		}
318
319		.social-icon a:hover {
320			background: #a9353a;
321		}
322
323        .icon {
324            position: relative;
325            top: 5px;
326			height: 25px !important;
327			width: 25px !important;
328            padding: 5px;
329			background: #0182b5;
330			color: #fff !important;
331			border-radius: 50px;
332			font-size: 15px;
333			-webkit-transition: all ease .2s;
334			-ms-transition: all ease .2s;
335			-moz-transition: all ease .2s;
336			transition: all ease .2s;
337		}
338
339		.icon:hover {
340			background: #a9353a;
341		}
342
343        .icon-darkBlue {
344            position: relative;
345            top: 5px;
346			height: 25px !important;
347			width: 25px !important;
348            padding: 5px;
349			background: #091F40;
350			color: #fff !important;
351			border-radius: 50px;
352			font-size: 15px;
353			-webkit-transition: all ease .2s;
354			-ms-transition: all ease .2s;
355			-moz-transition: all ease .2s;
356			transition: all ease .2s;
357		}
358
359		.icon-darkBlue:hover {
360			background: #a9353a;
361		}
362
363		.share-icon a {
364			height: 25px;
365			width: 25px;
366			background: #091F40;
367			color: #fff !important;
368			border-radius: 50px;
369			font-size: 15px;
370			-webkit-transition: all ease .2s;
371			-ms-transition: all ease .2s;
372			-moz-transition: all ease .2s;
373			transition: all ease .2s;
374		}
375
376		.share-icon a:hover {
377			background: #a9353a;
378		}
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427				<h1 class="capitalize f-darkBlue work-sans f-700 line-height-58 mb-5">Knowledge about power is power</h1><p class="f-red f-700 uppercase mb-5">August 23, 2026</p><p style="font-weight: 400;">Well, we’re back to talking about everyone’s growing electric bill again. Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem like a topic that’s going away. But, fortunately, some smart people are creating tools so that everyday Americans can use to educate themselves about the policies behind that number we pay the electric company each month.</p>
428<p style="font-weight: 400;">Rate increases from U.S. utilities have become much too common-place. According to Fortune Magazine: “Last year increasingly looks like a turning point for American electricity bills. Retail electricity prices rose 7% in 2025 alone, part of <a href="https://fortune.com/2026/05/20/electricity-bills-surging-not-just-data-centers
428/">a nearly 40% climb since 2021</a> that has made this decade the fastest period of electricity price growth on record. Wholesale costs are now 6.1% higher than a year prior — almost double the overall inflation rate” In 2023, utility rate increase requests set a record high with <a href="https://www.spglobal.com/market-intelligence/en/news-insights/research/rate-requests-by-us-energy-utilities-set-record-in-2023-for-3rd-straight-year">amounts sought being three times higher</a> than those at the beginning of the pandemic in 2020.</p>
429<p style="font-weight: 400;">But the uptick started even before the pandemic and the inflation that dragged the American economy in recent years. In 2019, 147 new rate increase cases were filed around the country—that’s the most in nearly 50 years since 1983. According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), <a href="https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=65284">retail electricity prices have increased faster than inflation</a> since 2022. And, the agency expects that trend to continue through 2026.</p>
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431<p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>“Blue States, High Rates”</strong></p>
432<p style="font-weight: 400;">Now the folks at the Energy Bad Boys blog, along with some partners, have released an analysis that gives insight into the policies that are driving up electricity rates and why, as they put it, elections have consequences. The <a href="https://www.bluestateshighrates.com/">“Blue States, High Rates”</a> database looks at a series of factors state-by-state and discovered some revealing patterns that drive up power costs.</p>
433<p style="font-weight: 400;">Energy Bad Boys: “Our analysis found that Blue states, on average, have <a href="https://energybadboys.substack.com/p/all-50-blue-states-high-rates-profiles?utm_source=post-email-title&amp;publication_id=1664779&amp;post_id=210935424&amp;utm_campaign=email-post-title&amp;isFreemail=false&amp;r=2e1uuv&amp;triedRedirect=true&amp;utm_medium=email">much higher rates than Red states</a>. What’s interesting is the gap between Red-state and Blue-state prices has widened over time, suggesting that the energy policies enacted by these states are driving up costs. For example, in 2011, average all-sector electricity prices in Blue states were about 3.6 cents per kilowatt-hour (kWh) higher than in Red states, or 44 percent higher. By 2025, Blue state electricity prices were 6.33 cents per kWh higher than those in Red states, a 61 percent difference. For a more recent frame of reference, we found Red states have seen their electricity prices rise by 2 cents per kWh, or 22 percent, since 2018. Blue states saw their prices balloon by 5.5 cents per kWh, a 43 percent increase, with much of the increase occurring after 2022.”</p>
