Lieutenant Colonel in the Air National Guard, Board Certified Family Nurse Practitioner, Board Certified Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner, a Wife and Mother, Sheri uses her unique, diverse background and lifetime of experiences in service. Sheri was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2024 and is currently serving her first term of public office. She becomes just the third female from South Carolina elected to the House, the first to represent South Carolina’s Third District.

Jon Fetherston is a reporter with decades worth of experience in local politics, as well as a lengthy career in radio and television. He primarily covers Southern Maine, but also touches on important regional and national topics.

As CEO of Finseca, Marc Cadin is the chief visionary of Finseca, representing the voice of financial security professionals. Finseca is dedicated to creating an environment that enables people to protect and enhance their financial well-being – for themselves, their families, and their businesses resulting in financial security for all. Marc was the CEO of the Association for Advanced Life Underwriting (AALU) before the creation of Finseca. During his tenure, he implemented an ambitious strategic plan that modernized the organization. In 2019, he guided AALU through a merger with the General Agents and Managers Association (GAMA International), a transformative step for the organization. Since then, they have also brought on board Finseca NY (state advocacy deal), Forum 400 (an elite life insurance producer group), and NAILBA (brokerage). By joining forces, Marc and Finseca aim to represent the entire financial security profession and serve millions of people effectively.

Dr. Gerson Moreno-Riaño has served in the vineyard of Christian higher education, as he calls it, for over two decades as a faculty member and tenured professor as well as holding numerous leadership posts including dean, executive vice president and now the 12th president of Cornerstone University. Moreno-Riaño received the 2011 John Witherspoon Lecturer Award from the Family Research Council, gave the inaugural Iwata Distinguished Lectures in Politics, Economics and Christian Ethics at Biola University (2008) and also was honored with a 2nd place Templeton Enterprise Award from the Templeton Foundation and the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, based on his research in economics and natural law ethics.

Payton McNabb is an Independent Women ambassador. McNabb is a former North Carolina high school volleyball player (and three sport athlete) who was severely injured by a male on the women’s volleyball court. She has joined Independent Women to share her personal experience of competing against a biological male athlete, how her life forever changed following an injury during the game, and her desire to speak out to keep women’s sports female. McNabb testified before the North Carolina General Assembly in April 2023, alongside Independent Women Spokeswoman and 12x All-American swimmer Riley Gaines, to advocate for the passage of a Fairness in Women’s Sports Bill.

Tim Rice is the Daily Wire’s Washington, D.C., bureau chief. He was previously Senior Editor at the Washington Free Beacon and Press Secretary at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management. His writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Post, The Spectator, and others. He graduated from the College of the Holy Cross and lives in Virginia with his family.

Michael L. Pack is an American documentary filmmaker who was CEO of the U.S. Agency for Global Media from June 2020 to January 2021. Pack was nominated by President Donald Trump and took office at USAGM in June 2020 after Senate confirmation.

Dr. John C. Eastman is Founding Director of the Claremont Institute’s Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence; Senior Fellow of the Claremont Institute; and until January 2021 served as the Henry Salvatori Professor of Law & Community Service at Chapman University’s Dale E. Fowler School of Law. Dr. Eastman is a prolific author. A selection of his scholarly publications include “The Moral Conditions of Liberty” in Freedom and the Rule of Law (2009), “The Roberts Court and Federalism,” in the New York University Journal of Law and Liberty (2009), and “Full Faith and Republican Guarantees: Gay Marriage, FMPA, and the Courts,” in the BYU Law Journal (2006). Dr. Eastman has been invited several times to address various committees of Congress, on topics including President Obama’s Executive Order on Immigration and the IRS’s felonious disclosure of tax returns.

Linda E. McMahon was sworn in as the 13th United States Secretary of Education on March 3, 2025, appointed by President Donald J. Trump. A businesswoman, education policy leader, and public servant, Secretary McMahon has decades of experience as a job creator and advocate for expanding educational opportunities. Secretary McMahon pursued a career in business as the CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), a global company she helped grow from a regional operation into a publicly traded, multibillion-dollar enterprise. McMahon also sought to bring her focus on education and economic opportunity to the national stage through two runs for the U.S. Senate in Connecticut. Before her appointment as Secretary of Education, McMahon served as Administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) from 2017 to 2019 during President Trump’s first term.

Aaron Flint is a decorated combat veteran, and a fifth-generation Montanan who has been fighting for our Western way of life every day on the radio. Now he’s raising his hand to serve Montana again by running for Congress. For years, he has spent his mornings on the radio, getting to work before the sun comes up like a lot of Montanans. He talks with Montanans about their jobs, their families, and the challenges weighing on their lives. His statewide radio show became a place where people feel heard and understood. Aaron Flint is running for Congress because it’s time to fight back and course-correct: to make a high school degree worth something again, to promote trades and common sense, to manufacture and mine in Montana, and to make the Montana Dream affordable again.

