I am sick and tired of the division. This isn’t the country I grew up in. This is not the country I have served for almost 40 years.

We are not simply Republicans or Democrats. We are not red, blue, black, brown or white Americans. We are Americans! Anyone, who tells you otherwise is the enemy. They are the dividers. They are the problem.

Everything you need to know about my values, my childhood, my mistakes and my scars you can find in my autobiography, Faith, Family and Fortitude: Seeing Opportunities Instead of Obstacles (published in advance on my 2020 Senate campaign).

I swore an oath to defend all Americans in 1987 and I have served every day since then, either in the Reserves or on Active Duty. I come from a military family. My grandparents served in World War II and the Korean War. My father served during the Vietnam War. My fathers-in-laws all served in Vietnam. My brother served in Iraq during Operation Iraqi Freedom. And now my children serve.

Since 1987, I have served in the military at tactical, operational, strategic and national level and continue to serve today in the Army Reserves as a Chief Warrant Officer. I served in Afghanistan alongside U.S. Special Forces. I am well-known as a bulldog when it comes to fighting injustice, training and taking care of my Soldiers and never ever quitting. Ever.

Since 2005, I have served in the military or the intelligence community as a subject matter expert on intelligence, counterterrorism and international conflict issues. I am intimately familiar with the mosaic of threats we face around the world (Iran, Russia, China, and domestic threats). I have worked across the intelligence community doing everything from writing our nation’s war plans to the development of technology to better enable our special operations and intelligence community to close with and destroy our nation’s adversaries. I recently served as the Senior Advisor on Counterintelligence and Security issues for the Director of National Intelligence. 

Early Warnings of Domestic Unrest

In 2020, while serving as the Senior Intelligence Strategist on Domestic Extremism, I personally warned the FBI that we should be exploring possible “black swan” events (unanticipated events). My warnings were ignored, and we had January 6. I was an eye witness to J6 and I was a voluntary witness to the first J6 Committee.

After J6, I wrote and published a White Paper (Inside the FBI’s Domestic Terrorism Strategy) on what I assessed were the causes of J6. Why did so many people come all the way to the U.S. Capitol that day – 1) a demonstrated lack of true faith and allegiance to the U.S. Constitution by members of the U.S. government, 2) the mental health crisis in the U.S. falsely portrayed as “gun violence,” used to threated the 2nd Amendment of the Constitution and 3) a continuing lack of government transparency leading to conspiracy theories. All these things lead to one inevitable conclusion – lack of faith in our government and domestic turmoil.

Weaponization of the Federal Government

After the events of J6, I was terminated from my contract, and the FBI opened a two and a half year long national security investigation into me. This investigation was conducted without any predicate of a crime whatsoever. I was investigated solely due to my attendance to the rally at the US Capitol on J6. The FBI National Security Branch investigation was motivated completely by political bias of the former Biden FBI and DOJ. The FBI labeled me a domestic extremist. As a result of this investigation I lost two jobs and a promotion in the Army Reserves to Chief Warrant Officer 4 and a “show cause” removal board was initiated against me.

In 2025, the show cause removal was thrown out by the Commander of the Army Reserve and in September 2026 my promotion to CW4 was reinstated. I am currently involved in a civil lawsuit against the FBI and the DOJ for constitutional and FOIA violations. The FBI has finally admitted to having 90,210 pages of information potentially related to me after denying they had anything for three years. All the details of this weaponization is available here on my website as well as the Constitution and FOIA violations.

Defamed by the Democratic Party of Virginia (DPVA)

In November 2022, just a few days before the 2022 Congressional primary, the Abigail Spanberger campaign published a defamatory press release (via the DPVA website) claiming I was a “notable insurrectionist who attacked the U.S. Capitol” and claimed I was guilty of “bloodying and beating law enforcement officers.” These claims were ridiculous. This press release was published via the Democrat Party of Virginia website in order to conceal the involvement of the Spanberger campaign and was distributed to hundreds of media outlets.

I immediately, issued a cease and desist which the DPVA ignored. I followed up the desist order with a lawsuit in March of 2023. Initially, I did not know the Spanberger campaign was involved because their involvement was concealed in the publication by the DPVA. Spanberger’s involvement was not known until discovery wherein it was determined that the press release was written, approved and submitted for publication by the DPVA deliberately to conceal what Abigail’s press secretary called “negative trending.” (i.e. smear) The article was intended to smear Yesli Vega by defaming me.

The press secretary of the DPVA at the time, the press secretary for Abigail, as well as her campaign and congressional staff have all been deposed. All those deposed have admitted that at the time of publication they did not even know who I was when they published the press release demonstrating that they showed reckless disregard for the truth. While the Army, FBI and the DOJ were investigating me they did not publicly defame me. The statements made about me by the DPVA were lies and they did it to influence a political race.

Spanberger herself has been deposed about her involvement in the approval of the defamatory press release. Recently the Democratic Party retained the additional legal counsel of Don Scott, the Speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates. Her deposition will become public soon, and we will know the truth of her involvement.