434<p style="font-weight: 400;"><img decoding="async" data-full="https://empoweringamerica.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/State-Electricity-Prices-Relative-to-U.S.-Average-2025.png" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-14023" src="https://empoweringamerica.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/State-Electricity-Prices-Relative-to-U.S.-Average-2025.png" alt="" width="2424" height="1640" srcset="https://empoweringamerica.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/State-Electricity-Prices-Relative-to-U.S.-Average-2025.png 2424w, https://empoweringamerica.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/State-Electricity-Prices-Relative-to-U.S.-Average-2025-300x203.png 300w, https://empoweringamerica.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/State-Electricity-Prices-Relative-to-U.S.-Average-2025-1024x693.png 1024w, https://empoweringamerica.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/State-Electricity-Prices-Relative-to-U.S.-Average-2025-768x520.png 768w, https://empoweringamerica.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/State-Electricity-Prices-Relative-to-U.S.-Average-2025-1536x1039.png 1536w, https://empoweringamerica.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/State-Electricity-Prices-Relative-to-U.S.-Average-2025-2048x1386.png 2048w, https://empoweringamerica.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/State-Electricity-Prices-Relative-to-U.S.-Average-2025-1568x1061.png 1568w" sizes="(max-width: 2424px) 100vw, 2424px" /></p>
435<p style="font-weight: 400;">In a nutshell, the ideology underlying your state’s energy policies absolutely effects how much you are paying to keep your lights on. And, common-sense, all-of-the-above policies like <a href="https://empoweringamerica.org/energysecurityarc/">Affordable, Reliable and Clean Energy Security</a> cost you less than green-at-any-cost systems that artificially prop up renewable energy.</p>
436<p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Let’s talk about Pennsylvania</strong></p>
437<p style="font-weight: 400;">Take Pennsylvania, for example, a state that we’ve recently been watching for key congressional races in the upcoming Midterm elections. There in a high-profile, battleground race U.S. Rep. Rob Bresnahan has challenged a utility seeking rate hikes in the area and fought against a regi
437onal fracking ban. At the same time, his opponent Paige Cognetti has declared she’ll support the green-at-any-cost, Bidenomics that drove up energy prices. And, at the state level, Cognetti has the blessing of Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro who is pushing a cap-and-tax-style plan that would cost Pennsylvania $157.2 billion and <a href="https://commonwealthfoundation.org/research/pennsylvanias-rggi-odyssey/">more than double residential electricity bills</a>.</p>
438<p style="font-weight: 400;"><img decoding="async" data-full="https://empoweringamerica.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/PA-08-Bresnahan-1.jpg" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-14022" src="https://empoweringamerica.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/PA-08-Bresnahan-1.jpg" alt="" width="1600" height="900" srcset="https://empoweringamerica.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/PA-08-Bresnahan-1.jpg 1600w, https://empoweringamerica.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/PA-08-Bresnahan-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https://empoweringamerica.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/PA-08-Bresnahan-1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https://empoweringamerica.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/PA-08-Bresnahan-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https://empoweringamerica.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/PA-08-Bresnahan-1-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://empoweringamerica.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/PA-08-Bresnahan-1-1568x882.jpg 1568w" sizes="(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px" /></p>
439<p style="font-weight: 400;">According to the Bad Boys’ report, “Pennsylvania has no carbon price. The state’s six-year saga with the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) ended with statutory repeal in November 2025, but Gov. Shapiro’s proposed replacement, a state-specific cap-and-invest program, is no better. … In January 2026 the Pennsylvania Supreme Court dismissed all RGGI appeals as moot following legislative repeal. Gov. Shapiro’s proposed replacement, the <a href="https://www.bluestateshighrates.com/states/pennsylvania/">Pennsylvania Climate Emissions Reduction Act (PACER)</a>, would establish a state-specific cap-and-invest program on plants above 25 MW, returning 70% of revenue to ratepayers as rebates; as of this writing, PACER had not passed the legislature. Always On Energy Research’s modeling estimates that PACER and PRESS combined would add approximately $157 billion in electricity costs through 2035 and raise average rates from 12.6 to 20.2 cents per kWh — a 60% increase.”</p>
