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Featured Organizations
The Patriot Post
America's most widely read Internet-based publication,
The
Patriot Post, is a
highly
acclaimed journal advocating individual liberty, the
restoration of constitutional limits on government and the
judiciary, and the promotion of free enterprise, national defense
and traditional American values.
Founded in 1990, the Acton Institute is named in honor of John
Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, first Baron Acton of Aldenham
(1834-1902), the "historian of freedom." The mission of the
Institute is to promote a free society characterized by individual
liberty and sustained by religious principles.
The official site of Focus on the Family offers practical
helps for your marriage and parenting role. Recent magazine
articles, letters from Dr. James Dobson, news, RealAudio broadcasts
and much more.
GOPUSA strives to educate, enlighten, and engage conservatives
through a host of features and services including news, online
discussions, commentary, activism, outreach, and information.
Through a host of products and services, GOPUSA is committed to
providing conservatives with news, information, commentary,
education, activism, and community both online and in person.
Founded in 1973, The Heritage Foundation is a research and
educational institute -- a think tank -- whose mission is to
formulate and promote conservative public policies based on the
principles of free enterprise, limited government, individual
freedom, traditional American values, and a strong national
defense. Heritage's products include publications, articles,
lectures, conferences, and meetings.
The NCPA was established in 1983 as a nonprofit, nonpartisan
public policy research institute. Their mission is to seek
innovative private sector solutions to public policy problems -
solving problems by relying on the strengths of the competitive,
entrepreneurial private sector rather than government regulation
and control.
Young America's Foundation is committed to ensuring that
increasing numbers of young Americans understand and are inspired
by the ideas of individual freedom, a strong national defense, free
enterprise, and traditional values.
Academia & Education
CAMPUS Magazine Online (CMO) is the only national
student-written online magazine for college students that provides
a national platform for student articles on current abuses and
potential reforms in higher education.
campusreportonline.net is Accuracy in Academia's online news
service in which we document and publicize political bias in
education. Our articles focus on three issues: the exploitation of
the classroom or university resources to indoctrinate students;
discrimination against students, faculty or administrators based on
political or academic beliefs; and campus violations of free
speech.
The work of the College Republican National Committee is
guided by three primary goals: to help elect Republicans; to
support the President’s agenda; to prepare future leaders of the
Party. The CRNC serves as the grassroots arm of the Republican
Party. 

CollegeGuide.org is a one-stop source for information on
choosing the right college and surviving and thriving at the
college of your choice. The available resources are designed for
students, parents, guidance counselors, and anyone interested in
the state of higher education in America today.
The Collegiate Network (CN), a program administered by the
Intercollegiate Studies Institute, provides support for alternative
student publications across the country. There are over seventy
member papers in the Network, each of which is a strong champion of
Western civilization, the free market, and limited
government.
The Collegiate Patriot, sponsored by The Patriot Post,
provides students on college and university campuses across the
nation with a constitutional and conservative alternative to the
prevailing thinking of the academic mainstream. It aims to
disenfranchise the Leftist academy's near-monopoly on student
opinion.
David Horowitz began the Center for the Study of Popular
Culture in 1988 to establish a conservative presence in Hollywood
and show how popular culture had become a political battleground.
In 2006, the Center's Board of Directors decided to change the name
of the organization to the David Horowitz Freedom Center.
The mission of the Friedman Foundation is to promote public
understanding of the need for major reform in K-12 education and of
the role that competition through parental choice can play in
achieving that reform. Started by Milton and Rose Friedman in 1996,
the foundation conducts public education and research
programs.
The Fund for American Studies advances the values of freedom,
democracy, and a free market economy by sponsoring educational
programs of the highest quality for university students with
outstanding leadership potential. These programs include institutes
in the United States and abroad that prepare young people for
honorable leadership by educating them in the theory, practice, and
benefits of a free society.
Hillsdale College, located in southern Michigan, is a small
liberal arts college with about 1,200 students. Founded in 1844
with the mission of "educating for liberty," it is known nationally
for its principled refusal to accept any federal funds, even in the
form of student grants and loans, and for its monthly speech
digest, Imprimis, which has a circulation of over 1.1
million.
The Institute for Humane Studies is a unique organization that
assists undergraduate and graduate students worldwide with an
interest in individual liberty. Programs include scholarships, paid
internships, and free summer seminars.
The Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI) is a non-profit,
non-partisan, tax-exempt educational organization whose purpose is
to convey to successive generations of college youth a better
understanding of the values and institutions that sustain a free
society.
ISI Books publishes interdisciplinary titles that strike at
the heart of the prevailing orthodoxies of contemporary scholarship
and debate. Enduring in substance and quality, their titles are
meant to persist in their importance and to serve successive
generations of readers.
The Ashbrook Center teaches the meaning and significance of
America by providing an academic forum for the study, research, and
discussion of the principles and practices of American
Constitutional government and politics. The Ashbrook Center's
programs are directed to the scholarly defense of individual
liberty, limited constitutional government and civic morality,
which together constitute our democratic way of life.
The Leadership Institute's mission is to identify, recruit,
train, and place conservatives in politics, government, and
media.
Young America's Foundation is committed to ensuring that
increasing numbers of young Americans understand and are inspired
by the ideas of individual freedom, a strong national defense, free
enterprise, and traditional values.
Business & Economics
Founded in 1990, the Acton Institute is named in honor of John
Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, first Baron Acton of Aldenham
(1834-1902), the "historian of freedom." The mission of the
Institute is to promote a free society characterized by individual
liberty and sustained by religious principles.
