American Thought Leaders - The Epoch Times

Americans once believed their highest duty was to God and to one another. Eric Metaxas says that conviction helped them stand up to the most powerful empire in the world. “Because of this religious background, they had these convictions about to whom they answer.” “It's not the state, it's not the government, it's to God, and to each other.” “They were not going to roll over just because the most powerful empire in the world had the power.” “They thought, ‘No, we have God on our side.’” “That was part of the DNA of most of these colonies.” Eric Metaxas joined me to discuss his new book, Revolution, and the beliefs that gave the American colonists the courage to challenge the most powerful empire in the world. Full interview here: youtu.be/GBRpB6EY6xA

Eric Metaxas says the Founding Fathers viewed the American Revolution as inseparable from the God of the Bible. “All of the men of the Revolution understood that this sacred cause was inextricably intertwined with the God of the Bible.” “You really hardly ever hear it in our culture now.” “When I did the research, and I did a lot of research, it is absolutely undebatable that that’s how they saw it.” “Even if we don’t see it that way, you have to acknowledge that they saw it that way.” I sat down with Eric Metaxas to discuss his new book, Revolution, and what his research revealed about the role faith played in America’s founding. Watch the full conversation here: youtu.be/GBRpB6EY6xA

Eric Metaxas believes America is currently facing its third existential crisis. And the only way through is to recover the core principles behind America’s founding—the parts of the story that have largely been edited out of America’s schools and public life. That’s why, ahead of America’s 250th birthday, he has written a 600‑page book: “Revolution: The Birth of the Greatest Nation in the History of the World.” In this interview, we dig into some vital questions: What crucial truths about the Revolution—and about the source of your rights—are no longer being taught to American children? What happens to self‑government when a people are no longer, in John Adams’s words, “moral and religious”? Can freedom survive without that foundation? And what is the proper role of a good citizen in today’s America? 🔴 PREMIERE 5pm ET on @EpochTV: https://youtu.be/GBRpB6EY6xA

This 1997 report exposed massive CCP infiltration into Canadian society. Scott McGregor: “Chinese tycoons came over to Canada… and infiltrated economically and politically into the country.” The Sidewinder Report revealed that they were “causing havoc with crime, money laundering, influence operations.” But at the time, the report was widely “discredited.” Why? “Some of that is due to the fact that the CCP had already infiltrated establishments, and they had leverage over some politicians.” “Operation Dragon Lord came just after it.” “That’s the U.S. version of what was happening, and… they identify the same types of threats.” “The United States… were identifying actual individuals within the Canadian government that were being influenced.” I just sat down with Scott McGregor to break down how the CCP has spent decades infiltrating Canada—and how their strategy of disruption has left the U.S.-Canada relationship weaker than ever. https://rumble.com/v7ajmam-this-1997-report-exposed-massive-ccp-infiltration-into-canadian-society.html

“Canada’s infiltration by the CCP is not something the United States wants on its border.” “We don't know where that could go.” “From Chinese boots on the ground to munitions to military type support.” Scott McGregor warns the CCP’s growing influence in Canada is becoming a major national security threat for the United States. “Absolutely, the United States needs Canada.” “The CCP comes in, increases the threat level, and it becomes an existential threat.” “The CCP has a free run in Canada.” “The population doesn’t get the full view of what’s going on and the extent of the infiltration.” https://rumble.com/v7aikes-why-ccp-infiltration-of-canada-may-become-an-existential-threat-to-america-.html

Could CCP infiltration of Canada become an existential threat to American security - or is it already one? Scott McGregor has spent decades in the Canadian military and Canadian intelligence studying the threat the Chinese Communist Party poses to Canada and North America generally. He has known about the CCP’s infiltration of Canada for many years and briefed every major intelligence agency in both Canada and the United States about it. According to McGregor, the CCP’s increasing infiltration and subversion of Canada are not an existential threat to America yet, but could become one soon due to the recently formed strategic partnership between Canada and China. 🔴 PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://www.theepochtimes.com/epochtv/is-canada-becoming-the-ccps-backdoor-into-america-former-canadian-intel-analyst-scott-mcgregor-6039622?utm_source=telegram&utm_medium=SocialM&utm_content=AmericanThoughtLeaders&utm_term=ScottMcGregor

Gordon Chang says it’s time for the U.S. to realize there is no working with China. “We are desperately trying to achieve some sort of accommodation with China when it’s no longer possible.” “Their system is evil.” “It’s malicious.” “It’s identified us as an enemy.” “Eventually, we will get to the place where we will start defending ourselves.” “There is only one superpower, and it ain’t China.” I spoke with Gordon Chang about President Trump’s recent visit to China and its implications moving forward. Chang also made clear why the U.S. can no longer work with China and why America must finally recognize that reality. Full interview here: https://youtu.be/WO7remMZpL0 https://rumble.com/v7acy2i-gordon-chang-says-its-time-for-the-u.s.-to-realize-there-is-no-working-with.html

