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Madison Cawthorn, 25, wants to create 'new Republican Party' that inspires young people Madison Cawthorn, R-N.C., beat out a candidate backed by President Trump and the Washington establishment to become the youngest incoming member of Congress at age 25. So he arrived in Washington beholden to no one and determined to shake up the Republican Party through new messaging, new recruits and new ways to fundraise. "My election was really a referendum on the establishment," Cawthorn told Fox News in a recent interview. "They're really sending me up here to fight against that." Winning the seat without the help of...

January 21, 2008 A Conservative Party Organized on a Federalist Basis? For purposes of discussion, if we were to try to establish state level versions of a national conservative party, how would we go about it? Think both inside and outside the box. I would suggest also giving a fair amount of consideration to the new communication and organizational tools now available to us that were not available even as recently as the Perot uprising.