The FairTax plan includes a progressive national retail sales
tax, a "prebate" to ensure no American pays federal taxes up to the
poverty level, dollar-for-dollar revenue neutrality, and the repeal
of the 16th Amendment. The FairTax has often been referred to as
the most thoroughly researched and viable alternative to the
current intrusive and costly income tax system.
Americans For Prosperity Foundation (AFPF) is a nationwide
organization of grassroots leaders committed to advancing every
individual's right to economic freedom and opportunity. AFPF
believes reducing the size and scope of government is the best
safeguard to ensuring individual productivity and prosperity for
all Americans. AFPF educates and engages citizens on issues that
support restraining state and federal government growth, and
returning government to its constitutional limits.
ATR opposes all tax increases as a matter of principle. We
believe in a system in which taxes are simpler, fairer, flatter,
more visible, and lower than they are today. The government's power
to control one's life derives from its power to tax. We believe
that power should be minimized.
Since 1981, Atlas Economic Research Foundation has been the
leading international organization for supporting independent think
tanks advancing freedom. Based in Arlington, Virginia, and founded
by the late Sir Antony Fisher, Atlas believes the prospects for
free societies all over the world depend upon "intellectual
entrepreneurs" in civil society, who wish to improve public policy
debates through sound research.
CapitolWatch-a non-profit grassroots organization with over
250,000 supporters nationwide-lobbies Congress on behalf of all
American taxpayers. CapitolWatch is dedicated to defending American
taxpayers from higher taxes and wasteful spending.
The Center for Consumer Freedom is a nonprofit coalition of
restaurants, food companies, and consumers working together to
promote personal responsibility and protect consumer choices.
The Center for Freedom and Prosperity (CF&P) is a
free-market, pro-tax reform organization that is leading the fight
against global taxation schemes.
Center of the American Experiment is a nonpartisan,
tax-exempt, public policy and educational institution, which brings
conservative and free market ideas to bear on the most difficult
issues facing Minnesota and the nation.
The Club for Growth is a national network of over 30,000 men
and women, from all walks of life, who believe that prosperity and
opportunity come through economic freedom.
The Competitive Enterprise Institute is a non-profit public
policy organization dedicated to the principles of free enterprise
and limited government. We believe that consumers are best helped
not by government regulation but by being allowed to make their own
choices in a free marketplace.
The Employment Policies Institute is dedicated to studying
public policy issues surrounding employment growth, and especially
issues that affect entry level employment. EPI sponsors nonpartisan
research which is conducted by independent economists at major
universities around the country.
The Foundation for Economic Education (FEE), one of the oldest
free-market organizations in the United States, was founded in 1946
by Leonard E. Read to study and advance the freedom philosophy.
FEE's mission is to offer the most consistent case for the "first
principles" of freedom: the sanctity of private property,
individual liberty, the rule of law, the free market, and the moral
superiority of individual choice and responsibility over
coercion.
The Fraser Institute promotes competitive market solutions for
public policy problems in Canada. Established in 1974, The Fraser
Institute is an independent public policy organization with offices
in Vancouver, Calgary, and Toronto.
The mission of FMP is to audit the media's coverage of the
free enterprise system. It is our goal to bring balance to economic
reporting and to promote fair portrayal of the business community
in the media.
The Galen Institute, Inc., is a not-for-profit, free-market
research organization devoted exclusively to health policy. It was
founded in 1995 by Grace-Marie Turner to promote a more informed
public debate over individual freedom, consumer choice,
competition, and diversity in the health sector.
The NCPA was established in 1983 as a nonprofit, nonpartisan
public policy research institute. Their mission is to seek
innovative private sector solutions to public policy problems -
solving problems by relying on the strengths of the competitive,
entrepreneurial private sector rather than government regulation
and control.
The National Right to Work Committee, established in 1955, is
a nonprofit, nonpartisan, single-purpose citizens' organization
dedicated to the principle that all Americans must have the right
to join a union if they choose to, but none should ever be forced
to affiliate with a union in order to get or keep a job.
The National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation,
established in 1968, is a nonprofit, charitable organization
providing free legal aid to employees whose human or civil rights
have been violated by abuses of compulsory unionism.
The largest grassroots taxpayer organization, NTU lobbies
Congress and state legislatures, educates politicians and the media
on important taxpayer issues and teaches its members how to become
effective, united citizen lobbyists.
The Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy promotes the
principles of individual freedom and personal responsibility. The
Institute believes these principles are best encouraged through
policies that emphasize a free economy, private initiative, and
limited government.
The Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council (SBEC) works
to influence legislation and policies that help to create a
favorable and productive environment for small businesses and
entrepreneurship.
State Policy Network (SPN) is the professional service
organization for America's state-based, free market think tank
movement.
The Tax Foundation provides taxpayers with principled research
on the economic impact of taxes and helps them understand the
cumulative effect that taxes at all levels of government have on
their daily lives.
TCS publishes daily original commentary, news and analysis,
focused on economics, business, foreign affairs, technology,
science, the environment, trade, and politics. TCS is one of the
most influential online opinion journals publishing today, with
readers from government, media, public policy organizations,
industry, think tanks, academia and the investing world. TCS
publishes daily original commentary, news and analysis, focused on
economics, business, foreign affairs, technology, science, the
environment, trade, and politics. Based in Washington, DC, TCS also
has offices in Brussels, Belgium and Melbourne, Australia.
A wealth of globalization resources celebrating global
exchange, new opportunities, and human freedom.
Energy & Environment
The website aBetterEarth.org explores alternative, free-market
approaches to environmental concerns. It offers stories, the latest
research, links, essay contests, and more.
The Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change
was created to disseminate factual reports and sound commentary on
new developments in the world-wide scientific quest to determine
the climatic and biological consequences of the ongoing rise in the
air's CO2 content.
The Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT) was created
to offer a positive new voice on consumer and environmental issues.
The Committee boldly proclaims that the tremendously powerful
forces of competition, progress, political and economic freedom,
and genuine environmental stewardship can and do offer the best
hope for protecting not only the earth and its wildlife, but just
as importantly, its people. CFACT is therefore working to promote
market-oriented and safe technological solutions to such growing
concerns as energy production, waste-management, food production
and processing, air and water quality, wildlife protection and much
more.
NCPA's E-Team is one of the largest collections of energy and
environmental policy experts and scientists who believe in sound
science and that economic prosperity and protecting the environment
can go hand and hand. The Team seeks to correct misinformation and
promote sensible solutions to energy and environment
problems.
Green Watch is an on-line database and information
clearinghouse providing factual information on over 500 non-profit
environmental groups.
A network of religious, academic and community leaders
offering sound theological, scientific and economic perspectives on
enviromental issues. Giving a credible alternative to liberal
advocacy for people in congregations, schools, government, and the
media.
Since 1996, this widely-acclaimed web site has been dedicated
to spotlighting the use of junk science -- faulty science used to
advance special agendas.
PERC is the nation's oldest and largest institute dedicated to
original research that brings market principles to resolving
environmental problems. Located in Bozeman, Montana, PERC pioneered
the approach known as free market environmentalism, which is based
on the following tenets.
Family, Society, & Religion
Founded in 1973, the American TFP was formed to resist, in the
realm of ideas, the liberal, socialist and communist trends of the
times and proudly affirm the positive values of tradition, family
and property.
The Boy Scouts of America is the nation's foremost youth
program of character development and values-based leadership
training. In the future Scouting will continue to offer young
people responsible fun and adventure; instill in young people
lifetime values and develop in them ethical character as expressed
in the Scout Oath and Law; train young people in citizenship,
service, and leadership; serve America's communities and families
with its quality, values-based program.
BreakPoint is a program of The Wilberforce Forum, a division
of Prison Fellowship. Our mission is to develop and communicate
Christian worldview messages that offer a critique of contemporary
culture and encourage and equip the church to think and live
Christianly.
Capital Research Center (CRC) was established in 1984 to study
non-profit organizations, with aspecial focus on reviving the
American traditions of charity, philanthropy, and voluntarism. CRC
specializes in analyzing organizations that promote the growth of
the welfare state - now almost universally recognized as a failure
- and in identifying viable private alternatives to government
welfare programs.
The Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity exists to help
individuals and organizations address the pressing bioethical
challenges of our day, including managed care, end-of-life
treatment, genetic intervention, euthanasia and suicide, and
reproductive technologies.
The mission of Concerned Women for America is to protect and
promote Biblical values among all citizens-first through prayer,
then education, and finally by influencing our society-thereby
reversing the decline in moral values in our nation.
Eagle Forum is the conservative advocacy organization founded
by Phyllis Schlafly, one of the most prominent voices of the
pro-family movement.
This is the web's most complete source of information on the
aftereffects of abortion and post-abortion healing. We have over
500 hundred links to thousands of printed pages of original
research, testimonies, articles, and resources. Most of these are
drawn from articles and books published by the Elliot Institute,
one of the nation's leading authorities on post-abortion
issues.
The Natural Family: A Manifesto is a document with a concise,
coherent, compelling pro-family worldview and program of
action.
The Family Research Council champions marriage and family as
the foundation of civilization, the seedbed of virtue, and the
wellspring of society. We shape public debate and formulate public
policy that values human life and upholds the institutions of
marriage and the family. Believing that God is the author of life,
liberty, and the family, we promote the Judeo-Christian worldview
as the basis for a just, free, and stable society.
The Heritage Foundation's familyfacts.org catalogs social
science findings on the family, society and religion gleaned from
peer-reviewed journals, books and government surveys. Serving
policymakers, journalists, scholars and the general public,
familyfacts.org makes social science research easily accessible to
the non-specialist.
FIRST THINGS is published by The Institute on Religion and
Public Life, an interreligious, nonpartisan research and education
institute whose purpose is to advance a religiously informed public
philosophy for the ordering of society.
The official site of Focus on the Family offers practical
helps for your marriage and parenting role. Recent magazine
articles, letters from Dr. James Dobson, news, RealAudio broadcasts
and much more.
Girl Scouts of the USA is the world's preeminent organization
dedicated solely to girls -- all girls -- where, in an accepting
and nurturing environment, girls build character and skills for
success in the real world. In partnership with committed adult
volunteers, girls develop qualities that will serve them all their
lives, like leadership, strong values, social conscience, and
conviction about their own potential and self-worth.
Home School Legal Defense Association is a nonprofit advocacy
organization established to defend and advance the constitutional
right of parents to direct the education of their children and to
protect family freedoms. Through annual memberships, HSLDA is tens
of thousands of families united in service together, providing a
strong voice when and where needed.
The Howard Center endeavors to reinforce the natural family as
the first and irreplaceable social unit, to renew the religious
foundations of virtue and liberty, and to restore the education of
the young in the obligations of free men and women.
The Human Life Review is the only publication of its kind in
the world: a journal devoted to life issues, primarily abortion,
but also "neonaticide," genetic engineering, cloning, and fetal
tissue experimentation, as well as the end-of-life issues of
euthanasia, assisted suicide and suicide.
The Independent Women's Forum is dedicated to advancing the
spirit of enterprise and self-reliance among women, and supporting
the principles of political freedom, economic liberty, and personal
responsibility.
