Dear Supporter,

These
past 17 months have been among the most exciting and eventful of my
life.  Together you and I delivered a message of freedom the likes of
which American politics had not seen in decades.  I wasn’t sure the
country was ready for it.  But it was a message, I discovered, that
many Americans had been waiting for a long time to hear.

I have been blessed with the most informed, well read, and enthusiastic
supporters of any presidential campaign.  Your extraordinary efforts in
organizing and fundraising grabbed the attention of millions of
Americans and shocked just about everyone in politics and the media.  I
still cannot get over all the fantastic work you did.

Something of great significance has just occurred in our country’s history.

With the primary season now over, the presidential campaign is at an
end.  But the larger campaign for freedom is just getting started. Therefore, I am happy to announce the official launch of the Ron Paul Campaign for Liberty.
The
work of the Campaign for Liberty will take many forms.  We will educate
our fellow Americans in freedom, sound money, non-interventionism, and
free markets.  We’ll have our own commentaries and videos on the news
of the day.  I’ll work with friends I respect to design materials for
homeschoolers.
Politically, we’ll expand the great work
of our precinct leader program.  We’ll make our presence felt at every
level of government, where just a few people with our level of
enthusiasm can make a world of difference.  We’ll keep an eye on
Congress and lobby against legislation that threatens us.  We’ll
identify and support political candidates who champion our great ideas
against the empty suits the party establishments offer the public.
We will be a permanent presence on the American political landscape.  That I
promise you.  We’re not about to let all this good work die.  To the
contrary, with your help we’re going to make it grow – by leaps and
bounds.
This is the most ambitious venture of my
political career, and I think it can achieve great things.  But I can’t
do this alone.  I need you to help me.  I need your energy, your
creativity, your ideas, and your dedication.
People
frustrated with our political system often wonder what they can do.  I
have founded this organization to answer that question, to give people
the opportunity to do something that really makes a difference in the
fight for freedom.  Please join me by becoming a member of the Campaign
for Liberty.  Our goal is 100,000 members by September.  Can we reach
it?
Our campaign netted 1.1 million votes in the
primaries of a shrinking Republican Party.  Millions more support us. 
I need you to help me reach them – and to keep making new converts to
the cause.  What a force we can be, if only we rise to the occasion.
Now
what about the Republican Convention in St. Paul?  Our delegates will
attend, of course, and I expect our contingent to have a visible
presence there.  Without disruption, we will do whatever we can to
influence the party and its platform, and return the GOP to its
limited-government roots.  This is very important.
This brings me to my second announcement.  I invite you to join us at Williams Arena at the University of Minnesota on Tuesday, September 2nd, for a grand rally. We
intend to draw over 11,000 people.  We’ll have live music and
entertainment, and special guests.  I’ll address you all as well.  A
massive rally will generate still more interest in our ideas.  And what
a great time it will be.
Remember that it was Senator
Robert Taft, who shared our views, who was called Mr. Republican.  But
we are not merely the Republican Party’s past. If the enthusiasm of
young people for our campaign is any indication, we are also its future.
Right
now I will need your patience and input as we develop our program and
assemble just the right team of individuals. But it is my intention to
launch the Campaign for Liberty in its full capacity at our rally in
Minneapolis this September.
Over the past week we’ve
learned that the Democratic presidential nominee, supposedly an antiwar
candidate, is committed to the same rhetoric, the same propaganda, and
the same aggressive intentions toward Iran as the Bush administration. 
As usual, the major parties refuse to offer Americans a real choice.
The
Campaign for Liberty will lay the groundwork for a different America,
the kind of America you and I, and millions of our fellow countrymen,
want to inhabit. 
“Dr. Paul cured my apathy,” a
popular campaign sign read.  Others said our campaign cured their
cynicism.  We have now reached a moment of great moral decision: will
we let ourselves retreat into apathy and cynicism once again, or will
we dig in for the long haul and fight all the harder?  Will we retire
from the scene quietly, or will we give the establishment the fight of
its life?
“In the final analysis,” I wrote in my new book The Revolution: A Manifesto,
“the last line of defense in support of freedom and the Constitution
consists of the people themselves.  If the people want to be free, if
they want to lift themselves out from underneath a state apparatus that
threatens their liberties, squanders their resources on needless wars,
destroys the value of their dollar, and spews forth endless propaganda
about how indispensable it is and how lost we would all be without it,
there is no force that can stop them.”
The time has
come to act on these words.  May future generations look back on our
work and say that these were men and women who, in a moment of great
crisis, stood up to the politicians, the opinion-molders, and the
establishment, and saved their country.
Join us, and be a part of it.
For liberty,
Ron Paul