re: Your Watching A Movie
An article I've been working on for a while.
The Seditious Six did not spring out of nowhere. They came from an institutional lineage that started soon after President Trump got elected.
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The Seven Years of History behind Seditious Six
What the legacy Pentagon press corps refused to cover.
The Seditious Six video did not came out of nowhere in November 2025. It developed over a period of about eight years among academics, NGOs, and activists, with the final goal to rewrite the relationship between the military and the executive branch.
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 Foreign Policy Rosa Brooks |  Stage 1: personnel (2018) | ||
 Stage 2: rehearsal (2020) |  Stage 3: legal machinery (2024) | ||
 The 5-month runway (summer-fall 2025) | ● Summer 2025 — About Face, a veterans organization, launches its "Right to Refuse" campaign. ● Jul–Aug 2025 — National Security Action publishes a "Military and Intelligence" messaging one-pager, and the following month runs a battery of national-security message-testing focus groups. ● Sep-Oct 2025 — Win Without War puts "Not What You Signed Up For" billboards at military bases, telling troops to question their orders. ● Jun 17, refreshed Nov 11, 2025 — the National Lawyers Guild's Military Law Task Force publishes, then updates one week before the video, its "Refusing Illegal Orders" FAQ for service members. ● Nov 18, 2025 — six Democratic lawmakers release the video. | ||
 The Pentagon press corps never looked | |||
