Dear Friend,

It’s hard to remember that we’re a free people when government SWAT teams are crashing through doors without warrants, women are being strip searched and subjected to vaginal probes by the side of the road, and young children are being threatened with hate speech charges for voicing politically incorrect opinions.
 
It’s hard to remember we’re a free people when pastors are being jailed for holding Bible studies in their backyards, teachers are being fired for encouraging their students to think critically about the world around them, and military veterans are being locked up for criticizing the government on Facebook.
 
It’s certainly hard to remember we’re a free people when government agents are listening in on our phone calls, reading our correspondence, and spying on our movements, American citizens are being urged to snitch on each other, American children are being indoctrinated to blindly obey the government, and government employees are acting as if they are the masters and we are the slaves.
 
It’s hard but not impossible. 

I truly believe that we can be a free people again, but it will mean getting back into the driver’s seat, retaking control of our runaway government, and doing the difficult work of getting our house in order.
 
The Rutherford Institute is doing everything in our power to push back against the excesses, abuses and tyranny of the American police state, but we can’t do it alone.
 
There is strength in numbers, and we need your strength and your support.
 
Please do what you can to help us keep the fires of freedom burning brightly.
 
This year’s $250,000 matching gift campaign is underway, and we’ve still got a lot of ground to cover before our fiscal year ends on June 30.
 
If the rest of our donors are as generous as I am asking you to be today, The Rutherford Institute will have an extra $250,000 to jumpstart our new fiscal year, fund our legal and educational operations through the summer, and continue fighting to take back our freedoms.
 
Won’t you please ensure that The Rutherford Institute’s efforts to make the government play by the rules of the Constitution are not in vain?
 
Please take a moment to ensure that we have the resources needed to fight the battles before us. Any tax-deductible donations—including one-time gifts, monthly pledges and stock donations—made between now and June 30 will go a long way towards helping us meet the $250,000 matching gift challenge underway right now. 

Together, we WILL make America free again.

For freedom,

John W. Whitehead
President  

P.S. The Rutherford Institute—nonpartisan, apolitical and committed to the principles enshrined in the Constitution and Bill of Rights—is working hard to push back against the government’s heavy-handed tyranny on almost every front. Still, we couldn’t do all that we do without you.

To make a tax-deductible donation to The Rutherford Institute, click the link below, visit us online, donate using PayPal, call in your donation to 800-225-1791, or mail your donation to our headquarters at PO Box 7482, Charlottesville, VA 22906. 

We are especially in need of monthly donors right now who are willing to spread their donation out over the course of a year. To make a monthly commitment of $10, $20 or $100 or more, or a one-time donation in support of our critical efforts to keep this nation free, click the link below.

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