Liberty Chats

In this episode of Liberty Chats, we speak with Jorge Galicia, a Christian, lawyer and freedom fighter from Venezuela. 

Before socialism devastated his country, Jorge lived a life not unlike that of middle-class Americans. He is now one of 4 million Venezuelans who have fled their country following its economic, social and political collapse. Since then, he has been speaking out about the very real damages caused by socialism and has made it his life’s mission to win the fight.

Jorge is an Outreach Fellow for The Fund for American Studies and is a former speaker at the Steamboat Institute's Freedom Conference. He is a sought after speaker and leader across the country. 

Check out our past episodes below:

• Matt Spalding, Hillsdale College
• Katie Pavlich, Fox News Contributor
• Rachel Bovard, Conservative Partnership Institute
• Charlie Kirk, Turning Point USA

In this episode of Liberty Chats, we speak with Matthew Spalding,  the Kirby Professor in Constitutional Government at Hillsdale College and the Dean of the Van Andel Graduate School of Government at Hillsdale College’s Washington, D.C., campus. As Vice President for Washington Operations, he also oversees the Allan P. Kirby, Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship and the academic and educational programs of Hillsdale in the nation’s capital.

He is the best-selling author of We Still Hold These Truths: Rediscovering Our Principles, Reclaiming Our Future, which details America’s core principles, shows how they have come under assault by modern progressive-liberalism, and lays out a strategy to recover them.

Check out our past episodes below:

• Katie Pavlich, Fox News Contributor
• Rachel Bovard, Conservative Partnership Institute
• Charlie Kirk, Turning Point USA
• Congressman French Hill

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On this episode of Liberty Chats, Emerging Leaders Council member Christina Eastman speaks with Katie Pavlich, an editor at Townhall.com and Fox News contributor. 

Katie regularly joins special coverage on Fox News,  co-hosting the daytime show Outnumbered and The Five, and has served as a guest host on Fox News Primetime, The Ingraham Angle, Hannity and Fox and Friends. 

Reporting for Townhall.com, she has covered a variety of topics ranging from presidential and congressional elections to the White House, Department of Justice, Second Amendment, border issues, the ISIS genocide of Christians in the Middle East and more. 

In this episode, Katie talks with us about her rising career, her passion for this work and how women can stand strong in the face of adversity. 

Rachel Bovard is the Senior Director of Policy at former Senator Jim DeMint's Conservative Partnership Institute. Previously, she served in both the House and Senate in various roles including as legislative director for Senator Rand Paul.

Rachel has also worked for Senator Pat Toomey (R-PA) and Senator Mike Lee (R-UT), where she advised  on strategy and policy. In the House, she worked as senior legislative assistant to Congressman Donald Manzullo (R-IL), and Congressman Ted Poe (R-TX). She also served as director of policy services for The Heritage Foundation. She is the co-author of Conservative: Knowing What to Keep. 

In this conversation, we speak with Rachel about the Trump Administrations, conservatives today, how to proceed moving forward and what conservatives should be thinking about policy and leadership-wise. 

Welcome to Episode 5 of "Liberty Chats" podcast from the Steamboat Institute. In this episode, Emerging Leaders' Council Member Lindsey Martin speaks with Charlie Kirk, founder and executive director of Turning Point USA. 

Turning Point is a national student movement dedicated to identifying, organizing, and empowering young people to promote the principles of free markets, and limited government.

Here, Lindsey asks Charlie about several important issues: 

• How he thinks conservatives should approach the next four years of the Biden Presidency
• Big Tech censorship 
• Speaking out in the face of cultural conservative criticism
• America's political division and how "clarity over agreement" is more important than unity specifically. 
• President Biden's many executive actions

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• Congressman French Hill
• Amber Athey, Spectator USA
• Russ Vought, The Center for American Restoration

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In this episode of Liberty Chats, Zachary Rogers speaks with Arkansas Congressman French Hill who is a Ranking Member of the National Security, International Development, and Monetary Policy Subcommittee.

Prior to his work in Congress, Congressman Hill was actively engaged in the Arkansas business community for two decades as a commercial banker and investment manager. He was founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Delta Trust & Banking Corp.

He shares his thoughts with us on U.S.-China Policy, specifically answering a few specific questions:

• Why should Americans care about our policies?
• Do we have the right policies?
• If we don't have the right policies,  what bipartisan, commonsense policies could we have?
• We ask Congressman Hill about his recent op/ed in the Wall Street Journal: "Congressional Democrats Plan to Bail Out China."

If you enjoyed this episode with Congressman French Hill, check out some of our previous episodes here:

• Amber Athey, Spectator USA
• Russ Vought, The Center for American Restoration
• Patrice Onwuka, Independent Women's Forum

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Our guest today is Amber Athey, the Washington Editor for Spectator USA and a Senior Tony Blankley Fellow at the Steamboat Institute.  Prior to her work at Spectator, Amber was a White House correspondent for the Daily Caller and a reporter for Campus Reform.

She was President of the College Republicans when she attended Georgetown University and has always been honest about her political leanings in her journalism career. In this interview, Amber talks about why readers no longer trust journalists because they often hide their political preferences.

Here, Amber discusses being a part of the White House Press Corp, which she recently rejoined as part of the Spectator. Because of COVID, it was quite an uphill battle to get her credentials this time around, but she has been persistent. She talks about how restrictive the Biden Administration has been for reporters since they took office, as it relates to COVID testing and safety.

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Like this episode? Check out our past guests: 

• Russ Vought, The Center for American Restoration
• Patrice Onwuka, Independent Women's Forum

In this episode of "Liberty Chats," Zach Rogers speaks with Russ Vought, the former Director of the Office of Management and Budget and founder of the new Center for American Restoration.

The new Center exists to restore an American consensus of a nation under God with unique interests worthy of defending that flow from its people, institutions, and history, where individuals’ enjoyment of freedom is predicated on just laws and healthy communities.

In this conversation, Russ gives us the details about plans in the coming year and the policies he thinks are most important to preserve from his time serving in the Trump Administration.

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In the first episode of Liberty Chats, Charlotte Whelan, a member of Steamboat Institute’s Emerging Leaders Council, interviews Tony Blankley Fellow Patrice Onwuka, a senior policy analyst the Independent Women's Forum. 

In this episode, Patrice talks about her family's immigration to the United States when she was a baby and why she believes in liberty-based policies that benefit both women and men. Patrice's passion for subjects like deregulation, work flexibility and freedom of speech is evident here. 

Seen regularly on Fox News and in the opinion pages of places like the Hill and the Washington examiner, Patrice is a seasoned policy analyst with much wisdom to offer the next generation of liberty-minded individuals.