Oregon RNC Member Proposes Working With Tea Party To Ensure November Victories
Much was made of the New York Times article earlier this month that detailed how Karl Rove has created an offshoot of American Crossroads to fund candidates in Republican primaries that are, in the...
View ArticleAn Open Letter to the 'Angry White Dude'
Kira Davis wrote an "Open Letter From a Black Republican to Reince Preibus" lamenting the poor image enjoyed by the Republican Party in minority communities nationwide. In part, she posits the...
View ArticleGOProud Board Member Resigns; Contemplating Primary Challenge To South...
Interesting news out of South Carolina this morning. Bruce Carroll, an openly gay Republican and board member at GOProud, has resigned his position on that organization’s board of directors. He is...
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To Win, We Must First Admit That We Lost
Excusing defeat is a sure way to keep losing. In the 2012 election, conservatives, libertarians, and tea party groups were outworked and outvoted by an array of forces that should have been demoralized...
View ArticleFour NY Democrats Sentenced to Community Service, Jail Time For Role in Voter...
Four Democrats involved in an upstate New York voter fraud scandal were sentenced yesterday for their respective roles, receiving punishments ranging from hundreds of hours of community service, to...
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Karl Rove Thinks Voters Are Stupid - A Mathematician Proves Him Wrong
Karl Rove published an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal in which he claimed that Republicans lost the 2012 Presidential election, in part, because Democrats maintain a significant data advantage over...
View Article100 Pages That Say Nothing
I imagine I'm like many of my peers and despite November election results, I was hoping that the GOP might learn a lesson or two and adjust accordingly. I was skeptical, but hopeful nonetheless. Then...
View ArticleThe RNC Diagnosis: Part 2 - Get Out The Vote
In developing the Growth and Opportunity Project's Autopsy of the 2012 election (pdf), the Republican National Committee correctly identified the reason for the party's loss, but failed to recommend a...
View ArticleThe RNC Diagnosis: Part 3 - Friends, Finance and Primaries
In developing the Growth and Opportunity Project's Autopsy of the 2012 election (pdf), the Republican National Committee correctly identified the reason for the party's loss, but failed to recommend a...
View ArticleRNC Rules - Quit Yawning and Pay Attention
"Oh, no. Another post about the RNC rules. Let me see how fast I can click away from this..."Stop! I get it. Who cares about a political party's internal rules? And when I see "Rule 16(a)(2)" and...
View ArticleThe FreedomCast - Episode 31 - Mommy Bloggers and The GOP's Attempt to Garner...
Today on The FreedomCast, Allysen Efferson joins me to discuss the GOP’s new targeted demographic, the “mommy blogger.” It’s about time, don’t they know we talk to everybody?More from Dana Loesch on...
View ArticleWill An Updated Marketing Effort Help the NRSC In 2014?
In March, I reported on the first signs of new life from the National Republican Senatorial Committee after the disastrous 2012 election cycle, in which conservatives lost ground in the US Senate...
View ArticleCalifornia Exchange Grants $37 Million To Sell Obamacare
Covered California, the state's Obamacare health insurance exchange, announced on May 14 that it had awarded $37 million to promote the implementation of the health insurance law. Unsurprisingly, many...
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Arizona: Grassroots Taking On The Governor's Henchmen
The coalition of hospital lobbyists, insurance companies, and political operatives who pushed through Medicaid expansion under Obamacare in Arizona have a repeal fight on their hands.Over 300...
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The FreedomCast - Episode 55 - Third Party Talk with Alfonzo Rachel
On today’s FreedomCast, AlfonZo Rachel joins me to discuss his latest video which takes on the idea of a third party. We’ll also talk about the culture war, making good art vs. “conservative art” and...
View ArticleVoter Fraud: The Biden Family Edition
You'll find plenty of Democrats who say that cleaning voter rolls of felons and the dead is unfair because it may disenfranchise people from voting (they count on that graveyard vote to win close...
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New Poll Shows GOP Voters Want More Tea In Their Party
The Pew Research Center has released the results of an extensive survey of Republican voters. This poll clearly shows that, despite some prominent national GOP lawmakers saying we must lay low, the...
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We Are Not Misled - Obamacare: Defund vs Delay
In the fight to repeal Obamacare, establishment Republicans and the leftist media are teaming up to attack those urging that Obamacare be fully defunded. They say the conservatarian grassroots and Tea...
View ArticleEnough Political Games, Procedural Tricks and Posturing - Defund Obamacare
The current fight to defund Obamacare seems incomprehensible to many inside the Beltway. They explain with pious snark and dismissive ridicule that it is not a fight that can be won. They say that...
View ArticleTed Cruz and the American Team
Senator Ted Cruz took to the floor of the US Senate yesterday just shortly after 2:30pm ET. His primary goals were to highlight the failures of ObamaCare, reading examples from real people all over...
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Building the Community: Small Acts Equal Big Gains
It’s funny how the most innocuous and inconspicuous moments can turn out to be the most profound. My education and professional background is firmly rooted in the blood sport of politics. Outside of...
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Come and Take It: Beating Battleground Texas
This weekend FreedomWorks went head first into the belly of the beast at Tribune Fest, held at the University of Texas in Austin. The gathering is similar to Netroots, but on a state level, populated...
View ArticleA Third Party is Not the Goal, Repopulating the GOP Is
This morning, FreedomWorks CEO Matt Kibbe appeared on CSPAN to discuss the latest budget battle, as well as the perceived fracturing inside of the GOP. Kibbe was asked several questions about tactics,...
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Our Friends the Establishment Conservatives
The battle for the soul of the Republican Party has been cast as between "conservatives" and "moderates," between "grassroots" and "the establishment,""Tea Party" and "RINOs." While we sort of know...
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Repopulating the GOP
Would you like to start winning elections without compromising limited government principles? It wil take a little bit of cooperation, and probably some gritted teeth. You need to do as I have done,...
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Repopulating the GOP: Voter Turnout Is Everything
While some say the purpose of a political party is simply to win elections, I describe it differently. The purpose of a political party is to get out the vote for a platform. For most people, the most...
View ArticleVirginia Gubernatorial Race Results Should Bolster the Grassroots
Tuesday night was pretty bleak for those of us that value freedom and liberty in state governance. Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli mounted a valiant effort against a very well funded...
View ArticleLatest Obama Approval Ratings Spelling Trouble for Democrats in 2014
In 2008 and 2012, Senator and President Obama was the solution for Democrat victories across the country. Minorities stood by his side, the youth stood by his side and most importantly, moderates were...
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The Establishment Wants Us To Fall In Line
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker appeared on Fox News' Huckabee show to explain that Republicans shouldn't challenge incumbents in primaries until their party controls Congress. Incumbent job security...
View ArticleFreedomCast: 2014 Midterms - What's on Voter's Minds, and the Massive Growth...
On today’s edition of the FreedomCast, Brad Jackson and I discuss the issues that candidates and activists are paying attention to ahead of the 2014 mid-term elections, how Republicans can win at the...
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