Dan McKnight

Combat vet: USMC, Army, Idaho Guard. Afghanistan ‘05-‘07. Chairman @TroopsHomeUS. Founder @DefendTheGuard. No war without a declaration.

[Dan McKnight @DanMcKnight30]

New here? Here’s who I am.

I served in the Marine Corps, the Army and the Idaho National Guard, including a deployment to Afghanistan. I chair Bring Our Troops Home and founded Defend the Guard.

One idea drives all of it. The Constitution gives Congress, not the President, the power to declare war. For 25 years Congress has dodged that duty, and Guard troops from your state have paid for it.

Defend the Guard is state legislation that keeps your Guard out of wars Congress never declared. It’s moving in statehouses right now, including New Hampshire this week.

@marklevinshow, the offer stands. Let’s debate the Iran war: your show, my channel, or neutral ground, with any moderator you’ll accept, for 90 minutes.

If you’re done with wars nobody voted for, follow along.

[Dan McKnight @DanMcKnight30]

@RLCofTX Counting @RLCofTX as a field general in the battle to restore American foreign policy by passing Defend The Guard in every state legislature. Thank you for always standing in the breech with the veterans in this fight.

[Dan McKnight @DanMcKnight30]

@StGusBoss @tutturrrr @marklevinshow Just a quick review of your profile. Despite the fact that your profile pic is a puppet, I think you actually ARE a puppet...or a bot @StGusBoss

[Dan McKnight @DanMcKnight30]

Hey @marklevinshow, I'll say it plainly. I can't stand you.

For thirty years you've made a fortune yelling about wars other people's kids fight. Iraq. Libya. Syria. Iran. You've never found a war you didn't cheer for or a body count that made you stop and think.

Today you posted a map of 40,000 American troops sitting in range of Iranian missiles and called the people who want them home "isolationists." Then you turned the Constitution's war powers clause into a punchline.

That's how tone deaf you are. Guard families in Idaho, Arizona, and Montana are waiting for orders to a war Congress never declared, and you're doing bits on X.

You don't love this country, Mark. You love war. You love the ratings, the book sales, and the green room. The Americans who pay for your wars are props to you.

I've been where your wars go. I've seen what they cost. You never will, because you'll be safe in a studio telling the next generation of kids to go.

You call us isolationists. We call ourselves the people who actually show up.

[Mark R. Levin @marklevinshow]

The geniuses who say, "let's get out of the Middle East," apparently haven't noticed that THE MIDDLE EAST IS HERE!  The Muslim Brotherhood, CAIR, other terror groups and terror-aligned groups, Islamists and mosques popping up everywhere.  But let's get out of the Middle East.  And let's just leave the Iranian regime because, you see, the price of gasoline will drop way down - except, of course, when Iran decides to cut off the Strait and drives it up, and threatens the Arab countries with ballistic missiles, and drives our economic into the toilet.  Listen to what these people say and then think for yourself.  If we effectively surrender to Iran, there will be serious consequences.  And that includes in 2028.  A vaccuum will be filled.

[Dan McKnight @DanMcKnight30]

@TroopsHomeUS @ComicDaveSmith Guilty!

[Dan McKnight @DanMcKnight30]

Wrong McKnight, sport. You’re thinking of Lt. Col. Danny McKnight, who commanded the Rangers in Mogadishu. Not me. In 1993 I was living in a North End apartment in Boise.

Pro tip: if you hit the @ button and type “Grok,” the beep-boop robot will answer questions for you. Like this:

@grok, was @DanMcKnight30 in Mogadishu, or is @ManNukem thinking of Danny McKnight? And why is ManNukem so retarded?

But you actually made my point for me. Congress never declared war in Somalia either. It got sold as famine relief, and the Marines landed in December 1992 under TV camera lights as "peace keepers". Under Clinton it turned into "nation-building" and then a "manhunt" for a warlord. 18 Americans died in one night in October 1993, and within months Congress cut off the money and we left.

That’s the whole problem. Nobody voted to go in. The only vote Congress ever took was on how to get out.

[Dan McKnight @DanMcKnight30]

New here? Here’s who I am.

I served in the Marine Corps, the Army and the Idaho National Guard, including a deployment to Afghanistan. I chair Bring Our Troops Home and founded Defend the Guard.

One idea drives all of it. The Constitution gives Congress, not the President, the power to declare war. For 25 years Congress has dodged that duty, and Guard troops from your state have paid for it.

Defend the Guard is state legislation that keeps your Guard out of wars Congress never declared. It’s moving in statehouses right now, including New Hampshire this week.

@marklevinshow, the offer stands. Let’s debate the Iran war: your show, my channel, or neutral ground, with any moderator you’ll accept, for 90 minutes.

