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Can the Founders’ ideals still inspire and unite the nation 250 years after the Declaration of Independence? Fox News Channel’s Chief Political Anchor and #1 New York Times best-selling author Bret Baier makes the Case for America: an inspiring defense of our history, values, and national character.
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This Week’s Top 5 Featured Videos.
Start with five standout stories that bring the Case for America to life through freedom, family, service, opportunity, and faith.
Nine Months, Fifty States, One Pioneer Spirit
A traveler describes selling her home and spending nine months touring national parks with her dog, finding the same pioneer spirit in the land and in her fellow citizens.
Submitted by Community Voice
View Freedom galleryFirst In My Family
An immigrant's descendant and longtime teacher's aide credits America with letting him become the first college graduate in his family, filmed beside a loved one.
Submitted by Community Voice
View Opportunity galleryThey Did It The Right Way
A retired teacher of 23 years honors immigrant ancestors from Italy, Germany, and England and the heritage she passes to her grandchildren.
Submitted by Community Voice
View Family galleryThe Right To Be Wrong Sometimes
A speaker makes his Case for America on diversity and freedom of belief, calling it the greatest country he could imagine living in.
Submitted by Community Voice
View Freedom galleryFreedom Is Something We Keep Fighting For
An American with a disability, married to an immigrant, credits the country for life-saving cancer care and frames freedom as an ongoing fight.
Submitted by Pat N.
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Freedom stories
Freedom Is Something We Keep Fighting For
An American with a disability, married to an immigrant, credits the country for life-saving cancer care and frames freedom as an ongoing fight.
Submitted by Pat N.
FeaturedShe Gives Us the Right to Make Her Better
A proud Latino and Native American makes a personal case for an imperfect America that still offers struggle, faith, family, and the freedom to improve.
FeaturedView full Freedom gallery 22 more
France Got Napoleon, We Got Washington
A sweeping historical argument frames America as uniquely blessed for enshrining God-given rights and lifting millions from poverty.
Submitted by Taber S.
FeaturedUndeterred on the South Side
A 29-year-old Chicago author makes the case that America's best days are ahead because of young people speaking out against systemic failures.
Submitted by Gino Young
FeaturedNine Months, Fifty States, One Pioneer Spirit
A traveler describes selling her home and spending nine months touring national parks with her dog, finding the same pioneer spirit in the land and in her fellow citizens.
Submitted by Community Voice
FeaturedWe Don't Have A Black Or White Problem
A first-generation citizen who grew up in Queens shares his journey to loving country and calls for unity and assimilation.
Submitted by Sai P.
FeaturedThe Right To Be Wrong Sometimes
A speaker makes his Case for America on diversity and freedom of belief, calling it the greatest country he could imagine living in.
Submitted by Community Voice
FeaturedHome Is Where I Don't Show My Papers
A well-traveled American contrasts life abroad with the everyday freedoms of home, thanking God he lives in the United States.
Submitted by Phil
Standing Tall, Holding True
A proud South Carolinian celebrates Americans' resilience, faith, and enduring love of country through every hardship.
Submitted by Melinda W.
The User's Guide to the Constitution
A new immigrant finds the Case for America in the Constitution and Federalist Papers and their system of checks and balances.
Teeing Up for the Back Nine
Using an extended golf metaphor, a speaker argues America is positioned for a comeback and isn't done playing yet.
Fair, Balanced, United, and Unafraid
A speaker makes unity the Case for America, urging citizens to debate and disagree while staying united.
Trust, Honor, and Love
A reflective speaker argues America will prosper only by cherishing trust, honor, and love in its law and politics.
A Little Patriot's Pledge
A small child recites the Pledge of Allegiance in a brief, heartwarming patriotic clip.
Submitted by Bob P.
United Under Our Values
A speaker praises America's resilience, guaranteed freedoms, and the veterans whose sacrifice made them possible.
Checks, Balances, And Hardworking People
A speaker praises America's system of checks and balances and its hardworking people while acknowledging the country isn't perfect but remains solid.
Submitted by Community Voice
The Song That Sums Up America
A songwriter shares that his song Looking for America captures his patriotism and thanks the host for his work.
Submitted by Bernie N.
Kids Pledging In The Heartland
A brief clip from a national golf club spotlights a statue of children pledging allegiance in America's heartland.
Submitted by Patrick P.
We Set the Standard
A brief reflection credits America with pioneering elections and setting the democratic standard the world now follows.
We Threw the Tea Into the Sea
A Billy Joel-style historical rap races through American milestones toward an optimistic future.
God-Given Rights (and Chipotle)
A lighthearted message counts America's freedoms, military, and small joys, with a playful nod to the host's book giveaway.
A Trip Through Our Own History
A reviewer praises the host's book for retelling American history as a trial that leaves readers reassured and feeling good.
Submitted by Steve Wynn
Look No Further Than the Bill of Rights
A brief message locates the entire Case for America in the Bill of Rights.
Strength of the Courage of the Faithful
Submitted by Pam
Family stories
JD's Animals Sing The Star-Spangled Banner
After six months in a children's hospital, a two-year-old lines up his toy animals to sing the national anthem, and his grateful family celebrates being American.
Submitted by Brooke B.
FeaturedFrom The Trail Of Tears To Proud American
A woman honors her Native American great-great-grandmother's survival of the Trail of Tears and her family's enduring pride in being American.
Submitted by Debra B.
