The Steady State (PDF VERSION AVAILABLE HERE) July 22, 2026 The Honorable John Thune Majority Leader United States Senate 511 Dirksen Senate Office Washington, DC 20510 The Honorable Chuck Schumer Minority Leader United States Senate 322 Hart Senate Office Washington, DC 20510 The Honorable Tom Cotton Chairman Senate Committee on Intelligence United States Senate 326 […]
WASHINGTON — The Steady State, an organization of more than 420 former national security, intelligence, diplomatic, military, law enforcement, and homeland security officials, is today announcing three endorsements. The Steady State today is announcing the endorsement of the Hon. Jonathan Jackson for Illinois’s 1st District, Hon. Delia Ramirez for Illinois’ 3rd Congressional District, and Hon. […]
President Trump says Russia’s role in American elections was a hoax. Yet the intelligence assessment he personally declassified reveals Russian actors sought to favor him in the 2020 election and promoted narratives about fraud tied to mail-in voting—the same narrative Trump invokes while urging Congress to pass the SAVE America Act. For nearly a decade, […]
Read More Democracies weaken when expertise is dismissed, facts become political, extraordinary powers are normalized, legal safeguards are tested, and impulse replaces strategy. Examine the people and institutions standing in that breach—and why defending them is everyone’s responsibility. The Steady State traces a common pattern: individual courage can break entrenched barriers, dormant government powers can […]
Strategy requires patience, discipline, and a clear understanding of consequences. Trump’s approach to Iran has demonstrated the opposite: impulsive decisions, shifting objectives, discarded diplomacy, and faith in optimistic assumptions that war itself cannot make true. I have been a student of military history nearly all my adult life. I spent 26 years in a US […]
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. André Carson for Indiana’s 7th Congressional District. André D. Carson represents Indiana’s Seventh Congressional District and is a longtime public servant from Indianapolis. He previously worked in law enforcement, […]
WASHINGTON — The Steady State, an organization of more than 420 former national security, intelligence, diplomatic, military, law enforcement, and homeland security officials, filed an amicus curiae brief in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in the case of former CIA Director John O. Brennan, who is challenging a politically retaliatory Department […]
The survival of democratic legitimacy depends not only on voters but on courageous election officials, an informed public, and military leaders who refuse to let the armed forces become instruments of election interference. Democracy survives only when those entrusted with public power know where their authority ends, and have the courage to stop there. Here […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Steady State, an organization of more than 420 former national security, intelligence, diplomatic, military, law enforcement, and homeland security officials, today endorsed the Hon. Don Davis for North Carolina 1st Congressional District. Born in Snow Hill, NC, Don Davis attended the United States Air Force Academy, and was commissioned into the […]
Trump’s campaign rhetoric echoes an old pattern in American history. The real danger is not partisan hyperbole itself, but the politicization of an intelligence community that was created after Pearl Harbor to guard against political blindness. President Donald Trump has been messaging repeatedly that this November’s congressional elections will pit “freedom-loving” MAGA Republicans who love […]