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By Capt Joseph R. John, September 12, 2018: Op Ed # 402

In the below listed video of a national TV interview on One America News Network, Capt Joseph R. John, USNA ‘62/Former FBI, and GySgt Nick Popaditch, USMC (Ret) (Silver Star recipient) expressed their support for an endorsed Combat Veterans For Congress, Congressman Duncan Hunter, Maj/USMCR (R-CA-50).  

 

They pointed to Cong Hunter’s lifetime of service to the Republic.  Following his graduation from college, Duncan Hunter enlisted and served as an officer in the US Marine Corps; he served in combat operations in Iraq and in Afghanistan.  Then for nearly 6 years in Congress, on the House Armed Services Committee, Cong Hunter championed many legislative initiatives in support of the US Armed Forces and Veterans Affairs.  

 

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                               September 2018

My fellow Americans,

Only once a year do we seek your support to help us recruit and elect endorsed Combat Veterans For Congress.  This year it is extremely important that you assist us in the support of endorsed Combat Veterans For Congress, so they can help in their retention of endangered seats from being lost to Democrat Socialists, who will vote for Nancy Pelosi as the Speaker of the House.

As we approach the most important Congressional election in 242 years, endorsed US Senator Tom Cotton is not running for re-election this year, Cong Ron DeSantis is running for Governor of Florida, Cong James Bridenstine was appointed as the new NASA Administrator, Cong Ryan Zinke (SEAL) was appointed as Secretary of the…

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By Capt Joseph R. John, September 10, 2018: Op Ed # 401

We’ve been asked by many supporters about “With Honor”, a new organization that has endorsed 200 veterans to run for Congress.  Five of the 200 veterans they endorsed in 2018 are among the 31 Combat Veterans For Congress we’ve endorsed.  Besides the 5 endorsed Combat Veterans For Congress, they have also endorsed 6 previously elected Congressmen, as well a very large number of veterans running for Congress.    

 

We only recruit and endorse Combat Veterans to run for Congress.  Over the last 9 years, we have communicated with 499 Combat Veterans and endorsed 120 to run for Congress.  We are pleased that 88 of them won their primary elections and 32 endorsed Combat Veterans For Congress were elected to Congress (3 US Senators and 29 US Congressmen).  We do not have…

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By Capt Joseph R. John, August 27, 2018: Op Ed # 400

In 2010, Senator John McCain endorsed the Combat Veterans For Congress PAC.  Following Senator McCain’s endorsement, the Combat Veterans For Congress PAC endorsed Senator McCain, as a Combat Veterans For Congress.  In July 2011, Senator John McCain wrote and distributed a fundraising letter, to his supporters nationally, in order to solicit donations for the election of endorsed Combat Veterans For Congress.  Over the previous 8 years, Senator McCain had always been supportive of the other two endorsed Combat Veterans For Congress elected to the US Senate, and to the 29 endorsed Combat Veterans For Congress elected to the US House of Representatives.

Over those 8 years, on a monthly basis, without fail, we have been repeatedly criticized, vilified, and threatened for maintaining our endorsement of…

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By Capt Joseph R. John, August 23, 2018: Op Ed # 399

The Democrat candidate running against Congressman Duncan Hunter, in the 50th Congressional District, is 28 year old Ammar Campa-Najjar who has family ties to the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO).  He was taken to the Gaza Strip to be raised among Palestinians by his Palestinian father, Yasser al-Najjar, and remained there until age 12.

His grandfather, Muhammad Yusuf al-Najjar (aka Abu Yusuf) was the Radical Islamic Terrorist, and member of the Black September Organization, who was the mastermind and executioner in the operation that murdered 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, Germany.  
 

Prior to Barrack Hussein Obama’s election, Ammar Campo-Najjar was Obama’s Campaign Deputy Regional Director, and after …

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By Capt Joseph R. John, August 20, 2018: Op Ed #398

Katie Hopkins tells Americans what has happened to her beloved England, and warns Americans not to let it happen to the United States! 

The below listed video is funny, sometimes crude, raucous, but intentionally fashioned to get her point across, “not to let it happen to you.” 

All Americans should see this message.  The left of center liberal media establishment has managed to cover it up; most Americans are clueless.  

What has happened to England, Sweden, and much of Europe because of the massive invasion of illegal aliens and the establishment of no-go enclaves, which police won’t enter, is truly unsettling: no law and order in many places. 

It is not a Democratic, Republican, Independent, Liberal, Conservative, Christian,…

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By Capt Joseph R. John, August 17, 2018: Op Ed # 397

The left of center liberal media establishment has been frantically misrepresenting the revocation of John Brennan’s Security Clearance.  Brennan’s non-stop erratic and frenzied commentary on the loss of his Security Clearance has aggressively attempted to mislead the American people about the issue.  The below listed E-mail does an excellent job of discussing the revocation of Brennan’s Security Clearance.  
 

