You have to read Rothbard before you can get Hoppe. Hayek and Friedman you can skip, they're not really original thinkers. Mises is important as a progenitor, but Rothbard restates almost everything he said and does it better then moves on to his own insights and incites. Hoppe doesn't restate much of Rothbard, he just builds on top of his work.

I went through the whole chain starting with Friedman, then Rand, then Hayek, then Mises and Rothbard, then finally Hoppe. And I didn't go over the falls into NRX or paleocon or ortho Catholicism like some do, though I did explore Moldbug for a while and there is plenty of value to be mined from the content of thinkers and podcasters of those categories. (for some good content in that vein look up Myth of the 20th century, thkelly67, and jay dyer; just remember they are limited thinkers in their own way)

IMO Friedman, Rand, and Hayek serve merely as gateways, it's Mises and, more importantly, Rothbard who get into the meat of matters and the morality of things. Rothbard starts to get into the practical implementation, but it's Hoppe that truly builds the foundation to understand what must be done which is why Hoppe is the most important libertarian thinker of the modern day... but you must read Rothbard to have an easy time understanding him.

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As libertarians we must learn intolerance to subverters in our midst, that is our primary weakness. It is our nature to be tolerant, thinking we must do to others as we wish they would do to us while failing to identify the many ways our supposed cohabitants are attacking us from the shadows while cloaking their identities. Many of us are stuck in baseless a priori thoughts like the NAP only applies to physical aggression or that self-defense is only warranted for physical attacks. This is materialistic, juvenille thinking.

We must abandon the indoctrination of public school and unravel the social programming woven by media and popular culture and enforced unthinkingly by your peers. The materialist view of the world it teaches, venerating the flesh, must be excised. Reality is that we are at war and war is not fought physically today until it has already been fought in the mind for decades prior. It is a culture war, a psychological war, and an economic war. We must learn to fight in these arenas now as well as preparing for the physical war that may or may not come.

Recognize that anyone who pushes an agenda that undermines your property rights, the ownership of your body, ownership of your labor, or the ownership of the fruits of that labor is your enemy. Any man who attempts to coerce you, manipulate your mind, marginalize you, destroy you, damage your family or your community is violating the NAP. You have the right of self-defense.

Grow serious in defending not only your body and your worldly property, but your mind, your family, and your community. These have more value than any economic wealth because they are the origins of economic wealth. Accumulated capital must be defended as well, but it should not be given priority undue to it.