The Palouse Liberty Project was originally known as the Palouse 912 Project.

Talk show host Glenn Beck originally set the national 9-12 movement in motion, and while our group has changed our name and DO NOT affiliate with Beck – we still hold a great deal of respect for the principles and beliefs which are a cornerstone of this movement.

The 9-12 Project was designed to bring us all back to the place we were on September 12, 2001. The day after America was attacked we were not obsessed with Red States, Blue States or political parties. We were united as Americans, standing together to protect the greatest nation ever created

That same feeling – that commitment to country is what we are hoping to foster with this idea. We want to get everyone thinking like it is September 12th, 2001 again.

Ask yourself these questions:

- Do you watch the direction that America is being taken in and feel powerless to stop it?

- Do you believe that your voice isn’t loud enough to be heard above the noise anymore?

- Do you read the headlines everyday and feel an empty pit in your stomach…as if you’re completely alone?

If you’ve answered YES, then you’ve fallen for the lie. Just like the movie "The Wizard Of Oz," while the voices you hear in the distance may sound intimidating, as if they surround us from all sides—the reality is very different. Once you pull back the curtain, you realize that there are only a few people pressing the buttons, and their voices are weak. The truth is that they don’t surround us at all - we surround them.

One of the things that drew me to the 9.12 movement was that there was a core values statement. Before there even was a "movement" per se, listeners were asking themselves what they believed. To be a part of the movement, you needed to sync on 7 of the 9 principles, which makes sense - because without common principles and beliefs, how can you have a cohesive group?

At the origin of America, our Founding Fathers built this country on 28 powerful principles. These principles were culled from all over the world and from centuries of great thinkers. We have distilled the original 28 down to the 9 basic principles.

The Nine Principles:

1. America Is Good.

2. I believe in God and He is the Center of my Life.

“The propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the external rules of order and right which Heaven itself has ordained.”
- George Washington

3. I must always try to be a more honest person than I was yesterday.

“I hope that I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider to be the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man."
- George Washington

4. The family is sacred. My spouse and I are the ultimate authority, not the government.

“It is in the love of one’s family only that heartfelt happiness is known. By a law of our nature, we cannot be happy without the endearing connections of a family.”
- Thomas Jefferson

5. If you break the law you pay the penalty. Justice is blind and no one is above it.

I deem one of the essential principles of our government… equal and exact justice to all men of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political.”
- Thomas Jefferson

6. I have a right to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness, but there is no guarantee of equal results.

“Everyone has a natural right to choose that vocation in life which he thinks most likely to give him comfortable subsistence.”
- Thomas Jefferson

7. I work hard for what I have and I will share it with who I want to. Government cannot force me to be charitable.

“It is not everyone who asketh that deserveth charity; all however, are worth of the inquiry or the deserving may suffer.”
- George Washington

8. It is not un-American for me to disagree with authority or to share my personal opinion.
“In a free and republican government, you cannot restrain the voice of the multitude; every man will speak as he thinks, or more properly without thinking.”
- George Washington

9. The government works for me. I do not answer to them, they answer to me.
“I consider the people who constitute a society or a nation as the source of all authority in that nation.”
- Thomas Jefferson

The Twelve Principles

1. Honesty
2. Reverence
3. Hope
4. Thrift
5. Humility
6. Charity
7. Sincerity
8. Moderation
9. Hard Work
10. Courage
11. Personal Responsibility
12. Gratitude