They helped save our troops. Trump wants to deport them.

 

When I served in combat in Afghanistan, it wasn’t just soldiers who had our backs — it was civilians who became our brothers and sisters in arms. They were our translators. Our guides. Our eyes and ears in hostile territory. They weren’t just allies. They were the reason so many American soldiers made it home alive. Including me. That is why I am disgusted to report that Donald Trump is sending them back to Afghanistan with a target on their back – essentially signing their death warrants.  This week, his administration revoked Temporary Protected Status for over 9,000 Afghan refugees—men and women who risked their lives helping our troops during the longest war in U.S. history. I’ve served alongside these folks. One young man who worked as my interpreter faced constant death threats, but his instincts and his courage saved my life and the lives of my troops more than once. So when I left, I made damn sure the interpreters who worked with my unit got out safely. Because that’s what America promised. But now Trump — this coward who dodged the draft with a BS doctor’s note — is tearing up that promise. To make matters worse, Trump’s deporting our allies while rolling out the red carpet for white South African farmers claiming “reverse racism.”  That lie’s been debunked time and again, but MAGA doesn’t care.  If you’re rich and right-wing, the gates swing wide. If you're not, your loyalty doesn’t count. This is the hateful, xenophobic core of MAGA on full display, the culture that the MAGA money mule Richard Hudson is fueling.   The King Rat of the Beltway is signing the damn checks that make this betrayal possible. He’s funding a movement that turns its back on honor, on loyalty, on everything we’re supposed to stand for. I am pissed off beyond words. Let’s call this what it is: White Christian nationalist cosplay from a bunch of crybaby authoritarians on the dumbest crusade imaginable.  Their fragile little egos can’t handle the idea that America isn’t just for them anymore. So they lash out—deport  allies, punish refugees, and call it patriotism. We cannot let this stand. Pitch in now to help me flip this seat, send Trump’s bagman Richard Hudson packing — and build a Congress that honors its word, protects its allies, and never, ever forgets who stood by us in war. DONATE TO DEFEAT TRUMP'S CRONY! Sappers clear the way, Airborne all the way! Maj. Richard Ojeda (Ret.) Candidate for Congress, NC-09

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Why 13 dog tags hang in my office.

 

There are thirteen dog tags hanging in my office.   Each one belonged to a friend I served with. Thirteen heroes I knew. Thirteen lives cut short in service to our country.   I held them up when I stood before the West Virginia state senate, demanding that we pass my medical cannabis bill. Because I’ve seen what war does to the minds and bodies of those who do make it home, and I would not let their sacrifice be in vain.   Today we honor not just the names I carry with me, but all the ones who didn’t make it home.   Those tags hang by my desk as a reminder. Of who we lost. Of what we fought for. Of what I still owe them.

And I’ll tell you right now—this is not the country we fought for.   Donald Trump’s reign of terror spits in the face of every veteran buried at Arlington—or in a quiet cemetery back home—who gave their life believing in what America stands for: democracy, dignity, and freedom from tyranny.   This is the same man who called our fallen “suckers” and “losers.”   The same man who wants to round up immigrants into camps, gut the Department of Veterans Affairs, and purge the federal government of anyone who won’t bend the knee.   I didn’t wear the uniform so some draft dodger and petty fail-son of a slum-lord empire could turn this country into a dictatorship. And the brothers and sisters in arms I lost sure as hell didn’t give their lives for this either.   Now we’ve got cowards like Richard Hudson—Trump’s budget enforcer—cheering him on, slashing services for veterans, and helping build the kind of country we used to fight against overseas.   This Memorial Day, I want you to remember our fallen brothers and sisters but I also want your courage.   I want you to stand up for what they stood for.   Because if we let this country fall into fascism on our watch, then we’ve broken the promise we made to every one of them.   If you’re feeling the weight of this moment—and you want to honor it with action—chip in to help us keep fighting. Maj. Richard Ojeda (Ret.) Candidate for Congress, NC-09

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Trump’s lapdogs are losing

 

Last week, Democrats flipped a state Senate seat in one of the most Trump-friendly districts in New York.   Trump won that area last November by 20 points, and it didn’t even matter.   We’re seeing similar results in GOP strongholds across the country.   We saw it in a special state senate election in Iowa. We saw it in a Pennsylvania race that flipped a seat Republicans have held since 1889! We saw it in the Omaha mayor’s race. And now we’re seeing it in New York.   The tide is turning.   Voters are done with Trump’s circus.   They’re done with MAGA extremists looting the country, lying to their faces, and calling it leadership.   Trump’s chaos isn’t energizing his base anymore—it’s exposing how useless, how cruel, and how incompetent his entire party has become.   And right in the middle of it all is my opponent Richard Hudson.   One of the most pathetic career hacks in Washington.   A man who’s never held a job outside politics, never fought for anything worth a damn, and now leads the NRCC—the cash machine keeping Trump’s army of traitors in office.   And you think Democrats are winning now?   Just wait until these cowards have to go home and defend Trump’s so-called “big beautiful bill”—the one that guts Medicaid, slashes the VA, and shuts down the Department of Education just to keep billionaires happy.   Richard Hudson didn’t just vote for it—he helped push it through. Like the obedient little lapdog he’s always been.   He’s not a leader. He’s not a patriot. He’s a soft-handed parasite who’s never sacrificed anything, but wants to make the rest of us bleed for his donors.   Let me be clear: We’re turning NC-09 into a battleground district. Hudson is vulnerable—and I intend to take him out.   Pitch in now and help me flip this seat, crush the MAGA agenda, and send Richard Hudson crawling back to whatever corrupt donor-funded hole he came from.   Sappers clear the way, Airborne all the way! Maj. Richard Ojeda (Ret.) Candidate for Congress, NC-09

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