Defend The Guard Rally March 23, 2024 @ 11:00 am
Minnesota State CapitolSaint Paul, MN 55155
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Join us for a one of a kind coalition event that is bringing the left, right, and center of Minnesota politics together. We will be inside the capitol building from 11 AM to 2 PM; restrooms will be available.
Defend the guard legislation is about punching a hole in the military industrial complex and endless wars; we the people get to determine the fate of our national guard, not the overbearing federal government.
Here is what we want to accomplish:
- Increase public awareness that the states and their voters have a role in deciding when our sons and daughters go to war.
- Pass “Defend the Guard” legislation in Minnesota to compel Congress, out of military necessity, to reassert its authority under the U.S. Constitution and take charge of when, where, and how our nation goes to war.
- Return to a constitutional foreign policy of a limited-government republic by bringing our troops home, ending our endless wars, and only using military force when required to protect the lives, liberty, and property of Americans.
2024 Rally Speakers
TC is the host of the Minnesota Black Robe Regiment podcast, a member of the Libertarian party, and is a strict Natural Rights adherent dedicated to liberty.
Charley is a US Navy veteran who served as a Corpsman (FMF) from 1998 to 2003. He has also served as the Political Director, Executive Committee member, Chair of the Libertarian Party of Minnesota.
Naveen Borojerdi is the Midwest District Chair for the Movement for a People's Democracy. An American of Iranian heritage, he has been involved in the movement for building peace and opposition to war over the last several years and has given speeches all across the State of Minnesota to build a movement to drastically change the way in which Americans think about foreign policy.
Bob Seifert is a retired Green Beret. He was born and raised in west central Minnesota and joined the Army after high school. Bob spent 26 years in the military and is a combat veteran of the “War on Terror” in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Africa.
Nathan Wesenberg was elected to serve his first term in the Minnesota senate in 2022. Prior to serving his constituents, Nate was a trained wildlife biologist for the Department of Natural Resources. He has also spent time as a local organizer in Morrison County, working to connect conservatives within the community.
TJ is a US Navy Veteran with over two decades working within the military industrial complex. He was deceived like a lot of us and believed he was doing ‘the right thing’ for many years. Today, TJ is committed to real freedom and running for state representative in MN district 44B. Defend The Guard is TJ’s highest priority for Minnesota legislators.
Ahmed AlRwazek is a member of the Libertarian party of Minnesota
Stephen Lowell is a political outsider who ran for State Senate in 2022 and serves as the interim Chair for the Constitutional Republic Party. Dissatisfied with the performance of the major parties he seeks to bring integrity and representation back to politics in Minnesota
Rebecca Whiting is an Army veteran who served two deployments to Iraq as a medic from 04-07. She currently lives in Bemidji, Minnesota, where she raises her family on her family farm, and is also the Chair of the Libertarian Party of Minnesota.
In 2004, Travis Johnson joined the Texas National Guard. By November of that year, he was preparing for deployment to the Middle East, and in January 2005 he was deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. While on deployment he realized how much he missed serving his country. He transferred back to active duty where he remained until 2018, when he retired as a Sergeant First Class and moved back to Minnesota.