In order to shine the light of day on this issue, the following facts that the press failed to report on, are presented herewith:

In 1976, at the height of the Cold War when Russia was threatening the survival of the United States with the threat of its nuclear weapons, in that same year, Brennan voted for Gus Hall, the Communist Party candidate for President.

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By Capt Joseph R. John, July 31, 2018: Op Ed # 396

"Take away the heritage of a people and they are easily destroyed." Karl Marx

The below listed PBS article reveals that for centuries, education courses once taught to students in grammar schools, middle schools, and in high schools, extoled “America’s Heritage,” explained the freedoms outlined in The Bill of Rights, provided an “accurate History of the US,” and explained that the US Constitution is the foundation of the Republic’s government.  Over a 200 year period, American Educators taught students about “America’s Core Values,” “America’s Heritage,” and “American Exceptionalism.”  This gave students a unity of purpose which brought the melting pot of America’s diverse cultures together, and strengthened and unified American citizens in common goals.     

Individual…

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 Combat Veterans For Congress---Embedded Integrity

We encourage you to read the below listed article concerning former Captain Kevin M. Nicholson, USMC,  the 28th Endorsed Combat Veteran For Congress running for the US Senate in Wisconsin in 2018.  We encourage you to provide support for him in any way you can by going to his Web site https://nicholsonforsenate.com/.  His Democrat parents have disowned him, and have made financial donations to support the re-election campaign of first term Democrat Senator Tammy Baldwin, who he is running against.

 

Baldwin was…

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By Capt Joseph R. John, July 16, 2018: Op Ed # 394

Who are “PROGRESSIVES “as identified in this Op Ed?  The “PROGRESSIVE” philosophy was developed by Karl Marx and German Philosopher George Wilhelm Hegel in1801.  They stated “Everything is formed by the process of change.” “PROGRESSIVES” have been attempting to create doubts in the validity of the 242 year old US Constitution to govern the Republic; since then US Constitution has changed very little.  Since the 1920s, Communists who have been promoting and supporting Karl Marx’s “PROGRESSIVE” Philosophy have been trying to create doubts in the validity of the 242 year old US Constitution to govern. The left of center liberal media establishment has been covering up the identity of the groups that make up “PROGRESSIVES”---Marxists, Leftists, Socialists, Communists, and…

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By Capt Joseph R. John, July 6, 2018: Op Ed # 393

There has been over 700 demonstrations against Immigration and Customs Enforcement Federal Law Enforcement Agents (ICE), throughout the nation over the last 3 weeks.  The 50 offices of Obama’s “Organization For Action (OFA)” have been coordinating the demonstrations, with the support of their 32,525 members, and with the help of 14 field organizers.  The Demonstrators are being transported to various locations, and are being paid by George Soros.
  

The demonstrations are designed to eliminate the force of 6000 ICE Agents whose primary function is to enforce US Federal Immigration Laws, and to apprehend convicted Illegal Alien criminals on the interior of the US.  Obama’s OFA is lying about what ICE Agents are responsible for, and whipping up hysteria by saying ICE is separating Illegal…

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By Capt Joseph R. John, July 4, 2018: Op Ed # 392 

Each year on Independence Day, the Fourth of July, Americans celebrate, express their support for the freedoms they enjoy, and recognize the unlimited opportunities afforded them to improve their stations in life, because of success of The Free Enterprise System which built the most successful economic engine in the history of mankind.  The Fourth of July is also an opportunity for each “Patriotic American Citizen” to celebrate a second symbolic birthday.  

 

Countless generations of Americans fought for, and under, the American Flag.  The American Flag symbolizes the unity of Americans.  The “Flag” is flown on national holidays, above US Federal buildings, on US Military installations, on US Navy ships, over US Embassies & US Missions, by deployed US military…

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The Combat Veterans For Congress PAC endorses Cong Ron DeSantis, Lcdr-USNR (JAGC) for Governor of Florida.  Ron DeSantis is a fiscal and constitutional conservative who will work to rein in the out-of-control spending, and protect and support the 2nd Amendment rights in the State of Florida and nationally.  As Governor, he will stimulate the private sector to grow and create new jobs while bringing integrity and Judeo-Christian traditional family values to Florida’s government.”

For 9 years, the Combat Veterans For Congress PAC has only endorsed candidates running for Congress, and has never endorsed a candidate for State office.  However, since 2012 when we endorsed and supported Ron DeSantis to run for and get elected to Congress, we have observed how he has superbly represented the voters of Florida.  We therefore changed our endorsement…

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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…

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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…

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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… 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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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”, “…

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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). …

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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…

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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…

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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.…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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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