Judicial Watch, Inc. was established in 1994 to serve as an
ethical and legal "watchdog" over our government, legal, and
judicial systems and to promote a return to ethics and morality in
our nation's public life.
The mission of Life Legal Defense Foundation (LLDF) is to give
innocent and helpless human beings of any age, particularly unborn
children, a trained and committed defense against the threat of
death, and to support their advocates in the nation's courtrooms.
LLDF will accomplish its mission and purpose through the law and
education.
The Minuteman Civil Defense Corps is not a call to arms, but a
call to service seeking a peaceful and effective resolve to the
chaotic neglect of our borders by members of our local, state and
federal governments charged with applying U.S. immigration law. The
Minutemen provide support to under-manned Border Security by
observing and reporting the activities of illegal immigrants at our
country's borders.
The National Memorial for the Unborn, located in Chattanooga,
Tennessee, is dedicated to healing generations of pain associated
with the loss of aborted children.
The ultimate goal of the National Right to Life Committee is
to restore legal protection to innocent human life. The primary
interest of the National Right to Life Committee and its members
has been the abortion controversy; however, it is also concerned
with related matters of medical ethics which relate to the right to
life issues of euthanasia and infanticide. The Committee does not
have a position on issues such as contraception, sex education,
capital punishment, and national defense.
RetireSafe.org is a grassroots action network promoting
dynamic, pro-growth solutions to America's retirement security
challenges. It is a project of the Council for Government
Reform.
Toward the ultimate goal of ending abortion, the Susan B.
Anthony List trains pro-life activists and candidates in campaign
fundamentals, advocates the passage of pro-life legislation in
Congress, works to dispel the myths about abortion, educates women
voters on the importance of voting, and works to increase the
percentage of pro-life women in Congress.
Team NCPA is an all-volunteer network of concerned citizens
who are dedicated to fixing Social Security in a way that protects
current and near retirees, and gives younger Americans the
opportunity to enjoy a secure retirement.
U.S.ENGLISH, Inc. is the nation's oldest, largest citizens'
action group dedicated to preserving the unifying role of the
English language in the United States.
WallBuilders is an organization dedicated to presenting
America's forgotten history and heroes, with an emphasis on the
moral, religious, and constitutional foundation on which America
was built -- a foundation which, in recent years, has been
seriously attacked and undermined. In accord with what was so
accurately stated by George Washington, we believe that "the
propitious [favorable] smiles of heaven can never be expected on a
nation which disregards the eternal rules of order and right which
heaven itself has ordained."
The World Congress of Families is an international coalition
which coordinates the efforts of pro-family groups from more the 60
countries worldwide and unites people of goodwill who recognize
that the family is the fundamental unit of society.
Foreign Policy
The Center for Security Policy is a non-profit, non-partisan
organization committed to the time-tested philosophy of promoting
international peace through American strength.
The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
seeks to advance global security and prosperity in an era of
economic and political transformation by providing strategic
insights and practical policy solutions to decisionmakers. CSIS
serves as a strategic planning partner for the government by
conducting research and analysis and developing policy initiatives
that look into the future and anticipate change.
The Foundation for the Defense of Democracies is a non-profit
organization based in Washington, D.C. that conducts research and
education on the war on terrorism.
The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, Stanford
University, is a public policy research center devoted to advanced
study of politics, economics, and political economy -- both
domestic and foreign -- as well as international affairs. With its
world-renowned group of scholars and ongoing programs of
policy-oriented research, the Hoover Institution puts its
accumulated knowledge to work as a prominent contributor to the
world marketplace of ideas defining a free society.
Law & the Judiciary
ADF is America's largest legal alliance defending religious
liberty through strategy, training, funding, and litigation.
Through our work in the courts and the legislative arena, the
ACLJ is dedicated to protecting your religious and constitutional
freedoms. In addition to providing its legal services at no cost to
our clients, the ACLJ focuses on the issues that matter most to you
-- national security, protecting America's families, and protecting
human life.
Civil rights are the fundamental liberties that all Americans
should enjoy as a matter of basic morality, as well as
Constitutional protection. Several organizations exist to protect
one aspect or another of our civil rights and liberties. But the
American Civil Rights Union (ACRU) is dedicated to protecting our
fundamental rights and liberties across the board. The ACRU
focuses, in particular, on those areas of our civil rights which
are ignored, or even actively undermined, by other supposed civil
liberties groups.
The Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies is a
group of conservatives and libertarians interested in the current
state of the legal order. It is founded on the principles that the
state exists to preserve freedom, that the separation of
governmental powers is central to our Constitution, and that it is
emphatically the province and duty of the judiciary to say what the
law is, not what it should be. The Society seeks both to promote an
awareness of these principles and to further their application
through its activities.
Home School Legal Defense Association is a nonprofit advocacy
organization established to defend and advance the constitutional
right of parents to direct the education of their children and to
protect family freedoms. Through annual memberships, HSLDA is tens
of thousands of families united in service together, providing a
strong voice when and where needed.
Founded in 1991, the Institute for Justice is what a civil
liberties law firm should be. As our nation's only libertarian
public interest law firm, IJ pursues cutting-edge litigation in the
courts of law and in the court of public opinion on behalf of
individuals whose most basic rights are denied by the
government--like the right to earn an honest living, private
property rights, and the right to free speech, especially in the
areas of commercial and Internet speech.
Landmark's mission is to use the law to advance conservative
principles and policies through the judicial system, government and
public forums.
The mission of Life Legal Defense Foundation (LLDF) is to give
innocent and helpless human beings of any age, particularly unborn
children, a trained and committed defense against the threat of
death, and to support their advocates in the nation's courtrooms.
LLDF will accomplish its mission and purpose through the law and
education.