FeaturedView full Family gallery 6 more
They Did It The Right Way
A retired teacher of 23 years honors immigrant ancestors from Italy, Germany, and England and the heritage she passes to her grandchildren.
Submitted by Community Voice
FeaturedPassing The Love Of Country To The Next Generation
A former fifth-grade history teacher describes inheriting love of country from her WWII-veteran father and passing it to her students.
Submitted by Karen W.
Left in Their Hands, We'll Be Fine
A mother of 40 years finds hope for America in her two grown children, even across political differences.
A Bicycle, Two Roads, and a Nation of Neighbors
A man recalls boyhood bike rides to meet Finnish and French-Canadian neighbors as a small, enduring portrait of American friendship.
The Good Old Days Are Still to Come
A fifth-generation Florida family farmer expresses hope for America and tells her sons the best days lie ahead.
Submitted by Donna Goodwin
The Future Is Youth and Education
A parent argues America's future depends on educating children in patriotism, pride in work, and conservative values.
Service stories
The Sacrifices We Were Raised To Honor
A son of a Purple Heart veteran reflects on America as a melting pot and the family sacrifices made across two wars.
Submitted by James Douglas B.
FeaturedA Family Built On Service
A retired police officer from a multi-generation military family argues no one understands America better than those who've served it.
Submitted by Matt S.
FeaturedView full Service gallery 5 more
My Dad Couldn't Stand By
A son recalls how his successful, settled father gave it all up to enlist and serve in WWII.
Submitted by John M.
FeaturedA Founder's Heir, Still Serving
A Navy veteran, retired fire captain, and descendant of a Declaration signer affirms his love for the freest country on earth.
Submitted by Richard D K.
FeaturedFrom Havana, With Hope
A Cuban-born Air Force veteran who arrived as a toddler expresses deep love for America and faith that civil dialogue can heal division.
Submitted by Tony
FeaturedTogether We Are United
A combat veteran argues America's strength lies in the united resilience of its veterans, workers, families, and tradespeople.
The Best Days Are Being Built
Filmed at the USS Idaho commissioning, a brief message ties American optimism to its shipbuilding and military strength.
Opportunity stories
One Hundred Dollars And A Dream
An immigrant from China who arrived with almost nothing now runs her own business and runs for Congress to keep the American Dream alive.
Submitted by Lily Tang W.
FeaturedFourteenth Of Sixteen, Only In America
Born into a large Appalachian coal-mining family, a man rises to school superintendent and doctoral-level educator, possible only in America.
Submitted by Richard H.
FeaturedView full Opportunity gallery 10 more
One Generation, Lower Middle Class to the Top
An immigrant who arrived at age 10 with limited English rose through an Ivy League PhD to become a top Fortune 500 engineer in a single generation.
Submitted by Charlie
FeaturedAmerica's Second Chance
A former career criminal turned union welder credits America with the second chance that turned his life around.
Submitted by Harvey Medley
FeaturedFrom A Beer Joint To The Badge
The son of Greek immigrants recounts his parents building a celebrated steakhouse and his own path into public service.
Submitted by Louie E.
FeaturedFrom a Trailer Park to Georgetown
A Kentucky father celebrates his daughter's rise from a trailer park to elite degrees and Pentagon-level service as proof of American mobility.
FeaturedBecause in America, I Can
A 60-year-old blue-collar inventor keeps building businesses and ideas despite no windfall, because America gives him the freedom to try.
Submitted by John Kode
FeaturedTwo Helicopters, One Country
A two-time medevac survivor credits America's medical, scientific, and technological strength with saving his life twice.
FeaturedWhere Else Could a Paper Boy Rise?
A speaker marvels at American opportunity and civic freedom, noting immigrant friends who came to love America above their birthplaces.
FeaturedFirst In My Family
An immigrant's descendant and longtime teacher's aide credits America with letting him become the first college graduate in his family, filmed beside a loved one.
Submitted by Community Voice
FeaturedThe Most Wonderful Country On Earth
A retired veterinarian counts his blessings, expresses gratitude for his successful life, and laments today's everyday hate speech.
Submitted by Mike G.
Made in Milwaukee, Built for America
A Milwaukee manufacturer of accessibility switches for landmark buildings touts his biggest-ever U.S. investment and commitment to American making.
Submitted by Brian Hawthorne
Faith stories
The First Freedom, Making A Comeback
A man argues religious freedom is America's founding strength and sees a faith revival pointing to the nation's best days ahead.
Submitted by Don N.
FeaturedBorne Upon the Courage of the Faithful
A reflection on the Declaration of Independence frames America's founding as an act of faith and conviction in God-given rights.
View full Faith gallery 5 more
Who We Choose to Be
Citing William Penn, a speaker argues America's future depends on citizens who govern themselves morally and serve one another.
A Woman, a Person of Faith, an American
A woman from a family of service members expresses gratitude for the opportunity, freedom, and faith that define her American life.
If We Ever Lose Our Faith
A speaker argues America's greatness flows from faith in God and freedom, warning the nation against losing that foundation.
A Case for America Is a Case for God
A longtime young viewer argues America's endurance through hardship rests on its founding faith in God.
The Right Man for Every Crisis
A speaker frames America as a Christian nation always given the right leader in crisis, naming Donald Trump as the greatest.
Every region is adding its voice.
America’s story is being told one voice at a time. This regional snapshot shows the conversation growing from coast to coast, led by a powerful response from the Southeast.
One book. Thousands of stories. One question for America.
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