Human Events, May 31, 2007
by Ericka Andersen

Most hungry businessmen setting up a new company would agree that any client seems like a good client. But if you are Denis Calabrese and the other six founders of Austin, Texas’ The Patriot Group, a new conservative public affairs firm, you believe in the necessity to be choosy: the success of the firm depends as much on principle as on financial success. For The Patriot Group, success means pursuing liberty-minded values in partnership with client goals.

“Our prospective clients interview us, but we also interview them because we want to espouse the merits of their position,” said founder Denis Calabrese.  read more »

Austin Business Journal - October 13, 2006

by Jonathan Selden
ABJ Staff

A new political consulting group of eight lawyers, political industry veterans -- and a member of a Texas senator's family -- hopes to make some waves in the industry by showing something it says most other lobbyists don't have: backbone.

The Patriot Group opened for business in Austin this month with a distinctive "business ideological bent" to fight for conservative causes, says Principal Anthony Holm.
"This is a group of purists," he says.

Specifically, purists of good old-fashioned conservative causes like free enterprise, liberty and limited government, says another firm principle, Jill Warren.  read more »

Consultants to Blend Work on Corporate and Political Campaigns in Venture that Has Big-League Potential

By Mike Hailey
Capitol Inside Editor

October 3, 2006 - They're not supporting characters in a Mel Gibson movie or a Tom Clancy novel or a documentary about an act of Congress designed to fight terrorism. They have no apparent ties to any anti-ballistic missile systems, Navy warships or New England pro football teams. The Patriot Group - quite the contrary - is a fledgling public affairs firm that's opening for business this week with offices in three Texas cities, a wealth of talent that includes several of the state's top political consultants and a base of clients with high profiles and deep pockets already lined up.  read more »

Anthony Holm
919 Congress Avenue, Suite 1140
Austin, TX 78701
(512) 499-8102
E-mail Anthony Holm

Austin, Texas (October 4, 2006) -- The Patriot Group, a new Texas-based public affairs firm, is opening for business today in Austin, Dallas, and Houston to assist corporations, issue advocacy groups, political candidates, non-profits, governments, and individuals with their toughest challenges in the fields of business, politics, litigation and government.

The Patriot Group works with clients in whose causes it believes and helps them achieve their principled objectives. "The Patriot Group values the principles of free enterprise, liberty, and limited government. We interview our clients just as they interview us, so we can all work together toward a common goal with our hearts and our minds," said Patriot Principal Jill Warren. "Winning on the merits" is both our core client strategy and our company mission.  read more »