Take Action Dixie! Make Congress do what it doesn't want to do - EXPLAIN ITSELF!
OK...so what can YOU do? You, yourself and your friends?
Another Great read from Mr. Don Smith over at Confederate Honor - DD
Time is running out on the Confederate heritage community. The best time period for Congress and the Executive Branch to undo (or at least mitigate) some of the excessive actions that resulted from the Naming Commission is now. Specifically, in between now and Labor Day. Maybe, if we’re stretching it, between now and Christmas.
2026 is a Congressional election year. NO candidates for Congress want to do (at least in public) controversial things in an election year. The time to do controversial things is in the years between elections.
I’ve been working on Naming Commission issues for more than two years now. (The Defense Department began implementing the commission’s recommendations during the Christmas holidays of 2022). Overall, Congress has ignored repeated, persistent calls for it to not only mitigate some of the commission’s excessive recommendations and judgments, but also explain why the commission went as far as it did, and what the commission’s judgments really mean.
For example, the commission’s final report says this: In passing the 2021 William M. “Mac” Thornberry National Defense Authorization Act, the United States Congress determined that Confederates and the Confederacy no longer warrant commemoration through Department of Defense assets.
Those are fighting words, if you think about them. Confederates are unworthy of commemoration by the DOD? An organization that millions of Confederate descendants have faithfully served for over a century, including…