If you’re done with wars nobody voted for, follow along.

[Dan McKnight @DanMcKnight30]

Remember that time I made @ComicDaveSmith into a reaction gif?

I told Dave that @marklevinshow claimed Congress using the War Powers Resolution to stop a president’s war is unconstitutional. This was Dave's reaction.

In the same breath, Levin said the president has authority under the WPR to respond to “imminent threats” by taking America to war overseas.

So which is it, Mark?

You can’t cite the WPR as the source of presidential power and then call the restraint in the same law unconstitutional.

And the authority you cited doesn’t exist. The WPR says in plain text that nothing in it grants the president any authority he didn’t already have. The only time it recognizes him introducing troops into hostilities without Congress is a national emergency created by an attack on the United States. “Imminent threat” isn’t in there. You made it up.

While we’re waiting for a response from Levin, let’s enjoy the Dave Smith GIF moment!

[Dan McKnight @DanMcKnight30]

Great talk with @ComicDaveSmith on Part of the Problem podcast. Check it out!

https://t.co/aw66MCZMSD

[Dan McKnight @DanMcKnight30]

Our troops are worth honoring first by never sending them into a war the country hasn't agreed to fight. If it's worth fighting, make Congress vote. If they won't vote, bring them home. Happy Veterans Day to the brave, the bold, the defenders.

[Dan McKnight @DanMcKnight30]

Happy Veterans Day. This morning I went for a long ride in the desert behind my house. Clear sky, one of the best sunrises I've seen.

Spent most of it thinking about my service and what it's meant to me over the years. It shaped who I am more than almost anything else in my life.

Grateful I got to come home and ride. Not everyone did.

[Dan McKnight @DanMcKnight30]

So young. So naive. Semper Fi and Happy Veterans Day. (Camp Pendleton, CA. School of Infantry circa 1994)

[Dan McKnight @DanMcKnight30]

@ownyourshite @marklevinshow Constance, please thank Freddy for me. Ripper Task Force in Desert Storm, and he’s still carrying it 35 years later. That’s the cost the Mark Levins of the world never count. Semper Fi, and happy Marine Corps Birthday and Happy Veterans Day to him. God bless!

[Dan McKnight @DanMcKnight30]

Citizenship isn’t the line. Staying is.

Come in illegally and stay legally without ever leaving? That’s amnesty, whatever they name it.

Trump’s DHS had it right in 2025: self-deport through CBP Home “so they may still have the opportunity to return legally.”

Leave first. Come back the right way.

[Dan McKnight @DanMcKnight30]

Laura Ingraham @IngrahamAngle just told the DHS Secretary what the base already knows. We will not accept amnesty. Not for DACA, not as a “compromise” with Democrats, not ever.

Trump went on 60 Minutes and offered to “work a deal” with the incoming Democrat Congress for illegals who’ve been here 10 and 15 years. That’s millions of people. The White House says he never said the word amnesty. He didn’t have to.

Now his DHS Secretary @MarkwayneMullin says he wants to make sure “our base is with us on it.” We’re not.

Here’s what Washington never connects: mass migration doesn’t come out of nowhere. Decades of regime change, proxy wars and meddling in other nations’ internal fights create refugees, and then those refugees end up at our border. Washington breaks the world and then sends you the bill twice.

The way to wreck the last of the Trump coalition is simple. Start a war or three overseas and you lose part of the base. Hand the Democrats amnesty and you lose the rest.

America First means no new wars and no amnesty.

[Nick Sortor @nicksortor]

🚨 JUST NOW: Laura Ingraham DESTROYS Markwayne Miullin LIVE ON FOX for pushing for "LEGAL STATUS" for DACA illegals

LAURA: "Why would ANY idea be floated to work with the Democrats on an issue that is their HOLY GRAIL?!"

"It seems like EVERY TIME Republicans feel like they're running into a rough spot, they rush to some type of immigration deal with a party that you yourself has said has NO INTEREST in lowering immigration, legal immigration, or enforcing the laws as they exist."

"Why did you float DACA, Mr. Secretary? Why is THAT the message for you guys this election?!" — @IngrahamAngle

MULLIN: "... some of them may not even speak English or never even lived in their country!"

WHAT KIND OF ARGUMENT IS THAT?!

NO AMNESTY. PERIOD.

[Dan McKnight @DanMcKnight30]

Don’t take my word for it. @RepMariaSalazar, the House’s loudest amnesty pusher, says what Trump described on 60 Minutes “is what the Dignity Act is all about.”

When the amnesty caucus is celebrating, you know what was offered.

