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[Dec 2014 - Jan 2015] Tulsi Gabbard 2 week tour of India (Modi Shashi Tharoor) Mahakrsh KrshrathHV01T9 *Youtube / Bitchute / Odysee / Rumble / Stream.Housatonic.Live
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India, US must come together to combat terrorism: Tulsi GabbardSun, Jan 04, 2015
New Delhi: US Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, the first Hindu member of the US House of Representatives, feels the relationship between India and the US has been energised after Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit and wants the two governments to work closely in countering terrorism, including cyber terrorism.
"Terrorism is an enemy and a threat that doesn't wear one country's uniform or owe allegiance to one country's flag, but rather exists in many different parts of the world. In order to defeat this threat, we (India and the US) will have to work together," Gabbard, the first Hindu member of the US House of Representative, told IANS in an interview during a visit here.
"..And that includes the government and leadership of Pakistan taking a stronger stand and action against these terrorists," Gabbard added.
She hoped that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Barack Obama, during his visit here for the Jan 26 Republic Day celebrations, would discuss the urgency to press upon Pakistan the need to take the terror threat more seriously.
"Both our countries are focussed on security. Both are focussed on countering terrorism dealing with the growing threat of Islamic extremism . We must focus on seeing how we can collaborate to better defend ourselves against the cyber attacks that are increasingly becoming a threat," said the 33-year old, who is a combat veteran and also an ardent follower of the Bhagavad Gita.
Noting that Modi's maiden visit to the US in September "energized the relationship between the two countries", Gabbard said he had come with "a very clear vision and a plan to achieve his objective of where he would like to take India".
She said Modi's vision struck a chord not just with the Indian diaspora but generated interest "from people involved with politics, in the private sector and those who are looking to participate in what appears to be a very exciting time here in India".
Gabbard, who was in India between Dec 16, 2014, and Jan 3, 2015, and met with Modi, Defence Minster Manohar Parrikar and Goa Chief Minister Laxmikant Parsekar among a host of other leaders, said she always nurtured a special place for the land of Lord Krishna's birth and hoped for greater understanding and respect for each others' culture, traditions, and distinct style of doing business.
Gabbard was born into a multi-cultural and multi-religious family of parents with Samoan and European roots. Fourth among five siblings, Gabbard embraced Hinduism as a teenager and became a student of the Bhagavad Gita.
Drawing upon the relevance of the Gita in international politics, she said the teachings in the scripture "about karma yoga and bhakti yoga have great relevance in the world today for each of us individually as well as in tackling the great challenges that we face around the world.
"His (Lord Krishna's) teachings are relevant today as they were before and they always will be," Gabbard said.
Reflecting on her 18-day-long stay in India, Gabbard said she enjoyed the trip and found it "very productive on many fronts".
While touring seven cities across India, this devotee of Lord Krishna said her visit to Vrindavan, Krishna's birthplace, was more like spiritual rejuvenation.
Goa was one state that attracted her for its immense potential in a tourism-centric economy just like her own home state of Hawaii.
She is working with state officials to "establish a sister-state partnership between Hawaii and Goa" in an attempt to "create a unique bridge between our countries by creating this partnership between the two states that have much in common."
"I have always had a fancy for India as the birthplace of Lord Krishna. And I have also spent a lot of time with Indian Americans back home who come from many different parts of India. When I came to India, it felt like I had already been there. There is a lot more to see and I look forward to visiting again in the near future," Gabbard said.Ask
2015 (April 11) - India Emissary sent to Tulsi Gabbard wedding
2015 (April 11) - India Emissary sent to Tulsi Gabbard wedding
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Photos: US Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard's postcard-perfect Vedic wedding in Hawaii
BJP leader Ram Madhav attends ceremony bearing special message from Prime Minister Modi.
Apr 11, 2015 · 12:04 pm
For a first-time US Congresswoman, Tulsi Gabbard seems to get a disproportionate amount of attention from the Indian government. Prime Minister Narendra Modi made it a point to meet with the young legislator when he visited the US in September and when Gabbard got married on Thursday, Bharatiya Janata Party general secretary Ram Madhav flew in from India with a special message from Modi.
The current regime's interest in the 33-year-old legislator may have something to do with the fact that Gabbard, who was born in American Samoa, is the first Hindu member of the US Congress. As so many Americans were in the 1960s, Gabbard's mother was influenced by the International Society for Krishna Consciousness and raised her five children according the precepts of the Brahma Madhwa Gaudiya Sampradaya.
When Gabbard was sworn in to the US House of Representatives in April 2013, she became the first Congresswoman to take the oath on the Bhagwad Gita.
The BJP's interest in Gabbard sits somewhat at odds with the rhetoric of some of its allies in the Sangh Parivar opposing religious conversions at home.
But Thursday was not the occasion to discuss the politics as Gabbard got married 26-year-old cinematographer Abraham Williams, who she met in 2012 when he volunteered for her campaign. The Vedic ceremony was conducted by Pandit Vinod Dave.
This is what the politician told The New York Times about her romance:
“As we got to know each other, we realised how much we actually had in common. We went for a long walk on our first date, and ended up at a pickup volleyball game with a few friends. Pretty soon, we were going on hikes, going surfing and spending as much time together as we could. Oftentimes that meant an early-morning surf before work. Our friendship and relationship developed over our mutual love for the ocean and surfing.”
The Congresswoman's first marriage ended in a divorce.
As with so many delighted brides, Gabbard shared her joy with the world on Facebook and Twitter. Here are some scenes from the celebrations.
Ho'omaika'i 'Ana, @TulsiGabbard & Abe! #TulsiAbeWeddingpic.twitter.com/NCpZB9tQxp
— Darren Shiroma (@DarrenShiroma) April 10, 2015
Parents of the bride and groom and all the guests bless the wedding rings. #TulsiAbeWedding pic.twitter.com/PPgDRLfnRt
— Tulsi Gabbard (@TulsiGabbard) April 10, 2015
#TulsiAbeWedding pic.twitter.com/iD6DirCw5d
— Tulsi Gabbard (@TulsiGabbard) April 10, 2015
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Tulsi Gabbard's Yoga Day Speech at UN Headquarters
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Tulsi was a Special Guest at the celebration of International Yoga Day at the UN Headquarters in New York on Jun 21, where she spoke, along with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, India’s Minister of External Affairs Sushma Swaraj, and India’s UN Ambassador Asoke Mukerji. Her UN remarks were broadcast live in Times Square! She and other leaders also went to address a crowd in Times Square where over 30,000 people practiced yoga throughout the day.
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Tulsi Gabbard's Yoga Day Speech at Times Square
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Tulsi was a Special Guest at the celebration of International Yoga Day at the UN Headquarters in New York on Jun 21, where she spoke, along with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, India’s Minister of External Affairs Sushma Swaraj, and India’s UN Ambassador Asoke Mukerji. Her UN remarks were broadcast live in Times Square! She and other leaders also went to address a crowd in Times Square where over 30,000 people practiced yoga throughout the day.
[Dec 31 2019] Tulsi Gabbard swims w Chuck Rosa, opioid epidemic victims + survivors (New Hampshire)
[Dec 31 2019] Tulsi Gabbard swims w Chuck Rosa, opioid epidemic victims + survivors (New Hampshire)
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2020 (Jan 20) - Bari Weiss on Joe Rogan show called Tulsi a "TOADIE"
2020 (Jan 20) - Bari Weiss on Joe Rogan show called Tulsi a "TOADIE"
2022 (Oct 16) - The Independent : "Tulsi Gabbard’s ties to secretive cult may explain her perplexing political journey; Dr Caroline Sinavaiana Gabbard toldThe Independent in an interview that her niece’s career is all about the pursuit of power"
2022 (Oct 16) - The Independent : "Tulsi Gabbard’s ties to secretive cult may explain her perplexing political journey; Dr Caroline Sinavaiana Gabbard toldThe Independent in an interview that her niece’s career is all about the pursuit of power"
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Bevan HurleySunday 16 October 2022 12:43 EDT
Editor’s Note: This article was originally published on October 16, 2022. Caroline Sinavaiana-Gabbard, 78, was killed in Samoa on May 25, 2024 Tulsi Gabbard has staked out extreme positions on LGBT+ rights, spread disinformation about Ukrainian biolabs, and claimed she was being shadowbanned by Big Tech while using her vast social media footprint to label Joe Biden a “warmonger”.
In one breath Gabbard expresses a desire to bring love and aloha from her native Hawaii to the world, in the next she is fanning conspiracy theories on Tucker Carlson’s Fox News show.
Last week, Gabbard announced she was leaving the Democratic Party, claiming it had become “an elitist cabal of warmongers driven by cowardly wokeness”.
The decision came as little surprise to anyone who has followed her political trajectory from 2020 Democratic presidential candidate to darling of Russian propagandists and the American far-right.
To understand her ambitions, her aunt Dr Caroline Sinavaiana Gabbard tells The Independent in an interview that it is necessary to look to her upbringing in a secretive cult called the Science of Identity Foundation (SIF) whose members show absolute loyalty to a reclusive guru, Chris Butler.
A former member toldThe Independent the group’s teachings are virulently homophobic, often anti-Islamic and misogynist, and how they were forced to worship Butler, who is considered to be akin to a God.
Sinavaiana Gabbard says her niece’s career is all about the pursuit of power, and her bid for the presidency in 2020 was the culmination of four decades of Butler’s efforts to seek political influence.
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Dr Caroline Sinavaiana Gabbard says her niece Tulsi Gabbard is heavily influenced by reclusive Hawaiian guru Chris Butler (Supplied)
“Once again I find my niece’s apparent penchant for parroting extremist toadies such as Tucker Carlson and vile ‘strongmen’ such as Vladimir Putin, to be problematic and deeply troubling,” Sinavaiana Gabbard, a retired professor of English at the University of Hawaii, told The Independent.
“It gives me no pleasure to note that Tulsi’s single governing principle seems to be expedience, which is in effect no principle at all.”
‘Tulsi, our friend’
‘Tulsi, our friend’
In her keynote address to the Conservative Political Action Conference back in February, Tulsi Gabbard described the various ways she had been smeared by her political opponents.
“I’m sure you’ve all heard them before,” Gabbard said. “Russian asset. White supremacist. Bigot. Racist. Extremist. Traitor.”
Gabbard was given several standing ovations by the grandees of the Republican Party for her scattershot attacks on cancel culture, the power elite, and “Biden-Clinton-neocon-neolib foreign policy”.
Gabbard is a veteran who served a tour of Iraq, still serves with the National Guard, and has spoken about how witnessing first-hand the horrors of war led her to take an anti-interventionist stance on US foriegn policy.
In statements after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Gabbard contended that Ukraine was not worth protecting because it “isn’t actually a democracy,” and that the US-funded “biolabs” could result in the release of “dangerous pathogens”.
This baseless claim echoed Russian propaganda that the United States was funding labs in Ukraine to make illegal biological weapons for use against Russia.
Republican Senator Mitt Romney responded by saying Gabbard was spreading “treasonous lies”.
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Tulsi Gabbard, a former Democrat congresswoman for Hawaii (Fox News)
Gabbard was not deterred, telling Jesse Watters on 15 March that freedom of speech in the US was at similar risk to Russia, which has banned all criticism of the government and imprisoned tens of thousands of protestors.
“It is striking when you see Putin propaganda and you line it up against Biden propaganda,” she said.
Politifact rated the statement a “pants on fire” lie.
Her pro-Kremlin talking points led to Russian state-TV introducing her as “Tulsi, our friend.”
