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Rededicate 250 is coming to life in the heart of Washington, D.C. and it’s going to be one of the most unforgettable moments leading into America’s 250th anniversary. The stage is up.
 The National Mall is transforming. 
History is calling. RSVP FOR THIS SUNDAY, MAY 17! 🇺🇸🙏

May 14, 1804: The Lewis and Clark Expedition (The Corps of Discovery) departed from Camp Dubois in Illinois, marking the beginning of their journey to the Pacific coast. Portraits by Travis Simpkins #LewisAndClark #MeriwetherLewis #WilliamClark #CorpsOfDiscovery #TravisSimpkins

On this date, May 14, 1804, Lewis and Clark pushed off into the Missouri River with 45 men, 3 boats, and zero maps of what lay ahead. 8,000 miles. 28 months. 178 new plant species. The first American crossing of the Rockies. Full article: civicsforlife.org/lewis-and-clar… 🗺️ #LewisAndClark #OnThisDate #AmericanHistory

May 14, 1804: Lewis and Clark set out from St. Louis, Missouri on an expedition to explore the Louisiana Purchase and the Pacific Northwest.

May 14, 1607 is when Jamestown was founded and America began May 14, 1804 is when the Lewis and Clark Expedition--led by two Virginians--set out from Camp Dubois, headed up the Missouri River and across the Great West, in a courageous expedition that was to fulfill the promise of a continent that had existed ever since that first little settlement in Jamestown In exploring the Louisiana Purchase, showing the Northwest Passage to be a myth, charting the Missouri and Columbia Rivers in precise, helpful detail, and cataloguing the many incredible species that inhabited the never-before-explored interior of America, they helped open up the continent. In doing so with great courage, they stand as some of America's greatest explorers As Jefferson wrote of Lewis, the Virginia planter and woodsman who led the expedition as a pioneering naturalist, "I had now had opportunities [he later wrote] of knowing him intimately. Of courage undaunted; possessing a firmness and perseverance of purpose which nothing but impossibilities could divert from its direction; careful as a father of those committed to his charge, yet steady in the maintenance of order and discipline; intimate with the Indian character, customs, and principles; habituated to the hunting life; guarded, by exact observation of the vegetables and animals of his country, against losing time in the description of objects already possessed; honest, disinterested, liberal, of sound understanding, and a fidelity to truth so scrupulous that whatever he should report would be as certain as if seen by ourselves-with all these qualifications, as if selected and implanted by nature in one body for this express purpose, I would have no hesitation in confiding the enterprise to him."

🧵222 years ago today, America launched one of its boldest geopolitical moves. On May 14, 1804, Lewis and Clark left St. Louis into the complete unknown. This was not adventure for its own sake. It was strategy. Few understand how close it came to deciding whether the United States would become a continental power — or stay a vulnerable coastal republic. 🇺🇸🗺️ 🧵👇

@BNSFRailway cool! is there a calendar yet?!

🎉🚂 Our big secret, (or three) is out! BNSF is proud to unveil today three specially painted locomotives honoring America’s 250th birthday, units 250, 1776 and 2026, wrapped in red, white, and blue and carrying the spirit of “We the People.” These locomotives pay tribute to our nation’s story and the railroaders who’ve helped shape it for nearly two centuries. They’ll be traveling our 32,500‑mile network, celebrating the communities we serve, our rich history and the people who keep America moving. Here’s to 250 years of freedom, connection and the railroad that helped build it. News release at tinyurl.com/5ew4p8md.

#OnThisDay in 1778, George Washington signed the Oath of Allegiance to the United States symbolizing his commitment to the United States "to be Free, Independent and Sovereign States," and "the people thereof owe no allegiance or obedience to George the Third.”

This is Thomas Jefferson’s study at Monticello. Decades after drafting the Declaration of Independence, he spent countless hours here reading, writing, inventing, and corresponding with some of the greatest minds of his age.

The Society of the Cincinnati was founded #OTD by officers of the Continental Army as the nation’s oldest patriotic organization: created not to govern, but to preserve and transmit the lived memory, ideals, and legacy of the American Revolution.

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Are you a National Treasure fan planning a visit to the US National Archives in celebration of America 250? Instead of stealing the Declaration of Independence, here are our favorite National Treasure “nods” you can look for at the Archives’ new exhibit “Free and Independent.”

American must be understood as its own ethnos. You’re not a mutt, you’re not English-Irish-French-Italian-Polish-Scottish-German because you’ve got fractions and percents of each. You belong to your own ethnic group unique to this continent distinct from all others. Theodore Roosevelt understood this well. “The children and grandchildren of the men who came here from England, Ireland, Germany, France, Scandinavia, and the rest of Europe have become Americans—a new race, with a new ethnic type, and they are no more Englishmen or Germans or Scandinavians than the descendants of the Norman invaders of England are Frenchmen. The frontier conditions made a new race. The stern struggle with the wilderness and with wild men welded together the descendants of many European stocks into one people—the American. Out of the crucible of the wilderness came a new ethnic type, hardy, self-reliant, democratic in instinct, and with a continent for its inheritance.”

@RepKeithSelf Repeal congress. All of you

Congress allowed this Orwellian mandate to become law. A group of us in the House tried to stop it. Americans want freedom, not remote controls and mass surveillance. We must move to repeal this mandate before 2027.

Guess what guys I did it!

@EDSecMcMahon The only thing higher about higher education is profits to the terrible system. End it

A record-low 58% of U.S. adults say they are proud to be an American. A sobering statistic. That’s why the Trump administration is prioritizing civic education and celebrating 250 years of our great nation.

🇺🇸 Countdown Until America’s 250th Birthday: Day 69 At the Battle of Brandywine, 19-year-old Marquis de Lafayette took a .69 caliber musket ball to the leg in his very first fight on American soil. Despite the wound, he stayed in the saddle, rallied retreating troops, and helped save Washington’s army from disaster. It would take him 8 weeks to recover and return to action Be more like the fearless young Patriot who turned his baptism by fire into courage 🇺🇸 Note: The British Brown Bess was a .75 caliber bore loaded with a .69 caliber lead ball

Imagine its April 27, 1776 You’re in Philadelphia working on procuring supplies for the Continental Army – but this work isn't what will define you. Instead you will be defined by the fact that you're the only Founder to sign all four founding documents.