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The Kentucky Lantern’s Teri Carter covered Principles First: As Heath Mayo, Christian conservative and founder of Principles First, wrote about today’s GOP, “The breathless outrage at the folks in drag from the same people who just last week eagerly cheered a porn star, a man who hit his wife…

USA TODAY’s Melissa Brown covered Principles First event in Milwaukee: For the group meeting inside the historic Pabst Brewery, it means sticking to certain conservative principles. They gathered in support of Principles First, a center-right organization that emerged in 2019 as an alternative to the Conservative Political Action Conference. In…

Politico’s Brittany Gibson covered Principles First event in Milwaukee: The off-campus event hosted by Principles First claimed to be the real nucleus of the GOP, contrary to what was happening just a few blocks away. The speakers derided a party now led by Trump, the 2024 platform and growing trends…

Sacha Pfeiffer, an occasional guest host for some of NPR’s Morning Edition, interviewed GOP strategist Heath Mayo: But that perspective doesn’t sit well with some other Republicans. Heath Mayo founded Principles First, which calls itself a grassroots movement of conservatives concerned about Republican leadership, including and in other words Donald…

The Associated Press’s Thomas Beaumont covered the Principles First event in Milwaukee: Less than 20 miles away from the RNC podium at Milwaukee’s Fiserv Forum, Republicans far afield of former President Trump will gather to present a different vision for their party. Under the banner “Principles First,” Republicans who have…

The Dispatch’s John Hart referenced Principles First and its founder, Heath Mayo: The dissident majority shouldn’t be constrained in its ambition and scope, and it should embrace an “all of the above” approach to tactics, institution building, and reform. If you have a vision for a new party, go build…

Lynn Schmidt, syndicated columnist and editorial board member with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, covered the Principles First Summit: Listening to the variety of speakers at Principles First, I caught myself looking up at the chandelier. It had a hundred or so cylinders hanging next to each other in a large…

Democracy Note’s Gabriel Lerner covered the Principles First Summit on a recent podcast with Matt Germer⁠, director of the Governance Program at the ⁠R Street Institute, a center-right think tank, and Scott Warren⁠, a fellow at the ⁠SNF Agora Institute⁠ at Johns Hopkins University. Matt and Scott are…

USA Today’s Karissa Waddick covered the Principles First Summit: “There is that point where you realize, I’ve got to do the responsible thing,” Michael Steele, a former chair of the Republican National Committee who has long opposed Trump, said Saturday during an interview at a conference dubbed the Principles…