Tom Trento
Tom Trento is one of the leading academic activists in the United States. A highly skilled debater and dynamic public speaker, Tom frequently goes toe to toe with Muslim Brotherhood representatives exposing their radical agenda to the public and elected officials. Mr. Trento with earned degrees in Law Enforcement and Philosophy and Theology was awarded the The Carnegie Hero Medal Award for saving a man from a burning car.
Mr. Trento has traveled extensively throughout the US and Europe lecturing and exposing Islamic violence and infiltration in government, law enforcement and academic institutions. He is one of the co-authors of Shariah: The Threat To America and appears frequently on major media outlets and talk shows as an authority on Islamic ideology.
Ron Wexler
Ron Wexler is the principal owner of Heritage Study Programs, Inc., an educational organization based in Boca Raton, Florida and Tel Aviv, Israel. Ron is also the director of the Poland Jewish Heritage Peoplehood Program for Jewish Life & Culture. He is also the brainchild and president of the Judeo-Christian initiative -Ten Commandments Commission. The Ten Commandments Commission (TCC) a non profit organization 501(c) was formed in the spring of 2005 by Ron Wexler
The main purpose behind the organization was to create a global think tank with the world’s leaders who have already recognized thepower behind the Ten Commandments Commission (TCC). And, bring together a Christian/Jewish mechanism which will stand up for Israel without any hidden agendas, dogmas or doctrines.
Ron was born and educated in Israel and served in the Israel Defense Force during the Six-Day War of 1967 and the Yom Kippur War of 1973. His Yeshiva studies (Rabbinical School) and later on his research work on early Christianity provided him with a unique perspective on Jewish and Christian issues. He is internationally known for his extensive projects and teachings that promote unity and reconciliation among Jews and Gentiles.
Ron produces special thematic events and productions associated with the Judeo-Christian calendar. These events include biblical reenactments (dramas) that are based on biblical stories and accords performed on location in Israel. In 1994, Ron produced and reinstated the Feast of Pentecost celebration which is now an official annual event supported by the Municipality of Jerusalem and the Government of Israel Tourist Office.
His vision of unity, harmony, and reconciliation among all races and genders has received the blessings of the international religious community. Through Ron's efforts, thousands have been touched with a new appreciation, respect, and tolerance for the differences in the way people observe their faiths. Ron has utilized his extensive contacts within the religious community to assemble together a crosscultural, interdenominational strategic coalition of influential Christian leaders known as the Millennium Council. Ron has produced “Jerusalem 2000” - the millennium celebrations in Jerusalem.
In his capacity as the President of the Ten Commandments Commission, Ron is working with leaders and politicians in Israel and the U.S. on finding practical solutions to the current and ongoing problems of the region. His work internationally deals with region's economies, natural resources, and conflicts.
Ron is the Founder and President of the future Garden of Beatitudes on the shores of the Sea of Galilee. The Garden will be a crosscultural, spiritual center and a learning facility. The center will include a devotional garden, a theater, classrooms and dormitories, a state of the art conference center, and a hotel.
Dan Gordon
Dan Gordon is an Israeli-American film and television screenwriter. He also serves as a captain in the Israel Defense Forces.
Dan Gordon grew up in Southern California and in Ginnegar, a kibbutz in the Valley of Jezreel in Israel.[He graduated from UCLA as a film and television major. A dual Israeli-American citizen, Gordon served in the Israeli Army as a young man.
He has written screenplays including Passenger 57 (1992), Wyatt Earp (1994), Murder in the First (1995), The Assignment (1997) and The Hurricane (1999).
His play, Irena's Vow, premiered at the Baruch Performing Arts Center, New York, in September 2008. Starring Tovah Feldshuh, it is the true story of Irena Gut, who hid twelve Jews in a cellar during World War II. The play is scheduled to open on Broadway at the Walter Kerr Theatre in previews starting March 10, 2009, officially March 29, 2009, with the same cast from off-Broadway. His stage adaptation of Barry Morrow's "Rain Man" premiered at the Apollo Theatre in London's West End in 2009 and was subsequently performed in places like Prague (Czech Republic), Stuttgart (Germany), Brussels (Belgium) and Utrecht (The Netherlands). Gordon is also a co-founder of the Zaki Gordon Institute (ZGI), a film school in Sedona, Arizona. The institute is named for his eldest son, Zaki Gordon, who died in a traffic accident in 1998 at the age of 22 years. Gordon taught part-time at the institute. He also teaches at Columbia University School of the Arts, USC School of Cinematic Arts and UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television, to which he donates an annual $5,000 prize to screenwriting students in honor of his son.
