AFA Celebrates America's 250th Birthday!
The American Freedom Alliance is thrilled to invite you to our Celebration of our nation's 250th birthday!
AFA addresses the many threats facing America—threats that seek to undermine our freedoms, our institutions, and our way of life.
In addition, though, we seek to strengthen our pride in this exceptional nation, restore our civilizational confidence, and deepen our understanding of—and gratitude for—the principles upon which America was founded and that have made our country good and great.
America's 250th Birthday provides the perfect opportunity to celebrate those principles as well as the miracle of our founding, growth and prosperity, and we are delighted to host this special event!
AFA addresses the many threats facing America—threats that seek to undermine our freedoms, our institutions, and our way of life.
In addition, though, we seek to strengthen our pride in this exceptional nation, restore our civilizational confidence, and deepen our understanding of—and gratitude for—the principles upon which America was founded and that have made our country good and great.
America's 250th Birthday provides the perfect opportunity to celebrate those principles as well as the miracle of our founding, growth and prosperity, and we are delighted to host this special event!
The Celebration Includes:
Cocktail Reception with Custom Cocktails
Buffet Dinner featuring Prime Rib and Apple Pie
Patriotic Music
A Silent Auction
Signed Copy of Eric Metaxas' book REVOLUTION
Reflections on these Great United States by
Frank Gaffney * Trevor Loudon * Susanne Reyto * Dr. Bradley Thayer
and more!
PLUS
Inspirations for the next 250!
And our Keynote Speaker
Buffet Dinner featuring Prime Rib and Apple Pie
Patriotic Music
A Silent Auction
Signed Copy of Eric Metaxas' book REVOLUTION
Reflections on these Great United States by
Frank Gaffney * Trevor Loudon * Susanne Reyto * Dr. Bradley Thayer
and more!
PLUS
Inspirations for the next 250!
And our Keynote Speaker
ERIC METAXAS
We couldn't be more excited to host Eric Metaxas, author, most recently, of Revolution: The Birth of the Greatest Nation in the History of the World, a magnificent work whose title doesn't even do justice to the stories of courage, valor, sacrifice, faith, inspiration, brilliance and commitment to freedom in its many aspects that Metaxas offers to us in this extraordinary book. One cannot help but to be profoundly grateful for being a beneficiary of what those great men strove to accomplish, and indeed, did achieve against all odds. History books can drive us to tears in horror and outrage at atrocities committed; this one, however, moves us to tears in awe and gratitude, for we truly are blessed to have a history such as this, to live in a nation such as this. And regardless of how much of our history you're acquainted with, this work will add layers upon layers, wonder upon wonder, to the composition that is our founding.
And we are thrilled that he will be with us on this occasion, the celebration of the 250th birthday of our founding!
About Eric Metaxas
Eric Metaxas is a bestselling author, internationally recognized speaker, broadcaster, and one of America's most influential Christian intellectuals. Through his writing, speaking, media appearances, and ministry, he has spent decades exploring the enduring relationship between faith, freedom, virtue, and the future of Western Civilization.
He is the author of more than thirty books, including the New York Times bestseller Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy, widely regarded as the definitive modern biography of the German theologian and anti-Nazi dissident Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
His many acclaimed books also include Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery, Is Atheism Dead?, and Letter to the American Church. In his recent book, Revolution: The Birth of the Greatest Nation in the History of the World, Metaxas examines the American Revolution as one of the most consequential events in human history. Far more than a military struggle for independence, he argues, the Revolution unleashed a revolutionary vision of liberty, self-government, individual rights, and human flourishing that transformed the modern world. He also emphasizes the indispensable role of Judeo-Christian values in the birth and flourishing of this "greatest nation in the history of the world."
As host of the nationally syndicated Eric Metaxas Radio Show, the popular Eric Metaxas Podcast, and Socrates in the City, he has interviewed many of the most important thinkers, scholars, leaders, and cultural figures of our time, engaging millions of listeners on issues of faith, history, culture, and public life.
As we celebrate America's 250th Birthday, few voices are better suited to reflect on the meaning of our nation's founding, the blessings of liberty, and the responsibilities that accompany freedom. The American Freedom Alliance is honored to welcome Eric Metaxas as our keynote speaker.
In Addition!
On this occasion, we are delighted to include other voices familiar to the AFA community whose commitment to the continued freedoms and aspirations of this country is revealed through their work, their eloquence, their words and deeds.
You may know them because of the warnings they are committed to share, but their love of this country and all it represents are foundational to this very work. It is an honor for us to have them speak so inspirationally at our celebration.
You may know them because of the warnings they are committed to share, but their love of this country and all it represents are foundational to this very work. It is an honor for us to have them speak so inspirationally at our celebration.
Frank Gaffney
President, Institute for the American Future
Frank Gaffney is the President of the Institute for the American Future and has been warning for decades about the Red-Green-Blue "totalitarian trifecta" of Communism, Islam and Globalism.
