Media
Media Interested in Attending
Media passes for FreedomFest are available for professional, credentialed, and established media personnel. We have a very limited number of spaces on media row, which are reserved for highly active media outlets with large scale audiences. We also issue general passes for journalists who do not need a fixed space in order to cover our event.
For media row and pass inquiries, please contact our Media Liaison at Norann<at>FreedomFest.com
FreedomFest is an annual festival where free minds meet to celebrate “great books, great ideas, and great thinkers” in an open-minded society. Be sure to visit our About Page for more background.
FreedomFest 2019 will be July 17 - 20, 2019 at the Paris Resort and Casino, Las Vegas, NV. The theme is “The Wild West." We expect to have over 200 different speakers speaking in over 125 general sessions, debates, panels, lectures and other presentations.
FreedomFest 2019
RJ Cartoonist at FreedomFest Says 1 Goal is to Draw Blood, Las Vegas Review Journal, July 18, 2019
Treasure Investments Corporation Joins Forces with the Largest Liberty Conference of 2019, July 18, 2019
What I Learned from Steve Forbes, Stock Investor, July 18, 2019
Las Vegas on Wednesday, Patheos, July 17, 2019
Tellerian Wisdom, Way of the Renaissance Man, July 17, 2019
On FreedomFest, Blexit and Jexit, Las Vegas Review Journal, July 13, 2019
Will Amash Court Donors for a Presidential Run at FreedomFest?, The Libertarian Republic, July 13, 2019
FreedomFest 13 : The Best One Yet!, Financial Survival Network, July 13, 2019
FreedomFest and Quarterly Stock Market Update Featuring Renaissance Man Jim Woods, Unlock Your Wealth Today, July 12, 2019
Mark Skousen Interview (in hour two), Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock, July 10, 2019
Cowboys, and Vampires, and Laughs, Oh My!, BlogCritics, July 8, 2019
Mark Skousen Interview (1:44:25), The Glenn Beck Show, June 27, 2019
Newsletters Give Readers What They Want, Unfortunately, The Power and Market Report, June 20, 2019
The Inspiring "Tank Man" (Interview with Director Robert Anthony Peters), The Power and Market Report, June 19, 2019
Three Events That Could Derail our 10-Year Bull Market, Wall Street Unplugged, June 5, 2019
Mark Skousen Discusses FreedomFest, Free Talk Live, March 24, 2019
FreedomFest 2018
Anthem Film Review : 'Sweden: Lessons for America?', *blogcritics, August 1, 2018
Anthem Film Review : 'Off the Grid' with Congressman Thomas Massie, *blogcritics, July 31, 2018
Best Conservative Conferences to Attend in 2019, Western Journal, July 26, 2018
Anthem Film Review : Three Short Films Long on Impact, *Blogcritics, July 24, 2018
At FreedomFest, Libertarians Debate Whether Glass is Half Full or Half Empty, The Daily Signal, July 24, 2018
Libertarians Meet, Talk Trump at 'Freedom Fest', CNN, July 23, 2018
Anthem Film Review : 'Skid Row Marathon,' *blogcritics, July 22, 2018
Libertarians in the Age of Trump, New York Times, July 21, 2018
The Weekend Edition with Mark Skousen, Power Trading Radio, July 20, 2018
Reflections on the Best FreedomFest Ever, Stock Investor, July 18, 2018
The Voice of Reason Lies in Disruptive Tech, Health Freedom News, July 18, 2018
Joe Messina - We Bump Into Each Other at FreedomFest, Financial Survival Network, July 15, 2018
Mark Skousen Interview, Rogue Money Radio, July 7, 2018
Come to FreedomFest Featuring the Reason Media Awards, Reason Blog, July 5, 2018
Anthem Libertarian Film Festival’s Jo Ann Skousen on Film and the Voice of Reason, *Blogcritics, July 3, 2018
John O'Donnell interviews Mark Skousen, Power Trading Radio, June 29, 2018
Where is the Voice of Reason (interview with Mark Skousen), Financial Survival Network, June 25, 2018
Cryptocurrency Speakers, Debates & Growing Interest Among Attendees, BitCoin.com News, June 16, 2018.
