By Kevin D. Freeman, D.Sc. (h.c.), CFA

You do not need a briefing to know something is wrong. You feel it every time the grocery total climbs and the bag gets lighter. You feel it when your grown kids do the math on a starter home and quietly give up. You feel it when you hear the phrase “programmable money” and realize nobody asked your permission. You feel it at the border, in the birth statistics, in a national debt that has blown past $40 trillion and is still accelerating.

Those are not six separate problems. They are six trials, and they were set in motion by four riders working the same ground. I wrote a book proving that connection, and it is now in print: The Four Horsemen of the American Apocalypse and Our Six Trials by Fire, with a foreword by Dr. Ben Carson.

It released September 10, one year to the day after my friend Charlie Kirk was taken from us. That date was not a marketing decision. The book is dedicated to him, and it grew out of the last project he asked me to lead. More on that in a moment.

Here is what is inside that you will not find anywhere else.

Revelation one: two horses were never enough

When Charlie and I talked about the forces arrayed against this country, he framed the threat the way most serious people do: a Red–Green axis. Communism, led by the Chinese Communist Party, allied with Islamist supremacism. He was right about both. But I pushed him on it, and to his credit he agreed: two horses cannot explain what we are living through.
 

The Blue Horse is globalist despotism — the unelected class that would rather manage you than represent you, and that sees your digital wallet as the ultimate leash. Most readers will recognize that rider instantly.

The Yellow Horse is the one no one wants to name, because it is domestic. It is the traitors who sold access, the cowards who knew better and stayed silent, and the fools who cheered them on. It is the only horseman we can actually unseat ourselves, because it is us. Naming it is the first act of responsibility, and this book is, to my knowledge, the first to lay out the full Red, Green, Blue and Yellow set rather than pointing at a single villain.

Revelation two: the day the gate opened

Ask ten smart people when America’s troubles began and you will get ten answers: 1913 and the Federal Reserve, 1933 and the gold seizure, 1968 and the end of the gold cover. Those years dealt the cards. But one day played them.
 

On August 15, 1971, a Sunday evening, Richard Nixon went on television and closed the gold window. The dollar stopped being a claim on something real and became a promise backed by the next election. Watch what happened next. Within months, Nixon was in Beijing shaking hands with Mao and the Red Horse had its opening. The World Economic Forum was founded that same year, and the Blue Horse had its stable. By 1973 Washington was in conversations with Riyadh that would give us the petrodollar and bind our money’s future to the Green Horse. And with money unmoored, the Yellow Horse discovered it could buy voters with borrowed cash, ship jobs overseas in bad trade deals and call it prosperity.

That is not a coincidence. It is the thesis of the book, and once you see it you cannot unsee it: abandon sound money, and every other rider gets a saddle.

Revelation three: this is not a doom book

This is a diagnosis, not a prophecy. I did not write 432 pages to leave you frightened. What follows the warning is a plan, at two levels, because a nation cannot be saved from Washington alone.

 

For the nation: restore sound money, and do it state by state where it is already happening. Connect with the National Security Investment Consultant (NSIC) Institute so American capital builds America again. Stand up SCAN — the Saving Civilization Action Network Charlie wanted — to watch foreign threats the way they watch us. And make the Economic Justice Board the standard by which every policy is judged: does this bless our grandchildren, or bill them?

For your home: get your priorities in order — Liberty, Security, Values. Have a family. Own things that are real. Refuse Hezekiah’s shrug of “not in my lifetime” and take up Proverbs instead: a good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children. Every one of these is practical, and every one is something you can start this week.

Who stands behind this

Dr. Ben Carson wrote the foreword after Charlie was no longer able to. And because a claim this large should not rest on one man, I sent the manuscript to a Council of Voices before it went to press — nine leaders from nine disciplines — and asked each the same question: from where you sit, does this hold? Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn (Ret.), Lt. Gen. Jerry Boykin (Ret.), Dr. Peter McCullough, Kelly Shackelford, Dr. Jim Garlow, Hon. Michele Bachmann, Hon. Ken Blackwell, Hon. Bob McEwen and Art Ally answered in their own words, unedited, inside the book. Jim Garlow put it well in six words: “Four horses. Charlie Kirk saw it.” Eric Metaxas was blunter still: if you’re not in the fight, you’re working for the other side.

 

What I am asking you to do

Buy the book — hardcover, paperback, Kindle or audio. Read it with a pen in your hand. Then buy a second copy for the person in your life who says “it’s all too complicated” — because it is not, and this book proves it in language anyone can follow.

Get The Four Horsemen at 4HorsemenBook.com

We are going to walk through all four horsemen and all six trials on Economic War Room in the coming weeks. Tune in Thursdays on BlazeTV or through our website, and grab the companion Battle Plan at EconomicWarRoom.com/battleplans.

The horsemen are riding. The house is still standing. What happens next is up to us.

Kevin D. Freeman, D.Sc. (h.c.), CFA