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1/2 @RichLowry is the editor-in-chief of National Review, a frequent panelist on NBC’s “Meet the Press” and other programs, and a featured speaker at #FreeCon Philadelphia, to be held November 17 at the Union League.
In a recent @nypost column, Lowry wrote that “Republicans have a lot of things to worry about after their catastrophic 2026 midterm, and one of them might be Jon Ossoff, the newly reelected Democratic senator from Georgia.”
“The presidential buzz had begun even before Ossoff won reelection by 18 points in purplish Georgia, and will get more intense now,” he observed. “Perhaps he doesn’t run — and the odds are probably against it — but Ossoff is exactly the kind of vehicle and message that Democrats should be looking for.”
“It will be a massive Democratic field for a 2028 nomination that looks like it’s worth having, and Ossoff has said he’s going to serve out his term. So, maybe he sits this one out on the almost always mistaken assumption that he can wait. Even if he ran, he might fizzle, but Republicans should prefer not to find out.”
To learn more about the November 17 @FreeConTalk event in Philadelphia, hosted by @NR_Institute and @MyCommonwealth , follow this thread.
In a recent @nypost column, Lowry wrote that “Republicans have a lot of things to worry about after their catastrophic 2026 midterm, and one of them might be Jon Ossoff, the newly reelected Democratic senator from Georgia.”
“The presidential buzz had begun even before Ossoff won reelection by 18 points in purplish Georgia, and will get more intense now,” he observed. “Perhaps he doesn’t run — and the odds are probably against it — but Ossoff is exactly the kind of vehicle and message that Democrats should be looking for.”
“It will be a massive Democratic field for a 2028 nomination that looks like it’s worth having, and Ossoff has said he’s going to serve out his term. So, maybe he sits this one out on the almost always mistaken assumption that he can wait. Even if he ran, he might fizzle, but Republicans should prefer not to find out.”
To learn more about the November 17 @FreeConTalk event in Philadelphia, hosted by @NR_Institute and @MyCommonwealth , follow this thread.
1/2 Jenny Clark (@ClarkRimsza) is the founder of @iheartmyschool, a former member of the Arizona Board of Education, and a featured speaker at #FreeCon Phoenix, to be held November 16.
Clark first became involved in the school choice movement after her oldest son was evaluated for dyslexia and she learned her local school district didn’t offer any special programs for such students.
“I found out about the state’s ESA program,” which provides parents with funding to customize their child’s education, Clark said. “I thought, this program is so amazing, it’s so incredible. More families need to have access to an ESA.”
At the time, the ESA program was only available to select student populations, including students with special needs. Clark became an advocate for expanding the ESA program to make every student eligible.
In 2022, Arizona became the first state to enact a fully universal school choice program. “Jenny was a huge part of that,” said @Jenna__Bentley, the @Goldwaterinst’s director of government affairs and another featured speaker at FreeCon Phoenix. “It truly was a full-circle moment.”
Now that critics of educational freedom control the governorship and both chambers of the Arizona legislature, this pivotal conservative accomplishment is endangered, as Clark, Bentley, and other FreeCon Phoenix speakers will discuss. To learn more about the @FreeConTalk event on November 16, check the comments.
Clark first became involved in the school choice movement after her oldest son was evaluated for dyslexia and she learned her local school district didn’t offer any special programs for such students.
“I found out about the state’s ESA program,” which provides parents with funding to customize their child’s education, Clark said. “I thought, this program is so amazing, it’s so incredible. More families need to have access to an ESA.”
At the time, the ESA program was only available to select student populations, including students with special needs. Clark became an advocate for expanding the ESA program to make every student eligible.
In 2022, Arizona became the first state to enact a fully universal school choice program. “Jenny was a huge part of that,” said @Jenna__Bentley, the @Goldwaterinst’s director of government affairs and another featured speaker at FreeCon Phoenix. “It truly was a full-circle moment.”
Now that critics of educational freedom control the governorship and both chambers of the Arizona legislature, this pivotal conservative accomplishment is endangered, as Clark, Bentley, and other FreeCon Phoenix speakers will discuss. To learn more about the @FreeConTalk event on November 16, check the comments.
1/2 At @NRO, @FreeConTalk co-founder @JohnHoodNC identified the Trump administration’s foolish policies on trade, and the inevitable corruption associated with them, as key explanations for the Democratic victories of 2026.
“More than a decade ago, populist activists described the conservative movement they sought to displace as ideologically moribund and the American right’s primary electoral vehicle, the Republican Party, as politically inept,” Hood wrote. “The GOP establishment, they argued at the time, seemed content to be the Washington Generals to the left’s Harlem Globetrotters, perpetual losers in a game rigged against middle America.
“Well, if yesterday’s Republicans were the Washington Generals, today’s Republicans are the Washington Corporals.” #FreeCon
“More than a decade ago, populist activists described the conservative movement they sought to displace as ideologically moribund and the American right’s primary electoral vehicle, the Republican Party, as politically inept,” Hood wrote. “The GOP establishment, they argued at the time, seemed content to be the Washington Generals to the left’s Harlem Globetrotters, perpetual losers in a game rigged against middle America.
“Well, if yesterday’s Republicans were the Washington Generals, today’s Republicans are the Washington Corporals.” #FreeCon
1/2 In an interview with @RCPolitics, @FreeConTalk signatory @TimChapman of @AmericanFreedom predicted that “Democrats will overreach on what they think their mandate is, and that’s exactly what Trump did”
“Trump thought his mandate was to run the country from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue to not include Congress, to adopt nationalist populist economic proposals, to adopt a foreign policy that was on again off again at the whims of Trump. The beatings will continue for both parties until one party accepts some level of humility about what they’ve actually been elected to do.”
“You’re entering an environment where Republicans are going to have to scramble to rethink what they stand for as a party and rethink what their movement is all about. They’re going to have to recover some muscle memory about how to be legislative entrepreneurs themselves and how to actually propose solutions that address the problems that the American people face. And if they don’t do that, then the pain will continue.”
Link in the comments. #FreeCon
“Trump thought his mandate was to run the country from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue to not include Congress, to adopt nationalist populist economic proposals, to adopt a foreign policy that was on again off again at the whims of Trump. The beatings will continue for both parties until one party accepts some level of humility about what they’ve actually been elected to do.”
“You’re entering an environment where Republicans are going to have to scramble to rethink what they stand for as a party and rethink what their movement is all about. They’re going to have to recover some muscle memory about how to be legislative entrepreneurs themselves and how to actually propose solutions that address the problems that the American people face. And if they don’t do that, then the pain will continue.”
Link in the comments. #FreeCon
