The annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) is heading to Dallas, Texas this year, and its organizers told the Washington Reporter that President Donald Trump’s cabinet is heading there with it.

Matt Schlapp, the longtime chair of the American Conservative Union (ACU) told the Reporter that this years’s theme of “Actions Over Words” comes amidst a series of brawls roiling the conservative movement on issues ranging from foreign policy to the SAVE America Act. “Talking without action means little,” Schlapp said.

Schlapp expects Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Linda McMahon, Scott Turner, Brooke Rollins, Mehmet Oz, and Tom Homan to be among the Trump administration officials to attend the annual conference. President Donald Trump’s attendance, which is normally a given at the conference, remains up in the air due to the ongoing conflict with Iran, Schlapp explained.

“We spent a lot of the year watching different conservatives with large followings squabble with each other, and throughout that process I kept thinking that it’s taking a lot of bandwidth figuring out who’s right and who’s wrong,” Schlapp said.

Meanwhile, Americans “elected a Communist as Mayor of New York City,” he said, reflecting on the consequences of what happen when conservatives are divided. But, Schlapp also pointed to major successes that Americans have scored against various priorities of the left.

“Nick Shirley stood up with a cellphone and made a huge difference very quickly,” he said, referring to the work that the investigative journalist has done in exposing rampant fraud in Minnesota and around the country. He also likened the “brave” activists in Texas who are “standing up against” the sprawling East Plano Islamic Center, which has been criticized for violating the religious liberties of non-Muslims in Texas. Schlapp compared that activism to how parents in Virginia rejected teachers unions in 2021 and helped elect Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R., Va.). 

Schlapp also expects to spotlight the next generation of investigative journalists, people who have received pardons from Trump, and victims of the Iranian regime during the conference.

Texas, Schlapp noted, is home to the “hottest race in the country” between Sens. John Cornyn (R., Texas) and Attorney General Ken Paxton who are locked in a runoff. Paxton will be attending CPAC, Schlapp said, while Cornyn’s attendance remains up in the air. CPAC has remained neutral between the two longtime Texas elected officials, but if Cornyn doesn’t show up, Schlapp expects that his organization will back the attorney general.

Attendees can expect Franklin Graham to kick the conference off with a prayer, “speak[ing] to the entire nation,” Schlapp said, adding that Graham is unlikely to remain apolitical in his remarks “because the left has made everything political.”

CPAC will also feature guests from abroad, including senior officials in the Israeli government, as well as Poland’s president Karol Nawrocki, which Schlapp said “is a big deal.”

CPAC hosted a conference in Nawrocki’s Poland last year in which senior Trump administration officials flocked to Rzeszów, Poland, to tell Polish voters that Trump wants a Nawrocki win, which the Poles delivered.

“Of course, we played a big role in his election in Poland, and he feels a connection to CPAC,” Schlapp said. “He said ‘I always want to help CPAC.’” While in America, Schlapp said that Nawrocki will also “visit the F35 production line.”

Schlapp is fresh off of hosting CPAC in Hungary, where Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is facing a contentious election in a few weeks. While in Budapest, Schlapp “got to talk to the Prime Minister, he’s in campaign mode like he’s never been before…it’s going to be a tough dogfight, he knows it. He’s been in power for 16 years, and you get the blame if the trash doesn’t get picked up on time.”

Following CPAC in Dallas, Schlapp said that there will be the first-ever CPACs in both Germany and in the United Kingdom in the months ahead.