America is exceptional. It is the most prosperous and powerful nation in the history of the world, and it’s exceptional nature is rooted in the vision of its founders.

THOMAS JEFFERSON  believed that America should be an “Empire of Liberty”, an empire built not by militarism and conquest but by the strength of American ideals of liberty, freedom, and entrepreneurialism.

We share the concern that our nation’s values are being sacrificed to partisanship and the disfunction that occurs when the public good is sacrificed for political gain. 

Our aim is to attract and support men and women of strong intellect and sound judgment, whose loyalty is solely to our nation and her people, and promote their candidacy for and service in public office. 

We advance policies that preserve the ideals of America and that guarantee the survival and prominence of this nation as a beacon of justice and liberty to a world that is falling into disarray. 

Educating the Public on Issues Affecting our Nation

President Jefferson spoke and wrote repeatedly on the need for an educated populace to participate in a functioning democracy. Clearly, this recurring theme showed his concern that the passions of an ignorant voter could destroy the system of government that he and the founders established.

“The cornerstone of democracy rests on the foundation of an educated electorate.”

“A properly functioning democracy depends on an informed electorate.”

“An informed citizenry is at the heart of a dynamic democracy.”

“Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.”

All quotations from President Thomas Jefferson

Benjamin Franklin, expressed his belief that our Constitution provided the best form of government, but acknowledged that its proper maintenance by educated publicly-minded voters was essential to its survival. In his final speech at the Constitutional Convention, Franklin said, 

“In these sentiments, Sir, I agree to this Constitution, with all its faults, if they are such; because I think a general government necessary for us, and there is no form of government but what may be a blessing to the People if well administered; and I believe farther that this is likely to be well administered for a course of years, and can only end in despotism as other forms have done before it, when the People shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other.”

Imagine for a moment his concern; that the people could become so corrupted that they need and turn to a despotic government. We deter that corruption by educating Americans on issues of importance, knowing that a democracy will only survive to serve the people if it is governed by an educated and engaged populace. Implicit in his statements is the axiom that an uneducated, ill-informed, apathetic populace can cause a democracy to fail. We work to overcome ignorance and apathy through education and motivation.

Placing America’s Interests Above Partisanship

In 1796, President George Washington presented his farewell address to the nation. Even in those early days, our first President recognized the threat that partisanship and factionalism posed to our nation. According to the United States Senate Historical Office, “Washington’s principal concern was for the safety of the eight-year-old Constitution. He believed that the stability of the Republic was threatened by the forces of geographical sectionalism, political factionalism, and interference by foreign powers in the nation’s domestic affairs. He urged Americans to subordinate sectional jealousies to common national interests. Writing at a time before political parties had become accepted as vital extraconstitutional, opinion-focusing agencies, Washington feared that they carried the seeds of the nation’s destruction through petty factionalism.”

Washington wrote:

“I have already intimated to you the danger of parties in the state, with particular reference to the founding of them on geographical discriminations. Let me now take a more comprehensive view and warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party, generally. 

“This spirit, unfortunately, is inseparable from our nature, having its root in the strongest passions of the human mind. It exists under different shapes in all governments, more or less stifled, controlled, or repressed; but, in those of the popular form, it is seen in its greatest rankness and is truly their worst enemy. 

“The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and miseries which result gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation on the ruins of public liberty. 

“Without looking forward to an extremity of this kind (which nevertheless ought not to be entirely out of sight) the common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and the duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it. 

“It serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasionally riot and insurrection. It opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which find a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passions. Thus the policy and the will of one country are subjected to the policy and will of another.”

Americans are “divided” because it is in the interest of the parties, and the partisans, to keep us apart. The founders never intended for our nation to be guided by the unintelligent, the unqualified, or those whose political or partisan aspirations outweighed their love of country. They never intended that our leaders would prefer to rule by caucus than by conscience. 

We support and encourage the election of officials whose sole agenda is the strength and security of the American Republic; and the prosperity, liberty, and happiness of her citizens. We support those whose conscience is rooted in love of country and service to the American people. 

Encouraging Participation

“We in America do not have government by the majority. 

   We have government by the majority who participate.” 

                                                                        President Thomas Jefferson

A More Perfect Union

We acknowledge that America is imperfect, and that the daily task of all Americans is to build a “more perfect union”, focusing on the many issues on which the vast majority of Americans agree, and discarding the hyperpartisanship that divides our nation and benefits only the party bosses and the special interests.