After airing part of her Fox interview, a panelist asked: “Is she some kind of Russian agent?”
Gabbard went on to guest host Tucker Carlson’s show in August.
Gabbard’s political donations have also come under scrutiny over her pro-Russian positions.
Forbes revealed earlier this year that Gabbard’s biggest political donor in 2021 is a pro-Putin apologist.
And in March, it was revealed that Elena Branson, a dual US-Russian citizen accused of spying for the Kremlin, donated to her campaign for reelection to Congress in 2019.
Gabbard has consistently echoed GOP positions on immigration and LGBT+ issues, and recently claimed that Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill was too moderate.
“When I first heard about Florida’s Parental Rights bill, I was shocked it only protects children K-3. Third grade? How about 12th grade—or not at all,” she said.
When I first heard about Florida’s Parental Rights bill, I was shocked it only protects children K-3. Third grade? How about 12th grade—or not at all. Meanwhile, schools are failing: 1 in 4 graduates is functionally illiterate. Parents should raise their kids, not the government. pic.twitter.com/Qb17Mkc0lI
— Tulsi Gabbard 🌺 (@TulsiGabbard) April 6, 2022
In 2015, she flew to Syria to meet with the dictator Bashar al-Assad as he was waging a brutal war against his own people.
She has courted Egyptian president Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, whose regime has killed and imprisoned thousands of subjects since assuming power in a coup in 2014.
And the authoritarian-leaning Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi sent a personal emissary to her 2015 wedding in Hawaii.
She also declined to vote to impeach Donald Trump during his first trial in December 2019, instead registering herself as “present”.
Her defection from the Democrats could pave the way for the 41-year-old to potentially run for the Republican nomination in 2024.
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Tulsi Gabbard speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Orlando in February (REUTERS)
‘They said he could read your mind’
‘They said he could read your mind’
Despite holding trenchant views on all manner of subjects, Gabbard has been vague about her links to the Science of Identity Foundation, and did not respond to several requests for comment for this article.
In an online biography, she describes herself as “interfaith”, and says some of her earliest memories are from the “fragrant aromas of both Christian and Hindu celebrations”.
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Science of Identity founder Chris Butler, who Tulsi Gabbard has referred to as her ‘guru dev’, or spiritual leader (Science of Identity Foundation / YouTube)
But in interviews and speeches, she has acknowledged and defended her links to Butler, referring to him as her “guru dev” – or spiritual leader – in 2015.
Butler is rarely seen in public these days, with the Science of Identity Foundation regularly posting decades old clips of his teachings on YouTube.
The foundation did not respond to a request for comment for this article.
In a 2017 interview with The New Yorker, Gabbard said she had never heard Butler “say anything hateful, or anything mean about anybody”.
“I can speak to my own personal experience and, frankly, my gratitude to him, for the gift of this wonderful spiritual practice that he has given to me, and to so many people.”
Butler gave a rare interview for the same New Yorker article in 2017, saying that he did have disciples, but rejecting claims he was an authoritarian.
Butler, who also goes by the name Jagad Guru, or teacher of the world, said he preferred to think of himself as a follower or student, rather than a teacher or leader.
He described his relationship with his devotees as one of love.
Sinavaiana Gabbard remembers learning some 40 years ago that her brother Mike – Tulsi’s father and longterm Hawaiian state lawmaker – had joined the Science of Identity.
The extended family were gathering for Sunday brunch, a weekly feast and cultural institution in Samoa. When Mike announced he and his family had become strict vegetarians, her mother was deeply upset.
Then seemingly overnight, her nephews, Tulsi’s older brothers, had new Sanskrit names.
She says as a child of the ‘60s, she didn’t find this strange, but it was an “unsettling” adjustment for her parents.
She later learned that the whole family were “prostrating at the feet” of Butler, a “white surfer dude”.
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Dr Carolina Sinavaiana Gabbard with her brother Mike Gabbard, a Hawaiian state senator (Supplied)
Tulsi attended a Science of Identity boarding school in the Philippines, according to several sources, and spent her formative years and schooling sheltered from outside influences, her aunt said.
The Science of Identity Foundation (SIF) was formed in 1977 by Chris Butler as a breakaway sect of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), also known as the Hare Krishna movement.
Its stated aim is to “pass on the ancient teachings of yoga in a scientific, logical, and clear manner so that people can, with intelligence, seriously contemplate upon, consider”.
However, former members have been speaking out about the abusive practices of the Science of Identity Foundation for several years.
‘Degrading language’
‘Degrading language’
Oklahoma woman Robin Marshall, 40, who spent six months at a SIF retreat in Hawaii in the early 2000s, told The Independent recruits were taught to be “highly homophobic”.
“They told us: ‘We don’t associate with f**s’,” using a homophobic slur.
“The hatred, the degrading language, it was just one thing after another.”
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Robin Marshall, a mother from Oklahoma, said the Science of Identity Foundation are an abusive cult (Supplied)
She was played recordings of Butler who she says espoused extreme homophobic views.
“They said he could read your mind. They were wholly and fully indoctrinated into this idea that Chris Butler was basically God.”
Marshall says she was aware back then of Tulsi Gabbard as a rising star within the foundation. She said it was “inconceivable” that anyone involved with the group was not being directed by Butler.
“I feel like when you vote for somebody who is heavily tied into SOF, you’re not voting for that person, you’re voting for Chris Butler, as a servant of the servant of God.”
In 2019, the Iowa Informer published an investigation by freelance journalist Christine Gralow that reviewed Butler’s decades of teachings, including the many homophobic references he has made over the years.
In a 2017 Medium post, a woman who has since left SIF described how she was taught that life was an “illusion”, and followers were instructed to only develop a relationship with Butler.
“We were in effect isolated from our parents who did their best to not love us as per his recommendation, and instead looked at him like a surrogate father/messiah figure.”
“What I am concerned about is the control I know Chris Butler has over her, the influence he has over her ability to make decisions, decisions that could become law and impact a whole lot of people,” describing him as an abusive, misogynistic, homophobic, germophobic, narcissistic nightmare.
When Gabbard ran for president in 2020, virtually her entire campaign staff were members of the Science of Identity, Sinavaiana Gabbard told The Independent.
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Mike Gabbard is running for re-election to the Hawaiian state senate (Mike Gabbard / YouTube)
Indeed, her political career has been guided by her father Mike Gabbard, a Hawaiian state senator, and the former “poster boy” of anti-LGBT+ activism in the island state.
Before she was elected to the Hawaii state house of representatives in 2002 at the age of 21 years old, the youngest legislator in the state’s history, Gabbard worked for Mike’s The Alliance for Traditional Marriage, a political action committee that opposed LGBTQ rights legislation.
After 9/11, Gabbard enlisted in the Hawaii National Guard so she could “go after the terrorists who attacked us”.
Gabbard was elected to the US House of Representatives in 2013 at the age of 33, becoming the first Hindu and Samoan-American in Congress.
She quickly became a regular critic of President Barack Obama for his refusal to use the term “radical Islam”, and a favourite of Fox News host Sean Hannity.
Those views align with tapes of Butler’s Islamaphobic teachings that have been widely circulated online.
The Science of Identity Foundation is thought to have just a few thousand members in the US, Philippines, New Zealand and Australia.
But due to its outsize influence on Hawaiian politics, and possible future presidential candidate, Sinavaiana Gabbard said she felt it was important to speak out about the group - and her niece.
“As a historian and lifelong student of eastern philosophies and religions, I find SIF’s role as uncritical cheerleader, if not patron and primary generator, of Tulsi’s checkered political agenda and intemperate, right wing associations to be troubling in the extreme.
“In any case, I feel impelled to state for the record that in no way whatsoever does Tulsi speak for me, nor my family or culture.”
‘Anti-white racism’
‘Anti-white racism’
In a statement released to Twitter this week, Gabbard claimed the Democrats were trying to “divide us by racialising every issue”, stoking “anti-white racism”, and actively working to undermine “God-given freedoms”.
“President Biden and Democratic Party elites have pushed us to the precipice of nuclear war, risking starting World War III and destroying the world as we know it,” she said, while spouting Republican talking points about “wokeness” and “elites”.
Gabbard also announced the launch of a podcast series on YouTube called The Tulsi Gabbard Show.
She did not respond to a request for comment.
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Tulsi Gabbard turned down RFK Jr.'s offer to be his running mate, she says
Tulsi Gabbard turned down RFK Jr.'s offer to be his running mate, she says
"It didn't work out," a source close to him said.
April 2, 2024, 12:00 PM
Can a third-party candidate influence the 2024 election? As the 2024 presidential election nears, several third-party candidates have emerged to challenge President Joe Biden and Donald Trump, but what will be their impact on the race?
Former Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, who left the Democratic Party in 2022, declined an offer to be Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s running mate in his independent presidential bid, she tells ABC News.
"I met with Kennedy several times, and we have become good friends," she said in a statement. "He asked if I would be his running mate. After careful consideration, I respectfully declined."
Gabbard declined to explain why she turned down that offer, which has not previously been reported.
She is among an eclectic group of people whom Kennedy had considered for the role, including former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura and TV host Mike Rowe.
He announced at an Oakland, California, rally last week that he had chosen Silicon Valley lawyer Nicole Shanahan, whose younger age, work in health and artificial intelligence appealed to him.
Kennedy and his campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Gabbard's statement. However, a person close to him told ABC News, "There were definitely meetings, but it didn't work out."
"We talked to a bunch of people," this person added. "Tulsi's a rock star no matter what."
Gabbard's name has also been floated by some allies of former President Donald Trump to be his potential vice-presidential pick.
She ran an unsuccessful campaign for the Democratic presidential nominee in 2019 before departing the party three years later, an exit she chronicled in a book she is releasing this month, "For Love of Country: Leave the Democrat Party Behind."
Tulsi Gabbard attends a live taping of Hannity at Fox News Channel Studios, Sept. 13, 2023, in New York. Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks at a Cesar Chavez Day, March 30, 2024, in Los Angeles.
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In announcing she would no longer be a Democrat, Gabbard blamed "warmongers" in the party "who are driven by cowardly wokeness, who divide us by racializing every issue."
However, she had also become increasingly out of step with the party's mainstream, including on issues like Florida's controversial ban on LGBTQ+ topics in some public school classrooms, which she supported.
During her White House run, Gabbard made history when she became the first woman of color since 1972 to net a delegate to the Democratic National Convention.
Gabbard is also a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army Reserves who was deployed twice to Iraq and Kuwait and took a two-week absence from the presidential campaign trail in 2020 to report for active duty in Indonesia with the Hawaiian Army National Guard.
As a member of Congress, Gabbard drew scrutiny after she traveled to Syria in 2017, saying that she was going to see how U.S. policies were directly impacting Syrians. While there, she met with religious leaders and accepted a meeting with Syria's autocratic president, Bashar al-Assad, amid the country's still-ongoing civil war.
She defended her meeting, which she insisted she did in the pursuit of peace, despite backlash from some other Democratic lawmakers.
The former congresswoman also drew criticisms after she voted "present" during the House's formal impeachment vote against then-President Donald Trump in 2019.
At the time Gabbard said that her vote was an "active protest" against the "terrible fallout of this zero-sum mindset" between the two political parties.
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TUCKER ON JOE ROGAN
Friday, Apr 19, 2024 • 3h, 12min
#2138 - Tucker Carlson
The podcast episode discusses government secrecy, UFOs, AI, media bias, and the battle between good and evil.
