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The album
The album opens on Franklin’s challenge and closes on the answer.
It is the companion to Gerard Filitti’s book Keeping the Republic: America at 250 and the Case Against the New Extremism, and some of the songs carry the book’s argument directly. A Nation Founded on a Creed takes its title from Chapter 1. Teach Them What It’s For and Never Forget Means Teach It are about what our schools owe our children, and She Stood Up at the School Board is about the first parent in the room to stand up.
Others are satire, because some of what the book documents is easier to sing than to believe. Friends in Foreign Places is about foreign agents in Washington. Take This Gift and Show It is about foreign money in American universities. The Hammer and the Crescent is about the socialist-Islamist alliance itself, and On the Quad Again and I’ve Preached Everywhere follow it onto campus. Parents, Don’t Let Your Kids Turn Into Extremists needs no explanation.
“A republic, if you can keep it.”Benjamin Franklin · Philadelphia, September 17, 1787
The closing duet, We Kept the Republic, opens with Franklin’s answer and names some of the Americans who met his condition. It ends with a child asking whether we kept it, and the answer:
“We kept it.Now it’s yours.”
Track list
Part I
The founding promise, and why every generation has to learn it.
Part II
The ideology on campus, the money behind it, and its friends in Washington.
Part III
Ordinary Americans who meet Franklin’s condition.
The book behind the album
America at 250 and the Case Against the New Extremism
Not since Soviet communism has an ideology with global sponsorship, institutional depth, and open contempt for the American constitutional order gained this much ground inside the United States. Every factual claim in the book rests on court records, government filings, sanctions designations, or the subject’s own published words.
More about the book at keepingtherepublic250.comAbout the artist
Gerard Filitti is Senior Counsel at The Lawfare Project, a regular legal commentator on Newsmax, Fox News, NewsNation, and NTD, and the publisher of The Filitti Brief on Substack.
His earlier books include the thriller Frozen Tide and Two Thousand Years of Prayer.
“Keep it living, pass it on.”