In a no-holds-barred Tuesday WarRoom briefing, Steve Bannon and Eric Teetsel of Citizens for Renewing America (CRA) issued a blunt warning to the populist base: codify Trump’s anti-woke military reforms now or watch them unravel in the next administration. As the NDAA markup looms, they’re calling on grassroots forces—especially veterans, military families, and War Room followers—to storm the ramparts.

The core issue? President Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth have already taken sweeping executive action to gut critical race theory, woke hiring quotas, and radical instruction at service academies. But Teetsel made it clear: executive orders alone don’t cut it. Just like Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation needed to be solidified by constitutional amendment, these reforms must be written into law before a future administration erases them with a pen stroke.

Teetsel explained that the NDAA—approaching the $1 trillion mark—is more than just budget legislation. It’s the legal foundation for the entire U.S. defense posture. And right now, woke rot still lingers. Despite Texas and Trump’s strong efforts, too many provisions remain that empower ideologues inside the Pentagon. The CRA team has been working behind the scenes to draft model amendments that conservative senators—like Tommy Tuberville, Jim Banks, Eric Schmitt, and Rick Scott—can drop during markup. But this can’t happen without a citizen surge. Bannon’s order: go to CitizensRenewingAmerica.com, get the talking points, and light up Senate offices.

Then the conversation took a sharp geopolitical turn.

Bannon and Teetsel warned that America’s defense posture is dangerously off-balance—bleeding weapons and systems into Ukraine and Israel while neglecting the Indo-Pacific, the true center of gravity. Patriot missile batteries, THAAD systems, and even Arleigh Burke-class cruisers are being rerouted without proper replenishment. Bannon slammed this as strategic lunacy. "Once you hand over air defenses, you’re in the fight. Once you’re in the fight, you escalate,” he said.

Teetsel defended President Trump’s strategic pause on sending weapons to Ukraine—a move meant to reassess U.S. readiness. That pause was lifted only after serious stockpile audits and careful consideration. Still, Teetsel echoed Bannon’s concern: "We are seriously short on our own inventory.” The endgame? Rebuild not just what we’ve lost—but restructure for 21st-century threats, especially across the three-island chain in the Western Pacific.

The message is sharp and clear: if the NDAA fails to codify Trump’s anti-woke agenda, the military gets reset back to Obama-era ideology. And if America continues its reckless bleeding of hardware into foreign battlefields, the real war—against China—could be lost before it begins.

As Bannon said, "This is Fight Club. You don’t whine. You fight.”

SITREP COMPLETE:

Codification required: Executive orders must become law.

Citizens needed: Pressure senators during NDAA markup.

Foreign policy pivot: Stop draining U.S. defense for Ukraine and Israel.

Trump doctrine: Strategic pause, rebuild capacity, pivot to Indo-Pacific.

The battle for America’s soul and survival is being waged—in code, in Congress, and in combat zones.

For more context, watch this Tuesday segment:

"The NDAA Is The Vehicle To Put This Into Law,” Teetsel On Rooting Out Woke In Military