n the hotel where Abraham Lincoln kicked off his Civil War presidency, and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. refined his most famous speech, dozens of organizations gathered this week with a common goal: to forge a historic coalition that would catapult conservatives to the forefront of early voting and election lawfare and expand their movement to Hispanics, Asians, union workers, and African-Americans fleeing the Democratic Party.
The meeting Wednesday at the Willard Intercontinental, organized by America First Works, a 501 c4 aligned with the America First Policy Institute and its founder, former Trump White House adviser Brooke Rollins, kicked off with a simple tool that decades ago united conservatives: a signed pledge.
The original Reagan-era pledge, crafted by anti-tax activist Grover Norquist, committed candidates starting in 1986 to never raising taxes. The new “United We Win” pledge committes groups with diverse interests to coalesce around a common goal to “reclaim our nation’s narrative” and “win the argument” heading into November, “leaving no stone unturned” and “saving America.”