In 2012, he left the Zaki Gordon Institute after founding the Zaki Gordon Center for Cinematic Arts at Liberty University in 2011. After Gordon left, The Zaki Gordon Institute changed its name to the Sedona Film School. Gordon was also a close friend of Tim Buckley, collaborating with him on an unfilmed movie script called "Fully Airconditioned Inside." He also played the role of a homeless man in theindependent film Waiting for Mo(1996), which he produced with his son, Zaki, who wrote and directed the film. He has been a member of the Directors Guild of America since 1985.
He served as an escort officer in the Military Spokesperson’s Unit during the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict. He is a captain in the Israel Defense Forces Reserves.
Clare M. Lopez-
Since 2014, Clare M. Lopez has served as the Vice President for Research and Analysis at the Center for Security Policy. Previously, she has been a Senior Fellow at the London Center for Policy Research and a member of the Board of Advisors for the Canadian Mackenzie Institute. In 2016, she was named to Senator Ted Cruz’s presidential campaign national security advisory team. Lopez has provided her expertise as an instructor on Iran, Hizballah, and the Red-Green Axis for Understanding the Threat, the only program of its kind in the country that provides threat-focused strategic and operational consultation, education, and training, for federal, state, and local leadership and agencies in government, the private sector, and for private citizens about the Global Islamic Movement and the jihadi networks in communities around the nation.
From 2013-2016, Lopez served as a member of the Citizens’ Commission on Benghazi and continued among the members of its successor organization, the Citizens’ Commission on National Security. Formerly Vice President of the Intelligence Summit, she was a career operations officer with the Central Intelligence Agency, a professor at the Centre for Counterintelligence and Security Studies, Executive Director of the Iran Policy Committee from 2005-2006, and has served as a consultant, intelligence analyst, and researcher for a variety of defense firms. She was named a 2011 Lincoln Fellow at the Claremont Institute.
Already an advisor to EMP Act America, in February 2012 Ms. Lopez was named a member of the Congressional Task Force on National and Homeland Security, which focuses on the Electro-Magnetic Pulse (EMP) threat to the nation. She has served as a member of the Boards of Advisors/Directors for the Center for Democracy and Human Rights in Saudi Arabia, the United West, and the Voice of the Copts. She has been a Visiting Researcher and guest lecturer on counterterrorism, national defense, and international relations at Georgetown University. Ms. Lopez is a regular contributor to print and broadcast media on subjects related to Iran and the Middle East and the co-author of two published books on Iran. She is the author of an acclaimed paper for the Center, The Rise of the Iran Lobby and co-author/editor of the Center’s Team B II study, “Shariah: The Threat to America” as well as The Tiger Team’s “The Secure Freedom Strategy: A Plan for Victory Over the Global Jihad Movement.” She co-authored “Gulen and the Gulenist Movement” with CSP’s Vice President for Outreach, Christopher Holton, “See No Shariah: ‘Countering Violent Extremism’ and the Disarming of America’s First Line of Defense” with Frank Gaffney, CSP President and is both editor and co-author of the Center’s “Ally No More: Erdogan’s New Turkish Caliphate and the Rising Jihadist Threat to the West”.
Lopez received a B.A. in Communications and French from Notre Dame College of Ohio and an M.A. in International Relations from the Maxwell School of Syracuse University. She completed Marine Corps Officer Candidate School (OCS) in Quantico, Virginia before declining a military commission to join the CIA.
John Guandolo
John Guandolo is the Founder of Understanding the Threat, the only organization in America giving civic leaders, police and citizens tools to identify and map out jihadi networks in their communities.
Mr. Guandolo is a 1989 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy who served as an Infantry & Reconnaissance officer in the United States Marine Corps, including combat operations.
In 1996, Mr. Guandolo resigned his commission in the Marine Corps and joined the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Shortly after 9/11, Mr. Guandolo began an assignment to the Counterterrorism Division of the FBI’s Washington Field Office developing an expertise in the Muslim Brotherhood Islamic Doctrine (sharia) and the Global Islamic Movement.
In 2006, Mr. Guandolo was designated a “Subject Matter Expert” by FBI Headquarters and created/implemented the U.S. government’s first Counterterrorism Training Program focused on the Islamic Movement and its doctrine (sharia).
For his efforts, in 2007 Mr. Guandolo was presented the “Defender of the Homeland” Award by U.S. Senators Jon Kyl and Joseph Lieberman. Mr. Guandolo served on the Washington Field Office SWAT team for over nine years and as its Team Leader for three of those years. He was a certified Undercover Agent & a Nationally Registered Paramedic.
In 2014, Mr. Guandolo was inducted into the International Who’s Who for his work in the field of national security.
Mr. Guandolo is the co-author of Shariah – The Threat to America and the author of Raising a Jihadi Generation (September 2013).
