Yesterday, June 10, 2025, Pete Hegseth—a Fox News mouthpiece now somehow masquerading as Secretary of Defense—testified before Congress and lied. Boldly. Repeatedly. And on the record.

He lied about the Los Angeles protests.He lied about who was protesting.He lied about what happened.And he lied about why it matters.

And the MAGA mainstream media and political machine he serves amplified those lies like gospel.

No, Los Angeles Isn’t Burning

Let’s get one thing straight: The protests in Los Angeles were organized by American citizens. Period. They weren’t violent uprisings. They weren’t part of some foreign operation. They were an exercise of First Amendment rights—people showing up in the streets to speak their minds, just like conservatives have done for generations.

Let’s get a second thing straight: The protests are taking place over roughly 8 blocks, one freeway overpass and one entrance and exit ramp to the 101 Freeway. Let me repeat, 8 blocks, one freeway overpass and an entrance and exit ramp on the 101 Freeway, in a city that is 503 square miles. That’s a tiny section of a large city of 3.4 million people, not a city on fire.

But MAGA Republicans—led by Trump and echoed by Hegseth—are trying to rebrand lawful protests as acts of war. They are peddling images of “a city under siege,” “houses and buildings on fire”, “the city is trash” while claiming that “foreign nationals” are torching American soil and demanding the use of force. It’s not just propaganda and lies, especially when no homes or buildings have been set on fire during the protests. It’s pretext.

Pretext for what? For deploying military force on American soil. For ignoring the Posse Comitatus Act. For putting military weapons in the faces of American citizens. For doing exactly what authoritarian regimes do, turning dissent into treason.

Don’t You Dare Compare This to January 6

While Pete Hegseth was lying under oath, let’s remember what MAGA really stands for. These are the same people who launched not one, but two domestic terrorist attacks on American capitals.

* December 21, 2020: MAGA extremist supporters stormed the Oregon State Capitol, assaulting police and breaking into a government building.

* January 6, 2021: MAGA terrorists staged a violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, trying to overturn the results of a lawful election, leaving police dead and democracy hanging by a thread.

You want to talk about insurrection? That’s it. That’s the model. And that’s the movement Pete Hegseth now defends from the Pentagon and MAGA Speaker Mike Johnson and the MAGA majority of Congressional Republicans defends from the U.S. Capitol.

The Lie Machine Is Strategic—And We Must Be Strategic Too

The MAGA propaganda pipeline runs like this:

* They create a lie.

* Trump repeats it.

* Fox News, Newsmax, OAN & MAGA Mainstream Media broadcasts it.

* Their base believes it.

* And moderate America, exhausted and overwhelmed, tunes it out.

That’s how fascism grows in the cracks of our fatigue.

But if we are serious about stopping this descent, we need to go wide and deep.

* Wide, by exposing every lie immediately, across every platform.

* Deep, by organizing Black, Latino, Asian, Native, Arab, Jewish, White, Straight, LGBTQ+, Gen Z, Millennial, Boomer, rural, suburban, and urban voters who believe in democracy.

The truth is simple: MAGA doesn’t care about law and order. They care about domination and obedience.

They are using the military like a private security force.They want to criminalize dissent.They want to crush truth beneath a pile of coordinated lies.

Here’s What We Do Now

* Inhale the lie, exhale the truth: Democratic, Independent and Non-MAGA Republican elected officials, don’t let any lie go unchallenged, every time they lie, immediately respond with the truth.

* Call out every lie, even when it’s exhausting. Especially then.

* Share real footage, real analysis, and real outcomes.

* Stop pretending “both sides” are playing by the same rules.

* Make Truth Simple Again (MTSA): Attacking the lies from MAGA Fascist officials and communications organizations with clear, direct communications

* Hold Trump accountable for illegal deployments of military forces and call it what it is: an abuse of power.

This Isn’t Business as Usual. This Is the Battle for Reality.

We cannot let MAGA’s dystopian vision go unanswered.We cannot let their violent history be rewritten.And we damn sure cannot let Pete Hegseth lie under oath and walk away unchallenged.

Because silence is complicity.And fascism thrives in silence.

Speak. Share. Mobilize.We stop them with truth. We beat them with action.Don’t let the lies win.

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