Our Founder

Steve Cortes

Steve Cortes – Known as the “voice of the deplorables,” Steve Cortes has served as a foremost communicator in media advocating for the principles of patriotic populism. Cortes believes in the three key tenets of this powerful and young political movement: National Sovereignty, the Diffusion of Power, and Populist Economics.

Steve has appeared daily on TV news programs since 2007 when he began at CNBC commenting on financial markets. He then transitioned to politics, and has worked as an on-air broadcaster for both Fox News and CNN.

Cortes served the Trump 2016 and 2020 campaigns as Spokesman and Senior Advisor for Strategy and headed outreach to Hispanic voters.

Regarding his hundreds of TV hits on behalf of Team Trump, Fox’s Maria Bartiromo said: “Steve was a strong communicator who understood very early on what the people wanted in a commander-in-chief.”

He graduated from Georgetown where he played football and now lives in Tennessee with his wife and four children.