Wall Street Raw interview with Mark Skousen, May 12, 2018
Wall Street Raw interview with Mark Skousen, April 21, 2018
FreedomFest 2017
CNN Reports on FreedomFest 2017, Circa, July 24, 2017
Legendary Investor Jim Rogers Talks Money, Education and Happiness, Circa, August 29, 2017
Congressman Thomas Massie's Twitter Account is #Sassy, Circa, August 22, 2017
Rep. Thomas Massie Dishes on Education, Guns and Healthcare, Circa, August 6, 2017
Steve Forbes Talks Education, Politics, and the Economy, Circa, July 31, 2017
Dinesh D'Souza and The Big Lie, Whiskey Politics, July 28, 2017
FreedomFest Shows the Liberty Movement is Alive and Well, The Daily Signal, July 27, 2017
Crony Capitalism Against the Real Thing, The Washington Times, July 25, 2017
President Jedlicka of Liberland Discusses Political and Economic Vision, PanAm Post, July 24, 2017
James O'Keefe, Founder of Project Veritas: Something Big's Coming, Whiskey Politics, July 24, 2017
Libertarians meet, talk Trump at 'FreedomFest', CNNpolitics, July 23, 2017
Steve Forbes Warns Washington DC, Whiskey Politics, July 23, 2017
20 Broadcasts from FreedomFest, SHR Media, July 19-22, 2017
Michael Cobb Discusses the Future of Central American Real Estate, PamAm Post, July 22, 2017
Coverage of FreedomFest by ChineseFN, with Jim Rogers, Stephen Moore [in Chinese and English], July 21, 2017
Helen Raleigh Critiques Trump's Immigration Policy, PamAm Post, July 21, 2017
Trump has a Unique Opportunity to Include Some of the Dem Base, The Daily Caller, July 21, 2017
Libertarian Party at FreedomFest, July 20, 2017
Ayn Rand and Bitcoin: An Exclusive Interview with Jennifer Grossman, Atlas Society CEO, BTCManager, July 18, 2017
Are Free Markets Good for the Arts? with FreedomFest Panelist & Concert Pianist Hyperion Knight, Whiskey Politics, July 5, 2017
100 Most Influential Libertarians : A NewsMax/FreedomFest List
Debating Liberty in the Age of Trump, The John Batchelor Show (FreedomFest Producer Mark Skousen interview), June 15, 2017
Jumping aboard “The Free Enterprise” at FreedomFest 2017 with Dave Sussman and Mark Skousen, Whiskey Politics, June 12, 2017
Joe Thomas Interviews Mark Skousen, “Joe Thomas In-The-Morning” WCHV Radio, June 1, 2017
FreedomFest 2016
STEVE FORBES: This Election Trump will Lose
Get Ready for FreedomFest 10, Financial Survival Network, June 28, 2016
Big Business Shuns Freedom Fest, Except for Whole Foods CEO
Improving polls might get Libertarian Presidential Gary Johnson on the debates.
