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    L. Todd Wood

    Founder/Publisher

    L. Todd Wood is the CEO of Creative Destruction Media. He's also been a longtime national security columnist for the Washington Times, and other large publications. Visit LToddWood.com.

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    Jen Snow

    Staff Writer

    Jen Snow is a former paralegal turned freelance writer who has a passion for foreign affairs. When not writing, she can be found curled up with her dog and a good book or outside playing in the Florida sun.
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    Jane Cook

    Contributor

    Jane Hampton Cook is an award-winning author of ten books and a screenwriter, national media commentator, and a former White House webmaster. Her passion is to inspire patriotism by bringing America’s exceptional history to life. Her book Stories of Faith & Courage from the Revolutionary War is a daily devotional that shows the sacrifices of those who lived loudly for liberty to secure America’s independence.

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    John R. Miles

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    John R. Miles is renowned globally as a leader, speaker, educator, and veteran's advocate, specializing in intentional behavior change, leadership, and personal mastery. He is the founder and CEO of Passion Struck and hosts one of the top health podcasts, Passion Struck with John R. Miles. His mission is to empower individuals to live intentional lives, celebrate their successes, and recognize their importance in the world. He reaches millions of people annually through his social media posts, podcast, and YouTube channels, enabling them to enhance their personal responsibility, productivity, creativity, and mastery.

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    Troy Beecham

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    Fr. Beecham is a native of Atlanta, Georgia, where has parents and his two brothers and their families still reside. A priest for the last 20 years, he has served parishes across the country, including time as a monk. Fr. Beecham holds BA, MA, and STM degrees in Theology and Biblical Studies, including studying in Jerusalem, with special emphasis on Biblical languages, history, and comparative religions.
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    Dan Schultz

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    Daniel J. Schultz is an elected Arizona Republican Party precinct committeeman and state committeeman, a veteran, a trial lawyer, an author, and promoter of the Neighborhood Precinct Committeeman Strategy at PrecinctStrategy.com. In 2017 he published a short overview of the basics of the Precinct Strategy in an Amazon paperback and ebook, How To Get Into The Real Ball Game Of Politics Where You Live To Help President Donald J. Trump Make America Great Again. Mr. Schultz has over 15 years of “in the trenches” experience in all aspects of political party governance and campaigns for both political party and public office candidates.

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    Sasha Latypova

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    Sasha Latypova, who has 25 years of experience in pharmaceutical research and development, started a number of successful companies — primarily focused on creating and reviewing clinical trials.
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    Rob Cunningham

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    Rob‘s experience includes a degree in management informations systems, service as a USAF instructor pilot and commercial airline pilot, ten years in investment and mortgage banking and the co-founder of a national business development company. He’s involved in private equity investing, serves in advisory roles for private equity and non-profit organizations, and has an insatiable curiosity to research law, history, politics, the emerging world of cryptocurrency, digital assets and society after the demise of the Federal Reserve.
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    William B. Scott

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    William B. Scott is the former Rocky Mountain Bureau Chief for Aviation Week & Space Technology magazine, author of Combat Contrails: Vietnam; The Permit, a techno-thriller novel based on the murder of his eldest son, and coauthor of License to Kill: The Murder of Erik Scott; Space Wars: The First Six Hours of World War III; Counterspace: The Next Hours of World War III, and Inside the Stealth Bomber: The B-2 Story. A Flight Test Engineer graduate of the U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School, he has logged approximately 2,000 flight hours on 81 types of aircraft. He holds a BS degree in Electrical Engineering.

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    Christine Dolan

    Senior Editor/Senior Investigative Reporter

    Christine Dolan is a seasoned Investigative Journalist television producer, author and photographer. She is Co-Founder of CDM's American Conversations whose format focuses on in-depth analysis of critical issues about the story behind the headlines.

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    Sady Chavez

    CDM En Español Coordinator

    Hispanic-American political analyst and activist. Dedicated to driving change through education, advocating for conservative values, and anti-communist ideology by political activism and media outreach.
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    Richard Baris

    Contributor/Pollster

    Richard D. Baris is the Director of the Big Data Poll and Data Journalism Editor at People's Pundit Daily (PPD). He is also the author of the must-read book on American political philosophy, Our Virtuous Republic: The Forgotten Clause in the American Social Contract.

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    Jim Waurishuk, Colonel, USAF (Ret.)