Mountain States Legal Foundation (MSLF) is a nonprofit, public
interest legal center dedicated to individual liberty, the right to
own and use property, limited and ethical government and the free
enterprise system.
NLPC promotes ethics, openness and accountability in
government through research, education and legal action.
The National Right to Work Committee, established in 1955, is
a nonprofit, nonpartisan, single-purpose citizens' organization
dedicated to the principle that all Americans must have the right
to join a union if they choose to, but none should ever be forced
to affiliate with a union in order to get or keep a job.
Founded in 1973, PLF is America's trusted champion of
constitutional rights, fighting and winning decisive actions in the
courts of law and the court of public opinion to rescue liberty
from the grasp of government power.
Lawsuit Abuse Makes Us Sick is the Internet's best resource
for information, statistics and quotes about the healthcare
litigation epidemic affecting all Americans.
Stewards of the Range was created in 1992 to pursue precedent
setting litigation and to teach America's landowners how to defend
and restore full respect for private property rights in
America.
Military Academies
"The Citadel's mission is to educate and prepare graduates to
become principled leaders in all walks of life by instilling the
core values of The Citadel in a challenging intellectual
environment. Throughout its history, The Citadel's primary purpose
has been to educate undergraduates as members of the South Carolina
Corps of Cadets and to prepare them for post-graduate positions of
leadership through academic programs of recognized excellence
supported by the best features of a structured military
environment. The cadet lifestyle provides a disciplined environment
that supports the growth and development of character, physical
fitness, and moral and ethical principles."
The U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, Kings Point, through its
unique combination of academic, regimental and shipboard programs,
will train you as a leader of quality, integrity and high ethical
standards. The academic and professional credentials that you earn,
and the leadership ability you acquire, will set you apart and
above as you enter the career marketplace.
The USAFA mission is, "To educate, train and inspire men and
women to become officers of character, motivated to lead the United
States Air Force in service to our nation." The staff and faculty
of the U.S. Air Force Academy, in the interest of our future
national security, molds our future leaders into outstanding young
men and women into Air Force officers with knowledge, character,
and discipline; motivated to lead the worlds' greatest aerospace
force in service to the nation.
"The United States Coast Guard Academy is committed to
strengthening the nation's future by educating, training and
developing leaders of character who are ethically, intellectually,
professionally, and physically prepared to serve their country and
humanity, and who are strong in their resolve to build on the long
military and maritime heritage and proud accomplishments of the
United States Coast Guard."
The USMA mission is, "To educate, train, and inspire the Corps
of Cadets so that each graduate is a commissioned leader of
character committed to the values of Duty, Honor, Country and
prepared for a career of professional excellence and service to the
Nation as an officer in the United States Army."
The USNA mission is, "To develop midshipmen morally, mentally
and physically and to imbue them with the highest ideals of duty,
honor and loyalty in order to provide graduates who are dedicated
to a career of naval service and have potential for future
development in mind and character to assume the highest
responsibilities of command, citizenship and government."
Founded in 1839, the Virginia Military Institute is the
nation's first state military college. VMI "believes that the
measure of a college lies in the quality and performance of its
graduates and their contributions to society. Therefore, it is the
mission of the Virginia Military Institute to produce educated,
honorable men and women, prepared for the varied work of civil
life, imbued with love of learning, confident in the functions and
attitudes of leadership, possessing a high sense of public service,
advocates of the American Democracy and free enterprise system, and
ready as citizen-soldiers to defend their country in time of
national peril."
News & Media
Accuracy In Media is a non-profit, grassroots citizens
watchdog of the news media that critiques botched and bungled news
stories and sets the record straight on important issues that have
received slanted coverage. We encourage members of the media to
report the news fairly and objectively--without resorting to bias
or partisanship.
Founded in 1992, Citizen Outreach is a non-profit,
non-partisan organization which promotes greater citizen
understanding of, and participation in, public policy issues at the
federal, state and local levels.
FrontPage Magazine is the David Horowitz Freedom Center's
online journal of news and political commentary.
GOPUSA strives to educate, enlighten, and engage conservatives
through a host of features and services including news, online
discussions, commentary, activism, outreach, and information.
Through a host of products and services, GOPUSA is committed to
providing conservatives with news, information, commentary,
education, activism, and community both online and in person.
HUMAN EVENTS, the national conservative weekly, was first
published in 1944 - more than a decade before any other
conservative weekly. Since then, HUMAN EVENTS has not only defended
conservative principles, but helped define them for the rest of the
movement.
Founded by L. Brent Bozell III in 1987 with the mission of
bringing political balance to the nation's news media and
responsibility to the entertainment media, the Media Research
Center (MRC) has grown into the nation's largest and most respected
conservative media watchdog organization.
Reliable news from a Christian source. We offer both free and
fee-based news services.
The originator of conservative radio.
The American is a magazine of ideas for business leaders.
Modeled on Henry Luce's original vision for Fortune Magazine, it
surveys the full scope of American life through the lens of
business and economics. The magazine is published six times a year.
The web site, American.com, takes the same editorial mission to the
Internet, with original writing every day and a selection of
thought-provoking links from around the web. The American is a
project of The American Enterprise Institute.
WORLD is a weekly newsmagazine, published 50 times a year.
WORLD includes sharp, full-color photographs and offers complete
coverage of national and international news, all written from a
Christian perspective.
Political Parties
Second Amendment
Gun Owners of America (GOA) is a non-profit lobbying
organization formed in 1975 to preserve and defend the Second
Amendment rights of gun owners. GOA sees firearms ownership as a
freedom issue.
