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FreedomFest 2026

Joe Nusbaum

Project Manager

Salt Lake City, UT

12:00pm PDT

Biblical Economics Wealth Workshop Room 113-114Dave Arnott • Turning Point USA Prep Year Two Toms Wrote the Declaration of Independence: How Tom Paine's Common Sense Set the Stage for Tom Jefferson's Declaration C-SPAN Coverage Philosophers Room Room 104Mark Skousen • David Fisher • Shane Krauser • Randy Barnett You Can't Cancel Funny: Comedy, Courage, and Common Sense with Rob Schneider Free Speech Stage Room 108-109Matt Kibbe • Rob Schneider • You Can Do It Foundation

12:30pm PDT

Panel: Austrian Economics and the Philosophy of Liberty Anthem Film Festival Room 110-112Joanna Guerra • Tomasz Agencki • Ken Schoolland • Rainer Zitelmann • Dominic Frisby

1:00pm PDT

Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations: The Declaration of Economic Independence (with first edition copy) C-SPAN Coverage Philosophers Room Room 104Mark Skousen • Rob Arnott Building the Right Team for a Startup Entrepreneurship Stage Room 119-121Eldar Souliaev • Michelle Bernier • Principled Business • The CPA Dude Teaching Kids About the Founding Fathers, the Original Civil Liberties Heroes (followed by book signing) Ideas & Debate Stage Room 106-107Kelley Paul Punching Up "Truth in Comedy" Competition Round 1 Free Speech Stage Room 108-109Lou Perez • Boris Khaykin • Peter Stewart The Freedom to Innovate: CPAC and CASM on the Threat of Socialized Medicine (Refreshments provided) Adams Salon Room 126Andrew Langer • Coalition Against Socialized Medicine

2:00pm PDT

Mad Science, Bio-Weapons, and the Deep State: The Coverup Exposed Ideas & Debate Stage Room 106-107Matt Kibbe • Rand Paul • Free the People The Year of the Enlightenment: How Edward Gibbons and David Hume Influenced 1776 C-SPAN Coverage Philosophers Room Room 104Mark Skousen • Brian Thomassen • Steve Forbes DMSO as Atomic Medicine: Catalyst of the Electric Body (Refreshments provided) Adams Salon Room 126Sean Allman • iHeal Collective

3:00pm PDT

Opening Ceremonies Procession Pre-Function Space

3:15pm PDT

America the Beautiful Main Stage Room 130-135Lydia Abbott Drury

3:20pm PDT

Reading of the Declaration of Independence Main Stage Room 130-135Dean Cain

3:55pm PDT

Celebrating the Achievements of the American Experiment: What Have We Done Right? Main Stage Room 130-135Erick Erickson • Steve Forbes • Shane Krauser • David Fisher • Kelley Paul

5:30pm PDT

Hollywood's Blacklist 2.0: Creativity in an Age of Conformity Main Stage Room 130-135Lisa Kennedy • Dean Cain • Clifton Duncan • Rob Schneider

6:00pm PDT

Is There Any Hope for America for Another 250 Years? Main Stage Room 130-135Rand Paul • Mark Skousen

6:30pm PDT

FreedomFest Welcome Reception Red Carpet Event Exhibit Hall Room 136-139Triple AXL as the Quarter Millennials

8:30am PDT

The Immortal Mind: A Neurosurgeon's Case for the Existence of the Soul (Refreshments provided) Adams Salon Room 126Mark Skousen • Dr. Michael Egnor

9:20am PDT

Cuba's Eternal Night; Jordan Allott, dir. 69 min. Anthem Film Festival Room 110-112

9:30am PDT

Think Independent Main Stage Room 130-135Valerie Leigh

9:32am PDT

Welcome to Thursday Main Stage Room 130-135Lisa Kennedy

10:00am PDT

Generational Wealth Planning – On YOUR Terms Main Stage Room 130-135Mark Skousen • Rick Durfee • David T. Phillips

11:00am PDT

Operation Arnon; Hannah Puder, dir. 16 min. Anthem Film Festival Room 110-112Thomas Pack

11:25am PDT

My Greatest Entrepreneurial Success: Disrupting the Deep State Main Stage Room 130-135Patrick Byrne

