Here’s What I Want For My Birthday
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | June 3rd at 12:11 PM |
It is the Erick Erickson Annual Birthday post. I am 36. Here is what I want for my birthday: Donations to the Salvation Army to help them help others. Donations to Mike Pence’s gubernatorial campaign. Campaign contributions to any of the following Senate cadidates: Ted Cruz Jeff Flake Adam Hasner John Sanchez Don Stenberg And anything you can gift to one of these four organizations | Read More »
Introducing the New Leaders Project From American Majority
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | May 18th at 04:49 PM |
There are two authentically grassroots activist groups right now that I will go to mats for: American Majority and Heritage Action for America. In fact, they are two of the four political groups in America today I proudly, personally support without any hesitation — the other two being the Club for Growth and Senate Conservatives Fund. And American Majority is rolling out its New Leaders | Read More »
Metrics of Success
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | December 3rd at 09:35 AM |
I sent out a fundraising pitch the other day to the RedState email list on behalf of American Majority. It was my pleasure to do so and I want to share it here with you. American Majority has real metrics of success this past year and I am quite proud of them. With campaign season over, it is time to get ready for the next | Read More »
Tea Party Movement 2.0
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | April 14th at 12:01 PM |
“[T]o change the paradigms, to … blow them up, we must get involved in the existing processes of politics and government, not create something new to compete.” House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer admits the tea party movement is getting members of Congress to thing about retiring. Most excellent. And that is what the movement should be about, more or less, but there is much more | Read More »
Beyond the Parties, the Post Party Summits
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | April 7th at 12:42 PM |
Back in 1994, when the Republicans swept Congress, one of the downsides of the massive victory was the emptying out of the state houses and local bodies. Lots of people went to Congress leaving a void back home where the ambitious, but not necessarily the conservative candidate, filled the void. “American Majority intends to teach you how to get involved in politics through Post Party | Read More »
Post Party Summits
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | February 25th at 11:41 AM |
American Majority is one of the groups I heartily endorse every chance I get. It is not Democrat. It is not Republican. It is conservative. American Majority is committed to training people to run not for Congress, but for local office — farm team building. These guys are terrific and their training is the best I’ve seen in a very long time. Then there is | Read More »
American Majority
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | January 12th at 11:34 AM |
There are a lot of groups out there these days trying to get off the ground purported doing the Lord’s work for the advancement of freedom. Not all of them make it. Some of them are questionable. I pray very hard these days for God to give me some sense of discernment between the groups worth standing on the bridge with and those not worth | Read More »