The Democrat Party's Urgency To Reach A New Incarnation Of Socialism

 On July 20, 1944, a group of morally outraged German military officers led by Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg attempted to assassinate Adolf Hitler in a plot known as Operation Valkyrie. The primary motivation was their growing disillusionment with Hitler's leadership, which they believed was leading Germany to catastrophic defeat in World War II. Many of these officers, part of the German resistance, were appalled by the regime's atrocities, including the Holocaust, and saw Hitler's reckless military decision such as the disastrous invasion of the Soviet Union and refusal to retreat from untenable position, as evidence of his incompetence. They feared that his continued rule would result in Germany's total destruction and sought to kill him to seize control, negotiate peace with the Allies, and restore some semblance of moral governance.

On July 14, 2025, far-left and totally irrational State Representative Josh Elliott, supported by far-left and totally irrational State Senator Saud Anwar announced Rep. Elliott’s candidacy for governor of Connecticut, challenging incumbent Governor Ned Lamont in a Democratic primary. Frustrated by Lamont’s vetoes of progressive legislation of affordable housing and pro-labor bills, Elliott and Anwar aim to radically shift the Democratic Party’s direction. They criticized Lamont’s resistance to tax increases on the wealthy and his lip-service to fiscal matters, which they argue neglects the needs of working-class families and underfunded critical services like education and housing. Their campaign was driven by a broader progressive discontent with Lamont’s leadership, which they viewed as too centrist and out of touch with the state’s pressing affordability issues. Both legislators who can more accurately be described as incipient Communists sought to rally support for a vague and far left-leaning platform that is beyond any rational comprehension. However, in launching this challenge, both aimed to force a reckoning within the Democratic Party, hoping to either defeat Lamont or push him toward bolder reforms.(https://www.courant.com/2025/07/14/ct-state-rep-josh-elliott-says-lamont-should-retire-what-to-know-about-the-candidate-for-governor/)

 Welcome to 2025, and the updated version of a Socialist manufactured political coup. Using the time-honored method of destroying the leader as was done in Nazi Germany eighty years ago, disgruntled and irrational far-left politicians have decided they need a regime change and they need one right now, even if it means assaulting the leadership of their own venerated Democrat party.

But first, we need to understand Socialism. What is Socialism, and why does the new Democrat Party at all levels of government seem to love it so much? And why has this passionate desire for full-blown Socialism accelerated in recent days? The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines Socialism as “any of various egalitarian economic and political theories or movements advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods, a system of society or group living in which there is no private property, a system or condition of society in which the means of production are owned and controlled by the state."  If one reads Marxist theories, Socialism is the changeover period from Capitalism to the acceptance and approbation of Communism leading to the destruction of private property and business ownership and the eradication of all personal freedoms.

But what has caused this race to the gutter? Like Hitler’s aides, the new and disgruntled Democrat Party of 2025 has seen a massive changeover to younger and angrier politicians hungering to take over the party and mold it into a new and even more enfeebled mirror of its recent failed Biden Presidency since the defeats of 2024. They are creating this latest look party with a renewed, radicalized hatred of our country, hate of personal freedoms and hate for the Capitalistic system we currently have in our economy. They are promising everything and anything to get you to vote for them. Whatever you want is for your asking with these new radicals, including but not limited to state run grocery stores, free food, free medical care, free cell phones, free housing, free public transportation (if you don't get stabbed as was seen recently on a Connecticut Transit bus in Hartford), free education, free day care, free school lunches, and much more.  Who pays for these items in a Socialism based system is anyone's guess, other than those proposing these bizarre ideas will never contribute one penny to their implementation. 

