Conservative of the Year 2025

Conservative of the Year 2025 has a record total of 58 nominees this year, breaking last year's record of 54:

Very Top Tier

1. Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo took on Big Pharma -- which deceptively controls Wikipedia and most politicians -- by seeking to make Florida the "first state to eliminate all childhood vaccine mandates."
2. Charlie Kirk, for courageously taking conservative principles to college campuses, and sacrificing his own life for speaking the truth.
3. Russell Vought, the conservative Director of the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB), for masterfully overseeing the longest government shutdown in history, proposing mass layoffs of government employees, and sticking to principle until the Dems caved in.
4. Karol Nawrocki, who has kept Poland pro-life by stunning liberals with his come-from-behind victory in its national election for president.
5. Nayib Bukele, El Salvador's immensely popular conservative president who was reelected by a landslide, and stood with Trump against pressure to return a deported individual suspected of being a gang member.
6. Giorgia Meloni, Italy's conservative Prime Minister since October 2022, has successfully headed the third-longest government ever in the Italian Republic.
7. María Corina Machado, the conservative leader in Venezuela who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2025 and who then graciously and humbly said that Trump should have won it.
8. Newly elected Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, called "ultra-conservative" by the liberal media, declared that Japan might act militarily against China if it dares to blockade Taiwan.

Top Tier

• Tina Peters, for enduring Dems' politically motivated imprisonment of her in Colorado with dignity, grace, and strength
• Harmeet Dhillon, the Assistant Attorney General appointed by Trump to run the Civil Rights Division of DOJ, has shut down DEI while also demanding transparency, ballot records, and answers from Fulton County, Georgia; the frustrated Georgia State Election Board requested assistance by DOJ on this issue.
• Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL), for standing up to sociopathic globalist warmongers.
• Tim Burchett (R-TN), for opposing Republican "war pimps".
• Ken Paxton, Texas Attorney General, for having the courage to challenge incumbent anti-Trump neocon globalist & nazisymp RINO John Cornyn for US Senate. Successfully defended Texas' anti-pornography age verification law in SCOTUS.
• Pat Harrigan (R-NC) for speaking out against the Ukraine war mafia.
• Elbridge Colby, for driving a wooden stake through the heart of the Liberal International Order with the 2025 National Security Strategy.
• Tom Homan for his efforts in mass deportations of criminals and illegal aliens
• Tommy Robinson for leading the biggest conservative and Christian march in England
• Jaques Baud, for his courageous stance for peace, freedom, and democracy.
• Bart De Wever, Belgian Prime Minister for resisting the looting of Russian assets in Belgian banks.
• Riley Gaines for her efforts to ban transgenders in women that was finally signed by Trump
• Tulsi Gabbard, a veteran and a standout member of the Second Cabinet of Donald Trump, who has pushed back against the pro-war neo-cons, fired Deep Staters, exposed wrongdoing by Dems, and consistently stood up for principles.
• Bethany Kozma, the appointed top health diplomat for the U.S., who is pro-life.

