Patriot,

As the marathon of the 2024 presidential race comes to an end at last, we have some good reasons to be truly hopeful things are taking a turn for the better.

You may have already seen the meme of Elon Musk and me confronting a federal bureaucrat and asking them to justify their existence.

As I note in my latest column – read it below – Elon Musk posted it himself and went on to say he might have me help him drain the swamp!

At the same time, Donald Trump’s running mate, JD Vance, expressed opposition to the Federal Reserve, as I have for decades.

Of course, whether this talk will come to real action in the future, we cannot say.

But certainly it is encouraging some candidates are talking about real issues again.

If you are able, please make a contribution to Campaign for Liberty as we continue the fight into the future and prepare to take on a dangerous Lame Duck session in the coming weeks.

No matter who wins today, you and I need to contend with the Lame Duck session and then the next session of Congress. The Swamp will not go away quietly.

Thanks for all of your support,

Ron Paul

With JD Vance and Elon Musk, Suddenly Ideas Are Back in this Campaign

This presidential campaign season may be one of those turning points in history for reasons good and bad. Anyone watching the one debate between the Republican and Democratic Party candidates would not have come away with the view that this was a great battle of competing principles and visions for the future.

It was a campaign of name-calling and bullets, where one candidate avoided discussing ideas at all costs – and even avoided the media at all costs. Where the other candidate dodged two attempted assassinations while throwing red meat rhetoric to an understandably angry population.

It was a campaign where, more than ever, the mainstream media completely abandoned any idea of being a neutral source of information and instead jumped into the ring on the side of one candidate.

In the one debate between presidential candidates, the mainstream media went so far as to “fact check” one candidate while giving the other a “pass.” The “fact check” turned out to be misinformation – something the mainstream media excels in – but they have long figured out that by the time the actual facts are in, people have already absorbed the falsehood.

According to the conservative Media Research Center, mainstream media coverage of the Trump campaign was 85 percent negative while its coverage of the Harris campaign was 78 percent positive. If accurate, it explains why the public holds the media in such contempt.

What felt missing in the campaign was a discussion of the real issues we are facing. The destruction caused by interventionism in our economy, in our lives, and in the rest of the world. There was no talk about the Federal Reserve and how it hurts the middle class, helps the wealthy, and greases the war machine.

Then, at the tail end, things got interesting. Republican candidate for Vice President, JD Vance, mentioned last week that he had come to the view that the Federal Reserve was not the benevolent force for good that its supporters claim.

He didn’t say it in those exact words, but that was his point. Then Trump surrogate campaigner Elon Musk made an announcement that no doubt terrified the DC swamp: were he to get the government efficiency job Trump suggested, he’d start with a bang, cutting two trillion dollars from the Federal bud get!

We even had a little fun with it. After I posted some encouragement on Musk’s Twitter/X, he responded that he would be happy to have me join him looking for places to cut!

While the last thing I am looking for is another job, I am encouraged by the outpouring of support and happy to help any effort to correct the wrong path we have been going down – a path toward total bankruptcy.

Perhaps the most encouraging development this election cycle is the well-earned decline in the influence of the corrupt mainstream media. When Elon posted a funny meme of the two of us cutting government on his Twitter/X platform, it garnered some 50 million views!

Compare that to the steady decline of mainstream media viewership. An alternative way of reporting and analyzing the events of our time is emerging on the ruins of the legacy media and it’s driving them insane. Good.


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