CLARIFIES BARI WEISS CALLING TULSI GABBARD A "TOADIE"
the clip .. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tcb0mmeRZeU
HOW DID JOW ROGAN KNOW THAT BARI USED THE PHRASE "TOADIE" ... iIT WAS 5 YEAR PRIOR.....
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Tulsi out of the Trump VP running?
Tulsi out of the Trump VP running?
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Tulsi Gabbard attends a live taping of Hannity at Fox News Channel Studios on September 13, 2023 in New York City (Getty Images)
Cockburn snagged an invite to Tulsi Gabbard’s book party in DC on Thursday night, hosted by Spectator editor-at-large Ben Domenech and his wife Meghan McCain. Some Fox News heavy hitters such as Harris Faulkner and Howie Kurtz were there, as well as Mark Halperin, Robby Soave, Mary Margaret Olohan, Ryan Girdusky, Amber and Jonathan Duke, Bethany Mandel, Juliegrace Brufke, Reagan Reese, Vanessa Santos and others.
Word on the street was that one day prior, Tulsi was informed by President Donald Trump that she would not be chosen as his vice president. She was gracious in thanking the hosts for throwing the party and said that her book, For Love of Country: Leave the Democrat Party Behind, is about providing hope that America can be saved from the worst impulses of radicals — and that we can all still be friends, even if we disagree on politics.
Mother of Navy SEAL congressional hopeful writes… Navy SEAL erotica
Mother of Navy SEAL congressional hopeful writes… Navy SEAL erotica
Move over Stacey Abrams! A new erotica author in central Virginia is causing a stir on the campaign trail. Sharon Hamilton writes Navy SEAL-centered erotic fiction and is the mother of Republican Cameron Hamilton, a candidate for Congress who also happens to be, you guessed it — a Navy SEAL, who served four deployments on SEAL Team Eight.
“Kate Morgan is engaged to the most eligible bachelor in Sonoma County, the son of a wealthy wine family in Healdsburg, California,” the summary of her book SEAL of My Heart reads. “On a flight to visit her sister in Portland she is seated next to a young hard-bodied elite soldier who ignites her insides in a strange attraction she cannot deny.”
Sharon, who has authored dozens of SEAL-themed romance novels, sat down with USA Today in 2015, to discuss who she’d like to be stranded on a desert island with. “That’s an easy one for me. I’d definitely want a Navy SEAL, preferably one from SEAL Team VI,” she said. “With the million-dollar training and a sixth sense for danger, he’d not only protect me by getting and staying real close, he’d probably be a fun guy to hang around.”
Her son, who recently retired from Alejandro Mayorkas’s Department of Homeland Security in order to run for Congress, is now facing off in a new kind of battle: first against Derrick Anderson, himself a former Green Beret, and then potentially against carpetbagging Democrat Eugene Vindman, the Army lieutenant colonel who was at the forefront of Donald Trump’s first impeachment.
The veteran-heavy contest is shaping up to be one of the most competitive in the country heading in to 2024, with Democratic incumbent Abigail Spanberger calling it quits to instead run for governor.
But back to the steamy stuff. Hamilton also delved into the hunks she likes writing about. “As I always say in my books: hunky heroes always. Shirts optional. SEALs can swim, improvise from their environment, learn how to survive in extreme conditions. Oh, and one other little factoid: I’ve been told they tend to be on the hot and bothered side around women. Now that’s just fine!”
She posts videos of her reading her works as well. Cockburn can attest that her live rendition of SEAL’s Promise is far from safe for work.
Cameron is, unsurprisingly, placing his military service at the front and center of his campaign for Congress. Sharon has been writing SEAL fantasies for well over a decade, coinciding with much of her son’s time in the elite force. Sharon has spent years around military men, being married to an Air Force veteran — but the frogmen are where she hones in. SEAL Brotherhood, her first SEAL series, consists of eleven books about different members of SEAL Team Three.
While Cameron is still quite young, he could find inspiration for his campaign from his mother’s newest series, Silver Team, which spotlights “seasoned” SEALs who, “as they age out and are forced to face the reality of their age and physical condition, are tasked with continuing in the service of their country.” Like running for Congress, perhaps?
Cameron’s campaign, for its part, is distancing itself from his mom’s fantasies: “He does not condone the genre in which his mother writes and he does not read her books,” a spokesperson said.
Of course one of the most famous male porn stars is running for Congress in Vegas
Of course one of the most famous male porn stars is running for Congress in Vegas
Evan Stone is a sixty-year-old veteran of the adult film industry who has appeared in numerous porn parodies such as This Ain’t Duck Dynasty XXX and The Little Spermaid. He is also, naturally, a Republican candidate for Nevada’s 1st district in the 2024 election, whose primary takes place on June 11. The winner will take on Dina Titus for the right to represent parts of Las Vegas, Henderson and their southeastern suburbs.
Stone’s previous political experience consists of a feature in 2008’s Who’s Nailin’ Paylin, in which Lisa Ann starred as the Republican vice presidential nominee, and playing Donald Trump in 2016’s Republican Candidate Wife Swap, around the same time as the real Trump was seeking to hush up Stone’s sometime colleague Stormy Daniels about their supposed rendezvous. Cockburn clocked Stone near Daniels at “sex and love” convention Exxotica DC in 2022, where he was dressed as Santa and posing for pictures with fellow porn stars, including his current partner Katie Morgan.
His website lists no policy positions (not even reverse cowgirl) and he has a decades-long track record of sexual deviancy, copulating on camera with women young enough to be his granddaughter. He would fit right in in Congress…
Nicole Shanahan, Cockburn’s VP pick
Nicole Shanahan, Cockburn’s VP pick
The Republican veepstakes remain very up in the air, with Trump hinting last night that he will name his pick at the Milwaukee convention in July. Kamala Harris is readying herself to blunder her way through another convention speech and debate, as she meanders through whatever it is her White House brief is supposed to be these days. No, the real fun in the VP race comes courtesy of RFK’s pick, Nicole Shanahan, the ex of Google founder Sergey Brin.
Per a profile of her in the New York Times, “During their five-year marriage, Ms. Shanahan partied with Silicon Valley’s elite and used recreational drugs including cocaine, ketamine and psychedelic mushrooms, according to eight people and documents reviewed by the New York Times. Ms. Shanahan and Mr. Brin separated after she had a sexual encounter with Elon Musk in 2021, three of the people said.”
The Times recounts a late 2021 party in Miami where “Elon Musk and Ms. Shanahan took ketamine… and disappeared together for several hours, according to four people briefed on the event and documents related to it. Ms. Shanahan later told Mr. Brin that she had had sex with Mr. Musk, three of the people said. She also relayed the details to friends, family and advisors.”
With Trump and Biden’s advanced years, the possibility of VP succession has been a much discussed aspect of the presidential race. But imagine if RFK is incapacitated and America ends up led by its first female president, who’s more Hunter than Joe?
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2024 (May 27) - TALANEI.COM : "Samoan novelist and playwright charged with murder"
2024 (May 27) - TALANEI.COM : "Samoan novelist and playwright charged with murder"
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Award winning novelist and playwright Papali’i Sia Figiel has been arrested and charged with the murder of a woman at her GaluMoana Theater in Vaivase-uta on Saturday.
Police Commissioner Auapaau Logoitino Filipo told the Samoa Observer, “A hammer is alleged to have been used as well as a small knife that inflicted multiple stab wounds on the deceased.”
“We do not know what the motive is of the offending but from reports, the incident occurred on Saturday and the suspect left the deceased at her home while she went out to Lotofaga and spent time with a friend.”
It wasn’t until Sunday morning while having breakfast that she told her friend about what she had done, and that led to the matter being reported to the police.
“She came with her friend to the Police Station to report it and when police went to her home to check, they found the deceased’s body there.”
Police have sealed off the crime scene at GaluMoana Theater where the novelist lived.
Police have yet to release the name of the victim, but friends of Papali’i have told KHJ News that the deceased was Dr. Caroline Sinavaiana Gabbard an academic, poet and writer from American Samoa.
Dr. Gabbard taught at the American Samoa Community College and the University of Hawaii, and retired to Samoa a few years ago.
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2024 (May 30) - : "Prof. Gabbard was a respected academic"
2024 (May 30) - : "Prof. Gabbard was a respected academic"
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Professor Caroline Sinavaiana Gabbard seated in the middle. (Photo: Facebook)
By Talaia Mika • 30 May 2024, 4:00PM
A 78-year-old woman who lost her life in a tragic homicide last weekend has been described as a peaceful and calm person by a close friend.
Caroline Sinavaiana-Gabbard, a historian, environmentalist, and retired Professor from the University of Hawai'i at Manoa was the victim in the alleged murder for which playwright and poet Papalii Sia Figiel is charged.
A friend who did not want to be named because of the sensitive nature of the incident said she was completely shocked and sad when she found out.
"She was a kindred spirit, a brilliant writer and supporter of writers. A peaceful and calm person," she said.
"Someone who did not deserve to die like that. She was a very private person despite being a giant in the literary world."
Her passing shocked many friends in the literary world who have been sending messages on social media about her sudden passing.
In 2022, the late Prof. Gabbard warned of the implications of the Government’s inaction to address concerns about the adverse effects of paraquat. She was part of the group advocating for the ban on the dangerous weedkiller.
Born in 1946, she was an American Samoan academic, writer, poet, and environmentalist and was the first Samoan to become a full professor in the United States. She is the sister of American politician Mike Gabbard and the aunt of politician Tulsi Gabbard.
She was born in Utulei village in American Samoa and educated at Sonoma State University, University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Hawai'i.
Her PhD thesis was on traditional comic theatre in Samoa: a holographic view. She taught creative writing at the University of Hawai'i for nearly 20 years and was an Associate Professor of Pacific literature at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa.
In 2002, she published her collection of poetry, Alchemies of Distance and in August 2020, she was named by USA Today on its list of influential women from U.S. territories.
Attempts to get a comment from police on an update on the case were unsuccessful by press time.
Figiel, 57, was earlier charged with manslaughter on Sunday, however after all details of the horrific incident that led to the gruesome death of a 78-year-old woman emerged, the police upgraded the charge to murder on Monday.
Commissioner Auapaau Logoitino Filipo said after the preliminary investigation the police found incriminating evidence leading to the charge being upgraded.
“A hammer is alleged to have been used as well as a small knife that inflicted multiple stab wounds on the deceased,” said Auapaau.
“We do not know what the motive is of the offending but from reports the incident occurred on Saturday and the suspect left the deceased at her home while she went out to Lotofaga and spent time with a friend.
“It wasn’t until Sunday morning while having breakfast that she told her friend about what she had done and that led to the matter being reported to the Police.
“She came with her friend to the Police Station to report it and when Police went to her home to check they found the deceased's body there.”
May 31 2024 - In the beautiful state of Oklahoma ...
May 31 2024 - In the beautiful state of Oklahoma ...
June 4 - Fauci lied?
June 4 - Fauci lied?
june 8 2024 .. .says Trump life is at risk..
june 8 2024 .. .says Trump life is at risk..
