American Thought Leaders - The Epoch Times

“More people died in the prison ships than died in combat.” During the Revolutionary War, thousands of American Patriots were given a choice: abandon the cause or remain imprisoned under horrific conditions. Nearly 12,000 chose freedom, even when it cost them their lives. “You could give up the cause, and you would be allowed to return as a British citizen, but the people on these ships did not.” “They decided to hold to their cause, and they died for it.” “What we wanted to do is we wanted to memorialize these prisoners of war and show you what it was like to be inside the ship.” “On these reliefs, it’s the story of all of the prisoners.” “They’re suffering and dying in these horrid situations.” https://rumble.com/v7ermh0-american-history-is-being-brought-to-life-in-the-heart-of-washington-d.c..html

After decades of neglect, Freedom Plaza has been made anew. In its place stands Spirit of ’76, a new Revolutionary War installation commemorating forgotten American heroes. “One of the most amazing parts of the Spirit of '76 is Caesar Rodney,” says Matt Taylor, the visionary artist behind the new memorial. “He had facial cancer and emphysema, and he rode 80 miles overnight in a storm” to be the tiebreaker vote for the Declaration of Independence. Delaware’s government took down Rodney’s statue during the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests because he owned slaves. Now he rides again on a new pedestal in Freedom Plaza. Surrounding Rodney are 12 statues of American soldiers who fought during the war. 🔴 PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://www.theepochtimes.com/epochtv/how-a-neglected-plaza-now-immortalizes-forgotten-american-heroes-matthew-taylor-6079970?utm_source=telegram&utm_medium=SocialM&utm_content=AmericanThoughtLeaders&utm_term=MatthewTaylor

Too many schools teach children that their future is dictated by their skin color, gender, or economic class. Charter school founder Ian Rowe says education should teach them the exact opposite. He wants students to recognize their own agency and understand how much of their future remains in their hands. “My goal is not only to run a great school but also demonstrate what is possible if you are intentional about how to help young people recognize that they can lead self-determined lives of meaning and purpose.” “You don’t have to fall into the trap of what you might think society is telling you is possible because of things like your skin color or your gender or your economic class.” “All of those things matter far less than your inner capability to grab hold of your life and grab hold of virtue and the institutions that matter.” https://rumble.com/v7eq16i-a-childs-circumstances-do-not-have-to-dictate-their-future.html

“We need to reject this victim ideology.” Charter school founder Ian Rowe says victimhood has taken over our society. And it’s “infiltrating” the minds of our young people. “There is power in victimhood.” “Somehow in our society, we have come to this idea that the more oppressed we claim we are, the more marginalized we claim we are, the more attention and seemingly value you gain.” “And so now it’s become countercultural to emphasize this concept of agency, the force of your free will guided by moral discernments.” “Everyone has free will, but how do you exercise that free will towards the betterment of you and your community and your society?” https://rumble.com/v7envle-where-teens-will-study-classical-virtuesand-build-airplanes.html

“The best defense against the worst excesses of artificial intelligence is…the other form of AI.” “And that is ancient intelligence.” “Virtue, moral formation, character development,” says educator Ian Rowe. He is a charter school founder who believes hard work and accountability—and rejecting victimhood—are the secrets to a good education. His newest project, Westchester Aerospace and Virtues Academy (WAVA), pairs a classical education with a surprising real-world specialty: aviation and aerospace training. 🔴 PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://www.theepochtimes.com/epochtv/the-new-school-where-teens-will-learn-classics-and-build-airplanes-ian-rowe-6079432?utm_source=telegram&utm_medium=SocialM&utm_content=AmericanThoughtLeaders&utm_term=

Congressman Ralph Norman says his primary opponent Darline Graham is being bankrolled by the same Washington establishment Republicans have spent years fighting. He calls President Trump’s endorsement of Graham a “head-scratcher,” but says it won’t change his support for the President. “I will always be grateful and am indebted to President Trump for saving this country.” “When he didn’t support me… it was a head-scratcher.” “Darline Graham has been bankrolled by the Washington elite and lobbyists, the people we fight against.” “They’re coming after South Carolina and me because they know what they get with me.” “Washington is just broken.” “All of my money has come from either my bank account or it’s come from the people of South Carolina.” “That’s who I represent.” “Not the deep state and not the Washington elite.” https://ept.ms/4gBwxsJ

I sat down with Rep. Ralph Norman ahead of the Republican Senate primary runoff tomorrow in South Carolina to ask what he wants to accomplish in the Senate. He said: “The umbrella is financial solvency.” “As a subset, passing the SAVE America Act, verifying our elections.” “We have got to keep a focus on energy independence.” “We cannot depend on China.” “China is making way too many products that we ought to be making here in America to keep our businesses strong.” “Nothing we're doing now is working with Social Security.” “There’s going to have to be some hard changes” 🔴 PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://www.theepochtimes.com/epochtv/inside-ralph-normans-pitch-to-take-lindsey-grahams-seat-in-the-senate-6078992?utm_source=telegram&utm_medium=SocialM&utm_content=AmericanThoughtLeaders&utm_term=RalphNorman

