Panel Discussion: Why Fight City Hall When You Can Be City Hall?
In this panel discussion hosted by Cowboy State Politics host David Iverson at the 2026 JBS Conference in Salt Lake City, congressional candidate and former Utah Representative Phil Lyman; former Wisconsin Representative Ty Bodden; Montana Senator Theresa Manzella; former Madison County, Montana, Commissioner Dan Happel; and Newberry, Florida, Mayor Tim Marden discuss the importance of getting involved in local and state politics. The panelists answer questions such as how a candidate can stay true to their principles while still winning, how newly elected officials can avoid getting absorbed into the Establishment, and why local government is so important for restoring the American Republic, and they give advice for others interested in running for local office.
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Two-Party System: Corporate Fascists vs. Cultural Marxists
Dan Happel discusses how both the Republican and Democratic Parties have transformed into corporate fascists and cultural Marxists. Happel begins by tracing the origins of cultural Marxism in Germany and how it migrated to the United States, primarily within the world of academia and government education. Like an invasive species, cultural Marxism has permeated in ...
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Holding Our Elected Officials Accountable to Constitutional Principles
In this presentation at the 2026 JBS Conference in Salt Lake City, JBS Research Associate Peter Rykowski discusses the Freedom Index, a tool produced by The John Birch Society and The New American that holds state and federal legislators accountable to the U.S. Constitution and America’s founding principles. He explains what the Freedom Index and ...
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Madison’s Opposition: Article V Convention Warnings from the Father of the Constitution
Constitutional lecturer and expert Robert Brown sets the record straight about where James Madison, the father of the Constitution and fourth U.S. president, actually stood on the subject of whether the states should have applied to Congress to call an Article V convention following the ratification of the U.S. Constitution. Brown examines often cited but ...
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America’s Biblical Heritage
In this presentation at the 2026 JBS Conference in Salt Lake City, TNA senior editor Alex Newman discusses America’s biblical heritage. Explaining that no society can restore liberty without returning to biblical principles, he asserts that Americans must understand their nation’s biblical heritage and, by extension, relearn who they are as a people. For the ...
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