John Hawkins started doing political blogging back in 2001. In 2005, he went full time as a blogger. Today, John Hawkins runs Right Wing News, Linkiest, and Viral Footage. He's also the co-owner of Trending Right and The Looking Spoon. You can read more from John Hawkins on Facebook, Twitter, G+, and You Tube.
Originally, John Hawkins did a weekly column for Human Events. Eventually, he moved on from there to doing weekly columns for Townhall and Pajamas Media. He also writes weekly posts for the Huffington Post and his work has also been published at the Washington Examiner, The Hill, Fox News, the New Hampshire Union Leader, and the Des Moines Register.
Furthermore, he's known as the blogosphere's premier interviewer and has interviewed conservatives like Thomas Sowell, Mark Levin, Victor Davis Hanson, Mark Steyn, Jonah Goldberg, G. Gordon Liddy, Dick Morris, Karl Rove, Donald Rumsfeld, Milton Friedman, Ron Paul, Jim DeMint, Jonah Goldberg, Jim DeMint, Walter Williams, Robert Novak, Ann Coulter, Newt Gingrich, & Michelle Malkin among others.
Additionally, John Hawkins' work has been linked and discussed in numerous publications and on TV and radio shows including ABC News, BusinessWeek, C-Span, The Chicago Tribune, CNN, Countdown with Keith Olbermann, Editor & Publisher, Fox News, Hannity and Colmes, The Laura Ingraham Show, Minneapolis Star Tribune, MSNBC, National Journal, National Post, Newsmax, Newsweek, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Rush Limbaugh Show, The Tammy Bruce Show, Time Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, The Hugh Hewitt Show, The Washington Post, Salt Lake Tribune, Scarborough Country, U.S. News & World Report, WorldNetDaily and Human Events, where he had a weekly column. Right Wing News has been studied by college classes , inspired an urban legend that was covered at Snopes, and John Hawkins made Alternet's list of 10 Young Right-Wingers Being Prepped to Take Over the Conservative Movement.
Last but not least, John Hawkins also founded and led the Rightroots group, a grassroots effort that collected almost $300,000 for Republican candidates in the last 3 months of the 2006 election cycle. In 2008, he consulted for Duncan Hunter's presidential campaign and was on the board of Slatecard, which raised more than $600,000 for Republican candidates in the 2008 election cycle. In 2010, he was associated with Slatecard again and in 2011, he helped found Raising Red, which he left in November of that year.