Looking in our country, this march to failure continues in many locations, as fellow-traveler states such as California, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Illinois, we see equivalent irrational aspirants to power prattle on about a Utopia where government pays for all these "free" items promised in exchange for votes, but it is never mentioned that in exchange for these false promises the citizen will never be able to physically protest against any issue or ideology that stands in their way to this Socialist Utopian society.  For example, in ranked choice voting New York City, with (which eliminates one person one vote freedom), an avowed radical Socialist/Communist, Zohran Mamdani is leading the mayor’s race. His platform seems to be barbarically simplistic as he wants to tax the rich of New York City even more than they are now and fund even more "free" handouts for those "in need". New York City has an over $100 billion dollar yearly budget with over 800,000 receiving welfare benefits out of a population of roughly 8.5 million people(https://nypost.com/2024/10/19/us-news/nearly-800k-in-nyc-collected-welfare-checks-last-fiscal-year-most-in-decades/). Will welfare recipients increase under the Mamdani Administration? Mamdani also wants to create "city run" grocery stores. Will shoplifters and thieves be allowed in these "city run" grocery stores as they are in privately owned stores to ply their trade without worry of prosecution? Will there be a city surtax for the food lost due to theft? Will armed guards shoot grocery thieves? Or will the armed guards rob legitimate purchasers to fund their stealing? As impossible as that seems, please bear in mind that no idea is ever too bizarre for these irresponsible panderers.

But as is the usual case, Connecticut tries daily to make its way up to the Big Leagues to play in the Socialist Symphony Orchestra. The first prerequisite is to deeply hate President Donald Trump. At the extreme, disjointed, incoherent and twisted role-model United States Senator Chris Murphy has been bashing the President on a daily basis with little coherent thought being offered in his rants. "Murphy has called Trump’s decision to strike Iran illegal because the president did not seek congressional authorization. “I’ve been briefed on the intelligence — there is no evidence Iran posed an imminent threat to the United States. That makes this attack illegal,” Murphy said in a statement in the hours after the attack. (https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/chris-murphy-says-clear-trumps-strikes-iran-are-illegal-rcna215794). I am curious if Murphy understands the massive threat to our country that the new Axis powers of Russia, China, North Korea, and Iran pose? Didn't both President Obama and Biden play down any nuclear threats by Iran, with Obama helping them by sending cash to this regime? That was perfectly acceptable to the Socialist Senator. Daily, Murphy is making a fool and embarrassment of himself with his incoherent gibberish, and he faces no criticism from the state-run media or seemingly anyone, anywhere in the political universe. As bad as all of that is, this is quite minor in comparison to what unbridled Socialism in government may bring.

Also in Connecticut King Ned Lamont, the unaccountable will be in a Governor’s primary with Communist/Socialist Democrat State Representative Josh Elliott assuming arguendo that the Socialist coup against Lamont does not materialize earlier. As far as Elliott is concerned, here are some notes on what he has done since being elected in 2016; "Rep. Elliott is working to ensure that Connecticut employs quality public health standards by pushing for a requirement that all children in the public education system receive proper immunizations. Rep. Elliott is also dedicated to improving the treatment of Connecticut's incarcerated population. He is an active advocate of banning the use of solitary confinement and has independently championed a bill that will provide certain telecommunication services at no cost. Rep. Elliott believes so deeply that the right to vote is a fundamental feature of government that he has sponsored several bills aimed at efficiently reforming Connecticut’s electoral system. Among these are a bill that would restore voting privileges of formerly incarcerated individuals on parole, and a bill that would implement a ranked-choice voting system, which would allow a voter to rank candidates by their preference. Rep. Elliott pushed Connecticut to be the first state to remove the cost for incarcerated individuals to make phone calls to loved ones. Prior to this Connecticut had the highest cost in the United States for these calls. Studies show a positive correlation between family communication and lower reincarceration rates. He has spearheaded efforts to legalize the use of recreational marijuana, sought to equalize property tax rates, and consistently supported establishing a more equitable tax structure." (https://www.housedems.ct.gov/Elliott/biography). Regardless of this saccharine and irrational blather, Connecticut has declined both socially and economically, with massive crime issues, massive drug problems and excessively high taxes nurturing a poor economic climate. Elliott needs to remember that since he has served over nine years, he has personally overseen a massive increase in spending on the state budget with no results in solving the never-ending problems in the state. This is his record. The fact is that Connecticut still has $100 to $150 billion dollars in short- and long-term debt along with unfunded liabilities in excess of the venerated “fiscal guardrails” we often hear about. Elliott’s campaign for Governor should scare anyone who believes in personal freedoms and lower taxes. Voters should view his candidacy as a minor-league Mamdani effort with none of the charisma and the pizzazz of Mamdani but with all of the destruction and despair that Socialism brings.

