About Tom DeWeese

Tom DeWeese is one of the nation’s leading advocates of individual liberty, free enterprise, private property rights, personal privacy, back-to-basics education and American sovereignty and independence. A native of Ohio, he’s been a candidate for the Ohio Legislature, served as editor of two newspapers, and has owned several businesses since the age of 23. In 1989 Tom led the only privately-funded election-observation team to the Panamanian elections. In 2006 Tom was invited to Cambridge University to debate the issue of the United Nations before the Cambridge Union, a 200 year old debating society. Today he serves as Founder and President of the American Policy Center and editor of The DeWeese Report. For 40 years Tom DeWeese has been a businessman, grassroots activist, writer and publisher. As such, he has always advocated a firm belief in man’s need to keep moving forward while protecting our Constitutionally-guaranteed rights. The DeWeese Report , 70 Main Street, Suite 23, Warrenton Virginia. E-Mail: admin@americanpolicy.org E-Mail: ampolicycenter@hotmail.com Website: www.americanpolicy.org

Change the Debate and Take Back Liberty Locally

Most Americans tend to think of private property simply as a home – the place where the family resides, stores their belongings, and finds shelter and safety from the elements. It’s where you live. It’s yours because you pay the mortgage and the taxes. Most people don’t give property ownership much more thought than that.

By |2024-12-09T22:21:38-05:00December 9th, 2024|

What Can We Expect on Election Day from the Forces of Tyranny?

There is growing concern over possible violence if Trump wins the election. What will happen the day after election day? While I obviously can’t know for sure, I can tell you from personal experience what can happen when an entrenched tyranny refuses to concede after a sound defeat.

By |2024-11-04T00:22:39-05:00November 4th, 2024|

What Can We Expect on Election Day from the Forces of Tyranny?

Will history repeat itself on November 5th? Are the Harris Dignity Battalions preparing to maintain their status quo? We must stand strong like the Panamanian people and refuse to leave, even if our polling place is threatened. We need poll watchers to oversee all aspects of the vote counting process.

By |2024-11-02T01:16:40-04:00November 2nd, 2024|

What City Planners ‘That sold Their Soul’ Are Really Planning and How to Challenge It

In nearly every community of the nation the policy called Sustainable is the catch-all term for local planning programs, from water and energy controls to building codes and traffic planning. The term “sustainable” was first used in the 1987 report called “Our Common Future,’ issued by the United Nations Commission on Environment and Development (UNCED).

By |2024-09-27T00:30:34-04:00September 27th, 2024|

The Real Way to End Poverty And It’s Not by Government

The reason the United States has led the world in wealth, standard of living, and abundance is that every resident of the United States has had the ability and the opportunity to invest and produce their own capital and build personal wealth. Why is that possible? And why has most of the rest of the world failed, and continues to fail, at such an attempt?

By |2024-09-11T00:08:06-04:00September 11th, 2024|

The Compassion Cartel Getting Rich on Poverty

The statistics on global poverty are staggering. According to the United Nations Millennium Project, there are currently 1.2 billion people living in poverty. Fifty thousand deaths per day occur worldwide as a result of poverty. Every year more than ten million children die of hunger and preventable diseases.

By |2024-09-06T00:46:42-04:00September 6th, 2024|

Who Do Elected Officials You Voted For Actually Represent?

Change the debate, openly oppose anti-freedom policies, expose non-governmental (NGO) carpetbaggers hiding in the shadows dictating policy, force elected officials to be personally accountable for their actions. This is how we will drain the swamp – with dedicated activists that understand who the mosquitos are and stand ready at a moment’s notice to take action with a big can of Raid!

By |2024-08-10T00:20:26-04:00August 10th, 2024|

The American Dream, Home Ownership – an Opportunity for Government Control?

