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GOP presidential candidate Rep. Michele Bachmann (Minn.) will join a hodgepodge of conservative activists and celebrities to boost a pro-troop event in California this Thursday, according to organizers.

The event is titled "Troopathon" and is billed as an effort to raise money for and send care packages to American troops overseas. The gathering is organized by the right-leaning group Move America Forward, which has ties to the Tea Party Express.

Bachmann is expected to contribute a video message along with other big names.

Former President George H.W. Bush, a World War II veteran, is expected to send a message alongside a number of conservative commentators including Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham. Conservative media figure Andrew Breitbart will be in attendance.

Right-leaning Hollywood actors Kelsey Grammar and Gary Sinise are expected to contribute a video message as well as Duke men's basketball coach ! Mike Krzyzewski. 

The event will be held at Richard Nixon's presidential library in Yorba Linda, Calif.

-- This post was updated at 10:15 p.m.