Tom Hoefling of Iowa/Andy Prior of Texas, announce Independent 2024 presidential ticket! AUDIO + Transcript

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June 27, 2024
Lohrville, Iowa

Hello. My name is Tom Hoefling, from Iowa. I’m here today to announce that I have now taken the first steps to run this year as a conservative independent for the office of President of the United States. 

As many of you know, I’ve run for president before, three times. This ain’t my first rodeo. I know exactly what I’m doing, and why. 

I have absolutely no illusions about what my candidacy represents, or what to expect out of this campaign. 

I’m a principled moral conservative candidate, and have proven that over decades of intense political activism - as many will attest - but I’m walking in reality. 

Just as in past elections, our political system remains rigged, but not in the way so many folks seem to think. It’s rigged at the ballot access level, to solely benefit candidates of the Democrat/Republican duopoly. It’s rigged to benefit those with money. It’s rigged to benefit those with a stamp of approval from the media. It’s rigged to the benefit of the immoral, two-party, lesser-of-two-evils, logical fallacy. 

All you have to do is look at who is being allowed on the presidential debate stage to know that what I’m saying is absolutely correct. 

Look. I’ve been dealing with elections, including elections at the national level, for decades, both inside and outside of that duopoly. And I know for a fact that if the people of the United States will ever wake up to their own interests, we can quite easily un-rig this process. 

If We the people of the United States will wake up to our own immense moral and political power, we already know how to un-rig this process. 

And, it doesn’t even have to be the people at large that we have to move. If the professing CHRISTIANS of the country, those who claim to follow Jesus Christ, would simply stop compromising away the moral basis of the republic - which never should have been compromised for any politician, or political party, in the first place - and begin to once again act morally, we know exactly how to un-rig this process. 

It’s actually a mathematical certainty that if a large fraction of the professing Christians in America - say, even a third of them - would begin to do the right thing, in a relatively short period of time, we would win, and could then begin the hard work of putting this country back on its legitimate foundations.

And so, first things first: 

What are those foundations? 

Well, it starts right here: 

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are CREATED EQUAL, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men."

– The Declaration of Independence

It starts with our understanding as Americans that our claim to life, liberty, and happiness, was predicated, from the beginning, on our public acknowledgment of our Creator, and our personal, and national, commitment to do His divine will. 

When it comes to our civic life, what is that will? That the God-given, unalienable rights of the people, all of the people, be equally protected, under the law, everywhere in America. 

It’s not complicated. 

We must continue to stand opposed to those who claim that “rights” can ever be legitimately claimed in defense of moral wrongs. To say that they can be is to turn the meanings of words on their head. Moral wrongs cannot ever rightfully be rights, by definition. 

I continue to run for president, first and foremost, because during our lifetimes, tens of millions of innocent unborn children - defenseless, helpless little boys and girls - have been lawlessly, unconstitutionally, deprived of protection for their supreme God-given, UNALIENABLE right, the right to live, the right upon which all other individual human rights depend. 

Since 1973, when a Republican-appointed Supreme Court ruled in favor of abortion in Roe v. Wade, more than 65 million children have been slaughtered. More than a million innocents have been murdered in the U.S. every single year. 

And, two years after the court, in its Dobbs v. Jackson decision, supposedly "overturned Roe," any child conceived anywhere in America can still be murdered under its auspices, under the color of "pro-life" "law." All the murderer has to do is conform to the rules, regulations, and schedules laid out by pro-lifers.

This American genocide must end. The judgment of God WILL fall on our heads, sooner or later, if we don’t end it. 

And part of that righteous judgment will be because of the bloody example we set for the rest of the world, which has now slaughtered literally billions of its own children via surgical abortion, pharmaceuticals, and IVF procedures. 

But, it will not end if Americans continue to support the failed, immoral, unconstitutional, regulationist, “pro-life,” status quo. 

It will not end by relying on a Supreme Court that continues to fail to recognize the self-evident humanity of the unborn child, and their required equal protection by the explicit, imperative provisions of multiple amendments to our Constitution. 

The bloodshed can only end when those we elect - at every level, and in every branch of government - those who take the constitutionally-required oath to support and defend the Constitution - begin to keep that solemn, sacred oath by actively providing equal protection under the law for every person, born and unborn, in every state. 

Only then will we again - in truth - in practice - fulfill the stated purposes of our Constitution, especially its ultimate stated purpose, which is “to secure the Blessings of Liberty to our Posterity.” 

And, it isn’t just about abortion. Don’t kid yourself: Posterity cannot be secured when, and if, we continue to accept the destruction of natural marriage, and the natural family, the way God created, ordained, and instituted it. In fact, a strong argument can be made that not a single stated purpose of the Constitution can be fulfilled if we continue to destroy the natural family, which is the bedrock institution of our entire civilization.

I continue to run for president as the only consistent protector of, and consistent advocate for, one man-one woman marriage, and the natural family. 

I continue to run for president as the only consistent defender of your God-given, unalienable individual right to self-protection, as secured by the Second Amendment. 

I continue to run for president as an advocate for a strong America, militarily, one which will fulfill its moral and treaty obligations in the world because it’s the right thing to do, but also because, ultimately, our own national security depends upon it. 

If we are craven enough to throw friends and allies (such as the Ukrainians, and the Israelis, and the Taiwanese), to the terrorists and tyrants, we will deserve whatever destruction falls on our own heads because of that betrayal. 

I have stood without fear or favor against all of those who have disturbed our domestic peace and tranquility, including those who fomented, or committed, violent insurrection against the U.S. Capitol and our constitutionally-mandated electoral processes. 

I continue to run for president as a strong defender of our national borders, national sovereignty, and the rule of law. I love immigrants - they inspire me. They build up and bless our country. But, those who come here must only be allowed to do so with our permission, on the condition that they abide by our immigration laws. Otherwise, we will have ceased to be a self-governing, secure, free people. 

I continue to run for president as an opponent of the profligate, unconstitutional, spending which is driving us not just to national bankruptcy, but, very quickly now, toward national insolvency. It is immoral, and destructive, for any generation to run up debts that they cannot possibly repay. To do so is to deprive our posterity of their God-given right to government by consent. 

I continue to run for president as a father of eleven living children, and four grandchildren, so far. I love my kids very much, and understand that I have a moral duty to do all I can to transmit to them the free constitutional republic that was bequeathed to us by Almighty God, and by our brave, hard-working, God-fearing forebears.

I’ll have much more to say in the days between now and Election Day on November 5th. Stay tuned. But, I wanted to let you all know I’m all in once again. 

And, last but definitely not least,here’s one last piece of important news: 

My dear friend and long-time co-laborer, Andy Prior of Texas, has agreed to once again be my running mate! I thank God for Andy and his amazing wife Bethzy, and for their willingness to continue to serve, even as they are in the midst of welcoming their beautiful new son Luke into the world this week!

May God save the American people, and the American republic, for the sake of our Posterity. 

Tom Hoefling

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