This week, on GrokTALK!, we walk you through a deep dive by Data Republican into the backstory behind the video of six Democratic members of Congress nicknamed the seditious six. The players, the timeline, and yes, NH CD-2 Dem Maggie Goodlander (who appears in the video) and her husband Jake Sullivan are more than waist-deep in all of it.
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I can ask questions, but I’m not good at that medium. I’m working on it, just like I’m working on this. And I appreciate you coming along for the ride. So again, as I said, I wasn’t sure what I was going to talk about. I had some great content from Mark Alexander over at the Patriot Post that I ended up covering in today’s morning update. And somebody also sent me some nifty stuff about the new USPS rules for mail and ballots. And that’s pretty fascinating stuff.
I’ll probably write a post about that instead of doing a segment on video because you really need to click through and read some of this. And I will tell you that what they did is they had about two hundred comments, and they go through the comments and sift them against the law, basically making it pretty clear that when this gets to the Supreme Court, because it will, or I think it already has, the opinion of the United States Postal Service is that they’ve laid it all out. This is all perfectly legal. We’re not doing anything except saying, hey,
States, you need to barcode these things so we have traceability. We need chain of custody, we need evidence, and this is how we’d like to do it. You can set it up any way you want. These are just the basic rules for the envelope and the inner envelope and what’s required. And we don’t have any other information but that barcode and obviously the data attached to it, but that’s public information, so nobody’s privacy is being violated.
But there are violations happening, and today we’re going to talk about the seditious six video that went live, well, not quite a year ago, in November of 2025. And it had six members of Congress, one of whom is not my Congressperson, but she occupies the space just to the left of my district. And that’s an accurate statement. Maggie Goodlander, who’s married to Jake Sullivan, who worked for the Biden administration, they are all basically ticks embedded in the deep state benefiting from those relationships.
Jake, of course, had his security clearance revoked by President Trump. Maggie Goodlander, as a member of Congress, still has one, and I have opined in the past as to whether or not she’s cheating and letting him use her clearance. I would love to have somebody investigate that because that’s a no-no.
But anyway, we have dirt on Goodlander today, I think. She’s just not some innocent bystander, some last-minute, hey, we need a sixth person to say, you know, if Mr. Trump ever gave an illegal order, even though we haven’t identified any at all, you shouldn’t follow it. With the media follow-up that if you did, or we can make the case that you did, we’re gonna railroad your ass into prison.
So there were a lot of different moving parts here. And Data Republican did the deep dive, and we’re gonna take a look at some of that information now as soon as I find the right open window, because there are so many of them here, and
Alright, so this went live today, and thank you to the person who sent it to me because while I was pondering what I would talk about, this landed in my lap, and that’s kind of how this works sometimes, because I have to feel it, I have to feel inspired. From Data Republican on X, the seven years of history behind the Seditious Six, what the Legacy Pentagon Press Corps refused to cover. And I want to give a hat tip to D, the letter D on X for forwarding that to me.
Data Republican begins,
The Seditious Six video did not come out of nowhere in November 2025. It developed over a period of about eight years among academics, NGOs, and activists with the final goal to rewrite the relationship between the military and the executive branch. The story begins all the way back in January 30th, 2017, 10 days into the first Trump presidency.
Rosa Brooks published a piece in Foreign Policy laying out four ways to remove a sitting president before his term ended: impeachment, the Twenty-Fifth Amendment, resignation under pressure, and a military coup. Of the last, she imagined the moment senior officers would look at a lawful commander in chief and refuse. Rosa Brooks has been a counselor to the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, a political appointee inside the Pentagon under Obama. And before that, she was a special counsel to the president at George Soros’ Open Policy Institute. After that, she went to Georgetown Law, where she still holds a professorship and participates in the university’s national security program. Rosa Brooks is plugged in.
She was obviously picked to write the piece to set the stage that we’re about to play out before you.
