Pamela Geller is the founder, editor and publisher of AtlasShrugs.com, bringing you the news you will not hear from the mainstream media, providing original reportage, covering little-reported events of great import, and giving an unblinkingly honest examination of global affairs. She is also the executive director of Freedom Defense Initiative (FDI)/Stop Islamization of America (SIOA), and is a regular columnist for Andrew Breitbart’s Big Government and Big Journalism, the American Thinker, and other publications. Geller is the author of...
William Martin is a young black urban conservative male and founder of the newly formed urbanfreedomcoalition.com. He comes from a family of hardcore Democrats and has used the glaring examples of the Obama Administration’s overreaching to slowly but surely convert most of his family and friends to conservatives. Martin, a 26-year-old urban black male, is a broker and small business owner with experience in many fields since 2004. He is a family man with two sons, aged 4 and 1. He attended Lehigh University from 2002-2005 majoring in Sociology,...
Reprinted from Moment Magazine, October 2010 by Niv Elis “There’s a notion out there that the Tea Party is racist, anti-Semitic, anti-Muslim,” says David Spielman, the Campaign Coordinator for the Tea Party organization FreedomWorks. “And nothing can be further from the truth.” FreedomWorks is one of the groups actively recruiting Jews to its ranks, hoping to diversify its membership. The initiative, called KosherTea (part of the larger DiverseTea program), uses media, advertisements in Jewish publications, and personal outreach through...
Sakina Mengle is a long time resident of the Bethesda/Rockville, Maryland area. She is a black woman and a registered Democrat, although she has voted across party lines. She started to pay close attention to the 2008 Presidential election because of the first serious African American candidate. She was excited about Barack Obama and making history. However, she began to read, listen, and truly understand his politics, and to her surprise she was extremely disappointed. Mengle is an average voter. She works in a hospital. She has some college education....
Sasha Gong is a historian, a sociologist, and a writer. She was a political prisoner in the 1970s, spending a year in a Chinese jail for voicing dissent. She came to the United States in 1987 to seek freedom and studied at Harvard and obtained her PhD. Sasha ran for the Virginia House of Delegates in 2009. She is a proud Tea Partier because she doesn’t want to see America go down the road toward socialism, a system she has first-hand knowledge of. She wrote her experiences and thoughts in her book “Born American: A Chinese Woman’s Dream of...
Jeff Jones is Welsh, Italian, Irish and German. He is a Tea Partier and a true conservative who supported Ron Paul for President and is dedicated to defeating politicians who want increased spending at the Pentagon and more wars, which have contributed immensely to our $14 trillion debt. Jeff Jones is a U.S. Army veteran who served from 1990 to 1993. He works in supply chain management of industrial products and his hobbies include playing guitar, running, and political activism. Jones’ political heroes are Dr. Ron Paul, President Reagan,...
Provi Ortiz arrived in Massachusetts from Puerto Rico at the age of 5 along with 12 siblings. Her family did not speak English, which caused several of her older siblings to quit school and work in factories along with her parents. Having received very little education themselves, her parents did not understand the benefit of encouraging their kids to stay in school when there were so many mouths to feed. As one of the youngest children, Ortiz was able to attend school during her formative years and learned that she wanted to do something special...
Walter Backstrom was born in Los Angeles California, and was raised and shaped by his experiences there. After high school he went to the University of California at Berkeley and graduated from there. He then attended the University of Oregon where he received his Masters Degree. While most of Backstrom’s peers turned leftward in their politics, he had a life changing experience that sent him rightward. In his book, “No Excuses: Lessons learned on my way to the outhouse,” he recounts that experience along with many others. As a member...
Recently profiled on the cover of the Wall St. Journal, the Washington Times, Townhall, Newsmax, and on FOX News, Jon “David” Kahn spent much of last year performing his song “American Heart” at Tea Parties from Quincy to Nashville to DC. Governor Sarah Palin called it “an amazing love song for America.” As a produced screenwriter/director, singer, and songwriter hailing from Hollywood, he performed using a pseudonym and donned a hat and sunglasses to avoid the liberal bias toward Conservatives that is so prevalent...
Debbie Bornstein Muñoz is a self-described “Tea Partying Yiddishe Mama” and small business woman who owns a construction company with her husband Tito Muñoz. Debbie never misses a D.C. Tea Party and helped run “The Take The Town Halls To Washington” War Room on Capitol Hill during the HealthCare (she calls it Health-SCARE) vote. A devout Conservative Jewish activist and mother of two, Debbie believes the policies of Obama’s Administration are directly opposed to her religious and moral beliefs for herself and her family. Debbie...
Leonid Kelner was born in the former Soviet Union in 1939. He was educated in engineering and physics in Moscow (M.Sc. and Ph.D.). From his youth he understood and objected to the Soviet system of central control, oppression of opposing views and lack of religious freedom. In 1972 he immigrated to Israel where he worked at the Weizmann Institute and served in the Israeli Army as a reservist. At the end of 1975 he was offered a job at the Research Triangle Institute in North Carolina, which he started in January of 1976. He then worked at the...
Bob Parks has over 30 years as a graphic designer and over 20 in print journalism, television and radio. Bob started his career in 1985 as a Navy journalist for his carrier (USS Midway, CV-41) publications. In 1989, after a brief investigative reporter stint with the Guam Tribune, Bob progressed into television in 1990 as a graphic designer for the Fox Broadcasting Company (and other post-production facilities) in Hollywood. He became an online columnist in 2002 for Men’s News Daily, and has since written for websites like the New Media Journal,...
Reverend Bryant’s political activism started at the tax day Tea Party rally in Bossier City, Louisiana. Although he was not a scheduled speaker, once given the opportunity to speak he quickly became the crowd’s favorite and has been a vital part of the Tea Party movement ever since. When not speaking at Tea Party rallies, Reverend Bryant leads his congregation at the Cedar Hill Baptist Church. C.L. Bryant is a native of Shreveport, LA. As the son of a WWII Veteran, L.C. Bryant and Elnola Bryant, C.L.’s roots run deep into the Cane River...
Tito Muñoz is a construction company owner and the founder of the Conservative Hispanic Coalition. He is also the executive producer and conservative talk show host of “America Eres TU” (America Is You) on Radio VIVA 900AM, a call-in show in Spanish with a mission to spread the truth about conservative values and the dangers of socialism nationally and internationally. “America Eres TU” is also available on Ustream. Read about Tito on Fox News Latino: A New Flavor for the Tea Party: Hispanic
Deneen Borelli is a Fellow with Project 21, a network of black conservatives which is an initiative of The National Center for Public Policy Research, a national public policy group based in Washington, D.C. She is also a FreedomWorks fellow and can often be seen on Fox News shows and other networks speaking out on behalf of personal responsibility and the benefits of free market policies as a means for social advancement. Deneen serves as an official contributor on the Fox News Channel programs and has appeared on FNC programs such as “Glenn...
Ryan Hecker is a Houston-based lawyer who recently launched the “Contract FROM America” project. Hundreds of thousands of people voted for their favorite principles online to create the Contract as an open-sourced platform for the Tea Party movement. The agenda had the imprint of everyday citizens every step of the way. While the Republicans’ 1994 Contract with America represented the nation’s last intellectual economic conservative movement, the new Contract was created from the bottom up. Find out more at www.ContractFromAmerica.com.
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