treason was televised, and the people are coming

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Washington, D.C., should be trembling, not from some foreign army or imagined insurrection — but from the righteous fury of the American people. There is a wave building, a tidal surge of citizens who have had enough. Enough lies. Enough gaslighting. Enough betrayal.

Since Donald Trump took office, this wave has grown stronger. He didn’t create the storm — he revealed the rot. And now, millions of us see it clearly: our country has been infiltrated, not just by illegal aliens pouring across the border, but by traitors in our own government who aided and abetted the invasion.

Let’s stop pretending we need more evidence. We’ve seen the treason unfold in real time. We’ve watched Alejandro Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security, lie to Congress under oath. We’ve watched him shred our immigration laws, dismantle border protections, and facilitate the movement of millions of illegals into the United States. Judicial Watch tracked the flights. Night after night, planeloads of unvetted foreign nationals were flown into unsuspecting towns across America — not just by private contractors, but with government coordination. We, the people, paid for it.

Catholic Charities — let’s call them what they are — the Cartel Couriers of modern-day human smuggling, have raked in billions from taxpayers under the guise of compassion. Their “migrant programs” are nothing more than a logistical arm of the invasion, ensuring the buses run on time, the hotel rooms are stocked, and the debit cards are loaded.

These aren’t fringe accusations. These are facts gathered by citizens, investigators, whistleblowers — because the so-called “justice system” is too busy protecting itself. While the DOJ hunts down grandmothers who walked through velvet ropes on January 6th, they ignore the real criminals who handed our country over to foreign nationals. Every man and woman who coordinated this invasion — from mayors and governors to cabinet members and nonprofit executives — should be in shackles. That’s not vengeance. That’s justice.

The government wants to bury us in bureaucracy — investigations, committees, referrals, recommendations — but we don’t need a panel to tell us what we saw with our own eyes. We watched treason happen on television. We tracked the buses. We saw the wire transfers. We watched the cartel coordination. We heard the whistleblowers, like those from DHS, Border Patrol, and ICE, come forward. We’ve been doing the job the government refuses to do.

We know who’s guilty. And we’re not going to forget.

And here’s the thing that should keep every bureaucrat in Washington up at night: the American people are no longer afraid. You see it in their eyes — the suits, the consultants, the committee chairmen — they’re nervous. And they should be.

They know they couldn’t fight their way out of a wet paper bag if it weren’t for their security details and gated communities. They know that when the hillbillies, the rednecks, the steelworkers, the loggers, the ranchers, and the warfighters finally say enough — it’s over.

The people of this country still know how to work. We know how to fight. And we remember what it means to love a country enough to defend it. Our military used to remember that, too. So let this serve as a reminder to every soldier, sailor, airman, and Marine who took the oath:

You swore to defend this nation from enemies foreign and domestic.

Well, guess what? The enemy is inside the gates. And it wears a suit and shiny Cole Haans.

It hides behind NGOs and federal funding. It calls treason “policy.” It calls sedition “equity.” It launders foreign money through USAID and calls it “development.” It hands out phones and housing to invaders while veterans sleep under bridges. It criminalizes dissent and punishes truth-tellers. This is not a constitutional republic anymore — it’s an occupied zone.

But the people are rising. And Washington should tremble.

We are not calling for violence — we are calling for accountability. Swift, unapologetic, unrelenting accountability. The arrests are overdue. The National Guard should be at the border. The DOJ should be cleaning house, not protecting traitors. The courts should be trying sedition, not parents at school board meetings.

History is watching. So is God.

To those walking the corrupt corridors of the House and Senate, who still have a shred of honor left — act now. To the military: remember your oath. And to the American people — stand firm, stand tall, and know this:

The tide is turning. The storm is brewing. And the reckoning will be righteous.

Maureen Steele is co-founder of the American Made Foundation is an organization that connects influential leaders and grassroots movements to drive real change.

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