It's important for you to understand why we are building Praxis.

First, I'm going to share a secret with you.

Every civilization has had the same origin: in a wasteland, a people unite around transcendent purpose, and pursue it heroically.

Today, the West is a wasteland.

As Pat Buchanan wrote:

“All about us we can see clearly now that the West is passing away. In a single century, all the great houses of continental Europe fell. All the empires that ruled the world have vanished. Not one European nation has a birthrate that will enable it to survive through the century. As a share of world population, peoples of European ancestry have been shrinking for [four] generations. The character of every Western nation is being irremediably altered as each undergoes an unresisted invasion from the Third World. We are slowly disappearing from the Earth. Having lost the will to rule, Western man seems to be losing the will to live as a unique civilization as he feverishly indulges in La Dolce Vita, with a yawning indifference as to who might inherit the Earth he once ruled.”

But here's a second secret:

To be born in the wasteland is to be chosen.

You live in a new Age of Heroes. Your fate awaits -- if you have the courage to step forward.

You are not alone.

Across the West -- around bonfires, on mountaintops, in shadow and in light -- 100,000 have united under the banner of Praxis.

Praxis exists to unite the People of the West and resurrect the heroism that drove our ancestors to build empires - so our descendants might possess this flame.

For five years, I have woken every morning with my gaze fixed on a single idea.

Unity is destiny. But we need leaders committed to this quest.

My ancestors built America: Col. John Piper, Pennsylvania Militia.

Perhaps yours built Rome or Athens.

We are not the children of decline. We are the children of empire.

The flame is ours now. Take it.