Super Tuesday was pivotal, but today, Florida, Illinois, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio could decide the candidates.

As we head to the polls to vote, let us not forget the words of Sons of Liberty founder and Founding Father, Mr. Samuel Adams:

“Let each citizen remember at the moment he is offering his vote that he is not making a present or a compliment to please an individual – or at least that he ought not so to do; but that he is executing one of the most solemn trusts in human society for which he is accountable to God and his country.”

This quote, printed in the Boston Gazette on April 16, 1781, inspired Our first t-shirt because we believe voting is an important responsibility.

Slightly less important is buying one of Our shirts. Do that too.

Artwork inspired by an engraved bust portrait of Samuel Adams by Paul Revere for the Royal American Magazine April 1774 issue.

On the morning of February 27, 1776, 1,000 Patriot troops defeated 1,600 British Loyalists in the Battle of Moore’s Creek. It was the first American victory in the first organized campaign of the Revolutionary War. 

An important first step indeed, the agency for which, did not go unnoticed by the Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army, and later, the first President of the United States, George Washington. He made that clear in his first inaugural address in 1789:

“No People can be bound to acknowledge and adore the invisible hand, which conducts the affairs of men more than the People of the United States. Every step, by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation, seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency. And in the important revolution just accomplished in the system of their United Government, the tranquil deliberations and voluntary consent of so many distinct communities, from which the event has resulted, cannot be compared with the means by which most Governments have been established, without some return of pious gratitude along with an humble anticipation of the future blessings which the past seem to presage.”

The first sentence of this great quote helped to inspire Our next t-shirt design, to be released on April 30, the day he gave this address. Here’s the artwork for George Washington “Invisible Hand”:

On this day in 1777, the Continental Congress voted to promote five junior officers ahead of Brigadier General Benedict Arnold. The Connecticut-born hero of Saratoga felt slighted, and threatened to resign from the Patriot army.

In 1780, Arnold betrayed the United States by offering to hand over the Patriot-held fort at West Point, New York, to the British.

In George Washington’s General Orders, in September of 1780, Washington said:
“Happily the treason has been timely discovered to prevent the fatal misfortune. The providential train of circumstances which led to it affords the most convincing proof that the Liberties of America are the object of divine Protection.”

In honor of George Washington, the first President of the United States, who was born on February 22, 1732, Washington’s Birthday was the first federal holiday to honor an American president, and was originally established in 1885.

The holiday was celebrated on Washington’s actual birthday, but on January 1, 1971, it was shifted to the third Monday in February by the Uniform Monday Holiday Act.

As a result, it can occur the 15th through the 21st inclusive.