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    Retired USAF Colonel, serving 30-years as a Tactical Air Control Party (TAC-P), Special Reconnaissance, and Special Mission Strategic Intelligence Officer to multiple Tier 1 units as part of the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC). Served as Deputy Director for Intelligence U.S. Central Command and on the White House National Security Council (NSC) staff. Former Chairman, Hillsborough County Republican Party and the Republican Party of Florida Executive Board. Currently, Executive Board America First - Florida. Currently, Chairman, Hillsborough County Republican Party, Republican Party of Florida’s Executive Board, Chairman of Congressional District-14 Caucus Hillsborough County, FL.
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    Robert Anthony

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    Robert Anthony is the author of Jesus did not Start a Religion at Amazon or JesusNotReligion.org.

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    Blima Miller

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    Blima Miller is a conservative opinion and satire journalist based on Long Island. Her previous publications include American Thinker, The Thinking Conservative, The Jewish Press, and her work has been featured on LocknLoad Radio.

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    Darin Gaub

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    Lt Col (ret), US Army, Darin Gaub is a Co-founder of Restore Liberty, an international military strategist and foreign policy analyst, an executive leadership coach, and serves on the boards of multiple volunteer national and state level organizations. The views presented are those of the author and do not represent the views of the U.S. Government, Department of Defense, or its components.
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    Diana Livesay

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    Diana Livesay is an investigative journalist from Cluj-Napoca, Romania. When she’s not exposing corruption in the local government, she works in the publishing industry in the U.S., promoting Romanian history, culture, and literature.
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    Scott Sturman

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    Scott Sturman is an MD, USAFA Class of 72, and affiliated with STARRS.us, a non-profit fighting Critical Race Theory in the Department of Defense.
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    Wille Lora

    CDM En Español Editor-In-Chief

    Willie brings more than 25 years of experience in broadcast media and communications in several national and international news organizations for 18+ years as a news producer, Washington Bureau Chief and as the News and Political Director for the CNN En Espãnol network.

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    Gawain Towler

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    Gawain Towler was recently the Director of Communications of the Brexit Party and has run his own Communications and Strategy company. Before that he worked in the European Institutions in Brussels. He has worked at a high level in politics, policy, charity and commercial sectors. He is regularly published in a variety of national and specialist publications. His work has been recognized by Industry Bible, PRWeek as one of the UK's top 300 PR professionals in 2016/17 and this year, being placed as one of the top 10 political PR professionals in 2017.
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    David Bell

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    David Bell was formerly employed by the World Health Organization.
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    John Hughes

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    Emergency Physician. United States Military Academy Class of 1996. #1 graduate. 3rd Generation West Pointer. 4 combat tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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    Brent Beecham

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    A USAFA grad, Brent flew F-15 combat missions during Operation Desert Storm. After completing his service, Brent immigrated to Israel, where he was drafted into IAF active service.
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    Christian Geib

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    Christian studied law in Germany, the Netherlands and the US (LL.M. Stanford). He has worked in retail, hospitality, translation, government (such as the European Commission), IT and is currently working as an IT/business consultant. He is a reserve officer of the German Armed Forces. He is particularly interested in the architecture of political systems and international regimes, recruitment and education of elites, how narratives shape political reality and everything related to currencies.
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    George Eliason

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    George Eliason is an American journalist living and working in Donbass. He provided some of the earliest news coverage at the beginning of the Ukraine conflict and some coverage from the frontline in the Ukrainian civil war as well as analysis of the conflict. Eliason was noted by the New York Times, 60 Minutes, and the Heritage Foundation's Foreign Policy Magazine as the earliest and a primary source of information about Ukrainegate, Obamagate, and the coup against Donald Trump. He has been interviewed by the New York Times, RT, Press TV, and the BBC. His articles on the intel community and agency overstep has been noted by Project Censored as the second most important stories with national signifigance in 2018 for going beyond WikiLeaks coverage on the dangers private Intelligence companies present to national security and world peace. Eliason has been been published in Modern Diplomacy, the Security Assistance Monitor, Washington's Blog, Consortium News, OpedNews, and Zerohedge among many other publications.

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    Brent Ramsey

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    Captain Brent Ramsey (ret.) served 30 years in the Navy and 23 years in Navy Civil Service. Among his assignments were Commanding Officer, Cargo Handling Battalion TWELVE, Executive Director, Construction Battalion Center, Gulfport, and Mississippi Navy Emergency Preparedness Liaison Officer. He formerly served as Senior Advisor, Center for International Maritime Security, and was Member/Secretary of the Military Advisory Group for Congressman Mark Meadows (NC-11) for 4 years. He founded and led the Smoky Mountains Satellite, WNC MOAA for 5 years. He currently serves on the Board of Directors, Cincinnati MOAA and as Programs Chair. He has published on National Defense matters at Real Clear Defense, Center for International Maritime Security, National Defense, the United States Naval Institute Proceedings and the Association of the United States Navy.

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