American Freedom Alliance

Dr. Ian Oxnevad, senior fellow at the National Association of Scholars, details how China treats American universities as strategic terrain for accessing emerging technologies, shaping policy, and influencing future regulators. He describes the California–China Climate Institute—a joint UC Berkeley–Tsinghua effort whose research, some of it possibly linked to Chinese intelligence, helped produce n...

American Freedom Alliance Fellow Dr. Bradley Thayer outlines why communism—illegitimate, hyper-aggressive, and responsible for more than 100 million deaths—remains the greatest challenge the United States has ever faced, waged both by the Chinese Communist Party abroad and by networks inside the country. He identifies the antidote in what he calls the American trinity: the American spirit of self-...

Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, outlines why mass immigration is the central self-inflicted vulnerability in the current global conflict: without a strong shared national identity, or asabiyyah, a country cannot define or defend its interests. He reviews America’s historical success at expanding the “circle of we” through reduced inflows and active assimil...

AFA Fellow Trevor Loudon outlines how a small Marxist-Leninist core has long shaped American policy by infiltrating and steering the Democratic Party through unions and allied groups. Drawing on the New Zealand example—where Moscow-trained communists flipped Labour Party policy and broke the ANZUS alliance in six months—he shows the same method at work in the United States via Democratic Socialist...

Capt. James Fanell, USN (Ret.), details how the Chinese Communist Party has spent more than 25 years preparing for kinetic conflict while expanding globally. Drawing on his Navy intelligence experience, he describes China’s sustained military spending above GDP growth, a shipbuilding capacity vastly larger than America’s, and the transformation of the PLA Navy from a coastal force into one operati...

In the keynote from WWIII: Status Update, Alex Newman outlines how the world is already in a polycrisis—multiple overlapping political, economic, environmental, and geopolitical shocks deliberately merged to create chaos and demand for global solutions. Drawing on Soviet defectors, UN documents, and historical precedents, he describes an alliance of globalists, communists, and jihadists seeking a...

Frank Gaffney examines the “red-green” alliance operating inside the United States, linking Sharia supremacists (using the Muslim Brotherhood as shorthand) with communist and Democratic Socialist networks. He details their shared short-term goal of undermining the Constitution and American government through information operations, political infiltration, censorship, disciplined voting blocs, and...

Gordon Chang opens our conference with the warning that the world has moved from relative calm into an era of spreading conflict with global stakes, driven by Chinese and Russian involvement across multiple theaters. Xi Jinping is a revolutionary pursuing total dominance—reviving imperial notions of ruling “all under heaven” and drawing on Maoist tactics of encircling the core (the West) from the...

Jan Jekielek, senior editor of The Epoch Times and host of American Thought Leaders, joined us in Los Angeles to talk about the Chinese Communist Party’s forced organ harvesting industry and what it reveals about the regime behind it.  His New York Times bestselling book, Killed to Order: China’s Organ Harvesting Industry and the True Nature of America’s Biggest Adversary, examines a practice many...

Dr. Bradley Thayer, American Freedom Alliance Fellow, joined us in Washington, DC, for a celebration of his new book, America’s 100 Years’ War: How to Win Against Communism. In his address, introduced by AFA President Dr. Karen Siegemund, Dr Thayer argues that the United States has been locked for a century in a contest between the spirit of 1776—Madison and the Founders—and the spirit of 1917—Len...

In Spirit of America Episode 3, American Freedom Alliance President Dr. Karen Siegemund and AFA Fellow Dr. Bradley Thayer continue their conversation on Bradley’s book America’s Hundred Years’ War: How to Win Against Communism, turning to a second totalitarian threat: the red-green axis of communism and Islamism. They argue that both seek to take down America as the standard-bearer of Western civi...

In Spirit of America Episode 2, American Freedom Alliance President, Dr. Karen Siegemund and AFA Fellow Dr. Bradley Thayer continue their conversation on Bradley’s new book 'America’s Hundred Years’ War: How to Win Against Communism'. They contrast the American spirit—independence, God-given individual rights, liberty, pioneering grit, meritocracy, and love of the land—with communism’s totalitaria...

At our 'America’s 250th Birthday' celebration, longtime friend of the Reagan Library, numerous veterans’ organizations, and AFA, Bob Donovan, honored our military by delivering Jimmy Weldon’s stirring monologue “I Am the Flag.”  The piece traces Old Glory’s journey through American history—from Lexington and Concord and Molly Pitcher to Iwo Jima and the Four Chaplains—before Bob led the audience i...

