Tulsi Gabbard

Former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii said Tuesday she is leaving the Democratic Party because it is controlled by an "elitist cabal" that is courting nuclear ...

[Democratic Party](/topics/democratic-party/) does not. I’m calling on my fellow common sense independent-minded Democrats to join me in leaving the [Democratic Party](/topics/democratic-party/).” Some have accused her of repeating Russian propaganda, and Hillary Clinton seemed to suggest Ms. Ms. Gabbard later dropped.

Former Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard announced she is leaving the Democratic Party, denouncing lawmakers on the Left for promoting policies that “[racialize] ...

Instead, it stands for a government of, by, and for the powerful elite,” Gabbard said. “I believe in a government that is of, by, and for the people. “If you can no longer stomach the direction that so-called woke Democratic Party ideologues are taking our country, I invite you to join me.” [CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER](https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/) Since then, the former “I can no longer remain in today’s Democratic Party that is now under the complete control of an elitist cabal of warmongers driven by cowardly I can no longer remain in today’s Democratic Party that is now under the complete control of an elitist cabal of warmongers driven by cowardly wokeness, who divide us by racializing every issue & stoke anti-white racism, actively work to undermine our God-given freedoms, are…— Tulsi Gabbard 🌺 (@TulsiGabbard)

Gabbard claimed the Democrats are "dragging us ever closer to nuclear war."

[He tweeted:](https://twitter.com/joncoopertweets/status/1579805294649303043) "Hallelujah! [Gabbard](https://www.newsweek.com/tulsi-gabbard-rand-paul-placed-list-russian-propagandists-ukraine-1727831), who unsuccessfully ran for the Democratic Party presidential nomination in the 2020 election, made the announcement in a video posted on [Democrats](https://www.newsweek.com/topic/democrats) of stoking "anti-white racism," and "dragging us ever closer to nuclear war." how will we know when victory is achieved?) they've dodged the question by declaring the president of Ukraine will make that decision & the U.S. "Every time this Admin has been asked what the goal of our war with Russia is, using Ukrainians as our proxy, (i.e. Instead, it stands for a government of, by, and for the "I believe in a government that is of, by, and for the people," she said.

Former Democratic presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard announced she was leaving the party Tuesday -- blasting the political organization as an "an elitist ...

It is not coming from some foreign country — it is coming from power elites here at home and their co-conspirators in the mainstream media and the security state who are working to undermine our freedoms.” She spoke in February to the Conservative Political Action Network, in which she called for unity and deplored “the power elites” who are eroding individual rights. “We have too many people in positions of power whose foremost responsibility is to protect our freedoms and uphold our God-given rights, and yet they are the ones who are actually trying to take these rights away from us,” Gabbard said in those remarks. This is outrageous. “So he’s essentially saying that this, ‘MAGA crowd’ are worse than terrorists. Gabbard, who endorsed Joe Biden’s candidacy after dropping out of the presidential race, said she believes in a government “that’s of the people, by the people and for the people.”

Former Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard announced she is leaving the Democratic Party, denouncing it as an "elitist cabal of war mongers," while calling upon other ...

I raised this issue every single day during the campaign and on the national debate stage for those of you who may have come to a town hall or who were watching, I'm sure you noticed, but the politicians and the media completely ignored it," she said. Gabbard paired her announcement with the launch of a podcast series on YouTube called "The Tulsi Gabbard Show." In in a video posted to Twitter on Tuesday, she claimed that the party she's exiting stands for the "powerful elite," not the people. Now the Regime is getting another 87k IRS agents to wield against its adversaries? I invite you to join me," she said. "I ran for president in 2020 because I knew that this is where we were headed.

Former Hawaii Congresswoman and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard announced early Tuesday morning on Twitter that she is leaving the ...

Instead, it stands for a government of, by, and for the powerful elite. I believe in a government that is of, by, and for the people. In her statement, Gabbard said she is no longer a Democrat, citing “anti-white racism” and “wokeness” in the Democratic Party:

Tulsi Gabbard, former congresswoman from Hawaii, speaks during the Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando, Fla., on Feb. 25. (Tristan Wheelock / ...

politics faces a perilous moment](https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-10-11/los-angeles-chaotic-political-landscape-nury-martinez-leaked-audio) [was elected to Congress](https://www.latimes.com/local/la-xpm-2012-nov-19-la-me-asians-congress-20121120-story.html) in 2012 and [sought the Democratic nomination for president](https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2020-03-06/tulsi-gabbard-is-still-running-for-president) in 2020. She was one of the three final candidates and the only woman left before [dropping out](https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2020-03-19/tulsi-gabbard-quits-presidential-campaign) in March 2020 and announcing she would back then-Vice President Joe Biden.

