On August 9, 2025, we celebrate the 90th birthday of Congressman Ron Paul—a milestone for the man who planted the seeds of liberty and helped awaken a generation to the Constitution, civil liberties, sound money, free markets, and a non-interventionist foreign policy. On the eve of this celebration—August 8, 2025—we present a love letter crafted by filmmaker Jason Rink, capturing how the Ron Paul Revolution took root, spread, and still shapes America’s conscience today.
Before there was a movement with national reach, there was a spark on the silver screen. When Ron Paul appeared in Aaron Russo’s final film, America: Freedom to Fascism, his voice carried beyond C-SPAN and congressional hearings into theaters and living rooms across the country. That moment helped frame the questions millions would begin asking in 2007: Why does the Federal Reserve wield so much power? What happened to constitutional government? Where did our civil liberties go? The film put Paul’s message in front of people who had never heard a sitting congressman demand honest money and a foreign policy of peace. It helped energize his first modern presidential run, when “Google Ron Paul” signs, late-night debates over Austrian economics, and chants to “End the Fed” began echoing from campuses to courthouse steps.
The 2007–2008 campaign didn’t end when the votes were counted; it seeded a lasting liberty movement. By 2012, that movement matured. Ron Paul’s second modern campaign became a proving ground for organizers, creators, and communicators who would carry the torch into media, academia, and public life. Out of that momentum came Gary Franchi’s Revolution Super PAC—built to amplify the ideas Ron Paul championed—and from that effort grew the Next News Network, a platform devoted to challenging the status quo and giving voice to the principles Dr. Paul lived: constitutional government, personal responsibility, voluntary exchange, and the defense of individual rights.
This tribute traces that arc—from a congressman speaking uncomfortable truths on the debate stage to a nationwide awakening that turned abstract concepts into household conversations. It remembers how the message of liberty cut through the noise: that money should be sound and policy should be moral, that peace is strength and empire is bankruptcy, that civil liberties are not bargaining chips for temporary safety but God-given rights to be guarded jealously. It shows how a movement can stay principled even when it is told to sit down, how grassroots activism can outlast any news cycle, and how a single statesman’s consistency can move people further than any focus-grouped slogan ever will.
We wouldn’t be here today—building independent media, organizing local chapters, teaching the next generation why the Constitution limits power and protects the individual—without the seeds Ron Paul planted. Those who first encountered him in Freedom to Fascism felt the shock of straight talk about the Federal Reserve. Those who watched in 2007 felt the thrill of a debate stage red-pilled in real time. Those who joined in 2012 learned how to build, fund, and scale a movement. And those who carry it forward now understand that liberty is not a phase—it’s a discipline.
At 90, Ron Paul remains a living reminder that truth delivered with humility can outlast every trend. This video is a thank-you to the doctor who made politics about principles again, a chronicle of the Ron Paul Revolution’s enduring influence, and an invitation to keep doing the work: defend civil liberties, resist endless war, demand sound money, and insist on constitutional government that serves people, not power.
Happy 90th Birthday, Dr. Paul. The seeds you planted have grown—into organizations, classrooms, campaigns, and daily lives. They continue to bear fruit wherever people choose peace over empire, freedom over fear, and honest money over manipulation. The revolution you sparked still lives in us—clear as a North Star, steady as a conscience—and it is not done.