440<p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>And, then there’s Michigan</strong></p>
441<p style="font-weight: 400;">Michigan is another prime example of how who we put in office has a direct effect on the electric bill in our mailboxes.</p>
442<p style="font-weight: 400;">According to the Blue State’s database, “Michigan’s Renewable Portfolio Standard and Clean Energy Standard were updated by Public Act 235 of 2023, requiring all retail electric providers to meet rising clean-power targets. The RPS mandates 15% renewable energy (wind, solar, certain biomass, hydro, etc.) through 2029, rising to 50% in 2030–2034 and 60% from 2035 onward, tracked via Renewable Energy Credits. The broader CES requires an 80% clean-energy portfolio (renewables plus nuclear and natural gas with at least 90% carbon capture) by 2035 and <a href="https://www.bluestateshighrates.com/states/michigan/">100% by 2040</a>. This statutory transition away from fossil-fueled generation puts upward structural pressure on electricity rates due to asset turnover and infrastructure replacement costs.”</p>
443<p style="font-weight: 400;">In another battleground congressional race there, Congressman Tom Barrett has criticized this short-sighted mandate: “Despite the fact that Michigan already has the highest electricity rates in the Midwest, Democrats used their unified control of state government in 2023 to pass new laws requiring electricity production to use 100% green energy by 2040. … One study projects <a href="https://www.lansingstatejournal.com/story/opinion/contributors/2026/03/17/michigan-energy-costs-congressman-tom-barrett/89064378007/">rates in our state will double</a> because of these mandates.”</p>
444<p style="font-weight: 400;">Barrett continues, “We need an all-of-the-above energy strategy focused on reliability and affordability. …  These mandates are a recipe for higher prices and more blackouts, and they’re made worse by the fact that Democrats stripped communities of local control over where wind and s
444olar projects can go … We should be looking at what energy works best for working-class ratepayers, not politicians. Now, the same politicians who voted to require 100% green energy, shut down reliable natural gas power plants, and raise electricity prices are pointing the finger and hoping Michigan families will forget why their utility bills are getting more expensive.” That’s music to our affordable, reliable and clean energy security ears.</p>
445<p style="font-weight: 400;"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" data-full="https://empoweringamerica.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Barrett-MI-07-1.jpg" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-14021" src="https://empoweringamerica.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Barrett-MI-07-1.jpg" alt="" width="1600" height="900" srcset="https://empoweringamerica.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Barrett-MI-07-1.jpg 1600w, https://empoweringamerica.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Barrett-MI-07-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https://empoweringamerica.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Barrett-MI-07-1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https://empoweringamerica.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Barrett-MI-07-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https://empoweringamerica.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Barrett-MI-07-1-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://empoweringamerica.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Barrett-MI-07-1-1568x882.jpg 1568w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px" /></p>
446<p style="font-weight: 400;">Barrett is opposed by William Lawrence who claims to have played a part in “<a href="https://x.com/WeWill2026/status/1990453520424911275">designing the Green New Deal</a>” and was a co-founder of the Sunrise Movement, a climate group that demands a “transition away from all forms of fossil fuels as quickly as possible” and “<a href="https://www.sunrisemovement.org/our-demands/#stances">no new oil, gas, or coal projects</a>.” I think we know which one of these guys will fight to lower your electric bill.</p>
447<p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Elections have consequences</strong></p>
448<p style="font-weight: 400;">As we said at the start, elections have consequences. This analysis of the effect state-level policies have on your pocketbook is a stark illustration of that point.</p>
449<p style="font-weight: 400;">That’s why we must make smart decisions when we pick our leaders at the state and federal levels. Green-at-any-cost agendas may make for feel good lines in utilities’ annual reports and politician’s rhetoric, but they should not be what drives our electricity mix. Clearly. Americans need affordable, reliable and clean energy sources and they need leaders that embrace policies like ARC Energy Security to make sure we are building an energy future that Americans can both trust and afford.</p>
