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Scott Horton Show - Just the Interviews

3/7/25 Dan McKnight on the Recent Progress Made with Defend the Guard

Scott Horton Show - Just the Interviews

Scott Horton

News, Politics

4.8902 Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Dan McKnight returns to the show to talk about the ongoing effort to pass the Defend the Guard Act in state legislatures. First, he explains what Defend the Guard would do if passed and dispels common criticisms and misunderstandings of the bill. He then updates Scott on the progress made recently, including the positive statements made by now Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, and explains how you can help get this bill passed in your state. Discussed on the show: DefendTheGuard.us BringOurTroopsHome.us TenSevenClub.com Dan McKnight is the founder and Chairman of Idahoans to Bring Our Troops Home. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserves, three years active duty with the U.S. Army and ten years with the Idaho Army National Guard, including a one-year deployment to Afghanistan in 2006. This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: Roberts and Robers Brokerage Incorporated; Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom; Libertas Bella; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott. Get Scott’s interviews before anyone else! Subscribe to the Substack. Shop Libertarian Institute merch or donate to the show through Patreon, PayPal or Bitcoin: 1DZBZNJrxUhQhEzgDh7k8JXHXRjY Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

All right, y'all, welcome to the Scott Horton Show.

0:12.3

I'm the director of the Libertarian Institute, editorial director of antivore.com, author of the book, Fool's Aaron, Time to End the War in Afghanistan, and the brand new, enough already.

0:23.8

Time to end the war on terrorism.

0:25.9

And I've recorded more than 5,500 interviews since 2003, almost all on foreign policy, and all available for you at scothorton.4.

0:35.4

You can sign up the podcast feed there and the full interview archive

0:39.4

is also available at youtube dot com slash scott horton's show all right you guys on the line i've got

0:48.4

the great dan mcnight he is the leader of bring our troops home dot us and of the defend the guard movement, which is a gigantic

0:58.1

and important thing, maybe the most important thing in the whole world going on right now,

1:02.9

based out of defend the guard.us. Welcome back to the show. How you doing? Good, Scott. Thanks for

1:09.0

to me back on. And thanks for that incredible

1:11.0

intro. A lot to live up to. Yeah, you're doing great. Listen, tell me all about how great you're doing.

1:17.2

I want to hear, wait, first of all, tell us what's the Defend the Guard Act and then tell us how great

1:21.7

you're doing. Yep, Defend the Guard Act. A piece of state-based legislation because we can't trust the federal government. It tells the states if they pass the bill that they get for one brief moment in time to stop their National Guard from being deployed into federal service if the purpose is to go overseas and fighting combat that hasn't been declared by Congress. And preach to the choir, there's no one listened to your show that doesn't know this. Congress hasn't done that since 194242. And so it gives the governor the authority to say, nope, not today Satan.

1:47.0

The National Guard from Tennessee gets to stay home until you have a proper authorization.

1:51.0

And we've got the bill now in over 30 states this year.

1:54.0

We're fighting key battles.

1:56.0

We just won for the third year in a row in the Arizona Senate yesterday with the great Wendy Rogers. We've had great victories in the Virginia House of Delegates with a unanimous 99-0 vote.

2:06.6

We've passed the Idaho Senate, the New Hampshire House.

2:09.6

Key Battleground victories in Montana and South Dakota.

2:13.6

We're growing. The movement is on fire, And I think we're at the point now where the

2:18.2

war machine knows exactly who we are. And they've got us in their crosshairs instead of the

2:22.6

poor people in Hamas or Eastern Europe or the Horn of Africa. They're looking at us now.

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