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By Capt Joseph R. John, June 11, 2018: Op Ed # 391

For the last 10 years, there has been a well coordinated attempt by Progressives to sow seeds of descent, to attack, and degrade respect for the Family Unit, Patriotism, Family Values, and Judeo/Christian traditions---“To fundamentally transform the United States of America.”  The Progressives' attacks have been aimed at patriotic symbols, statues memorializing famous figures in US History, the National Anthem, the American Flag, the Christian faith, and the Founding Fathers.  Marxist Progressive educators have altered US History, eliminated famous events and individuals in US History from school books, and created inaccurate records of US History in text books used to teach US history in grammar schools, middle schools, high schools, and college.  

 

Marxist Progressive advocates have led the attacks on…

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By Capt Joseph R. John, June  4,  2018: Op Ed # 390

The below listed Op Ed, by Admiral James A. Lyons, Jr. USNA ’52. USN (Ret), discusses how the US Navy could counter China’s blue water navy, and oppose China’s plan to control the South China Sea.  Over the last 10 years, China has developed a technically advanced blue water Navy whose goal is to be able to defeat the US Navy with conventional weapons; its rapid technology advances and ship building programs have been fueled by China’s theft of advanced weapons systems and ship designs from US corporations and the US Navy.  China’s long range goal is to become the dominate global naval power in the next decade.    

 

China’s plan is to expand its fleet to 351 ships, while the US Navy’s goal is to expand its fleet to 355 ships; Pentagon planners should not be planning parity with China, they should take a page out…

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By Capt Joseph R. John, May 28, 2018: Op Ed #389
Each year on Memorial Day weekend we honor American Patriots who gave the "last full measure of devotion" in their service to the Republic, so their fellow Americans could live their lives in freedom.

We not only honor American Combat Veterans who gave up their tomorrows, we also honor Veterans, and members of the US Armed Forces who were often separated from their loved ones, for long periods, as they went into “Harm’s Way.”On this Memorial Day weekend, the nation solemnly pays homage to the thousands of Gold Star families for the loss of their loved ones, and the enormity of their sacrifice!   
On Memorial Day, and every day throughout the year, we also honor Veterans who served in the defense of the Republic.  America owes those Veterans a debt of gratitude that it can never repay!  At… Read More

By Capt Joseph R. John, May 21, 2018: Op Ed # 388        

Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, the fiery leftist former mayor of Mexico City, with a double-digit lead in the opinion polls heading into the July 1st national election for the  Presidency of Mexico, vowed on May 18th to hit back at US President Donald Trump, if elected.  By turning a blind eye to the threat that Iran and the Los Zetas Drug Cartel has created in Mexico, outlined below, Republican, Democrat, and Independent members of Congress who continue their opposition to building a secure Border Wall contribute toward undermining the National Security of the United States.

 

The left of center liberal media establishment continues to cover up the below listed information about the terrorist training programs in Mexico initiated by Hezbollah (Iran’s proxy), the Iranian Republican Guard, and the Quds…

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By Capt Joseph R. John, May 14, 2018: Op Ed # 387         

A number of San Diego County Republican Central Committee members, including Carl DeMaio endorsed Omar Kamal Qudrat and John Renison Rosas to run for Congress.  In light of the below listed facts about Qudrat and Renison Rosas, their endorsements brings into question their judgement, and judgment of Chairman Tony Kravic, who aggressively lobbied for their endorsements.  Those votes were for Open Borders and for Illegal Immigration.  

 

DeMaio refused to endorse Congressman Duncan D. Hunter, Maj-USMCR (R-CA-50) for re-election, who wants to close the wide open southern border.  On April 20th, US Diplomat James Horn (USN), after making a speech at the Rancho Bernardo Country Club, heard the Tony Kravic extol the virtues of Ammar Campa-Najjar, the grandson of Muhammed Yusuf al-Najjar, who plotted the Munich…

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By Capt Joseph R. John, April 30, 2018: Op Ed # 386   

Over a 9 year period, from 2009 to 2018, thousands of hours have been spent communicating with 499 Combat Veterans from 50 states, additional thousands of hours have been spent doing background investigation and endorsing Combat Veterans For Congress.  Leading to the 2016 election, 112 Independent, Conservative, and Republican candidates from 38 states were endorsed, 82 of them won their primary elections, and 29% of them, or 32 endorsed Combat Veterans For Congress from 22 states were elected to Congress (3 Senators and 29 US Congressmen).  To date this year in 2018, 27 Combat Veterans For Congress from 18 states have been endorsed; prior to the November 2018 mid-term election, the number of endorsed Combat Veterans For Congress may increase to 35. 
 

