The Leadership Institute will be holding a Youth Leadership School October 9th – 10th.
There is no cost associated with the class.
While their website needs to be updated to reflect the fact that there is no cost, I have spoken with Meghan Swella and she has confirmed that the classes are indeed free.
Those of us who have children and are new to political involvement, have hopefully, over the now nearing two years, involved our children in some way.
At least in letting them know why we have become involved and the importance of individual involvement in defending the founding ideals of this nation.
I know a number of people who are involved in the pro-liberty movement as families.
It is important that our children understand the founding ideals of this nation and the founding documents of this nation.
Assuming we are successful in righting this vessel, it’ll take our children to keep the vessel up right and make sure it does not take on water.

I’m not suggesting you turn your children into activists.

I am suggesting that we educate our children and prepare them to step into roles of leadership, no matter if that role is within their own families, their neighborhoods, their city, state, or the nation.

This class in October, provided free of charge by the Leadership Institute can be useful for your children in preparing them to step into those roles of leadership when that opportunity arises.

The Leadership Institute is one of the premier conservative training organizations in the nation.

Just as many of us left a leadership void in our communities and our nation, if we do not prepare our children to be leaders, then another void will be left in the future and the Left will step into those voids just as they did when we left voids in leadership.
You can register your children for the class by clicking here.
If you’ve any questions please contact Meghan Swella.
October 9th-10th 8:30 AM
Denver, Co

The Leadership Institute’s flagship school, nicknamed “the boot camp of politics,” provides you with effective techniques to organize and lead mass based youth efforts for candidates and causes of your choice.
The Youth Leadership School has launched more successful political careers than any other Leadership Institute training program.

Topics covered include:

• Building an effective student organization
• Getting out the vote
• Earned media (favorable publicity)
• Developing a public relations strategy
• Launching a successful career in politics

This is something we’ve posted before, but some messages are worth the repeating from time to time.

In reaction to the Congressional approval of the Declaration of Independence, George Washington issued the following orders.

The time is now near at hand which must probably determine whether Americans are to be freemen or slaves, whether they are to have property they can call their own, whether their houses and farms are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a state of wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them.

The fate of unborn millions will now depend, under God, on the courage and conduct of this army.

Our cruel and unrelenting enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance or the most abject submission. This is all we can expect. We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die.

Our country’s honor calls upon us for a vigorous and manly exertion, and if we now shamefully fail we shall become infamous to the whole world.

Let us therefore rely upon the goodness of the cause, and the aid of the Supreme Being in whose hands victory is, to animate and encourage us to great and noble actions.

The eye’s of all our countrymen are upon us, and we shall have their blessings and praises if, happily, we are the instrument of saving them from the tyranny mediated against them.

Let us therefore animate and encourage each other and show the whole world that a freeman contending for Liberty on his own ground is superior to any slavish mercenary on earth.

General George Washington, 1776

November 2nd is, as George Washington put it, near at hand.

In understand fully that the context of this message was of a newly birthed nation which was in a physical conflict with an oppressor and that we are not now in such a physical conflict with those who wish to oppress us.

I however, also understand that we are in a very real conflict and that what is before us is in fact no less a struggle for freedom and liberty than was that which loomed before those who founded this nation.

Are you to be a freeman or a slave?

Are your children to be freemen or slaves?

The fate of this nation does indeed depend upon your courage, your willingness to sacrifice time and resources, your willingness to do the right thing as well as your personal conduct and our collective conduct.

I assure you, that you have something to offer and that you are needed in this task that is before us.

If you are unwilling to give of yourself then the fight is lost, it is going to take all of us.

Not only are your fellow Americans watching us, the whole of the world is watching us.

Other nations have predicted the demise of this nation and the death watch has begun, we can and should prove them wrong. We can demonstrate to them that we will neither hand over our freedom nor allow it to be stolen from us.

In all the years previous we have indeed made a difference, a negative difference, by electing men and women void of character.

By electing men and women who had no care or concern for your freedoms as an individual but their own power instead.

By allowing those men and women, once exposed, to remain indefinitely in elected office. By accepting the liberty stealing and slavish laws they implement.

The fault is ours, but this is the year when we can begin to redeem ourselves and take back the future of our children and preserve what our founders and so many since them had sacrificed so greatly for.

There are many good Tea Party and 9.12 Project groups in Colorado and around the nation.

Find one here and join with them or even begin your own.

You have something to offer, you are absolutely needed and, if you have not been, it is time you became involved.

Find your candidate, support them with your time, talent and money.

Couldn’t make it to Loveland last night to attend the Ken Buck victory party? Take some time and view the video embedded below.

It’s a great win, but the fight is not over.

Michael Bennet must be sent packing on November 2nd.

On July 29th 2010 former United States Congressman, Tom Tancredo, made his official announcement that he would launch a campaign for governor of Colorado as the candidate from the American Constitution Party. This created quite a stir in the Republican party and in the Pro-liberty movement.

We, at Hear Us Now, have withheld any kind of public stance as an organization for various reasons, though as an individual I have shared my personal dissatisfaction, through other avenues, with the decision Mr. Tancredo has made.

On August 4th Tom Tancredo took the time to address the attendees of a Liberty On The Rocks Denver gathering.

I attended this gathering and took video of his Toms talk.

It is 36 minutes worth of video cut into 4 parts.

Part 1 has some shaky moments as I was trying to balance the cams tripod on the back of a sofa, which didn’t work out so great.

If you are unclear, as I was, as to why Tom left the Republican party to run as a third party candidate, please take the time to view the videos.

Honestly, while I did leave feeling I had a better understanding, I did not feel as though the decision was adequately and reasonably explained.

You can view all 4 portions at our Youtube channel.

I’ve embedded part 1 into this posting, you will have to go to the Youtube channel to view parts 2 through 4.

A little over a month and a half after the Rasmussen Reports showed Colorado to be the leading Tea Party state, a Gallup Poll shows it to be 6th in a list of the top ten liberal states.

I’ve considered Colorado a liberal state since the second I first moved here, but I was a little surprised to see it in a list of the top ten liberal states.

However, it’s not as bad news as some might first think.

According to the polling, which took place between January and June of this year, 27% of those who live in Colorado consider themselves liberals.

That means a majority of Coloradans (73%) do not consider themselves liberal.

Of the remaining 73%, I do not know how many consider themselves Conservatives, Libertarians or Independents.

What I do know, going back to the Rasmussen Reports findings, is that one out of every three Colorado voters are a part of the Tea Party.

So in response to those emails I received expressing concern about the results of this particular Gallup poll, I believe the pro-liberty movement is in fine shape in Colorado.

No matter if Colorado were 27% liberal or 99% liberal, we will continue to fight the fight and do our part to steer this nation back to fiscal responsibility and Constitutional adherence.