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Kurt Schlichter

About The Author

Kurt Schlichter is a senior columnist for Townhall.com, a Los Angeles trial lawyer, and a retired army infantry colonel.

A Twitter activist (@KurtSchlichter) with more than 350,000 followers, Kurt was personally recruited to write conservative commentary by Andrew Breitbart. He is a news source, an on-screen commentator on networks like Fox and Newsmax, and a guest on, and guest host of, nationally syndicated radio programs talking about political, military, and legal topics.

He is the author of The 21 Biggest Lies About Donald Trump and You (2020), the USA Today best-seller Militant Normals: How Regular Americans Are Rebelling Against the Elite to Reclaim Our Democracy (2018) as well as Conservative Insurgency: The Struggle to Take America Back 2013–2041 (2014). He is also the author of the Amazon best-selling novels People’s Republic (2016), Indian Country (2017), Wildfire (2018), Collapse (2019), Crisis (3030) and The Split (2021).