The same doctors who pushed children toward life altering sex-rejecting procedures “abandoned” them when they wanted out. Admiral Brian Christine says the Trump administration is now working to help detransitioners heal. “When they had decided, ‘No, I made a mistake. I’ve been led down this path, but this isn’t right. I wanna stop my treatment, and I wanna try to detransition and go back.’” “They were virtually abandoned by the same Wolves in White Coats who led them down this pathway.” “Which again, is heartbreaking.” “These individuals now who we call detransitioners, who were taken down this pathway and now are detransitioning, that’s certainly an area in the future we need to concentrate on, and we need to develop good practice protocols.” “There’s still more work to be done to help these children heal.” “We support them, we love them, and we want to help them heal.” 👉https://youtu.be/QDlswDVdnqU

Carissa Véliz just sounded the alarm about the cozy relationship between government and Big Tech. “This relationship of cooperation, but also dependence… is quite tricky for democracy.” “Governments are more and more depending on tech companies for infrastructure.” “Politicians need these tech executives to reach their audience.” “These kinds of relationships are not new.” “Leaders usually attach themselves to some kind of prophet.” “In the past, it might [have] been an oracle or a seer of different kinds, then… astrologers.” “Now, it’s computer scientists and tech executives who are mostly talking about the future and advising governments.” “What is new and quite concerning is that it’s not only that governments are taking advice from these people who have very high financial interest.” “It’s also that they’re depending on them for things as important as getting access to the citizenry.” https://rumble.com/v7ejjn2-cozy-relationship-between-government-and-big-tech..html

A child who undergoes a sex rejecting procedure can become a patient for life. A disturbing new Trump administration report details the financial incentives that HHS says pushed clinics to take advantage of some of the country’s most vulnerable children. “There was a tremendous financial incentive for these clinics and these practitioners to produce what we call captive patients.” “If you take a child who has gender dysphoria and you get them to agree to sex-rejecting procedures, the cross-sex hormones or the puberty blockers or certainly the surgeries, then what you’ve done is you’ve created a patient for life.” “So you have a patient who continues to come back, and that billing can be big money.” “From 2019 up to 2023, $120 million was spent on sex-rejecting procedures in this country.” “If you put them on puberty blockers, that’s up to $12-$14 thousand per year.” Watch the full conversation here: https://youtu.be/QDlswDVdnqU

HHS assistant health secretary Brian Christine just exposed the perverse financial incentives behind gender medicine:  “If you take a child who has gender dysphoria and you get them to agree to sex rejecting procedures, the cross sex hormones, or the puberty blockers, or certainly the surgeries, then what you've done, you've created a patient for life.”   “They have to come back for appointment after appointment after appointment, getting their prescriptions filled, getting laboratory testing done. So you have a patient who continues to come back, and that billing can be big money.” “From 2019 to 2023, $120 million was spent on sex rejecting procedures in this country.”  🔴 PREMIERE 5PM ET on @EpochTV:https://ept.ms/46ltiR6

The WHO sent a delegation to China to document how lockdowns were being used to stop the spread of COVID. Jeffrey Tucker says it quickly turned into a propaganda tour, with the delegation being wined and dined before producing a report praising China’s lockdown model. He says that report became the turning point that helped set Western lockdowns in motion. And according to Anthony Fauci’s own diaries, Fauci was behind the push to send the delegation. “They wined and dined them for quite a long time, up to about a week.” “Xi Jinping’s message of this tour was, ‘We are much better at managing infectious disease than you. With our system of government, which is a one-party state and totalitarian dictatorial rule, we have vast advantages over you people in the West with your human rights and freedom and democracy.’” “Now, this is 100% propaganda.” “Their lockdowns achieved nothing in terms of stopping the spread.” 👉https://ept.ms/4wLxvZp

“There are many ways to interpret the COVID era.” “But one of them is that the entire thing was a master plan hatched by the CCP.” Jeffrey Tucker argues China used COVID to convince the West that its freedoms were the problem. And that the CCP’s authoritarian model was the solution. “What it looks like to me… is a brilliant master plan to shame the West for its freedoms.” “‘Look, your freedoms are gonna make people sick and prevent you from doing the right thing.’” “Which is to turn all your countries into a prison state like China.” “And shamed people into doing the unthinkable.” “Which was to override the Bill of Rights and issue stay-at-home orders and abolish religious holidays and close the schools and destroy businesses.” “And that’s in fact what happened.” https://rumble.com/v7efzz6-top-10-biggest-revelations-from-the-fauci-diaries-jeffrey-tucker.html

