Autism Justice Foundation
Led by co-chairs Dr. Gary Kompothecras and his wife, Beth, whose family’s fight with autism became a national mission, and close allies of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the MAHA agenda.
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Aug 10 · Executive Order 14420 signed: routine childhood vaccines set at 11 diseases, MMR to be split.
Sep 15 · Clip of the signing goes viral as the schedule falling “from 72 to 11.”
Sep 18 · Trump, with Kennedy, proposes five smaller doses six months apart.
Oct 6 · First Circuit hears the appeal. Until then the March stay keeps the old schedule in force.
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Trial lawyer Robert Barnes on the President’s vaccine-schedule action, quoting the viral “72 to 11” clip: “Kennedy is the saving grace of this administration.”
More posts and videoAccountability for the agencies and companies that set and profit from the childhood schedule, and a fair hearing for the families who say their children were harmed.
Original reporting and evidence review on what changed as autism rose from roughly 1 in 150 to 1 in 31, including the questions federal agencies are now reopening.
Informed parental consent, transparent schedule-setting, and practical support and referrals for affected families and caregivers.
The Autism Justice Foundation is led by its co-chairs, Dr. Gary Kompothecras and his wife, Beth. For Gary the cause is personal: two of his children, Bronson and Sarah Alice, were diagnosed with autism as toddlers, and their experience ignited a lifelong mission to expose and halt what he believes are preventable causes of autism.
For more than two decades Gary has pushed for legislation to limit thimerosal in vaccines, funded screenings of “VAXXED,” and absorbed the public attacks that came with challenging the medical consensus. Beth stands beside him as co-chair, sharing the Foundation’s mission for autism awareness, informed consent, and support for affected families.
Today that mission has allies at the highest level. Gary and Beth share a close relationship with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., now Secretary of Health and Human Services, and support the Make America Healthy Again agenda that is finally putting the causes of autism on the federal record.
Dr. Gary’s story and press coverage
This is the federal government’s own survey, published in the flagship pediatrics journal, and it shows autism rising faster than at any point in the CDC’s recent data. Children’s Health Defense asks the question the paper leaves open: what is driving it?
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Standing with Secretary Kennedy on September 18, the President announces a plan to recommend certain childhood vaccines be given as five separate doses, each about a fifth of the standard amount, six months apart. It is a statement of intent, not a rule. The First Circuit hears the schedule appeal on October 6, 2026.
The NIH commits roughly $51 million across 13 projects studying autism causes and prevalence from existing datasets. None of the 13 awards examine vaccines; the vaccine question sits with the separate CDC no-bid contract to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, which has released no findings as of late September 2026.
Nicolas Hulscher testifies before the Michigan House Oversight Subcommittee on the Child Welfare System, presenting a reanalysis of Henry Ford Health data that he says shows a 180% higher autism rate in vaccinated children. Independent researchers dispute the methodology; the mainstream consensus finds no causal link.
Signed August 10, 2026, “Delivering Gold Standard Childhood Vaccine Recommendations for Americans” limits routine childhood immunizations to 11 diseases (from 18), directs HHS to plan for MMR as three separate shots once domestically available, and encourages separate visits for each vaccine.
This is the McCullough Foundation’s newest paper, posted today, and it uses the federal government’s own National Health Interview Survey rather than a private dataset. That makes it easy for anyone, including HHS, to check. It is a preprint and has not been peer-reviewed yet.
The administration promised a hard look at what causes autism. The money is now committed, and it is worth being precise about where it went: the largest federal award pool of the year funds thirteen projects, and not one of them studies vaccines. The vaccine question sits with a separate, much smaller contract that has yet to report anything.
PostIn the span of six weeks the President signed an order cutting routine childhood vaccines from 18 diseases to 11, then stood beside Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and proposed splitting shots into five smaller doses. A viral clip called it a schedule of 72 shots reduced to 11 “by the stroke of a pen.” That is the biggest shift in federal vaccine posture in a generation, and it is also not yet law. Here is the record, and the reaction, side by side.
Nicolas Hulscher has become the reform movement's most-requested expert witness, appearing before both the U.S. Senate and the Michigan House inside a single year. Behind those appearances is a specific, checkable body of published work, and readers deserve to see what it actually consists of rather than take the label 'epidemiologist' on faith.
Families wait months, sometimes years, for an autism evaluation. Kennedy used his Children’s Health Defense keynote to announce a federal research program aimed squarely at that bottleneck.
A sitting HHS Secretary telling a movement conference that his agency is investigating vaccine-autism links is itself the story, a reversal of decades of federal posture, stated in his own words.
Evidence
Government documents, hearing records, movement papers, and mainstream studies behind the reform debate, each labeled for what it is and linked to its primary source.
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