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The Washington Post’s Kara Voght covered the Principles First Summit: Here at Principles First, in the sweeping second-floor atrium of the Conrad Hotel, was your father’s Republican Party: a herd of chinos, sports coats and the occasional Nikki Haley T-shirt. First held in 2020, the event was a refuge for…

The Hill’s Bill Press covered the Principles First Summit: That fracture in the GOP was also on full display last weekend in Washington, where two wings of the Republican Party held dueling conventions. National Harbor hosted the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). Downtown Washington’s Conrad Hotel …

The Wall Street Journal’s Molly Ball covered the Principles First Summit: These were the people who gathered in Washington over the weekend for the Principles First summit, a conference of anti-Trump conservatives that styled itself as counterprogramming to the Conservative Political Action Conference where Trump rallied his faithful on Saturday.

Newsweek’s Nick Mordowanec covered CPAC this year: Prominent conservatives have opted to not attend CPAC this year and instead join a summit that’s counter-programming CPAC. The Principles First summit, set to take place this weekend, features several of Trump’s critics, including former Representative Adam Kinzinger, former Governor…

Heath Mayo, Founder of Principles First, sat down with C-SPAN Washington Journal to talk about the upcoming Principles First Summit and Campaign 2024. Watch the full interview here.

The Hill’s Caroline Vakil covered the Principles First Summit: A summit aimed at rivaling the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) and featuring prominent Republican critics of former President Trump will take place in Washington later this month. The group Principles First is set to host a summit Feb. 23-25 at…

Gathering will be the group’s largest to date, and will showcase speakers offering a principled vision for American leadership, in opposition to illiberalism on the right. WASHINGTON – February 5, 2024 – The fourth annual Principles First Summit will take place at the Conrad in Washington DC…

Heath Mayo, Founder of Principles First, spoke with The Washington Post on August 3: Heath Mayo, an attorney and founder of an anti-Trump nonprofit group called Principles First, said Republicans are contradicting themselves by accusing Biden of weaponizing the Justice Department while at the same time pledging to crush the…

Heath Mayo, founder of Principles First, was featured in The Bulwark’s Not My Party: As Heath Mayo, a founder of Principles First, a traditional conservative activist group, put it, “The loudest applause lines . . . that we should give Russia the Donbas, that we should defund the FBI, that…