Advocacy
Our Advocacy page is where The Steady State’s coalition of veteran national security, intelligence, and diplomatic professionals translates expert analysis into direct action. Here, we highlight our ongoing efforts to safeguard American democracy and the U.S. Constitution from authoritarian threats and institutional politicization. Through public campaigns, strategic endorsements, policy recommendations, and direct engagement with lawmakers and the media, we leverage our collective decades of national security experience to promote accountability, protect democratic norms, and mobilize support for preserving the rule of law.
Amicus Brief, Brennan v Blanche
The Steady State’s interest in this case is that its members dedicated their professional lives to defending America’s democratic values and the rule of law at home, and promoting those values abroad, with extensive experience balancing homeland and national security imperatives against constitutional and legal frameworks that protect individual rights. Many of amicus’ members spent their careers confronting, reporting on and studying the rise of authoritarian governments across the globe—in regimes that misuse intelligence, internal security and military services and paramilitary militias to consolidate a political leader’s power by suppressing lawful dissent and violating laws.