Following is a video of the press conference given by USAF Major Jason Watson on July 1, 2026 at the United States Capitol.
For educational use only. Unauthorized reproduction or retransmission is prohibited.
Following is a transcript of the speech.
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My name is Jason Watson. I’m an active duty major in the United States Air Force. However, who I am is immaterial.
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In the grand scheme of things, I’m just a nobody. What matters far more than who I am is what I have to say and the price I’m willing to pay to say it.
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I, Jason Paul Watson, do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.
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That I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same. That I take this obligation freely without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion, and
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that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office upon which I’m about to enter. So help me God.
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I first swore this oath over 20 years ago upon entering basic cadet training at the United States Air Force Academy in late June of 2005.
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I’ve repeated it many times over since then. The oath of office means everything to me. It is foundational to
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our system of governance in the United States.
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The oath ensures that officials of our government owe allegiance not to any individual or political party but to our
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constitution and the democratic republic it represents.
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Our our constitution binds us all together as Americans.
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Like countless veterans before me and military members serving now, I have devoted my life in service to our
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democratic republic. always doing my best to honor my oath and protect America against foreign threats.
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But the greatest threat to our democratic republic is not a foreign one. It is us. We the people. Not just
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the left or just the right or just the center. All of us together define who we are as Americans.
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And like it or not, we have all played a part, myself included, in getting ourselves into this mess we are all in.
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The burden of that culpability, is much heavier for some amongst us than others. Undeniably, and for those with a
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lion share of guilt, such as those currently running the executive branch of the government, the bill must come due. But all of us have a share.
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For the past 18 months, we the people have allowed the highest levels of the executive branch of the federal
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government to violate our constitution and their oath to it with impunity.
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When the president of the United States orders military action against foreign countries absent an emergency scenario
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where American interests are under imminent dire threat as was done with Venezuela, Cuba, and Iran, that’s an
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unconstitutional usurppation of Congress’s authority and a violation of the war powers clause.
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These violations resulted in the deaths of 13 service members and injuries of hundreds more.
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For this, the president and vice president must be impeached, convicted, and removed. Wow.
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When the president of the United States grants an unelected mega donor sweeping authority to shut down large swaths of
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our federal government along with unrestricted access to our government databases. That’s an unconstitutional circumvention of Congress’s advise and
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consent authority under the appointments clause and Congress’s power of the purse under the appropriations clause. These
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violations exposed every American’s personal sensitive data to leaks and exploitation, illegally terminated tens
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of thousands of federal se civil servants, and crippled support for Americans to Americans for medical care
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and disaster preparedness. and by far most tragically resulted in the dress deaths of hundreds of thousands of the
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world’s most impoverished people with inhumanely abrupt cessation of US aid.
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For this, the president and vice president must be impeached, convicted, and removed.
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When the President of the United States directs the Department of Homeland Security to deny hundreds of people any due process before illegally detaining
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them and sending them to a foreign prison notorious for human rights abuses, that’s a violation of our fifth and eighth amendment rights.
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Most people sent to SECOT never committed any violent crimes in their entire lives, but are being defamed as violent
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criminals to this day as a pretext for the torture they suffered in El Salvador, paid for with US taxpayer
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dollars. For this, the president and vice president must be impeached, convicted, and removed.
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When the president of the United States sponsors violence on the American people engaged in their constitutional right to
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peacefully assemble and protest, that’s a violation of our First Amendment rights. Pastors praying for DHS agents violently attacked without provocation.
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A legal observer losing an eye after being shot with a non-lethal by an ICE agent. A woman attempting to follow
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chaotic and contradictory DH DHS agent instructions fatally gunned down. A
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subdued man that posed no threat fatally shot after having his unbranded firearm removed with statements by highranking
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cabinet members also violating our Second Amendment rights. For this, the president and vice president must be impeached, convicted, and removed.
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There are innumerable more impeachable offenses that I could cover. Denying congressional oversight of immigrant detention centers that look increasingly
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SECOT. Suing institutions like media, colleges, and law firms for billions of dollars while abusing the
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authorities of the executive branch agencies to extort settlements. Allowing a mega donor to advertise products on
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the White House front lawn. trading pardons for donations, levying illegal tariffs, weaponizing the Department of
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Justice against political adversaries while ignoring crimes of supporters and enablers, attempting to reverse birthright citizenship through executive
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order. For all of these high crimes and misdemeanors, the president and vice president must be impeached, convicted, and removed.
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The constitutional impeachment process is our best way pathway to restore fidelity to our constitution. This is
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why I’m here standing in solidarity with Representative Green.
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I’m not here because I’m a Democrat or because I share his policy positions.
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I’m not a Democrat and know next to nothing about his policies. I am here with him because Representative Green is
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the only member of Congress that has demonstrated the courage and conviction to invoke Rule 9 and force a vote on articles of impeachment.
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If Congress followed his example, we could remove the entire Trump administration.
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But Congress remains unconvinced of the urgency and necessity for them to honor their oaths. So, we must persuade them
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with our unrelenting, uncompromising civil resistance.
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I am calling on average Americans everywhere to peacefully exercise your First Amendment rights and mass every
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day until this administration is removed and our democratic republic is restored. I believe in America. I believe in us.
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If just a nobody like me can take a stand for our Constitution and our democratic republic, then you
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can too. I hope you will join me in the defense of our republic. Thank you.
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Yes, sir.