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Tulsi Gabbard is a Former United States Representative, Iraq War veteran, political commentator, and host of the podcast "This is Tulsi Gabbard." www.tulsigabbard.com
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Caroline Sinavaiana-Gabbard
Caroline Sinavaiana-Gabbard
Caroline Sinavaiana-Gabbard
Born
1946
Utulei, American Samoa
Died
26 May 2024 (aged 78)
Vaivase-uta, Samoa
Occupation
Academic
writer
Nationality
American
Genre
Poetry
Caroline Sinavaiana-Gabbard (1946 – 26 May 2024) was an American Samoan academic, writer, poet, and environmentalist. She was the first Samoan to become a full professor in the United States.[1][2]
Biography
Sinavaiana-Gabbard was born in Utulei village, Tutuila, American Samoa, in 1946.[1][3] She was educated at Sonoma State University, University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Hawai'i.[4] Her PhD thesis was on Traditional Comic Theater in Samoa: A Holographic View.[5] She taught creative writing as a faculty of the Department of English, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa,[4][6] from 1997 until her retirement in 2016. In 2002 she published her collection of poetry, Alchemies of Distance.[7][8]
In August 2020 she was named by USA Today on its list of influential women from U.S. territories.[1]
Assassination
Sinavaiana-Gabbard moved to Samoa after she retired.[9] She was murdered at the GaluMoana Theater in Vaivase-uta, on 26 May 2024, at the age of 78.[9][10] Playwright Sia Figiel was charged with her murder.[11][12]
She was the sister to American politician Mike Gabbard and thus the paternal aunt of American politician Tulsi Gabbard.[13]
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Kerry Howley (11 June 2019). "Tulsi Gabbard Had a Very Strange Childhood". New York.
Madsen, Deborah L. (2015). The Routledge Companion to Native American Literature. Routledge. Page 45. ISBN 9781317693192.
"Caroline Sinavaiana-Gabbard". Poetry Foundation. 4 March 2019. Retrieved 4 March 2019.
Caroline Sinavaiana (1992). Traditional comic theater in Samoa : a holographic view (PhD). University of Hawai'i.
"Margaret Mead Was Wrong - Page 2". 3ammagazine.com. Retrieved 9 June 2016.
"RATTLE e-Review: ALCHEMIES OF DISTANCE by Caroline Sinavaiana-Gabbard". Rattle.com. Retrieved 9 June 2016.
"The warrior and her poetry". International Examiner. 20 December 2006. Retrieved 2 December 2022.
"Samoan novelist and playwright charged with murder". Talanei. 27 May 2024. Retrieved 28 May 2024.
Matai'a Lanuola Tusani T - Ah Tong (28 May 2024). "Playwright charged for gruesome murder". Samoa Observer. Retrieved 28 May 2024.
"Outpouring of grief following death of acclaimed Samoan poet and writer". RNZ. 31 May 2024. Retrieved 31 May 2024.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsi_Gabbard
Tulsi Gabbard
Tulsi Gabbard
Tulsi Gabbard
Official portrait, 2025
8th Director of National Intelligence
In office
February 12, 2025 – June 19, 2026
President
Deputy
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Bill Pulte (acting)
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
In office
January 3, 2013 – January 3, 2021
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Vice Chair of the Democratic National Committee
In office
January 22, 2013 – February 27, 2016
Chair
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Member of the Honolulu City Council
from the 6th district
In office
January 2, 2011 – August 16, 2012
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Member of the Hawaii House of Representatives
from the 42nd district
In office
November 5, 2002 – November 2, 2004
Preceded by
Mark Moses
Succeeded by
Personal details
Born
April 12, 1981 (age 45)
Democratic (before 2022)
Independent (2022–2024)
Republican (2024–present)
Spouses
Eduardo Tamayo
(m. 2002; div. 2006)Abraham Williams (m. 2015)
Parent
Mike Gabbard (father)
Relatives
Caroline Sinavaiana-Gabbard (aunt)
Education
Leeward Community College (attended)
Hawaii Pacific University (BS)
Signature
Military service
Branch/service
Years of service
2003–present
Rank
Commands
Battles/wars
Awards
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Tulsi Gabbard (/ˈtʌlsi ˈɡæbərd/; born April 12, 1981) is an American politician and U.S. military officer who served as the eighth director of national intelligence (DNI) from 2025 to 2026. She previously served as U.S. representative for Hawaii's 2nd congressional district from 2013 to 2021 and in the Hawaii House of Representatives from 2002 to 2004. Gabbard was a member of the Democratic Party until 2022, after which she became independent before joining the Republican Party in 2024.
Gabbard joined the Hawaii Army National Guard in 2003 and was deployed to Iraq from 2004 to 2005, where she served with a medical unit, and received the Combat Medical Badge. In 2007, Gabbard completed the officer training program at the Alabama Military Academy. She went to Kuwait in 2008 as an Army Military Police officer. In 2015, while also serving in Congress, Gabbard became a major with the Hawaii Army National Guard. In 2020, she transferred to the U.S. Army Reserve and was promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel in 2021.
In 2012, Gabbard was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from Hawaii's 2nd congressional district. She became the first Samoan American and Hindu American member of the U.S. Congress. During her tenure in Congress, she served on the House Armed Services Committee (HASC) and the House Foreign Affairs Committee. She supported the military campaign to defeat Islamic extremism but opposed the U.S. intervention in the Syrian civil war. In her fourth term, Gabbard also served on the HASC Subcommittee on Intelligence, which oversaw military intelligence and counterterrorism.
Around 2020, Gabbard ran as a presidential candidate in the Democratic Party primaries with an anti-interventionist and populist pitch, but dropped out and endorsed Joe Biden in March 2020. Previously, she also served as vice-chair of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) from 2013 to 2016, but resigned to endorse Bernie Sanders for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination. After her departure from Congress in 2021, Gabbard took more conservative positions on issues such as transgender rights, border security, and foreign policy. In 2022, she spoke at the Conservative Political Action Conference and left the Democratic Party.
In 2024, Gabbard endorsed Donald Trump for the presidential election and joined the Republican Party later that year. After Trump nominated Gabbard for DNI, her past statements on Syria and the Russian invasion of Ukraine drew scrutiny and concern. Many veterans and Republicans defended Gabbard's record, noting her military service and congressional experience. In February 2025, she was confirmed by the Senate, becoming the highest-ranking Pacific Islander American government official in U.S. history. In March 2026, Trump indicated that he and Gabbard differ on their approach to Iran and its nuclear program, labeling her as "softer" on the issue. Gabbard resigned from the post, citing family reasons, effective June 19, 2026.
Early life and education
Gabbard was born on April 12, 1981, in Leloaloa on American Samoa's main island of Tutuila.[1][2] She is the fourth of five children born to Mike Gabbard and his wife Carol (née Porter).[3] In 1983, when she was two years old, her family moved back to Hawaii, where they had lived in the late 1970s.[4][5][6] Her mother was born in Indiana and grew up in Michigan,[7] and her father, who is of Samoan and European ancestry,[8][9] was born in American Samoa; he grew up in Hawaii and Florida. Her name is derived from the herb tulasi.[10]
Gabbard grew up in Honolulu.[8] During her early years, Gabbard's parents owned a vegetarian restaurant, The Natural Deli in Moiliili, Hawaii, a neighbood of Honolulu.[5][11] Gabbard participated in surfing, martial arts, and yoga as a child.[12][13][4] She was mostly home schooled[14][15] except for two years at a girls' school in the Philippines.[16][17] Gabbard learned spiritual principles like karma, from the ancient Indian text Bhagavad Gita.[4][18][19] As a teenager, she adopted the Hindu faith.[3][20][21]
As a young adult, Gabbard worked for Stand Up For America (SUFA), founded by her father in the wake of the September 11 attacks.[22][23][24] Around 2001, Gabbard's father got active in local politics and was elected to the Honolulu City Council.[25] She was also associated with her father's The Alliance for Traditional Marriage and Values, an anti-gay marriage political action committee.[26][27][28] Gabbard briefly worked as an educator with the Healthy Hawai'i Coalition, which promoted protection of Hawaii's natural environment.[29] She also worked as a self-employed martial arts instructor.[30]
In 2002, when she was 21, Gabbard dropped out of Leeward Community College in Pearl City, where she had been studying television production, to run for the Hawaii State Legislature, and she became the youngest woman ever elected as a U.S. state representative.[31][32][33] In 2006, Gabbard's father became a Hawaii state senator.[34] In 2009, Gabbard graduated from Hawaii Pacific University in Honolulu with a Bachelor of Science degree in business administration with a concentration in international business.[35][36][37]
Military service
In April 2003, while serving in the Hawaii State Legislature, Gabbard enlisted in the Hawaii Army National Guard.[38] In July 2004, she was deployed for a 12-month tour in Iraq, serving with a medical company, Hawaii Army National Guard.[39][40] In Iraq, Gabbard served at Logistical Support Area Anaconda, completing her tour in 2005.[41][42] Because of the deployment, she chose not to campaign for reelection to the state legislature.[43]
Gabbard received a Combat Medical Badge in 2005.[44] She has been awarded the Meritorious Service Medal from the United States[45] and she received the German Armed Forces Badge for Military Proficiency.[46][better source needed]
In March 2007, she graduated from the Accelerated Officer Candidate School at the Alabama Military Academy at the top of her class, the first woman ever to do so.[30] After successfully completing officer training, Gabbard was commissioned as a second lieutenant, and assigned to the 29th Infantry Brigade Special Troops Battalion, this time to serve as an Army Military Police officer.[47][48] She was stationed in Kuwait from 2008 to 2009 as an Army Military Police platoon leader.[47][49] She was one of the first women to enter a Kuwaiti military facility,[50][51] as well as the first woman to receive an award of appreciation from the Kuwait National Guard.[52][50]
Gabbard at the ceremony of her promotion to major on October 12, 2015
On October 12, 2015, she was promoted from the rank of captain to major at a ceremony at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.[53][54] She continued to serve as a major in the Hawaii Army National Guard until her transfer to the 351st Civil Affairs Command, a California-based United States Army Reserve unit assigned to the United States Army Civil Affairs and Psychological Operations Command, in June 2020.[55][56]
On July 4, 2021, Gabbard was promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel,[57][58] while she was deployed to the Horn of Africa working as a civil affairs officer in support of a special operations mission.[57][59][60] Next, she was given the command of the 1st Battalion, 354th Regiment, based in Tulsa, Oklahoma.[61][62]
Early political career
See also: Electoral history of Tulsi Gabbard
Hawaii House of Representatives (2002–2004)
In 2002, after redistricting, Gabbard (then credited as Tulsi Gabbard Tamayo or simply Tulsi Tamayo)[63] won the four-candidate Democratic primary for the 42nd district of the Hawaii House of Representatives with a plurality of 43% of the vote. Gabbard then won the general election with 60.7% of the vote, defeating Republican Alfonso Jimenez.[64][65] At the age of 21, Gabbard became the youngest legislator ever elected in Hawaii's history, and was at the time the youngest woman ever elected to a U.S. state legislature.[30][33]
In 2004, Gabbard filed for reelection but then volunteered for Army National Guard service in Iraq. Rida Cabanilla, who filed to run against her, called on Gabbard to resign because she would not be able to effectively represent her district from Iraq.[66] While she legally would have been allowed to hold her seat, a directive from the Defense Department issued in August 2004 would have forbidden her from voting on bills or fulfilling other duties of her elective office for the duration of her active duty deployment.[67] Gabbard did not campaign for a second term,[43] and Cabanilla won the Democratic primary with 58% of the vote.[68] State law prevented the removal of Gabbard's name from the ballot.[69]
Honolulu City Council (2011–2012)
After returning home from her second deployment to the Middle East in 2009, Gabbard ran for a seat on the Honolulu City Council vacated by City Councilman Rod Tam, of the 6th district, who decided to retire to run for mayor of Honolulu.[70] In the 10-candidate nonpartisan open primary in September 2010, Gabbard finished first with 26.8% of the vote.[71] The seat represented parts of downtown Honolulu, including Alewa Heights, Kalihi Valley, and areas of Makiki and Kalihi. During her campaign for the council, Gabbard was still publicly known as "Tulsi Gabbard Tamayo".[72] During her campaign, Gabbard's opponents accused her of improperly using her tax-exempt Stand Up for America nonprofit to promote her candidacy. The organization (which as a 501(c)(3) organization was forbidden from endorsing political candidates) included content on its website which promoting her candidacy (including hyperlinks to her campaign website, as well as a reprint of a press release by her campaign). Gabbard called this an "honest mistake" by one of the organization's volunteers, and denied having had knowledge of it.[73] Gabbard won election in the November 2 runoff election, capturing 49.5% of the vote and defeating Sesnita Moepono.[74]
While on the council, Gabbard introduced a measure to help food truck vendors by loosening parking restrictions.[75] She also introduced Bill 54, a measure that authorized city workers to confiscate personal belongings stored on public property with 24 hours notice to its owner.[76][77] After overcoming opposition from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)[78] and Occupy Hawai'i,[79] Bill 54 passed and became City Ordinance 1129.
