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An enactment moving to beforehand the "America First" docket has agreed a divers conjugation of blimpish groups to combat unneurotic "against the extremist left's utmost positions and agenda" up of the 2024 statesmanlike election.
Led by America First Works, a 501c4 that's intimately aligned with the America First Policy Institute (AFPI) and promotes an "America First" docket done argumentation and legislation, the conjugation was constructed earlier this period during a gathering successful the nation's capital, wherever a pledge to enactment unneurotic was signed.
"On April 3rd, America First Works hosted a gathering astatine the Willard Hotel, which is historical successful and of itself – Martin Luther King refined his code [there], Abraham Lincoln was determination – and brought unneurotic implicit 50 organizations, implicit 100 people, to conscionable beryllium down and sermon however we tin champion enactment together," Ashley Hayek, who serves arsenic the enforcement manager astatine America First Works and the main engagement serviceman astatine America First Policy Institute, told Fox News Digital astir the "historic" meeting.
"For the archetypal clip since Reagan's presidency, [we brought] each of the groups unneurotic to enactment unneurotic and to perpetrate that we would coordinate moving forward, whether it's early ballot oregon ballot harvesting wherever it's legal, mobilization, [or] predetermination integrity," she added.
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Ashley Hayek, enforcement manager astatine America First Works and main engagement serviceman astatine America First Policy Institute. (Getty Images)
Titled "United We Win," the pledge was signed by dozens of conservative groups with wide-ranging interests who stock communal goals: To reclaim "our nation's narrative," to "win the argument" up of the statesmanlike election, and "saving America."
Those who signed the pledge vowed to "work unneurotic arsenic ne'er before" arsenic they "harness our corporate resources, wisdom, and vigor to amended similar ne'er before, to turn our conjugation with unwavering dedication, and to beforehand blimpish solutions that volition steer our state backmost toward prosperity, security, and freedom."
"Our ngo is clear: reclaim our nation's narrative, triumph the argument, clasp our elected officials accountable, and statesman the enactment of healing and rebuilding," the pledge reads. "Each subordinate enactment promises to lend afloat towards our shared goal. We volition harvester our energies, budgets, and abilities, leaving nary chromatic unturned, nary assets untapped, and nary national unengaged."
Celebrating the diversity of the groups that pledged their support, Hayek insisted this was the "first step" successful ensuring a palmy predetermination year.
"You person Rebecca Weber, the CEO of AMAC [Association of Mature American Citizens]. It's a radical precise akin to AARP, but for blimpish seniors. You person groups similar Ralph Reed's Faith and Freedom Coalition, who are mobilizing crossed the country. You besides person groups similar Bienvenido that focuses connected Hispanic outreach," she said.
"This was the archetypal measurement successful bringing everyone unneurotic and to person conversations astir what this twelvemonth looks like, however we reclaim the narrative, however we triumph messaging, however we propulsion backmost unneurotic against the extremist left's utmost positions and agenda," Hayek added.
Other groups that attended the gathering and signed onto the pledge, Hayek said, included Tea Party Patriots Action and Turning Point Action.
"All of our groups person antithetic missions that are precise unique, but we each person the aforesaid extremity of wanting to marque America archetypal and to prevention our country," Hayek said. "Making definite that we are each talking together, moving together, knowing what each radical is doing, is truly the archetypal step. That was accomplished by signing that pledge and committing to each different that we volition unite similar we person ne'er agreed before."
Pointing to aboriginal voting efforts that are being championed by the coalition, Hayek highlighted the information that "life happens" and noted that immoderate circumstances whitethorn forestall radical successful definite areas of the state from getting to the polls connected Election Day.
Hayek noted that immoderate circumstances whitethorn forestall radical successful definite areas of the state from getting to the polls connected Election Day. (Paul J. Richards/AFP via Getty Images)
"If you look astatine what conscionable precocious happened successful New York successful this peculiar election, you had a snowstorm. Those that did not ballot aboriginal were not capable to perchance formed their ballot. You look astatine what happened successful Reno successful 2022 – and it's a precise important Senate race – determination was a freak snowstorm that came done and radical were not capable to formed their ballot," she said. "While I deliberation astir of america hold that determination should beryllium Election Day only, nary message ballots, 1 vote, 1 person, implicit wide regularisation of the instrumentality voting, that's not reality.... We request to usage each instrumentality imaginable to scope voters, and get radical to ballot early."
Hayek noted that conservatives should beryllium taking vantage of mailing successful their ballots aboriginal successful states wherever it's permitted, arsenic she stressed the value of "getting caught up with the times, modernizing our tactics, moving together, and turning retired the vote."
"Conservatives and the America First movement, we are connected the close broadside of policies. We are for families, we are for hardworking Americans, we person argumentation plans that alteration hearts and minds. We really saw that successful 2022.… We saw historical numbers, increases successful Black Americans, Hispanic Americans, suburban women who supported blimpish causes," Hayek said. "Now we conscionable request to instrumentality the tactics to marque definite we're turning retired our votes successful the close places truthful that we tin prevention our country."
Hayek besides spoke concisely astir the AFPI's Pathway to 2025 initiative, which she described arsenic a "five pillar plan" that's "really simple."
She said the effort, which is being led by erstwhile New York GOP Rep. Lee Zeldin, is astir "messaging and data, it's unifying the movement, it's task 19, focusing connected the counties that we judge volition yet find the adjacent election, it's our ballot harvesting and elector mobilization, and then, of course, time 1 of what a caller medication looks like."
"By the way, the time 1 of the caller administration, that's not conscionable a White House. It's besides successful our states… however we tin we person a large interaction astatine adjacent astatine the schoolhouse committee level," she added.
Asked astir the program and however it would enactment arsenic acold arsenic the replacement of definite individuals oregon groups who are already a portion of the government, Hayek said, "That squad has assembled implicit 600 volunteers that person done heavy dives into each 1 of the departments to find champion practices, truthful they tin deed the crushed moving connected time 1 of a caller administration."
A elector casts her ballot astatine a polling presumption connected Election Day successful Falls Church, Virginia, connected Nov. 7, 2023. (Reuters/Kevin Lamarque)
"That enactment is truthful important due to the fact that it's thing that the near has done incredibly good and thing that, arsenic conservatives, we tin bash truthful overmuch better," she said.
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Recognizing that the "conservative question has been outspent," Hayek said she's assured "we volition not beryllium outsmarted."
"Right now, it's precise wide that the America First movement, the blimpish movement, is focused," she added. "They're dedicated to moving together."
Kyle Morris covers authorities for Fox News. Story tips tin beryllium sent via email and connected X: @RealKyleMorris.
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