Alexander T. Jones @NormalAlexJones

The richest man in America signed a document that could have gotten him hanged, and when someone sneered that he was safe because no one would know which Charles Carroll to come for, he picked up the pen and told the British exactly where to find him. His name was Charles Carroll, and the colonies were crawling with men who shared it. His own father was Charles Carroll of Annapolis. So when the Declaration of Independence came to him for signing in 1776, a delegate made a cruel little joke. He said Carroll risked nothing by signing. There were so many Charles Carrolls that the King's men would never know which one to hang. Carroll didn't argue. He leaned over the page and added three words to his signature: "of Carrollton." The name of his estate. His address. He was the only signer in the entire room who wrote down where he lived, and he did it on purpose, so that if the British wanted to come hang the traitor, they would know exactly which door to knock on. That is who Charles Carroll of Carrollton was. Here is what makes the moment even sharper. He was not a man with little to lose. He was the single wealthiest man in the thirteen colonies and the largest private landowner among them. While George Washington and John Hancock get talked about as rich men, it was Carroll who topped them all. When he signed, he was wagering the biggest personal fortune in America against a noose. And he was the last man anyone would have expected to be there at all. Carroll was Catholic. In colonial Maryland, a colony founded as a Catholic refuge that had since turned on its own, Catholics could not vote. They could not hold public office. They could not worship in public. The most educated, wealthiest man in America was, in the eyes of the law, a second-class subject barred from the very government he was helping to create. He had spent seventeen years being educated by Jesuits in France and spoke five languages fluently, and back home he still could not legally cast a ballot. So he became the only Catholic to sign the Declaration of Independence, putting his name on a revolution that he hoped would build a country with room for men like him. That was its own enormous bet, made by a man the existing system had already shut out. Then he simply outlived everyone. Thomas Jefferson and John Adams both died on the same astonishing day, July 4, 1826, exactly fifty years after the Declaration. When they were gone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton was the last living signer left on earth. For six more years he was the final human link to that room in Philadelphia, the last hand that had signed, a living relic of the founding that ordinary Americans traveled to see and shake. He finally died in November 1832 at the age of ninety-five, fifty-six years after he wrote his address on a treason document and dared the empire to come find him. The richest man in America. The only Catholic. The last one standing. He had more to lose than any of them, every legal reason to stay quiet, and he signed his full address anyway. We remember the names we were handed in school. We forget the man who made sure his couldn't be mistaken for anyone else's. Which Founding Father do you think history shortchanged the most?

Glad is the world and fair this night
With stars about its head,
And the hall is filled with laughter and light,
And fires are burning red. 
The bells of Paradise now ring
With bells of Christendom,
And Gloria, Gloria we will sing
That God on earth is come.

If you never make the transition from “learning to read” to “reading to learn,” your chance of achieving success in life falls like a rock off a cliff. We’re bringing back the 3rd grade reading guarantee in Ohio & fixing the problem.

Let’s go Elder!

St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle. Be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the Devil. May God rebuke him, we humbly pray, and do thou, O Prince of the heavenly hosts, by the power of God, thrust into hell Satan, and all the evil spirits, who prowl about the world seeking the ruin of souls. Amen.

The first Christians were under the authority of the Apostles and those they appointed, preeminently St. Peter. Christians today in full communion with that same Church are under the authority of their successors, preeminently the successor of St. Peter. Very simple.

The moment men cease to pull against [the Catholic Church] they feel a tug towards it. The moment they cease to shout it down they begin to listen to it with pleasure. The moment they try to be fair to it they begin to be fond of it. —G.K. Chesterton todworner.com/catholicism/so…

There was a time when Catholics in America were second-class citizens. Now, see this picture: three Catholic American men, entrusted with incredible responsibilities! @CatholicVote

America's future is Catholic!

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There was a time when Catholics in America were second-class citizens. Now, see this picture: three Catholic American men, entrusted with incredible responsibilities! @CatholicVote

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Imagine an American pope visiting the United States during its 250th birthday celebration next year. The conversions, reversions, and vocations would be through the roof.

The Seat of Peter is filled. 🙏 Pope Leo XIV says the words of consecration in Latin at Mass with the cardinals this morning.

🚨 President Trump orders flags be flown at half-staff in memory of His Holiness Pope Francis. 🇺🇸🙏

John 3:16-21 “For this is how God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. God sent his Son into the world not to judge the world, but to save the world through him.”

There are almost eight times more religious "nones" in America than practicing Catholics. To change this, Catholics need to abandon the post-conciliar status quo and implement truly radical changes. My latest for @CrisisMag: crisismagazine.com/opinion/cathol…

Vice President JD Vance's full speech at the 2025 National Catholic Prayer Breakfast.

I am honored to officially announce my candidacy to serve as the next Governor of Ohio.

Vivek has officially announced that he is running for Governor of Ohio:

Friends, during the @arc_forum conference in London, I spoke with the @NCRegister about reawakening a sense of the transcendent in our society, which has been so flattened by secularism and scientific rationalism: ncregister.com/news/2025-lond…

“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”