I am a veteran of the United States Army, having served 22 years as a commissioned officer. On July 31, 1982, at the University of Tennessee, I took an oath to "support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic." That oath does not have a statute of limitations. It is the same oath that I "took" as a Member of the United States House of Representatives. The funny thing about taking the oath in Congress was that I did not repeat the words. The words were spoken by the Speaker of the House. And here we are in our constitutional republic, potentially about to see individuals become Members of Congress who are enemies of American independence.

Yes, I said it, and I hope that it resonates across this country. We are seeing people being elected who have every intent to undermine the foundation of our nation, individual rights, freedoms, and liberty. It was back in October 2008 in Columbia, Missouri, when a skinny little U.S. senator who had no discernible accomplishments, besides giving speeches utilizing the rhythmic iambic pentameter rhetoric of Black pastors, asserted, "We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America." He was the same person who had espoused the belief that "we are all better when we spread the wealth around," and everyone simply dismissed his words. Matter of fact, if you questioned what he was saying, you were assailed as a racist. Barack Hussein Obama was channeling his best Marxist ideology, "from each according to his ability, to each according to their need." Obama would be reelected even after uttering the most disrespectful words to the indomitable individual entrepreneurial spirit of Americans, "if you've got a business, you didn't build that."

Because we failed to engage and confront the Marxist ideology that was going full bloom in America early, it is now openly thriving. This is the 250th year of our American independence, yet at the beginning of this year, a person who just became an American citizen eight years ago made this telling pronouncement in his inaugural speech as the incoming mayor of the cradle of the American free-market capitalist system. Zohran Mamdani said, "We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism."

It was the rugged individualism and a hunger for individual liberty that drove the Sons of Liberty to make a stand against the greatest power........

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