Now, no we do not see the big rallies. Its a most better anyway because you have these people in these communities who are on their School Boards running for office. They are making differences on the ground where it counts. Here triedople calling to tell the representative or their senators that they did not want the stimulus bill to pass . Could notny of you get through because they turned off their voicemail or they their cellwering phone . All experiencing the same thing at the same time. That is what prompted me to hold that protest. I have been taught as a kid that all you have to do is call your representative. They listen to you. Power of the people. That is why we are so great. They deliberately didnt listen. That is when i realized something was broken. We were all experiencing the same thing at the same time. Lettuce wrap this up. Lettuce wrap this up. The future is undefined. It is an open landscape. Their many of you that are parts of groups and not parts of groups. The independence, this is a word i like to put into the Tea Party Movement. Regardless of whether the even identify with it, the principles matter. Just likeing round, on my show, starting on the end. What about the future of the tea party . As much as things have changed, a lot of things are the same. We are still fighting the good fight. There are still people on the ground. Until we see some of the changes we tried to push five years ago, our tactics may change that what we are working towards there are still a lot of fight in us. Michael, go for it. We are going to win. [applause] five years from today america is going to be much closer to the constitutionally limited government our founders had in mind. Win is we are going to with you. To be theg conservative ground game infrastructure. We are going to win your neighborhood and your precinct and talking persontoperson, facetoface with your neighbors, expressing the three core values of the Tea Party Movement, fiscal responsibility and free markets because they agree with us. Now i am going to wrap up. Kelly, give us your future. We are going to be more free. I can go back to doing improv. This is your future. It is your kids futures. Think for a second what is important. Im going to attach one word and walk away. This panel has been great. Unselfish. The Tea Party Movement is about unselfish people who agree on some issues, disagree on others, debate others, but we look at something other than ourselves. Think about that for a moment. How about a round of applause . Look at this panel. Americans. Ryday great job, guys. Please welcome bill martin to Tea Party Patriots. I hate politics. But i love principles. Politics is a dirty rotten filthy business and i hate it. But i love guiding principles. That is why i engage. I love the principles of liberty. That is why i love our history, the Founding Fathers, and our constitution. Early in 2008, as i have artie been volunteering for a few years to the National Center of constitutional studies, we started noticing an increase in requests to american seminars. You can feel a sense that something was brewing in america. Little did we know that it would be tea. The teaugh, in 2009, Party Movement flooded the nation with a new awakening of liberty. People felt that something was wrong in the land of the free. The people turn to the constitution and the Founding Fathers for answers. Thomas jefferson said enlighten the people and tyranny and oppression will vanish. It wasravel the nation exciting to see you, the American People, inherently understand this truth that if you stand out if you step out tyranny we must learn and understand the principles of liberty. Ournherently knew that if nation wants freedom, peace, and prosperity, we must live, learn, and teach the principles of liberty. Principles that are at the heart of the miracle we call america. 1607 they were using a stick plow, the same way mankind has been plowing their fields for 5000 years. Their mode of travel was walking and animal power, the same way mankind has been traveling for 5000 years. Their decisions medicines were made up of more noxious superstitions than science. They thought alcohol was a staple food. Inadhering to the principles the declaration of independence and the constitution we went from oxcart to space travel in less than 200 years. A 5000ld say we made year leap. Read the bookve the 5000 yearly. Almost sold one million copies in 2009 and 2010, copyght increase from the sold in the previous years. This great awakening indicated there was a yearning to understand the 28th principles of liberty. They learned that when you free the mind of man it results in a miracle that changes the world. Today we call this miracle the American Dream. That we can be and do what ever we set our minds to. Byhave been taught this teachers, family, even pop culture. Quote from an unlikely source, i am the epitome of what the American Dream basically said. Fromid you can come anywhere and be anything you want in this country. That is exactly what i have done. That is whoopi goldberg. Isnt she going to be surprised when she hers when she hears she was quoted at a Tea Party Event . She was right, that is what the American Dream was all about. I have come to realize the American Dream will not be a combo by restoring what the founders had. They had the tyranny and depression of parliament. We want to build upon what they created. Thomas jefferson said, i like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. They laid the foundation. In the next generation they built upon its and the