United States House of Representatives (2013–2021)
113th Congress
Main article: 2012 United States House of Representatives elections in Hawaii § District 2
Gabbard during the 113th Congress
In early 2011, Mazie Hirono, the incumbent Democratic U.S. Representative for Hawaii's 2nd congressional district, launched her campaign for the U.S. Senate. In May 2011, Gabbard declared her candidacy for the open House seat.[80] The Democratic mayor of Honolulu, Mufi Hannemann, was considered the frontrunner in the six-way primary, but Gabbard won with 55% of the vote. The Honolulu Star-Advertiser wrote about her victory saying it was an "improbable rise from a distant underdog to victory."[81] She resigned from the Honolulu City Council on August 16, 2012, to focus on her congressional campaign.[82][83]
As the Democratic nominee, Gabbard was invited by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi to speak at the 2012 Democratic National Convention, where she was introduced as "an emerging star."[84][85] Gabbard was one of three female House candidates that were chosen to speak on-stage during a segment of the convention highlighting female membership in the party's House delegation. In her remarks (approximately one minute in length), she touched on her military background and praised President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden (the party's national ticket) as "the strongest advocates military families could have".[86] In the general election, she defeated Republican Kawika Crowley with 80.6% of the vote,[87] becoming the first voting Samoan American[88][89] and the first Hindu member of Congress.[90][91]
In December 2012, Gabbard applied for appointment to the U.S. Senate seat vacated by the death of Daniel Inouye. Despite support from some prominent mainland Democrats,[92][93] she was not among the three candidates forwarded to the governor by the Hawaii Democratic Party.[94]
In March 2013, she introduced the Helping Heroes Fly Act[95] to expedite airport security screening for severely wounded veterans.[96][97] The bill received bipartisan support, passed unanimously in both chambers of Congress, and was signed into law by President Obama.[98] She also introduced the House version of the Military Justice Improvement Act.[99][100][101]
114th Congress
See also: 2014 United States House of Representatives elections in Hawaii § District 2
Gabbard speaks at the 135th National Guard Association of the United States conference in 2013.
Gabbard was reelected in 2014, defeating Crowley again with 78.7% of the vote.[102] She co-sponsored a bill with Senator Hirono to award the Congressional Gold Medal to Filipino and Filipino American veterans of World War II.[103] The bill was passed by Congress and signed into law by President Obama in December 2016.[104][105]
In November 2015, Gabbard introduced Talia's Law, aimed at preventing child abuse and neglect on military bases. Congress passed the legislation in February 2016, and it was signed into law in December 2016.[106][107]
115th Congress
See also: 2016 United States House of Representatives elections in Hawaii § District 2
In the 2016 election, Gabbard was reelected with 81.2% of the vote, defeating Republican Angela Kaaihue.[108]
In 2017, she introduced the Off Fossil Fuels (OFF) Act, which aimed for a transition to 100% clean energy by 2035.[109][110] In 2018, she introduced the Securing America's Election Act, requiring all voting districts to use paper ballots to ensure an auditable paper trail. The bill was endorsed by the nonpartisan watchdog group Common Cause.[111]
116th Congress
See also: 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Hawaii § District 2
Gabbard was reelected in 2018, defeating Republican Brian Evans with 77.4% of the vote.[112] In September 2018, she and Republican Representative Walter Jones co-sponsored the No More Presidential Wars Act to reaffirm Congress's authority over war declarations.[113]
On October 25, 2019, Gabbard stated she would not seek reelection in 2020, citing her presidential campaign.[114][115] During the campaign, she faced criticism for missing votes,[116] particularly the vote on Syria, though her absentee rate was similar to other members of Congress running for president.[117][118] Between October and December 2019, she missed 85% of votes[119] but cast a "present" vote on both articles of impeachment in the first impeachment of Donald Trump.[120] After suspending her presidential campaign in March 2020, she resumed regular attendance.[121]
In July 2020, Gabbard met with the family of Vanessa Guillén, a U.S. Army soldier and victim of military sexual harassment who was found murdered after previously being reported missing.[122] Gabbard said that as a fellow service member in the U.S. Army, she was "stand[ing] here for Vanessa", "for her family", and called for reforms to address military sexual harassment.[123]
In August 2020, she advocated for Jennifer Smith, a Hawaii Department of Health epidemiologist who reported issues with the state's COVID-19 contact tracing program.[124] Smith was placed on paid leave,[125] and Gabbard continued to support her until she was reinstated in November 2020.[126] In September 2020, Gabbard converted her presidential campaign committee, Tulsi Now, into Tulsi Aloha, a leadership PAC.[127] That same month, she criticized Netflix over the film Cuties, arguing that it contributed to the exploitation of children.[128]
In October 2020, she and Representative Matt Gaetz introduced a bill calling for the U.S. to drop criminal charges against Edward Snowden.[129] She also introduced a similar bill with Representative Thomas Massie advocating for Julian Assange's release from prison in the United Kingdom.[130]
House committee assignments (2013–2021)
During her tenure in Congress, Gabbard served on multiple committees, focusing on military, foreign affairs, and financial issues. Notably, she was a long-time member of the House Armed Services Committee, where she worked on defense funding, military readiness, and intelligence oversight. In 2018, she successfully passed an amendment to improve protective equipment for civil defense agencies near volcanic activity.[131]
In her fourth term, she served on the Armed Services Subcommittee on Intelligence, which oversaw military intelligence, national security, and counterterrorism efforts. As a member of this subcommittee, she participated in key hearings on emerging threats, such as cybersecurity and artificial intelligence in military operations.[132][133]
Committee on Homeland Security (2013–2014)
Committee on Armed Services (2013–2021)
Committee on Foreign Affairs (2013–2019)
Committee on Financial Services (2019–2021)
Caucus memberships (2013–2021)
Gabbard was a member of several congressional caucuses, including:
Democratic National Committee (DNC)
On January 22, 2013, Gabbard was unanimously elected as a vice chair of the Democratic National Committee (DNC).[143] In September 2015, she criticized DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz's decision to limit the number of debates in the 2016 Democratic primary.[144][145] Following her criticism, she was reportedly asked not to attend the October 2015 debate in Las Vegas.[146][147]
Gabbard later accused Wasserman Schultz of favoring Hillary Clinton in the primary[148][149] and resigned as DNC vice chair on February 28, 2016, to endorse Bernie Sanders.[150][151] She appeared on Meet the Press to discuss her resignation[152] and later launched a petition to eliminate superdelegates in the Democratic nomination process.[153] At the 2016 Democratic National Convention, she gave the nominating speech for Sanders.[154] In 2017, she endorsed Keith Ellison for DNC chair.[155]
During the 2016 election, she was listed as Sanders's running mate for write-in votes in California.[156] Shortly after the election, she was mentioned as a potential 2020 presidential candidate.[157][158] A Minnesota faithless elector cast a vote for Sanders as president and Gabbard as vice president, though this vote was nullified per state law.[159]
2020 presidential campaign
Main article: Tulsi Gabbard 2020 presidential campaign
Gabbard speaking at the state Democratic Party convention in San Francisco, June 2019
Tulsi Gabbard 2020 presidential campaign logo
In February 2019, Gabbard officially launched her 2020 presidential campaign.[160][161][162][163] She was the first female combat veteran to run for president.[164] CNN described her foreign policy platform as anti-interventionist and her economic platform as populist.[161] Gabbard was the most frequently Googled candidate after the first, second, and fourth 2020 Democratic primary debates.[165][166][167] During the second debate, Gabbard criticized Kamala Harris's record as attorney general of California, accusing her of holding innocent people on death row and asserting that Harris owed them an apology.[168][169]
In the second debate, when asked about her meeting with Assad, she said she "will never apologize for doing all that I can to prevent more of my brothers and sisters from being sent into harm's way to fight counterproductive regime change wars that made our country less safe.... [I]f that means meeting with a dictator or meeting with an adversary, absolutely, I would do it. This is about the national security of our country." When Anderson Cooper asked if she considered Assad a torturer and murderer, Gabbard responded "That's not what this is about. I don't defend or apologize or have anything to do with what he has done." Cooper repeated his question, asking if she agreed that "Assad is a murderer and a torturer"; Gabbard responded "I don't dispute that."[170]
In a CNN panel discussion the next day, A.B. Stoddard, associate editor of Real Clear Politics, observed: "it is all over the internet today that the Russian bots are helping Tulsi Gabbard [and] that [she] refuses to condemn Assad because she's doing the work of the Russians and is going to run as a third-party spoiler and reelect Trump." Stoddard continued: "There are serious knives out for Tulsi Gabbard."[171]
While Gabbard did not meet the polling threshold for the third presidential debate,[172][173] she did qualify for the fourth debate in Ohio in October 2019.[174][175][176] In July 2019, Gabbard was the only 2020 presidential candidate to visit Puerto Rico and join protests urging Governor Ricardo Rosselló to resign.[177][178]
In September 2019, Vanity Fair summarized media coverage of Gabbard's presidential campaign as "the press hates Gabbard even more than it hates Sanders".[179] The Hill's news anchor Krystal Ball and Chief Washington Correspondent Saagar Enjeti both described Gabbard as "the most unfairly maligned person in Washington".[180] Ball noted that Gabbard had been "dismissed and otherized" by the media, with her campaign scrutinized for alleged Russian ties, citing as examples: NBC News suggestion that her campaign was enhanced by Russian bots,[181] based on a group that had in another instance been revealed for fabricating such claims; and The Daily Beast's accusation she was being supported by "Putin apologists", citing a small percentage of her donors.[182] Ball said, "Her interaction with Assad is weaponized to undercut everything else Tulsi has to say about the American warfighting machine", pointing out that critics often have "a bit of a blind spot about their own foreign policy positions."[183] Lexico-statistical analysis showed Gabbard received the most negative coverage during the June–September period.[184]
In October 2019, former secretary of state and 2016 presidential nominee Hillary Clinton suggested that Gabbard was a "Russian asset".[185][186] Gabbard was defended by fellow 2020 Democratic presidential candidates Andrew Yang, Pete Buttigieg and Bernie Sanders, who rejected Clinton's suggestion that Gabbard was a Russian asset.[187] Trump also defended Gabbard.[188] Initial news stories had mistakenly also reported Clinton claimed Russia was "grooming" Gabbard to run as a third-party candidate, who would help president Donald Trump win reelection via a spoiler effect.[189] However, Gabbard had repeatedly said she would not run as a third-party candidate in 2020 and did not do so.[190][191][192][193] CNN host Van Jones, meanwhile, opined that Clinton's statement was "a complete smear with no facts".[194] Gabbard herself condemned Clinton's remarks in tweets, calling Clinton "the queen of warmongers" and the "personification of the rot that has sickened the Democratic Party for so long." She claimed there was a campaign to destroy her reputation, orchestrated by Clinton via proxies in media and the war machine.[195][194][185] In January 2020, Gabbard filed a legal defamation lawsuit against Clinton over the 'Russian asset' assertion[196][197] as indicated in the complaint;[198] but dropped it five months later with her lawyers saying that the legal merit was valid but, living in a "post-Covid world", they could better focus their attention elsewhere.[199]
Also in October 2019, The Nation's James Carden wrote: "McCarthyism had gone mainstream" as media attacked Gabbard. He saw the Clinton-Gabbard feud as part of "a long campaign of vilification against critics of the Russia consensus" by Clinton and "her allies in the media (which very much include certain former high-ranking members of the US intelligence community)".[200] After both the November and December 2019 debates, Saturday Night Live's parodies of the debates showed Gabbard as the villain, introduced her with menacing music and flashing lights and had her actress laughing evil and making threats.[201][202][203]