Established in 1975, the Institute for Legislative Action
(ILA) is the "lobbying" arm of the National Rifle Association of
America. ILA is committed to preserving the right of all
law-abiding individuals to purchase, possess and use firearms for
legitimate purposes as guaranteed by the Second Amendment to the
U.S. Constitution.
KeepAndBearArms.com is a grassroots movement of the people, by
the people, and for the people. It is a call to action, a call for
self-education, and a 21 gun salute to the many good men and women
who fought and died to bring America into being. This web site is
about helping lawful people maintain their abilities to protect
themselves and the people they love effectively from anyone who
would do them harm -- through legal, private ownership and use of
guns. We also stand for the repealing of all gun laws which
infringe on the civil rights of peaceable women and men to defend
their own lives and property.
For more than 125 years the NRA has provided generations of
Americans with programs focused on safety, education and
responsibility.
A concealed carry database.
The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) is dedicated to
promoting a better understanding about our Constitutional heritage
to privately own and possess firearms. To that end, we carry on
many educational and legal action programs designed to better
inform the public about the gun control debate.
State Organizations
The Alabama Policy Institute is dedicated to defending and
promoting the ideals of free markets, the limited role of
government and strong families, which are indispensable to the
preservation of a free and prosperous society.
The Allegheny Institute is a non-partisan research and
education organization. Its mission is to defend the interests of
taxpayers, citizens, and businesses against an increasingly
burdensome and intrusive government. To that end, Allegheny
formulates and advocates public policies that roll back the size
and scope of local government as well as create a more accountable
government.
The Arkansas Policy Foundation is a nonpartisan, non-profit
organization that analyzes the impact of public policy on Arkansas
and makes recommendations. The Foundation emphasizes the importance
of tax policy and education reform.
An independent, non-partisan association of writers, speakers
and thinkers who analyze state and local public policy in Kentucky,
and suggest alternatives more in concert with the ideas of our
founders: Individual liberty, economic freedom, personal
responsibility and a respect for others.
The Buckeye Institute is a highly effective, independent
institute that analyzes state and local government programs, taxes,
and regulations in Ohio and offers policy alternatives consistent
with a respect for individual liberty, private property and limited
government.
The Calvert Institute for Policy Research is a non-partisan,
educational institution dedicated to the research and propagation
of solutions to Maryland state and local public-policy concerns
based upon the principles of free markets and personal
responsibility. It is a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organization.
Cascade Policy Institute was founded in January 1991 as a
nonprofit research and educational organization to focus on Oregon
state and local issues. The Institute's mission is to explore and
advance public policy alternatives that foster individual liberty,
personal responsibility, and economic opportunity.
Center of the American Experiment is a nonpartisan,
tax-exempt, public policy and educational institution, which brings
conservative and free market ideas to bear on the most difficult
issues facing Minnesota and the nation.
The purpose of The Commonwealth Foundation is to be the
vanguard of freedom and conscience of liberty in the state of
Pennsylvania.The mission of The Commonwealth Foundation is to
improve the quality of life for all Pennsylvanians by advancing
public policies based on the principles of limited government,
economic freedom, and individual responsibility.
The Empire Center for New York State Policy, a project of the
Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, is dedicated to fostering
greater economic growth, opportunity and individual responsibility
in the Empire State. Through research papers, policy briefings,
commentaries and conferences, the Empire Center will seek to
educate and inform New York State policymakers, news media and the
general public.
The Ethan Allen Institute is Vermont's independent,
nonpartisan, free-market-oriented public policy think tank. The
Institute offers "Ideas for Vermont's Future" built upon a
libertarian, decentralist, community-based philosophy.
Our Mission is to advance individual liberty, free enterprise,
and responsible government. Our efforts center around public policy
research and alternatives in these core areas: state budget and tax
policy, welfare reform, healthcare reform, education, citizenship
and governance issues.
The Flint Hills Center for Public Policy, dedicated to the
constitutional principles of limited government, open markets, and
individual freedom and responsibility, serves as an independent,
source of information regarding public policy.
The Free State Foundation is a non-profit Maryland-based think
tank. Its purpose is to promote, through research and educational
activities, understanding of free market, limited government, and
rule of law principles in Maryland and throughout the United
States.
Formed in the fall of 1991, the Foundation is the only
private, nonpartisan research and education organization in Georgia
that focuses on state policy issues. The Foundation's members are a
diverse group of Georgians that share a common belief that the
solutions to most problems lie in a strong private sector, not in a
big government bureaucracy.
The Goldwater Institute was established in 1988 as an
independent, nonpartisan research and educational organization
dedicated to the study of public policy in Arizona.
The Grassroot Institute of Hawaii is a public policy think
tank formed in 2001 by Hawaii residents who realized the need for
detailed study, analysis, investigation and reporting on the impact
on the individual citizen by government. Our vision is for
individual self-government as outlined in the Declaration of
Independence and the Constitution of the United States.
Great Plains Public Policy Institute is a nonpartisan, public
policy educational institution that brings free enterprise and
alternative ideas to bear on the most difficult issues facing South
Dakota and the nation.
Heartland's mission is to help build social movements in
support of ideas that empower people. Such ideas include parental
choice in education, choice and personal responsibility in health
care, market-based approaches to environmental protection,
privatization of public services, and deregulation in areas where
property rights and markets do a better job than government
bureaucracies.
The Illinois Policy Institute is a free market oriented think
tank dedicated to state public policy issues in Illinois. The
Institute is the only free market think tank located in the State
Capital of Springfield. The Illinois Policy Institute’s mission
is to preserve and strengthen the societal foundations of the Land
of Lincoln. Through the promotion of the benefits of limited
government, competitive private enterprise as well as Illinois’
critical cultural and political institutions via rigorous inquiry,
debate, and writing the Institute strives to unleash the full
potential of the citizens of Illinois to lead good and productive
lives.
