Senate Video Telethon 2.0: Supporting Pete Hegseth, Opposing Cultural Marxism in the Services

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The Save America’s Military Coalition
Senate Video Telethon 2.0:

Supporting Pete Hegseth,
Opposing Cultural Marxism in the Services

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Just before Christmas, the Defense Department issued its annual report on Chinese Military Power. This edition had a very ominous theme: The build-up of China’s People’s Liberation Army is unmatched by any other since Nazi Germany’s in the 1930s.

In fact, that conclusion significantly understates the problem. For example, the Chinese Communists’ investment in a military industrial base that has made their defense build-up possible not only is vastly larger than ours – to cite but one example, China’s shipbuilding capacity is 200 times larger than America’s. It also greatly surpasses the Nazis’ at the peak of their power.

The distinct possibility that Chinese dictator Xi Jinping has amassed such capabilities and intends, like Hitler, to use them against not just others, but us, demands a critical examination of the state of our own armed forces.

Unfortunately, for most of the past sixteen years, our military has been: stressed with assorted combat operations; deprived of the necessary modernization of its equipment; and subjected to cultural Marxist subversion. The latter has taken the form of Critical Race Theory indoctrination, “Diversity, Equity and Inclusion” policies and purges and promotions based, not on merit, but on racial, sexual and other “identities.”

Fortunately, President Trump was reelected on a platform that recognizes the threat we face from the Chinese Communist Party and other quarters and commits to restore our military. He has nominated a decorated combat veteran named Pete Hegseth to lead those efforts as Secretary of Defense. He has also pledged to rid the military of so-called “Woke” officers.

In coming days, the U.S. Senate will consider Mr. Hegseth’s nomination and the Trump plan for practicing once again “peace through strength.” The Save America’s Military Coalition is hosting its Senate Video Telethon 2.0 from 2-3:15 p.m. ET, Thursday, January 2, to urge Senators to confirm Pete Hegseth as our next Defense Secretary and to give him the tools to “Make our Military Great Again.”

Moderator

  • Frank Gaffney, President, Institute for the American Future; Vice Chairman, Committee on the Present Danger: China

Participants:

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  • Lieutenant General Rod Bishop,U.S. Air Force (Ret.); former Air Commander Europe and Third Air Force Commander; Chairman, Stand Together Against Racism and Radicalism in the Services (STARRS)
  • Rob Muise, Co-founder, the American Freedom Law Center
  • Colonel Rob Maness,U.S. Air Force  (Ret.); former Commanding Officer of a bomber squadron; former Vice Commander of America’s largest Airborne Intelligence Wing; former Commander, Kirtland Air Force Base; and host, “The Rob Maness Show”
  • Major Drew Dix, U.S. Army (Ret.); Medal of Honor recipient; President, Congressional Medal of Honor Society
  • Elaine Donnelly, Founder and President of the Center for Military Readiness
  • Dr. Carol Swain, PhD, MSL, author of among other works, Black Eye for America: How Critical Race Theory is Burning Down the House; former tenured professor, Princeton and Vanderbilt Universities; and former member, 1776 Commission
  • Ken Abramowitz, Founder, Save the West; Managing General Partner and co-founder of NGN Capital, a $450 million worldwide healthcare venture capital fund
  • Major General Joseph Arbuckle, USA (Ret.); Vice Chair, STARRS (Stand Together Against Racism and Radicalism in the Services); Co-founder, Flag Officers 4 America
  • Dr. Karen Siegemund, PhD, Founder and President, The American Freedom Alliance; Founding Member, The Sovereignty Coalition
  • Colonel Grant Newsham, U.S. Marine Corps (Ret.); former Military Attaché in Embassy Tokyo; former Foreign Service Officer; Senior Fellow, Center for Security Policy; author, When China Attacks: A Warning to America
  • Lt. Col. Matt Lohmeier, Former U.S. Space Force commander; Executive Vice President, STARRS; author of Irresistible Revolution: Marxism’s Goal of Conquest & the Unmaking of the American Military
  • George Rasley, Former staff member in the U.S. House of Representatives and Office of the Vice President; involved in over 300 political campaigns; Editor-in-Chief, Conservative HQ
  • Col./Dr. Ron Scott, PhD, Col, U.S. Air Force (Ret.); President and CEO, STARRS; Vice President and Director of Operations, American Constitution Foundation
  • Captain James Fanell, U.S. Navy (Ret.); Former Director of Intelligence and Information Operations, U.S. Pacific Fleet; co-author, Embracing Communist China: America’s Greatest Strategic Failure
  • Vice Admiral Dean Lee, U.S. Coast Guard (Ret.); former Commander of Coast Guard Atlantic Area; Honorary Professor of Military Science at the Joint Forces Staff
  • Ron Armstrong, President, Stand Up Michigan; founding member of both the Sovereignty and Save America’s Military Coalitions; a leader in national conservative activism.

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