Tommy Waller is President & CEO of the Center for Security Policy which provides uncompromised analysis & unconventional solutions to keep Americans safer.
America’s 250th birthday has passed.
The work of keeping the republic has not.
@securefreedom ‘s America at 250 series reflects on Franklin, Washington, the Declaration, the Constitution, civic courage, foreign influence, faith, freedom, economic strength, and the responsibility of preserving America.
America’s founding principles did not only shape a new political order. They helped make possible extraordinary economic strength, innovation, opportunity, and national power.
In this America at 250 reflection, Dr. Andrei Illarionov examines the economic dominance of the United States.
https://t.co/xstpFJqKKd
George Washington warned that foreign influence was one of the most dangerous threats to republican government.
That warning belongs not only to the founding era.
It belongs to ours.
In today’s America at 250 reflection, @JMichaelWaller explains why Washington’s warning remains urgent.
America is powerful. But America is not merely power.
In his America at 250 reflection, @Wurmserscribit explores America’s soul: its exceptional role, its civilizational inheritance, its meaning for Jews and Israel, and its enduring place in the history of freedom.
https://t.co/r4F50I75zH
America is not just another nation.
Our Declaration, Constitution, and republican form of government rest on principles that remain exceptional and worth defending.
In today’s America at 250 reflection, @CHoltonCSP reminds us why Americans must never forget who we are.
This may seem like news to data scientists, but for those seeking to wage a homegrown insurgency it’s very much understood. As pseudonymous anarchist Sophia Valencia” noted in her Dec 2025 call for anarchy-communist insurgency:
1/4 250 years ago today, 56 founders pledged their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor.
The occasion of this momentous “birthday” of our great Republic brings me back to my own 18th birthday, when I took an Oath to preserve the country they helped establish –swearing to defend the U.S. Constitution from all its enemies, foreign and domestic– as a U.S. Marine.
Today America marks 250 years of independence.
We celebrate with gratitude.
We reflect with humility.
And we recommit ourselves to the principles that made this republic possible: liberty, constitutional order, consent of the governed, and the courage to remain free.
At @securefreedom, we believe keeping the republic requires more than memory. It requires vigilance, truth, preparedness, and a willingness to confront the threats that would weaken America from within and without.
The American Revolution was not built by noise.
It was built by truth, trust, disciplined correspondence, and organized citizens.
In today’s America at 250 reflection, @ShidelerK looks at the Committees of Correspondence and what they teach an age drowning in information but starving for wisdom.
https://t.co/Jx3PoaHN4D
America’s 250th birthday is not only a celebration.
It is a reminder that the republic we inherited must be understood, defended, and passed on.
Today, @securefreedom begins our America at 250 reflection series with @morganwirthlin's essay on Benjamin Franklin, the founding generation, and the warning still before us:
A republic, if we can keep it.
“If Samuel Adams and John Hancock had a video podcast, I suspect we would all still be speaking the King’s English.”
For @securefreedom’s celebration of America 250, I look at returning to the mode of politics that our forefathers used to conceive this country in liberty.