[Dan McKnight @DanMcKnight30]

Bring Our Troops Home: https://t.co/udXLnSPeJJ
Defend the Guard: https://t.co/gyXeHP53pi

[Dan McKnight @DanMcKnight30]

@SpeechUncut Pontius Pilate sent an email proclaiming “Christ Is King” but the Israel lobby was locked out of their AOL account so they crucified him instead.

[Dan McKnight @DanMcKnight30]

😂 he literally asked to speak to AOL’s manager!

Also, @marklevinshow shoes…

[Mark R. Levin @marklevinshow]

Folks, I have spent literally the entire day trying to get someone at AOL to unlock my email. For the last eight hours, I have been told that the issue has been escalated to supervisors who would contact me. I haven't heard a thing.
You would think that, since I'm one of the last human beings on the face of the Earth still using AOL, they would take care of this. You'd be wrong.
So, once this gets resolved, hopefully before the next presidential election, I'm dropping them. (I kept them this long out of convenience, but now I have no reason to keep them.)
I'll see you on the radio at 6 p.m., at which time I will address this further.

[Dan McKnight @DanMcKnight30]

Hey Tina girl, I scrolled your whole feed looking for one original thought. Nothing. Just a wall of YouTube links and Bongino reposts. THAT Bongino, the guy who told America to stop asking about the Epstein files and trust the official story.

And you think I’m the one who needs AI to think for me? You’re ridiculous. Enjoy the cult Kool-Aid.

[Dan McKnight @DanMcKnight30]

@MordechaiMandel @TinatMartin3 @marklevinshow Again, I think you meant to say "Super Intelligence."

[Dan McKnight @DanMcKnight30]

Let’s call a spade a spade, Austin.

Ahmed al-Sharaa came up through the Islamic State of Iraq, the group that became ISIS. Baghdadi sent him into Syria to build al-Qaeda’s branch there, and Washington had a $10 million bounty on his head.

Meanwhile the CIA, the Pentagon, and State were each backing their own factions, sometimes against each other. The CIA gave TOW missiles to Nour al-Din al-Zenki, which then helped found HTS, al-Sharaa’s group. The Pentagon armed the Kurds while our NATO ally Turkey bombed them. Jake Sullivan put it in writing in 2012: “AQ is on our side in Syria.”

When the dust settled, we dropped the bounty, lifted the sanctions, and Trump hosted the winner at the White House. We put former ISIS and current al-Qaeda in a tailored suit and called it progress.

And in the middle of it all, Washington parked American troops as tripwires. That’s how we lost a Green Beret, a Navy linguist, and two Iowa Guardsmen in Palmyra, killed while working alongside al-Sharaa’s own security forces.

That’s my point. Every time Washington “fixes” the Middle East, it creates three new problems, and American boys and girls pay for them with their lives. Meanwhile Congress never votes, and blowhards like Mark Levin call anyone who notices an “isolationist” from a leather chair.

Article I, Section 8. Congress declares war. Until they do, bring them home.

Do yourself a favor, Austin. Read Enough Already by @scotthortonshow. Nobody has documented how we got here better.

[Dan McKnight @DanMcKnight30]

You asked what Libya cost, Austin. Here’s the bill.

$1.1 billion from the Pentagon alone. A functioning country turned into a failed state. Removing Gaddafi destabilized the whole region. Libya became the main launch point for a refugee crisis that flooded the Mediterranean, with open-air slave markets, ISIS camps on the coast, and his weapons spread from the Sahel to Syria. That was a humanitarian disaster we made.

Don’t take my word for it. Obama went on Fox News Sunday in 2016 and called Libya’s aftermath the worst mistake of his presidency. Even Obama gets it, but you don’t seem to.

And Benghazi? I’ll “crow” about it, because four Americans are still dead. They weren’t killed over a YouTube video, whatever b.s. Washington told us at the time. They died running a CIA annex in a city full of militias we helped arm, in a country we broke. Ever hear of “blowback”? That’s what intervention buys you, Austin.

Congress never authorized any of it. The House voted it down, and Obama kept bombing anyway. Presidents of both parties treat the American people with contempt, and they treat the war powers we gave Congress the same way.

Syria: “We struck them a few times.” Bombing another country’s government is an act of war, Austin. It doesn’t stop being one because it was quick. And “fighting ISIS there” got at least 12 American service members and three American civilians killed, soldiers, sailors, and airmen, including two Iowa National Guard soldiers ambushed in Palmyra last December, in a war Congress never voted on.

That’s the point. Every time Washington “fixes” the Middle East, it creates three new problems, and American boys and girls pay for it with their lives. Meanwhile Congress and blowhards like Mark Levin sit in their leather chairs playing games with lives that aren’t theirs.

Article I, Section 8. Congress declares war. Until they do, bring them home.