next and the next. Until their foundation gave rise to liberty. Happenedd never have without an enlightened and educated people. Is the solution to take freedom from us . Jefferson said i know no safe depository than the people themselves. If we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion through education. Ofs is the true corrective abuses through constitutional power. These amendments are not solutions. Dirt true directive is education. The founders did not live in the past. To the future greatness of all mankind. Byreatness that comes liberty and virtue, not by bondage and coercion. We too must learn these timeless principles, look to our future, and reach what mankind may become and pursue your American Dream. Thank you. [applause] please welcome president of the center of selfgovernance, mark kerr. We are a people losing our inherited visions of the American Dream. No one seems to be able to. Ommunicate this dream it seems no one can agree to what the American Dream is or how to reach it. Communicatery to this dream we are on such different sheets of music that our american harmony is shattered. In the book epic of america, the American Dream is not a dream of merely material plenty. It has been much more than that. Is the American Dream selfishness . Selfishness that produces an ever increasing burden of centralizing governments . The American Dream itself less . Selflessness that reduces the privilege and burden of a selfgoverning society. The American Dream is an oferiment in the capacity mankind for selfgovernment. People are responsible for for failing the American Dream of a selfgoverning society. I realized i am responsible for losing the vision of the American Dream. I asked myself a simple question, how do we keep our republic . Me, likeveryone around Michele Perkins of tennessee and pamela let pamela from washington, who is with us this morning. Amazing,red something there is a pilot light of liberty in the soul of everyone around me. George washington said preserving the sacred fire of liberty is the responsibility of the American People. We are charged with speaking the language of selfgovernance. What is the language of selfgovernance . It is the difference between power and governance. It is the delicate balance between selfgovernance and centralized governance. It is where rights come from. And who can take them away. This is what the center for selfgovernance teaches us. We are setting thousands of men and women on fire for the enthusiasm of the system of government we love. The system of government that is under threat. We haveem of government all vowed to keep. Otherszens we looked to for inspiration. It began as an experiment and it worked. Travel the country to train citizens and break their manacles. With the support of Tea Party Patriots we grew from 71 students in 2012. We are reaching a new generation through the entering a. Of the center for selfgovernance we have a dream, that dream is to inspire healthy discourse once again. At the dinner table, on the street corners, in the halls of , only bylatures speaking the language of selfgovernance can we realize the dream of aristotle, locke, and jefferson. Of all the lovers of liberty throughout history abraham hoping said i leave you the land of liberty will burn with you. Reality you with the that the hope of the American Dream is not dead. It is in fact burning brightly. Purpose at the center for selfgovernance in the tea party is to inform the discretion of others. Together we will keep the American Dream alive. Join us in lighting the sacred fire of liberty. Join us in setting the brushfires of freedom in the minds of men. God bless america. Lets keep our republic. [applause] ladies and gentlemen, please welcome founder of the tea party [applause] them a good morning. I want to paint a picture for you. 18 years ago on a snowy november evening my boyfriend got down on one knee and asked me to marry him. My response was yes. He wanted children and i didnt. , in myhim, knowing this the one you want to spend your rest of your life with the echo for some reason he came back and we got married. And we have two fantastic children. [applause] anthony is 16 and my daughter will be 14 in march. For many of us, life is not what we thought would be. My life is nothing what we thought it would be. I would not change a thing. Are my world. Im sure your children are your world. Lies aheadout what for our children. We want the best for them. We want every opportunity for them. We have dreams for our children. , that we liveis in a country where ones aspirations are limited only by ones self. If my son wants to be a worldclass neurosurgeon he can be that neurosurgeon. It was stated so beautifully by Thomas Jefferson when he said the policy for the American Government is to leave its citizens free, either restraining them or aiding them in their pursuits. What did he mean by that . Individual, the towns, and the desires of the individual. No one else. That is my dream for my children. Everybodysm for children, to be able to pursue their dreams without being shackled. In 2008 i started to see that dream slipping away. We had become complacent. Were actually buying into this hope and change thing. I started to hear phrases like andribution of wealth leveling the Playing Field and fundamentally transforming america. One night my husband and i were watching senator obama. It hit me, people are really buying the stuff. A really believe what this man is saying. The tea partybout movement. I knew i had to be a part of it. I was new to the area, totally