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Dan Crenshaw

Conservatives focus on the nation’s school boards:

The Leadership Institute announces the launch of a new program to train the next generation of conservative candidates for the nation’s school boards.

"With this vital new program, the Leadership Institute will now prepare conservatives all across America to challenge the left's control over the nation's locally elected school boards."
Morton C. Blackwell
President, Leadership Institute



Dan Crenshaw

Navy SEAL veteran and Congressman Dan Crenshaw:

"I didn’t just take one or two Leadership Institute courses – I took seven! It was the Leadership Institute that made it possible for me to learn how to run a campaign, how to craft my message, how to speak effectively in public, and to handle the media. Above all – I learned how to win."


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Kat Timpf - Fox News

“ As part of my job at the Leadership Institute's Campus Reform, I received TV training that taught me the skills I needed to feel confident in my first few appearances -- and then the feedback on those appearances that I needed to sharpen them. I hadn't had any kind of formal TV training beforehand. ”



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Grover Norquist - Americans for Tax Reform

“ Without effective activists on the ground, policy reform faces tremendous uphill challenge. By far, the easiest way to change government is from the grassroots, and in order to drive that kind of change, conservatives must be effective in the trenches. The Leadership Institute makes that possible. ”



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Jim Jordan - US Rep OH

“ If you want to accomplish anything of significance, it's never easy. It's always hard. But we need to stand up. If there is not a strong United States of America, the world gets truly dangerous. Thank you LI for training young people in these values. ”



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