Tom Basile

Tom Basile has been in the middle of the action on the biggest stories and hottest issues of the two last decades. His work in the worlds of politics, government, media and business have made him a powerful voice in our national conversation, with a reputation for credibility, candor and common sense. He is the host of Newsmax Television's 'America Right Now' and a columnist for the Washington Times.

The former host of ‘Sunday in America’ on SiriusXM Radio, and an Opinion Contributor to Forbes from 2012-2018, his columns have also been read widely on FoxNews.com, Newsmax.com and other outlets. He has served in government at the local, state and federal levels, including in the Administration of President George W. Bush in various capacities. Basile served as executive director of the New York State Republican Party from 2009-2011.

In 2011, he was one of only two American conservatives featured as part of Time Magazine’s ‘Person of the Year’ special edition about grassroots citizen engagement around the world.

His critically-acclaimed book Tough Sell: Fighting the Media War in Iraq (Potomac, 2017), gives readers his personal account of the Iraq mission and the daily battle to communicate about the war to the American public. The book earned a foreword from Ambassador John R. Bolton.

His second book Let It Sink In: The Decade of Obama and Trump is a curated collection of his writings during the 2010s to help provide a roadmap to protect American freedom in the 2020s.

For more than a decade he has run Empire Solutions, a New York-based strategic communications firm. He has served on the faculty of Fordham University’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences since 2008 and is a member of the New York Bar.

Learn more about him at https://www.tombasile.com/