The Independence Institute is established upon the eternal
truths of the Declaration of Independence. Founded in 1985, the
Independence Institute is a non-partisan, non-profit public policy
research organization dedicated to providing timely information to
concerned citizens, government officials, and public opinion
leaders.
The Indiana Policy Review Foundation is a nonprofit education
foundation focused on state and municipal issues. Our mission is to
marshal the best thought on governmental, economic and educational
issues at the state and municipal levels.
The James Madison Institute is a Florida-based research and
educational organization engaged in the battle of ideas. The ideas
of the Institute are rooted in a belief in the US Constitution and
such timeless ideals as limited government, economic freedom,
federalism, traditional values, and individual liberty coupled with
individual responsibility.
A group of North Carolinians in 1990 created the John Locke
Foundation as an independent, nonprofit think tank that would work
“for truth, for freedom, and for the future of North
Carolina.â€
The Josiah Bartlett Center for Public Policy is a non-profit,
non-partisan, independent think tank focused on state and local
public policy issues that affect the quality of life for New
Hampshire's citizens. To improve economic prosperity and the
general welfare, the Center provides information, research, and
analysis to decision makers. The Center has as its core beliefs
individual freedom and responsibility, limited and accountable
government, and an appreciation of the role of the free enterprise
system.
The Mackinac Center for Public Policy is a nonpartisan
research and educational organization devoted to improving the
quality of life for all Michigan citizens by promoting sound
solutions to state and local policy questions. The Mackinac Center
assists policy makers, scholars, business people, the media and the
public by providing objective analysis of Michigan issues. The goal
of all Center reports, commentaries and educational programs is to
equip Michigan citizens and other decision makers to better
evaluate policy options.
The Maine Heritage Policy Center is a research and educational
organization whose mission is to formulate and promote conservative
public policies based on the principles of free enterprise;
limited, constitutional government; individual freedom; and
traditional American values--all for the purpose of providing
public policy solutions that benefit the people of Maine.
Founded in July 2001, the Maine Public Policy Institute—a
think tank—is a nonprofit, nonpartisan corporation organized
under section 501(c)3 of the Internal Revenue code. The Maine
Public Policy Institute’s mission is to advance sound policies
based on the principles of free enterprise, individual liberty, and
limited constitutional government.
Founded in 2001, The Maryland Public Policy Institute is a
nonpartisan public policy research and education organization that
focuses on state policy issues.
Mississippi Center for Public Policy is an independent,
non-profit public policy organization based in Jackson, MS. MCPP
works to promote and protect the concepts of free markets, limited
government, and strong traditional families.
The Institute is a free-market think tank which finds private
solutions for public problems facing Nevada, the West and the
nation. NPRI has offices in Las Vegas, but scholars and writers
from all over Nevada and the nation contribute to our
mission.
OCPA's mission is to accumulate, evaluate, and disseminate
public policy ideas and information for Oklahoma consistent with
the principles of free enterprise, limited government, and
individual initiative. OCPA's vision is to be recognized as a
highly respected independent public policy institute, whose
research, analysis, and commentary guides the formation of
Oklahoma's public policies and helps Oklahoma to become the leader,
specifically within our seven-state region, in all aspects of
economic performance and quality of life issues.
The Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy promotes the
principles of individual freedom and personal responsibility. The
Institute believes these principles are best encouraged through
policies that emphasize a free economy, private initiative, and
limited government.
Palmetto Family Council is a non-profit educational foundation
committed to strengthening South Carolina families. Primary issues
of concern include life-long committed marriage, the relationship
between parent and child, sexual responsibility in youth and
adults, the definition of marriage, life issues, and public and
private gaming expansion.
Pioneer Institute is an independent, non-partisan, privately
funded research organization that seeks to change the intellectual
climate in Massachusetts by supporting scholarship that challenges
the "conventional wisdom" on Massachusetts public policy issues.
The Institute believes that individual freedom and responsibility,
limited and accountable government, and the expanded application of
free-market principles to public policy contribute to greater human
dignity, happiness, and economic prosperity.
Public Interest Institute is a non-profit, non-partisan,
public policy research organization located on the campus of Iowa
Wesleyan College in Mt. Pleasant, Iowa. The Institute promotes the
importance of a free-enterprise economic system and limited
government in society based upon individual freedom and
liberty.
The Public Policy Foundation of West Virginia is a nonprofit
research and education organization that conducts scholarly
research and analysis of state and local issues. The Foundation's
mission is to advance sound policies in West Virginia based on the
principles of free enterprise, individual liberty, limited
government and traditional American values.
The Rio Grande Foundation of New Mexico is an independent,
non-partisan, tax-exempt research and educational organization
dedicated to the study of public policy. The Foundation promotes
prosperity for New Mexico based on principles of limited
government, economic freedom and individual responsibility. The Rio
Grande Foundation neither seeks nor accepts government funding. The
Foundation relies solely on generosity of individuals and
institutions in the private sector to fund its activities.
The Sam Adams Alliance was formed to connect and support
citizen leaders who are working to expand liberty and hold the
government accountable starting at the state and local level.
The Show-Me Institute seeks a Missouri which leads the nation
in opportunity and economic growth for all, and where citizens
treasure their liberty and trust one another. We will achieve this
through empiric research, education, and promotion of a
non-partisan, sound public policy.
The South Carolina Policy Council Education Foundation was
established in 1986 as a nonpartisan, tax-exempt public policy
research and education foundation. Its mission is to educate
members and all South Carolinians about state and local public
policy based on the traditional South Carolina values of individual
liberty and responsibility, free enterprise and limited
government.
