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The Lincoln Project didn’t die. It rebranded and burrowed deeper.

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Every “new” anti-Trump group looks suspiciously like the last one wearing a different badge.

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When the same people keep appearing behind every narrative, it isn’t coincidence. It’s a network.

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The real power isn’t in the message. It’s in who coordinates it.

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If you can shape the military’s perception, you can shape the country’s fate.

BRIEFING

Jett here. I was scrolling through X when I landed on a thread from one of the sharpest investigators online: an account called Bad Kitty Unleashed. What she laid out was surprising. It connects the dots on this new push to convince the military to defy their commander in chief, and a lot of those dots trace back to familiar names from the old Lincoln Project universe. Nothing wild, nothing sensational, just documented connections and public statements that deserve a closer look. Let’s get into it.

The big picture Bad Kitty presented is fairly straightforward. Over the past few months, a handful of political groups, former military figures, and well-connected anti-Trump operatives have all started rallying around the same message: the military should refuse “unlawful orders” if Trump wins. On its own, that’s not new. What is new is how coordinated the messaging suddenly looks.

One of the earliest pushes of this narrative came from a group called the Save America Movement, which was launched by Steve Schmidt, yes, the same guy who co-founded The Lincoln Project, a creepy pedo-linked group of anti-Trump radicals. So right outta the gate, you’re dealing with someone who has spent about a decade positioning himself as the central figure in all things anti-Trump.

Then you look at who else is involved. The Save America Movement released a video featuring Senator Mark Kelly and several veterans. The theme of the video was simple: Trump is a threat, and military members have a “duty” to refuse his orders. But here's where things get intriguing... that message didn’t stay in one place. It moved through a number of affiliated groups: Valor Media, Veterans for Responsible Leadership, Common Defense, and The Chamberlain Network. And some of those groups openly say they include active service members, which is the part that raised so many eyebrows on X. That's a big no-no.

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And something else that's strange: a group tied to five of the so-called “seditious six” suddenly receiving a massive twenty-million-dollar funding spike earlier this year. Nobody’s alleging anything illegal, but those numbers and that timing stood out to many people and seem a bit "odd."

But hold on, things got stranger. The thread points out that one of the key figures in this network, the head of The Chamberlain Network, also works with Afghan Evac, a group that was created after Biden's disastrous and deadly Afghanistan withdrawal. And Afghan Evac has deep ties to over 250 organizations, many working directly with US intelligence and national security circles. Things that make you go hmmm.

Of course, none of this automatically means anything nefarious, but the overlap is worth noticing. Especially because, as Bad Kitty shows, this same orbit of people also appears in podcasts talking about psychological operations, narrative warfare, and how to weaponize influence campaigns. Again, none of this proves wrongdoing. But it does show a shared ecosystem where the same bad guys keep showing up in every “resistance” push against Trump. Common sense should do most of the heavy lifting here...

And then comes this moment, when everything clicked for people: it's all about the timing. The Save America Movement’s messaging about refusing orders started months before the video featuring Mark Kelly went viral. Then, out of nowhere, a Biden-era Afghan migrant with CIA-tied connections opened fire on DC National Guard troops. Totally separate event, but the coincidence rattled people who had just seen an entire video campaign telling troops to distrust their commander.

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So when you zoom out, the picture isn’t some secret cabal. It’s actually much more public than that. It’s a pattern of networks, personalities, messaging campaigns, and funding spikes all orbiting around the same goal: shaping how the military thinks about Trump as commander in chief. And this push didn’t start yesterday. A lot of it dates back to the 2024 campaign, and it kept building even after he won. Bad Kitty’s thread doesn’t claim some crackpot conspiracy. It just puts the puzzle pieces on the table and says, “Look at how many of these pieces come from the same box.”

So, we just walked through the broad pattern, talking about the networks, timing, veterans’ groups, and the Lincoln Project fingerprints, so now let’s look at where Bad Kitty actually starts connecting those dots. One of the earliest pieces she pulled came straight out of Steve Schmidt’s “Save America Movement.” And this is important, because it shows the messaging wasn’t random or improvised. It had a launch date, a rollout, and a very specific call to action to the military: defy the madman behind the curtain.

According to Bad Kitty, June 12, 2025, marks the first public push telling service members where to go if they planned to defy Trump’s orders. And the video doesn’t just gesture vaguely at “resources”; it directs people to the GI Rights Network, which is tied to the Military Law Task Force and the National Lawyers Guild.

