The Center for American Restoration is a new conservative think tank with an associated
advocacy arm, America Restoration Action, founded to keep the cultural issues that animated Donald Trump’s presidency on the public agenda.
Conservative thought leader Russ Vought, the Heritage and House Republican Conference alum who headed President Trump's Office of Management and Budget, will lead the new organization. Also on board are longtime conservative communicator Rachel Semmel and Trump OMB alumnae Ashlea Frazier.
Axios reports the new organization aims to provide the ideological ammunition to sustain Trump's political movement after his departure from the White House.
American Restoration’s first project was to organize a coalition of conservative organizations to push Republicans on Capitol Hill to take on Big Tech.
In a letter to Republican congressional leaders the coalition, including ConservativeHQ.com, pointed out that Conservatives have long been skeptical of government intervention in the free market, and such skepticism remains critical in the fights to come for our movement. But we cannot be blind to the reality that stares us in the face: concentrated corporate power of this nature is as much a threat to the spirit of our Constitution as abuses of its letter by the government itself.
The letter went on to state:
Congress’ role is to make such laws on behalf of the American people and not delegate their authority to other branches. This responsibility includes both the oversight of whether courts are interpreting current law properly and the consideration of reforms to account for new developments in the market and their impact on the health of our communities.
The threat to liberty we now face is a consequence of Congressional inaction in the face of a historic transformation in the manner by which our nation engages in public deliberation. That change has empowered a small handful of unelected corporate bureaucrats in Silicon Valley unanswerable to the people whom they now oppress.
To treat the current laws on online platform immunity or antitrust enforcement as quasi-Constitutional provisions inerrant in their present form despite their obvious failures is wrongheaded. To appeal to judges to solve this on their own is an abdication of duty.
Accordingly, we welcome the proliferation of legislative activity in the area of big tech reform. America's foundational values of diverse speech, market access, and the free flow of information are imperiled by concentrated corporate power wielded at unprecedented scale — and in many cases, aided and abetted by federal policies. Inaction in this forum is no longer an acceptable response.
Signing the letter were conservative leaders:
Russell T. Vought
President
Center for American Restoration
Mike Davis
President
Internet Accountability Project
Rachel Bovard
Senior Director of Policy
Conservative Partnership Institute
Morton C. Blackwell
President
Leadership Institute
Ryan P. Williams
President
Claremont Institute
Brigitte Gabriel
Founder, Chairman
ACT for America
Justin Danhof
General Counsel
National Center for Public Policy Research
Floyd Brown
Publisher
Western Center for Journalism
Amy Kremer
Chairman
Women for American First
Steve Jalsevac
Founder
LifeSiteNews
Christie-Lee McNally
President
Raven Strategies
Jim Demint
Chairman, Conservative Partnership Institute
Former Member, U.S. Senate
L. Brent Bozell III
Founder and President
Media Research Center
Terry Schilling
Executive Director
American Principles Project
Mary Vought
Executive Director
Senate Conservatives Fund
Arthur Milikh
Executive Director
Center for the American Way of Life
Kelly Shackelford
President, CEO
First Liberty Institute
George K. Rasley, Jr.
Managing Editor
ConservativeHQ.com
Paul Gessing
President
Rio Grande Foundation
Elaine Donnelly
President
Center for American Readiness
Robert Romano
VP of Public Policy
Americans for Limited Government
John Henry Westen
Founder
LifeSiteNews
Big Tech
Center for American Restoration
America Restoration Action
Russ Vought
Rachel Semmel
Ashlea Frazier
Big Tech Reform