In summation, I know of no "successful" Communist or Socialist country. contrary to how the new Democrat Party in 2025 wishes to portray this brave new world of destruction. In Socialist regimes, one has little to no personal or economic freedom. The new Axis powers of Russia, China, North Korea, and Iran have some of the most ruthless and blood thirsty dictators running these countries. But now, we see that the new Democrat Party in 2025 aspires to that same model, as it is going about destroying their long time office holders while hating everything our country stands for. Yet any good Socialist has no problem doing whatever it takes to enrich themselves and their patrons. (Again, just think of Hitler's aides).

There is a need to understand the myths and realities of Socialism. The concept of Socialism is so vile that it even makes twisted, incompetent and failed office holders like Lamont, Andrew Cuomo, or even Joe Courtney look reasonable by comparison. That concept alone should shock any sane adult. Socialism has failed over and over again in our world. We must stop it in our country immediately or the freedom that so many Americans gave their lives for will be lost forever, along with the country itself.Connecticut, like other blue states, sits on a powder keg of an impending Socialist disaster. It is up to us to stop before things become much worse. Enough is indeed enough.

 

What Exactly Is The Connecticut Housing Crisis?

 What is the actual Connecticut Housing Crisis? Can it be defined? Can any of the Legislative geniuses that are constantly crying about the same explain in simple terms what it actually is? Is it a lack of apartments, condominiums, and houses for people to live in the state? Is there a lack of rental housing for people who are unable to work due to a disability and live on government subsidies? Is there a lack of rental housing for people who do not work, can work and live on government subsidies? Is there a lack of rental housing for people who do work, but do not earn enough money to pay for all their personal and family expenses, especially for rent? Is there a shortage of one family homes in the state that cannot be purchased due to high property taxes and high mortgage rates? Is there a lack of housing for Senator Chris Murphy's "Undocumented Americans" to be developed into future voters?

 

Considering all of the above, please define the “Connecticut Housing Crisis” for me. However, before you do, kindly provide answers the following: 

If Connecticut has a shortage of housing, then where are these people living in Connecticut since they purportedly cannot afford rents or mortgages? In 2023, Connecticut has about 148,506 citizens live in subsidized housing (https://usafacts.org/answers/how-many-people-live-in-subsidized-housing/state/connecticut/). That is approximately .04% of the state's population. But to this point how many people are actually homeless in the state? Connecticut has a population of approximately 3, 625,000. We find that Connecticut has a "point in time" count in January. This  "is a count of sheltered and unsheltered people experiencing homelessness on a single night in January. HUD requires that Continuums of Care (“CoC”s) conduct an annual count of people experiencing homelessness who are sheltered in emergency shelter, transitional housing, and Safe Havens on a given single night. CoCs also must conduct a count of unsheltered people experiencing homelessness every other year (odd numbered years). Each count is planned, coordinated, and carried out locally." (https://www.hudexchange.info/programs/hdx/pit-hic/#2025-pit-count-and-hic-guidance). For February 2025 they are apparently over "5,000" people homeless in the state. (https://www.wtnh.com/news/connecticut/never-seen-it-this-bad-rates-of-homelessness-on-the-rise-in-connecticut/). That is .00137% of the state's population that is homeless.  According to the state budget, Connecticut funds fifty-three emergency shelters and thirty-nine transitional housing program state grants. If one contacts Connecticut's 211 network, they will find sixty-two homeless shelters that can be contacted. (https://www.211ct.org/searchterms=Homeless%20Shelters&page=1&location=Connecticut&service_area=connecticut). Connecticut will spend in for various Housing and Homeless services/programs/subsidies $101,123,923 in 2026 and $114,323,923 in 2027. If we focus on the "5,000" who are "homeless" one may wonder why these people cannot be sheltered if the state is spending over $100 million dollars on these programs to help them? (If you are keeping score at home, this translates to more than $20,000 expended each year for each purportedly homeless person).