Mr. Guandolo was Knighted into the Sovereign Order of the Knights of Saint John of Jerusalem – Ecumenical Order (Knights of Malta), and is a Claremont Institute Lincoln Fellow.
Mr. Guandolo frequently appears on television and radio, and regularly publishes articles related to these matters in a number of media outlets. His website is www.UnderstandingtheThreat.com.
MARTHA BONETA
Martha Boneta is a native Washingtonian, Policy Advisor and a nationally recognized farmer on her family farm, Liberty Farm.
Martha Boneta was appointed as the Executive Vice President of Citizens for the Republic (CFTR), founded by Ronald Reagan in 1977 to relaunch CFTR in 2017 with several veterans of the Reagan Administration. Martha remains an advisor to CFTR.
Martha was recognized as one of "America's Most Amazing Women" by Country Woman Magazine and was inducted into the National Capital Friends of the NRA Hall of Fame in 2017.The Virginia General Assembly, honored Martha Boneta with a Joint Commendation from both the House and the Senate recognizing Martha for her significant contributions to the Commonwealth and nation in 2016.
Martha was awarded “Unsung Hero” by CRTV in 2018 for fighting back against burdensome over regulation.
Martha has two bills named after her in the oldest legislative body in the nation, The "Boneta Bills" I & II that protect property rights and cut burdensome red tape and over regulation.
Martha is also the subject of a documentary film "Farming in Fear" commissioned by the Charles Koch Institute that received the People's Choice Award and Anthem Film Festival and numerous other awards and recognitions. This documentary film is now screened in universities across the nation since 2014.
Today, Martha speaks all over the country to corporations, universities, business communities, political organizations and many other entities about a variety of topics including current government affairs, public policy, the environment and energy. Martha Boneta is a frequent co-host on several radio talk shows.
EDUCATION:
Martha graduated from St. Mary’s Catholic School in Old Town Alexandria, Notre Dame Academy in Middleburg, George Mason University for undergraduate school, Martha received her Juris Doctor law degree from George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School. Martha also attended the Strauss Institute at Pepperdine University School of Law in Malibu, where she studied Alternative Dispute Resolution.
CAREER:
Immediately following law school, Martha worked in government relations and advocacy in Washington, DC that propelled her career as strategic account executive at Reed Elsevier for the Mid-Atlantic Region and Thomson Reuters in the Washington, DC Metropolitan area.
Martha is the Founder of the Piedmont Agriculture Academy (PAA), Liberty Hall Livestock Rescue and has been on the Board of Directors for the Virginia Independent Consumer & Farmers Association (VICFA), Small Family Farm Foundation (SFFF) and has represented the Farm to Consumer Legal Foundation (FTCLF) advocating legislation and various other organizations.
Martha Boneta sits on the Board of Directors for various organizations including The London Center, Moms for America, KVB and numerous others across the country.
Martha is also on the Board of Governors for the Council for National Policy (CNP).
Martha has been a Principal at CapitalKeys, regarded as one of Washington, D.C.'s top public affairs firms and a Senior Policy Adviser to America First Policies. Martha is the founder and President of Victory Coalition Strategies, LLC.
MEDIA:
Martha provides commentary on news and policy and has appeared on various shows including Fox & Friends, Fox Business, Trump TV with Lara Trump, Neil Cavuto, Greta Van Susteren’s On The Record, The John Stossel Show, Virginia Farming, PBS, WUSA9, as well as featured in several other news, print media and radio programs. Martha has been on the cover of magazines including The Christian Times Magazine, read all over the world.
Today, Martha speaks all over the country on a variety of issues.
LAURA LOOMER
Laura Loomer is a Jewish Conservative investigative journalist and activist. Originally from Tucson, Arizona, Laura began her journalism career working as an undercover journalist for Project Veritas from 2015-2017.
Laura’s investigations have uncovered fraud and corruption within the Hillary Clinton campaign, Islamic extremism on college campuses, flaws and loopholes within the U.S. immigration system, and widespread voter fraud throughout the U.S. Laura’s investigations have taken her all over the world, but one of her most popular and well known investigations is her Las Vegas shooting investigation. Laura traveled to Las Vegas after the Las Vegas shooting where she exposed lies within the official LVMPD and FBI narrative, proving that Sheriff Lombardo was lying to the American people. She has been at the forefront of uncovering the truth about the Vegas shooting, which has been ignored by the national media.
Laura is notorious for her Guerilla style journalism and often conducts ambush interviews on live stream. Some of the people she has confronted on camera include: Hillary Clinton, Chelsea Clinton, Huma Abedin, James Comey, Maxine Waters and Keith Ellison.