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Category - Woke Agenda
Evidence that the DEI/CRT agenda in the military DOES hurt recruiting and retention
From January 2023 to December 2024, STARRS collected evidence of a large elephant in the room regarding the recruiting...
Mom Sues Military Officials Who Allegedly Retaliated Against Her Complaints Of School ‘Polysexual’ Posters
A New Jersey mom is suing military officials who deemed her social media post voicing concern over an elementary school’s...
FGA Sounds the Alarm on Permanent ‘Woke Army’ Being Assembled Inside the Federal Government
(Press Release) President Biden’s new ‘Equity Teams’ will embed gender ideology, environmental justice, radical racial...
Army’s Woke Drive Alienates Potential Recruits
By Michael Reagan (son of President Reagan) The U.S. Army has learned that if you torture data long enough it will confess...
Navy secretary cited climate change as top priority as Biden proposes shrinking the fleet
Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro said he sees fighting climate change as a top priority for the Navy as the Biden...
The Tyranny of the DEI Bureaucracy
Diversity, equity and inclusion offices become weapons to intimidate and limit speech By the Wall Street Journal Editorial...
Pentagon Personnel Official Prioritizes DEI Over Recruiting
Two Senators wondered why 20 pages of the 26-page prepared statement by Defense Undersecretary for Personnel and Readiness...
US Military Recruitment Flatlines as American ‘Propensity to Serve’ Fades
. . . .Wagner was among eight officials representing the individual military branches and the Pentagon to testify on March...
PR campaign to deny wokeness in military
Ongoing PR campaign to deny that leftist woke policies in the military are affecting recruiting: These are all the same...
Pentagon ‘Actively Working’ To Find Doctors Who Will Provide Hormones, Puberty Blockers For US Military Kids Abroad
Department of Defense (DOD) medical providers in Europe are stepping up efforts to identify civilian providers of hormone...
Grassroots Army Backs Senator’s Effort to Overturn Pentagon Abortion Policies
Conservative leaders representing millions of pro-life Americans are joining forces with Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., to...
General: Woke Military Stifling Recruitment
The Pentagon is blaming declining military recruitment numbers on the state and health of today’s youth, but that is a...
Pentagon’s ‘Strategic Management Plan’ Devotes Roughly One Out Of Every Six Pages To Diversity, Climate Change
Nearly one of every six pages of a document detailing the Pentagon’s management strategy are devoted to combating climate...
Military Gender Pronoun Training
At a recent congressional hearing, the Air Force Chief Master Sgt. responded to a Congressmen’s question that the Air...
Air Force goes on DEI hiring spree: Top job pays up to $183,500
The U.S. Air Force this month launched an effort to hire a handful of senior-level diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI)...
What People are Saying
The Defense One editor recently rebuked Sen. Ted Cruz who announced his upcoming book, “Unwoke: How to Defeat Cultural...
The Army Might Be Ditching Its ‘Woke’ Image As It Faces Historic Recruiting Problems
The Army’s new branding campaign, unveiled Wednesday, shied away from social justice and diversity themes as it seeks to...
The Left’s Religion: Politician says DEI is “God”
By Everett Piper This week’s news from the frontline of the culture wars comes from Oklahoma, where a Republican state...
Military Leaders Say DEI Initiatives Aren’t Hurting Recruiting, Accuse Congress Of Politicizing Armed Forces
The armed services’ top enlisted leaders asserted that diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives haven’t damaged...
At congressional hearing, US military leaders deny assertions force is being politicized
Senior enlisted US military leaders pushed back against Republican lawmakers’ assertions on Thursday that the force is...
Biden Budget to Fund ‘Transgender’ Treatments for Veterans
The Biden Administration’s proposed budget for 2024 includes funding for genital mutilation surgeries and hormone treatments...
Is the military too ‘woke’ to recruit?
Lt. Col. Dan Rooney, former US Air Force fighter pilot and founder of Folds of Honor, and Maj. Gen. Edward Thomas, the...
Army Secretary Dragged For Prioritizing ‘Resiliency In The Face Of Climate Change’
United States Army Secretary Christine E. Wormuth took some heat via Twitter when she boasted on Thursday that the Army was...
New changes underway at VMI addressing DEI issue
(Spirit of VMI Press Release) The Spirit of VMI Political Action Committee (SOVP) was founded in February of 2021 in...
