Citizens for the Republic (CFTR) is a national organization dedicated to revitalizing the conservative movement. Through education, grassroots organization, advocacy, and political activism, CFTR promotes the principles of limited government, maximum freedom, personal responsibility, peace through strength, and defense of the dignity of every individual. These are the ideas that Ronald Reagan championed when he founded the original CFTR in 1977 to make conservatism a vibrant political force.

In January of 1977, Ronald Reagan launched Citizens for the Republic, his political action committee designed to advance the conservative cause at a time when it seemed as if the ideology of less government, more freedom and the dignity of the private individual was in danger of being permanently abandoned in America.  

Through CFTR, Reagan led the way for a Republican revival by making it the party of small government, a strong foreign policy and renewed liberty. Reagan took the tired, run-down GOP and turned it into a vibrant political force which drew sustenance from the millions of conservative Americans who believed in these principles.

Some thirty years later, the GOP finds itself in much the same condition; worn down, dominated by corrupt lobbyists and politicians, incapable of articulating a competing message and compelling vision to stand up against the liberal onslaught likely to come under President Barack Obama and the liberal elite that now dominates nearly every facet of American government and culture, from the White House and Capitol Hill, to colleges and Hollywood.

The belief that man’s freedom comes from God and not the State is once again in danger of being extinguished in America.  Once again, the Republican Party is in danger of extinction.

The renewed Citizens for the Republic is a hardy band of Reaganites, dedicated to the vision and principles of the Founding Fathers, believing the natural goodness lies in the individual and not in the government, that the government is to protect the rights of the citizens, not to impede them.

As Ronald Reagan said, “the role of government is not to protect us from ourselves, it is to protect us from each other.” Reagan understood that America was a rugged, do it yourself enterprise and that any government big enough to do everything for you is also big enough to take everything away from you.

Our fights will be many.  

CFTR will fight leftist, big government elites.  

CFTR will fight those who use good conservative principles to bad ends.

CFTR will fight for the rights and privacy of the individual.

CFTR is about applying the conservative political philosophy of Reagan—as well as Bill Buckley, Barry Goldwater, Thomas Jefferson, and many others--to the current problems facing our country.