Others

• Morgan Wallen, country music star, for abruptly walking off the stage on Saturday Night Live in liberal New York City, and then posting on social media a photo of his plane with the expression "Get me to God's country" (Tennessee).
• Kelsey Grammer, one of the most popular sitcom stars (Cheers and Frasier), for declaring to the dismay of Hollywood liberals that Trump is "one of the greatest presidents we've ever had. Maybe the greatest."
• Victor Orban, as a tireless voice for peace and sanity.
• Robert Fico, for his courageous stance against EU bigotry.
• Andrej Babis, for cutting off funding to the corrupt Zelensky Regime.
• JD Vance, for being the finest Vice President in modern times.
• Michael Anton, “a Maga firebrand” and the lead author who crafted the new national security strategy (NSS25) “warning that immigration to Europe would cause 'civilizational erasure', reviving the Monroe doctrine in the western hemisphere, and downgrading the US’s responsibility for great power competition with China and Russia.”
• Aaron Rodgers, for standing up for RFK Jr. as Big Pharma tried to block his confirmation as HHS Secretary
• Clayton Kershaw, the future Hall of Fame pitcher for the Los Angeles, for wearing a verse from the Book of Genesis on PRIDE night, in apparently protest of the LGBTQ movement taking the rainbow created by God after the Great Flood.
• Dan Bongino, #2 at the FBI, for strongly opposing the reclassification of cannabis which will increase cannabis industry profits and expand the resultant harm to the public, who resigned apparently based on principle after a long-running disagreement on this issue and with do-nothing moderates in Trump 2.0
• Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY), for dedication and service above an beyond the call of duty.
• Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., for taking on Big Pharma by ending the one-sided mandating of vaccines by the federal government.
• José Antonio Kast, an "ultra-conservative" who won by a stunning 58-42% margin to become the next president of Chile, as "its most rightwing president in decades."
• Kirsty Coventry, the new head of the International Olympic Committee, for leading the effort to ban transgenders from invading women's sports at the Olympics.
• Donald Trump for his accomplishments in increasing liberty in the United States and his other public policy accomplishments.
• Thomas Massie (R-KY) for courage and consistency.
• Steve Bannon, for sharply criticizing Elon Musk when everyone else failed to, and Musk's eventual unjustified disloyalty towards Trump proved that Bannon was right.
• Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA), the only member of Congress courageous enough to stand up against the liberal media and men-haters by voting "No" on the release of the Epstein files
• Kash Patel, for heading the FBI and bringing reform with some transparency to the Deep State.
• Pete Hegseth for standing up against transgenders and the liberal media, and for being a standout member of the Cabinet.
• Javier Milei, President of Argentina, who takes real action against inflation
• Texas State Rep. Brian Harrison (R-HD10), who declared on Jan. 1, "If this Planned Parenthood official is not removed soon [as Medical Director of the state TMB], I will file legislation to cut all funding to the Texas Medical Board." The official was subsequently replaced on the TMB.
• Cardinal Robert Sarah, who stood strongly conservative on social issues against liberal pressure in the Vatican, and who led a vast expansion in the Roman Catholic Church with conservative values in Africa.
• Southern Baptist Convention, for passing a resolution in June 2025 to condemn the "harmful and predatory nature of sports betting," denouncing its promotion in sports, and asking corporations to end their exploitation of the public concerning this.
• Chaya Raichik for her efforts to reveal lunacy of liberals at her Libs of TikTok account and for her activism to punish psycopaths who celebrated Charlie Kirk murder
• Marco Rubio for his efforts in foreign policy, and deporting terrorists and their sympathizers from country
• Sean Duffy for ensuring safety in roads of country and standing against Gavin Newscum standards of driver licenses
• Erika Kirk for successfully managing of TPUSA after murder of her husband and receiving historic memberships to organization
• Steve Federico who is the father of victim Logan Federico, for exposing liberal soft on crime policy and humiliating democrats for it inside Congress
• JK Rowling for years being humiliated by liberals for standing transgenders policies
• DaBaby for releasing song to honor Iryna Zarutska
• Nicki Minaj, for her activist efforts to defend Christians of Nigeria and endorsing JD Vance for 2028 election against Gavin Newsom
• Arnold Schwarzenegger, for standing against Gavin Newsom's gerrymander redistricting
• Sylvi Listhaug, for leading Progress Party to biggest victory for nationalist conservatives in Norway and becoming the second largest party in the country
• Dave Sunday, the Republican Attorney General of Pennsylvania, for strongly opposing cannabis derivatives like Delta-8 THC, and urging federal recriminalization of it.
• Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Governor of Arkansas, for being the most conservative governor in the U.S.
• Brazil Senator Flavio Bolsonaro (son of conservative Jair Bolsonaro) who began his 2026 candidacy against the Leftist tyrant Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

(total of 59 nominees as of Dec. 21, 2025 - surpassing the record of 54 nominees set in 2024)

See also

• Conservative of the Year
• Conservative of the Year 2024
• Conservative of the Year 2023
• RINO of the Year 2025