Joe Wolverton

Memphis

Head of Publishing and Social Media for The John Birch Society (@the_JBS). And author of a bunch of best-selling books on DESTROYING TYRANNY!

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Articles

No Hyphens in Heaven, and None in a Republic Worth Preserving

4 days ago | thenewamerican.com | Joe Wolverton

The phrase “hyphenated American” ought to offend the sensibilities of every man who still treasures liberty and reveres the Republic bequeathed to us by men whose loyalty was not split, whose identity was not double-minded, and whose allegiance was undivided. To hyphenate “American” is to dilute it. It is to fracture the firm foundation upon which our constitutional Republic was laid.
The Magna Carta: The Dawn of Liberty

1 week ago | thenewamerican.com | Joe Wolverton

On this day, we commemorate one of the most important milestones in the unending struggle of free men against tyranny: the signing of the Magna Carta on June 15, 1215. Though sealed by a reluctant King John under the shadow of rebellion, this ancient document lit the first embers of liberty that would one day blaze into the conflagration of the American Revolution and, ultimately, into the drafting of the United States Constitution.
Mark Levin: The War-hawk Embarrassment of the Convention of States Leadership

2 weeks ago | thenewamerican.com | Joe Wolverton

But this is not the only mock-heroism in the world; there is yet another sort as mischievous, but still more ridiculous; and that is, a violent appetite for war, and victory, and conquest, without engaging personally in the danger, or coming near it; but being very valorous by proxy, and fond of fighting without drawing a sword.
Secession: The Inalienable Right of a Free People to Leave a Tyrannical Union

2 weeks ago | abbevilleinstitute.org | Joe Wolverton

In the immortal words of the Declaration of Independence, “Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.” When that consent is withdrawn—when the government becomes the destroyer, rather than the protector, of life, liberty, and property—then the people retain the right, indeed the duty, to dissolve the political bands which have connected them to the abusers.
June 12, 1776: The Day the American Republic Was Born in Spirit

2 weeks ago | thenewamerican.com | Joe Wolverton

While the Fourth of July is rightly celebrated as the day when the Declaration of Independence was adopted, any honest student of our American birth must also remember and revere June 12, 1776, a day that is arguably more foundational than even July 4. For it was on that day that the Second Continental Congress took the revolutionary step of empowering the Colonies to form their own independent governments, an act that was nothing short of secession in spirit, in law, and in consequence.
A Just and Necessary Stand: The Southern Baptists’ Call to Overturn Obergefell

2 weeks ago | thenewamerican.com | Joe Wolverton

At long last, a spark of righteous defiance has ignited in the Southern Baptist Convention — a clarion call that the Supreme Court’s disastrous Obergefell v. Hodges decision must not stand unchallenged. In an age when moral relativism reigns, and the Constitution is trampled under the jackboots of judicial activism, this vote by the nation’s largest Protestant denomination is nothing short of a battle cry.
Palantir's Database Would Gut the Fourth Amendment

3 weeks ago | thenewamerican.com | Joe Wolverton

Once again, the American people find themselves betrayed by those they entrusted with the preservation of their liberty. The recent exposé in The New York Times reveals that President Donald Trump — supposed champion of the Constitution — has instead gleefully erected the very apparatus of tyranny our Founders warned against: a surveillance leviathan that threatens to render the Fourth Amendment an empty parchment.
The Pen, the Phone, and the Presidency: A Roman Warning Against the Rise of the American Caesar

4 weeks ago | sgtreport.com | Joe Wolverton

by Joe Wolverton, II, J.D., The New American:“I have an Article 2, where I have the right to do whatever I want as president.” — President Donald J. Trump, July 23, 2019In the fading light of the Roman Republic, as senators dithered and people cried out for relief from chaos, an ambitious few found the imperial mantle irresistible. What began as temporary “emergency powers” for the good of the republic soon hardened into permanent, despotic authority.
The Pen, the Phone, and the Presidency: A Roman Warning Against the Rise of the American Caesar

4 weeks ago | thenewamerican.com | Joe Wolverton

“I have an Article 2, where I have the right to do whatever I want as president.” — President Donald J. Trump, July 23, 2019In the fading light of the Roman Republic, as senators dithered and people cried out for relief from chaos, an ambitious few found the imperial mantle irresistible. What began as temporary “emergency powers” for the good of the republic soon hardened into permanent, despotic authority.
1381 and the Price of Tyranny: Lessons From the English Peasants’ Revolt

4 weeks ago | thenewamerican.com | Joe Wolverton

In the long catalog of uprisings against tyranny, one chapter often overlooked — but no less instructive — is the English Peasants’ Revolt of 1381. Though distant in time, the cause and character of that revolt echo loudly in our present condition: oppressive taxation, ruinous foreign wars, and a government grown unaccountable to the people it purports to serve. We would do well to remember that the flames of rebellion are not kindled in a day.