September 15, 2025 09:23 AM UTC

Jason Crow Stands Up To Stephen Miller Over Pentagon Purity Purge

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• by: Colorado Pols

In the days since the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, as readers know, his supporters have organized what might be considered a fitting tribute to the divisive and pugilistic Kirk’s life and work: a campaign to document every case of individuals from all walks of life expressing something other than effusive praise for Kirk following his death, and then aggressively seeking those persons’ termination from their places of employment, academic positions, charitable associations, and so forth. The “Expose Charlie’s Murderers” website claimed to have compiled a database of some 60,000 such targets before reportedly being taken down overnight due to violating the host’s harassment policies. Nonetheless, the campaign claims to have already gotten hundreds of people fired, and is set to continue for as long as attention spans hold out.

But over at the Department of Defense, run by fellow conservative media luminary Pete Hegseth, the purge of soldiers and DoD employees for the not-a-crime of being insufficiently mournful over Kirk’s demise is being carried out as official policy–and that’s where Colorado’s Rep. Jason Crow drew the line:

As the Aurora Sentinel reports, Rep. Crow’s defense of the free speech rights of service members, who have never before been subjected to this kind of mass retaliation for their opinion of a public figure who is not so far as we know part of their chain of command, drew the hire of President Donald Trump’s straight-outta-Central Casting evil henchman, Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller:

Crow pushed back against the energized effort to seek out members of the military for making comments that are unfavorable to Kirk.

His efforts drew a sharp rebuke from Trump advisor and White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, which, subsequently, drew a tsunami of criticism from pro-Kirk and MAGA social media users across the country.

“Member of Congress (Rep. Jason Crow) says that Armed Forces personnel should be allowed to support and encourage the assassination of conservative and religious Americans. Those in positions of power have been deeply, chillingly radicalized,” Miller posted Sunday afternoon on X.

Following this lunatic mischaracterization of Rep. Crow’s words, anonymous trolls on X/Twitter piled on by the thousands, calling this decorated combat veteran a traitor and calling for Rep. Crow’s censure. But Crow wasn’t having it:

We haven’t seen a response yet from Miller, who appears to have moved on to calling for the licenses of doctors, lawyers, and teachers who spoke less than glowingly about Charlie Kirk following his tragic death last Wednesday. The bottomless reserves of hypocrisy required to sustain this campaign of enforced political correctness in defense of Kirk’s memory do not appear to be fazing conservatives in the least. If anything, it’s a chance to “get even” for all the backlash they’ve received over the years for their own disagreeable rhetoric.

The difference being that today, it’s conservatives who wield the terrible swift sword of “cancel culture.”

That’s why this revenge campaign is about more than Charlie Kirk.