Save America’s Military Coalition’s Senate Telethon 2.0

“Supporting Pete Hegseth, Opposing Cultural Marxism in the Military”

Thursday, Jan 2, 2025
2:00-3:15 p.m. ET

WASHINGTON, DC — 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.”

WHAT: Save America’s Military Senate Video Telethon 2.0: “Supporting Pete Hegseth, Opposing Cultural Marxism in the Military”

WHEN: 2:00 – 3:15 pm ET, Thursday, January 2, 2025

WHO:

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

Participants:

Lieutenant General Rod Bishop, USAF (Ret.); former Air Commander Europe and Third AF Commander; Chairman, STARRS (Stand Together Against Racism and Radicalism in the Services)

Vice Admiral Dean Lee, USCG (Ret.); Retired in 2016 following a distinguished 35-year career in the U.S. Coast Guard, rising to the rank of vice admiral as commander of Coast Guard Atlantic Area, overseeing a force of 21,000 active-duty personnel conducting all Coast Guard missions from the Rocky Mountains to the Arabian Gulf, spanning across 40 states, the Caribbean Sea, and the Atlantic Ocean; board of directors for HELINET; Honorary Professor of Military Science at the Joint Forces Staff College in Norfolk, Virginia

Colonel Rob Maness, USAF (Ret.); former Commanding Officer of a bomber squadron; former Vice Commander of America’s largest Airborne Intelligence Wing; former Commander, Kirtland Air Force Base, Senior Fellow, National Institute for Deterrence Studies; 2024 Trump Surrogate; host, “The Rob Maness Show”

Major Drew Dix, USA (Ret.); Medal of Honor recipient; first enlisted man in the US Army Special Forces to receive the Medal of Honor; In addition to the 82nd and the 101st, Drew was assigned to the 5th & 6th Special Forces Groups, Aide to the CG of the JFK Special Warfare Center, aide to the CG XVIII Airborne Corps. He was instrumental in establishing the Joint Special Operations Support Element (JSOSE) at MacDill AFB in Tampa, FL., and was assigned to the 4th BN, 9th INF at Ft Wainwright, Alaska; Alaska’s first Director of Homeland Security; Co-founder and board member of the “Center for American Values”; President, Congressional Medal of Honor Society; founder, REMUDA, LLC

Elaine Donnelly, Founder and President of the Center for Military Readiness

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

Hon. Robert Charles, Esq., Former Assistant Secretary of State for Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs; former U.S. Navy intelligence officer; former White House congressional counsel; author, Eagles and Evergreens; and Principal, The Charles Group – Topic: “The CCP’s Overseas Police: Undermining Law Enforcement Here and Elsewhere”

Dr. Carol Swain, PhD, MSL, author or editor of eleven books, including, “The Adversity of Diversity: How the Supreme Court’s Decision to Remove Race from College Admissions Criteria Will Doom Diversity Programs,” and “Black Eye for America: How Critical Race Theory is Burning Down the House;” former professor, Princeton and Vanderbilt Universities; former member, 1776 Commission, former advisor to the U.S. Civil Rights Commission and the National Endowment for the Humanities – Topic: “Cultural Marxism and Its Assault on America”

Colonel Grant Newsham, USMC (Ret.); Former Military Attaché in Embassy Tokyo; former Foreign Service Officer; longtime business executive in the Western Pacific; Senior Fellow, Center for Security Policy; Author, “When China Attacks: A Warning to America”

Lt. Colonel Matt Lohmeier, former U.S. Space Force commander, Executive Vice President, STARRS (Stand Together Against Racism and Radicalism in the Services), author "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, U.S. Senate and Office of the Vice President; involved in over 300 political campaigns; Editor-in-Chief, Conservative HQ

Col./Dr. Ron Scott, PhD, Col, USAF (Ret.); President and CEO, STARRS (Stand Together Against Racism and Radicalism in the Services); Vice President and Director of Operations, American Constitution Foundation

Captain James Fanell, USN (Ret.); Former Director of Intelligence and Information Operations, U.S. Pacific Fleet; co-author, "Embracing Communist China: America's Greatest Strategic Failure”

Ron Armstrong, President, Stand Up Michigan; founding member of both the Sovereignty Coalition and Save America’s Military; a leader in national conservative activism

HOW: Register at SaveAmericasMilitary.org.

TAKE ACTION: Please take action in sending your Senators a letter calling on them as your representatives to confirm Pete as our next Defense Secretary and give him the tools to “Make our Military Great Again!”

CONTACT: info@saveamericasmilitary.org

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