Craig Eissler

[Insurrection Barbie @DefiyantlyFree]

We live in the greatest country in the history of the world. Celebrate that. Be proud of that. 🇺🇸

[Insurrection Barbie @DefiyantlyFree]

In September of 1814, America was once again in trouble.

The young republic was only thirty-eight years old. The War of 1812 had gone badly. British troops had marched into Washington, burned the Capitol, set the White House ablaze, and now turned their sights toward Baltimore. If Fort McHenry fell, the harbor would be open, the city would likely follow, and another devastating blow would be dealt to the fragile nation.

Amid this uncertainty, a young American lawyer named Francis Scott Key sailed under a flag of truce to the British fleet. He had come to negotiate the release of a friend, a physician the British had captured.

He succeeded.

The British agreed to free the doctor.

But there was a catch.

Because Key and his companions had seen too much of the British fleet and learned too much about its plans, they were not allowed to return to shore. Instead, they were detained aboard a ship in the harbor and forced to watch the coming battle from behind enemy lines.

On the morning of September 13, the bombardment began.

For the next twenty-five hours, British warships unleashed somewhere between 1,500 and 1,800 bombs and rockets upon Fort McHenry. These were the “bombs bursting in air” and the “rockets’ red glare” of the song—not poetic embellishments, but terrible realities.

Key stood on the deck through the endless day and the long, terrifying night. Every explosion lit the darkness for a fleeting instant before the smoke swallowed everything again. Somewhere beyond that wall of fire stood the fort. Somewhere beyond it flew an American flag if it still flew at all.

He could not see.

He could only listen.

As long as the guns continued firing, there was reason to hope. The British would not waste ammunition on a fort that had already surrendered.

Then, just before dawn…

The guns fell silent.

For the first time all night, there was only stillness.

It was the most frightening sound of all.

Had the fort finally fallen? Had the defenders surrendered? Had the flag been torn down in the darkness while no one could see?

There was nothing to do but wait.

As the first light of September 14 slowly pushed back the smoke, Francis Scott Key strained his eyes toward the distant fort.

Then he saw it. Not a British flag.

The American flag. Still there. Still flying.

That flag was no ordinary banner. Months earlier, the fort’s commander had commissioned a Baltimore flagmaker, Mary Pickersgill, to sew a flag so enormous “that the British would have no difficulty seeing it from a distance.” It measured roughly thirty by forty-two feet, carried fifteen stars and fifteen stripes, and was so large it had to be assembled on the floor of a brewery because no ordinary room could contain it.

That was the Star-Spangled Banner.

The very flag Key saw through the morning mist.

The very flag that still survives today in the Smithsonian.

Overcome by what he had witnessed, Key reached into his pocket, pulled out an envelope, and began writing. The words came from a heart that had spent an entire night fearing his country might disappear with the dawn.

He first titled the poem Defence of Fort M’Henry.

Within days it was printed and circulating throughout the country. Before long, people began singing it to a melody they already knew—an old British tune called “To Anacreon in Heaven,” originally written for a London social club. There is something beautifully ironic in that: America’s most beloved patriotic song borrowed the melody of the very nation it had just survived. It also explains why the anthem is so notoriously difficult to sing. It was never written for ordinary voices gathered in stadiums or school assemblies.

The song spread quickly and became one of America’s favorite patriotic hymns, but it would wait more than a century before receiving official recognition. Not until 1931 did Congress declare “The Star-Spangled Banner” the national anthem of the United States.

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

Watch President Donald J. Trump's Full Speech on American Exceptionalism at Mount Rushmore on the eve of America's 250th:

[Wesley Hunt @WesleyHuntTX]

Turn the volume up.
Stand for the nation.
Sing every word.

For the 250th time…
Happy Birthday America. 🇺🇸

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

[Congressman Brandon Gill @RepBrandonGill]

Calling us racist doesn’t work anymore.

[Brandon Gill @realBrandonGill]

"Abolish ICE" is not a legitimate policy position.

ICE is the enforcement mechanism for our country's immigration laws.

If you support abolishing ICE, you are telling Americans that they're not allowed to have a country.

You are telling them that they must accept their nation becoming culturally unrecognizable because you see it as nothing more than the world's economic zone.

