Political Persecution by the Trump Administration

Captain Mark Kelly’s Response

“I’ve given too much to this country to be silenced by bullies who care more about their own power than about protecting the Constitution.”Mark Kelly

BREAKING: Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) responds to Pentagon investigation: "I've given too much to this country to be silenced by bullies"

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— MS NOW (@ms.now) Nov 24, 2025 at 11:53 AM

Just Some Responses in Support of Captain Mark Kelly

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U.S. President Teddy Roosevelt once said, “Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president.”

Roosevelt made this remark in an essay entitled “Lincoln and Free Speech” that was originally published in Metropolitan Magazine in May 1918. The full essay is available via the HathiTrust Digital Library. Click on the Image Below.

Lincoln and Free Spoeech - Theadore Roosevelt
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The Full Quote

“Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the President or any other public official save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him in so far as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. In either event it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth — whether about the President or about anyone else — save in the rare cases where this would make known to the enemy information of military value which would otherwise be unknown to him.” Theodore Roosevelt (1918)

Others Are Also Being Targeted

Chris Deluzio

Congressman Chris Deluzio – Christopher Raphael Deluzio is an American politician, attorney, and former U.S. Navy officer serving as the U.S. representative for Pennsylvania’s 17th congressional district since 2023.

“Trump just called for my death and arrest.

He not only called for my arrest—he went even further, calling for violence against me and several of my colleagues who also served the country before our time in Congress.

Why? Because we spoke a simple truth: no service member is forced to follow an illegal order. The oath to the Constitution is sacred, one that I first swore as a 17-year old at the Naval Academy, and binds us all to the rule of law.

I will not be intimidated by Donald Trump and his calls for violence against me.

I took the oath in the Navy—and I took it again when I was elected to Congress.

That oath doesn’t expire—and I’ll be damned if Donald Trump, a man who tried to overthrow our government on January 6, 2021, tells me how to serve this country.

So Trump can threaten me, call for my arrest, and even try to incite violence against me, but he can’t scare me into abandoning my oath.”


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