That’s when things start to line up. Because this wasn’t just Schmidt freeballing. The Save America Movement was already moving as part of a consortium with other groups like Valor Media, Veterans for Responsible Leadership, Common Defense, and The Chamberlain Network, many of which openly say they include active service members and military families.

So when Bad Kitty points to this, she's highlighting how these networks overlap in messaging, membership, and purpose. What matters is that some of the same people who built the Lincoln Project’s messaging machine are tied into groups that specialize in narrative warfare. These are professionals who know how to shape a storyline.

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Huge! From Steve Schmidt, formerly of Lincoln Project which brought us the Tiki Torch hoax, I bring you his latest influence operation. June 12, 2025 the day that his Save American Movement was announced. This was the first known mention of an influence operation to defy Trumps military orders! A nearly 6 month operation coming to fruition. Inside his video, they tell you to report to the GI Rights Network. Which surprise surprise is partnered with the MILITARY LAW TASK FORCE and the National Lawyers guild. Hello @DataRepublican

Oh and this movement is thriving within all the Trump resistance circles including 50501. But wait, it gets better. The Save America movement is part of a consortium. Including active military! Thank you to @glasses_no for showing me this article. Their speaking out led me to greater things. “Save America Movement, Valor Media & Coalition Partners Release New Video Featuring Veterans Standing in Solidarity With Senator Mark Kelly” “Save America Movement (SAM), a national organization dedicated to defeating MAGA extremism and restoring American democracy, today, along with allied organizations including Valor Media, Veterans for Responsible Leadership, Common Defense and The Chamberlain Network released a new video featuring veterans from across the country speaking out in support of Senator Mark Kelly and condemning the Trump Administration's threat to recall and court-martial him for publicly stating the basic legal duty of men and women in uniform to refuse unlawful orders.” These orgs all seem to involve military. But Common Defense seems to include active military. This is a major no no! “Since then, we’ve grown into a powerful movement with more than 150,000 supporters and tens of thousands of veterans and military families across all 50 states. Millions of military veterans, service members, and families are tired of being exploited.” What makes these people dangerous is their predilection for running narratives. Recall Lincoln Project used to hang around with Military strength, Narrative Strategies of ASU. If these folks still do, they hide it well.

And once you see Schmidt’s network and messaging style, the next piece, Bad Kitty, highlighted makes even more sense. It isn’t just Schmidt pushing this narrative. It’s the people around him, too, including veterans with official roles inside the Save America Movement. One of the best examples is Kenneth Harbaugh, a Navy vet who sits right on the Steering Committee. His statement shows exactly how this little campaign is being framed for the military world... dramatic language, moral stakes, and a not-so-subtle swipe at Trump as some kind of “king.” The "No Kings" messaging is classic left-wing fodder.

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Kenneth Harbaugh works with Steve Schmidt (from the above article) : “I reached out to my fellow veterans about Hegseth's attempts to turn the Uniform Code of Military Justice into a cudgel to bludgeon President Trump's political opponent, everyone agreed to speak out, even knowing Hegseth might try the same intimidation tactics on them," said Kenneth Harbaugh, Founder of Valor Media, Save America Movement Steering Committee member and U.S. Navy veteran. "My message is this: Don't give up the ship. In America, we don't serve kings." And here’s the video mentioned in the article

Now here’s where Bad Kitty’s thread really opens up. Once you follow the Schmidt pipeline, you start running into organizations that supposedly don’t look political on the surface but actually are. One of the biggest is the GI Rights Network. It’s huge, and they don’t list all their partners publicly, which makes it easy to miss who’s actually connected. The most relevant one here is the Military Law Task Force, which operates under the National Lawyers Guild. That’s the link researcher and investigator Data Republican flagged, and this is where it shows up again.

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Now the Gi Rights Network is pretty large. And I don’t think they list all of their partners. I’m thinking perhaps some of those mentioned in the top post are included. The most important is the Military Law Task Force. Which is actually from the National Lawyers Guild. Recall that Data Republican found that this was linked. This is how.

Next, Bad Kitty flags something that raises eyebrows simply because the timing is really wild. A couple of months before Schmidt launched his “Save America Movement,” an organization tied to five of the “seditious six” suddenly received a twenty-million-dollar cash infusion. They had never seen anything like it. Nobody is saying these things are directly related, but when you’re tracking narrative networks, timing always matters. Sometimes an anomaly is just an anomaly, and sometimes it’s a breadcrumb.