Does your family live in a home located in a single-family neighborhood of your choosing? A place where your kids are safe to play in the yard, you can enjoy the sun in your own lounge chair, the grill is ready to be fired up for dinner, and your neighbors wave hello? Best of all, are you counting on the equity value growing with each mortgage payment, preparing for your financial future? Well, get ready to lose it

By |2024-07-12T00:17:56-04:00July 12th, 2024|

Thinking Globally, Acting Locally: How Sustainable Rule Took Over Your City

Solar and wind farms to eliminate gas and oil; 15 Minute Cities; eliminating single-family homes; eliminating gas-powered cars; stop eating beef; no more warm water showers; ban ice cubes and electric stoves; Sustainable! How did these radical ideas become official policies in our once great American cities, now on the verge of collapse? Here’s the story.

By |2024-06-04T01:43:16-04:00June 4th, 2024|

The Chinese Threat to Local Communities is Real

For the past several decades the communist regime in China has been driving toward world supremacy, both economically and militarily. The regime’s main target has been, and is, the United States of America. The latest tactic of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is to use the threat of Climate change to gain control of our American economy, our food supply, and our energy system.

By |2024-05-03T00:07:40-04:00May 3rd, 2024|

Organized Theft in the Name of Government

Most Americans today tend to think of private property simply as a home – the place where the family resides, stores their belongings, and finds shelter and safety from the elements. It’s where you live. It’s yours because you pay the mortgage and the taxes. Most people don’t give property ownership much more thought than that.

By |2024-03-09T00:50:58-05:00March 9th, 2024|

Who Do Elected Representatives Think They’re Representing?

Today’s freedom activists must organize effectively. That specifically requires action at the local level. The further government gets from the people, the more corrupt it becomes. Let’s organize to change that. Now is the time to prepare for this year’s vital election. Do not accept ‘the defeatist attitude’ that we can’t win.

By |2024-01-26T00:12:38-05:00January 26th, 2024|

Give ‘Em The “Dickens”

Tiny Tim was granted control of Scrooge’s estate. He invested the money in a toy company and soon built a vast financial empire by hiring a marketing firm. Together they were able to turn Christmas into a huge commercial buying season for toys. Tiny Tim hung a huge sign over is factory so that all could see. There, written in gold letters, was the name of his corporation, “HUMBUG ENTERPRISES.”

By |2023-12-25T00:24:23-05:00December 25th, 2023|

Setting the Agenda for Freedom’s Comeback

If Donald Trump can find a way to assure honest ballot counting and is elected, more shock waves will rush through the entire world. The Great Reset will be splintered. Break the back of the global power elite and other nations will respond. More freedom leaders will be elected. You can feel it in the air. The whole world is watching and waiting. Now is the time.

By |2023-12-03T00:17:22-05:00December 3rd, 2023|

Grassroots Activists Are Winning Battles Against Powerful Green Forces

We have just won a major victory in Iowa as the Navigator Heartland Greenway has announced they are pulling their request from the Iowa Utilities Board to build the carbon capture pipeline. This is a direct result of dedicated grassroots activists standing up and fighting back, demanding the protection of their private property from an arrogant and powerful private corporation that didn’t think mere peasant citizens could stop them.

By |2023-11-06T00:15:36-05:00November 6th, 2023|

We Must Fight Back at the Local Level

Recently I addressed the Stop 30x30 Summit in Dallas, Texas, sponsored by the American Stewards of Liberty and CFACT. Here is what I had to say to help encourage local activists to fight the seemingly endless number of attacks on our freedoms now coming from the powerful global forces and the Federal Biden Cabal.

By |2023-10-04T00:12:44-04:00October 4th, 2023|

The Green Drive to Reorganize Human Society

To stop them, freedom activists must bring the same passion and determination into fighting for our property, local business, and personal freedoms. We have made vital progress in Iowa, North Dakota and South Dakota. And I know the powerful corporations are worried. More people are starting to see the threat.

By |2023-08-22T10:08:03-04:00August 22nd, 2023|

Farmland Lost is Farmland Lost Forever

Small, independent farmers are facing extinction. Their replacement will be powerful corporations that will no longer cater to consumers. Instead consumers will have to accept what the big corporations decide to provide – fake meat and all. Americans must stand up to save and protect farmland because American Farmland lost, is America lost forever.

