Phyllis Stewart Schlafly was an American attorney,conservative activist,author,and anti-feminist spokesperson for the national conservative movement. She held paleoconservative social and political views,opposed feminism,gay rights and abortion,and successfully campaigned against ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
Kay Bailey Hutchison is an American attorney,television correspondent,politician,diplomat,and was the 22nd United States Permanent Representative to NATO from 2017 until 2021. A member of the Republican Party,she was a United States Senator from Texas from 1993 to 2013.
The Conservative Party of New York State is an American political party founded in 1962 following conservative dissatisfaction with the Republican Party in New York. Running on the Conservative Party line,James L. Buckley won election to the U.S. Senate in 1970 and served for one term. Since 2010,the party has held "Row C" on New York ballots—the third-place ballot position,directly below the Democratic and Republican parties—because it received the third-highest number of votes of any political party in the 2010,2014 and 2018 New York gubernatorial elections. The party is known for its strategy of attempting to influence the Republican Party in a more conservative direction.
Kenneth Michael Conaway is an American politician who was the U.S. representative for Texas's 11th congressional district from 2005 to 2021. He is a member of the Republican Party. The district Conaway represented is located in West Texas and includes Midland,Odessa,San Angelo,Brownwood,and Granbury. Conaway led the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections after the Intelligence Committee chair,Devin Nunes,recused himself. Aside from serving as the chair of the House Ethics Committee,he served as the chair of the House Agriculture Committee,and later its ranking member. Conaway indicated in July 2019 that he would not be seeking reelection. Conaway was succeeded by fellow Republican August Pfluger.
The National Federation of Republican Assemblies (NFRA) is a political organization which promotes conservative principles and candidates within the Republican Party. Members at the local,state and national levels work to recruit and elect Republican candidates who reflect the Party's conservative philosophy,and to oppose so-called "RINOs",leaders and candidates who take positions to the left of the party's conservative mainstream.
Eagle Forum is a conservative interest group in the United States founded by Phyllis Schlafly in 1972 and is the parent organization that also includes the Eagle Forum Education and Legal Defense Fund and the Eagle Forum PAC. The Eagle Forum has been primarily focused on social issues;it describes itself as pro-family and reports membership of 80,000. Critics have described it as socially conservative and anti-feminist.
The Republican Party of Texas (RPT) is the affiliate of the United States Republican Party in the state of Texas. It is currently chaired by Matt Rinaldi,succeeding Allen West who resigned prior to the expiration of his term to run for governor of Texas. The party is headquartered in Austin. The RPT is legally considered to be a political action committee. It is currently the state's favored party,controlling the majority of Texas's U.S. House seats,both U.S. Senate seats,both houses of the state legislature,and the governorship.
Allen Bernard West is an American politician and retired military officer. A member of the Republican Party,West represented Florida's 22nd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 2011 to 2013 and served as the chairman of the Republican Party of Texas from 2020 to 2021.
John Rice Carter is the U.S. representative serving Texas's 31st congressional district since 2003. He is a Republican. The district includes the northern suburbs of Austin,as well as Fort Hood.
The 2012 United States Senate election in Texas was held on November 6,2012,along with other elections to the United States Senate the United States House of Representatives in additional states. Incumbent Republican U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison decided to retire instead of running for reelection to a fourth full term. This was the first open seat in this seat since 1952.
Stephen Peter Munisteri is an American attorney who served as the chairman of the Republican Party of Texas from 2010 to 2015. In 2017,Munisteri was appointed to the White House staff as deputy assistant to the president and principal deputy director of the Office of Public Liaison.
Women in conservatism in the United States have advocated for social,political,economic,and cultural conservative policies since anti-suffragism. Leading conservative women such as Phyllis Schlafly have expressed that women should embrace their privileged essential nature. This thread of belief can be traced through the anti-suffrage movement,the Red Scare,and the Reagan Era,and is still present in the 21st century,especially in several conservative women's organizations such as Concerned Women for America and the Independent Women's Forum.
The 2016 Republican National Convention,in which delegates of the United States Republican Party chose the party's nominees for president and vice president in the 2016 U.S. presidential election,was held July 18–21,2016,at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland,Ohio. The event marked the third time Cleveland has hosted the Republican National Convention and the first since 1936. In addition to determining the party's national ticket,the convention ratified the party platform.
Patrick Edward Fallon is an American businessman and politician. A member of the Republican Party,he has been the U.S. representative for Texas's 4th congressional district since 2021. Fallon was also a member of the Texas House of Representatives for the 106th district from 2013 to 2019 and represented the 30th district of the Texas Senate from 2019 to 2021.
Thomas Richard Mechler,is an American engineer and entrepreneur as well as volunteer political organizer who served as the Chairman of the Republican Party of Texas.
Jared Ryker Woodfill V is a Texas lawyer and political figure who was chairman of the Harris County Republican Party from 2002 to 2014. He was elected chairman of the county party for six two-year terms. After being ousted from the chairmanship of the county party in 2014,Woodfill launched two unsuccessful campaigns for the chairmanship of the Texas Republican Party. Woodfill is known for his socially conservative views activism,including his opposition to the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance,which was repealed in a 2015 referendum.
The Conservative Case for Trump is a 2016 book written by Phyllis Schlafly,with Ed Martin and Brett M. Decker,arguing that American conservatives should vote for Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election. It was published the day after Schlafly's death,four months after Trump secured the Republican Party nomination in May and two months before he won the general election. The authors describe Trump as someone who promises the most conservative presidency since Ronald Reagan's.
James Roy Dickey is an American executive from Austin,Texas and the former chairman of the Republican Party of Texas. He was elected by the 64-member Republican State Executive Committee meeting in Austin on June 3,2017,and re-elected at the state convention on June 15,2018. In his third campaign he was defeated by Allen West on July 20,2020.