 

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I have no idea if these are related. Sometimes you just need to push things out fast for the better of the country. A couple months prior to Steve’s announcement, an org that five of the seditious six belonged to got a tremendous cash infusion of $20 million dollars. Something they’ve never gotten before.

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And then there’s Common Defense. On paper, it’s a veterans’ group. But once you read past the mission statement, you see something more complicated. They openly state they include service members, which again means active duty. That’s a major line you’re not supposed to cross. It becomes even more interesting when you look at their origin story: founded during the 2016 election specifically to oppose Trump, now claiming tens of thousands of members across all 50 states. When a group like that gets folded into the same orbit as Save America, it’s worth paying attention.

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Sounds like Common Defense has active military members to me. “Common Defense was born out of the 2016 U.S. presidential election when military veterans recognized Donald Trump as a real threat. Since then, we’ve grown into a powerful movement with more than 150,000 supporters and tens of thousands of veterans and military families across all 50 states. Millions of military veterans, SERVICE MEMBERS, and families are tired of being exploited.”

Next up is the Chamberlain Network. Bad Kitty brings them in for one reason: their roster. A quick look shows a mix of ex-military and policy-world professionals all tied into the same ecosystem that keeps appearing in this thread. On its own, it’s just another organization in the “veterans advocacy” space, right? But in the context of everything else we’ve walked through, it could become one more piece sitting on that same section of the puzzle board.

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Next let’s review the Chamberlain Network. Trust me, I’m going somewhere with this. Team Members Ex military members: Christopher purdy Jason dozier Pete Lucier Other team members: Scott Cooper Crystal Ellington Jennifer Faust Camille Mackler Jeffrey Wells Amie Kashon

Now here’s where Bad Kitty pulls another thread that sits inside the same ecosystem we’ve been walking through. She points out that the Chamberlain Network, the group we just mentioned, is formally partnered with the Save America Movement. Again, nothing hidden. Nothing secret. It’s right there in the open.

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But the part that grabbed her attention was the role of Chris Purdy. He’s not just the head of the Chamberlain Network. He also works with Afghan Evac, the nonprofit that helped coordinate the Biden administration’s 2021 Afghan evacuation effort. Afghan Evac is big, heavily connected, and plugged into government agencies and NGOs. The point isn’t that Afghan Evac is doing anything improper. The point is that the same names keep orbiting the same circles—veterans’ groups, advocacy networks, and political messaging outfits, all tied to the broader “push back against Trump” ecosystem.

Bad Kitty’s point isn’t guilt by association. It’s simply that the overlap is real, it’s large, and it’s organized enough to take seriously and look into. Fair enough, right?

 

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Breaking news about the earliest operation group telling the Military to defy Trump (June 2025)! The Chamberlain Network is partnered with The Save America foundation. Well, Chris Purdy, Founder and CEO of The Chamberlain Network, also works at Afghan Evac. Afghan Evac was involved in the Biden 2021 evacuations to the US. “Formed in August 2021 during the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, Afghan Evac is a 501(c)3 tax-exempt charity organization that built and administers the mechanism for cooperation between U.S. government agencies and non-governmental, mostly volunteer, groups working to ensure the United States keeps its promise to our Afghan allies. Afghan Evac convenes a coalition of more than 250 organizations from across the ideological and political spectrum. Our coalition members - spanning veterans, national security professionals, human rights advocates, and Afghans - are united by a shared belief: The U.S. has a sacred duty to honor its promises to Afghan allies who served alongside the U.S. over the course of our longest war.” Link to Afghan Evac:

 

And then Bad Kitty shifts gears again, not to allege anything wild, but to show you what kind of skill sets are operating in these anti-Trump circles. She brings up two podcasts that, on their own, are totally normal discussions, but again, in context, they help you understand why the messaging feels so coordinated.

One features Reed Galen from the Lincoln Project talking with Paul Cobaugh of Narrative Strategies, a think tank that studies influence, persuasion, and political messaging. They talk openly about narrative warfare, how stories shape public opinion, and how political identities are engineered.

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The second podcast brings in active military leadership from Fort Bragg’s Psychological Operations Group alongside Dr. Ajit Maan, a specialist in narrative strategy who works with the Weaponized Narrative Initiative at ASU. The conversation covers information warfare, influence operations, and how narratives move through culture.

Again, none of this is secret. None of it is illegal. None of it “proves” anything dramatic. But it does show you the level of professional expertise that exists inside the same orbit as the groups pushing this “refuse Trump’s orders” messaging.

