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A Fox News host sent a dire warning to President Donald Trump and the rest of the Republican Party, saying that time is running out to avert disastrous losses in the forthcoming midterms.

During the Tuesday evening edition of her show, The Ingraham Angle, Fox host Laura Ingraham sent a "blunt" message to the president, as noted by The Daily Beast, warning him that the GOP's majorities in both the House and the Senate are at risk in November. This came during a discussion with her guest, American Majority PAC CEO Ned Ryun, who worried that the party was "whistling past the graveyard" as it disregarded the potential for certain red stronghold states to flip Democratic in the midterms.

"I think Republicans are kind of whistling past the graveyard on some of these Senate seats that they thought were safe,” Ryun said. “We got to kick it into gear over these next 10 weeks, or we are looking at not only the House but also the Senate as well."

Among the at-risk red states, according to Ryun, are South Carolina, Alaska, Nebraska and Ohio, with surprise losses in just a few of those states putting the Senate majority in serious jeopardy for the GOP. Ingraham added that she is also worried about the race in Iowa for retiring Sen. Joni Ernst's seat, set to be contested between Republican Rep. Ashley Hinson and Democratic state Rep. Josh Turek.

"I think there are a number of states that Republicans better get their act together. Iowa is one of them," she said.

"The Senate is thumbing their nose at the base over the SAVE America Act," Ryun added. "Gas is $4.10 a gallon. You know, they’re not seeing a lot of the things they voted for. The Iran war is killing us."

"Trump still considers himself an electoral asset and according to a report in The Atlantic, intends to put himself front and center in last-minute midterm campaigning," The Daily Beast added in its report about Ingraham's warning. "But Trump’s approval ratings are at historically low levels, with a Reuters/Ipsos poll putting him at 33 percent as his unpopular war on Iran sends gas prices higher at the pumps."

This cratering approval has some Republicans scrambling to get some distance between themselves and the president, especially on issues of deeper importance to their particular states. Hinson, for example, recently broke with Trump on the announcement that he would be allowing 300,000 of imported beef into the U.S. without a tariff to try and address soaring costs, causing much frustration among American cattle farmers.

"We need to focus on affordability, but I think this isn’t the way to do that," Hinson said during a recent appearance on Fox's Sunday Morning Futures.

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American Majority - SourceWatch

As of July 2024, Ned Ryun is still formally involved with the organization, serving as AM's CEO. American Majority Action (AMA) is the 501 (c) (4) arm of American Majority, and therefore "can engage in more politically tinged activities." [4] On its 2020 IRS filing, American Majority claimed to have "conducted training for 3,998 participants." [5]

News and Controversies

Activities

Ties to The Bradley Foundation

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Ned Ryun and American Majority | Light Beer Dark Money

Chris and Sean interview Ned Ryun, the founder of American Majority - a grassroots organization committed to training candidates and activists to win elections.

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CfA Calls on IRS and State Agencies to Investigate Ned Ryun and ...

Today, Campaign for Accountability submitted a complaint to the IRS, the Wisconsin Department of Financial Institutions, and the Office of the Attorney General of California calling for an investigation into whether the 501 (c) (3) nonprofit American Majority Inc (AM) and its related 501 (c) (4), American Majority Action Inc (AMA), violated their tax exempt status and federal and state laws by ...

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Ned Ryun - Wikipedia

Ned Ryun is an American conservative activist who is the founder and CEO of American Majority, a conservative organization that trains candidates and activists.

American Majority

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Ned Ryun - 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.

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American Majority is a conservative 501 (c) (3) nonprofit political training organization that, according to its website, is "the nation's premier conservative training organization, helping put in place a truly unique, separate political infrastructure—for use before, during and after election dates." [1] Ned Ryun founded the organization in 2008. [2] The group is affiliated with American ...

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Ned Ryun and American Majority - Light Beer Dark Money

Chris and Sean interview Ned Ryun, the founder of American Majority - a grassroots organization committed to training candidates and activists to win elections. Ned explains the importance of organizing at the local level and why Republicans must expand their universe of early voters and do everything they can to get those votes returned.

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Ned Ryun, Founder and CEO - American Majority Action

Ned is the founder and CEO of American Majority Action, as well as its sister organization, American Majority. He has co-authored two books with his brother Drew Ryun: The Courage to Run and Heroes Among Us. Ryun and his wife, Becca Parker Ryun, currently live in Purcellville, Virginia with their four children.

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Our Team - American Majority Action

Ned Ryun is a grassroots and conservative activism expert. He is the founder and CEO of American Majority Action. 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 Tea Party politics, the national political scene, grassroots engagement and the conservative movement in general ...

