Jason Crow Is Playing With Fire — And Colorado Should Be Asking Why

By Heidi Ganahl | Commentary, Rocky Mountain Voice

When a sitting United States Congressman tells the military to prepare to disobey orders, that’s not politics. That’s not oversight. That is the first brick in the road to a color revolution — and Colorado’s own Jason Crow is laying it proudly.

Crow, the Democrat representing Colorado’s 6th District, joined a group of lawmakers who released a video urging active-duty military and intelligence personnel to “refuse unlawful orders.” Sounds noble — until you realize they never defined what those orders might be. That’s the game. Vagueness is the weapon. Uncertainty is the strategy. And it’s not an accident.

When politicians want to destabilize a country from the inside, they don’t start with mobs in the streets. They start by undermining the institutions that keep the nation glued together — the military, law enforcement, and the intelligence community. Crow knows exactly what he’s doing. And if he didn’t, he wouldn’t have signed his name to the video.

Let’s not sugarcoat this: the moment an elected official — especially a former Army Ranger — tells troops to consider disobeying their commanders, we are in extremely dangerous territory. Jason Crow isn’t some naïve freshman congressman who got carried away on TikTok. He’s a combat veteran. He understands the chain of command better than almost anyone in Congress.

So ask yourself: Why would someone with that background intentionally encourage doubt in the ranks? Why would a man who spent years under military discipline suddenly push the idea that service members should start evaluating which orders they feel like following? He’s not defending the Constitution. He’s undermining it.

If you’ve studied how countries get knocked over — not by foreign armies, but by political operatives — the steps are almost always the same: erode trust in institutions, convince insiders to break ranks, destabilize the system from within, then exploit the chaos that follows. That’s the playbook. And Crow is running it.

He knows that if you can get even a sliver of the military to question its own leadership, you’ve cracked the foundation. From there, everything gets easier — protests, unrest, challenges to authority, the slow drip of instability. It starts small. It ends in disaster.

And Colorado should care — because Jason Crow doesn’t represent Brooklyn or Berkeley. He represents Aurora, Centennial, Littleton — the neighborhoods that determine which direction this state moves. Colorado is already divided enough. We don’t need a congressman tossing matches into the dry brush.

Think about the implications. Service members unsure whether following a command might get them branded “unconstitutional.” Law enforcement wondering whether the political winds will turn on them next. Citizens being fed the idea that the government itself is preparing to issue unlawful directives. A growing sense that chaos is justified — even patriotic. This is how you fracture a state. This is how you fracture a country. And from everything we’ve seen, Crow seems oddly comfortable pushing it along.

If this were really about “protecting democracy,” Crow could clear the air in ten seconds. But he won’t. So here are the things he won’t clarify: what orders is he hinting at, and who’s supposedly in charge of deciding they’re “unconstitutional”? Jason Crow? The DNC? MSNBC? 

Why go public with a message that destabilizes the military instead of working through normal legal mechanisms? Does he understand the chaos he’s inviting — or is that the point?

Until he answers, Colorado has every right to assume the worst.

America is stable when the military is apolitical. Crow’s message does not strengthen the Constitution. It does not protect democracy. And it certainly does not protect the country. Instead, it injects politics into the last institution America still trusted. That’s dangerous. That’s reckless. And from a member of Congress, it’s unforgivable.

If Crow wants to play revolutionary, he can do it on his own time. But dragging the U.S. military into partisan warfare? That’s a line Colorado should make very clear he does not get to cross again.

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