Your Campaign and Activism Toolbox
If you’re fired up about getting involved in conservative politics, you’ve come to the right place. We encourage you to keep learning. Educate yourself on top tools and tactics. Know what’s trending in your community. Keep up with best practices, new ideas and key techniques that you can use to boost your effectiveness.
We bring you our suite of educational tools — FREE guides, presentations, training manuals, videos, and more designed specifically for conservative activists and new leaders.
Campaign Resources
Websites / Manuals
Campaign Fundraising
Free Download: Need money to run a campaign? Fundraising is the water that makes your grassroots grow. Grassroots campaigns without adequate funding can quickly find that they’ve failed to realize their potential…
A Guide to Better Schools Through Better School Boards
Free Download: Take a fascinating look into the problems facing our schools & learn how best to get involved as a parent, a school board candidate, or both!
How to Influence Your State Legislature
Free Download: Take a fascinating look into the state legislative process & learn how best to get involved as an activist or candidate.
How to Master Public Speaking
Free Download: For the Political Candidate – You know the pain of sitting through a poorly executed speech. But now that you’ve decided to run for office, you’re the candidate behind the lectern. Well meaning candidates often fail to do a good job of communicating in a real way that inspires people…
Running For Office: Should You?
Free Download: Running for elected office is a decision that shouldn’t be taken lightly, but it also is not as far out of reach as many people think. If you are entertaining the idea of running for office, following the steps in this worksheet will help you determine whether you have several important elements in place to lay the foundation of a successful campaign.
Identifying New Leaders
Free Download: In order to win elections and change policy, the conservative movement must focus on finding new leaders who are committed to implementing limited-government principles in our state and local governments…
County Commission Manual
Free Download: Government has forgotten its role among the people, and the people have forgotten their role within government. Americans forget that local government preceded both state and federal government. …
Activist Resources
Videos / Presentations
The Wisconsin Model
Video: American Majority Wisconsin Executive Director Matt Batzel talks about the accomplishments of American Majority and the Tea Party in Wisconsin, and how the successes in Wisconsin are a model that conservatives can follow nationwide.
Websites / Manuals
How to be an Effective Conservative Activist
Free Manual: Ready to figure out how to actually make change happen in your community? Effectivism: Focused, targeted actions that result in changing the political environment within a specific time period. Need more information on how to do just that? In this Effectivism manual, you’ll learn to…
A Guide to Local Ballot Initiatives
Website: Local Ballot Initiatives: How citizens change laws with clipboards, conversations, and campaigns by Leslie Graves was published by the Lucy Burns Institute on November 12, 2012. You can download a free .pdf version of the book online.
Ballotpedia
Website: An interactive almanac of state politics.
Social Media Resources
Videos / Presentations
Facebook 101
Video: Facebook is a must for the conservative activist. This webinar takes you through the step-by-step process of getting started with Facebook for your conservative group, cause, or political campaign.
Twitter Activism
Video: In this hands-on, purely practical webinar, learn the steps, tools, and Twitter best practices that you can implement today to make an impact politically with your Twitter account. The training is ideal for both beginning and advanced conservative Twitter activists
Introduction To Blogging
Video: From American Majority’s archives, this third part of the 20/20 series gives an introduction to blogging, an important tool in effective activism online.
Websites / Manuals
Get Political with Facebook, Twitter & Pinterest!
Free Download: Learn to grow your account, post viral content, and become a top conservative on Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest!
Historical Resources
Videos / Presentations
Days of Revolution Podcast Series
Podcast: Listen to the series, voiced by American Majority Founder and President Ned Ryun, now on NedRyun.com!
Campus Resources
Websites / Manuals
How to Impact College Students
Free Manual: Wondering how to quickly build a conservative presence on campus? Start preparing to impact your campus now. Download American Majority’s new campus manual today!
Winning Campus Elections
Growing Your Campus Group