The 2025 Conservative Political Action Conference has attracted guests from across the country and around the world, specifically to “embrace” what the United States’s “conservative movement” stands for.

Calista Clements, one of several CPAC attendees from Australia, told the Washington Examiner how she and several other “young conservatives” have traveled to Washington, D.C., for CPAC this year and how she wants to learn from “the big dogs” in the U.S., which she described as the biggest country supporting the West. She added that her country has become “very woke, very left” over the years and that she wants to learn from “those who fight for the free world.”