When we think of the American Revolution, our minds often turn to the likes of Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, and Adams — men who risked everything to defy a king and build a nation. But behind many of these “rebels” stood equally determined women — wives, sisters, and daughters who chose to stand not behind, but beside them.
These women weren’t passive bystanders in powdered wigs. They were patriots in their own right. They were the Founding Mothers — and their courage, sacrifice, and belief in the cause of liberty helped shape the American story just as surely as the signatures on the Declaration of Independence.
The decision to support the Revolution wasn’t easy. Aligning with the Patriot cause often meant poverty, persecution, and loss. For women, it meant enduring long absences, managing farms and households alone, and sometimes even taking up arms or acting as spies. But they did it — not out of blind loyalty, but out of conviction to save the country that harbored the freedom they loved.
These women believed in freedom from tyranny, in the right to govern their own lives, and in building something greater than what the Crown allowed. They believed their children deserved more than to be ruled by a distant king who taxed them without representation.
They had watched their husbands and sons be humiliated, their homes searched, their rights trampled. And they knew that if freedom was going to be won, it couldn’t be just the men fighting for it.
Here are just a few examples of our brave Founding Mothers:
- Abigail Adams, wife of John Adams, wrote letters that were practically policy memos. She famously reminded her husband to “remember the ladies” — advocating for women’s rights long before it was fashionable.
- Martha Washington didn’t just host parties. She spent every winter of the war at her husband’s side in freezing military camps, helping to boost morale and care for sick soldiers.
- Mercy Otis Warren used her pen as a weapon, writing political plays and pamphlets that stirred revolutionary sentiment.
- Deborah Sampson disguised herself as a man and fought in the Continental Army.
These women didn’t ask for credit. But they deserve it and they should be remembered for their own sacrifices.
This Mother’s Day, let’s remember the legacy of the women who risked everything for the next generation — and let’s call on the mothers of today to rise up in the same spirit.
Because once again, our children are at risk — not from a foreign crown, but from harmful policies, political manipulation, and corrupt systems that erode their innocence, their opportunities, and even their legal protections.
We see it in failing schools that push ideology over learning how to live in this world.
We see it in government agencies that create programs to keep families subservient to the government.
We see it in courtrooms where justice seems to bend for the powerful and crush the powerless.
And worst of all — we see the devastation of our culture because of sex trafficking gangs, technology that warps the minds of our children and wicked people in the streets fighting to let evil reign in our homeland.
So this Mother’s Day, let’s all agree — we have work to do and we need all Mothers to the front lines of the war on our children. Imagine our Founding Mothers watching from heaven and wondering why we are letting this wickedness harm our sweet babies!!
Become a Modern Day Founding Mother and fight on the side of good for the sake of your children, your grandchildren and generations to come. The baton has been handed to you. Choose to take it or step aside. There is no place for weak women in this war on our family!
Stand up. Speak out. Defend your children with the courage and conviction of those who came before us.
Because liberty doesn’t just need soldiers.
It needs mothers who refuse to be silent.
