Ned Ryun – Founder and CEO

American Majority

Ned Ryun is a grassroots and conservative activism expert. He is the founder and CEO of American Majority, a non-partisan political training institute whose mission is to identify and mold the next wave of liberty-minded candidates, grassroots activists and community leaders. Since its founding in January of 2008, while under Ryun’s leadership, American Majority has trained candidates and activists in all 50 states.

A former writer for President George W. Bush and the son of former Olympic medalist and U.S. Rep. Jim Ryun (R-KS), Ned Ryun is highly sought after for his commentary on the national political scene, grassroots engagement and the conservative movement in general. Ryun has appeared on Fox News’ “The O’Reilly Factor,” “Hannity,” “Special Report with Brett Baier,” “Your World with Neil Cavuto,” “Fox & Friends,” “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” ABC’s “World News Tonight” and has been quoted in numerous print publications including Time Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, Politico, The Washington Post, and The Washington Times. He also contributes weekly opinion pieces for American Greatness and in 2020 he was appointed to the 1776 Commission by President Donald Trump.

Prior to launching American Majority, Ryun founded and directed Generation Joshua, a civics education program for middle and high school students that reached a membership of nearly 10,000. Ryun graduated with Highest Distinction (summa cum laude) from the University of Kansas with degrees in English and History. He is the author of Restoring our Republic and The Adversaries: A Story of Boston and Bunker Hill. Together with his father and twin brother, Drew, he also authored Heroes Among Us and The Courage to Run.

Ned Ryun resides in Purcellville, Virginia, with his wife and four children.

Hayden Ludwig – Director of Policy Research

Restoration of America

Hayden Ludwig is director of research for Restoration of America, where he leads the team exposing the Left’s “dark money,” threats to election integrity, and the woke agenda. He’s authored reports on the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC), the 2020 Zuck Bucks scheme, and the Left’s get-out-the-vote machine that have been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Washington Examiner, the Federalist, Daily Caller, Breitbart, American Greatness, and other conservative outlets. He lives with his family in Chesterfield County. You can read his work at www.Restoration-News.org.

Kristen Eastlick – Senior Vice President

Capital Research Center

Kristen Eastlick serves as Senior Vice President at Capital Research Center, America’s investigative think tank. CRC investigates the groups working to influence the public policy process—the foundations, policy groups, activists, donors, and others—so the public understands which special interests are being protected. Kristen manages the team that produces CRC’s investigative research and promotes it to many interested audiences. Prior to joining the CRC team, she spent nearly 20 years at Berman and Company, a public affairs/issue advocacy firm that engages in public awareness campaigns to promote limited government, leaving as the firm’s Chief Administrative Officer. She holds a bachelor’s degree in literature and a master’s degree in political science, both from American University.

Xi Van Fleet – Author, Mao’s America

Chinese by birth; American by choice. Survivor of Mao’s Cultural Revolution. Defender of liberty.

Xi Van Fleet lived through the horrors of the Chinese Cultural Revolution as a schoolgirl. She later escaped communism and found freedom and new a life in America.
But more than 30 years later, Xi disturbingly sees signs of the same Cultural Marxism that ravaged her birth country of China threatening to destroy the America she now calls home. “Mao’s America” is her dire warning to the United States.