3 Ways to Eliminate the Fear of Fundraising

Imagine that you are a conservative candidate whose campaign is resonating with people. You are drawing crowds to your events, and people are getting excited about what you are saying and what you promise to do. And then, the time comes to do that thing that every candidate does, but no one wants to do.

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Game Over, Birfers

The President has released his long-form birth certificate, proving that he was, in fact, born in Hawaii as he has consistently said. You can find the (.pdf) here, and the press secretary’s statement here. It was just a matter of time until this came out. For an explanation of the political expediency of releasing the…

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Why Constitution Day Still Matters, 223 Years Later

Why celebrate Constitution Day? On September 17, 1787, our founders, the members of the Constitutional Convention, adopted our Constitution as the governing document for our brand new country.  Faced with overwhelming odds against this country they fought for succeeding and thriving, they outlined a blueprint to “enable the government to control the governed, and in…

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Technology: America’s Check on Government Power

Special thanks to Austin James for bringing this to my attention, and Raz Shafer for contributing key material. Regarding this piece from the Huffington Post: We see here the fight that grassroots constitutionalists are up against, and the new medium that it is expanding to. There has been a fair amount of talk in political…

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The Third Party Temptation

There was nothing particularly odd about this post from the Philadelphia Libertarian Examiner. Nothing, that is, until the last line. Every day a new column, blog, or news story comes out telling us that the GOP is in a fight for its life against the Tea Party, which threatens to destroy it from within. It’s…

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Asking for Help

My friend in the Texas office of American Majority, Andrew Kerr, wrote a great blog post about the importance of running to win- after all, those good ideas you have as a candidate will never be implemented if you do not first get elected. He’s right- you do need to raise money, walk door to…

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Why America is Great: Our Rich Heritage

Between the years of 1760 and 1776, over 400 pamphlets were written, published and distributed throughout the American colonies. Many of the pamphlets were written by laymen and dealt with inherent rights, the role of government, freedom, liberty, and even the right for the colonists to be an independent people. Those pamphleteers sowed the seeds…

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Regional Post Party Summits

We are very excited to announce the Post Party Summits. These regional trainings have been put together to provide the grassroots with the tools and strategies needed to win both locally and nationally. Teaming up with some great organizations, American Majority will be working with The John Hancock Committee for the States, RedState.com and SmartGirl…

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Introducing Our Mechanics Program

With the historic advances made by the American grassroots last year, it became clear that we have been faced with an opportunity that comes once in a generation, one in which we the people have the opportunity to fundamentally change government in this country. To do that, we quickly realized American Majority will need to…

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Statism of the Union

So tonight we get to hear the State of the Union, and it will no doubt follow the usual storyline of glossing over the bad, highlighting the good (if there is any?), but in the end not really providing us an honest evaluation of where we stand right now, January 27, 2010. With all that…

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A Leaderless Revolution?

I think it’s clear that what we’re seeing is something new in politics with the tea party movement, and especially with what took place last night in Massachusetts. It’s not about people choosing this party or that party, nor is it just about the anger of independents. It’s people looking for leadership that will actually…

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Some Other Books I Read in 2009

One of the best bits of advice I got when I was younger was that, “Readers are leaders, and leaders are readers.” I send the AM staff a book a quarter that I feel will help them become better at what they do. 1. The Politically Incorrect Guide to Capitalism by Robert Murphy. A quick…

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Some Books I Read in 2009

Ned Ryun, President of American Majority discusses some of the most influential books he has read this past year. 2009 was a big year for American Majority, find out some of the secrets he used to successfully expand the organization during a recession.

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