FreedomFest 2015
A PLAYBOY CONVERSATION WITH GARY JOHNSON ABOUT THE POLITICS OF SPINELESSNESS, Playboy, July 20, 2015
SHR MEDIA AT FREEDOMFEST (10 BROADCASTS)
ANTHEM FILM FEST: TOP 10 LIBERTARIAN FILMS ROCK WITH JENNIFER LAWRENCE, SCARLETT JOHANSSON AND NATALIE PORTMAN, Blogcritics, July 18, 2015
WHAT IS TRUMPISM? PERSONAL AMBITION AND POLITICAL CONTROL, Foundation for Economic Freedom, July 17, 2015
ANTHEM FILM FEST: COUNTY CHARGES FARMER $15,000 FOR HOSTING A BIRTHDAY PARTY, Blogcritics, July 16, 2015
LIBERTY WORKS EVERYWHERE, Business Day Live, July 15, 2015
MY DEBATE WITH PAUL KRUGMAN, Investor’s Business Daily, July 15, 2015
WATCH THIS MEXICAN ECONOMIST COMPLETELY SCHOOL DONALD TRUMP, Latina, July 15, 2015
DONALD TRUMP ROCKS VEGAS CROWD, Huffington Post, July 15, 2015
BEHIND THE SCENES OF STOSSEL’S FREEDOMFEST VEGAS SHOW, FOX Business, July 15, 2015
ARE LIBERTARIANS CRAZY CULTISTS WHO SHOULD BE DROWNED? PLAYBOY INVESTIGATES, Playboy, July 14, 2015
ANTHEM FILM FEST: PUTTING PEOPLE BACK TOGETHER, Blogcritics, July 14, 2015
TRUMPISM: THE IDEOLOGY, Liberty.me, July 14, 2015
ANTHEM FILM FEST: HELP ME, OBI PENN JILLETTE – YOU’RE MY ONLY HOPE, Blogcritics, July 13, 2015
DONALD TRUMP AT FREEDOMFEST IN LAS VEGAS, PART II, Let’s Talk Nevada, July 13, 2015
IN LAS VEGAS, DISCUSSING WHY GERMANY TOOK SOCIAL DARWINISM ALL THE WAY, Evolution News, July 13, 2015
TRIPLE LUTZ REPORT - FREEDOMFEST, TRUMP & KRUGMAN, Financial Survival Network, July 13, 2015
DONALD TRUMP’S ‘COMPETENCE’ RHETORIC RESONATES WITH LIBERTARIAN-FRIENDLY CROWD, Washington Times, July 12, 2015
TRUMP USES FREEDOMFEST SPEECH TO ARGUE AGAINST FREEDOM, National Monitor, July 12, 2015
TRUMP IN VEGAS, PHOENIX: ILLEGALS ‘WREAKING HAVOC ON OUR POPULATION, NewsMax, July 12, 2015
DONALD TRUMP AT FREEDOMFEST IN LAS VEGAS, PART I, Let’s Talk Nevada, July 12, 2015
FORMER PAYPAL CEO PETER THIEL: PAYPAL WOULD ALLOW FIREARMS TRANSACTIONS IF I WAS STILL THERE, The Daily Caller, July 11, 2015
DONALD TRUMP: DON’T WORRY, WE’LL TAKE OUR COUNTRY BACK, NBC News, July 11, 2015
ECONOMIC FIGHT CLUB, PART 2 AT FREEDOMFEST: PETER THIEL V. JOHN MACKEY ON MONOPOLIES, COMPETITION, PJ Media, July 11, 2015
ELECTION 2016 LIVE THREAD: DONALD TRUMP, FREEDOMFEST EDITION, Let’s Talk Nevada, July 11, 2015
TRUMP TELLS LAS VEGAS CROWD HE’S BEHOLDEN TO NO ONE, Las Vegas Review-Journal, July 11, 2015
WHOLE FOODS CEO JOHN MACKEY: MICROSOFT WAS ‘BETTER OFF WHEN BILL GATES’ WAS IN CHARGE, The Daily Caller, July 11, 2015
TRUMP CRITICIZES BORDER POLICY AS WELL AS TRADE AGENDA, Beaumont Enterprise (TX), July 11, 2015
DONALD TRUMP TALK IMMIGRATION, US TRADE POLICY IN PAIR OF SATURDAY SPEECHES, The Times Picayune (LA), July 11, 2015
REASON’S GILLESPIE, WELCH TALK ABOUT HOW TO GO FROM LIBERTARIAN MOMENT TO LIBERTARIAN ERA, PJ Media, July 11, 2015
TRUMP CRITICIZES BORDER POLICY AS WELL AS TRADE AGENDA, Miami Herald, July 11, 2015
RUBIO REVISITS CHILDHOOD IN VEGAS, CALLS PUTIN A CRIMINAL, Associated Press via ABC News, July 11, 2015
