Ten Years of the Ron Paul Institute
Dear Friend:
It’s hard to believe, but 2023 will mark the tenth anniversary of my Institute for Peace and Prosperity. We launched the Institute just as I was leaving Congress to continue my work promoting a non-interventionist foreign policy, protection of civil liberties at home, and an end to the US central banking system that has funded and facilitated all of our wars since the Fed was created in 1913.
Many said that we had little chance of succeeding. After all, there is no money in opposing the wars that bring riches to the Washington Beltway. The big Washington think tanks are lavishly funded by special interests, particularly the military-industrial complex.
Even though we were small by comparison, they wanted us gone. The warfare state is more fragile than most people realize. They are terrified of criticism and exposure because they profit from illegitimate means.
I’ll never forget our April 2013 launch in the packed Capitol Hill Club, not far from my old office in the Cannon House Office Building. We were joined by my old friends and colleagues Rep. Walter Jones, Rep. John Duncan, Jr., and Rep. Dennis Kucinich. We even had a surprise visitor join us at the speaker table: the newly-elected Thomas Massie, US Representative from Kentucky.
It was a great event and the beginning of something really special.
Nothing inspired me in my two presidential campaigns like speaking on college campuses and hearing the cheers from young people. Their chants of “End the Fed” were deafening – even in “liberal” schools like Berkeley and Michigan.
That was one of the most important things I learned from the campaigns: the younger generation is more open to new ideas and to embracing the wonderful legacy of liberty passed down from our Founding Fathers and so many other great men and women.
This year we held our third annual Ron Paul Scholars Seminar, bringing together a terrific group of university students to participate in a one-day “boot camp” on foreign policy and civil liberties. Our Seminar has benefitted from the participation of top academics, Members of Congress, and many practitioners in the field.
If we don’t invest in future generations, we will have no future. That is what your support for the Ron Paul Institute makes possible.
The Ron Paul Scholars Seminar is a scalable model that should easily accommodate five or ten times the number of participants. Imagine hundreds of these high-level young scholars not only hearing the truth from brilliant lecturers but developing their own networks to share ideas and support each other in the future.
Your tax-deductible, year-end donation to the Ron Paul Institute will make expanding this critical program possible.
As we enter our tenth year, the Ron Paul Institute has held ten major conferences, from Washington, DC, to Houston, to Charleston, SC and more. We have featured heroes of peace like Julian Assange, brave public intellectuals like Col. Douglas Macgregor and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., whistleblowers like John Kiriakou, and dozens more. We have brought together thousands from across the globe to listen to brilliant presentations and, very importantly, to meet each other and create their own networks.
The enemies of peace and liberty want to keep us apart. They want us to feel like we are all alone. We won’t let that happen. We bring people of all backgrounds together in the cause of peace and liberty.
Our mission is education, and one of the best ways we are fulfilling that mission is through our Ron Paul Liberty Report, a news analysis program broadcast live every weekday. This year we signed an exclusive contract with free-speech platform Rumble and since then our viewership has doubled.
Between viewers and listeners to the Liberty Report, we have reached more than 25 million views this year alone! That’s not bad for a small, lean organization. We probably did better than CNN!
We can hear the war drums pounding everywhere. The mainstream media speaks with one voice, echoing the neocons who demand what could well end up being a life-ending thermonuclear war.
Undeterred by the disasters they launched in Iraq, Libya, Syria, Afghanistan, and elsewhere, they are now aiming for bigger targets: Russia and China. What’s worse, many of our progressive allies have gone silent.
As we look around there are fewer voices for peace. We can oppose military aggression around the globe while still recognizing the role played by an interventionist US foreign policy.
Please consider making a generous, tax-deductible donation to the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity. I promise you we will work harder than ever in 2023, our tenth year, to continue making a difference.
In Liberty, | 
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