On March 3, 2020, Gabbard, who is of Samoan descent, earned two delegates in American Samoa,[204] making her the second woman of color (after Shirley Chisholm) and the first Asian-American and Pacific-Islander presidential candidate to earn primary delegates.[205] As of March 15, she was one of the three remaining candidates alongside Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders who had not suspended their campaigns. In an interview on Fox, she highlighted a Rasmussen poll showing that 49% of voters supported her inclusion in debates with Sanders and Biden, and accused the DNC and the media of attempting to "shut her down" since her campaign's inception through tactics like character assassination, media blackouts, and blocking her message from reaching the public.[206] On March 19, 2020, she dropped out of the 2020 election and endorsed former vice president Joe Biden.[207][208][209][210] Gabbard was the only candidate with primary delegates to not be invited to the 2020 Democratic National Convention.[211]
Post-congressional activities (2021–2025)
In January 2021, Gabbard launched her own podcast, called This is Tulsi Gabbard.[212] She also made several appearances on Fox News programs since leaving Congress, where she criticized figures such as House speaker Nancy Pelosi and U.S. representative Adam Schiff, calling the latter a "domestic terrorist" for what she deemed as his attempt to "undermin[e] our constitution by trying to take away our civil liberties and rights" in the aftermath of the 2021 storming of the U.S. Capitol.[213]
In November 2021, she celebrated the victory of Republican candidate Glenn Youngkin in the Virginia Gubernatorial election over Democratic candidate Terry McAuliffe, and tweeted, "McAuliffe's loss is a victory for all Americans. Why? Because it was a resounding rejection of efforts to divide us by race, the stripping of parental rights, and arrogant, deaf leaders. This benefits us all".[214] In an appearance on Hannity in April 2022, she expressed support for Florida's publicly debated Parental Rights Bill, and said that in her opinion it did not go far enough in that it only covered grades K through 3, while Gabbard believed it should have continued all the way through twelfth grade.[215] (A follow-up bill in the state did just that one year later.[216]) In 2022 Gabbard spoke at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC),[217] drawing criticism from Hawaii Democrats.[218]
Party switch
On October 11, 2022, Gabbard left the Democratic Party, accusing its leadership of "cowardly wokeness, anti-white racism, [being] hostile to people of faith and spirituality, and dragging us closer to nuclear war".[219][220]
Shortly thereafter, she endorsed and campaigned for several Donald Trump-supported Republican candidates in the 2022 midterm elections.[221] Among those she endorsed were Senate candidates Don Bolduc, Adam Laxalt and JD Vance, and Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake.[222]
When Donald Trump entered the 2024 Republican presidential primary, commentators suggested that he might consider Gabbard as a potential running mate.[223][224][225][226] On February 22, 2024, she was a featured speaker at CPAC, raising speculation of her candidacy as a potential vice-presidential selection.[227] During a Fox & Friends interview on March 6, she was directly asked about serving as Trump's vice president. She responded, "I would be honored to serve our country in that way and be in a position to help President Trump."[228] In March 2024, Trump cited her as one of his potential choices for his running mate.[229]
On August 26, 2024, Gabbard endorsed Trump's re-election bid during a National Guard Association gathering in Michigan.[230] The next day, she was named as an honorary co-chair of his presidential transition team, alongside Robert F. Kennedy Jr., joining Trump's sons and the Republican vice-presidential nominee, JD Vance.[231] In October 2024 she joined the Republican Party.[232][233][234]
Media appearances
Gabbard at the Young Americans for Liberty's (YAL) "Revolution 2022" event, August 2022
In August 2022, Gabbard began serving as the fill-in host for Tucker Carlson Tonight, and she continued to be a frequent guest host of the show until its cancellation in 2023.[235] In November 2022, after years of being a frequent guest on several of their programs, she signed a deal with Fox News as a paid contributor. In this role, she worked as a frequent guest and occasional host on shows such as The Five, Outnumbered, Hannity, Jesse Watters Primetime, and Gutfeld!.[236]
Director of National Intelligence (2025–2026)
Nomination
On November 13, 2024, President-elect Donald Trump nominated Gabbard as director of national intelligence (DNI), citing her military experience and leadership.[237][238][239]
Support
Republican senators defended her nomination against Democratic criticisms, with Senator Eric Schmitt arguing that political differences do not equate to disloyalty,[240][241] and Senator Markwayne Mullin rejecting claims that she was compromised by Russia.[240] On January 27, 2025, former intelligence and national security officials expressed support for Gabbard, asserting she would help depoliticize intelligence agencies.[242] Libertarian-leaning GOP senators backed her anti-interventionist stance, and former Trump Deputy National Security Advisor Victoria Coates emphasized the need for new intelligence leadership given global events.[243][244] Former CIA Counterterrorism Chief Bernard Hudson praised her integrity and experience.[245]
The National Border Patrol Council[246] and the National Sheriffs' Association[247] endorsed her for her commitment to national security. Over 250 veterans, including Representative Brian Mast and former Acting Secretary of Defense Christopher C. Miller, signed a letter supporting her nomination.[248][249] Vice President JD Vance[250] and Secretary of State Marco Rubio[251][252] highlighted her military and congressional experience as qualifications for the role.
Opposition
Gabbard's nomination was met with controversy.[253][254][255] Media coverage was widely critical,[256][257][258] and Democrats raised concerns about her past meeting with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and remarks perceived as aligning with Russian narratives.[259][239] Critics, including former CIA Director Leon Panetta, questioned her lack of intelligence experience and opposition to U.S. involvement in Ukraine.[260]
The New York Times noted that while Russian media had amplified Gabbard's foreign policy views, there was no evidence of collaboration with Russian intelligence, and she had opposed Russia's invasion of Ukraine.[261] Democratic legislators, including Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Jason Crow, Tammy Duckworth, and Elizabeth Warren, labeled her a "likely Russian asset."[259][262][263][264][44] Over 100 former national security officials signed a letter opposing her nomination.[265][266][267] Gabbard's spokesperson dismissed these concerns as politically motivated attacks.[268][266]
Confirmation
Tulsi Gabbard during her confirmation hearing before the United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
Gabbard testified before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on January 30, 2025. She pledged to separate her political views from her official duties.[269] "Those who oppose my nomination imply that I am loyal to something or someone other than God, my own conscience, and the constitution of the United States, accusing me of being Trump's puppet, Putin's puppet, Assad's puppet, a guru's puppet, Modi's puppet, not recognizing the absurdity of simultaneously being the puppet of five different puppet masters", she said in her opening statement.[270]
She denied knowing Edward Snowden while he worked in Hawaii's NSA facility near Wahiawā[a][274] and defended her past advocacy for reforming the Espionage Act,[270][275] including a House resolution she introduced with Representative Matt Gaetz.[276] Senators repeatedly asked Gabbard to label Snowden a traitor, but she declined,[277] citing the term's legal and political implications in a follow-up op-ed.[278] She acknowledged Snowden had broken the law by releasing information that caused harm, though she also highlighted the exposure of illegal surveillance practices.[270] She confirmed she would not, as DNI, advocate for Snowden's pardon or clemency.[279]
Senator Michael Bennet criticized her stance on Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Gabbard clarified her position, defending the necessity of 702 for national security while stressing the need for reforms to protect civil liberties, particularly advocating for warrants in certain U.S. person queries.[270][b] Post-hearing, she committed to collaborate with the committee on reauthorizing and any additional reforms."[280]
Regarding her 2017 Syria trip with former Congressman Dennis Kucinich, she stated that he arranged the meetings and denied knowledge of extremist remarks[281] made by Grand Mufti Ahmad Badreddin Hassoun.[282] She clarified that her trip had been cleared by House Ethics and that she informed the Trump administration upon her return.[283] In response to concerns about intelligence disclosures, Gabbard stated she would ensure whistleblowers had proper legal channels, including a direct hotline to the DNI.[278][283] She assured Senator Todd Young that she would not protect those who disclosed classified intelligence programs improperly.[284][285]
Senator Susan Collins supported her nomination after Gabbard clarified her stance on Snowden and reducing the size of the DNI office.[286] Senator James Lankford, initially concerned about surveillance policies, also backed her after her explanations.[287][286] On February 4, 2025, the Senate Intelligence Committee advanced her nomination in a 9–8 party-line vote.[288] Senator Lisa Murkowski supported her on February 10, 2025, and said that while she had concerns about some of Gabbard's past positions, she appreciated her commitment to oversight and ensuring civil liberties remain protected.[289] The Senate confirmed her nomination on February 12, in a 52–48 vote, with only Senator Mitch McConnell among Republicans voting no.[290]
Tenure
Gabbard being sworn in by Attorney General Pam Bondi, February 2025
Gabbard was sworn in as the 8th director of national intelligence (DNI) on February 12, 2025, by Attorney General Pam Bondi,[291][292] taking the position responsible for leading 18 U.S. intelligence agencies and assuming the role of president's top intelligence adviser.[293][294] After her swearing-in, Gabbard promised to "focus on ensuring the safety, security, and freedom of the American people" while echoing Trump's claims of politicization of the intelligence community and the need to rebuild trust.[293] With this appointment, she became the first female military combat veteran to serve as DNI and first Pacific Islander American and first Hindu American to hold a Cabinet-level position.[295][294]
Immediately after being sworn in, Gabbard made her first international trip as DNI to Germany to attend the Munich Security Conference.[296] In March 2025, Gabbard's second international trip was to Asia with a focus on the Indo-Pacific, including Japan, Thailand, and India.[296] Before traveling to Asia, Gabbard stopped in Hawaii, which hosts the U.S. military's Indo-Pacific Command headquarters.[296] In her visit to India, Gabbard attended the Raisina Dialogue, an annual multinational conference of security officials held in New Delhi, and outlined the Trump administration's strategy for global peace and security.[297]
Gabbard with Indian Prime Minister Modi in New Delhi, March 2025
In March 2025, Gabbard, along with other senior members of the administration, discussed the plans for the US's attacks in Yemen on a Signal group chat that inadvertently included journalist Jeffrey Goldberg.[298] When questioned by Congress, Gabbard admitted the addition of Goldberg to the chat by Mike Waltz was a "mistake", but claimed none of the information discussed was classified.[299] After the Signal leak, reporters of Der Spiegel used other leaked data such as WikiLeaks to find personal online accounts of Gabbard and several other U.S. security officials.[300] Gabbard's office asserted that she had not used those online accounts for several years.[300]
In May 2025, Gabbard reoriented U.S. intelligence towards border security, counterterrorism, and counternarcotics, based upon the current administration's national security priorities.[301][302] Speaking at the GEOINT 2025 Symposium, Gabbard noted the emphasis on domestic border surveillance, while addressing professionals across the geospatial intelligence sector.[302] Further consolidation of intelligence operations included moving the National Intelligence Council (NIC) to the DNI's office.[303] Gabbard also fired the two NIC officials after the council contradicted the Trump administration's position on Venezuelan gang members.[303][304]