MARCO RUBIO TALKS ABOUT HIGHER EDUCATION AT #FREEDOMFEST, Let’s Talk Nevada, July 11, 2015
FREEDOMFEST LIVE FROM LAS VEGAS, Liberty.me, July 10, 2015
GOP PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE HOPEFUL MARCO RUBIO SHARES PERSONAL ODYSSEY AT FREEDOMFEST, Las Vegas Review-Journal, July 10, 2015
ELECTION 2016 LIVE THREAD: MARCO RUBIO, FREEDOMFEST EDITION, Let’s Talk Nevada, July 10, 2015
ELECTION 2016 LIVE THREAD: T-486 DAYS, Let’s Talk Nevada, July 10, 2015
ENERGY FOR TRUMP EXPLOSIVE IN LAS VEGAS AT FREEDOMFEST, Breitbart, July 10, 2015
A FEW THOUGHTS ON MARCO RUBIO AFTER HEARING HIM SPEAK, Playboy, July 10, 2015
THE ENDURING ANGLO AMERICAN RELATIONSHIP? FREEDOMFEST GETS INTERNATIONAL, Breitbart, July 10, 2015
THE INCONCEIVABLE SUCCESS OF OBAMACARE, New York Times, July 10, 2015
DONALD TRUMP’S IMMIGRATION RANTS MAY COST GOP A SHOT AT THE WHITE HOUSE, RIVAL SEN LINDSEY GRAHAM SAYS, New York Daily News, July 10, 2015
MOORE VS KRUGMAN THROW DOWN AT FREEDOMFEST, Breitbart, July 10, 2015
CHINESE INVESTORS.COM APPEARING AT FREEDOMFEST CONFERENCE IN LAS VEGAS, Baystreet, July 10, 2015
ELECTION 2016 LIVE THREAD at FREEDOMFEST, Let’s Talk Nevada, July 9, 2015
WHOLE FOODS CEO: ECONOMIC FREEDOM HAS LIFTED HUMANITY OUT OF THE DIRT, PJ Media, July 9, 2015
FREEDOMFEST: SHRINK GOVERNMENT, GROW OPPORTUNITY, Las Vegas Review-Journal, July 9. 2015
RACE FOR WHITE HOUSE COMES TO LAS VEGAS, KSNV News 3LV, July 9, 2015
SHOWDOWN ON THE LAS VEGAS STRIP: DONALD TRUMP VS MARCO RUBIO AT PLANET HOLLYWOOD, Breitbart, July 9, 2015
KRUGMAN, MOORE MEET FOR ‘ECONOMIC FIGHT CLUB’ AT FREEDOMFEST, PJ Media, July 9, 2015
EXCLUSIVE – MOORE: KRUGMAN WILL DEFEND OBAMANOMICS WHICH IS BASED ON SOCIALISM, Breitbart, July 9, 2015
DOES DONALD TRUMP BELONG AT FREEDOMFEST?, Reason.com, July 7, 2015
FREEDOMFEST IS THE HOTTEST GAME IN VEGAS, PJ Media, July 7, 2015
RUBIO, TRUMP TO SPEAK AT LIBERTARIAN CONFERENCE IN LAS VEGAS, KNPR, July 7, 2015
RUBIO & TRUMP TO SPEAK IN VEGAS THIS WEEK, KTVN, July 6, 2015
TRUMP TO SPEAK AT FREEDOMFEST IN VEGAS SATURDAY, Las Vegas Review-Journal, July 6, 2015
INTERVIEW: JO ANN SKOUSEN, ANTHEM FILM FESTIVAL FOUNDER, Blogcritics, June 27, 2015
FREEDOMFEST: BECK, FORBES, STOSSEL, FARAH: Great Debates, discussion at ‘greatest libertarian show on Earth,’ World News Daily, May 3, 2015
SEE HOW AMERICAN DREAM LIVES AT FREEDOMFEST, Orange County Register, March 8, 2015
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Washington, DC: A recent report on the Rachel Maddow Show (MSNBC, March 12) identified FreedomFest as the source of an exchange between then-presidential candidate Donald Trump and Russian gun rights activist Maria Butina on the subject of Russian sanctions and Vladimir Putin on July 11, 2015 at Planet Hollywood. The report quoted authors Michael Isikoff and David Corn in “Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin’s War on America and the Election of Donald Trump” (Twelve, March 13, 2018).