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American Majority Action(AMA) is aTea Party-affiliated501(c)(4)nonprofit"dedicated to helping the grassroots compete against career politicians and a political establishment organized against new participation."Its organizational statement is, "We believe in the free market, American individualism and the belief that when American citizens engage in the political arena, real change happens. To that end, AMA provides resources, trainings, and guidance to organizations and individuals around the country."[1]It is the arm of the closely relatedAmerican Majoritygroup that "can engage in more politically tinged activities."[2]AMA presidentDrew Ryunsaid of the group, "We are excited to have the chance to partner with Tea Parties and 912 organizations across the United States."[3]

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Campaign Funding & Electioneering

According to theSunlight Foundation, AMA spent $140,249.68 in the2010elections to support 18 Republicans (including U.S. Rep.Sean P. Duffy(R-Wis.) and Wis. Sen.Dan Kapanke(R), currently the subject of a recall campaign, in his campaign to represent Wisconsin district 3 in the U.S. House) and oppose one Democrat. "This data includes electioneering communications, which are broadcast communications not otherwise reported as independent expenditures."[4]

The Center for Responsive Politics' OpenSecrets.org reported a grand total of $158,370 in independent expenditures by AMA in the 2010 Federal elections, not including electioneering communications.[5]

Staff

The President of AMA is Drew Ryun, twin brother of American Majority leader Ned Ryun and "former Deputy Director in the political division at the Republican National Committee during the 2004 election cycle."[6]

Anita MonCrief,ACORNwhistleblower, is also on the staff. Her background is at odds with that of her coworkers at AMA and its sister groupAmerican Majority. Prior to accusingACORN's affiliate Project Vote of "rampant voter fraud" in 2008, she was employed in the Strategic Writing and Research Department ofACORNPolitical Operations. Before that, she "worked with theAmerican Bar Association’s Central European and Eurasian Law Initiative (ABA CEELI), theInternational Crisis Group, theGrameen FoundationandAmerican Rights at Work. MonCrief has partnered with the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe on their mission to Macedonia as an election observer."[7]MonCrief is now a regular contributor to conservative blogs such as "Big Government, Hot Air, NetRight Daily, RedState [and] NewsReal Blog."[8]She is also "the National Spokesperson forAmerican Majorityand the Editor-in-Chief of a new website,Emerging Corruption."[9]

The Missouri Field Director is Raz Shafer.[10] Shafer is also the North Texas Field Representative for American Majority.[11]

The Pennsylvania Field Director is Martin Gillespie, "a former staffer for the Republican National Committee."[12]

Activities

Voter Fraud App

AMA partnered withFreedom Speaks LLC in 2010 to create a "Voter Fraud App" for iPhone, Blackberry and Android phones "to help identify, report and track suspected incidents of voter fraud and intimidation.... Reports are sent to election officials," specifically they areforwarded "to the respective secretary of states and election officials at the local level."[13][14] It features "Over 10 Issue Report Types":

AMA's Voter Fraud App FAQ page also contains the following:

"Can I enter a service request/report without taking a picture? Currently the mobile app requires a picture, however you can report issues from VoterFraudApp.com without one."[17]

Abe Sauer pointed out in a blog post on The Awl,

"In most states, election officials frown on picture taking at polling places. In 13 states they have prohibited it. Seven states actually have state laws making such photography illegal. For instance, just listen to the unambiguous language of California Election Code § 18541: 'No person shall... within 100 feet of a polling place... photograph, videotape, or otherwise record a voter entering or exiting a polling place.' How about Florida's 102.031(5): 'No photography is permitted in the polling room or early voting area.' "Or Texas (§ 61.013): 'A person may not use a wireless communication device within 100 ft. of a voting station' and 'A person may not use any mechanical or electronic means of recording images or sound within 100 feet of a voting station.'"[18]

It is unknown, after a media search, whether the app was used to report any alleged voter fraud in the 2010 elections.

Funding

AMA does not disclose its donors,[19] but "over 75% of the funding for American Majority... comes from the Sam Adams Alliance."[20] The Chairman and CEO of the Sam Adams Alliance, Eric O'Keefe, sits on the board of the Institute for Humane Studies, which is funded by the Koch Family Foundations.

Contact Information

There is no contact information listed on the organization website beyond a web contact form, but according to the AMA blog, in the lead-up to the 2010 elections "Liberty Headquarters" were Ohio, Pennsylvania, Missouri and Wisconsin.[21] Some of the headquarters locations are:

1802 W. 32nd St. Joplin, MO 64804[22]

4512 Hampton Avenue St. Louis, MO 63119[23]

4986 Gateway Drive, Ste. 206 Medina, OH 44256[24]

8902 Beckett Road West Chester Township, OH 45069[25]

15 Clemens Road Doylestown, PA 18901[26]

It is unknown whether any of these addresses are still occupied by AMA.