In July 2025, Gabbard released a previously classified report prepared by Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee. The report claimed that former President Obama's administration had manipulated intelligence to suggest that Russia had sought to damage Hillary Clinton's campaign, and boost Trump's campaign, in the 2016 presidential election.[305] Gabbard claimed that this report, which was made in September 2020, provided "irrefutable evidence" of a "treasonous conspiracy", directly implicating Obama, to undermine the results of the 2016 election. In response, Obama dismissed the allegations as "outrageous and ridiculous" and "a weak attempt at distraction".[306][307]
In August 2025, Gabbard implemented a 50% cut in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence staff and a $700 million reduction in its annual funding. According to the Federal News Network, Gabbard had already reduced ODNI staff by 25%; the BBC reported it was unclear if the 50% reduction was from a baseline before or after the 25% reduction.[308] Gabbard also revoked the security clearances of 37 U.S. officials, [308][309] who were accused of "politicizing and manipulating intelligence, leaking classified intelligence without authorization, and/or committing intentional egregious violations of tradecraft standards".[309] The officials included those involved in assessments on Russia's efforts to interfere in the 2016 election and others who worked on national security under former Presidents Biden and Obama, and those who signed a letter supporting the impeachment inquiry into President Trump.[310]
In December 2025, at a Turning Point event, Gabbard accused the Council on American-Islamic Relations of advocating the implementation of sharia, or Islamic law, in the United States, which Gabbard called antithetical to the United States Constitution. Gabbard further claimed that the city government of Paterson, New Jersey was planning to impose sharia, though Paterson Mayor Andre Sayegh rejected her claims and New Jersey Senator Cory Booker said these claims were dishonest.[311]
In January 2026, Gabbard was briefly present during the FBI raid of Fulton County, Georgia election office, where agents seized ballots relating to the 2020 presidential election.[312] Responding to criticism of her actions by Democrats, who were concerned with the involvement of the DNI in domestic criminal matters, Gabbard stated that Trump requested her presence and said she had "broad statutory authority" over election security and counterintelligence.[313] In February 2026, there were allegations that Gabbard was "stonewalling" a whistleblower complaint about her handling of a call "between two members of foreign intelligence" which mentioned Jared Kushner.[314][315][316][317]
In March 2026, Trump indicated that he and Gabbard differ on their approach to Iran and its nuclear program that Iran said were for civilian uses including generating nuclear power, labeling her as "softer" on the issue.[318] In March 2026, Gabbard later stated that Iran posed a long-term threat due to the progression of its ballistic missile program.[319][320] Responding to queries on immediate threat, she argued that "It is not the intelligence community’s responsibility to determine what is and is not an imminent threat", and that assessment was at the discretion of the President.[319][321][322] Further, Gabbard stated, "Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, and Pakistan" have been developing advanced missile delivery systems that can reach the U.S. homeland.[323][319][324]
Resignation
On May 22, 2026, Gabbard submitted her resignation after her husband was diagnosed with bone cancer.[c] She said that that the resignation would leave her position on June 30, 2026, Trump appointed Aaron Lukas, the principal deputy director of national intelligence, as acting DNI.[325] On June 2, Trump named Bill Pulte, the director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, as acting DNI.
While some sources claimed that Gabbard was compelled to leave the position,[326][327] others said that she was not forced to resign, but that her influence in the White House had eroded in recent months.[328]
Rumors had previously circulated that Gabbard might resign if military action were taken against Iran. According to CNN, Trump asked Gabbard during a conversation before the strikes, whether those rumors were true. At that time, Gabbard responded that the rumors were not true and that she would not resign if military action proceeded. BBC noted her resignation came two months after her top aide, Joe Kent—the former director of the National Counterterrorism Center—left the administration over the war with Iran and urged the president to "reverse course."[329]
Domestic policy positions
Main article: Political positions of Tulsi Gabbard
While in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary, Gabbard's political positions were liberal on domestic policy issues, after 2020, she has taken more positions aligned with the Republican Party positions on social issues, including abortion, gun control, and transgender rights.[330][331][332] In 2020, Gabbard introduced a bill to ban trans women from female sports, and supports that women sports should be for biological females, a position popular with conservatives.[333] In 2022, she was also a featured speaker at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC).[334] She has also been a frequent critic of the Biden administration.[335][336]
Drug policy and criminal justice reform
Gabbard speaking in support of the Ending Federal Marijuana Prohibition Act with Rep. Don Young (R-AK) in 2019
Gabbard has been outspoken against a "broken criminal justice system" that puts "people in prison for smoking marijuana" while allowing pharmaceutical corporations responsible for "opioid-related deaths of thousands to walk away scot-free with their coffers full".[337] Gabbard has said that as president she would "end the failed war on drugs, legalize marijuana, end cash bail, and ban private prisons".[338] Bills she has introduced include the Ending Federal Marijuana Prohibition Act and the Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement (MORE) Act.[339][340]
In January 2020, in response to a question from a voter, Gabbard called for legalizing and regulating all drugs, citing Portugal's model for drug decriminalization.[341] In June 2020, Gabbard introduced an amendment to the House version of the 2021 NDAA to allow members of Armed Services to use products containing CBD and other hemp derivatives.[342] It was approved 336 to 71 as a package, although House leaders did not fight for its inclusion in the final bill.[343]
Immigration
Gabbard along with 47 other Democrats expressed support in 2015 for increased border security and voted with Republicans for vetting of Iraqi and Syrian refugees.[344] At the time, she called for halting the visa waiver program after mass numbers of Syrian immigrants entered Germany, until the threat of terrorist attacks was resolved.[345] However, between 2013 and 2021, Gabbard had also expressed support for an easier path to citizenship for immigrants without legal status, increasing skilled immigration, and granting work visas to immigrants.[346] By 2022, she said she would be open to a proposal for a border wall if experts say it is warranted.[347]
Environment
Gabbard has often supported the causes of Native Americans and tribal lands, such as her support for the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe against the construction of the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline in 2016,[348] wherein she co-signed a letter requesting the Obama administration address the tribe's concerns about the project.[349] Gabbard successfully passed an amendment to the 2019 National Defense Authorization Act that would require the Department of Energy to reexamine the safety of the Runit Dome, a leaking Cold War-era nuclear waste site in the Marshall Islands.[350] She later called for "fresh eyes" to ensure a more independent assessment of the waste site's safety.[350]
Gabbard has spoken in favor of a Green New Deal but expressed concerns about vagueness in some proposed versions of the legislation[351] and its inclusion of nuclear energy.[352] She advocated her own "Off Fossil Fuels for a Better Future Act" ("OFF Act") as legislation to transition the United States to renewable energy.[110][353]
Healthcare
Gabbard supported a national healthcare insurance program to cover uninsured, as well as under-insured people,[354] and allowed supplemental but not duplicative private insurance.[353] She has since advocated for a two-tier universal health care plan that she calls "Single Payer Plus", loosely modeled after Australia's system and allowing for both supplementary and duplicative private insurance.[355][356]
Gabbard pushed to reinstate Medicaid eligibility for people from the Marshall Islands, Micronesia and Palau working and living in the United States.[350] She has called for addressing the national nursing shortage.[357]
Food and agriculture
Gabbard supports clear GMO labeling,[358][359] voting in 2016 against a GMO-labeling bill she said was too weak.[360] She has supported efforts to reduce routine antibiotic use in livestock and promote organic farming.[361]
Gabbard has expressed concern over farmer bankruptcies and declining farm incomes, particularly in the context of the China–United States trade war.[362] In 2019, she stated that she supports a moratorium on the construction and expansion of concentrated animal feeding operations, sometimes referred to as factory farms.[363][364]
First impeachment of Donald Trump
Main article: First impeachment of Donald Trump
Gabbard voted "present" when the House of Representatives voted to impeach President Trump in December 2019. In two video messages[365][366] and a press release, she cited The Federalist Papers essay No. 65,[367] and described her vote as a protest against "a political zero-sum game".[368][369] Gabbard introduced H. Res. 766,[370][371] which would censure Trump for several of his foreign policy decisions and "send a strong message to this president and future presidents that their abuses of power will not go unchecked, while leaving the question of removing Trump from office to the voters to decide".[372] A week later, Gabbard said she had serious concerns that the impeachment would increase the likelihood that her party would lose the presidential election and its majority in the House of Representatives.[373]
LGBTQ rights
Gabbard's views on LGBTQ rights have changed over the years, as evidenced by her 2013 signing of an amicus brief supporting gay marriage, while in her early years she was associated with her father's campaign opposing gay marriage.[28] In 1998, when she was 17 years old, Gabbard supported her father's successful campaign to amend the Constitution of Hawaii to give lawmakers the power to "reserve marriage to opposite-sex couples".[28][374] She also favored the Federal Marriage Amendment that would prevent overriding state law with regard to same-sex marriage.[375]
In 2012, Gabbard apologized for her "anti-gay advocacy"[376] and said she would "fight for the repeal" of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA).[377] In June 2013, she was an initial cosponsor of the legislation to repeal DOMA.[378] Gabbard was a member of the House LGBT Equality Caucus.[379] She received ratings of 92%, 88%, 100%, and 84% for her four congressional terms for pro-LGBT legislation from the Human Rights Campaign, a group that advocates for LGBT rights.[380] After launching her presidential campaign in 2019, Gabbard apologized for her past anti-gay views [376] and said that her views had been changed by her experience in the military "with LGBTQ service members, both here at home and while deployed".[381][382] After criticism from Democrats over her past anti-LGBTQ remarks, she was defended by conservative pundit Tucker Carlson, journalist Glenn Greenwald, and openly gay representative Sean Patrick Maloney.[383][384]
In 2020, Gabbard and Republican U.S. representative Markwayne Mullin introduced a bill titled the "Protect Women's Sports Act" that would seek to define Title IX protections on the basis of an individual's biological sex.[d] After introducing the bill, Gabbard was condemned by activists and LGBTQ organizations, including the Human Rights Campaign, which said: "Gabbard has lost all credibility as an ally."[388]
In 2022, Gabbard endorsed the Florida Parental Rights in Education Act, which prohibits public schools in Florida from having "classroom discussion" or giving "classroom instruction" about sexual orientation or gender identity from kindergarten through third grade or in any manner deemed to be against state standards in all grades. She said the bill "bans government and government schools from indoctrinating woke sexual values in our schools to a captive audience". She also suggested that the bill should apply to all grades.[389]
Foreign policy positions
See also: Political positions of Tulsi Gabbard
Gabbard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia
In her foreign policy positions, Gabbard has taken a strong stand against Islamist militancy in the Middle East and endorsed tough actions against Al Qaeda and the Islamic State.[390] Gabbard has been a strong supporter of the US military offensive to defeat ISIS.[391] In 2016, Gabbard described herself as a hawk "when it comes to the war against terrorists", but a dove "when it comes to counterproductive wars of regime change".[391] Gabbard has called for ending "our interventionist foreign policy of carrying out regime change wars".[392]
