The Shadow War on Blake Miguez: Fake Grassroots Group Turns on Its Own
Blake Miguez is publicly praised as a conservative standard-bearer by the same group now funding attacks against him. For years, we have watched a strange and increasingly destructive phenomenon take hold inside Louisiana’s political landscape: a small but noisy...
2026: Our Year for Alignment, Leadership, and Opportunity with StateLens
As we enter 2026, Citizens for a New Louisiana finds itself in a moment we’ve been working toward for years. Our mission has always been clear: expose waste, defend transparency, and equip citizens to hold government accountable. That work continues. What has changed...
New Lawsuit Challenges LSU’s Half-Billion Dollar Tax Scheme
A new legal challenge now confronts the LSU-adjacent arena financing plan. The lawsuit filed in East Baton Rouge Parish alleges that the project — and the special taxing district created to fund it — were allegedly structured to sidestep voters and divert public tax...
The Myth of Safe Seats: Rethinking Louisiana’s Senate Races
It all started with a phone call. As a data guy by nature, it’s difficult to answer an opinion question like which state Senators may be out of sync with their districts. However, thanks to the data-driven approach to everything we do here at Citizens for a New...
Vindicated! Kyle Ardoin Wasn’t the Censor After All
For years, an aggressive faction in Louisiana politics has accused former Secretary of State Kyle Ardoin of participating in a grand conspiracy to censor Louisianans. This group disrupted meetings, hijacked Republican events, belittled volunteers, and launched...
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Critical Acclaim
Valarie Hodges
[Citizens for a New Louisiana] works very, very hard to let the public know what’s going on. Without them and what they do nobody knows anything except what the elite leftists media wants them to know. Thank GOD for their answering the call to be our voice to the state.
Scalawag Magazine
Hundreds of titles are being flagged by local residents and conservative groups such as Citizens for a New Louisiana for concerns that the [children's] books feature "pornography" and "pedophilia."
The Current
[A.B.] Rubin [blamed] conservative activist Michael Lunsford for the delay. Lunsford’s organization, Citizens for a New Louisiana, has stirred activism in library controversies across the state.
Livingston Parish News
Second Livingston Parish library director in two years departs as Parish President sides with Lafayette-based advocacy group Citizens for a New Louisiana
Book Riot
The mention of signage sounded eerily similar to the display controversy in Lafayette Parish, which was created by Citizens for a New Louisiana.
