The Occupy Movement didn't start on Wall Street. It started in Madison, Wisconsin, when 100,000 protestors descended onto the grounds of the State Capitol soon after Scott Walker took office as Governor. Their goal was to intimidate him and his allies, but he did not back down. He was unintimidated.
Scott's reforms took power from the hands of big government special interests and put it firmly into the hands of the hard-working people of Wisconsin and those that they elect to run their local governments. Those reforms, known as Act 10, have saved taxpayers more than $16 billion. During Governor Walker's tenure, Wisconsin enacted more common-sense conservative reforms than any state in the nation. They targeted him, and he won, becoming the first Governor in American history to win a recall election.
Now, Scott serves as president of Young America's Foundation, which trains the next generation of leaders in the fight for freedom. YAF conducts programs at the Reagan Ranch, Ronald Reagan Boyhood Home, its national headquarters in northern Virginia, Washington, D.C., and regional sites nationwide. YAF also hosts more conservative campus lectures than any other organization and has a digital presence with more than one billion views.
Scott has been married to Tonette for more than 30 years. They live on Pewaukee Lake in Wisconsin while also spending time in Virginia and California. Scott and Tonette have two adult children.
Born the son of a pastor and a part-time bookkeeper and raised in a small town, Scott understands the value of hard work and community. He is a proud Eagle Scout and an alum of the American Legion's Badger Boys State and Boys Nations programs. When he's not working, Scott can be found riding on his Harley Davidson Road King, on their pontoon boat out on the lake, or cheering on the Packers or one of Wisconsin's other sports teams. Most importantly, he is a follower of Christ.
Lieutenant Colonel (US Army, Ret) Allen West is the executive director of the American Constitutional Conservative Rights Union and the ACRU Action Fund. He is a constitutional conservative, combat veteran, and former member of the U.S. Congress.
Lt. Col. West is the third of four generations of military servicemen in his family. During his 22-year career in the U.S. Army, Lt. Col. West served in several combat zones and received many honors, including a Bronze Star, three Meritorious Service Medals, three Army Commendation Medals (one with valor device), and a Valorous Unit Award. In 1993, he was named the US Army ROTC Instructor of the Year. He is also a former commissioned officer in the Texas State Guard.
In November 2010, West was elected to the United States Congress representing Florida’s 22nd District. As a member of the 112th Congress, West sat on the Small Business and Armed Services Committees.
West is the former executive director of the National Center for Policy Analysis in Dallas, Texas, and a former Director of the Booker T. Washington Initiative (BTWI) for the Texas Public Policy Foundation. In July 2020, Lt. Col. West was elected chairman of the Republican Party of Texas by an overwhelming majority of state delegates.
Lt. Col. West is the author of three books: Guardian of the Republic: An American Ronin’s Journey to Family, Faith, and Freedom; Hold Texas, Hold the Nation: Victory or Death; and We Can Overcome: An American Black Conservative Manifesto.
Daniel Di Martino is a Fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a PhD candidate in Economics at Columbia University. His research focuses on immigration, especially selection, assimilation, and highly skilled immigration. Born and raised in Venezuela, Di Martino experienced the terrible consequences of socialism firsthand. After leaving Venezuela for the U.S. in 2016, he dedicated himself to explaining how socialism destroyed his homeland, advocating for its freedom, and stopping this ideology from ever being implemented in America and elsewhere. Di Martino has appeared on Fox News and CNN, and written for USA Today, National Review, City Journal and New York Post, among others. He is a regular speaker on college campuses and events across the country. He sits on the board of advisors of Young America's Foundation's Center for Entrepreneurship and Free Enterprise, and he is a member of the New Jersey State Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. In addition to his economic research on immigration and his media appearances, Di Martino founded the Dissident Project to teach high school students about the evils of socialist regimes.
Star Parker is a nationally syndicated columnist with Creators and the founder of the Center for Urban Renewal and Education (CurePolicy.org), a Washington, D.C.-based Public Policy Institute that fights poverty and restores dignity through messages of faith, freedom, and personal responsibility. In 1983, after first-hand experience in the grip of welfare dependency, a Christian conversion changed Ms. Parker's life. She started a business in Los Angeles and began activism after the 1992 Los Angeles riots destroyed that business. In 1993, Star began consulting with federal and state legislators on market-based strategies to fight poverty, including federal Welfare Reform that passed in the mid-90's. Thus, she founded CURE in 1995 to bring new ideas to policy discussions on how to transition America's poor from government dependency.
Ms. Parker has spent the last thirty years active in developing CURE, which umbrellas nationally recognized and esteemed policy, media and clergy centers; and in helping other organizations that impact the culture particularly for younger generations encompassing lecturers on more than 300 college campuses, including Harvard, Berkeley, Emory, Liberty, Franciscan and Pepperdine, as well as gracing the banquet platforms with her personal story from abortion to atonement for more than 300 Pregnancy Care Centers.
In addition, she has authored four books; Necessary Noise: How Donald Trump Inflames the Culture War and Why This Is Good News for America (2019); Uncle Sam's Plantation: How Big Government Enslaves America's Poor and What We Can Do About It (2003/2012), White Ghetto: How Middle-Class America Reflects Inner City Decay (2006), Pimps, Whores and Welfare Brats: From Welfare Cheat to Conservative Messenger (1997).
Today, Ms. Parker is on the board of directors and executive committee of NRB and her weekly syndicated column runs on national news platforms including Fox News, NewsMax, Epoch Times, Real Clear Politics, and in more than 100 local news outlets around the country. She is currently working closely with key national thought leaders specializing in the area of social security reform. And yes, she is working to release book five by year end, 2025.
Lawrence "Larry" Kudlow is a Fox News Media contributor where his show Kudlow airs at 4 pm ET weekdays. He is also radio host of The Larry Kudlow Show on 77WABC Radio. Mr. Kudlow served as assistant to the president for economic policy and director of the National Economic Council. He led the coordination of President Donald J. Trump's domestic and global economic policy agenda. Prior to the White House, Mr. Kudlow was a CNBC senior contributor and host of CNBC's primetime show The Kudlow Report. He also served as chief economist and senior managing director of Bear Stearns & Company.
Larry O'Connor hosts the O'Connor & Company, heard daily from 6:00 p.m. - 9:00 a.m. on WMAL FM in Washington, D.C.
He appears regularly on Fox News on Tucker Carlson Tonight, Fox News at Night with Shannon Bream, and Varney & Co., and was a regular on the cult hit Red Eye with Greg Gutfeld.
He is a senior columnist and creative director at Townhall. Prior to joining Townhall, his writing has appeared on Hot Air,The Federalist, Washington Free Beacon, IJ Review, and Andrew Breitbart's original websites, Big Hollywood, Big Government, and BreitbartTV.
Larry is married to Meredith Dake-O'Connor, and they have four children. He previously worked in management in the Broadway theatre industry.