American Majority

American Majority
Basic facts
Type:	501(c)(3)
Top official:	Ned Ryun, Chief Executive Officer
Founder(s):	Ned Ryun
Year founded:	2008
Website:	Official website

American Majority is a conservative 501(c)(3) nonprofit political training organization that, according to its website, is "the nation’s premier conservative training organization, helping put in place a truly unique, separate political infrastructure—for use before, during and after election dates." Ned Ryun founded the organization in 2008. The group is affiliated with American Majority Action, a 501(c)(4) organization that spends to encourage voter participation.

Background

Ned Ryun founded American Majority in January 2008. Ryun earlier worked as a speechwriter for President George W. Bush (R) and as the founder and director of Generation Joshua, a civics program aimed at middle- and high-school students. Ryun's father Jim Ryun (R) was a member of the U.S. House representing Kansas. As of September 2025, the group described its mission as "helping put in place the nation’s new conservative grassroots political infrastructure...[using] cutting-edge training and technology to empower individuals and groups with the most effective tools for promoting liberty through limited government."

Leadership

As of September 2025, American Majority listed the following individuals as holding leadership positions:

• Ned Ryun, founder and chief executive officer
• Lonny Leitner, chief of staff
• Lauren Farrell, director of operations
• Emily Baer, director of communications
• Nate Nelson, Wisconsin executive director
• Dallas Woodhouse, North Carolina executive director
• Tracy DuCharme, Arizona executive director
• Liz Dickinson, Virginia executive director
• Rebecca Wood, Nevada executive director
• Dawn Schween, Arizona field coordinator
• Tami Romo, Nevada field coordinator
• Sarah Reidy-Jones, North Carolina field coordinator

Work and activities

Training programs

As of September 2025, American Majority offered six training programs for conservatives interested in influencing local politics or running for office. American Majority described its programs as "not your standard political conferences or panels. They are individual, interactive training events that are fluid, casual and designed by YOU.".

The six training programs offered as of September 2025 include:

• Aileen Chuck Future Leader Campaign Training: This program instructs potential candidates for state and local office on how to run a political campaign, from "fundraising, organizing volunteers, coordinating events, writing letters, and reaching out to voters."
• Activist Training: This program instructs citizens interested in becoming activists in how to "master the political process including its newest tools and technologies," covering subjects including coalition building, event planning, and using traditional and social media.
• Campaign-In-A-Day: This program instructs potential campaign staffers by simulating a full political campaign over the course of the day. The organization says the event "gives participants the ability to try their hand at campaign roles that otherwise might elude them if they were to jump into their first campaign at the ground level." Participants will be required to raise money, message and respond to unexpected developments.
• Campus Training: This program instructs college students in best practices for activism on- and off-campus as well as skills needed to volunteer or work for a political campaign "to ensure that students are prepared with the knowledge of how to get involved on campus, campaigns, and social media so that they are ready when called upon to lead."
• Election Integrity Training: This program instructs individuals about recent changes to election laws and their effect on the 2020 elections "to equip individuals with the tools to be successful in defending voting rights."
• Social Media Training: This program instructs individuals on how best to use social media to bring about political change to "equip you as an advocate for liberty from your living room to running cutting-edge social media training for a campaign."

Finances

The following is a breakdown of American Majority's revenues and expenses from 2008 to 2023. The information comes from ProPublica

American Majority financial data 2008-2023

Year	Revenue	Expenses
2008	$1.0 million	$1.0 million
2009	$1.9 million	$1.8 million
2010	$3.4 million	$3.1 million
2011	$3.0 million	$2.5 million
2012	$5.2 million	$5.4 million
2013	$1.2 million	$1.4 million
2014	$0.9 million	$1.2 million
2015	$1.6 million	$1.3 million
2016	$1.1 million	$1.1 million
2017	$1.2 million	$1.4 million
2018	$0.6 million	$0.8 million
2019	$1.7 million	$1.7 million
2020	$2.4 million	$2.4 million
2021	$3.4 million	$2.6 million
2022	$2.6 million	$2.2 million
2023	$4.4 million	$2.7 million

Notable endorsements

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See also

• What is an influencer?
• American Majority Action
• 501(c)(3)

External links

• American Majority official website
• American Majority on Facebook
• American Majority on X
• American Majority on LinkedIn
• American Majority on YouTube