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THE STEADY STATE ENDORSES JASON CROW FOR COLORADO’S 6TH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT WASHINGTON — The Steady State, an organization of more than 420 former national security, intelligence, diplomatic, military, law enforcement, and homeland security officials, today endorsed Hon. Jason Crow for Colorado’s 6th Congressional District. Jason Crow represents Colorado’s Sixth Congressional District and is an Army […]
By Harry Hannah Ahmad Shah Massoud, leader of Afghanistan’s Northern Alliance, in 2001—two days before the attacks of September 11. Twenty-five years later, I still think about a phone call the night before 9/11—and what it says about what intelligence can see, what it can miss, and why expertise matters. September 10, 2001 about 7PM, […]
Image created by AI When the time comes, moving forward will require more than putting the Trump years behind us. It will require determining what happened, who was responsible, which actions were lawful and which were not—and doing so without abandoning the principles of due process that distinguish accountability from revenge. Peppered throughout the thousands […]
In the fall of 2001, I was approaching my 30 year active duty mandatory retirement date. I had been serving as the Deputy of the Coast Guard’s Reserve & Training Directorate at Headquarters in Washington. My fifth floor office looked out across Ft McNair to the Potomac River and the Pentagon beyond. On the morning […]
By Mary Ellen Callahan What to Know About Cybersecurity Threats, Scams, and Infrastructure Risk in Elections In the United States, voter registration information and election results are secure. No cyberattack has ever changed a vote total in a U.S. election. Voting systems are not connected to the internet, paper receipts are common, and dedicated federal, […]
By Jenifer A.L. Smith September 11 began for me with a four-year-old, a favorite book, and an ordinary morning. Twenty-five years later, the question is whether we have forgotten lessons we learned that day—then, it was barriers between institutions. Now it is hollowing out the institutions themselves. It was a sunny September day. I had […]
There is more than one way to interfere with an election. You can redraw congressional districts, change the rules for mail ballots, demand new voter data from the states, or create enough uncertainty that voters and election officials no longer know which rules apply. As the 2026 midterms approach, all of these tools are in […]
Host John Sipher sits down with Fred Wellman, a West Point graduate, former Army Lieutenant Colonel, and current Democratic candidate for Missouri’s 2nd Congressional District. Wellman shares his journey from growing up in Kirkwood, Missouri, to flying scout helicopters in Desert Storm, serving three tours in Iraq, and later running a veterans-focused business, working with […]
Authors’ Names Withheld Photo By Scott Carter/Medium “When Fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross.” Sinclair Lewis, 1935 Authoritarianism rarely announces itself. It arrives incrementally—one norm broken, one institution weakened, one opponent demonized, one loyalist installed at a time. The pattern is now manifest in the United […]