“You have a whole generation of kids who are marching in favor of rape, brutality, murder, and genocide.” Gordon Chang warns China is beating the U.S. badly in the information warfare space and America is failing to respond. “Xi Jinping has been beating the crap out of us in the information warfare space.” “That’s our fault.” “We’re just not fighting it.” “Xi Jinping has been able to use, for instance, TikTok.” “Trump has gotta figure it out fast because this is a very bad situation for us.” https://rumble.com/v7acae0-is-xi-jinping-feeling-insecure-gordon-chang.html

China has a dangerous monopoly over America’s pharmaceuticals and rare earth supply chain. Gordon Chang says President Trump is moving at “Trump speed” to break that dependence. “92% of the world’s processing of rare earths occurs in China.” “China has 100% monopoly on about 800-850 pharmaceuticals that Americans use.” “That’s an astounding chokehold.” “Trump is moving at Trump speed to reduce America’s reliance on rare earths.” “We’re making some headway on pharmaceuticals as well.” “Trump has a foreign policy that really is, I think, driving Beijing, to the point where they just don't know what to do.” https://rumble.com/v7abt52-america-still-has-the-upper-hand-but-china-has-these-two-cards.html

Communist China currently faces major challenges: a collapsing demography, an ailing economy, and a military in disarray after a series of purges. But at the same time, the CCP still maintains two strong cards against the United States, says China analyst Gordon Chang. They have a near monopoly on rare-earth processing and on critical pharmaceutical precursors. “That’s an astounding chokehold.” In this episode, Chang breaks down his key takeaways from recent Trump-Xi talks in Beijing and more broadly, he explains how he sees major shifts unfolding in the global geopolitical chessboard. 🔴 PREMIERE 5PM ET on @EpochTV: https://youtu.be/WO7remMZpL0

“There are 50 million people in the world in slavery.” “I think it’s much bigger than that.” “In my country [Mexico], every day, between 20 to 30 children disappear.” Anti-trafficking activist Rosi Orozco just broke down the unfathomable scale of the human trafficking industry. She works to recover and rehabilitate victims, and the kinds of stories she sees every day will stick with you forever. “Just recently, we received in one of the shelters three girls that were captured by TikTok.” “They were offered a job.” “So they traveled to a very nice resort… and these three girls were minors, and this was a cartel who was training them to kill, to sell drugs, and to prostitution.” Rosi Orozco sat down with me for an hour to break down the reality of human trafficking, how hundreds of thousands of children went missing across the border during the previous administration, and the groundbreaking law she got passed in Mexico to address the crisis. https://rumble.com/v7a854s-rosi-orozco-just-broke-down-the-unfathomable-scale-of-the-human-trafficking.html Watch below:

The dark reality of human trafficking in the Americas will shock you to your core. “This is a multi-million dollar dirty money industry.” Rosi Orozco works to recover and rehabilitate victims of human trafficking in Mexico. She has seen the worst of humanity firsthand. But she has never given up hope. “This is children mostly that have been trafficked, for example, from my country, Mexico, to the United States.” And she told me that under the previous administration’s border policies, “more than 300,000 children” were “lost.” “Thank God for [President Trump’s] FBI and DHS and especially Tom Homan, who has been rescuing thousands of children now.” “They are suffering either forced labor or sexual exploitation.” “That’s really a nightmare that you cannot imagine.” “There is a lot of hope in the families in Mexico that some of these children could come back home.” https://rumble.com/v7a7dwo-how-cartels-force-kids-into-prostitution-drug-dealing-and-even-killing.html

“There are 50 million people in the world in slavery,” says Rosi Orozco, a leading anti-human trafficking activist. And that, she believes, is a low estimate. Three enslaved girls were recently rescued in Mexico, and she’s been helping them slowly rebuild their lives. “These three girls were minors, and a cartel was training them to kill, to sell drugs, and to [engage in] prostitution.” What happened to those three minors—only 14, 15, and 17 years old—is fairly typical, she says. They saw an ad on TikTok that promised them “work in the tourism industry, and [promised] very good payment.” When they arrived at the Mexican tourist resort, they were captured. 🔴 PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://www.theepochtimes.com/epochtv/how-cartels-force-children-into-prostitution-drug-dealing-and-even-killing-rosi-orozco-6034185?utm_source=telegram&utm_medium=SocialM&utm_content=AmericanThoughtLeaders&utm_term=RosiOrozco

In Alberta, history is no longer part of the mandatory curriculum. Children are being left without understanding how difficult civilization is to build and how quickly it can fall into chaos. “Most students never study history in a coherent or sequential way.” “Here in Alberta, history’s not part of the mandatory curriculum.” “It’s never systematic. There’s no coherent narrative.” “If you want to inculcate a sense of gratitude. I think it really helps if you take students through the process of how early civilizations formed.” “Resting order from chaos is really hard.” “Peace and prosperity and freedom are not the default conditions of human civilizations.” “To the extent that we enjoy those, they’re very hard won.” “It’s much easier to destroy something than it is to build.” “Building a prosperous civilization … is a task of hundreds if not thousands of years.” “We’ve inherited something precious.” “We should make ourselves fit stewards to receive this tradition, hopefully improve upon it and pass it along to the next generation.” Children are growing up without understanding how hard it is to build a civilization and how easy it is to destroy one. That’s part of why @caylanford founded Alberta Classical Academy, a tuition-free K-10 charter school centered on history, coherent learning, and the traditional liberal arts. Watch below to hear why she believes modern education is failing children: https://youtu.be/pzelM7fvquc https://rumble.com/v7a0vws-children-are-growing-up-without-understanding-how-hard-it-is-to-build-a-civ.html

