AND OUR EXCITING NEW INITIATIVES IN 2026
With your support, we can build on our successes in 2025 to save private medicine!
Our recent 82nd annual meeting near Washington, D.C., was our best ever. Top officials from HHS, which oversees the CDC, FDA, NIH, and Medicare, and from DOJ, spoke to our sold-out conference and answered our many questions. An opponent – an HHS employee – even infiltrated and disrupted a presentation, confirming our impact!
We remain the oldest and most consistent defender of private, ethical medicine in the world, and with your support we’ll continue for another 82 years. Unlike “organized medicine” that feeds at the trough of government and Big Pharma while pushing their false narratives, we boldly lead for our patients who depend on us.
2026 will be a banner year for us, as newly appointed good judges come onto the bench and existing ones realize we were right about Covid. We brought our first lawsuit against Covid tyranny in early June 2020, merely a few months after Covid began.
In 2026, we will argue again before the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit against the specialty boards, where we defeated them before and expect to beat them again. These Boards that grant certifications have been unfairly retaliating against physicians who spoke out against Covid and other medical tyranny.
Our ongoing lawsuit against the unfair policies of the National Practitioner Data Bank should also reach the Fifth Circuit in 2026. The Data Bank blacklists physicians for issues unrelated to patient care, and stores defamatory reports forever.
It was the Fifth Circuit that delivered the victory for physicians and all Americans late last year as the clock approached January 2, when the oppressive new requirement to report personal information to the federal government was due to kick in. Prison sentences of 2 years awaited physicians and others who might fail to report their “beneficial ownership information” (BOI) and thereby submit to federal jurisdiction.
Our General Counsel worked all of Christmas Day to file a brief to block the FinCEN requirement for physicians to report to the federal government by January. Independent physicians faced an obligation to report their home addresses and drivers’ license numbers to the federal Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN).
Within hours of receiving our General Counsel’s brief, a merits panel of the Fifth Circuit agreed with his arguments and blocked the FinCEN reporting requirement from going into effect. Our quick work prevailed, and we won that key battle!
For our work for medical freedom, we depend on your generous support. The more you can donate, the more we can do for physicians, patients, and our country.
The federal bureaucrats in D.C. don’t quit, and they’re called the Deep State for a reason. After losing in the Fifth Circuit, the Biden Administration filed an emergency application with the U.S. Supreme Court on New Year’s Eve to reinstate their suffocating disclosure obligation on physicians and to assert new federal power over all of us.
But we do not quit either, and we continued to oppose the Feds at every turn on this issue. Finally, in March, a new order from the Trump Administration shut down this tyranny by FinCEN. Physicians are not obligated to report to FinCEN as was being required. HOORAY!
The lightning-quick legal work by us against FinCEN was typical of how fast and effectively our legal team responds to help physicians and their patients. Throughout 2025, and in 2026 with your help, we will continue to oppose sham peer review of good physicians by hospitals, object to pharmacies placing good physicians on a “do not fill” list (akin to a “do not fly” list), defend against vaccine and mask tyranny, litigate against specialty boards that retaliate against good physicians, and challenge the federal government over the Data Bank.
We’re doing far more now for you and patients than we ever have before, and we can expand further in 2026 with your support. Let’s review a few highlights.
Defending freedom of speech by physicians. The infringements on the First Amendment rights of physicians by Leftists – and government – are appalling. We stand at the front lines against this censorship.
California mandates that every Continuing Medical Education (CME) course include a discussion of DEI, regardless of how irrelevant it is to the subject matter or how much the physician teaching the course disagrees with DEI ideology. Our beloved past president Marilyn Singleton, M.D., J.D., was among the plaintiffs who sued to overturn this.
Marilyn passed away during the litigation but we carried on her vigilance for First Amendment rights of physicians by filing two amicus briefs in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, first at the merits stage and then in support of a petition for rehearing en banc. In a hopeful development, the Court has ordered California to respond.
If we lose our First Amendment rights as physicians, then we’d lose everything. Patients need us to be able to speak candidly to them, and our colleagues need to hear our honest opinions.
California, like New York, Connecticut, and Maine, has also eliminated the religious exemption to vaccination, which affects physicians and patients alike. We filed a strong amicus brief in the Ninth Circuit against California on this issue, which will set the precedent nationwide.
Only with your generous support can we continue and expand our work on this.