Gabbard, who ran for president as a Democrat in 2020, announced Tuesday that she is leaving the party and urged others to do the same.

"Russia also said the Luger center in Georgia was making zombies. 8 search of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate by federal authorities, saying that “whatever your views are on Donald Trump, there's no denying that the unprecedented raid on his Palm Beach home earlier this week has set our country on a dangerous new course, and there's no turning back.” Tulsi should go to Russia." [wrote on Twitter](https://twitter.com/malcolmkenyatta/status/1579822512644722694): “Wait, Tulsi Gabbard was a Democrat?” [wrote on Twitter](https://twitter.com/MayraFlores2022/status/1579822812508061696). While in Congress, she was a critic of then-President Barack Obama’s “I’m calling on my fellow common sense, independent-minded Democrats to leave as well,” Gabbard added. [wrote on Twitter](https://twitter.com/MittRomney/status/1503113473819041796) in March. [wrote](https://twitter.com/AdamKinzinger/status/1503180267653054466). [appearance on Fox News on Tuesday](https://www.foxnews.com/politics/tulsi-gabbard-leaves-democratic-party-denounces-elitist-cabal?intcmp=tw_fnc), calling her “an independent maverick.” Prior to her unsuccessful presidential bid, Gabbard represented Hawaii in the House of Representatives from 2013 to 2021, the first Hindu member of Congress, as well as Congress' first Samoan-American voting member. [one appearance in August](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WA6XgCt0xSM), Gabbard referenced the Aug.

The reality is that Gabbard had long since drifted to the right on a variety of culture war issues.

(In 2019, she was the only member of Congress to stay neutral by [voting “present” at Trump’s first impeachment](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/mattberman/tulsi-gabbard-impeach-trump-present).) [compared so-called cancel culture to ISIS terrorism](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jz1TleBJe0M) and has encouraged Florida Gov. [speaker at the Conservative Political Action Conference](https://www.politico.com/news/2022/02/24/tulsi-gabbard-cpac-message-00011694) in Florida, where she told the crowd [she felt “right at home.”](https://www.thedailybeast.com/democrat-tulsi-gabbard-says-she-feels-right-at-home-at-cpac) [New Statesman](https://www.newstatesman.com/world/americas/north-america/us/2022/01/is-tulsi-gabbard-the-gops-dark-horse) even called her “a dark-horse contender for the 2024 GOP nomination.” [told her](https://twitter.com/EoinHiggins_/status/1459349714562732032). Ron DeSantis to [go even further with his “Don’t Say Gay” law.](https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/4/05/tulsi-gabbard-thinks-florida-dont-say-gay-law-doesnt-go-far-enough) (While courting Democratic voters in 2019, Gabbard apologized for [her past conservative views on LGBTQ issues](https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/13/politics/kfile-tulsi-gabbard-lgbt/index.html), including on marriage equality, but I guess that’s old news now.) [restrict abortion](https://www.yahoo.com/video/tulsi-gabbard-introduces-bill-block-191930470.html) and [attacking transgender women and girls](https://apnews.com/article/tulsi-gabbard-legislation-hawaii-gender-identity-markwayne-mullin-fdc7d8b0461a54ee88c1a0c85a0893f1). [first 28-minute episode](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4Z1x8Ou8VU&t=11s) of her show, accusing Democrats of rejecting the rule of law and turning the country into a “banana republic” — seemingly ignoring [all the evidence](https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/trump-rule-law-enemies/2020/05/28/7852771a-9de7-11ea-b5c9-570a91917d8d_story.html) that [Trump and his Republican allies](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-01-02/trump-went-to-war-with-rule-of-law-in-jan-6-riot-cheney-says) have [consistently sought](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/apr/28/the-trumpian-right-keeps-pushing-rule-of-law-to-the-brink-but-the-law-is-winning) to [undermine](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/10/05/ending-trumps-assault-on-the-rule-of-law) that bedrock principle of democracy. [slammed President Joe Biden](https://www.newsweek.com/tulsi-gabbard-joe-biden-atlanta-georgia-voting-rights-hillary-clinton-deplorables-1668937) for calling out Republican attacks on voting and has [railed against](https://twitter.com/TulsiGabbard/status/1459888599806185473) his former signature domestic policy law known as “Build Back Better” as furthering a “cradle-to-grave mentality of government dependence.” [antisemitism](https://www.ajc.org/translatehate/cabal) and [QAnon references](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/aug/25/qanon-conspiracy-theory-explained-trump-what-is) in which she said the party was “under the complete control of an elitist cabal of warmongers” that “weaponize the national security state to go after political opponents.” [Tulsi Gabbard](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/mattberman/tulsi-gabbard-impeach-trump-present), the former lawmaker from Hawaii whose total [flameout in the 2020 presidential primary](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/mattberman/tulsi-gabbard-end-2020-president-campaign) led her to look for any shreds of political relevance she could find in right-wing culture wars, announced she was leaving the Democratic Party on Tuesday. [video posted to Twitter](https://twitter.com/TulsiGabbard/status/1579788950696185859) in which she parroted right-wing talking points on crime, wokeness, and “anti-white racism,” Gabbard said she was leaving the Democratic Party and instead hosting a new self-titled YouTube show.