Caylan Ford says progressive schooling has become rooted in the Marxist belief that the world is broken and must be transformed. She says children are losing a loving and humble relationship with reality itself. “It’s the Marxist line that, ‘Philosophy hitherto has always sought to describe the world. The real purpose is to transform it.’” “This is the idea behind progressive education.” “It’s not a loving, humble approach to reality.” “It’s kind of a spiteful, hateful ‘Reality’s bad, let’s transform it.’” For more on this school and how our current school systems are failing our kids, watch below: https://youtu.be/pzelM7fvquc

“People have lost sight of what education is supposed to be,” charter school founder Caylan Ford told me. In 2022, she founded Canada's first tuition-free classical charter school with little more than a dozen teachers. Since then Alberta Classical Academy has grown to 1,500 students across three campuses in Calgary and Edmonton, with thousands more on the waitlist. “We typically have enough applicants for kindergarten that we could fill 30 to 50 kindergarten classes per year. We just don't have the facilities to accommodate that at this stage,” Ford said. Canadian parents crave the classical education Alberta Classical Academy provides: A lot of the parents who come to us are absolutely desperate. … The existence of this school is like an answered prayer.” 🔴 PREMIERE 5PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/4flmokI

Former Ambassador Sam Brownback says the CCP is carrying out 3 genocides simultaneously. “The 3 are the Uyghur genocide … a genocide that’s been going on in Tibet against Tibetan Buddhists … and then the Falun Gong genocide.” “They want to name the next Dalai Lama. The Chinese Communist Party, an officially atheistic group, wants to name the next official leader of the Tibetan Buddhism faith, which is just galling and ironic at the same time.” “They have decimated the Falun Gong that got up by Chinese numbers to 90 million at one point in time…And in the most diabolical, barbaric ways of locking people up, throwing them in jail, forced organ harvesting as you've written about.” “That's why I say these are 3 genocides, because the intent is there to literally wipe out these groups and these cultures.” In his new book, “China’s War on Faith,” @samuelbrownback details what he calls 3 ongoing genocides being carried out by the CCP against Uyghurs, Tibetan Buddhists, and Falun Gong practitioners. We discuss the CCP’s attempts to erase entire faiths and cultures and what Congress will hear from Brownback’s testimony on Thursday ahead of this week’s Trump-Xi meeting. https://rumble.com/v79sza8-former-ambassador-sam-brownback-says-the-ccp-is-carrying-out-3-genocides-si.html

“They've killed more of their own people than any other regime in the history of mankind.” Former Ambassador and Senator Sam Brownback says it’s time America starts treating the CCP for what it is: a murderous genocidal regime. “We just got to recognize, this is an evil regime.” “And we've been treating them like a normal country.” “We're not ready for the full square-off right now, but these two systems are inevitably headed for that.” https://rumble.com/v79rtnw-sam-brownback-its-time-to-stop-treating-china-like-a-normal-country.html

The CCP’s greatest vulnerability isn’t its economy. It’s religious freedom and human rights. And America should leverage that, argues former U.S. ambassador, governor, and senator Sam Brownback, author of “China’s War on Faith.” For decades, U.S. leaders have tiptoed around Beijing’s “red lines” while the CCP commits three genocides: against the Uyghurs, Falun Gong, and Tibetan Buddhists, he says. It’s time to go on offense — just as Reagan did against the Soviet Union. “They are at war with us, whether we realize we're at war with them or not.” “I think [Trump] ought to do a Ronald Reagan and say, this is an evil regime. This is an evil empire.” “And I would love to see the Pope stand up in Taiwan and say, ‘be not afraid,’ like Pope John Paul did in Poland.” “Be not afraid.” 🔴 PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/4tuB6Ju

The CCP’s greatest vulnerability isn’t its economy. It’s religious freedom and human rights. And America should leverage that, argues former U.S. ambassador, governor, and senator Sam Brownback, author of “China’s War on Faith.” For decades, U.S. leaders have tiptoed around Beijing’s “red lines” while the CCP commits three genocides: against the Uyghurs, Falun Gong, and Tibetan Buddhists, he says. It’s time to go on offense — just as Reagan did against the Soviet Union. “They are at war with us, whether we realize we're at war with them or not.” “I think [Trump] ought to do a Ronald Reagan and say, this is an evil regime. This is an evil empire.” “And I would love to see the Pope stand up in Taiwan and say, ‘be not afraid,’ like Pope John Paul did in Poland.” “Be not afraid.” 🔴 PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/4tuB6Ju