Cabot Phillips, Dr. Daniel Di Martino & Julio Rosas | LIVE at October High School Conference 2026

Cabot Phillips is the senior editor at The Daily Wire and can be heard on the Morning Wire podcast. Previously, he served as editor-in-chief of the Leadership Institute’s Campus Reform. He is also a YouTube Partner, and his videos have amassed over 400 million views on a variety of social platforms.
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Daniel Di Martino is a Fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a PhD candidate in Economics at Columbia University. His research focuses on immigration, especially selection, assimilation, and highly skilled immigration. Born and raised in Venezuela, Di Martino experienced the terrible consequences of socialism firsthand. After leaving Venezuela for the U.S. in 2016, he dedicated himself to explaining how socialism destroyed his homeland, advocating for its freedom, and stopping this ideology from ever being implemented in America and elsewhere. Di Martino has appeared on Fox News and CNN, and written for USA Today, National Review, City Journal and New York Post, among others. He is a regular speaker on college campuses and events across the country. He sits on the board of advisors of Young America’s Foundation’s Center for Entrepreneurship and Free Enterprise, and he is a member of the New Jersey State Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. In addition to his economic research on immigration and his media appearances, Di Martino founded the Dissident Project to teach high school students about the evils of socialist regimes.
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Julio Rosas is a nationally known field reporter who has covered the 2020 BLM and Antifa riots, the Biden-Harris border crisis, the crime wave in the United States’ biggest cities, the recent anti-ICE riots and protests. Beyond our country’s borders, Julio has also done extensive reporting in Mexico and South America. Julio is a proud college dropout and has previously served in the Marine Corps Reserves. His book, “Fiery But Mostly Peaceful: The 2020 Riots and the Gaslighting of America” details what he saw and experienced during the “Summer of Love.”
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