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The Messy Reality of Unjust Orders

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...

Reshaping the Military, but Not Making it Shipshape

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...

Words Matter

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...

Racism and Misogyny of New Administration

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...

Hegseth: Hater Not Lover

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...

Disgraced Former Officer to Help Run Department of the Air Force

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...

Hegseth v. Brown (and the military?)

by Chuck Fager, Quaker House Board Member As Pete Hegseth moves through his Senate confirmation hearing process to become the Secretary of Defense, my mind is full of questions. And the top query in the stack is, obviously: Why does Hegseth despise—or is it hate—...

Extremism Report Update

At the end of November, we reported on the continuing concerns about extremism in the military. Shortly afterwards, a new report was released that updated numbers on recent actions by veterans or active participants. In fiscal year 2023 there were nearly 200...

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