The reason 29% of the 112 endorsed Combat Veterans…

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By Capt Joseph R. John, April 9, 2018: Op Ed # 385         

For the last 75 years, the US has spent hundreds of billions of dollars to have the US Armed Forces protect international borders and fund the construction of border walls in a countless number of countries throughout the world.  Unfortunately, for the last 40 years, the United States has not had secure international borders in its own country.  

 

The American citizens are no longer safe from the invasion of drugs smugglers, Radical Islamic Terrorists, smugglers of women sold for prostitution, MS 13 gang members from Central America, convicted criminals/repeat offenders who prey on the lives of innocent Americans, the influx of millions of illegal aliens, and the spread of infective diseases throughout the nation and in public schools, because illegal aliens are no longer quarantined in compliance…

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By Capt Joseph R. John, March 25, 2018: Op Ed # 384        

If you click on the below listed link to watch the video, it reveals that over the last 7 years, the Genocide of Christians in the Middle East and the violent attacks on Christians in Europe have dramatically escalated.  The landscape in Europe has significantly changed over the last 8 years because millions of Muslim Refugees that have been flooding into Europe refuse to assimilate; instead, they’ve formed heavily populated Muslim enclaves that law enforcement officers avoid entering because they are aggressively opposed.  
 
If immigrants entering the United States refuse to assimilate and oppose the US Constitution as the supreme law of the Republic, the “Unity of Purpose” Americans worked to maintain for 242 years, that further supported “Freedom of Speech”, “Freedom of Religion”,  and the “Liberty of The…

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By Capt Joseph R. John, March 21, 2018: Op Ed #383 

By clicking the below listed link, you will be able to view a short video that explains why the 35 year lease with a Russian-owned container company at Port Canaveral, Florida, approved by the Obama administration, is extremely dangerous for the National Security of the United States.  The Russians and their Middle East partners are operating automatously, under the radar, “inside the wire.”   

Project Pelican is among the worst agreements the Obama administration ever approved, possibly worse than transferring of 20% of the US’ production of uranium to Russia, and possibly even worse than the flawed Iranian Nuclear Weapons Agreement, which should have been an International Treaty requiring US Senate ratification.  

 

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By Capt Joseph R. John, March 13, 2018: Op Ed #382 

In the below listed article, a terrorist descendant, Ammar Campa-Najjar, was reported to have ties with Terrorists.  He does have ties with the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) and the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR).  Ammar Campa-Najjar is running as a Democrat for Congress in the 50th Congressional District of California, against an endorsed and elected Combat Veteran For Congress, Congressman Duncan D. Hunter, Maj-USMCR (R-CA-50).  

 

Campo-Najjar is an Open Borders Advocate and…

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By Capt Joseph R. John, March 6, 2018: Op Ed # 381 

The below listed speech was given on January 25, 2018 at Hillsdale College by Joseph E. DiGenova, Esq., the former US Attorney for the District of Columbia, a former Independent Counsel of the United States, the former Special Counsel to the U.S. House of Representatives, the former Chief Counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on Rules and Administration, and the former Counsel to the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (the Church Committee).  In his speech, Attorney DiGenova exposed a federal criminal conspiracy by political appointees of the Obama administration, designed to remove the President of the United States from office.  

 

The disgraced former FBI Director James Comey, with his seventh floor FBI Headquarters compromised political henchmen, and with the support of former Attorney General Loretta…

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The Combat Veterans For Congress PAC is endorsing LCDR Daniel R. Crenshaw, USN (Ret) (SEAL) (Wounded Warrior) as the 115th  Combat Veteran For Congress in 9 years.  LCDR Crenshaw is a fiscally conservative candidate who will work to rein in the out of control spending by irresponsible members of Congress, will work to reduce the National Debt, rebuild the strength of the US military, support the freedom & independence of the individual, protect & support the 2nd Amendment, secure the wide open Southern Borders, defeat ISIS & Al Q’ieda, and will support stimulating the private sector to grow & create new jobs.

