America is broken. Fix it with us.
The Simple Liberty Movement is regular citizens researching major issues - one at a time - and proposing how to solve America’s biggest problems.
We’ve stopped waiting for politicians and bureaucrats to resolve them. So we will.
We can do this.
What You Get
We give our work away, because an informed citizen is the whole point. Subscribers get access to all new content weekly:
Commoners Corner posts, delivered by email.
Issues posts in The Commons - where we lay out each problem and what we propose to do about it.
Research on each issue, at publication and as it is updated - the meaning, evidence, and impact we weighed to get to the proposed solution.
No ads. No data brokers. No spin. Just facts, and where they lead.
Why We Are Divided
America is not in decline because our founding principles failed. We are divided because we stopped teaching the facts about our nation’s founding - how our government uniquely works, and our mutual covenant to the common good.
Americans have not forgotten how the government is built. Seven in ten can name all three branches, and that number is climbing.
We remember the machinery. We have forgotten the covenant it was built to protect - and a government that writes more law than any citizen can digest tempts people to give up, choose to be uninformed, and simply hope for the best.
When a people no longer learns its own foundation, it slowly stops sharing one. For most of our history, Americans of every faith and background professed a common set of civic values - rooted in the Judeo-Christian commitment to good character, equal rights, and responsibility to the common good.
We did not always live up to them. Slavery, segregation, and exclusion are proof of that. But the standard was shared - which is exactly why the failures could be named as failures, and corrected. A country with no common standard has no boundaries, and falls apart from within.
As more of us have put self-interest ahead of what is right, they have let that covenant lapse - the promise to be one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
Unethical politicians like it this way because a divided public is easier to manipulate. Too many of our politicians want to rule us, not represent us.
When a nation loses its common values, fear fills the void - and self-interest reigns, rather than the common good.
The Constitution Is in Play
The people working to change our Constitution are serious and organized. This is not a fringe effort. The process will likely start in Congress - and we are concerned the American people are not ready.
Constitutional moments are won long before the debate formally begins.
Are you ready?
The Simple Liberty Movement exists to make certain the many - we, the American people - have solid, fact-based solutions to propose and defend. Our role is developing the solutions - then, we freely share them so other patriots are ready and united before the debates begin.
The few - the Elites, politicians, and aspiring tyrants - are counting on us not to be
Restore our Foundation
America can get better - but we have to do it.
For decades, our politicians have failed us - and grown comfortable doing it. We are done waiting on the Elites. It’s time - past time - for ordinary guys and gals - you, me, and our neighbors… commoners - to fix what our politicians and bureaucrats have broken.
How? In this republic, politicians are not our bosses. We are theirs. The Constitution put the people in charge - and it is time we started acting like it.
The process starts with us. We define the issues, confirm the truth, weigh the impact, and propose solutions based only on what is best for the common good of all Americans.
We join with others to restore America’s greatness - because no one else will.
Division is how the few rule the many. Unity is how the many take our country back.
We can do this.
What We Stand On
We are not whiners, victims, or bullies. We are problem solvers.
Join us to develop solutions grounded in America’s founding values - the only proven architecture for a free, fair, and flourishing nation.
Consider the values that enable free people to stay free, and the virtues that live through us:
Courageous Good Character Prevails - Lived through Faith, Truth, and Integrity. As Founder and President John Adams wrote, “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” Our faith defines who we are, how we determine truth, and the consistency of integrity in our actions.
True Equal Rights for All - Lived through Life, Liberty, and Covenant. Every American is entitled to the same protection under the same laws and the same freedom to pursue their passions in ways that do not harm others - and these rights are sustained only when citizens maintain a mutual covenant to laws protecting them.
Humbly Work for the Common Good - Lived through Gratitude, Responsibility, and Family.We have so much, but many don’t realize it.Gratitude fuels love, joy, community, and responsible behaviors to keep the unique rights our Founders secured for us.Part of that responsibility is that parents of courageous good character lovingly mentor these values into the next generation.
We Are Not the First
Every generation that saved America did it by uniting citizens in our shared covenant to the common good.
Abraham Lincoln held a fracturing nation together by insisting that government of the people, by the people, and for the people was worth preserving at any cost.
Martin Luther King, Jr. confronted profound injustice without violence - appealing to the conscience of the nation and to the founding promise of equality, and asking that Americans be measured by their character rather than their skin color.
Ronald Reagan reminded a weary country that freedom is never more than one generation from being lost, and its survival depends on what ordinary citizens are willing to do in their lifetimes.
Different eras. Different battles.
One thread: Personal integrity, a shared cultural standard, and an unwavering commitment to the common good of all Americans.
Simple Liberty carries that thread forward. We can do this.
Who This Movement Is For
History shows that nearly every successful renewal of a free society has been carried forward by an intergenerational coalition. Each generation contributes something unique:
Teens and twenty-somethings bring courage, energy, and a passion to build something that changes the world in positive ways. Much of the American Revolution’s energy came from people in their twenties. This is true for nearly every movement that lasts for generations.
We need young Americans to contribute ideas and energy based on our founding principles, your life experience, and passion to make a difference in our world.
Middle-aged adults - parents, tradespeople, professionals, workers, and small business owners - people building families and communities - bring discernment, networks, and a desire to serve the people and communities they love.
You are raising the children who will inherit our republic. You are the most exhausted segment of the country, but also the most needed. Investing your time, prayers, and/or financial support in Simple Liberty is meaningful and life-changing.
Our elder citizens bring memory, wisdom, and fortitude. You remember civic life when institutions functioned and politics were bipartisan. Citizens could disagree and still be friends. They loved America even with its flaws
We need you to be role models of patience, discernment, empathy, encouragement, diplomacy, and insight. You carry historical and civic literacy that younger Americans have largely been denied. Your wisdom is not a relic - it is the ballast that keeps a young movement from capsizing.
The American Revolution succeeded because it combined the energy of the young, the discipline of the middle-aged, and the wisdom of the elders - united in a carefully defined structure of simple liberty in the new United States of America.
How We Work
We call our problem solving process the 4Q Scrolls. We take one claim at a time and ask four questions - Meaning, Evidence, Impact, and Solution - until we can say what is best for the common good of all Americans, and show our work.
Be Part of the Solution
The Simple Liberty Movement seeks to have a meaningful impact now.
There is strength in numbers. We welcome your involvement.
