Conservative group builds ‘America First’ coalition to fight 'radical left's extreme positions and agenda'

An statement moving to beforehand nan "America First" schedule has agreed a divers conjugation of blimpish groups to conflict together "against nan extremist left's utmost positions and agenda" up of nan 2024 statesmanlike election.

Led by America First Works, a 501c4 that's intimately aligned pinch nan America First Policy Institute (AFPI) and promotes an "America First" schedule done argumentation and legislation, nan conjugation was constructed earlier this period during a gathering successful nan nation's capital, wherever a promise to activity together was signed.

"On April 3rd, America First Works hosted a gathering astatine nan Willard Hotel, which is historical successful and of itself – Martin Luther King refined his reside [there], Abraham Lincoln was location – and brought together complete 50 organizations, complete 100 people, to conscionable beryllium down and talk really we tin champion activity together," Ashley Hayek, who serves arsenic nan executive head astatine America First Works and nan main engagement serviceman astatine America First Policy Institute, told Fox News Digital astir nan "historic" meeting.

"For nan first clip since Reagan's presidency, [we brought] each of nan groups together to activity together and to perpetrate that we would coordinate moving forward, whether it's early ballot aliases ballot harvesting wherever it's legal, mobilization, [or] predetermination integrity," she added.

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Ashley Hayek, executive head astatine America First Works and main engagement serviceman astatine America First Policy Institute. (Getty Images)

Titled "United We Win," nan promise was signed by dozens of conservative groups pinch wide-ranging interests who stock communal goals: To reclaim "our nation's narrative," to "win nan argument" up of nan statesmanlike election, and "saving America."

Those who signed nan promise vowed to "work together arsenic ne'er before" arsenic they "harness our corporate resources, wisdom, and power to amended for illustration ne'er before, to turn our conjugation pinch unwavering dedication, and to beforehand blimpish solutions that will steer our state backmost toward prosperity, security, and freedom."

"Our ngo is clear: reclaim our nation's narrative, triumph nan argument, clasp our elected officials accountable, and statesman nan activity of treatment and rebuilding," nan promise reads. "Each personnel statement promises to lend afloat towards our shared goal. We will harvester our energies, budgets, and abilities, leaving nary chromatic unturned, nary assets untapped, and nary national unengaged."

Celebrating nan diversity of nan groups that pledged their support, Hayek insisted this was nan "first step" successful ensuring a successful predetermination year.

"You person Rebecca Weber, nan CEO of AMAC [Association of Mature American Citizens]. It's a group very akin to AARP, but for blimpish seniors. You person groups for illustration Ralph Reed's Faith and Freedom Coalition, who are mobilizing crossed nan country. You besides person groups for illustration Bienvenido that focuses connected Hispanic outreach," she said.

"This was nan first measurement successful bringing everyone together and to person conversations astir what this twelvemonth looks like, really we reclaim nan narrative, really we triumph messaging, really we push backmost together against nan extremist left's utmost positions and agenda," Hayek added.

Other groups that attended nan gathering and signed onto nan pledge, Hayek said, included Tea Party Patriots Action and Turning Point Action.

"All of our groups person different missions that are very unique, but we each person nan aforesaid extremity of wanting to make America first and to prevention our country," Hayek said. "Making judge that we are each talking together, moving together, knowing what each group is doing, is really nan first step. That was accomplished by signing that promise and committing to each different that we will merge for illustration we person ne'er agreed before."

Pointing to early voting efforts that are being championed by nan coalition, Hayek highlighted nan truth that "life happens" and noted that immoderate circumstances whitethorn forestall group successful definite areas of nan state from getting to nan polls connected Election Day.

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Hayek noted that immoderate circumstances whitethorn forestall group successful definite areas of nan state from getting to nan polls connected Election Day. (Paul J. Richards/AFP via Getty Images)

"If you look astatine what conscionable precocious happened successful New York successful this typical election, you had a snowstorm. Those that did not ballot early were not capable to perchance formed their ballot. You look astatine what happened successful Reno successful 2022 – and it's a very important Senate race – location was a freak snowstorm that came done and group were not capable to formed their ballot," she said. "While I deliberation astir of america work together that location should beryllium Election Day only, nary message ballots, 1 vote, 1 person, complete clear norm of nan rule voting, that's not reality.... We request to usage each instrumentality imaginable to scope voters, and get group to ballot early."

Hayek noted that conservatives should beryllium taking advantage of mailing successful their ballots early successful states wherever it's permitted, arsenic she stressed nan value of "getting caught up pinch nan times, modernizing our tactics, moving together, and turning retired nan vote."

"Conservatives and nan America First movement, we are connected nan correct 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 nan strategies to make judge we're turning retired our votes successful nan correct places truthful that we tin prevention our country."

Hayek besides said concisely astir nan AFPI's Pathway to 2025 initiative, which she described arsenic a "five pillar plan" that's "really simple."

She said nan effort, which is being led by erstwhile New York GOP Rep. Lee Zeldin, is astir "messaging and data, it's unifying nan movement, it's task 19, focusing connected nan counties that we judge will yet find nan adjacent election, it's our ballot harvesting and elector mobilization, and then, of course, time 1 of what a caller management looks like."

"By nan way, nan time 1 of nan caller administration, that's not conscionable a White House. It's besides successful our states… really we tin we person a large effect astatine moreover astatine nan schoolhouse committee level," she added.

Asked astir nan scheme and really it would activity arsenic acold arsenic nan replacement of definite individuals aliases groups who are already a portion of nan government, Hayek said, "That squad has assembled complete 600 volunteers that person done heavy dives into each 1 of nan departments to find champion practices, truthful they tin deed nan crushed moving connected time 1 of a caller administration."

A elector casts her ballot astatine a polling position connected Election Day successful Falls Church, Virginia, connected Nov. 7, 2023. (Reuters/Kevin Lamarque)

"That activity is truthful important because it's thing that nan near has done incredibly good and thing that, arsenic conservatives, we tin do truthful overmuch better," she said.

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Recognizing that the "conservative activity has been outspent," Hayek said she's assured "we will not beryllium outsmarted."

"Right now, it's very clear that nan America First movement, nan blimpish movement, is focused," she added. "They're dedicated to moving together."