He serves as the Vice Chairman of the Committee on the Present Danger: China (CPDC) and currently is the lead on the Ban Sharia movement, BanSharia.com. In addition to hosting the daily “Securing America” show on the Real America’s Voice network, he also hosts weekly webinars for the Committee of the Present Danger: China and for the Ban Sharia effort.
Mr. Gaffney is a member of AFA's Board of Advisors and has participated in countless AFA events and conferences including each of our World War III events in LA and across the country.
He serves as the Vice Chairman of the Committee on the Present Danger: China (CPDC) and currently is the lead on the Ban Sharia movement, BanSharia.com. In addition to hosting the daily “Securing America” show on the Real America’s Voice network, he also hosts weekly webinars for the Committee of the Present Danger: China and for the Ban Sharia effort.
Mr. Gaffney is a member of AFA's Board of Advisors and has participated in countless AFA events and conferences including each of our World War III events in LA and across the country.
Trevor Loudon
Author, AFA FELLOW
Trevor Loudon has researched radical left, Marxist and terrorist movements and their covert influence on mainstream politics for more than 30 years. His films, "Enemies Within," and "Enemies Within the Church," and his books, including The Enemies Within, White House Reds, and two-part Security Risk Senators, are vital resources.
Trevor was a vital part of each of the World War III conferences we held across the country last year and has been a frequent speaker at many of our conferences and Parresia podcasts.
Trevor is also a Fellow of the American Freedom Alliance and was the 2018 honoree of our American Freedom Award.
Trevor was a vital part of each of the World War III conferences we held across the country last year and has been a frequent speaker at many of our conferences and Parresia podcasts.
Trevor is also a Fellow of the American Freedom Alliance and was the 2018 honoree of our American Freedom Award.
Suzanne Reyto
author, speaker
Susanne Reyto is an award-winning author, speaker and an ardent supporter of Israel and the free world, and, with her husband Robert, was an honoree of AFA's 2013 Hand of Freedom Award.
She is a child survivor of the Holocaust; her childhood experiences under communism and her ultimate escape from Communist Hungary in the late 1950's left her with an unwavering spirit of optimism and perseverance.
She is an active member of several organizations including the American Freedom Alliance and is a frequent speaker at Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust.
She is a child survivor of the Holocaust; her childhood experiences under communism and her ultimate escape from Communist Hungary in the late 1950's left her with an unwavering spirit of optimism and perseverance.
She is an active member of several organizations including the American Freedom Alliance and is a frequent speaker at Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust.
Dr. Bradley A. Thayer
Author, AFA FELLOW
Dr. Bradley Thayer is a Founding Member of the Committee on the Present Danger: China and in that capacity has contributed to countless events including several AFA conferences.
Formerly, he was a Special Governmental Employee in the Department of Homeland Security where he contributed to the January 2021 report DHS Strategic Action Plan to Combat the Threat Posed by the People’s Republic of China. He has been a Visiting Fellow at Magdalen College, University of Oxford, and Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University. His research focuses on the existential threat to the U.S. from Marxism-Leninism and the Chinese Communist Party.
Dr. Thayer co-authored Embracing Communist China: America's Greatest Strategic Failure with James Fannell, and his most recent book, America's 100 Years' War: How to Win Against Communism, will be released in August.
Dr Thayer is a Fellow of the American Freedom Alliance.
Formerly, he was a Special Governmental Employee in the Department of Homeland Security where he contributed to the January 2021 report DHS Strategic Action Plan to Combat the Threat Posed by the People’s Republic of China. He has been a Visiting Fellow at Magdalen College, University of Oxford, and Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University. His research focuses on the existential threat to the U.S. from Marxism-Leninism and the Chinese Communist Party.
Dr. Thayer co-authored Embracing Communist China: America's Greatest Strategic Failure with James Fannell, and his most recent book, America's 100 Years' War: How to Win Against Communism, will be released in August.
Dr Thayer is a Fellow of the American Freedom Alliance.
Revolution:
The Birth of the Greatest Nation in the History of the World
There has never been a nation like the United States of America.
Its impact on the world is unprecedented in all of human history. After two and a half centuries of existence, it is difficult to imagine what the world would be like without it.
But how did it come into existence? Who has really done justice to this astonishing story? Innumerable books have been written about the American Revolution, but the definitive treatment of the full story simply does not exist—certainly not in our generation. And it’s a story, actually a host of stories, that every single American really must know and celebrate.
Who better to tell it than Eric Metaxas, historian and author of seven New York Times bestsellers, including the million-selling biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer? And what better time for such a book to appear than the 250th anniversary of America’s birth?
Metaxas’s Revolution takes us back to the beginning and retells the great story that made us great in the first place. It is definitive and sweeping, but is also fabulously entertaining, containing the dazzling array of extraordinary stories every American should know, ranging from the many events that led to Lexington and Concord, all the way through the twists and turns of the war itself, until Yorktown and beyond.
Some interviews Mr. Metaxas has held on the book
ALL ATTENDEES RECEIVE A SIGNED COPY of REVOLUTION
Patriotic Cocktail Attire Requested; Revolutionary Era Costume optional!
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Discounts available for groups
Students, military and first responders welcome to join us as our guests