In this talk, Frank Gaffney speaks on American greatness from the perspective of an American.  He shares a personal encounter earlier that day with Debra Burlingame (sister of the pilot of the plane that struck the Pentagon on 9/11 and a leading 9/11 families advocate), reflecting on the approaching 25th anniversary and past battles such as the proposed Ground Zero mosque.  He recounts her story o...

Dr. Bradley Thayer, an esteemed Fellow of the American Freedom Alliance, delivered remarks at AFA’s America’s 250th Birthday celebration in Los Angeles. Speaking in the context of the event’s keynote by Eric Metaxas (author of Revolution) and contributions from Trevor Loudon, Frank Gaffney, Bob Donavan, and Susanne Reyto, Dr Thayer argued for civilizational confidence in the West. He framed the Am...

Susanne Reyto (Holocaust survivor, author, and longtime American Freedom Alliance supporter) delivered a moving personal reflection on freedom and gratitude at AFA’s America’s 250th Birthday celebration in Los Angeles.  A child survivor of the Holocaust—born in Budapest just six days before the Nazi occupation of Hungary in March 1944—Reyto spent her earliest months with her mother in “protected h...

New Zealand-based author, speaker and American Freedom Alliance Fellow Trevor Loudon delivered remarks at our 'America's 250th Birthday' event in Los Angeles.  Speaking as a grateful outsider, he thanked the veterans present for the sacrifices of World War II (and later conflicts) that preserved freedom for Allied nations, including his own.   Drawing on a providential view of history, Trevor link...

As we celebrate America's 250th Birthday, few voices are better suited to reflect on the meaning of our nation's founding, the blessings of liberty, and the responsibilities that accompany freedom.  The American Freedom Alliance is honored to welcome Eric Metaxas as our featured guest and keynote speaker. With introduction by AFA President Dr Karen Siegemund (Eric Metaxas speech from 6 minutes) Re...

In this urgent and eye-opening episode of Parresia, we welcome back national security expert Frank Gaffney, president of the Institute for the American Future and a leading voice in the fight against threats to America and Western civilization. Frank outlines what he calls the “totalitarian trifecta” — the three interconnected forces he sees as the greatest dangers facing the United States today:...

Just weeks after their powerful live event in Los Angeles, AFA President Dr Karen Siegemund welcomes bestselling author, master filmmaker, and one of America’s most fearless defenders of truth, Dinesh D’Souza. Dinesh shares his eye-opening journey from socialist India to discovering the abundance, ingenuity, and freedom that define real America. He explains why he has spent decades challenging the...

The American Freedom Alliance welcomed renowned author, filmmaker, and podcast host Dinesh D’Souza to Los Angeles for a powerful evening titled “Western Civilization vs. The United States of Islam.” In his signature style—witty, incisive, and unflinching—D’Souza took the stage and delivered a wide-ranging talk that moved from personal storytelling to urgent cultural diagnosis.  He began with the i...

In the launch episode of The Spirit of America, American Freedom Alliance President Dr. Karen Siegemund sits down with Dr. Bradley Thayer, AFA Fellow and originator of the Spirit of America Institute, for a wide-ranging conversation on American identity and its defense.  They discuss the Institute’s founding vision, the unique “Spirit of 1776” that defines the American people, our British and West...

We hosted a sold-out evening in Los Angeles with Tommy Robinson, complete with high security and a riveting talk. Drawing from years of first-hand experience, Tommy exposed how jihad is waged in the UK — through grooming gangs, horrific assaults, and authorities that protect perpetrators while persecuting victims and truth-tellers. His core message was sobering: Islam’s conquest tactics are highly...

Xi Van Fleet joined us to discuss her latest book,  Made in America: The Hidden History of How America Enabled Communist China and Created our Greatest Threat. Her talk addressing America's century-long complicity in the rise of the Chinese Communist Party and the various reasons for our missteps in our relationship with China disclosed aspects of Chinese history, of Communism and of our foreign p...

Peter Mcilvenna, American Freedom Alliance Fellow and founder of Hearts of Oak, delivers a compelling speech at the Geert Wilders event in Los Angeles on January 10th. Drawing from his 20 years fighting Islamization in the UK, he shares critical lessons on Islam's use of education, demographics, halal food dominance, the Muslim rape gang scandal, and its spiritual clash with Christianity and Judai...