Eric learned early what hard work means. His parents’ grit and sacrifice taught him perseverance. And from his grandfather, a decorated World War II veteran, Eric learned that service is bigger than self. After graduating from Elder High School, he answered the call to serve—attending the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado and serving as an intelligence officer overseas. His deployments included two years in Okinawa, Japan, and several years in Washington, D.C. In the Air Force, Eric rose to the rank of Captain, leading intelligence operations for elite Special Operations forces and shaping long-term strategic planning across multiple commands. After the Air Force, Eric joined the Central Intelligence Agency. In the CIA’s Directorate of Operations, he served as a Case Officer — the Agency’s most prestigious role — managing clandestine operations in war zones and across Europe. His multi-year postings included Afghanistan, Poland, and Iraq.

Congressman Bryan Steil represents Wisconsin's First Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives. Bryan has earned a reputation for working hard for Wisconsin during his first three terms in Congress. Being available and accessible to residents and listening to their concerns has been a top priority. To hear directly from residents, Bryan regularly holds in-person town halls across the First District as well as numerous telephone town halls. He utilizes his office to help local families. In 2022 alone, he helped more than 2,000 constituents receive assistance with federal agencies such as the Social Security Administration, VA, and Medicare. In 2023, Bryan was appointed Chairman of the Committee on House Administration. Bryan is focused on ensuring the House is open, secure, and accountable to the American people, and on strengthening Americans trust in our elections. Bryan previously served as Ranking Member on the Elections Subcommittee.

Bradley J. Birzer is an American historian. He is a history professor and the Russell Amos Kirk Chair in American Studies at Hillsdale College, the author of five books and the co-founder of The Imaginative Conservative. He is known also as a Tolkien scholar. Birzer is the author of several books. His first book, J.R.R. Tolkien's Sanctifying Myth, was about Roman Catholicism in J. R. R. Tolkien's novels. It examines Tolkien's views on myth and subcreation, the theological cosmology of Middle-earth, and his approaches to heroism, the nature of evil, and modernity. Birzer makes a remarkable contribution to the Jackson historiography that effectively tackles Old Hickory’s political disposition in a concise single volume. Whether one enters into its pages admiring or loathing Jackson, Birzer’s book is a must-read.

Don Palmer serves as a Senior Legal Fellow for Election Integrity with the Heritage Foundation Institute for Constitutional Government. Palmer first joined Heritage in May 2026. Before joining the Heritage Foundation, Palmer served as a Commissioner and Chairman on the United States Election Assistance Commission (EAC) after being nominated by President Trump and confirmed by unanimous consent of the Senate in 2019. He twice served as Chairman of the EAC and during his tenure the agency adopted enhanced security and accuracy standards in new voting machines. He advanced increased penetration testing of current voting systems and started a new program for the evaluation and testing of other election technology used in the states. Palmer served as a senior election official in two states, as the Director of Elections in Florida and later as the Commonwealth of Virginia’s Chief Election Official as Secretary of the Virginia State Board of Elections. He was a national leader in developing ways to improve interoperability and share voter registration data between states to increase the accuracy of the official voter rolls. He also modernized the Florida voting process by implementing a voting system of tabulating paper ballots and removing electronic machines.

Bert Mizusawa (Republican Party) is running for election to the U.S. Senate to represent Virginia. He is on the ballot in the Republican primary on August 4, 2026. Mizusawa filed a statement of candidacy to run for U.S. Senate in the state of Virginia on February 9, 2018. He did not collect enough signatures to appear on the ballot and was disqualified in March 2018.

Peter Hasson is a senior politics editor at Fox Business and Fox News Digital, where he periodically writes about political and cultural issues including the "defund the police" movement. Hasson previously worked as the investigative editor at the Daily Caller News Foundation. Peter is the author of "The Manipulators: Facebook, Google, Twitter, and Big Tech's War on Conservatives." He is a graduate of the University of Dallas, where he majored in Politics.

