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Charlie Kirk

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of Students for Trump
  • Founder and President of Turning Point USA
The Charlie Kirk Show is the next big thing in talk radio, heard daily on the Salem Radio Network. He also airs a daily podcast of the same Name, that has become one of the top 10 news shows on Apple New Podcast rankings. Charlie Kirk is the Founder and President of Turning Point USA, a national student movement dedicated to identifying, organizing, and empowering young people to promote the principles of free markets and limited government. With a presence on over 2,000 high school and college campuses nationwide, 250,000 student members, and over 150 full-time staff, Turning Point USA is the largest and fastest growing conservative youth activist organization in the country. Just 26 years old, Charlie has appeared on CNBC, Fox News and FOX Business News over 600 times, is an editor-at-large at Newsweek, and whose writings are often published on Fox News, The Hill, The Washington Times, Breitbart, and Daily Caller. He was Named to the Forbes "30 under 30" list and was also the youngest speaker at the 2016 Republican National Convention. He's the author of three books including the #1 Amazon and New York Times bestseller, The MAGA Doctrine: The Only Ideas that Will Win the Future from Broadside Books, an imprint of Harper Collins. Charlie is also the chairman of Students for Trump, which aims to activate one million new college voters through its more than 350 chapters present on campuses in battleground states. In 2019, Charlie was granted an honorary doctorate from Liberty University citing his exceptional leadership and energetic voice for conservatives. Later that year, Charlie teamed up with Liberty University President, Jerry Falwell Jr. to cofound The Falkirk Center for Faith and Liberty, a Christian think tank working to expand religious liberty and advance conservative principles in the public sphere. His social media reaches over 100 million people per month and according to Axios he is one of the "top 10 most engaged" Twitter handles in the world behind only President Trump among conservatives.

Dr. Sebastian Gorka

Dr. Sebastian Gorka began his show AMERICA FIRST on New Years Day, 2019. His ascent to this role could not have been more unusual, or more of a true "American Story."

Julie Hartman

Julie Hartman is an open-minded 22-year-old broadcast host. Raised in Los Angeles, she attended the Marlborough School where she set the school swimming records for the 50 and 100 yard freestyle events and won the Yale Book Award, a prize presented to the "outstanding member" of the class in terms of "effort, character, leadership, and academic achievement." She graduated cum laude from Harvard University where she won the History Department's William S. Ferguson Prize for her essay on Patrice Lumumba's assassination. In July of 2020, she discovered Dennis Prager's work and emailed him to thank him for his influence on her thinking. He then invited her as a guest on his radio show. The following summer, Julie appeared as a weekly on-air contributor to his nationally syndicated radio program. Last August, at the age of 21, Julie guest-hosted three-hour broadcasts for both The Dennis Prager Show and The Mike Gallagher Show, becoming the youngest person to solo substitute host on a national program. In addition to her new program on Salem News Channel, Julie has a podcast with Dennis - Dennis and Julie - which airs every Tuesday.

Mike Gallagher

Hugh Hewitt Mike Gallagher Dennis Prager Jay Sekulow Sebastian Gorka Stacy Washington Brandon Tatum Charlie Kirk Andrew Wilkow Dinesh D'Souza Eric Metaxas Tony Perkins, Mike Johnson Lara Trump Kevin McCullough Julie Hartman Dennis and Julie SNC Tonight Jenna Ellis Carl Jackson SNC Specials It's no easy task to wake up an entire nation, but Hugh Hewitt does it with ease. He is America's true East Coast-West Coast man, doing the show most of the time from inside the Beltway of Washington DC, but other times from his studio in Southern California, where Hugh is a professor of law at Chapman University's Fowler School of Law, teaching Constitutional Law. When he's inside the Beltway, Hugh will often appear on the panel Sundays on the NBC's Meet The Press. You'll also see him popping up on MSNBC giving much needed conservative opinions. Hugh received national exposure when he was selected by CNN as one of the panelists for four of the 2016 debate stage for President of the United States. Hugh is the author of 14 books, including his most recent "The Fourth Way" outlining what America must do now that we have elected Donald Trump to the presidency. Now heard on around 400 affiliates, Hugh's is one of the fastest growing shows on the Salem Radio Network. He is also a contributing columnist for The Washington Post and all his writing appears at Townhall.com. Hugh began his radio career on KFI in Los Angeles in 1990, and spent a decade as co-host of a nightly news and public affairs show on PBS' Los Angeles affiliate KCET before launching his nationally syndicated show on 8 original stations on July 10, 2000. He moved to mornings in April 2016 and never missed a beat. Hugh and his wife, "The Fetching Mrs. Hewitt" as Hugh calls her on the air, live in northern VA. He is a graduate of Harvard College and the University of Michigan Law School, and spent six years in the Reagan Administration, including stints in the White House Counsel's office and as Special Assistant to two Attorneys General. Hugh has also served on The California Arts Council, the South Coast Air Quality District and The Orange County Children and Families Commission. Dennis Prager is one of the most respected and influential thinkers, writers, and speakers in America.He is a nationally syndicated talk show host - heard across the country on nearly 400 affiliates, in addition to TuneIn.com, iHeartRadio.com, and the websites of his many radio stations. His show also has listeners around the world via the internet. He is the founder of Prager University (PragerU) - the most viewed conservative video site in the world, with one billion views a year, more than half by people under the age of 35.And, he is a Renaissance Man. · He is a New York Times bestselling author of nine books on subjects as varied as religion, happiness, morality, the left, Islamism, and America. · He is a life-long theologian. His most recent book, The Rational Bible, is the first volume of his five-volume commentary on the first five books of the Bible - rooted in his extensive knowledge of biblical Hebrew. It is currently the bestselling Bible commentary in America, and at publication was the #1 bestselling non-fiction book in the United States. · He periodically conducts symphony orchestras, including twice at the Walt Disney Concert Hall, where he most recently conducted the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. · He has travelled to more than 130 countries and has lectured on all the world's continents. · An expert on communism, the Middle East, and the left, he did his graduate work at the Russian and Middle East Institutes of the Columbia University School of International Affairs. He taughtRussian and Jewish history at Brooklyn College. Dennis is known for his clarity. The motto of his show is, "I prefer clarity to agreement." He is deeply passionate about preserving America, the West, and the Judeo-Christian value system - yet he may well be the calmest voice in radio. Most important, he has a personal bond with many of his millions of listeners, which is why over 500 listeners travel with him to Israel every other year, and thousands have travelled with him everywhere from Antarctica to West Africa to Vietnam and the Panama Canal on his sold-out listener cruises every year for the last quarter-century. Finally, there are no hours on American radio like his weekly Happiness Hour, Ultimate Issues Hour, and Male-Female Hour. In short, when Dennis Prager speaks, America watches. "Dennis Prager is an amazingly gifted man and moralist whose mission in life has been crystallized: to get people obsessed with what's right and wrong." - The Los Angeles Times