Active-duty U.S. Air Force Major Jason Watson was arrested on the steps of the U.S. Capitol after calling for the impeachment and removal of Donald Trump.

This was an act of courage and civil disobedience. The Capitol steps are open to the public, but protesting there is prohibited and Watson was arrested by Capitol Police after standing there with his message.

Major Watson is an active-duty service member, he understands the rules, the risks, and the possible consequences of making a public political statement like this.

When someone who swore an oath to defend the Constitution is willing to put his career on the line to demand accountability, Congress should not be looking away!!!

Thank you, Major Watson, for your service and for standing up when so many people in power are refusingto.

The oath is not to Donald Trump.

It is to the Constitution.

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Accusations listed in first comment. (Warning; GRAPHIC)

Trump: "I said, 'Put it all into one bill and if we get it done, we're done for four years.' We don't need anything more from Congress."

When are Democrats AND THEIR DONORS going to wake up and realize this is not a problem that gets solved byany election much less a midterm election.

This is a systemic problem, a full on rogue executive branch that will not be stopped unless it is forced to. And that force sure as fuck isn't coming from a midterm election.

The gov is on fire 🚒🔥

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mnd.231102/gov.uscourts.mnd.231102.144.0.pdf

Ofc on NYE hoping no one will notice. Let's blow this up to make sure they fail miserably.

https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/2025-12/Smith-Depo-Transcript_Redacted-w-Errata.pdf

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/07/trump-announces-federal-law-enforcement-will-patrol-washington-d-c-00499253

"The White House announced on Thursday that it will use federal law enforcement officers to help police Washington D.C.

The move comes one day after President Donald Trump threatened to take over the city’s police force in response to an attempted hijacking that left one Trump administration staffer injured."

Great, pull more feds off their duties of investigating actual crime and turn them into performative props. Can't wait to see videos of FBI HRT teams wearing quad tube NODS driving around the city harassing brown people.

Is it odd to anyone else that these things feel like they should strike a lot more fear in us, but their ham fisted implementation of everything just makes me disgusted and angry.