@DataRepublican has been mapping how National Security Leaders for America fits into a larger effort that treats ordinary pushback against certain NGOs as a potential “red line” for declaring the federal government illegitimate. Before dismissing the group as a collection of mid-level staffers, look at who is actually allowed in. NSL4A’s core membership requires prior service at one of these levels: * Presidentially appointed, Senate-confirmed positions * Senior Executive Service, Senior Foreign Service, or Senior Intelligence Service * GS-14/GS-15 or FS-01/FS-02 equivalents * Retired officers at O-5 and above (or W-4/W-5) * Senior enlisted at E-8 or E-9 * Military spouses of O-7 through O-10 or E-8/E-9 veterans * Select former elected officials That is a high bar. It means the 1,600 figure is not padded with people who never held real responsibility. It also means the people inside the organization spent decades inside the institutions that define national security policy, intelligence priorities, and civil-military relations. When a network built to that standard is described as operationalizing a larger alliance that role-plays Insurrection Act scenarios, coordinates with groups planning post-election governance changes, and frames standard federal responses as grounds for illegitimacy, the relevant question is not whether the members once held senior jobs. It is what they are prepared to treat as acceptable risk to the constitutional order they took an oath to support. Credentials establish that these are not random activists. They do not settle whether the path they are helping chart strengthens American self-government or treats it as an obstacle. nsl4a.substack.com/p/nationa…

🚨🚨THE DEMOCRACY FILES, PART 1: THE PLAN 🚨 I am working on gathering all the documents. Now, here's something to understand about the "democracy" and protest ecosystem: almost nobody knows the 'grand plan' so to speak. They simply agree to play a role. For example, 99% of people breaking stuff on the streets believe they're doing it out of an organic uprising. They don't see that the police have been ordered to stand down. They don't see that legal services have already been arranged for them. They don't see that foundations are paying for their bonds. Similarly here, governors aren't participating in a pact to destroy the Constitution. Governors simply have agreed to push back on the Insurrection Act. The effect is the same: the governors end up playing a role in a grander plan. I call this "shared epistemology" in my book Unelected. Motivations differ, people rarely agree to the big evil supervillain framing, but incentives all converge in the same end goal. No Kings might not agree to explicitly tear down the Constitution, but they nonetheless work with DSA and will turn out millions of people if the right phone call is put in. Here is one articulation of the plan - and crucially, since then, they have put many NGOs in their places to execute their proper role at all levels when the time is right. Many more coming.

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