Senator slams woke Pentagon policies in Senate floor speech
(Press Release) U.S. Senator Roger Wicker, R-Miss., ranking member on the Senate Armed Services Committee, on Thursday...
Midshipmen warn left-wing politics are infiltrating Merchant Marine Academy: ‘Last frontier for woke ideology’
By Jon Brown | Fox News Multiple current and former midshipmen at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point, New York...
‘Woke’ Defense Department DEI education official’s books now in one third of Pentagon schools
Nearly one-third of all Defense Department school libraries carry copies of the controversial “racial justice”...
We’re equity mandating ourselves into oblivion
Citizens for Sanity is out with a brand new video exposing the racist equity mandates destroying our society. US Congressman...
Virginia Military Institute Alumni Withhold Donations to Fight Diversity Agenda
Alumni of the Virginia Military Institute (VMI) are leading an effort to redirect donations toward a foundation that...
STARRS Encourages Secretary of Defense to Focus on Readiness
On February 16, 2023, the Biden Administration issued an Executive Order to establish equity teams across numerous federal...
VMI alumni work to disrupt alumni donations to force school to end DEI programs
‘The only way you can influence them is by hurting their pocketbook.’ The Virginia Military Institute continues to face...
Diversity, Equity And Inclusion Is Bad For Business. In The Military, It Might Be Lethal
The Department of Defense recently deployed its Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Access committee, declaring diversity to...
Washington Post Article Backfires; Draws Attention to DEI at VMI
(Spirit of VMI Press Release) As anticipated by the SOVP Press Statement dated 17 February 2023, Washington Post Columnist...
STARRS Open Letter to Secretary of Defense Austin
The Honorable Lloyd J. Austin III Secretary of Defense 1000 Defense Pentagon Washington, DC 20301-1000 Dear Secretary...
What the Data Says About the Military’s Recruiting Crisis
The U.S. military is facing an “unprecedented” recruitment crisis, with most branches of the armed forces failing to meet...
Oldest US military college breaks out into chaos over diversity push
The oldest public senior military college in the US has found itself embroiled in a very modern form of cultural warfare...
GOP Reps Demand Army Release Full Results Of Recruiting Study, Allege Leaders ‘Cherry Picked’ Data
Republican members of the House Armed Services Committee called on the U.S. Army to release the full results of a survey...
Shocking: Study Finds Air Force Members Are Not Racist On Social Media
A study of U.S. Air Force social media behavior found a nearly undetectable number of instances of offensive speech...
Sen. Cruz sends letter to US Merchant Marine Academy demanding answers
(Press Release) U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and...
Air Force Touts Plans To Track Promotions From A ‘Race, Equity And Gender Standpoint’
The U.S. Air Force’s diversity office touted a scheme to track the “race, ethnicity and gender” of individuals promoted to...
Here’s How Many Pride Events The Air Force Held In 2022, According To A Just-Launched DEI Newsletter
The Air Force hosted 67 Pride celebrations in 2022, according to the first Air Force Office of Diversity and Inclusion...
DEI: Party Commissars there to enforce the political line
Heritage Foundation senior fellow Mike Gonzalez joined “Life, Liberty & Levin” on February 19. 2023, to...
What Kind of Military Does Our Country Need?
By Anthony Lentini, West Point ’71 Recent incursions into American airspace by Chinese spy balloons, an increasingly...
Elon Musk reminds the Pentagon what its job is
(American Thinker) In one of the most satisfying tweets seen on Twitter, Elon Musk took the time to remind the Pentagon what...
Biden’s New ‘Equity’ Executive Order Is Systemic Racism In Disguise
In a newly signed executive order designed to use federal agencies to forcibly guarantee equality of outcome instead of...
Biden Pentagon Quietly Expands Woke Transgender Policies in the Military
By Elaine Donnelly STARRS Board of Advisors The nation is worried about serious national security threats, including Chinese...
Woke culture, victim mentality present danger to American society, retired Navy SEAL says
People who see themselves as victims are becoming the majority in America, and that trend will have dire consequences if it...
Naval Academy Removes Confederate Name From Campus Building
The U.S. Navy has changed the name of a Naval Academy campus building that formerly held the name of a Confederate leader to...
Biden signs ‘racial equity’ order requiring federal agencies to build ‘equity action plan’
President Biden on Thursday signed an executive order that directs all federal agencies to produce an annual “equity...