The Fauci Diaries exposed some shocking revelations about the mRNA vaccines and what Dr. Anthony Fauci actually knew—and when. By January 14, 2020, an mRNA coronavirus vaccine was already in development at Moderna. As early as February 8, 2020, Fauci privately concluded COVID’s true fatality rate was ~0.2% — “acting like a bad influenza.” Yet he told Senators and Congressmen it was more like 1%. By early 2021, as variants emerged, it was already becoming clear to Dr. Fauci that the vaccine would have issues stopping transmission. He wrote in his notes: “It looks like the vaccine might be compromised.” Jeffrey Tucker argues this was never about herd immunity. 🔴 PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://www.theepochtimes.com/epochtv/top-10-biggest-revelations-from-the-fauci-diaries-jeffrey-tucker-6077717?utm_source=telegram&utm_medium=SocialM&utm_content=AmericanThoughtLeaders&utm_term=JeffreyTucker

The recent Trump administration report on election interference goes far beyond the 2020 election. John Solomon says intelligence officials were caught openly keeping critical election security information from the President, Congress, and the American public. “What we did is look at a 20-year window of intelligence about the security of our elections.” “Were foreigners interfering? Were domestic players interfering? Were there vulnerabilities that we know about that we had not fixed?” “Career people in the intelligence community made conscious decisions to keep that information from the President, Congress, and the American public.” “There were intelligence officers bragging that they were withholding information from the President and from Congress.” “One of them boasted that they were running a shadow government.” “We were being told we were in the most secure election environment in history, and the intelligence showed just the opposite.” https://rumble.com/v7edpgy-how-spy-agencies-massaged-trumps-briefings-to-bury-election-warnings-john-s.html

Newly released documents reveal how evidence of Chinese penetration of voter registration files and plots to interfere in the election were withheld or downplayed.  The new files reveal one of the intelligence officers said they “deliberately massaged” the presidential daily briefing in 2020 to downplay election-related information, with another stating, “I’m basically running a shadow government across the FBI at this point.”  John Solomon is chair of the White House Government Transparency Task Force, an award-winning journalist, and founder of Just the News. He breaks down key documents his task force has released—and what more we can expect to see in the coming days and months.  🔴 PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/4qlY0CY

“The intelligence community and the FBI… were interfering in an American election by picking winners and losers.” John Solomon says the evidence is crystal clear: parts of the U.S. intelligence community made political decisions to bury the Hunter Biden laptop story ahead of the 2020 election. “The FBI had Hunter Biden’s laptop.” “They had the evidence of what Burisma wanted from Joe Biden and his family.” “They had evidence of what Hunter Biden was getting paid.” “They even had evidence that…his lawyers and him had talked about the fact that he had failed to pay American taxes on a large sum of money from Burisma.” “They had validation that what the confidential human sources were telling the FBI was true ‘cause Hunter Biden’s own laptop showed it was true.” “And still this Round River team went out to try to portray it as Russian disinformation.” Watch the full conversation here:https://ept.ms/4qlY0CY

he CCP has openly racist citizenship policies that claim authority over people it considers Chinese, even if they are citizens of another country. And Luke de Pulford says the world continues to tolerate it. “Most people don’t know that Chinese law regarding citizenship is fundamentally racist.” “Somebody who is born in China, let’s say they move to the United Kingdom and they have children in the United Kingdom.” “And their children’s children are born in the United Kingdom.” “Their children’s children’s children will still be regarded by the Chinese Communist Party as Chinese and they will claim dominion over them.” “They will reject whatever nationality they have been given and they will assert Chinese law over those people.” “It goes to the heart of the frankly ethno-nationalism of the Chinese Communist Party.” “Totally extraordinary that the rest of the world just allows it.” The CCP’s reach does not stop at China’s borders. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nilU1qze32U

The UK is allowing the CCP to build the largest embassy in Europe just feet from critical infrastructure connecting London’s two major financial centers. Luke de Pulford is sounding the alarm on why this could put American financial interests at risk too. “There is some sensitive communications cable infrastructure basically within feet of this mega embassy.” “This is cabling that connects Canary Wharf to the City of London, the two financial centres in London.” “If the Chinese were able to in some way sabotage or hack this cabling… they would be impacting any financial services from anywhere in the world who are located in those two financial centres, which of course includes the United States.” “I came to Washington and I briefed various people, including the White House, on the presence of these cables.” “Your financial services are going to be endangered by this thing.” “We’ve got to stop this thing from happening.” https://rumble.com/v7e893e-chinas-mega-embassy-with-secret-rooms-beneath-london-luke-de-pulford.html

The UK High Court just dismissed a legal challenge against London's planned "mega embassy" for China. Here's why this is a massive deal: It'll be the largest Chinese embassy in Europe, and it sits feet away from the fiber-optic cables linking Canary Wharf and the City of London. Those cables don't just carry UK transactions. They carry financial data tied to global markets, including the US. Nearly an entire floor of the building's blueprints is redacted with no description or explanation. Among those fighting against it is Luke de Pulford, founder of the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC). 🔴 PREMIERE 5PM ET on @EpochTV: https://www.theepochtimes.com/epochtv/is-chinas-mega-embassy-in-london-actually-a-massive-spying-compound-luke-de-pulford-6075580?utm_source=telegram&utm_medium=SocialM&utm_content=AmericanThoughtLeaders&utm_term=LukedePulford