new to the political scene, so i did not know what to expect. I knew this had to be done. I started a local tea party group. We had our first rally. The numbermazed at of people who came out on this cold, rainy, windy day and stayed. They stayed right to the end and little did i know that this is only the beginning. Many things. We are starting to late and educating and instilling virtues in our children about what made this country so great. We need to counter the Progressive Movement that hasnt faded textbooks and curriculum. I have already been a reading tutor for several years. I started essay contests in the high school. I went dressed in. Costume and constitution week. I spoke to the kids about the journey to this country and the constitution. I created visuals for them to bring to life the sacrifices that their forefathers have made and their kids loved it. That still was not enough. Take the next to step when i ran for my locals local school board in 2011. In 2012 iran for our state board. F education, again losing but only by 10 to the governors appointees. Third time is the charge. Third time is the charm. It is an uphill battle. Complacent anymore. Our children are our future. We must get involved as parents, grandparents, and educators. Yourself,re, insert and smile when you ask your questions. Smile when you ask them what they are doing. Learning the kids are and know what the reading and literature our children are our future. We must allow them to be the architects of our destiny. As stated by another american Ronald Reagan, the American Dream is not that every man must be leveled with every other man. The American Dream is that every must be free to become whatever god intends he should become. Thank you. [applause] ladies and gentlemen please welcome the founder of Frederick Douglass republicans, carl smith. Thank you. Thank you so much. Is theck douglas quintessential American Dream story. Here is a quote i want to share with you. He said on one occasion the constitution as well is the declaration of independence and the sentiment of the founders of the republic give us a platform broad enough and Strong Enough to support the most comprehensive plans with the freedom and elevation of all the people of this country without regard to color, class can pursue his American Dream story. Is more thandream buying your first home and rising through classes. It is an opportunity to discover your godgiven gifts. The American Dream is about discovering your talents, taking europe sessions and making it a profession. Is anerican dream opportunity to make a difference. Unfortunately, the opportunity to pursue the American Dream is under attack by those who want to fundamentally transform our a europeanntry into socialist nation. If we are serious about constitution, about defending liberty, we must face must make Frederick Douglass an integral part of the conservative message. If not we are doomed to failure. The political insight of Frederick Douglass is more portent than the political. Nsight of the Founding Fathers they called it heresy. I cannot believe they said that. Let me prove my point. Point. The Founding Fathers gave us two magnificent documents, the making the declaration of independence and the constitution. When the constitution was ratified, that is not when they were freed their slaves. After the were freed founders died. When it comes to the Founding Fathers, their view of liberty is tainted. Frederick douglass did not own any slaves. He has affirmed the Founding Fathers and constitution. Once we get the message on a going tolevel, we are go back to france. In addition to incorporating douglass entire message, conservatives must learn how to engage at a local level. We must learn how to talk to our family members and fellow citizens. I contend that the greatest asset we have in this nation is not being utilized. Seminars,y messenger we unveiled the myth that white conservatives cannot engage in the body of different ethnicities. Who established the Diversity Outreach Program that is still having a major impact in the world today . It was god would he commissioned poll to the gent commissioned to take the gospel to different ethnicities and different races. We have the same situation. Predominantly white. We are trying to share the empowering message of the conservative philosophy. You can do it but you have to be trained in something that works. What we need is a conservative hero. We need someone who can spark an emotional appeal for conservative values. The answer is Frederick Douglass. Our nation and turn things around, all of us need to become liberty messengers. God bless you. [applause] ladies and gentlemen, please welcome cofounder of southwest Tea Party Patriots and state representative from minnesota, cindy pugh. Before 2008 the only political activity i have ever taken was voting. Like so many of you i was busy working and raising my family. Because of the tea party i run for office and i won. I am now serving my first term in the senate in the minnesota house of representatives. My story may be your story. If its not, maybe it should be. In 2009 i went to my first ever political rally at the state capitol, alone. I made my first ever political sign. It was awesome standing there among so many likeminded patriots. That october i was watching fox news on a friday night when congresswoman bachmann called upon concerned americans to be in washington dc before the first to on obamacare. Speaking toshe was me. I got on a bus that following wednesday and took a 24 hour ride to washingt