Year of Celebration and Rededication, 2026

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On January 1, 2026, the United States began our year-long commemoration of an important milestone in the history of our country: 250 years of American freedom and independence. Two and a half centuries ago, on July 4, 1776, thousands of years' worth of wisdom, philosophy, and culture were brought together in Philadelphia where delegates to the Second Continental Congress gathered to declare the birth of a new nation—“conceived in Liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal”—and, in so doing, launched the single greatest force for goodness, justice, prosperity, and human flourishing the world has ever known.