Needless to say, any reasonable person with reasonable intelligence sees this situation and realizes that nothing seems to add up with this housing shortage situation. And regrettably, the ostensible insanity of “building where they ain’t,” continues. This past week a bi-partisan celebration of the building of 154 institutional-style housing units occurred. https://www.wshu.org/connecticut-news/2025-07-09/ct-new-britain-affordable-housing-crisis . Spiked by state loans, tax credits, and giveaways, the average $2,100 per month rental price of a unit here is well above what most in the “need of housing” class can pay. But I would assume this is not a problem since continual subsidies are perpetually imagined, as the rents collected from whatever sources continually fill the coffers of wealthy investors. However, no one ever seems to mention that once the subsidy payments outstrip the market rentals, this project like hundreds before will be on the fast track to becoming the next Father Panik Village or Barnum Court and will meet the same fate. Unfortunately, politicians lie and deceive themselves that they have a magic solution, however dollars and cents will always determine the outcome of any pipe dream or illusions.

But alas, there are far better solutions than the messes described above. Unless you watch my good friend, Tony De Angelo on “Thirty With Tony” or listen on the “Lee Elci Show,” you probably did not know that Connecticut currently has seventy-two “Qualified Opportunity Zones”. (OPPORTUNITY LOST -TONY DE ANGELO LEE ELCI 7- 8- 2025)  A Qualified Opportunity Zone is an economically distressed community located within the United States or its territories, designated for the purpose of attracting private and rental housing investment a and stimulating economic development through powerful Federal tax incentives conditioned upon a long term community commitment by the investor or builder (https://opportunityzones.com/location/connecticut/).  As Tony had mentioned on July 8, Connecticut is in such bad economic shape that almost a full third of the state could qualify as an economic Opportunity Zone under the “One Big Beautiful Bill” Further, a third of these new zones must be in rural areas! But in a high tax, excessively bureaucratic and Trump-hating state like Connecticut, there is little to no chance of either attracting investors into zones with no commitment to police and public safety and/or getting this exciting concept through the heads of politicians with severe cases of Trump Derangement Syndrome.

OPPORTUNITY LOST -TONY DE ANGELO LEE ELCI 7- 8- 2025

But why actually talk about propounding solutions that work since such solutions would eliminate the need for many redundant bureaucrats and political hangers-on? Can anyone rationally explain as to why the Connecticut Democrat Party wanted to force through the ill-conceived and draconian housing bill HB 5002 shifting zoning from the 169 cities, towns and villages to a state run, non-elected bureaucracy? Considering the above, it now makes sense since we now see that in a socialistic economy the citizen becomes more and more dependent upon the state governmental bureaucracy for every aspect of their life and their survival through subsidized housing, free state medical care, free public transportation and subsidized food.  Please take just one look at the figures mentioned earlier. Connecticut would be far better off if it consolidated taxpayer monies and fully audited the money it spends in housing and improve its efficiencies and allowed free market solutions to its "housing/homeless" crisis. Instead, it chooses a politically entrenched socialistic corridors of power for personal financial gain that continually worsens the problem. Such, is the "Connecticut Way"

Wasting time, money, and productive energy is a hallmark of the Democrat-driven Connecticut political system, so much that even when it is provided with workable and positive solutions will ignore them continually, only to drive society from bad to worse and forever ensure their employment and false sense of purpose.

Today is the first day of our 249th year of American Freedom and Exceptionalism

May it be to the world, what I believe it will be … the signal of arousing men to burst the chains … and to assume the blessings and security of self-government. That form, which we have substituted, restores the free right to the unbounded exercise of reason and freedom of opinion. All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. …For ourselves, let the annual return of this day forever refresh our recollections of these rights, and an undiminished devotion to them.” –

Thomas Jefferson, June 24, 1826, Monticello

Freedom is not free, nor ever has it been free. I guess that difficult to understand for some in our country today. Socialism has been a failure in the world in the countries that force its citizens to obey its failed principles. Communism also has been a miserable failure in the world in the countries that force its citizens to obey its failed principles. Why are some in our country embracing the losses of personal and economic freedoms along with reverting back to tyrannical type of government? Do they not understand the consequences of the dictatorial actions of murderous leaders such as  Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Pol Pot, Idi Amin, Chairman Mao and Saddam Hussein to name a few?  It would be educational for those paid protestors who have a hatred for our country to read over what these socialist/communist dictators did to their countries that they ruled with no regard for the sanctity for human life let alone personal and economic freedoms. Is this what the younger generation wants for their future?

