# We Will Defend This Republic from All Enemies, Foreign and Domestic by Pete Hegseth > “The next few months and years are critical for our department and our republic. This is about the president’s America First agenda. This is about our department’s peace-through-strength agenda. We will stand. We will fight. And we will defend this republic from all enemies, foreign and domestic.” > **— Pete Hegseth**, *November 5, 2026 video message, excerpted in The Saturday Wrap-Up* ## Sources and Context - **Source dossier:** [[research/Colour Revolutions Versus American Citizen Builders|Colour Revolutions Versus American Citizen Builders]]. - **Direct publication or recording:** [recording, 04:40–05:06](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQkxXlYlF9U&t=280s). - **Editorial form:** The Reminder preserves the prepared contiguous quotation; punctuation and spoken disfluency treatment are recorded in the candidate map when applicable. - **Context and treatment:** Hegseth names the time horizon, Department of War, republic, two governing agendas, and the department’s promised action and beneficiaries; [recording, 04:40–05:06](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQkxXlYlF9U&t=280s). Direct contiguous embedded clip. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Simple Reminders|Simple Reminders]] - **Collection:** [[collections/War With Empire|War With Empire]] - **Collection:** [[collections/American Infrastructure|American Infrastructure]] - **Collection:** [[collections/American|American Culture Collection]] - **Collection:** [[collections/The Politics of AI Infrastructure|The Politics of AI Infrastructure]] - **Article:** [[articles/war with empire/The Real No Kings Moment and Who Wrote the Super-intelligence Ban|Who Wrote the Super-intelligence Ban]] - **Article:** [[articles/Vertically Integrating an AI Superpower from AI Factory to Citizen|Vertically Integrating an AI Superpower from AI Factory to Citizen]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Pete Hegseth|Pete Hegseth]] - [[wiki/National Defense|National Defense]] - [[wiki/Colour Revolutions Versus American Citizen Builders|Colour Revolutions Versus American Citizen Builders]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “The next few months and years are critical for our department and our republic. This is about the president’s America First agenda. This is about our department’s peace-through-strength agenda. We will stand. We will fight. And we will defend this republic from all enemies, foreign and domestic.” — Pete Hegseth, November 5, 2026 video message, excerpted in The Saturday Wrap-Up https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-pete-hegseth-we-will-defend-this-republic-from-all-enemies-foreign-and-domestic ```