Citizen Writers Fighting Censorship by Helping Americans Understand Issues Affecting the Republic.
For most of human history, speech was a permission, not a right. Kings, emperors, churches, and councils decided what could be said, written, or taught—and dissent was treated as disorder. The idea that ordinary people could openly criticize power was not just discouraged; it was dangerous.
As expected, the U.S. Mint will produce commemorative coins for the nation’s Semiquincentennial (250th anniversary) of the Declaration of Independence. Also as expected, CNN turned in an anti-Trump diatribe under the headline, “Killing the penny was just the start. Trump is rewriting the rules on America’s coin.”
On October 3, 1789, President George Washington issued a proclamation declaring Thursday, November 26 of that year as a national day of Thanksgiving and prayer.
In 1775 after a revolutionary season of 12 years, one third of the Enlightenment Era, Dissident Protestant British people across four regional cultures (in 13 separate Colonies) took up arms to keep the Rights their ancestors won in the previous century.
We all know the iconic photo: an old Union veteran in blue shaking hands with a Confederate in gray at the 1913 Gettysburg reunion. It’s become the symbol of forgiveness — proof that America “healed” fifty years after the Civil War. But the truth underneath it is far more complicated.
Next year marks twenty-five years since that blue-sky morning when the towers fell, the Pentagon burned, and the nation swore we’d never forget. We promised unity, courage, and vigilance. We sang “God Bless America” on the Capitol steps. And then, almost overnight, we traded freedom for fear and called it patriotism.
Each Veterans Day weekend, a gathering of Army friends–bound by service, stories, laughter, and tradition–reminds us that shared rituals and gratitude knit together the history and heart of every community.
Insights On The True Reformation Effort Needed In America’s Intelligence Services
We should not be surprised by the assassinations of Mr. Charlie Kirk or Ms. Iryna Zarutska, nor the prior attempted assassinations of President Trump or Justice Kavanaugh. For the last several years. It was inevitable.
They lost the Executive and Legislative Branches, but they are conducting all-out war from the Judiciary! It is no longer guerilla tactics but all-out war! How can a Christian sit silently as the foundations of our “one nation under God” are attacked?
There are stories in the news saying that the bloom is off the rose, that the special relationship between the United States and Israel is breaking down.
Another example of a normal America. A cease fire in the war on firearms and ammunition. Thank You Donald Trump!
I remember before the game, things got very quiet. All 30-odd thousand people rose. The throngs of stadium chairs creaking sounded like the world was splitting.
When I was in the U.S. Army in the 1960s, one of the most persistent exhortations from my superiors was: “The only good communist is a dead communist.”
Nobody understood how to navigate the endless battle to control what and how we think better than COL James N. “Nick” Rowe, who spent five years as a prisoner of the Viet Cong.
What I could use is in this 5th Generation War is 12 psychological gifts from the king of resilience, COL James N. “Nick” Rowe, U.S. Army Green Beret and survivor of five years as a Viet Cong prisoner of war in the swampy U Minh Forest of southernmost Vietnam.
America’s Founders established the United States on rock-solid principles, positioning our country as the world’s strongest and most prosperous bastion of freedom and liberty.
My parents were lifelong Democrats. My mother sometimes volunteered at polling stations during primary and general elections. My father, a lifelong salesman with a great gift of gab, occasionally canvassed for various Democratic candidates.
“THE AMERICANS” is a Stand Up America US Foundation project focusing on “America First” citizens, who have as their Foundation and Goal the restoration of the Constitution and preservation of the Republic.
This past weekend marked the beginning of the countdown for America’s semi-quincentennial that will be celebrated across the United States on July 4, 2026.