LCDR Crenshaw is running for the 2nd Congressional District of Texas in an open seat, vacated by 7 term Congressman Ted Poe (R-TX-2) who has been diagnosed with leukemia.  LCDR Crenshaw is a strong advocate for common sense policies & integrity in…

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By Capt Joseph R. John, February 5, 2018: Op Ed # 380 

Why did some leaders in the Justice Department Headquarters, some leaders in FBI Headquarters, the leaders of the Democrat members of Congress, and the left of center liberal media establishment, try to prevent American citizens from reading the contents of “The Memo”?

 

Regardless, "The Memo" can be read “in the light of day” by any American citizen by reading the contents by clicking on the below listed link.  The information in “The Memo” exposes the actions of political appointees of the Obama administration in the Headquarters of the Justice Department and the Headquarters of the FBI.  It is available here for you to be read without the interference, hysterical attacks, and the spins by the left of center liberal media establishment, members of Congress, or by Comey’s hysterical Tweets.  

 

To…

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By Capt Joseph R. John, January 16, 2018: Op Ed # 379

Once again we are exposed to the double standard of the misleading "radical left of center liberal media establishment"; ignoring what Obama said two short years ago, what other elected politicians said listed below, and pouncing out of control on the “truth” President Trump may have uttered this week in the “privacy” of a closed White House meeting.  The President, two Senators, and the Secretary of Homeland Security that were in the meeting said President Trump did not use the language as stated by, as some have described the "tattle-tale weasel" Durbin, who leaked to the press in violation of what has come to be expected of a closed and private White House meeting---however, for the purposes of this Op Ed, I will assume President Trump did say what Durbin said, he said. 

 

Elected politicians who used foul…

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By Capt Joseph R. John, January 9, 2018: Op Ed # 378 

The below listed material exposes how political appointees of the Obama administration weaponized the intelligence community, the FBI, and the Department of Justice to spy on a US Presidential candidate before he was elected, and for the first time in US History, attempted to initiate the removal of a the duly elected US President from office, creating a Constitutional Crisis and by so doing, dangerously dividing the American electorate, by charging that Donald Trump collude with Russia to win the presidential election, when the truth is that Hillary Clinton colluded with Russia to create and pay for a false Steele Dossier on Donald Trump.    

 

The article further exposes how the political appointees in the Obama administration in the intelligence community, employed the fraudulently created Steele Dossier,…

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                 JANUARY 23, 2018

 We are pleased to announce what promises to be an outstanding presentation on Current National Security Issues 

Capt. Joseph John, USNA ‘62 

Chairman, Combat Veterans For Congress PAC

Following 30 years of Navel Service, Capt. John’s was appointed to a DOD Counter Terrorism Task Force (After 9/11); was then employed by Dept. of Homeland Security in Law Enforcement; and was employed by FBI in Counter Terrorism/Intelligence.  His Naval assignments included 3 tours of duty in Vietnam, deployment to Kuwait during Operation Desert Storm, 5 Special Operations in the Middle East and the Philippines with SEAL Teams, 12 years of sea duty in 6 Naval Destroyers, 3 Commanding Officer billets.  Staff billets were for Commander Naval Forces Europe, Commander Naval Facility Subic Bay Philippines, and Deputy for Readiness,…

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As we celebrate Christmas again this year, we wish all members of the US Armed Forces, those combat personnel, “Going Into Harm’s Way”, Veterans who served in the defense of the Republic, and the families of military personnel who also serve, a Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year.  

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By Capt Joseph R. John, December 5, 2017: Op Ed # 376  

ISIS Radical Islamic Terrorists are in San Diego and have distributed threats on the Internet against the Mormon Tabernacle Temple in University City and to continue genocide against Americans who do not practice the Muslim religion, against all Christians, and against all Americans who celebrate the birth of Christ during the Christmas Season.  

 

https://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2017/dec/04/stringers-jihadists-san-…

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By Capt Joseph R. John, November 9, 2017, Op Ed # 375

We honor all US Marines not only on November 10th, the US Marine Corps’ 242nd Birthday, but on every day.  Over the last 9 years, 31 of the 114 endorsed Combat Veterans For Congress who ran for Congress were members of the US Marine Corps; they are listed on the Endorsements and Alumni pages of our Web site.  