Articles and resources

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American Majority is a 501(c)(3) right-wing nonprofit political training group established in January, 2008 that "trains and equips a national network of leadership committed to individual freedom through limited government and the free market." Its goal is to train budding Tea Party candidates to run for school board, city council or state senate seats in local areas around the U.S., with the hopes that they will eventually run for Congress. The group's strategy is to raise up a "national farm team of conservative leaders." Ned Ryun, one of the group's founders, says "Today’s county commissioner, tomorrow’s congressman. You’ve got to feed the system." Founders, Drew and Ned Ryun are the sons of former Kansas Republican Representative Jim Ryun, who served in the House of Representatives for 10 years. Drew Ryun was a deputy director at the Republican National Committee, and Ned was a writer in the George W. Bush White House.[1]

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Media Trackers

According to Politico, American Majority sponsors **Media Trackers**, an investigative non-profit that launched in January 2011 in Wisconsin, which "has gotten considerable in-state pick-up on quick-hit videos and pieces aimed at what it says are errors, hypocrisy or offensive behavior by labor unions and their Democratic allies."[2] According to Mother Jones, Ryun formed Media Trackers as a "nimble attack blog .. . that could quickly capitalize on the latest missteps by big-government politicians or the "liberal" media -- essentially hard-hitting, opposition-research-style shops that prize scoops, speed, and scandal over policy briefs and press conferences."[3]

But Media Trackers has a history of "mangl[ing] the truth,"according to Mother Jones and such media outlets as PolitiFact and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: An "exclusive" that "a labor-backed progressive group had violated Wisconsin state law by handing out free BBQ to Milwaukee residents in exchange for pledges to vote early in a closely fought state Senate recall election . . . turned out to be dead wrong; the DA found no evidence of wrongdoing." In November 2011, "in another splashy post that was quickly amplified by the right-wing blogosphere, Media Trackers' Wisconsin outlet claimed there were 'no privacy protections' for people who signed a recall petition to recall Walker, leaving them open to harassment and abuse.PolitiFact rated the claim 'Mostly False,' and noted that Media Trackers had given no evidence that harassment was taking place.[4]" And in March 2012, "soon after the Wisconsin Judicial Commission filed an ethics complaint against conservative state Supreme Court Justice David Prosser, Media Trackers published a story claiming four of the commission's nine members had signed Walker recall petitions. In fact, none had.[5]"[3]

According to Mother Jones, "After seeing Media Trackers in action, its anonymous donors shelled out enough fresh cash for Ryun to expand into Colorado, Florida, Montana, and Ohio."[3] Indeed, Media Trackers announced its expansion into Colorado and Montana with two similar press releases on May 9, 2012.[6][7] Media Trackers Florida and Ohio seem to have been started in a slightly earlier wave, with organizational "about" pages on each of their websites dated March 16, 2012.[8][9]

Personnel and their activities

Eric O’Keefe, who helps lead American Majority, has been a Koch aide and conservative operative who attends and also helps lead Koch strategy meetings.[10][11]

Austin James, another American Majority official,[12] was filmedteaching Tea Party members to spam Amazon.com profiles of liberal books with negative comments,while admitting he did not read any of the books that he commented on. A YouTube clip shows Austin James of American Majority training tea party activists on guerrilla internet tactics to "control the online dialogue." The footage was shot at the2009 American Liberty Tour,run by libertarian groups tied to real-estate mogul and Koch associate Howie Rich. The clip is taken from a section of the film showing how libertarian/free-market groups are recruiting tea party protesters to become activists for their cause.[13] [14]

Regional personnel also include Matt Batzel (who opened the Wisconsin office)[15] and Brett Farley (of the Oklahoma office)[16], who ran an activist training session in New Richmond, Wisconsin on April 9, 2011, hosted by Annette Olson of Uninfringed Liberty and Women United for Liberty. "Batzel said the demand for American Majority’s training has grown tremendously since the civil unrest began in Madison.... Saturday’s training session in New Richmond was the first of seven 'Instant Activism' seminars planned across the state in April" and May 2011.[17][18]

Goals and activities

The American Majority states that its goal is to "build a nationalnetwork of leaders and grassroots advocates who aspire to increase freedom for individuals and freedom in the marketplace." Its headquarters are in Purcellville, Virginia, and the organization has state affiliates in Arkansas, Kansas, Louisiana, Minnesota, Oklahoma, Texas and Wisconsin (their newest) and plans to open more offices in 2011.[19]

American Majority is involved in organizing protest and the health care "Recess Rallies" occurring in August 2009 in House districts. They also participate inTea Partyrallies, such as an April 15, 2011 rally in Tampa at which "Ken Mayo of American Majority encouraged the crowd to get involved in local elections and stop in-party fighting before the 2012 Republican presidential primary."[20]