11:45am PDT

Fulfilling the Promise: Teachers, Students, and the Declaration of Independence; Lena Popilieva, dir. 50 min. Anthem Film Festival Room 110-112Corey DeAngelis

12:00pm PDT

Book Signings Exhibit Hall Room 136-139George Landrith • Casey Fleming • Patrick Byrne • Sharon Lechter • Dr. Michael Egnor

1:00pm PDT

Is Trump a Net Gain or a Net Loss for Liberty? Ideas & Debate Stage Room 106-107Kathy Barnette Podcast • Austin Petersen • Jacob Sullum • Keith Knight • Wayne Allyn Root • James Green • Integrally Rule Breakers: The Innovators Rebuilding Health Freedom Free Speech Stage Room 108-109Amy Bohn • David Cain • Don Williams • Jarom Sidwell

2:00pm PDT

Indecent Exposure: Catching Uncle Sam with His Pants Down Ideas & Debate Stage Room 106-107Stephanie Edewaard Weidle • Olivia Degenkolb • Jim Erdman • Kyle Seraphin • George Hill • Feds for Freedom Could the Founding Fathers Have Done Better? Time-Travel Novel Explores Fixing (Refreshments provided) Adams Salon Room 126Nick Grose • Peter Grose • Grose Wealth Management

3:00pm PDT

The Spirit of 1776: The Musical Anthem Film Festival Room 110-112Jo Ann Skousen • Lydia Abbott Drury • Brian Drury • Mark Skousen • Gary Alexander • Steve Forbes • David T. Phillips

3:45pm PDT

Think Independent Main Stage Room 130-135Valerie Leigh

3:47pm PDT

Welcome to FreedomFest Main Stage Room 130-135Lisa Kennedy

4:05pm PDT

The Food Industrial Complex Main Stage Room 130-135Andrew Gruel • John Mackey

4:50pm PDT

Who Owns the Classroom? The War for America’s Children Main Stage Room 130-135Marissa Streit • PragerU

5:25pm PDT

My Most Dangerous Assignment: Uncovering Government Fraud in Minnesota and California Main Stage Room 130-135Nick Shirley • Adam Carolla

10:00am PDT

Killed to Order: China's Organ Harvesting Industry and the True Nature of America's Biggest Adversary (Refreshments provided) Jefferson Salon Room 124-125Jan Jekielek • The Epoch Times /NTD News

11:10am PDT

Leonard E. Read Award "Revolution" Main Stage Room 130-135Mark Skousen • Eric Metaxas

1:00pm PDT

An Inconvenient Study; Kris Armstrong, dir. 82 min. Anthem Film Festival Room 110-112Jenn Sherry Parry • Kris Armstrong • Del Bigtree

2:00pm PDT

"Revolution: The Origins of the Greatest Nation in History" An Author's Insights Leonard E. Read Award Winner Free Speech Stage Room 108-109Eric Metaxas Rethinking Women's Rights: The Unconventional Pro-Life Libertarian Case Ideas & Debate Stage Room 106-107Norman Horn • Kerry Baldwin • Michael Shermer • Integrally • Libertarian Christian Institute

3:00pm PDT

The Essential Thomas Sowell, starring Clifton Duncan Anthem Film Festival Room 110-112Clifton Duncan

4:15pm PDT

A History Lesson with Glenn Beck Main Stage Room 130-135Glenn Beck

4:45pm PDT

FreedomFest Mock Trial: ICE on Trial Main Stage Room 130-135Del Bigtree • Wayne Allyn Root • Dean Cain • JJ Carrell • Catherine Bernard • Billy Binion • Athar Haseebullah • Integrally

8:00pm PDT

Karaoke Wheelhouse

10:30am PDT

No Rules: The Pioneers Who Built the UFC Main Stage Room 130-135Lou Perez • Dan Severn • Don Frye • Eric Carroll

12:05pm PDT

FreedomFest Closing Panel Main Stage Room 130-135Mark Skousen • Jon Najarian • Terry Kibbe • Del Bigtree • Rainer Zitelmann

12:30pm PDT

FreedomFest Closing Ceremony: Appreciation & Awards Main Stage Room 130-135Valerie Leigh • Lisa Kennedy