Who we are
At Woke Founders Coffee, we’re proud to be an aggressively caffeinated, veteran-owned business determined to remind America that the real threat to liberty isn’t pronouns, it’s letting the fascists and oligarchs masquerade as patriots while trampling on the rights our founders fought so hard to enshrine in the Constitution.
Newsflash patriots: The Founding Fathers were the wokest crew of the 18th-century, and we’re just here to honor that vibe, with better beans.
Seriously, though, Thomas Paine wanted a universal basic income before it was cool. Benjamin Franklin thought religious dogma was nonsense and started a community-funded public hospital. And Samuel Adams organized tavern meetings at the Green Dragon and acts of civil disobedience with the Sons of Liberty to challenge corrupt authority, the original grassroots agitator. Sounds pretty woke to us.
So we decided to start a coffee company that celebrates real patriotism, not the Fox News cosplay version. We roast beans, and we roast hypocrisy. Every cup you drink is brewed with revolutionary zeal and a touch of espresso-fueled spite for those who clutch the Constitution but never read it.
Founded by an Army veteran, former advisor to Bernie Sanders, and street artist who’s probably already on at least one government watchlist, Woke Founders Coffee Co. is for people who know that freedom isn't fragile, truth isn't treason, and being awake is as American as apple pie.
Drink up and stay woke, patriots!
Our Revolutionary Icons
Benjamin Franklin
Inventor. Printer. Diplomat. Satirist. Franklin was America’s first influencer, a champion of free thought, community, and self-betterment. Franklin founded America's first lending library, co-founded its first public hospital, founded the University of Pennsylvania, and organized its first fire department. He was also elected President of the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society in 1787. He embodied pragmatic progressivism, believing in science, education, and a nation where merit outweighed privilege.
Thomas Paine
The original firebrand. Paine didn’t just pen Common Sense, he unleashed a radical vision of democracy, anti-monarchism, social welfare, and workers’ rights. He argued that welfare wasn't charity, it was an irrevocable right, and proposed maternity benefits, child education grants, and old-age pensions two centuries before any government delivered them. He challenged the idea that power should belong to kings or aristocrats. Today, he would be canceled by Fox News at first sight.
Samuel Adams
Samuel Adams embodies the true spirit of being "woke"— as a grassroots organizer who believed true power belongs to the people, not the elite. Fierce, uncompromising, and unapologetically rebellious, he helped spark a revolution from the streets of Boston. Adams understood that real patriots stay awake to oppression and never accept the corrupt status quo. Like our coffee, Adams was bold, unfiltered, and brewed for dissent.
Our Mission
Woke Founders Coffee Company believes a great cup of coffee can be a genuinely democratic act, bringing people to the table, slowing the conversation down, and creating the kind of space where real community happens.
We source specialty-grade beans and roast every order fresh, because quality matters and because the people around your table deserve the best. But we also believe that what happens over that coffee matters just as much as what's in the cup. Some of the most important conversations in American history happened in taverns and kitchens and town squares, between neighbors who disagreed, between people who had every reason not to listen to each other, and who found common ground anyway.
That is the tradition we're part of.
We are built on the belief that this country works best when its people are engaged with each other — across tables, across differences, across the divides that those in power have always used to keep ordinary people from recognizing what they have in common. The founders envisioned a nation where no one is born to power, every person has a claim to its promise, and the price of that promise is the lifelong vigilance of an informed and engaged citizenry.
This brand is for veterans who took an oath to the Constitution and meant it. For organizers who know that change is built in communities, not handed down from executives. For freethinkers, historians, comedians, teachers, activists, and anyone who has ever looked at the current moment and thought: the Founders warned us about this, and it’s on us to stop it.
Not a nation for the few. A nation built by and for the many.
Pull up a chair. The coffee's fresh.
Veteran Owned
The citizen-soldier is one of the oldest and most important American traditions. Not the professional warrior class. Not the standing army the Founders were specifically wary of. The farmer who put down his plow. The printer who put down his type. The merchant who put down his ledger. They picked up rifles not because they loved war but because they loved the ideas they were trying to protect.
Our founder served in the United States Army. When he was honorably discharged, his service to the nation didn’t end there. He moved to New York City and continued to organize, create, advocate, and build. Because in a democratic republic, the oath doesn't end with discharge. It's a commitment to preserving the Constitution and the institutions that make this country worth defending.
Woke Founders is veteran-owned, and we honor that heritage. We believe in the republic the Founders sought to build, grounded in the radical idea that power belongs to the people. We believe that [some of] the men who signed the Declaration were agitators and organizers who put everything on the line for a set of principles, not a ruling class. And we believe that honoring their legacy means staying engaged in your community, in your democracy, and in the ongoing work of making this country what it was always supposed to be.
The coffee is good because we care about craft. The mission is the same reason anyone ever served.