Kenneth P. Vogel of Politico.com credited the organization with providing "deep-pocketed backing" of groups involved in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race in 2011, and grouped them with theTea Party Express.[21]

American Majority works with Michelle Malkin, RedState.com, American Liberty Alliance, Smart Girl Politics, Americans for Limited Government, FreedomWorks, the Sam Adams Alliance and other groups to organize opposition to health care reform. [22]

Funding

According to a 2010 article in AlterNet, and Ned Ryun himself, over75% of the funding for American Majority comes from the Sam Adams Alliance. In 2008, the year in which American Majority was founded, 88% of the alliance’s money came from a single donation of $3.7 million.[23][24]

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Activism

The American Majority organization encourages followers to:

Examples of their political training programs

In April 2011, the Wisconsin planned "seven 'Instant Activism' seminars... across the state," the first taking place in New Richmond, Wisconsin on April 9, 2011, attended by State Rep. Dean Knudson (R-Hudson) as well as local American Majority personnel and representatives of other local conservative activist groups.[27] American Majority's Matt Batzel explained, "We do the training in a non-partisan way.... We want to help organizations achieve their political goals. The training sessions have been very well received.”[28]

Brett Farley, executive director of the Oklahoma office, said with regard to the 2011 local Tulsa election, "We intend to play a role in the Tulsa election.... I don't think there's going to be anything like this again in our lifetimes." The Oklahoma affiliate claims to have "trained more than 125 candidates last year, including state Sen. Josh Brecheen, R-Olney, and state schools Superintendent Janet Barresi."[29]

Shaping online content and discussions

According to George Monbiot, in the film (Astro)Turf Wars, Taki Oldham secretly recorded a training session organized by American Majority. The trainer, Austin James, was instructing Tea Party members on how to “manipulate the medium” of the Internet: “Here’s what I do. I get on Amazon; I type in “Liberal Books”. I go through and I say “one star, one star, one star”. The flipside is you go to a conservative/ libertarian whatever, go to their products and give them five stars. … This is where your kids get information:Rotten Tomatoes, Flixster. These are places where you can rate movies. So when you type in “Movies on Healthcare”, I don’t want Michael Moore’s to come up, so I always give it bad ratings. I spend about 30 minutes a day, just click, click, click, click. … If there’s a place to comment, a place to rate, a place to share information, you have to do it. That’s how you control the online dialogue and give our ideas a fighting chance.”[23]

Mobile application to identify voter fraud

They have created an application for use on a cell phone to identify voter fraud at polling places. They "created the nation's first mobile application to help identify, report and track suspected incidents of voter fraud and intimidation. This free, cutting edge system will enable voters to take action to help defend their right to vote."[30]

Personnel

Contact details

P.O. Box 87

Purcellville, Virginia 20134

Phone: 540-338-1251

Fax: 540-338-2326

Email: info AT americanmajority.org

Website: http://americanmajority.org

Articles and resources

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References

  1. ↑ Alex Pappas American Majority Wants to Infuse New Tea Party Blood in System, The Daily Caller, December 21, 2010
  2. ↑ Kenneth P. Vogel, Right seeks edge in opposition wars, Politico.com, April 3, 2011
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Andy Kroll, Media Trackers, the Right's New Oppo-Research Attack Dog, Mother Jones, May 21, 2012
  4. ↑ Conservative group says signers of petitions to recall Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker are at risk, PolitiFact, November 17, 2011
  5. ↑ Daniel Bice, Charges against Judicial Commission fall apart, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, March 24, 2012
  6. ↑ Media Trackers Colorado, MEDIA TRACKERS: CO SENATE DEMS SHILLING FOR OBAMACARE WITH UNION BILL, organizational press release, May 9, 2012
  7. ↑ Media Trackers Montana, Media Trackers: Taxpayers take $3 Million Loss in Sale of Story Mansion to Org Led by Former City Planner Epple, organizational press release, May 9, 2012
  8. ↑ Media Trackers Florida, About, organizational website, March 16, 2012, accessed May 2012
  9. ↑ Media Trackers Ohio, About, organizational website, March 16, 2012, accessed May 2012
  10. ↑ "Proud American," (The 9-12 Project) A Recap of the American Majority Post-Party Summit in Kansas City, accessed February 18, 2011
  11. ↑ Lee Fang Koch Industries Slashed WI Jobs, Helped Elect Scott Walker, Now Orchestrating Pro-Walker Protest, ThinkProgress.org, February 18, 2011
  12. ↑ American Majority Staff, organizational Web site, accessed February 18, 2011
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