Oath-Breaking Democrats Pirate Oath Keepers’ Doctrine in Defiance of Trump

“Raise your hand if you STAND with Sen. Mark Kelly against Trump,” Democrat promoter @bluehue123 posted on X.com Sunday, along with a photo of Kelly with the caption:

“Trump essentially said loyalty to the Constitution is punishable by death. Those are dangerous words coming from the President of the United States, but I’m not going to be intimidated.”

The president, who did not say loyalty to the Constitution was punishable,  was responding to a video by Kelly and Democrat politicos Sen. Elissa Slotkin, Rep. Jason Crow, Rep. Maggie Goodlander, Rep. Chris Deluzio, and Rep. Chrissy Houlahan urging the military/National Guard to disobey orders related to: Stopping drug boats operated by designated Foreign Terrorist Organizations; and to refuse orders to protect U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and other United States Government personnel enforcing Federal immigration laws from violent protesters. Except they weasel-worded around it.

Per CNN:

In the video, the lawmakers don’t specify which orders service members have received, or might receive, that could be illegal.

In other words, high-profile Democrat “lawmakers” were stirring the pot where no unlawful orders had been issued and creating a likely situation for military personnel to disobey lawful ones, endangering the mission and their fellow service members. It wasn’t loyalty to the Constitution that was the issue—quite the opposite, actually.

But what this does is highlight an interesting exercise in Democrat hypocrisy, cognitive dissonance and ginned-up hysteria, as what they were  egging on was literally ripped off from a group the Party has been smearing as insurrectionary extremists since they first came on the scene in 2009, following news accounts of police and National Guard personnel disarming American citizens during Hurricane Katrina: Oath Keepers. (Full disclosure: I wrote Second Amendment columns for Oath Keepers for several years, now only available via the slow-loading Internet Archive/Wayback Machine.)

The reason Oath Keepers, comprised of active and retired military, law enforcement, and first responder were so hated and feared by the left was because, in addition to “pled[ging] to fulfill the oath all military and police take to ‘defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic,’” and citing the Uniform Code of Military Justice as the lawful authority for rejecting unlawful orders, the non-partisan association promoted a specific Declaration of Orders We Will Not Obey:

1. We will NOT obey any order to disarm the American people.
2. We will NOT obey any order to conduct warrantless searches of the American people, their homes, vehicles, papers, or effects – such as warrantless house-to house searches for weapons or persons.
3. We will NOT obey any order to detain American citizens as “unlawful enemy combatants” or to subject them to trial by military tribunal.
4. We will NOT obey orders to impose martial law or a “state of emergency” on a state, or to enter with force into a state, without the express consent and invitation of that state’s legislature and governor.
5. We will NOT obey orders to invade and subjugate any state that asserts its sovereignty and declares the national government to be in violation of the compact by which that state entered the Union.
6. We will NOT obey any order to blockade American cities, thus turning them into giant concentration camps.
7. We will NOT obey any order to force American citizens into any form of detention camps under any pretext.
8. We will NOT obey orders to assist or support the use of any foreign troops on U.S. soil against the American people to “keep the peace” or to “maintain control” during any emergency, or under any other pretext. We will consider such use of foreign troops against our people to be an invasion and an act of war.
9. We will NOT obey any orders to confiscate the property of the American people, including food and other essential supplies, under any emergency pretext whatsoever.
10. We will NOT obey any orders which infringe on the right of the people to free speech, to peaceably assemble, and to petition their government for a redress of grievances.

Who would be against this? But for it, they were smeared as seditionists and “hatriots”, despite the fact that Association Bylaws placed restrictions on membership on:

[Any] person who advocates, or has been or is a member, or associated with, any organization, formal or informal, that advocates the overthrow of the government of the United States or the violation of the Constitution thereof, shall be entitled to be a member or associate member [and any] person who advocates, or has been or is a member, or associated with, any organization, formal or informal, that advocates discrimination, violence, or hatred toward any person based upon their race, nationality, creed, or color, shall be entitled to be a member or associate member.”

We could say it’s surprising the Democrats are presenting the idea of disobeying orders as their own, but it’s not really when you consider what they’re really engaging in is trademark gaslighting on behalf of foreign criminals and invaders. Especially considering every one of the politicians in the video took an oath to the Constitution and actively promotes eviscerating the right of the people to keep and bear arms.

BREAKING: Elected Democrats just released a video encouraging members of the military to commit treason and DEFY orders from Trump and Hegseth pic.twitter.com/Sm4calnccR

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) November 18, 2025

About David Codrea:

David Codrea is the winner of multiple journalist awards for investigating/defending the RKBA and a long-time gun owner rights advocate who defiantly challenges the folly of citizen disarmament. He blogs at “The War on Guns: Notes from the Resistance,” is a regularly featured contributor to Firearms News, and posts on Twitter: @dcodrea and Facebook.