by Steve Woolford | Jun 10, 2025 | GI Rights Hotline, Holding the Line, Military Shakeup, News, News from the HomeFront, Uncategorized
One of the most frequent calls received since Trump’s return to office has been from people who saw the GI Rights Hotline on social media and wanted to confirm that we’re “real” before they re-post our number. People are understandably worried about the military being...
by Wayne Finegar | Apr 4, 2025 | Conflation with Patriotism, Holding the Line, Military, Military Shakeup, News, News from the HomeFront, War and Use of Military Force
The leadership of the US military continues to recreate the modern forces in the image of the 1800s so beloved by the president. Women, people of color, trans people, and non-Christians have all been removed from the public histories, ejected from positions of trust...
by Wayne Finegar | Mar 14, 2025 | Conflation with Patriotism, Holding the Line, Military, Military Shakeup, News, News from the HomeFront
The continued war on anyone and anything that doesn’t match Pete Hegseth’s vision of a “warrior” has had multiple victims lately. Along with women, LGBTQ+ people, and people of color, words have come under attack. In one of the weirdest moves yet, there was a mass...
by Wayne Finegar | Feb 22, 2025 | Domestic Violence, Holding the Line, Military, Military Shakeup, News, News from the HomeFront, War and Use of Military Force
On Friday, February 21, Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth did the expected. They proved the depths of their racism and misogyny by removing the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Chief of Naval Operations. Not because they weren’t good at their jobs but because...
by Wayne Finegar | Feb 13, 2025 | Conflation with Patriotism, Holding the Line, Military, Military Shakeup, News, News from the HomeFront
Each day’s news brings more reports of changes being made across the military as a result of the new Secretary of Defense. Pete Hegseth has reinforced his history of transphobic comments with orders to end efforts to recruit new trans people and to stop the provision...
by Wayne Finegar | Jan 23, 2025 | Conflation with Patriotism, Conscientious Objection, Holding the Line, Military, Military Shakeup, News, News from the HomeFront
The efforts to reshape the leadership of the Department of Defense and the military in the image of the new president continues even as the nomination of Pete Hegseth to be Secretary of Defense waits for the Senate to vote on it. On the 21st, it was announced that...