Today's Democrat Party shows itself to embrace the dismantling of personal and economic freedoms at all costs  It sickens many Americans to have watched the wretched turmoil of non-stop rioting and destruction of personal property go unchecked. It sickens many Americans to have watched the blatant lies of an obedient state run  media echo all the failed talking points of failed socialistic and communistic government mandated programs in lock step. It sickens many Americans to have watched a mass of illegal immigrants just walk into our country and do whatever they wanted to for four years. It sickens many Americans to have watched the constant condemnation, personal attacks, assassination attempts and impeachment attempts of President Trump since 2016. It sickens many Americans to have watched Police and Law Enforcement officials be told not to enforce the laws of our country, or if they did there would be consequences for their actions. It sickens many Americans to have watched a small minority of our country attempt to force fed us their incoherent socialistic gibberish while hiding under masks. Americans are tired of the Democrat Party encouraging these lawless, paid protestors and their venom for our country to go unchecked.

Today's Democrat Party represents the hypocrisy and double-dealing to enrich themselves and those politically connected to them. If they are so worried about people in "need" then why is avowed Socialist  Bernie Sanders net worth $3 million dollars? Yet he bellows about how bad capitalism is? But it is fine for him to be worth that much. How many "homeless" people does he living in his two homes that he owns? Or how about Nancy Pelosi and her net worth of over $250 million dollars? (https://www.quiverquant.com/congresstrading/politician/Nancy%20Pelosi-P000197/net-worth). It shows us that the American capitalistic system works well for her but she and others of her ilk do not wish for you to enjoy the fruits of your labor. Look at how much "wealth" many local, state, and federal Democrat elected officials have and then wonder why they hate economic freedom so much?

President John Adams stated, "Liberty, once lost, is lost forever."  I grew up watching the Vietnam War protestors with their burning of the American flag, illegal drug use and hatred of our country. And I now watch history repeating itself 40 years later now with paid protestors who protest about anything and everything with no clue as to their consequences of their actions. I despised the disparaging of America back then; I despise it now and I know many of you reading this do also. Enough is enough. We as a country need to strive for excellence and self-sufficiency once again. Today, let us all start working on this first day of our 249th year of American freedom and exceptionalism to make sure Liberty and Freedom live on for the next 249 years and eliminate for the last time the fetid tentacles of socialism and communism entrapping America in 2025.  

God Bless America and let Freedom ring today, tomorrow, and forever for the United States of America.

 

249 Years of Freedom July 4,1776 - July 4, 2025

  IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America

When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.

He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.

He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.

He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected, whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.

He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

For protecting them, by a mock Trial from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:

For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury:

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:

For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies

For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:

For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.

He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.

He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated  Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.

We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these united Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States, that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. — And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.

— John Hancock

New Hampshire:
Josiah Bartlett, William Whipple, Matthew Thornton

Massachusetts:
John Hancock, Samuel Adams, John Adams, Robert Treat Paine, Elbridge Gerry

Rhode Island:
Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery

Connecticut:
Roger Sherman, Samuel Huntington, William Williams, Oliver Wolcott

New York:
William Floyd, Philip Livingston, Francis Lewis, Lewis Morris

New Jersey:
Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon, Francis Hopkinson, John Hart, Abraham Clark

Pennsylvania:
Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross

Delaware:
Caesar Rodney, George Read, Thomas McKean

Maryland:
Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton

Virginia:
George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Nelson, Jr., Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton

North Carolina:
William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn

South Carolina:
Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lynch, Jr., Arthur Middleton

Georgia:
Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton