Chris Hines

Husband, Father, Football Coach- Palmetto Middle School DC, Helicopter Pilot, Protector, The Citadel c/o 97. father to @tannerhines12

[Chris Hines @HINESNATION]

have it had to do with AT&T Internet customer service for a long time, but when did it go down the toilet? Used to talk to someone that at least spoke English, and five days for the earliest technician appointment is ridiculous. @ATT

[Eric Schwalm @Schwalm5132]

As a former Special Forces Warrant Officer with multiple rotations running counterinsurgency ops—both hunting insurgents and trying to separate them from sympathetic populations—I’ve seen organized resistance up close. From Anbar to Helmand, the pattern is familiar: spotters, cutouts, dead drops (or modern equivalents), disciplined comms, role specialization, and a willingness to absorb casualties while bleeding the stronger force slowly.

What’s unfolding in Minneapolis right now isn’t “protest.” It’s low-level insurgency infrastructure, built by people who’ve clearly studied the playbook.

Signal groups at 1,000-member cap per zone. Dedicated roles: mobile chasers, plate checkers logging vehicle data into shared databases, 24/7 dispatch nodes vectoring assets, SALUTE-style reporting (Size, Activity, Location, Unit, Time, Equipment) on suspected federal vehicles. Daily chat rotations and timed deletions to frustrate forensic recovery. Vetting processes for new joiners. Mutual aid from sympathetic locals (teachers providing cover, possible PD tip-offs on license plate lookups). Home-base coordination points. Rapid escalation from observation to physical obstruction—or worse.

This isn’t spontaneous outrage. This is C2 (command and control) with redundancy, OPSEC hygiene, and task organization that would make a SF team sergeant nod in recognition. Replace “ICE agents” with “occupying coalition forces” and the structure maps almost 1:1 to early-stage urban cells we hunted in the mid-2000s.

The most sobering part? It’s domestic. Funded, trained (somewhere), and directed by people who live in the same country they’re trying to paralyze law enforcement in. When your own citizens build and operate this level of parallel intelligence and rapid-response network against federal officers—complete with doxxing, vehicle pursuits, and harassment that’s already turned lethal—you’re no longer dealing with civil disobedience. You’re facing a distributed resistance that’s learned the lessons of successful insurgencies: stay below the kinetic threshold most of the time, force over-reaction when possible, maintain popular support through narrative, and never present a single center of gravity.

I spent years training partner forces to dismantle exactly this kind of apparatus. Now pieces of it are standing up in American cities, enabled by elements of local government and civil society. That should keep every thinking American awake at night.

Not because I want escalation. But because history shows these things don’t de-escalate on their own once the infrastructure exists and the cadre believe they’re winning the information war.

We either recognize what we’re actually looking at—or we pretend it’s still just “activism” until the structures harden and spread.

Your call, America. But from where I sit, this isn’t January 2026 politics anymore.
It’s phase one of something we’ve spent decades trying to keep off our own soil.

[Chris Hines @HINESNATION]

@RepNancyMace #attentionseeker

[Chris Hines @HINESNATION]

I stand with @ShawnRyan762 ! Find out the magic sauce Crenshaw and other congressmen use to magically get rich on their congressional salary. A lot of us average people could benefit from that magic sauce as well! 🤣 Get after ‘em!

[Shawn Ryan @ShawnRyan762]

🚨IMMEDIATE RELEASE🚨 Congressman Dan Crenshaw Threatens to Sue Shawn Ryan.

@DanCrenshawTX @RepDanCrenshaw

[Chris Hines @HINESNATION]

@camdengaimcox @LouatTheState Comes down to 💰. Financially benefits the SCHSL.

[Chris Hines @HINESNATION]

Narco-terrorists aka drug cartels/traffickers/dealers are responsible for more US deaths and systemically degrading society as any event in history.

[Jim Hanson @JimHansonDC]

I've taught the Laws of Armed Conflict to U.S. and mult. allied troops. It's comical to have online experts inform me:

The Laws of War do not apply to killing terrorists because Congress didn't declare war
WRONG
You can't make a 2nd strike at a boat you're sinking because there might be wounded on board
WRONG
It is murder to kill designated terrorists
WRONG

I'm sorry it gives you sadz that our Commander in Chief has decided to stop letting the cartels kill Americans by smuggling poison into our country.

Here is a video of narco-terrorists being turned into an oil slick to cheer you up.

[Chris Hines @HINESNATION]

Senator and former CIA officer= Deep State

[Sen. Elissa Slotkin @SenatorSlotkin]

Earlier this morning, President Trump threatened me and a group of service and veteran Members of Congress with arrest, trial, and death by hanging.

Here’s my response:

[Chris Hines @HINESNATION]

@TxDPS this is not a good look. Hopefully someone in leadership will address this inappropriate actions from this trooper. And this is coming from fellow LEO.

[Chris Hines @HINESNATION]

@TheEricBland Can someone sue her for defaming the law enforcement officers and TSA personnel?

[Chris Hines @HINESNATION]

@KTantoP @tedlieu Typical Ted deLIEUsional

[Chris Hines @HINESNATION]

Imagine the stress Coach @Lane_Kiffin is under with all the sports news noise trying to speculate where he will be next year, while having to prepare for @Citadel1842 …..and knowing ESPN says my Bulldogs have A chance !🤣🤣

[Chris Hines @HINESNATION]

Imagine the stress Coach @Lane_Kiffin is under with all the sports news noise trying to speculate where he will be next year, while having to prepare for @Citadel1842 …..and knowing ESPN says my Bulldogs have A chance !🤣🤣

[Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette @PamelaEvette]

Our law enforcement in South Carolina is as competent as it gets. Can’t say the same for certain members of Congress. 😬

[Chris Hines @HINESNATION]

@TheEricBland The only thing important to her is her and how she can gain notoriety. Disgraceful actions by an elected official and by someone who attended the Citadel.

[Chris Hines @HINESNATION]

@NancyMace This is disgraceful behavior from an elected official and someone who went to the Citadel.

[Nancy Mace @NancyMace]

BREAKING NEWS: Nancy Mace arrives at the airport - with no security.

Thank you for your attention to this matter!

[Sheriff Chad Bianco @ChadBianco]

As a California Sheriff, let me make this perfectly clear to those in the 49 other states.

You do not want Gavin Newsom as president someday.

Do not give this man the chance to do to our country what he's done to my home.

[South Carolina Football @GamecockFB]

“Gamecocks FIGHT to the very end.”

HYPE US UP, CONNOR!

[Rep. Thomas Beach @ThomasBeach]

The more this sits with me the more it makes my blood boil. We cannot allow them to get away with this.

[Chris Hines @HINESNATION]

THE CITADEL!

[Jon Gruden @BarstoolGruden]

We got a box here from Charleston, South Carolina... It's the Citadel!

Did you know my old boss Al Davis used to coach here??

Thank you so much to Coach Drayton and @CitadelFootball for sending this! Let's go BULLDOGS!

[Chris Hines @HINESNATION]

As a kid growing up a @GamecockFB fan, one of my favorite players of all time is @SterlingSharpe_ . Awesome to watch his induction in Canton to the Hall of Fame! Great speech #2! You and @ToddEllisSC were my Saturday’s in the 80s.