One year after the article ran, a new organization was quietly incorporated, National Security Action NSA, co chaired by Obama Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes, who is a line piece of you know what, and future Biden National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, similarly, and funded by whom? Well, Alex Soros.
Open society. In fact, you’ll find their money is involved in all of this. Rosa Brooks joined its advisory council. So now she’s on the advisory council of national security action with Ben Rhodes and Jake Sullivan. Jake Sullivan, his wife, a former Biden DOJ attorney, is Maggie Goodlander. not my Congressman, but a member of Congress in CD2, who, while they own property over on the seacoast,
And they are worth anywhere from four to eleven million dollars. She rented a shitty apartment in the city of Nashua so that she could run in CD2.
Since she is Jake Sullivan’s wife, and he being her husband, we know that they probably talk to each other once in a while. And it’s no coincidence that Jake, who was on the ground floor at the beginning of this movement, that his wife ended up in the video. So, from Data Republican stage one,
In late 2018, Rosa Brooks joined the Advisory Council of National Security Action, the organization assembling the personnel that would eventually staff Biden’s national security positions. Prior to joining, she sat on the board of the Open Society Foundation’s U.S. programs, the grant making entity upstream of the money
That funded it. She was a senior fellow at New America, which itself takes a million plus annually from open society, running its future of war program, the intellectual shop studying exactly the civil military questions her network would later litigate. To take a break and put this into context, there’s an advantage to this beyond displacing Mr. Trump. If they could find a way to separate the powers of the executive branch from News Military.
Which of course the Constitution prohibits, it would also give them the opportunity to do something else they wanted to do, something they did often while Joe Biden was bumbling around eating vanilla ice cream and crapping in his pants. Wandering offstage, fumbling his lines, saying crazy shit like, We’ve got the best voter fraud organization ever. Anyway. The experts, the
Elites, the same class of people who literally ran the Biden administration would also be running the U.S. military, and this would be a framework to allow that to happen, assuming nobody put up a constitutional test. Well, anyway. One person, Rosa Brooks, four seats, the board of the funder, the think tank writing the framework, the council assembling the staff, and
then the project that would rehearse what the staff should do with power. They had this under Biden almost completely. I mean, I know they say they set it up to get rid of Trump, and when Trump won re-election, they kicked it into high gear because that’s what it was for originally. They already had it in place. They’d already developed it. This is sedition. This is treason. This is, well, unarmed insurrection in one respect, but.
If you get the top military brass and the entire military to say no, you’ve basically completed a coup. Stage two, the rehearsal, 2020, Brooks co-founded the Transition Integrity Project, which in June 2020 ran a set of war games modeling how a contested 2020 election might unfold, including scenarios turning on whether institutions up to and including the military would recognize the outcome.
I think we could safely say that there’s a lot of people who were inside who knew about this who were projecting when they said the J Sixers were guilty of insurrection, because that’s exactly what they were doing. It operated under the umbrella of Protect Democracy, which had taken $650,000 from open society. John Podeston participated, you know who he is. So did roughly a hundred other senior figures. Only about ten of their names are public.
The rest have never been disclosed. 100 senior figures in the political left’s deep state orbit. Sedition. Treason. I’m just saying that to trigger the lefties. where did we go? Here we are. In 2017, Rosa Brooks had asked whether institutions had options to oust a president, and by 2020.
She was rehearsing these scenarios with over a hundred people in Georgetown University. Stage three Legal Machinery. 2024, another name, Mary McCord, former acting assistant attorney general for national security, runs the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection at Georgetown Law, the same national security facility home as Brooks. Strange name. Obviously, it’s just very Orwellian. Constitutional Advocacy.