State Policy Network (SPN) is the professional service
organization for America's state-based, free market think tank
community. Founded in 1992, SPN is the only group in the country
dedicated solely to improving the practical effectiveness of
independent, non-profit, market-oriented, state-based think
tanks.
The Sutherland Institute's vision is that Utah has the
capacity, the character, and thus the potential to lead out among
states in adopting and implementing public policies that could be
the envy of, and set a standard for, the nation.
The Tennessee Center for Policy Research is an independent,
nonprofit and nonpartisan research organization dedicated to
providing concerned citizens, the media and public leaders with
expert empirical research and timely free market policy solutions
to public policy issues in Tennessee.
Texans for Fiscal Responsibility’s mission is to create and
sustain a system of strong fiscal stewardship within state
government, through cultural and political change.
The Texas Public Policy Foundation is a 501(c)3 non-profit,
non-partisan research institute guided by the core principles of
individual liberty, personal responsibility, free markets, private
property rights and limited government. The Foundation seeks to
improve Texas by producing academically sound research on important
issues offered to policy makers, opinion leaders, the media and
general public.
The mission of the Thomas Jefferson Institute for Public
Policy is to provide Virginia's political, business, academic,
community and media leadership with thoughtful, realistic, useful
and non-partisan analysis of public policy issues confronting our
Commonwealth. These alternative policy ideas focus on state and
local issues and are based on the Institute's belief in free
markets, limited government and individual responsibility. The
general areas of interest for this Institute are reforming
government, economic development, improving health, public
education and welfare, criminal justice, and legislative
analysis.
The Virginia Institute for Public Policy is an independent,
nonpartisan, education and research organization committed to the
goals of individual opportunity and economic growth. Through
research, policy recommendations, and symposia, the Institute works
ahead of the political process to lay the intellectual foundation
for a society dedicated to individual liberty, free enterprise,
private property, the rule of law, and strictly limited
government.
Washington Policy Center is a nonpartisan, free-market,
state-based think tank in Seattle, Washington, that publishes
studies, sponsors events and conferences, and educates citizens on
public policy issues facing Washington state. The Center believes
that the American ideals of life, liberty and the pursuit of
happiness best flourish in a free society which liberates the
energies of all its members to pursue their own peaceful
goals.
The Wisconsin Policy Research Institute is a not-for-profit
institute established to study public-policy issues affecting the
state of Wisconsin. Under the new federalism, government policy
increasingly is made at the state and local levels. These
public-policy decisions affect the life of every citizen in the
state. The goal is to provide nonpartisan research on key issues
affecting Wisconsinites, so that their elected representatives can
make informed decisions to improve the quality of life and future
of the state.
Ever since 1987 the Yankee Institute has been on the front
lines, helping Connecticut citizens -- and our elected officials --
better understand the Constitutional and free market principles
that maximize freedom and well-being for peoples of all economic
and social backgrounds. Our public policy initiatives bolster a
market economy, encourage limited government, promote respect for
private property, and preserve our Constitutional rights.
Think Tanks and Lobbyists
The American Conservative Union is the nation's oldest
conservative lobbying organization. ACU's purpose is to effectively
communicate and advance the goals and principles of conservatism
through one multi-issue, umbrella organization.
The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
is a private, nonpartisan, not-for-profit institution dedicated to
research and education on issues of government, politics,
economics, and social welfare.
The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is the
nation's largest nonpartisan, individual membership association of
state legislators, with nearly 2,400 members across America. ALEC's
National Task Forces provide a forum for legislators and the
private sector to discuss issues, develop policies and write model
legislation.
ALG works with local people all across America to pursue
initiative and legislative efforts that focus on limiting the size
and scope of government.
The Ashbrook Center is an academic forum for the study,
research and discussion of the principles and practices of American
constitutional government and politics. The Ashbrook Center's
programs are directed to the scholarly defense of individual
liberty, limited constitutional government and civic morality,
which together constitute our democratic way of life.
Since 1981, Atlas Economic Research Foundation has been the
leading international organization for supporting independent think
tanks advancing freedom. Based in Arlington, Virginia, and founded
by the late Sir Antony Fisher, Atlas believes the prospects for
free societies all over the world depend upon "intellectual
entrepreneurs" in civil society, who wish to improve public policy
debates through sound research.
The Cato Institute seeks to broaden the parameters of public
policy debate to allow consideration of the traditional American
principles of limited government, individual liberty, free markets
and peace. Toward that goal, the Institute strives to achieve
greater involvement of the intelligent, concerned lay public in
questions of policy and the proper role of government.
Founded in 1998, the Center for Individual Freedom is a
non-partisan, non-profit organization with the mission to examine
and focus public, legislative and judicial attention on individual
freedoms and individual rights guaranteed by the U.S.
Constitution.
With more than one million members and supporters, CAGW is a
private, non-partisan, non-profit organization dedicated to
educating Americans about the waste, mismanagement, and
inefficiency in the federal government.
The mission of the Claremont Institute is to restore the
principles of the American Founding to their rightful, preeminent
authority in our national life. To recover the Founding principles
in our political life means recovering a limited and accounted
government that respects private property, promotes stable family
life and maintains a strong defense.
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David Horowitz began the Center for the Study of Popular
Culture in 1988 to establish a conservative presence in Hollywood
and show how popular culture had become a political battleground.
In 2006, the Center’s Board of Directors decided to change the
name of the organization to the David Horowitz Freedom
Center.
keep America free," by promoting freedom and liberty, supporting
the American military, and educating youth.