You are saying that it's perfectly okay if Americans are assaulted, r@ped or killed by an illegal alien as long as they eventually vote for Democrats.

When a Democrat tells you they want to "abolish ICE," it's an endorsement of America's destruction and an explicit invitation to an illegal to harm you next.

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

Imagine if they did this to every sector? @ChefGruel what happens if they freeze the price of your burgers at $4? Hey, burgers are a human right! But inflation is 5% & you still have to pay employees $20/hr and that goes up every year, but you CANNOT raise your prices. Then...?

[C3 @C_3C_3]

It turns out Woke was used to hide the Communist infiltration and DEI was used to put the Communists into positions of power.

All while claims of racism, homophobia, transphobia and Islamophobia were used to stop anyone from fighting the Communist infiltration.

Simple.

[Mike Bales 🫡🇺🇸 @MikeBales]

Democrats think they’re using Muslims to usher in socialism.
The truth is Muslims are using Democrats to usher in Islam.

[C3 @C_3C_3]

Never forget…

You were called a conspiracy theorist if you claimed Covid came from a lab funded by USAID and a racist is you claimed that lab was in China.

That’s what the Left did to hide the truth.

[Nick Freitas @NickJFreitas]

It’s almost like socialists can’t win in the Western hemisphere without Democrats sending America’s tax dollars to them…

[The SCIF @TheSCIF]

$200 million in U.S. taxpayer dollars was allegedly funneled back from Ukraine via USAID to fund Biden's re-election and to line Democrat politician's pockets.

This is why "aid" was being sent to Ukraine every other day. It was being laundered straight back to their own pockets. Sam Bankman-Fried played the same game, siphoning taxpayer funds, and bankrolling the DNC to rig elections.

Investigations target China and Ukraine for laundering aid money and producing fake IDs and ballots to help steal U.S. elections. It's the same game being played over and over again and the only ones that lose are the American taxpaying citizens.

[Secretary Kennedy @SecKennedy]

Thank you, Tulsi, for documenting Dr. Fauci's central role in causing the COVID-19 pandemic — among the most consequential crimes in human history.

[Clandestine @WarClandestine]

I feel like I’m trapped in The Truman Show.

I abandoned my life and spent the last 4+ years reporting on the US-funded biolabs in Ukraine, while the global MSM gaslit the world and called me a Russian propagandist.

And now that I’ve been proven correct, nobody cares. Not one apology. 😂

Everyone is just cheesing and continuing on with their lives, after they were just told that the Biden administration conspired with the MSM/Social Media platforms, to cover up the truth about a man-made pathogen that killed millions, and about the nefarious USAID labs around the globe.

I don’t know what I was expecting to happen, but it’s wild just watching the world pretend all that didn’t just happen, while I sacrificed everything to help bring all this to light.

It’s a tough pill to swallow.

[Ian Miller @ianmSC]

I don’t know, maybe the US should just host every World Cup

[C3 @C_3C_3]

Never forget the Media’s role…

We went from Trump doesn’t know where COVID came from and is racist for calling it the China Virus” to…

It came from a Fauci funded lab in China but the info was removed during a 2am meeting to lie to Americans.

Evil.

[DNI Tulsi Gabbard @DNIGabbard]

Today, on my final day as Director of National Intelligence, I’m releasing never-before-seen communications and documents exposing how Dr. Fauci provided millions in US taxpayer dollars to fund dangerous gain-of-function research at the Wuhan lab, worked with politicized elements within the Intelligence Community to suppress the truth about his actions and hide the virus’ lab-leak origins, and lied to Congress while under oath in 2024. It’s time you know the truth.

https://t.co/3YJSstB7d4

[John @Johnnycesartist]

As someone who's traveled to 40+ countries, I can confirm: this post is 100% accurate. Europeans lose their minds over the free water, free refills, and AC that actually works. I’ve watched Germans stare at grocery store meat aisles like they just discovered fire. The first time I hit a Buc-ee’s after months in Europe I almost cried tears of joy. We complain about a lot here, but man… when you’ve lived the alternatives, you realize how spoiled we actually are. America just does convenience and abundance better than anywhere else. Welcome to the party, world 🇺🇸