And when Bad Kitty lays these pieces next to each other—veterans’ groups, narrative strategists, political operatives, funding spikes, and psyops experts—the pattern becomes a lot easier to see.

She’s not yelling conspiracy. She’s saying, “Look at the architecture.”

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Since Fort Bragg and psychological operations are all the news, I present two podcasts for your listening pleasure on Narrative Warfare and Psychological operations. Brought to you by experts from: Podcast #1 - Lincoln Projects Reed Galen - Narrative Strategies VP Paul Colbough Podcast #2 - Fort Bragg Col. Jeremy Mushtare - Narrative Strategies founder, Dr. Ajit Maan Now Narrative Strategies has tons of expertise and are associated with the Weaponized Narrative Initiative and the Future of War Center, Army Cyber, and West Point Cyber at ASU. ASU is a Soros Network University. And the ASU president is a chairman of the CIA’s In-Q-Tel. The ASU Threatcasting team also works with people from the CTI League files, such as David Perlman. He’s a specialist in cognitive strategies. Rick Wilson of Lincoln Project would probably come in handy as an expert too, since he has experience in military-grade intelligence-gathering operations at the Two Plus Two Coalition. NY Times: “The group’s senior adviser, Rick Wilson, a former Republican operative who was a co-founder of the Lincoln Project, said in an interview on Thursday that his organization would operate as an opposition research firm but with a military-grade intelligence-gathering operation that went far beyond the document vetting typical of a political campaign.” (To expose Murdoch and Elon Musk.) Now on to the podcasts. I’ll just post the beginning of each then later provide the links for your learning pleasure. #1 Lincoln Project - The Finer Points of Narrative Warfare with Paul Cobaugh “Host Reed Galen is joined by Paul Cobaugh (Vice President of Narrative Strategies) to discuss the value (and danger) of effective narratives and how they can be used to exert influence…whether that’s on the battlefield or in the POLITICAL landscape. Plus, how the GOP went from political party to extremist movement, how this new identity will influence elections in 2022 and 2024, and what is the threat that Donald Trump poses to our nation’s national security?” Podcast # 2 Psychological Warfare The Indigenous approach “Col. Jeremy Mushtare is the commander of the 8th Psychological Operations Group (Airborne) located at Fort Bragg, NC. 8th POG (A) consists of 3rd PSYOP Battalion (A), 9th PSYOP Battalion (A), and a Headquarters and Headquarters Company. 3rd POB (A) supports operations around the globe with specialized expeditionary teams tailor fit to execute print, A/V, and broadcast activities.” “Dr. Ajit Maan is a narrative strategist focused on national security and international relations. She is founder and CEO of the U.S. based think-tank Narrative Strategies, Affiliated Faculty at George Mason University, member of the Brain Trust of the Weaponized Narrative Initiative of Arizona State University.” In podcast two they review disinformation, American narratives and story telling. Information warfare, and narrative warfare. The meaningfulness of disinformation to people, and how identity is created. And internalized narratives in our social and cultural environments. Now this will have to be an informative self learning module from the experts I provide. Sources to follow so that you can listen to the complete shows.

DEBRIEFING

Here’s the bottom line. Nothing we just walked through is hidden behind closed doors or locked inside some secretive classified files. It’s all out in the open. And that’s what makes it worth paying attention to. You’ve got political operatives, veteran networks, nonprofit coalitions, narrative strategists, and military-connected groups all swimming in the same pool, often using the same language and pushing the same message: preparing the culture to question or defy Trump’s authority before he ever gives a single order.

Does that prove coordination? No. But it absolutely shows overlap. It shows alignment. And it indicates that the messaging isn’t happening by accident.

This is why Bad Kitty’s work matters. She’s organizing the very intentional chaos... the chaos that’s meant to look confusing so the average person never puts it together. She’s laying out the receipts, the connections, the funding jumps, the personnel overlap, and the timing in a way that normal people can actually follow. And trust me, what we covered here is just the tip of her iceberg. If you want the full picture, the charts, links, vidoes, the cross-references, all of it, go read her work from start to finish. You can find her account here.

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At the end of the day, Americans deserve transparency when political networks begin steering conversations about the military, obedience, and so-called “unlawful orders.” These are serious topics that shouldn’t be shaped by consultants, persuasion networks, or influence campaigns without the public knowing who is involved, what they’re pushing, and why.

NOW YOU KNOW

You’ve seen the dots. You can decide for yourself how they line up.