Defending against Hospitals. Some of the worst actors during Covid were hospitals, as they denied treatments like ivermectin to patients, and terminated physicians and nurses who declined to take the Covid vaccine. Hospitals also continue to engage in sham peer review to retaliate against good physicians.
AAPS is the national leader in standing up against hospitals when they attack good physicians and patients. So-called organized medicine is doing nothing to push back against tyranny by hospitals, but we are.
When Texas Children’s Hospital denied a religious exemption to the flu vaccine to an employee there, she sued, and only after she litigated did the hospital finally relent and grant her the requested exemption to which she was entitled. But then the hospital demanded that she pay the costs of the lawsuit, rather than vice versa.
On appeal, her attorney reached out to us to seek en banc review by the Fifth Circuit. Our submission was so strong that within 24 hours of receiving our arguments, the Fifth Circuit demanded a response by the hospital. A big victory for the religious exemption from vaccine mandates seems likely here.
On sham peer review, we continue to help good physicians at all hours of the day and night, on an emergency basis. Recently we were available to speak with a good physician at 8 pm on a Sunday night, about a decision his hospital demanded from him by 8 am the following morning. No other organization helps physicians like this.
Indeed, no other group has the expertise in sham peer review that we have, and good physicians are increasingly finding us on the internet to request help. When these cases go into court, we defend the physicians against the retaliation and unjustified actions taken against them, and we argued one of these cases before the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in 2025.
ObamaCare Mandates. Congressmen feign shock that insurance premiums are skyrocketing under ObamaCare. This reminds us of the famous scene in Casablanca, in which the charming Captain Renault declared, “I’m shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!” A dealer then handed him a wad of cash, saying, “Your winnings, sir.”
We can say “I told you so,” as we did earlier this year in our brief to the U.S. Supreme Court, in a challenge by a long-time AAPS member to the Task Force that imposes unaffordable mandates under ObamaCare.
Each year we file multiple amicus briefs, and sometimes we file a petition for cert., in the U.S. Supreme Court to educate it on the most controversial cases. Your support makes it possible for us to file these briefs, and pay the printing costs to comply with the High Court’s booklet format.
As we told the Supreme Court Justices in our brief in Kennedy v. Braidwood Management (Sup. Ct. 24-316):
For more than 80 years AAPS has been an advocate of the free market in medical care, and adherence to the principles of the U.S. Constitution. AAPS has consistently been an opponent of socialism and government mandates for “free” medical care. Members of AAPS were featured in the documentary movie “Wait Till It’s Free” (2014) as produced by Colin Gunn, which takes its title from this observation by satirist P.J. O’Rourke: “If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it’s free.”
The Supreme Court did not rule that the Task Force is unconstitutional in imposing costly ObamaCare mandates, but did rule that our friend HHS Secretary RFK Jr. can fire Task Force members. He subsequently indicated that he intends to do that. So we won again!
Our additional victories in 2025 are too many to list here. For example, in the transgender case in Georgia where the Eleventh Circuit initially ordered Houston County (and thus taxpayers) to fund transgender medical expenses for someone in the sheriff’s office, we rushed to meet a tight deadline in urging the Eleventh Circuit en banc to overturn this bad decision.
It’s always a long shot to obtain review en banc (by the full appellate court), but we prevailed again when we urged the Eleventh Circuit to reconsider its initial pro-transgender decision. By a narrow margin, the full Eleventh Circuit sided with us and held against court-ordered taxpayer funding of transgender procedures.
Amid all our efforts our legal bills are mounting. It’s not easy to take on Leftists, Big Pharma, and the Deep State! We beg you to be generous so that we can overcome the very powerful forces infringing on private, ethical medicine!
We know that you receive, as we all do, many requests for donations. But our future depends on the integrity of the practice of private medicine, without censorship. Freedom in medicine is the foundation of all of our other liberties and our prosperity. Please be as generous as you can. Thank you so much!!
Sincerely,
<Jane>
P.S. Your donations will enable us to expand in 2026, to achieve even more than we did in 2025! We try to overcome inflation as it lessens the value of the dollar, and we ask you to contribute charitably for our 2026 efforts. If you can kindly donate at least $300, it would enable us to boldly expand for physicians & patients, and for all of private medicine.
P.P.S. By donating now in 2025, you can take the tax deduction this year. Thank you!!!!