Seven of 31 Marines that were endorsed as Combat Veterans For Congress were elected to Congress.  Those who have served their country in combat as US Marines, and subsequently continued their service to the Republic as members of US House of Representatives are Cong John P. Kline (Col-USMC/Ret), Cong Paul Cook (Col-USMC/Ret), Cong Duncan D. Hunter (Maj-USMCR), Cong Michael Coleman (Maj-USMC), Cong Michael J. Gallagher (Capt-USMC), Cong Steve T. Kuykendall (Capt-USMC), and Cong Michael Grimm (Sgt-USMC… Read More

By Capt Joseph R. John, October 30, 2017: Op Ed # 374 

In May 2016, Hillary Clinton, Debbie Wasserman Schultz--Chairman of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), and Hillary's Presidential Campaign paid Fusion GPS (a firm Vladimir Putin engaged to destroy his political enemies in Russia), to create a list of unsubstantiated and unverifiable allegations against Donald Trump, and that he colluded with Russia to defeat Hillary Clinton for President.  

 

For a year, the DNC, and Hillary's Presidential Campaign, employed key Obama administration appointees and the left of center liberal media establishment to promote the hoax that Donald Trump colluded with Russia to defeat Hillary in the Presidential election.  

 

To date, there is not one shred of evidence to prove the unsubstantiated hoax that Donald Trump colluded with Russia to defeat Hillary for…

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My Fellow Americans, 

    Over the last 9 years, we’ve interviewed 444 Combat Veterans from 50 states, 114 Combat Veterans from 38 states were endorsed, 82 of whom won their primary elections, and 32 endorsed Combat Veterans For Congress from 22 states have served in Congress (3 US Senators and 29 US Congressmen).  

 

    As we approach the 2018 Congressional election, 22 Combat Veterans For Congress from 15 states have been endorsed.  With your financial support, we will be able to recruit, evaluate, endorse, and campaign for some of the 20 Combat Veterans from 11 states currently under evaluation. By November 2018, we expect the number of Combat Veterans we will be evaluating to increase to 40. 

 

    The results of the 2018 Congressional election will determine the makeup of Congress and whether the members of Congress: 

 

Will…

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By Capt Joseph R. John, September 6, 2017: Op Ed # 366  

The Patriotic Democrat Party of President Truman, President Kennedy, and President Johnson was radicalized over the last 8 years, by the Obama administration, and Nazi Collaborator George Soros.  The below listed article by Historian, Charles Sasser, outlines the policies and leadership of the new Democratic Party.  America is under siege from within, with the two new leaders of the Democratic Party's plan to work with Socialists, Marxists, and Communists to subvert the US Constitutional form of government, working from “inside the wire”, as described below and with the support of the traitors to the Republic listed in this Op Ed.    

 

The plan is being promoted by the Organization For Action (OFA), and is being funded by Nazi Collaborator Soros’ Tides Foundation to fundamentally change the nation that was…

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By Capt Joseph R. John, October 9, 2017: Op Ed # 372

ANTIFA demonstrators are the violent terrorist “Foot Soldiers” for Communists; the logo on the ANTIFA flag was created by the German Communist Party.  ANTIFA’s “Revolutionary Abolitionist Movement” (RAM) has been leading the coordinated national effort to deface and destroy over 350 US historical monuments.  

 

There is a startling parallel between today's violent ANTIFA left-wing terrorist rioters, and the brutal tactics used by the Nazi Brown Shirts, Mussolini Fascist mobs, and the Communist thugs of yesteryear.  The left of center liberal media establishment, especially the San Francisco Chronicle and the Huffington Post, have been covering up ANTIFA’s Communist ideology and affiliations.   

 

Today, on Columbus Day, ANTIFA terrorists are calling for violence and coordinating the plan to destroy…

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By Capt Joseph R. John, October 6, 2017: Op Ed # 371 

Prior to this weekend’s professional football games, we are sharing Larry Elder’s below listed, well researched article.  Larry’s findings defuse the left of center’s liberal media establishment’s oft printed articles that incite the black youth in the nation to hate Police Officers, and threatens the lives of Police Officers.  

