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BRANDON STRAKA
Newswire
Lara Trump to Headline #Walk-a-Con Nov 10-12th 2023 hosted by Brandon Straka #WalkAway Campaign Founder.
October 2023
The New Republic
The once-staid conservative conference now terrorizes its attendees with the notion that they will soon have no choice but to fight a war for Trump's vision of America.
August 2022
Newsmax
After a 16-month hiatus due to a series of setbacks, Brandon Straka is restarting the #WalkAway campaign, a movement he launched in 2018 to encourage former fellow liberals to #WalkAway from the Democratic Party.
May 2022
Fox News
Brandon Straka describes the moment an FBI SWAT team entered his home on 'Tucker Carlson Tonight.'
May 2022
The Washington Times
The “Walk Away” movement has been flushed down an Orwellian “Memory Hole” at Facebook.
January 2021
The Washington Examiner
Conservative activist Brandon Straka announced that Facebook has removed his page with over half a million followers and also banned members of his team.
January 2021
Fox News
The election of Trump brought my world crashing down in more ways than one.
November 2020
CNBC
In a political climate where Americans are more divided than ever and their beliefs are more deeply entrenched, people can still make dramatic mindset shifts.
October 2020
Fox News
'The double standards are glaring, and often times astounding,' he said.
October 2020
The Washington Times
Brandon Straka has inverted the modern liberal political approach. Instead of goading people to march toward some glorious, never quite obtainable dream, he urges them to walk in the opposite direction.
October 2020
WUSA 9
WASHINGTON — The streets of downtown D.C. echoed with chants Saturday as protesters from across the country set their sights on the nation’s capital.
October 2020
Norfolk Daily News
Brandon Straka, who grew up in O’Neill, began the #WalkAway campaign, a movement in which he and others share why they have left the Democratic Party and abandoned liberal ideology, he said.
September 2020
Dallas Morning News
Next Generation Action Network’s Dominique Alexander was arrested on outstanding warrants after he was involved in a brief “disturbance” at the conservative gathering.
September 2020
7 News
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Conservatives and liberals faced off today during a protest at the Golden Gate Bridge.
August 2020
Yahoo News
Walkaway Campaign founder Brandon Straka was attacked by BLM activists as he left the White House.
August 2020
Fox News
The #WalkAway campaign, a self-described grassroots movement aimed at "walking away" from "social discord" and identity politics, is hosting a march and rally in Chicago on Friday.
August 2020
The Independent
Message was posted by Trump supporter and right-wing activist Brandon Straka.
August 2020
Beverly Hills Courier
Hundreds of supporters of President Donald Trump marched into Beverly Hills on Aug. 8 for a rally organized by the #WalkAway campaign, a group that encourages Democrats and unaffiliated liberals to defect to the Republican Party.
August 2020
Canyon News
BEVERLY HILLS—Hundreds of Trump supporters marched from West Hollywood to Beverly Hills on Saturday, August 8, for #WalkAway protest against the Democratic Party.
August 2020
WEHOville
A white, gay part-time hairdresser and struggling actor in West Hollywood? Where’s the news in that? Well, this white, gay part-time hairdresser and struggling actor is Brandon Straka, who will be leading the #WalkAway march in West Hollywood.
August 2020
WEHOville
Nearly 300 people rallied in West Hollywood around noon today to begin a #WalkAwayprotest against the Democratic Party.
August 2020
FoxNews
#WalkAway Campaign founder Brandon Straka tells 'Fox & Friends' that over 70,000 new members have joined the grassroots movement in one month.
July 2020
Washington Post
Viral airline incidents follow a familiar pattern. A passenger tweets a photo or story about some form of mistreatment, tags the airline, shames a flight attendant or fellow traveler, then vows to never fly using the carrier again.
June 2020
Washington Times
Famed character actor Robert Davi approves. So does comedienne Roseanne Barr, her fellow actor Kristy Swanson and patriotic analyst Allen West.
January 2020
The Atlanta Journal Constitution
What does Brandon Straka, a white, gay part-time hairdresser and struggling actor representing a controversial viral movement, have to say to convince black people to abandon the Democratic Party in favor of the GOP?
September 2019
Fox Business
Singer Joy Villa and #WalkAway Campaign founder Brandon Straka joined FOX Business’ “Mornings with Maria” on Monday to discuss the movement that urges voters to “walk away” from the Democratic Party. However, the two may not match the definition of what some would call a "quintessential conservative."
July 2019
New York Post
Pride — with its messages of love, acceptance and self-expression — is a sham, according to conservative gay rights activist Brandon Straka.
June 2019
Washington Post
Nearly a year after a gay freelance hairstylist living in Harlem posted a Facebook video repudiating the Democratic Party, Brandon Straka found himself in Trump Tower on Thursday speaking with Lara Trump, the president’s daughter-in-law and a senior campaign adviser.
May 2019
WJIM
Brandon Straka, is the founder of the #WalkAway Campaign. The #WalkAway Campaign is a true grassroots movement, founded by former liberal, Brandon Straka, dedicated to providing a place to share #WalkAway testimonials and personal journeys to freedom.
May 2019
Los Angeles Magazine
Isaiah Washington, Jesse Lee Peterson, and others joined founder Brandon Straka for a sparsely attended documentary screening in downtown L.A.
May 2019
The Western Journal
The far left often likes to claim it’s the ultimate bastion of tolerance.
April 2019
New York Post
Political correctness prompted the LGBT Center of New York City to refuse to host a panel discussion on why so many gays and lesbians support Democrats, claims a gay supporter of President Trump.
March 2019
Out Magazine
The Center announced they cancelled the March 28 #WalkAway event in a statement issued Friday afternoon. In the statement, the Center says that it "strongly" opposes censorship, but that it does have the right to cancel any event that "promotes discriminatory speech or bigotry."
March 2019
Daily Signal
The founder of the #WalkAway Campaign, a movement showcasing stories of why Americans walk away from leftist ideology and the Democratic Party, says he is pleased with an organized march last weekend in the nation’s capital and plans to take the idea on the road.
November 2018
New York Post
Furious former Democrats — fed up at the party’s leftward lurch — are banding together in protest under the banner of the #Walkaway movement.
October 2018
Breitbart
Brandon Straka is taking his #WalkAway from the Democrat Party campaign to the streets of the nation’s capital with a rally expected to draw hundreds of former leftists and #WalkWith conservatives who support them Saturday at Freedom Plaza.
October 2018
NBC News
Brandon Straka became a conservative-media darling after posting a video about "walking away" from the left.
August 2018
Yahoo News
On Nov. 8, 2016, Donald Trump was elected as the 45th President of the United States — and Brandon Straka, a gay man and artist living in New York City, posted a video of his reaction to Facebook.
August 2018
Washington Times
The #WalkAway movement that began in May with hairstylist Brandon Straka explaining why he was leaving the Democratic Party has sprung into a national force, with tens of thousands of reformed, former Dems taking to social media to explain why they, too, think liberalism has gone off the deep end and why they, too, have turned the corner toward conservatism — or at least, toward free thought.
July 2018
7 Israel National News
Hairdresser Brandon Straka launches campaign in which ex-liberals like himself explain why they are sick of the left's lies.
July 2018
Daily Beast
Brandon Straka’s song urging Dems to ‘#WalkAway’ from their party transformed him from a struggling artist to a Fox News sensation. He also got a little help from bots.
July 2018
Real Clear Politics
Brandon Straka says that less than a year ago, he was a liberal. He explains why he changed his mind in this "viral video" encouraging other progressives to "walk away" from the remains of the Democratic Party.
July 2018
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