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829<script id="gform_gravityforms-js" defer='defer' src="https://empoweringamerica.org/wp-content/plugins/gravityforms/js/gravityforms.min.js?ver=3.1.2"></script>
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830<script id="gform_recaptcha-js" defer='defer' src="https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api.js?hl=en&#038;&#038;ver=7.1.1#038;render=explicit"></script>
831<script id="gform_placeholder-js" defer='defer' src="https://empoweringamerica.org/wp-content/plugins/gravityforms/js/placeholders.jquery.min.js?ver=3.1.2"></script>
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832<script id="gform_gravityforms_utils-js" defer='defer' src="https://empoweringamerica.org/wp-content/plugins/gravityforms/assets/js/dist/utils.min.js?ver=69a9db57304a9f86c3d1a0bea5fd2cf9"></script>
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833<script id="gform_gravityforms_theme_vendors-js" defer='defer' src="https://empoweringamerica.org/wp-content/plugins/gravityforms/assets/js/dist/vendor-theme.min.js?ver=0c901cb641ce64b99c20ea1a4d208cc9"></script>
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833
834<script id="gform_gravityforms_theme-js-extra">
835var gform_theme_config = {"common":{"form":{"honeypot":{"version_hash":"8be062842b78b6881b5f925828f7aa8c"},"ajax":{"ajaxurl":"https://empoweringamerica.org/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php","ajax_submission_nonce":"722cf2aa43","i18n":{"step_announcement":"Step %1$s of %2$s, %3$s","unknown_error":"There was an unknown error processing your request. Please try again.","error_403":"The request was blocked (403 error) for unknown security reasons. Remove any code-like text (scripts or DB queries) and try again."}}}},"hmr_dev":"","public_path":"https://empoweringamerica.org/wp-content/plugins/gravityforms/assets/js/dist/","config_nonce":"9b6b55f92b"};
836//# sourceURL=gform_gravityforms_theme-js-extra
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838<script id="gform_gravityforms_theme-js" defer='defer' src="https://empoweringamerica.org/wp-content/plugins/gravityforms/assets/js/dist/scripts-theme.min.js?ver=e27d9712159624c99129c8c208f022ad"></script>
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838
839<script id="wp-emoji-settings" type="application/json">
840{"baseUrl":"https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.2/72x72/","ext":".png","svgUrl":"https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.2/svg/","svgExt":".svg","source":{"concatemoji":"https://empoweringamerica.org/wp-includes/js/wp-emoji-release.min.js?ver=7.1.1"}}
841</script>
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842<script type="module">
843/*! This file is auto-generated */
844var e="script#wp-emoji-settings",t=document.querySelector(e);if(!(t instanceof HTMLScriptElement))throw new Error("Element missing: "+e);const r=JSON.parse(t.text),s=(window._wpemojiSettings=r,"wpEmojiSettingsSupports"),o=["flag","emoji"];function i(e){try{var t={supportTests:e,timestamp:(new Date).valueOf()};sessionStorage.setItem(s,JSON.stringify(t))}catch(e){}}function c(e,t,n){e.clearRect(0,0,e.canvas.width,e.canvas.height),e.fillText(t,0,0);t=new Uint32Array(e.getImageData(0,0,e.canvas.width,e.canvas.height).data);e.clearRect(0,0,e.canvas.width,e.canvas.height),e.fillText(n,0,0);const r=new Uint32Array(e.getImageData(0,0,e.canvas.width,e.canvas.height).data);return t.every((e,t)=>e===r[t])}function p(e,t){e.clearRect(0,0,e.canvas.width,e.canvas.height),e.fillText(t,0,0);var n=e.getImageData(16,16,1,1);for(let e=0;e<n.data.length;e++)if(0!==n.data[e])return!1;return!0}function u(e,t,n,r){switch(t){case"flag":return n(e,"\ud83c\udff3\ufe0f\u200d\u26a7\ufe0f","\ud83c\udff3\ufe0f\u200b\u26a7\ufe0f")?!1:!n(e,"\ud83c\udde8\ud83c\uddf6","\ud83c\udde8\u200b\ud83c\uddf6")&&!n(e,"\ud83c\udff4\udb40\udc67\udb40\udc62\udb40\udc65\udb40\udc6e\udb40\udc67\udb40\udc7f","\ud83c\udff4\u200b\udb40\udc67\u200b\udb40\udc62\u200b\udb40\udc65\u200b\udb40\udc6e\u200b\udb40\udc67\u200b\udb40\udc7f");case"emoji":return!r(e,"\ud83e\u1fac8")}return!1}function f(e,t,n,r){let a;const s=(a="undefined"!=typeof WorkerGlobalScope&&self instanceof WorkerGlobalScope?new OffscreenCanvas(300,150):document.createElement("canvas")).getContext("2d",{willReadFrequently:!0}),o=(s.textBaseline="top",s.font="600 32px Arial",{});return e.forEach(e=>{o[e]=t(s,e,n,r)}),o}function a(e){var t=document.createElement("script");t.src=e,t.defer=!0,document.head.appendChild(t)}r.supports={everything:!0,everythingExceptFlag:!0},new Promise(t=>{let n=function(){try{var e=JSON.parse(sessionStorage.getItem(s));if("object"==typeof e&&"number"==typeof e.timestamp&&(new Date).valueOf()<e.timestamp+604800&&"object"==typeof e.supportTests)return e.supportTests}catch(e){}return null}();if(!n){if("undefined"!=typeof Worker&&"undefined"!=typeof OffscreenCanvas&&"undefined"!=typeof URL&&URL.createObjectURL&&"undefined"!=typeof Blob)try{var e="postMessage("+f.toString()+"("+[JSON.stringify(o),u.toString(),c.toString(),p.toString()].join(",")+"));",r=new Blob([e],{type:"text/javascript"});const a=new Worker(URL.createObjectURL(r),{name:"wpTestEmojiSupports"});return void(a.onmessage=e=>{i(n=e.data),a.terminate(),t(n)})}catch(e){}i(n=f(o,u,c,p))}t(n)}).then(e=>{for(const n in e)r.supports[n]=e[n],r.supports.everything=r.supports.everything&&r.supports[n],"flag"!==n&&(r.supports.everythingExceptFlag=r.supports.everythingExceptFlag&&r.supports[n]);var t;r.supports.everythingExceptFlag=r.supports.everythingExceptFlag&&!r.supports.flag,r.supports.everything||((t=r.source||{}).concatemoji?a(t.concatemoji):t.wpemoji&&t.twemoji&&(a(t.twemoji),a(t.wpemoji)))});
