Andy Ngo, Sen. Ron Johnson receive Annie Taylor Award for courage

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) and journalist Andy Ngo have obtained the coveted Annie Taylor Award for courage by standing as much as the enemies of freedom.

The annual award honors schoolteacher Annie Edison Taylor, the primary to outlive a visit over Niagara Falls in a barrel. It’s given to recipients who exhibit nice courage by “going over the ledge when others would be afraid to even go near it.”

Ngo, who has been assaulted greater than as soon as whereas reporting on the far-left’s legal actions, delivered transferring testimony on how his refugee household’s love for America motivates him to reveal Antifa’s anti-American violence.

“Thank you to the David Horowitz Freedom Center for awarding myself and Wisconsin’s @SenRonJohnson with the Annie Taylor Award. It is an honor,” Ngo tweeted with an image of himself and the senator holding the award.

Johnson has been deep diving into the Capitol riot controversy, calling out the Justice Department for its “unequal” therapy of Jan. 6 defendants in comparison with final summer season’s Black Lives Matter rioters, and questioning the FBI’s alleged function.

Other audio system included Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe, investigative journalist Christopher Rufo, and Prager University founder Dennis Prager.

Past award winners embrace conservative pupil group Young America’s Foundation president Ron Robinson and Milwaukee County sheriff David Clarke.

The sold-out occasion throughout the David Horowitz Freedom Center’s Restoration Weekend was held at The Breakers resort in Palm Beach, Florida.

It stands out as the final 12 months that The Breakers hosts Restoration Weekend, in keeping with conservative political website Powerline Blog. After greater than twenty years, “the hotel has told the Freedom Center that its events will no longer be welcome,” the right-leaning weblog said, additionally itemizing an alternate venue for subsequent 12 months.

The David Horowitz Freedom Center is devoted to the protection of free societies whose ethical, cultural, and financial foundations are beneath assault by enemies each secular and spiritual, at house and overseas.