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48th Annual National Conservative Student Conference ft. the Freedom at 250 Rally at Mount Vernon
This year’s National Conservative Student Conference will be the biggest in YAF history—and it begins with an historic moment.
The 48th Annual NCSC will open with YAF and The Daily Wire’s Freedom at 250 Rally at George Washington’s Mount Vernon, headlined by none other than Ben Shapiro.
Join hundreds of like-minded students from across the country for three days in our nation’s capital to celebrate America’s 250th birthday and prepare to advance and defend freedom on your campus and beyond.

Young America’s Foundation (YAF) is excited to announce a new expanded partnership with The Daily Wire to celebrate the 250th anniversary of America’s independence: Freedom at 250.
Coinciding with YAF's life-changing student conferences in 2026, a series of Freedom at 250 rallies will take place in Nashville, Tennessee, Santa Barbara, California, Washington, D.C., and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, throughout 2026.
This year-long, nationwide tour of programs and activities will bring The Daily Wire’s juggernaut media brand, legendary mainstay talent, and rising stars together with YAF’s six decades of experience shaping America’s future by winning over America’s youth with freedom’s principles and equipping generations of freedom fighters to rise to positions of influence in media, entertainment, government, law, education, and the private sector.
Student registration for the first two programs + Freedom at 250 rallies in Nashville and at the Reagan Ranch — is now open below.
These marquee events are just the first pieces of Freedom at 250, with additional events, special guests, and opportunities to get involved rolling out in the new year.
From our founders’ revolutionary bid for independence based on the belief that all people are created equal with their rights coming from God rather than a government and surviving a civil war to make the U.S. a more perfect union to liberating Europe from tyranny and defeating the Soviet’s “Evil Empire,” the freedom fought for, defended, and passed on by those before us has sustained and guided our country for two and a half centuries.
Now, our continued defense of that freedom requires action.
Freedom at 250 builds on YAF and The Daily Wire’s years-long collaboration to bring bold voices to students nationwide at YAF’s student conferences and narrative-disrupting campus lectures which will also continue as part of Freedom at 250.


Freedom Rallies

Nashville
February 6 -7, 2026
Young America's Foundation and The Daily Wire hosted a jam-packed Freedom at 250 Rally and Conference to kick off our year-long celebration of American freedom.
Featured: Governor Bill Lee, Rep. Tim Burchett, Scott Jennings, Governor Scott Walker, Michael Knowles, Nick Freitas, Mary Margaret Olohan, Cabot Phillips, Reagan Conrad, Lee Greenwood, Dr. Arthur Laffer, Daniel Di Martino, Todd Starnes, and more!

The Reagan Ranch
June 2026 — Open to High School Students
Visit President Reagan's beloved ranch, his home for 25 years and the "Western White House" for eight, and walk in the footsteps of our 40th President at the property that played a pivotal role in his life and career.
Location: President Reagan's Rancho del Cielo

Washington, D.C.
August 2026 - registration coming soon!

Philadelphia
October 2026 - registration coming soon!
Freedom at 250 Lecture Series
You can help change that.- Seth Dillon, CEO of The Babylon Bee
- Isabel Brown, host of The Isabel Brown Show at The Daily Wire
- Nick Freitas, retired Green Beret and Virginia state legislator
- Daniel Di Martino, Venezuelan freedom activist and economist
- Jason Miyares, 48th Attorney General of Virginia
- Scott Walker, President of Young America’s Foundation and 45th Governor of Wisconsin
"Our spirit is back, but we haven't reinstitutionalized it. We've got to do a better job of getting across that America is freedom — freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of enterprise. And freedom is special and rare. It's fragile; it needs protection."