Hunter Smith

Christian, Husband to Erynn, Minnesotan | Creative Manager @americanmoment

[Hunter Smith @HunterRaySmith]

There is no better use of your summer, patriots.

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NEWS: Applications are OPEN for the Summer 2027 Fellowship for American Statecraft!

🚨 👀 Get your career in DC started in mere months with a $3,250/month + signing bonus, benefits & networking funds. ⚙️

Apply by January 17 → https://t.co/5fNq6tZiwF

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I’ve received three death threats since Erick posted this AI-written article by the way, which I’m sure was not at all his intent.

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NEWS: American Moment is expanding to its largest team yet.

Four new hires this past month join three earlier additions this year, bringing us to twelve as we prepare to expand our reach and initiatives.

Meet the newest members of the team: 🧵 https://t.co/VmpcWcmZQF

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A quarter of Americans have no living memory of 9/11.

They came to know it through the tributes, whether through the names read aloud yearly at Ground Zero, the photos of heroic firefighters who ran toward the devastation, or the final messages of Flight 93 passengers who, in the sky over Pennsylvania, decided to fight back.

They also came to know it through the wars that followed. Two decades, trillions of dollars, thousands more Americans buried, government surveillance of American citizens, and promises of security that became a mandate for endless war.

Nearly three thousand people never came home that morning 25 years ago. They were everyday Americans, on an ordinary Tuesday, looking out for one another.

Today, we remember the lives they lived and all the years they should have had. We owe them a country worthy of their memory.

Never forget.

[Hunter Smith @HunterRaySmith]

"Let no man despise thy youth, but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in manner of living, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity." 1 Timothy 4:12

You are never too young or too inexperienced to be an example for Christ.

Thank God for Charlie Kirk.

[Nick Solheim @NickSolheim]

The last year has shown that Charlie Kirk was truly irreplaceable.

All we can do is play our own part, take Charlie’s example, and work together to destroy the Left.

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NEW: Homelessness in America, A Study Guide 🏙️🇺🇸

America has spent billions fighting homelessness, only for the problem to get worse. 'Housing First' has failed.

Our new Study Guide, produced with @InstituteCicero, explores why, and what comes next: https://t.co/gSJCRcEVZf

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Me when State Department posts American Moment interviews:

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The State Department is watching Moment of Truth, anon. Are you?

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How to tell the difference between a friend and a liability:

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James Braid is an American patriot.

We’re extremely grateful to him not only for his service as a member of @americanmoment’s board early on, but also his service to the American people.

[Hunter Smith @HunterRaySmith]

10 years ago, when I first got into brand building and political marketing, the hottest topic in town was "What do Zoomers want? What do they care about?"

Not incidentally, this coincided exactly with the 'avocado toast' discourse, the advent of the Bernie bro, and consumer reporting writing off Millennials' value proposition as a demographic.

Here we are, one cycle later, and the exact form has transposed itself downwards by one generation. Presumably this reveals the function of the pattern.

"What does Gen Alpha want? The Zoomers are unrealistic, uncouth, and greedy."

Recognize the delaying tactic. It's akin to an unhealthy marriage where one partner keeps pushing their position, asking the same questions again and again, refusing to follow on any course of action until they get the answer they want to hear coming out of the berated partner's mouth.

Companies, politicians, and pundits are all waiting for a generation (see, consumer demographic) that will tell them that everything is great.

This is the actual "uni-party." Any opposition to these champions of the status quo are branded as agitators, what commentators have taken to calling 'populists,' but the coalition is much more stratified than that moniker would suggest. 60 year old pensioners longing for when things were good are totally alien to a 23 year old who is angry that things are bad. These two people have nothing to talk about, nothing in common, except that they both hate the status quo.

Unfortunately for the status quo enjoyers, the strategy of holding their rose for a subservient generation is creating a backlog of resentment and the mostly-peaceful pensioners are dying off. They had planned to import third-world slaves and satiate them with a steady drip of entitlement programs, but now that too is disrupted.

They are backed into a corner, and so now like any petty and pampered partner, they are lashing out with base insults. Enter, the $20 burrito canard.

Now they will try to court THE NEXT generation. Zoomers are old news, Millennials are washed up, but maybe Gen Alpha can be wooed with TikTok dances and 30% discounts on government subsidized grocery stores.

To the powers-that-be's continued misfortune, they have also gotten worse at negging even as the grift has become more obvious. They are nakedly wicked, and young people on both the left and right can see it.

This is not just a political problem, it is a marketing problem for the social hierarchy. A great deal of societal change is going to happen very quickly. Load bearing pillars are going to go out in rapid succession and storied institutions are going to lose everything. When that flood hits, you had better be building, because the generations that will have to catch the world on their shoulders are now deaf to critiquing.

We've heard it all before.

[Nick Solheim @NickSolheim]

.@roddreher has been back in the U.S. for 5 minutes and is airing his private conversations with the VP, while (falsely) claiming that 40% of the people dedicating their youth to public service are “groypers.”

At @americanmoment, we work daily with the staff who Rod slanders and know them better than he or anyone parroting his dishonest claim ever could.

Over the last few years, thousands of conservative men and women have flocked to DC to serve Donald Trump and JD Vance. I interview them every day. They care about the future of their country and responded to POTUS and @charliekirk11’s call to take responsibility for their inheritance.

These are men and women of character who answered a call to serve their country, setting aside more lucrative career paths, because they believe in America and that her system of government — a government of equals, unrivaled by any other country — is still one that allows young men from Topeka and Rochester and Stillwater to have a say in how their country is run.

The GOP establishment class hates them and will take any means to slander them and deny them the power to shape their country.

The young men we bring to DC are not Groypers. They think Nick Fuentes is a blackpiller and a charlatan. They want to see order restored in their country. They want mass deportations, no new wars, and the American worker and family uplifted.

These are the issues which propelled them to vote for the President. These are the issues that make them loyal to him and the conservative vision of the future.

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Can The CIA Be Saved? (ft. George Beebe) https://t.co/ONEf2iJRFK

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Don't waste your spring!

Sign up for the 2027 Spring Fellowship before July 12!

[Hunter Smith @HunterRaySmith]

Refill your popcorn and submit your application. You'll love this next part.

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NEW: Applications are OPEN for the Spring 2027 Fellowship for American Statecraft! 🚨 👀

Get your career in DC started in mere months with a $3,250/month + signing bonus, benefits & networking funds. ⚙️

Apply by July 12 → https://t.co/4c7CIrNBI8

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TOMORROW: As we anticipate America's 250th birthday, Moment of Truth is proud to present it's 250th episode, with esteemed guest @SBA_Kelly from @SBAgov!

She shares all about how the Small Business Administration is cutting waste, eliminating fraud, and (most importantly) helping American business owners' dreams come true.

TUNE IN MONDAY!

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🚨 Deadline extended! 🚨

Exclusive monthly dinners with mentors working in the Administration and beyond.

Apply by June 21 → https://t.co/OR6WyOAHaN

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NEWS: @josie_mcdonell joins American Moment's expanding team as our Director of Development.

“We're excited to welcome Josie in this role” said CEO @nicksolheim.

“Josie's commitment to the mission makes her a great addition to the team.”