By |2023-07-14T00:48:43-04:00July 14th, 2023|

What Price Liberty? A Family Answers the Call

Almost one hundred years after Garrett landed on American soil, his descendent joined others in a great struggle to overthrow the oppressive rule of the King of Great Britain. The growing DeWeese family found themselves heavily involved as some served in the militias, while others served in the Continental army and navy.

By |2023-07-05T00:14:02-04:00July 5th, 2023|

Living with Equity in a Free Society

In reality, social equity is the re-creation of the ruling class over the peasants. If you’ve bought into any of this, thinking it will bring you hope and happiness then, you are already a sad and pathetic victim of a new monarchy of misery. Existing simply as a cog in a well-controlled wheel is little more than experiencing death during life. You still have time to say NO!

By |2023-03-24T00:18:29-04:00March 24th, 2023|

Global Agenda for World Domination

What we are truly facing is what every one of these quotes is advocating: regulation of every aspect of our lives to enforce their agenda to inventory and control everything on earth. Their words – not mine! Either we stand up to stop it, or suffer the consequences.

By |2023-03-17T01:14:12-04:00March 17th, 2023|

The Silver Bullet For Victory

Write this down and keep it in front of you at all times: “The right of the individual to own and control private property is the foundation of liberty.” And now write this: “Precinct Captain is the root to victory.” That’s the silver bullet that leads to sustained liberty. Put the two together and restore and preserve this Republic.

By |2023-02-03T00:15:26-05:00February 3rd, 2023|

They Are Not Protectors of the Planet But Destroyers of Human Society

Always in the past there have been forces seeking domination over others. Kings saw it as their duty. Megalomaniacs like Napoleon, Hitler, and Stalin lusted for the control and power to satisfy their hatred, mistrust, and insecurities. They sent armies. They tortured, killed, and subjugated their enemies through force.

By |2022-12-31T00:39:31-05:00December 31st, 2022|

They Are Not Protectors of the Planet But Destroyers of Human Society

Sustainable Development involves a progressive transformation of the economy and society. It is based on international interdependence and redistribution of wealth. It demands that we all live on less. It opposes free enterprise and demands its destruction. Instead it merges environmental policy with economics in decision making — with nature always overriding man.

By |2022-12-24T00:16:39-05:00December 24th, 2022|

Appointed Boards Are NOT Lawmakers!

To those elected representatives I ask, DO YOU ENJOY BEING THE DOORMATS OF HIRED BUREAUCRATS WITH AN AGENDA? The belief of elected representatives that they are powerless to oppose the dictates of appointed boards – that is the root of the problem. Such an attitude is leading to the destruction of representative government.

By |2022-11-04T23:51:26-04:00November 4th, 2022|

Carbon Capture Pipelines = Environmental Idiocracy!

I must tell you, the response from my audiences was powerful. As I write this, they are now working to build the effective organization I called for. The citizens must do the work to convince their County Board of Supervisors to take these actions. I am now getting reports from the leaders I’ve been working with that this is starting to happen. Opposition is building.

By |2022-08-12T00:26:45-04:00August 12th, 2022|

Will You Submit To The Plandemic Partners, Or Stop Them?

The incredible fact every American must understand is that the Great Reset is being enforced through your local city council, county commissioners, state legislature, and federal edict. It can be stopped – but only if you finally stand up and say NO! Your time for decision – to live free or to just submit — has finally come. The choice is yours.

By |2022-06-04T02:07:20-04:00June 4th, 2022|

Can We Take Back Our Election Process?

But all of that depends on the voters. Do you want to take back control, or are you satisfied to have your choices made for you behind closed doors? Because that’s what we have now. How’s that working for you?

By |2022-05-20T00:53:16-04:00May 20th, 2022|

Can We Take Back Our Election Process?

