Weyrich also runs the Free Congress Foundation (FCF) which he founded with Richard Viguerie, an old friend from his days in Buckley's YAF. The Free Congress Foundation does everything from training future leaders in Eastern Europe to running National Empowerment Television.
Richard Viguerie, who calls himself "politically Christian-, began his political career working for Buckley's YAF in Washington, D. C. He hand copied Goldwater's campaign donor list and launched a highly lucrative conservative direct mail fundraising business. He went on to become the resident expert and among the first to discover and develop "Direct Mail- as a political tool which has raised millions of dollars by focusing on anti-ERA, anti-Choice messages to generate Christian and conservative contributions. .
Viguerie's first big client was Alabama's segregationist governor and third party presidential candidate George Wallace. Viguerie used Goldwater's list and raised millions of dollars for Wallace and then walked away from the campaign with Wallace's list of "angry whites- to add to his Goldwater list. .
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Howard Phillips is a skilled grassroots organizer and with his YAF compatriots, Weyrich and Viguerie, form the New Right's trinity. Phillips and Viguerie founded the Conservative Caucus in 1974 and later helped start the Moral Majority with Weyrich and the Reverend Jerry Falwell. He now heads the U. S. Taxpayers Party that he founded in 1992.
Together Phillips, Weyrich and Viguerie are the secular players who turned the religious right into a political force in the 1970s and 1980s by forming an unholy alliance with Christian extremists and leading attacks on abortion rights, women's rights and gay rights.
Another new conservative voice was also discovered when B-movie actor, television host and General Electric spokesman Ronald Reagan gave his "A Time For Choosing- speech in support of Barry Goldwater on network television one week before the general election in 1964.