845//# sourceURL=https://empoweringamerica.org/wp-includes/js/wp-emoji-loader.min.js
846</script>
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847<script>
848gform.initializeOnLoaded( function() { jQuery(document).on('gform_post_render', function(event, formId, currentPage){if(formId == 1) {if(typeof Placeholders != 'undefined'){
849                        Placeholders.enable();
850                    }} } );jQuery(document).on('gform_post_conditional_logic', function(event, formId, fields, isInit){} ) } );
851</script>
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851
852<script>
853gform.initializeOnLoaded( function() {jQuery(document).trigger("gform_pre_post_render", [{ formId: "1", currentPage: "1", abort: function() { this.preventDefault(); } }]);        if (event && event.defaultPrevented) {                return;        }        const gformWrapperDiv = document.getElementById( "gform_wrapper_1" );        if ( gformWrapperDiv ) {            const visibilitySpan = document.createElement( "span" );            visibilitySpan.id = "gform_visibility_test_1";            gformWrapperDiv.insertAdjacentElement( "afterend", visibilitySpan );        }        const visibilityTestDiv = document.getElementById( "gform_visibility_test_1" );        let postRenderFired = false;        function triggerPostRender() {            if ( postRenderFired ) {                return;            }            postRenderFired = true;            gform.core.triggerPostRenderEvents( 1, 1 );            if ( visibilityTestDiv ) {                visibilityTestDiv.parentNode.removeChild( visibilityTestDiv );            }        }        function debounce( func, wait, immediate ) {            var timeout;            return function() {                var context = this, args = arguments;                var later = function() {                    timeout = null;                    if ( !immediate ) func.apply( context, args );                };                var callNow = immediate && !timeout;                clearTimeout( timeout );                timeout = setTimeout( later, wait );                if ( callNow ) func.apply( context, args );            };        }        const debouncedTriggerPostRender = debounce( function() {            triggerPostRender();        }, 200 );        if ( visibilityTestDiv && visibilityTestDiv.offsetParent === null ) {            const observer = new MutationObserver( ( mutations ) => {                mutations.forEach( ( mutation ) => {                    if ( mutation.type === 'attributes' && visibilityTestDiv.offsetParent !== null ) {                        debouncedTriggerPostRender();                        observer.disconnect();                    }                });            });            observer.observe( document.body, {                attributes: true,                childList: false,                subtree: true,                attributeFilter: [ 'style', 'class' ],            });        } else {            triggerPostRender();        }    } );
854</script>
854
855
856<!-- Page Footer Scripts -->
857
858<!-- Global Footer Scripts -->
859<script type="text/javascript" src="//cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/[email protected]/slick/slick.min.js"></script>
859	
860	
860<script src="https://unpkg.com/[email protected]/dist/aos.js"></script>
860
861
862<script>(function(){function c(){var b=a.contentDocument||(a.contentWindow&&a.contentWindow.document);if(b){var d=b.createElement('script');d.innerHTML="window.__CF$cv$params={r:'a40eddf9dfb0c694',t:'MTc5MDM5MDA0MA=='};var a=document.createElement('script');a.src='/cdn-cgi/challenge-platform/scripts/jsd/main.js';document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(a);";b.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(d)}}if(document.body){var a=document.createElement('iframe');a.height=1;a.width=1;a.style.position='absolute';a.style.top=0;a.style.left=0;a.style.border='none';a.style.visibility='hidden';document.body.appendChild(a);if('loading'!==document.readyState)c();else if(window.addEventListener)document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded',c);else{var e=document.onreadystatechange||function(){};document.onreadystatechange=function(b){e(b);'loading'!==document.readyState&&(document.onreadystatechange=e,c())}}}})();</script>
862</body>
863</html>

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