The real power comes from rejecting the candidates at ever level. But all of that depends on the voters. Do you want to take back control, or are you satisfied to have your choices made for you behind closed doors? Because that’s what we have now. How’s that working for you?

By |2022-05-12T23:47:21-04:00May 12th, 2022|

Cesar Chavez Was No Hero

The farm workers in California, in the 1970s, knew what a threat Chavez was to them and they hated him. They tried to tell America then, but the media, Hollywood, and liberal politicians had their own agenda to promote. Does that sound familiar? So, puffed up on their own “compassion” and in the name of their version of justice for the poor, they sacrificed the very people they claimed to help...

By |2022-04-01T00:14:51-04:00April 1st, 2022|

Double-Speak, Lies, and the Drive For an Article V Convention of States

The drive for an Article V Convention of States is assaulting state legislatures at an intense level. Obviously, proponents of such an action are counting on the discontent of Americans as the Biden cabal proves the misery of massive federal intrusion into every aspect of our lives. Americans naturally want to rein it in.

By |2022-02-19T01:33:53-05:00February 19th, 2022|

Plastic Is NOT a Environmental Threat

However, as many now understand, little in these attacks against industrial revolution products have anything to do with science or truth. The roots of the environmental movement’s agenda lay in the determination to destroy free markets. The use of fear of ecological Armageddon creates political power and massive funding for them.

By |2022-01-25T00:48:27-05:00January 25th, 2022|

The Kitchen Militia – The Renewed Line of Defense for Education

The Kitchen Militia is finally becoming a true grassroots movement of angry moms. There are thousands of them – too many to name. But every time another mom finds her child to be a victim of education “reform”, every time she takes those few minutes to just “check into the situation”, that mom finds herself unknowingly heading down a road of no return – down the road that leads straight to the camp of the Kitchen Militia.

By |2021-12-28T11:33:33-05:00December 28th, 2021|

Public Education: Factories Producing Compliant Global Village Idiots

Little do most families know that over the past several decades this Norman Rockwell vision of the American education system has been steadily usurped and transformed by a cynical system that is designed to ignore the need to teach basic academics as it, instead, focuses on controlling and remolding the children’s minds.

By |2021-11-17T01:01:16-05:00November 17th, 2021|

An Agenda for World Domination is Real

For the better part of thirty years I have been trying to sound the alarm over the dangers of Agenda 21 to human society. For my efforts I have been labeled a conspiracy theorists, spreading fear and hate against a reasonable and sound desire to simply protect the environment for future generations.

By |2021-10-02T00:28:04-04:00October 2nd, 2021|

Agenda 21: Cancel Culture on a World-wide Scale

We are on the verge of civilization collapse, but not for the reasons the environmentalists, globalists, and anti-humans believe. We are on the verge of collapse because of the evil, anti-humanity schemes, plots, and plans they are forever coming up with. Now is the time for us to throw the sabot into the machinery and stop the Marxist, Communist, Globalist plans...

By |2021-09-21T23:55:00-04:00September 21st, 2021|

The Gospel of Climate Change – Is Smart Growth Racist?

Today, NRPE’s efforts to impose its pagan framework into religious doctrine finds an overwhelming number of Christian churches accepting and promoting the Left’s radical WOKE propaganda agenda designed to promote victimhood and divide the races through the lie of environmental racism.

By |2021-07-31T00:51:48-04:00July 31st, 2021|

How Can We Stop National Heritage Areas?

The fact is, National Heritage Areas can still be stopped at the local level. I know because I’ve helped to stop three of them. Stand up, stop them when proposed in your area, and truly honor our heritage by keeping big government under local control.

By |2021-07-24T00:12:25-04:00July 24th, 2021|

Locking Up American Property Rights

In short, the greatest threat from the Heritage Area is that it creates a pipeline of federal money – and consequently political power – for these national organizations to promote their specific agendas over your community and its development. In addition, there is virtually no accountability for tax-exempt NGOs on how they actually spend the Federal Park Service funding.