Former Democratic presidential candidate and Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard announced Tuesday she is leaving the Democratic Party.

"I believe in a government that's of the people, by the people and for the people," she said. Instead, it stands for a government that is of, by and for the powerful elite." In the minute-long video, Gabbard said Democrats are divisive by racializing issues and "stoking anti-white racism."

Former congresswoman and 2020 presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard announced on Tuesday that she is leaving the Democratic Party.

He just gave a big speech saying supporters of President (Donald) Trump are the most extremist group in our country and a threat to our democracy. Clinton suggested that the person she was talking about was a “Russian asset,” while not naming the Hawaii Democrat. On the campaign trail, she “President Biden campaigned on a message of unity, healing the partisan divide bringing the country together. “I can no longer remain in today’s Democratic Party. [Tulsi Gabbard](https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/30/us/tulsi-gabbard-fast-facts/index.html) announced on Tuesday that she is leaving the Democratic Party.

The former US presidential hopeful said the party is driven by 'cowardly wokeness' and is stoking 'anti-white racism'.

The results will also impact the second half of President Joe Biden’s term in office. I can no longer remain in today’s Democratic Party that is now under the complete control of an elitist cabal of warmongers driven by cowardly wokeness, who divide us by racializing every issue & stoke anti-white racism, actively work to undermine our God-given freedoms, are… “I can no longer remain in today’s Democratic Party that is now under the complete control of an elitist cabal of warmongers driven by cowardly wokeness, who divide us by racializing every issue and stoke anti-white racism,” Gabbard said.

Former Hawaii congresswoman and 2020 presidential hopeful says party is dominated by those espousing 'cowardly wokeness'

In a debate during the 2020 presidential race, Gabbard caught flak from then candidate Kamala Harris for not calling the Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, a “war criminal”, after she attacked Harris on her record as a California prosecutor. In 2013, Gabbard was criticized for voting against a bipartisan House resolution condemning anti-Muslim violence in the state of Gujarat. In 2012, Gabbard became the first Samoan-American voting member and Hindu elected to Congress, but her views have often sat uncomfortably with the Democratic party.

Former Congresswoman and 2020 Presidential Candidate Tulsi Gabbard announced that she is leaving the Democratic Party.

Foregoing a run for re-election to Congress, she ran as a Presidential candidate in the Democratic Party in 2020. Former Congresswoman and 2020 Presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard is a combat veteran with three deployments to the Middle East and Africa. Due to the attacks on 9/11, she enlisted in the Army National Guard. Tulsi Gabbard, a soldier in the US Army Reserves and veteran of three deployments, continued, “I believe in a government that is of the people, by the people, and for the people. The Democrats of today are hostile to people of faith and spirituality. If you can no longer stomach the direction that so-called woke Democratic Party ideologues are taking our country, I invite you to join me.”

In her announcement to leave the Democratic Party, Gabbard accused the party of using rhetoric that is anti-police and anti-religion, and pushing the ...

She began building a national profile during the 2016 election, when she resigned from her post as vice chairperson of the Democratic National Committee to endorse Sen. In 2012, Gabbard became the first Hindu and one of the first two female combat veterans elected to Congress. Gabbard was first elected to her native state of Hawaii's legislature in 2002 as a Democrat, at the age of 21.

The former congresswoman and presidential candidate said she could no longer abide the party's infringement on the freedom of speech and freedom of ...

We provide news about the Church and the world, as seen through the teachings of the Catholic Church. When you subscribe to the CNA UPDATE, we'll send you a daily email with links to the news you need and, occasionally, breaking news. Gabbard railed at the party for “rejecting the objective truth and reality that women exist,” calling it “anti-woman.” “Democrats have reduced each of us as God’s children to the color of our skin, using identity politics to tear us apart,” Gabbard said, adding, “They have become the racists that they claim to hate.” On the question of religion, Gabbard accused Democrats of being “hostile to people of faith” and said that Democrat leaders “actively try to undermine our religious freedom.” “The Democrat Party of today has forgotten that freedom of religion does not mean freedom from religion,” Gabbard added, recalling the party’s decision to omit the words “under God” from the Pledge of Allegiance at its 2020 convention.