 

The dishonest media continues to print one sided, anti-police, reports of people committing crimes, leading the reader and the TV viewers to believe Police Officers are targeting black Americans.  Yet each year more white men are killed by Police Officers performing their duties to protect the public, than black men.  The overwhelming number of white men and black men who are shot by Police Officers are armed and were using their weapons or vehicles to threaten the lives of the…

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By Capt Joseph R. John, September 27, 2017: Op Ed # 370

The below listed article by the Thomas More Law Center outlines the conflict that has erupted, because the NFL has not been enforcing its own below listed rules that requires professional football players to honor the National Anthem.  

The BBC reported earlier this year that US race relations have become more polarized and tense since January 20, 2009.  How did we get here, after millions of white Americans voted in national elections, twice, to elect the first black president in US history?

Unfortunately, over the last 8 years, Obama’s accusation of “white privilege”, and “of systematic racism by Police Officers” and the justice system, aimed at young impressionable black Americans, who were raised in mostly fatherless homes, had its effect.  They took Obama’s accusations to heart as…

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By Capt Joseph R. John, September 15, 2017: Op Ed # 368

We encourage you to review the below listed position paper by the Center for Military Readiness, then to contact your Congressional Representatives encouraging them to oppose the Amendment proposed as an attachment to the FY 2018 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).  
 

The irresponsible Amendment is being proposed by Senator Susan Collins (R-Me) and Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) insisting that Obama’s transgender policies remain unchanged as a part of the FY 2018 NDAA. 

 

Obama’s transgender policy has been a destructive social experiment forced upon the US Military requiring the recruiting and retention of personnel who suffer from a psychological condition called gender dysphoria has been the most “Destructive Policy” that has ever been forced upon the US Armed Forces in its 242 year…

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By Capt Joseph R. John, September 11, 2017: Op Ed # 367

It has been 16 years since the Radical Islamic Terrorist attack of September 11, 2001, on the United States that killed 2974 Americans and wounded over 6000.  The flight paths of the 9/11 attack by four aircraft, employed as guided missiles by the Radical Islamic Terrorists, are diagramed in the below listed panel for your review.

The series of airline …

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 By Capt Joseph R. John, August 30, 2017: Op Ed # 365

An endorsed and elected Combat Veteran For Congress, Congressman Ron DeSantis, Cdr-USNR (JAGC) (R-FL-6), attached an amendment to the must-pass spending bill, that Congress will take up next week.  The amendment prohibits the Special Counsel from investigating President Trump, his family members, or the Trump campaign for anything that happened prior to June 2015, when, then Donald Trump announced his candidacy.

Congressman DeSantis’ amendment puts a 180-day cap on funding for the Special Counsel’s investigation in the Russian collusion probe.  "Congress should not fund a fishing expedition," said Congressman DeSantis. “Congress should use its spending power to clarify the scope and limit the duration of this investigation,” he said. 

After one year of investigation, not one allegation of any criminal…

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By Capt Joseph R. John, August 7, 2017: Op Ed # 364

Former Special Agent John Guandolo, USNA '89, FBI (USMC) in the below listed article “Understanding The Threat” reveals what the true nature of CAIR, The Muslim Brotherhood, The Muslim Brotherhood Front Groups, ISIS, Al Q’ieda, Hamas, Hizballah, and Radical Islamic Terrorists' goals are.  

 

For the last 8 years, with the help of their appointees in the Obama administration, they jumped at the opportunity to destabilize the Republic with their misleading explanations of who they are.  Over the last 200 days, they have taken advantage of the naive and gullible members of the Trump administration to cover up the true nature of their goal.  Their true goal is to install Sharia Law as a replacement for the US Constitution.

 

In the last 8 years, The Muslim Brotherhood and The Muslim Brotherhood…

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By Capt Joseph R. John, August 1, 2017: Op Ed # 363

The below listed article, explains why a coalition of San Diego Patriotic organizations, families of San Diego City School students, San Diego registered voters in the Democrat and Republican parties, leaders of the Christian & Jewish communities, members of Veterans Organizations, retired Law Enforcement Officers, Women Volunteers In Politics, retired military personnel, and the Combat Veterans For Congress PAC came together to support The Freedom of Conscious Defense Fund (FCDF) Federal Law Suit filed by Charles S. LiMandri, Esq. against the San Diego Unified School Board to oppose its partnership with the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) to indoctrinate impressionable young students in the San Diego City Schools in Islam and Sharia Law.  

 

CAIR was identified as an International Terrorist…

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