Most people have no idea what the “Seditious Six” video is. It’s DC insiders talking to DC insiders. That’s why it doesn’t land.

According to DataRepublican’s research, the November 2025 video that went viral was not the story. It was just the visible tip of an eight-year effort to build a playbook to sideline the President as Commander-in-Chief.

In this framing, the video was simply one expression of groundwork already laid over years — not the primary purpose of the activity.

What the longer effort was actually about

According to DataRepublican’s account, the multi-year work involving Rosa Brooks’s writings, National Security Action, the Transition Integrity Project, Mary McCord’s legal preparations, academic papers, and related messaging campaigns had goals far broader than any single video.

The claimed objectives were to:

• Build intellectual and legal frameworks that limit or challenge a president’s control over the military, including arguments against traditional judicial deference and support for troops refusing certain orders.
• Assemble and place aligned personnel in key national-security roles.
• Rehearse institutional responses to a contested election or “authoritarian” president, including potential military involvement.
• Normalize the idea among service members and the public that orders from the commander-in-chief could (or should) be questioned or refused if viewed as illegal or politically illegitimate.
• Create ready messaging, legal tools, and activist pressure that could be activated when needed.

Why the CIA/USA element matters

The video that surfaced this debate was posted by Sen. Elissa Slotkin, a former CIA analyst who did three tours in Iraq before serving on the White House National Security Council and at DoD.

That background matters because this playbook is not a playbook that came from everywhere in the world. It is a playbook that came from us.

It is the same toolkit — legal frameworks to challenge executive control, personnel pipelines, tabletop exercises for a contested election, and pre-written messaging to tell troops to question orders — that the U.S. has exported for decades through seemingly legitimate mechanisms like NED, USAID, and IRI.

Two precedents where similar patterns have been documented:

1. Serbia 2000 — Bulldozer Revolution: Years of legal memos calling orders unconstitutional, training a bench of future officials, rehearsing a contested election, and telling police/military that refusal would be patriotic.

2. Ukraine 2004/2014 — Orange Revolution and Euromaidan: Academic frameworks challenging presidential control of security forces, networks placed in NGOs/ministries, public wargames for a stolen election, and pre-written messaging for security forces.

When that same toolkit comes home and is used against our own Commander-in-Chief, that is what makes it pernicious.

The Soros connection, as mapped by DataRepublican

According to DataRepublican’s post, the Soros connection runs through funding and personnel ties across the network she maps.

Key points she highlights:

• George Soros’s wealth flows into the Fund for Policy Reform (a 501(c)(4) with roughly $841 million in assets; Alex Soros sits on its board). That entity channels large sums to the Open Society Policy Center / Action Fund (where Alex Soros also sits), which is described as the primary funder of National Security Action.
• National Security Action (co-chaired by Ben Rhodes and Jake Sullivan) received $4.9 million+ from Open Society sources and is portrayed as a key personnel pipeline.
• Rosa Brooks (central figure in the narrative) previously worked as special counsel to the president at George Soros’s Open Society Institute, later sat on the board of Open Society Foundations’ U.S. Programs, and joined National Security Action’s advisory council.
• Other nodes also received Open Society funding: New America (where Brooks ran the Future of War program) — $1 million+ annually; Protect Democracy (umbrella for the Transition Integrity Project) — $650,000; Win Without War — $2 million+ (plus additional funds to its parent organization).
• Tom Perriello, who previously ran Soros advocacy efforts, sat on National Security Action’s advisory council.

In short, DataRepublican presents Open Society / Soros-linked funding and prior associations as appearing at multiple points in the personnel, intellectual, legal, and messaging infrastructure she describes as developing over eight years.

The Democratic Party angle, as mapped by DataRepublican

According to DataRepublican’s account, the Democratic Party angle centers on personnel, institutions, and the political purpose of the network.

Key connections she highlights:

• National Security Action was co-chaired by Ben Rhodes (senior Obama administration official) and Jake Sullivan (later Biden’s National Security Advisor). It is described as a vehicle that assembled people who went on to staff Biden-era national security positions.
• Rosa Brooks held a political appointment in the Obama Pentagon and later joined National Security Action’s advisory council.
• The Transition Integrity Project (2020 war games) included high-profile Democratic-aligned figures such as John Podesta.
• The six lawmakers who appeared in the November 2025 video are all Democrats (Sens. Elissa Slotkin and Mark Kelly; Reps. Jason Crow, Maggie Goodlander, Chris Deluzio, and Chrissy Houlahan). One of them, Rep. Maggie Goodlander, is married to Jake Sullivan. Some reports noted recruitment of several through progressive candidate pipelines such as New Politics Academy.
• The overall effort is framed as developing intellectual, legal, personnel, and messaging infrastructure oriented toward constraining or challenging a Republican (specifically Trump) presidency’s control over the military and preparing institutional responses to contested elections or an “authoritarian” executive.

In short, DataRepublican presents the work as rooted in Democratic-aligned networks and oriented toward limiting executive power when exercised by Republicans.

The penalty for seditious conspiracy under 18 U.S.C. § 2384 is up to 20 years in federal prison.

Sources

Full background from DataRepublican:
https://x.com/datarepublican/status/2091733646533100027?s=46

Sen. Elissa Slotkin’s video:
https://x.com/senatorslotkin/status/1990774492356902948?s=46