Tulsi Gabbard's announcement served as the inaugural episode of "The Tulsi Gabbard Show," a podcast the former congresswoman is now running.

In a video she shared on her official Twitter account, Gabbard cited the reason she was leaving the Democratic Party was because it was "now under the complete control of an elitist cabal of warmongers." She went on to write that the Democratic Party was heading in a direction she could no longer stomach and called upon her "fellow common sense independent-minded Democrats" to join her departure. [Hawaii ](https://www.foxla.com/tag/us/hi)congresswoman and 2020 presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard announced on Tuesday that she is leaving the Democratic Party.

Kremlin apologists spreading disinformation during the ongoing conflict in Ukraine can be found on both sides of the aisle in US politics.

According to the [official webpage](https://goarmysof.com/CivilAffairs/CArecruiting.html) of the US Army Special Operations Recruiting Battalion, any Civil Affairs Officer must be eligible for (and maintain) a Top-Secret Security Clearance, one of the most demanding and stringent security clearances within the United States government. Gabbard has met the head of state of a sanctioned nation whose forces were actively engaged in combat with US-allied (and possibly US Special Operations) forces, called the Biden administration a dictatorship, and labelled the senior ranking member of a House Committee a domestic terrorist. It would be wise for the US Department of Defense, the US Army Psychological Operations and Civil Affairs Command, and the US Army Reserve to reconsider her status within the elite field of Civil Affairs officers, and reevaluate her top-secret security clearance. Meanwhile, Alexander Vindman, the former US Army Officer who testified against Trump during the Trump-Ukraine Scandal, [called her out](https://www.newsweek.com/vindman-calls-gabbard-agent-russian-disinformation-after-fox-segment-1733443) on social media for being a liar and “an agent of Russian disinformation [who promotes] Russian aggression and endanger[s] America”. When Gabbard announced she was running for President, she defended her actions in a [CNN interview](https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/20/politics/tulsi-gabbard-bashar-al-assad-meeting-cnntv); when asked if she had any regrets, she argued that it was important to meet with other leaders, “whether they be friends or adversaries or potential adversaries if we are serious about the pursuit of peace and securing our country”. [Bernie Sanders’s “Medicare for All”](https://www.axios.com/2019/03/23/2020-presidential-candidates-medicare-for-all) plan, calls for [campaign finance reform](https://twitter.com/TulsiGabbard/status/785983824672935938) and [the legalisation](https://www.businessinsider.com/marijuana-legalization-2020-presidential-candidates-2019-2#rep-tulsi-gabbard-of-hawaii-recently-introduced-a-bi-partisan-bill-in-the-house-with-gop-rep-don-young-to-de-criminalize-marijuana-at-the-federal-level-9) of marijuana at the federal level. She considers the pair a greater danger to the United States than the rioters who stormed the US Capitol building on January 6, 2021, while she has also warned of “efforts to combat domestic insurgents through surveillance and other monitoring activities”. Also contentiously, Gabbard [frequently appeared](https://www.politifact.com/article/2019/nov/21/looking-back-tulsi-gabbards-fox-news-presence-obam/) on Fox News as a sitting member of Congress, making more than 20 appearances between 2013 to 2017, and often opposing Obama’s foreign policy. For the most part, at least in the United States, this comes from far-right members of the Conservative ideology, including political commentators like [Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens](https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/these-are-the-american-right-wingers-covering-for-putin-as-russia-invades-ukraine-1311965/), but also political candidates like [JD Vance in Ohio and Joe Kent in Washington](https://accountability.gop/ukraine-quotes/) and Representatives [Madison Cawthorne](https://accountability.gop/ukraine-quotes/), [Marjorie Taylor Greene, and Paul Gosar](https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/putins-republican-sympathizers/). From [2013 to 2021](https://ballotpedia.org/Tulsi_Gabbard), Gabbard was the elected Representative for Hawaii’s 2nd Congressional District. [first entered](https://ballotpedia.org/Tulsi_Gabbard) politics in 2002 at the age of 21, when she was elected to the 43rd District of the Hawaiian House of Representatives. [baseless](https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/feb/25/vladimir-putin/putin-repeats-long-running-claim-genocide-ukraine/) [claims of genocide](https://theconversation.com/putins-claims-that-ukraine-is-committing-genocide-are-baseless-but-not-unprecedented-177511), and strongly support the Ukrainian people.