Brilyn Hollyhand, an Auburn University student, longtime online conservative influencer, and Chairman of the RNC’s Youth Advisory Council, is starting a new partnership with the Alabama Republican Party that he hopes will inspire the next generation of political activists.
The initiative is called “Project Future Generation” and will be officially announced Friday at the ALGOP Dinner.
Hollyhand discussed the new program Thursday on “The Rightside with Allison and Amie Beth” in partnership with Yellowhammer News.
“So we’re bringing over 50 student leaders from all the campuses in the state of Alabama together to have lunch with Chairman Stadhagen and I, and it’s not like a lecture,” he explained. “It’s not like a session where they’re going to listen to us talk. It’s a Q and A where we’re going to go back and forth on how can we help your campus with the funding the state party has.”
Hollyhand said one of the main goals is to make sure that young conservative groups around the state are collaborating in a way that will get results.
“How can we help you organize with the staff the state party has, and then what specific needs can those clubs work together? Because you know you’ve been to some of these campuses,” he said.
“There’s a seat, our chapter. There’s a wire chapter. There’s a gap chapter. There’s Turning Point chapter. We all have the same mission. We’ll have the same goal. We’re working separately. We have pizza parties on the same nights. We have voter registration drive on the same nights. But the the rooms apart from each other. Why can’t we just all work together before the midterms? Because we’re losing places like Huntsville that’s turning purple.”
The conservative activist also reflected on a meeting he had with President Donald Trump where they discussed how to reach the next generation of voters.
“And he looked at me and he said, ‘What can I do to win the youth? I’m afraid we’re going to lose them.’ And I just, off the top of my head, the first thing I could think of was TikTok,” Hollyhand said. “You got to go where we are. And he kind of laughed at it. And I thought that’s the last time he’d ever bring it up. A week later, I’m sitting in math class. My phone rings with an unknown Florida number, I get a demerit as you do when your phone rings in class. It happened to be the president’s team, and they were calling to offer me a job to lead their youth outreach to start a TikTok campaign.”
“Here we sit for tomorrow night’s dinner. He has the largest account on TikTok,” he added. “So ideas from young people that would have typically been shunned because you can’t-you got to keep the pews, you got to keep the orchestra, you got to keep that kind of thing in a church. You would have shunned TikTok in a party, and he’s back in the Oval Office this morning because of it.”
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Yaffee is a contributing writer to Yellowhammer News and hosts “The Yaffee Program” weekdays 9-11 a.m. on WVNN. You can follow him on X @Yaffee
