Dear Friends, 

We had another inspiring 24 hours of fundraising. Since yesterday, we’ve raised $8,268 from 41 donors. $5,000 of this was doubled thanks to yesterday’s doubling challenge from a West Coast super angel, bringing our total to  $60,536 from 347 donors. Thank you all so much.  We’re incredibly grateful for your support for our work in 2025. 

Please help us keep the momentum going until midnight on December 31st. We may not reach our goal of $140,000 to maintain our operating budget for next year, but we’re hopeful that we can get closer before January 1st so we don’t have to make any major cuts.

Maple syrup promo – Remember, anyone who donates $150 or more will still be entered into a random drawing for the remaining 10 pints of pure Vermont maple syrup offered by Jack Crowther.   

How To Make A Tax-Deductible Donation

• You can make your donation online using either our new secure fundraising page: https://fluoridealert.networkforgood.com/projects/176427-everyday-giving
  
• Or our original secure fundraising page if your computer browser is a bit older: https://donatenow.networkforgood.org/1415005
  
• You can also donate by check, payable and addressed to: 
  
  Fluoride Action Network
  PO Box 85
  North Sutton, NH 03260

Ever since our September victory in federal court, communities around the world have been adding water fluoridation to their agendas for discussion or specifically for consideration of ordinances ending the practice. Approximately 30 communities have ended fluoridation in just the past 10 weeks, with over 80 communities currently debating the issue, and there’s no sign that this momentum is slowing. In fact, we expect the wave of community victories and debates to expand even further throughout this winter and spring. 

As these local debates occur, we plan to periodically share videos of expert and citizen testimony with you in our bulletins and on our social media pages. My hope is that you’ll be able to use some videos as educational tools in your own community battles, as well as draw inspiration and ideas from what others are saying and achieving. 

In our first collection of video testimony we have five videos from five different communities:

[17-minutes] Dr. Ashley Malin, PhD, lead author of the recent National Institutes of Health funded study finding neurobehavioral problems as a result of fluoride exposures during fetal development in optimally fluoridated Los Angeles, California. She presents to the Wausau, Wisconsin Water Works Commission. 

[25 minutes] FAN’s attorney, Michael Connett, presents at the Public Service Committee Meeting in the Village of DeForest, Wisconsin.

[3 minutes] The Mayor of Tavares, Florida, which voted 4-1 to end fluoridation, provides his common sense explanation for voting to end the practice. You can watch the full hearing using this official link to see that dentists and the lobbying organization, the American Fluoridation Society, are still doubling-down on their efforts in support of water fluoridation.

[3 minutes] Dentist Dr. Tim Driscoll, DDS, speaks before the city council of Naples, Florida, which later voted to discontinue fluoridation.

The final video is the full public hearing from a recent city council meeting in Rolla, Missouri. The video features testimony from both pro-fluoridation dentists and FAN representatives. One of the proponents of fluoridation is the American Dental Association’s fluoridation “subject matter expert,” who showed that she didn’t even know what the ADA’s own guidelines were for fluoride supplementation for infants. Dentist and FAN board member, Dr. Bill Osmunson, DDS, MPH, gave a powerpoint presentation, and I also presented for 15 minutes, though the video pauses (only on the YouTube version) several minutes before I started taking questions.