By |2021-07-17T01:51:47-04:00July 17th, 2021|

Why Are National Heritage Areas a Threat?

National Heritage Areas depend on federal tax dollars because they lack local interest— and not a single National Heritage Area has ever succeeded in attracting strong tourism throughout their entire infinite lives. The federal money is the villain. If you just wanted to honor an area for its historic or cultural achievements, a simple resolution from Congress and a plaque at the county line could do that.

By |2021-07-06T02:50:37-04:00July 6th, 2021|

Social Justice, Affordable Housing, and Government Tyranny

Eventually – and very soon – the only source of housing will be from government. Take a good look at the destroyed neighborhoods now under government control and see your future. Property rights and personal ownership is an equal opportunity for everyone to build wealth and freedom.

By |2021-06-22T01:01:29-04:00June 22nd, 2021|

Why Property Rights Matter: Part 4 – How to Fight Back

How do we effectively fight to restore private property, and our freedom of movement in America? Most think that just getting a president elected is the answer, but what if we lose that race? Or, what if we win the Presidency but lose the House of Representatives and the Senate? What chance do we then have to make any progress in protecting liberty?

By |2021-04-03T01:43:31-04:00April 3rd, 2021|

Why Private Property Matters: Part 1

Locke warned that human civilization would be reduced to the level of a pack of wolves and cease to exist because lack of control over your own actions caused fear and insecurity. Private property ownership, Locke argued, brought stability and wealth to individuals, leading to a prosperous society of man.

By |2021-03-06T01:02:30-05:00March 6th, 2021|

The Fraud of Climate Change And the Drive for Control

Man-made Climate Change is being used as the catalyst for tall tales of melting ice caps, drowning polar bears, and flooded islands. It’s even being blamed for a rise in wars and poverty. In the name of Climate Change there is a drive to destroy Free markets and the very concepts of limited Government, private property, and individual liberty.

By |2021-02-13T02:29:08-05:00February 13th, 2021|

Immigration and China’s Threat to Our Sovereignty, Part 2

Is this now what faces American cities where EB-5 investment programs are being imposed with Chinese Communist money? As a new assault by hordes of Chinese “immigrants” legally invade our nation, filling housing developments and building their own cities, our culture will be affected.

By |2021-02-07T04:18:20-05:00February 7th, 2021|

Lies, Rewritten History, and a Bust In the Oval Office

Labeling Cesar Chavez an American hero is akin to labeling Lenin, Stalin, and Trotsky as Russian heroes. The farm workers in California, in the 1970s, knew what a threat Chavez was to them and they hated him. They tried to tell America then, but the media, Hollywood, and liberal politicians had their own agenda to promote.

By |2021-02-05T02:07:51-05:00February 5th, 2021|

Immigration and China’s Threat to Our Sovereignty

But as they stood on the shore in the shadow of the Statue of Liberty, the trouble for these scared, desperate, cold, hungry refugees had just begun. One might wonder which was worse — the tyranny they fled in China, or the brutally impersonal, tortuous manipulation of the American bureaucracy and the betrayal of an American president they were about to face.

By |2021-01-12T02:35:51-05:00January 12th, 2021|

What Do I Mean By a Freedom Pod?

The main point is not to fear speaking out. Don’t wait for some iconic face to represent you. If they lose so will you. For too long that’s what we have done. Now it’s time for you to stand up, speak out, take the lead and others will join you. If you don’t take these steps then your government will be in someone else’s hands, controlling you just as the Left has already done.

By |2020-12-01T02:09:23-05:00December 1st, 2020|

Growing Drive To Destroy The Beef Industry

However, the beef industry cannot recover on its own. There must be outrage from the consumers who are facing higher prices, possible inferior meat, and the danger of disease because of this sustainable tyranny. If you want the right to your own food choices instead of the dictatorship of radical Greens, then get mad. Demand that “Country of Origin” labels be put on all beef products so you know where your food comes from.

By |2019-06-12T03:13:39-04:00June 12th, 2019|
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