After a tumultuous year of RINOs, #NeverTrump, and establishment conservatives fighting against President Trump at nearly every turn, this year’s CPAC turned out to be more of the same. In addition to promoting #NeverTrumper Ben Shapiro alongside the actual President of the United States, CPAC invited “conservative” columnist Mona Charen to a panel where she derided all Trump supporters before being escorted off the stage.
And if that wasn’t enough – CPAC even blocked Gateway Pundit founder/EIC Jim Hoft from speaking on a panel about censorship! In fact CPAC does not have ANY of the grassroots supporters for Trump speaking at their conference. They could not care less about the grassroots leaders who supported this president.
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To counter CPAC’s failure to modernize and the damage the establishment is doing to the party, a group of conservatives and investors got together to brainstorm an alternative conference.
The American Priority conference is currently slated to be the second largest conference of the year and feature not only a list of higher-profile speakers (aside from the President, himself) than CPAC and alternative conferences, but it will also be held in the original Washington, D.C. CPAC location.
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Mia Press Release:
American Priority Conference To Launch in September
New York, NY – The first annual American Priority Conference (#AMP18) will kickoff campaign season for the midterm elections, hosting their event September 6-8, 2018 in Washington D.C.
The American Priority Conference will host the largest national gathering of conservatives, center-right populists, economic nationalists, and libertarians to discuss their ideas and prioritize agenda items within the political, policy, and cultural arenas.
Attendees will hear from a host of academics, disruptive influencers, popular commentators, policy-makers, and artists. The American Priority Conference will serve as a home for free speech and free association amid attacks on those values by college campuses and the violent, left-wing Antifa movement.
The conference will take place at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, September 6-8, 2018. It will begin Thursday evening and include full days of speakers, panels, book signings, and other political and cultural events on Friday and Saturday.
“This conference brings together segments of the right that are often left out of the conversation. Libertarians, paleoconservatives, populists, and economic nationalists have been ignored by the broader conservative movement for too long,” said Ali Alexander, longtime GOP political strategist and co-founder of the conference. “This is a conference for all the women and men who establishment conservatives have left behind. Folks like me, who have been in the movement for years, have to be more inclusive and admit we may have been wrong about a few things.”
Alexander is also the co-founder of the highly praised Blog Bash events, the largest annual conservative media and influencer party.
“We are hoping to reach a broad audience and invite a wide array of speakers including politicians, artists, academics, and movement leaders,” said Alex Phillips, American Priority Conference co-founder. “While other conservative conferences have a ‘pay-to-play’ system, we’re reaching out and bringing together thoughtful discussions and debates that the mainstream conservative movement refuses to have.”
Phillips is owner of a small telecom company based in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, conservative donor, and professional who has participated in event organizing and federal policy advocacy within the telecom industry.
Further announcements, including a list of speakers, will be released over the next few weeks. For more information on the American Priority Conference, visit https://americanpriority.com.
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