In the book, the authors incorrectly characterize FreedomFest as a “conservative evangelical” event and Ms Maddow perpetuates that error in her reporting. Neither the Rachel Maddow show nor the “Russian Roulette” authors reached out to FreedomFest for comment before broadcast or publication.
FreedomFest is a big-tent, non-partisan, libertarian conference, billed as “the world’s largest gathering of free minds” that has been taking place in Las Vegas since 2007. The FreedomFest mission is to explore issues of freedom and liberty as related to politics, economics, finances, health and healthcare, art, technology, education and other important social topics as an open forum. As such, FreedomFest is known as a place where news is made, and many media outlets cover FreedomFest and its famous mock trial, debates, panels and keynote speakers.
At the 2015 conference, newly declared presidential candidate Donald Trump agreed to speak at FreedomFest less than one week before the start of the event, and the conference organizers changed the schedule to create a slot for him on the main stage on Saturday, July 11. The organizers insisted the speech include an open, unscripted question-and-answer period with the audience. No questions were submitted to Donald Trump, his campaign or FreedomFest staff ahead of time. Other than allowing Mexican businessman Roberto Salinas to ask the first question, the question-and-answer period was completely open to anyone in the audience who wished to ask a question.
Maria Butina was registered as an attendee at FreedomFest before Donald Trump was part of the agenda. She asked Mr Trump a series of questions about Russia during the open question-and-answer period at the end of his speech.
FreedomFest 2018 “Where Is the Voice of Reason?” will take place July 11 – 14, 2018 at the Paris Resort in Las Vegas. For more information, please contact Valerie Durham, Conference Director, 855-850-3733 ext 101, [email protected] or visit www.freedomfest.com.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
NEWSMAX REVEALS TOP 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL LIBERTARIANS
Las Vegas, Nev. (June 1, 2017) — Today Newsmax magazine, in conjunction with FreedomFest, unveiled its first “Top 100 Most Influential Libertarians” list.
To see the list, go to http://nws.mx/2rtCNvr
Ron Paul, the former congressman and presidential candidate, came in at the top spot.
The list of favorite libertarians in politics, academia, entertainment, finance and more was determined by Newsmax and a survey conducted in March by FreedomFest. Over 10,000 people responded to the Newsmax/FreedomFest Survey, making for a thrilling race with different names overtaking the pack throughout the month.
Newsmax and FreedomFest reviewed the results and selected their list of Top 100 Most Influential Libertarians with an assessment of their influence.
Historic Photograph of Top Libertarians at This Year’s FreedomFest
FreedomFest is pleased to announce that it will be taking a photograph of the most influential libertarians at 5:00 pm PT on Friday, July 21, at the Paris Resort in Las Vegas, as part of its 10th anniversary celebration (July 19-22).
All top 100 libertarians on the list are being sent special invitations, and many have already confirmed they will be there for this landmark event. They include John Stossel, Lisa Kennedy, Steve Forbes, Nick Gillespie, David Boaz, Dan Mitchell, Jennifer Grossman, Matt and Terry Kibbe, Jeff Tucker, Doug Casey, Mark and Jo Ann Skousen, among many others.
FreedomFest is known as “the world’s largest gathering of free minds.” The annual libertarian conference takes place July 19-22, 2017, at the Paris Las Vegas Resort, in Las Vegas, NV, and is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year. The official theme is “Exploring New Frontiers” and features a keynote address by William Shatner. For more information: www.freedomfest.com
Contact: Valerie Durham, Conference Director, FreedomFest, 1-855-850-3733 ext 101, or email [email protected]
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