5 years of commercial mortgage banking experience specializing in the origination of financing for commercial real estate across various asset types. Specifically the acquisition, refinance, rehabilitation and construction of multifamily housing, senior housing & healthcare facilities nationwide. His primary focus has been on FHA/HUD, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Bridge and floating rate debt. Throughout his career he have directly originated the financing for over $1,000,000,000 of commercial real estate loans for multifamily and senior housing/healthcare properties throughout the country with an emphasis in loans insured by FHA/HUD and have been involved in the origination, underwriting, funding and or asset management of over $4,000,000,000+ of commercial real estate loans. In April 2025, He accepted a Presidential Appointment to oversee HUDs Office of Housing and the Federal Housing (FHA) Administration. Nominated by President Donald J. Trump to be Assistant Secretary of Housing and Federal Housing (FHA) Commissioner, August 2025, confirmed by the US Senate in December with bipartisan support.

Roxanne Beckford Hoge earned a bachelor's degree in psychology from Davidson College in 1986. Her career experience includes working as a business owner and actor. Experienced Actor with a demonstrated history of working in the entertainment industry. Skilled in Improvisation, Film Production, Management, Television, and Marketing. Emcee and host for live events. Author of opinion pieces arguing for a stronger common-sense presence in California. Strong media and communication professional with a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) focused in Psychology from Davidson College. Real-world experience in California politics as a candidate and popular public speaker.

John Tillman is CEO of the American Culture Project and one of the nation’s most prominent leaders in the free-market public-policy arena. He is best known for building the Illinois Policy Institute (IPI), which he currently chairs, into one of the most influential state-based think tanks in the country while he was CEO from 2007 to 2021. While leading IPI, he cofounded and served as chairman of the Liberty Justice Center, which won the precedent-setting Janus v. AFSCME case before the U.S. Supreme Court in 2018. IPI was also a key part of the coalition that defeated Governor J.B. Pritzker’s progressive income tax in 2020. He has founded and chairs numerous other enterprises within the liberty space, including the Franklin News Foundation—which has news bureaus in every state and Washington, DC, and whose wire service, The Center Square, has a daily readership of 2.2 million—and digital marketing agency Iron Light.

Jonathan Butcher is the Acting Director of the Center for Education Policy and Will Skillman Senior Research Fellow in Education Policy at The Heritage Foundation. He has researched and testified on education policy around the U.S., including testimony before the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. He serves as chair of the South Carolina Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. He is the author of The Polarization Myth: America’s Surprising Consensus on Race, Schools, and Sex (Encounter Books, December 2025) and Splintered: Critical Race Theory and the Progressive War on Truth (Bombardier Books, April 2022). He wrote chapters in Higher Education in America: It’s Worse Than You Think (Encounter, 2026), and he co-edited and wrote chapters in The Critical Classroom (The Heritage Foundation, 2022), discussing the racial prejudice that comes from the application of critical race theory in K-12 schools. In 2021, South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster nominated Jonathan to serve on the board of the South Carolina Public Charter School District, a statewide charter school authorizer. Jonathan also co-edited and wrote chapters in the book The Not-So-Great Society, which provides conservative solutions to the problems created by the ever-expanding federal footprint in preschool, K-12, and higher education.

Greg Myhre was sworn in as Assemblyman in January 2024. He is the regulatory compliance officer for the Toms River Municipal Utilities Authority. He was most recently the business administrator for Plumsted Township and operations manager for a computer network integration firm. Previously, he was mayor of Stafford Township from 2019 to 2024. He also served on the township planning board, the Ocean County Natural Lands Trust Fund Advisory Committee, Pinelands Municipal Council and New Jersey League of Municipalities Resolution Committee. He earned his bachelor's in geography at the University of Maryland, and a graduate certificate in geospatial intelligence from Penn State. Myhre lives with his wife Amber and their three children-Gunnar, Annika and Aksel-in Manahawkin.

Caroline lives in Midtown Manhattan and has always valued education, hard work, and pushing the limits of what’s possible. This foundation helped shape Caroline’s path from academic achievement, to working at the center of the U.S. financial system and legal industry, to her civic and community involvement. Caroline has served in leadership roles with legal, educational, and community organizations, and founded a nonprofit focused on encouraging and inspiring informed civic engagement among the rising generation. She is also a long-time member of the Screen Actors Guild–American Federation of Television & Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA).

Ambassador Andrew Bremberg is President Emeritus of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation. Previously Ambassador Bremberg served as the Representative of the United States to the Office of the United Nations and Other International Organizations in Geneva. Ambassador Bremberg has a long history of public service. Prior to his work at the UN, he served as Assistant to the President and Director of the Domestic Policy Council for the Executive Office of the President. He previously served as Policy Advisor and Counsel on Nominations for the Office of Senate Majority Leader. He also worked for the non-profit MITRE Corporation as a senior health policy-analyst and department manager, and for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Scott Rasmussen is a renowned American public opinion pollster, political analyst, and author who founded the Napolitan Institute. The Institute is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to conducting surveys and data-driven analysis to understand public attitudes and values.