No, we’re actually working to bypass the Constitution. Thank you very much. In 2024, rep Pete Sessions put the effort on the congressional record, alleging a coordinated campaign to suppress Article II provisions defining presidential control of the military. Step four, the academic scaffolding. Fall of twenty twenty five. Pay attention. In June of 2025, the Democracy Defenders Fund
in its own words, the assistance of Mary McCord at ICAP published President Trump’s deployment of the National Guard is unlawful and unprecedented, arguing that this move to federalize the National Guard under 10 USC 12406 without invoking the Insurrection Act was exactly that. Brooks published in Daedalus, the Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, arguing the traditional civil military framework is inadequate against.
Authoritarian threats, McCord published When Defense is no longer due in just security on October 14, 2025, in direct argument against judicial deference to a president’s military determinations, In the summer and fall leading up to the Seditious Six video, interlocking organizations primed messaging that would result in the Seditious Six video.
Summer 2025. Can I say that again? Summer 2025. About face, a veterans organization launches its right to refuse campaign. July to August 2025, National Security Action publishes a military and intelligence messaging one pager. In the following month, runs a battery of national security message testing focus groups. September to October 2025, Win Without War puts not.
what you signed up for billboards at military bases telling troops to question their orders. June seventeenth refreshed November 11, 2025. The National Lawyers Guild’s Military Law Task Force publishes then updates one week before the video. It’s refusing illegal orders FAQ for service members. November eighteenth, six Democrat lawmakers release the video.
reports said five of the six lawmakers had been recruited through New Politics Academy, a coordinate pipeline. One of the six rep Maggie Goodlander is married to Jake Sullivan, the co-founder of National Security Action. Goodlander didn’t just step up as a volunteer at the last moment in some spontaneous, I have to be part of it. Her husband was a player from 2017, and odds are very good, so was she. All of it funded by George Soros’ family.
and friends on multiple fronts for eight years. They didn’t just try to convince the US military to ignore presidential orders. They tried to intimidate them into ignoring any orders from the top brass down. I posted about this when the story first broke. Jen Psaki and MS Now amplify the Dems will prosecute anyone taking part in the Mark Kelly investigation intimidation campaign.
Mark Kelly, of course, led the charge. And here, so here’s Psaki What do you think the consequences should be for people who are abiding by following these steps from the commander in chief? Kirschhner
They’re following unlawful commands from Donald Trump. And if you’re committing offenses and your defense is going to be, I was just following orders, you know,
That didn’t work out so well at Nuremberg. Its sedition at the very least rising to the level of treason. They didn’t just talk about it, they planned it, they gamed it, and they deployed it.
The fact that it didn’t work doesn’t justify excusing the behavior.
Neither Jake Sullivan or Maggie Goodlander should expect to get arrested or go to jail, but the American people have an opportunity to consider what just went down. You don’t have to love Donald Trump to love your constitution or your government or your republic. you’d have to be a full-blown left-wing nutcase not to understand the danger.
Of allowing this kind of thing to go unpunished, or at least unexposed on a broader platform in a way that makes it impossible for them to continue careers in government. They can they can be assholes in the private sector all they want. That’s fine.
But a bunch of connected insiders, funded by George Soros and his family, not all of his money is domestic, by the way, to undermine your constitution and your government. And Jake Sullivan and Maggie Goodlander bought into it. They participated.
They worked on a plan to remove a president that you elected from office simply because they disagree with him, and he was a threat to the very thing that they were doing in many of its different forms. That was it. He wasn’t doing anything illegal. He wasn’t giving illegal orders. He wasn’t giving unconstitutional orders. They just didn’t like them. So they were working on a plan.
A plan that they could use for other things later on on Democrat presidents. Also unconstitutional and unlawful, seditious and treasonous. These people are still around in this sphere, exerting influence. You can’t do a lot about that, but you could remove Maggie Goodlander from office in the event that the alleged connection between her and
And her husband, who sat on the board of a group that was created for this purpose, wasn’t just some kind of crazy accident. That’s all I got for you this week. Check out the link, read the Data Republican thing, follow the link she provides, do your own research, and have fun. And don’t forget to share, because there’s an awful lot of people out there that won’t learn this unless you help them.
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