By: Margaret Henoch The Steady State National Security veterans support an investigation of the events of January 6, 2021. The Republican minority defeated the bipartisan bill (which gave the GOP everything it asked for) to investigate the attempted coup at the Capitol on January 6, 2021. …

By Brigham Bechtel America must improve the security of our national secrets to guard against the possible compromise as well as the potential for corrupt use of those materials. It is an indefensible failure for our leaders to mishandle classified information. It is a betrayal of our citizens and the…

By Margaret Henoch The stories of documents being found in the possession of a former president, a former vice president, and the current president have evolved such that they seem to be three iterations of the same story. In fact, despite similarities between the three, one situation is very different…

By: Margaret Henoch and Marisa Barthel For the last six-plus years, we have faced what feels like crisis after crisis. During this period, we also found ourselves in a society where some citizens believe in alternate “truths” and fictional versions of reality. As a result, we have seen far too…

By: Margaret Henoch and Marisa Barthel The Republican Party is leading an assault on the rights of American women and girls. In June 2022, the Supreme Court’s six unelected, unaccountable, very conservative justices stripped American women of the fifty-year old right under the Constitution to make decisions about their bodies…

The 2016 election of Donald Trump was accompanied by an increase in stupidity or dishonesty, take your pick, from too many Republican elected officials and right-wing media. Those of us who inhabit the actual world believed that the worst of this nonsense had peaked with COVID and the Big Lie…

By: Brigham Bechtel Histories of America’s actions in Afghanistan will be written for years to come, but members of the Steady State are focused on the human cost being tallied in the present while supporting those members of the national security community in so many roles who answered the nation’s…

By: Margaret Henoch Every effective autocrat needs an equally effective propaganda arm that convinces the citizenry to believe the rantings of the autocrat rather than rely on their own eyes, ears, and brains. …

Former Deputy Staff Director for the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and Steady State member Melvin Dubee argues that the 2020 election and the events thereafter serve as a cautionary tale for what could come next in 2024 and beyond if we fail to take swift action to restore our…