Iran's nuclear program
Gabbard and CIA Director John Ratcliffe (left) in the Situation Room during the U.S. bombing of Iranian nuclear sites in June, 2025
In March 2026, Gabbard stated that Iran posed a long-term threat because it could combine its space program with its ballistic missile program to develop an ICBM “before 2035.” [319][320]
Earlier in 2025, Gabbard revised her position on Iran's nuclear weapon program after facing criticism from President Trump over her March 2025 assertion, which suggested that Iran was not close to building a nuclear weapon.[393][394] In March 2025, Gabbard testified before Congress that the US intelligence community "continues to assess Iran is not building a nuclear weapon",[395] though she raised concerns that Iran's enriched uranium stockpile was "unprecedented for a state without nuclear weapons".[393] In June 2025, Gabbard clarified her position on Iran's nuclear weapons stating that she agrees with President Trump that Iran could build a nuclear weapon in weeks, and blamed the media for taking her March testimony "out of context".[394][396] Gabbard posted that "America has intelligence that Iran is at the point that it can produce a nuclear weapon within weeks to months.”[397]
Gabbard also supported the Trump administration's claim of significant damage to Iran's nuclear sites in June 2025 US strikes, and countered media reports of limited damage, which were based on a preliminary defence intelligence assessment.[398][399] Gabbard said that “New intelligence confirms what President Trump has stated numerous times: Iran’s nuclear facilities have been destroyed.”[398] Gabbard further said that "If the Iranians chose to rebuild, they would have to rebuild all three facilities (Natanz, Fordow, Esfahan) entirely, which would likely take years to do."[399]
International Missile Threats
In March 2026, Gabbard presented her annual threat assessment report before the Senate Intelligence Committee, noting that "Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, and Pakistan" were researching and developing advanced missile delivery systems with nuclear and conventional payloads, that put "our homeland within range”.[319][324] Analysts noted that Gabbard placed Pakistan alongside traditional US adverseries Russia, China, North Korea and Iran among the countries whose missile capabilities could possibly threaten the US.[400]
Further, on weapons of mass destruction, Gabbard assessed that China, North Korea, Russia, and Pakistan would “probably continue to research, develop, and field delivery systems that will increase their ranges and accuracy, challenge US missile defenses, and provide new WMD-use options”.[400]
Middle East: Israel and Palestine
After Hamas' October 7, 2023, attack on Israel, Gabbard came out strongly in support of Israel and condemned Hamas, calling it an Islamist terrorist organization.[401] In November 2023, she attended the March for Israel at the National Mall in Washington, D.C.[402]
She has called pro-Palestine protesters in the U.S. "puppets of a radical Islamist organization". Gabbard is opposed to a ceasefire in Gaza. In an interview uploaded to YouTube in February, she called Hamas a "threat that needs to be defeated militarily and ideologically". When asked what she thought about the U.S. supporting a U.N. resolution that seeks a ceasefire in Gaza, Gabbard said it needs to be approached strategically. "We have to be realists about the threat that continues to exist for the people of Israel. So as long as Hamas is in power, the people of Israel will not be secure and cannot live in peace."[403]
Islamist militancy (al-Qaeda, ISIS); Egypt's Sisi; Iran
During her time in U.S. Congress, Gabbard took strong stances in opposition to Islamist political movements and organizations in the Middle East.[404] In some of her appearances on Fox News between 2013 and 2017, she faulted President Obama over his refusal to refer to the Islamic State's beliefs and terrorism as "Islamic extremism" or "radical Islam".[405][406] In a 2015 interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer, Gabbard criticized the Obama administration for "refusing" to say that the "real enemy" of the United States is Islamic extremists.[407] Gabbard expressed reservations about the U.S. involvement in Syrian civil war, and said that "We must end our war to overthrow the Syrian government and focus our attention on defeating al-Qaeda and ISIS".[408]
In 2015, Gabbard met with Egyptian dictator 'Abd al-Fattah al-Sisi in Cairo.[409][404] After the meeting, she issued a statement expressing her commendation of Sisi as a ruler who showed "great courage and leadership" in his regime's war against "Islamist ideology". Her close engagement with Sisi, an Arab autocrat responsible for the killing of more than 800 people in the Rabaa massacre, was met with widespread criticism.[404][409] Journalist Evan Hill summarized Gabbard's foreign policy as rooted in "authoritarianism cloaked as counter-terrorism, nationalism cloaked as anti-interventionism", and an open espousal of Islamophobia.[409]
On December 20, 2019, the Stop Arming Terrorists Act[410] that she introduced in 2017[411] became law as part of National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020, § 1228[412] to prohibit the Department of Defense from "knowingly providing weapons or any other form of support to Al Qaeda" or other terrorist groups or any individual or group affiliated with any such organization.[413] Gabbard was critical of the U.S. military's 2020 Baghdad International Airport airstrike, which targeted and killed high-level Iranian general Qasem Soleimani, as an act of war by U.S. president Donald Trump and a violation of the U.S. Constitution, arguing that Trump did not have congressional authorization for this act.[403]
The Assad regime in Syria
Controversial visit to Syria (2017)
In January 2017, Gabbard went on a one-week "fact-finding mission" to Syria and Lebanon, during which she met various political and religious leaders from both countries[e]–and also had two unplanned meetings with then-Syrian-president Bashar al-Assad.[414] The visit was arranged by two Lebanese American men connected to the Syrian Social Nationalist Party.[415]
The visit came after Gabbard had introduced legislation that would, in her words, "end our country's illegal war to overthrow the Syrian government."[416] The visit was the first by a U.S. lawmaker since Nancy Pelosi in 2007,[417] and made under a travel warning issued by the United States Department of State.[416] As required by House rules, the House Ethics Committee approved the trip.[418] (A State Department official said that, as the trip was private, the department was not involved.[416]) The trip was privately funded by a Cleveland-based Arab American group sympathetic to Assad,[419] but after facing controversy over the trips funding, Gabbard decided to personally reimburse the cost of the trip.[420] As Gabbard explained to CNN's Jake Tapper, "When the opportunity arose to meet with [Assad], I did so because I felt it's important that if we profess to truly care about the Syrian people, about their suffering, then we've got to be able to meet with anyone that we need to if there's a possibility that we could achieve peace. And that's exactly what we've talked about." Regarding the rebel groups she said: "[T]he strongest fighting force on the ground in Syria is al-Nusra or Al Qaeda and ISIS."[421][422]
After her meeting with Syrian religious leaders, Gabbard said that they called for "an end to foreign support of terrorists who are trying to rid Syria of its secular, pluralistic, free society",[423] however Assad's regime was often ranked in the bottom on international freedom rankings.[419] Gabbard's visit to Assad was generally criticized by both sides of the political spectrum for giving Assad credibility despite the civilian deaths under his regime.[424] A Ron Paul Institute article thanked Gabbard for "seeing through the double-bind foreign policy trap of our bipartisan war policy".[425]
Opposition to U.S. military intervention in Syria
After a 2017 visit to Syria, Gabbard wrote, "There is no difference between "moderate" rebels and al-Qaeda (al-Nusra) or ISIS—they are all the same. This is a war between terrorists under the command of groups like ISIS and al-Qaeda and the Syrian government."[426] In 2018, Gabbard characterized the U.S. as waging a regime change war in Syria since 2011.[427]
In a February 2019 interview with MSNBC a month after the start of her presidential campaign, she said, "Assad is not the enemy of the United States because Syria does not pose a direct threat to the United States"[428][429][430][431][432] In a subsequent interview on CNN, she said "There are brutal dictators in the world. Assad of Syria is one of them. That does not mean the United States should be waging regime-change wars around the world."[433]
In August 2019, she said that Assad is "a brutal dictator. Just like Saddam Hussein. Just like Gadhafi in Libya. The reason that I'm so outspoken on this issue of ending these wasteful regime-change wars is because I have seen firsthand this high human cost of war and the impact that it has on my fellow brothers and sisters in uniform."[434]
Russian invasion of Ukraine
In 2019, Gabbard affirmed on MSNBC's Morning Joe that she views Putin as a U.S. adversary.[432][431] On February 11, 2022, during the build-up to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, she suggested "President Biden could end this crisis and prevent a war with Russia by... guaranteeing... Ukraine will not become a member of NATO" and that he should do this since it is highly unlikely Ukraine will ever become a member. She expressed skepticism about the motives behind not resolving the issue, blaming "warmongers on both sides in Washington" and suggesting the U.S. might want Russia to invade in order to impose "draconian sanctions" and cement a new Cold War. She criticized this as benefiting "the Military-Industrial Complex that controls so many of our politicians" at the expense of American, Ukrainian, and Russian citizens.[435] On February 13, Gabbard said "It is not in our national security interests for Ukraine to become a member of NATO anyway, so why not give Russia that assurance?"[436][437]
On February 24, the day Russia invaded Ukraine, Gabbard repeated her point that "this war and suffering could have easily been avoided if Biden Admin/NATO had simply acknowledged Russia's legitimate security concerns".[438]
After the invasion, on February 27, Gabbard advocated for a peaceful resolution through neutrality, "It's time to put geopolitics aside and embrace the spirit of aloha, respect and love, for the Ukrainian people by coming to an agreement that Ukraine will be a neutral country... [T]here would be no Russian or NATO troops on each other's non-Baltic borders. This would allow the Ukrainian people to live in peace."[439] On April 4, 2022, Gabbard tweeted, "President Putin, not only is your brutal attack on Ukraine reprehensible, it has been a huge geopolitical error which has already cost Russia dearly... [I]t is the best interest for the Russian people and the people of Ukraine that you pull your forces out now."[440]
Some lawmakers have accused Gabbard of taking foreign policy positions they saw as sympathetic to Russia,[441][262] and these positions have often resulted in praise from Russian media.[442][443] However, in 2024 the New York Times noted that no evidence has emerged for a connection between Gabbard to any Russian agencies, although her advocacy for improving US diplomatic ties has made her a popular voice in Russian state media.[261]
East Asia
During her 2020 presidential campaign, Gabbard criticized President Donald Trump's confrontational attitude towards China, instead proposing a cooperative relationship to confront global challenges such as climate change. She opposed Trump's trade war with China, calling his approach "extremely volatile" and having "ravaging and devastating effects" on both manufacturers and farmers, while expressing concern the trade war could eventually lead to a "hot war" with China. She also stated her belief that the trade war has made it more difficult to secure Chinese support over a nuclear deal with North Korea; she said America should work with China on denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.[444]
In December 2023, Gabbard said that "As we remember Japan's aggression in the Pacific, we need to ask ourselves this question: is the remilitarization of Japan, which is presently underway, truly a good idea? We need to be careful that shortsighted, self-serving leaders do not end up bringing us again face-to-face with a remilitarized Japan".[445][446]
Azerbaijan and Armenia
Gabbard has often expressed her support for the ethnic Armenian population[447] in the conflict with Azerbaijan.[448] In 2017, she was part of a team of U.S. lawmakers that visited Armenia and the then-disputed breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh, which was later reclaimed by Azerbaijan; she was thus blacklisted by Azerbaijan.[449] Later, she accused Turkey of encouraging and inciting 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan over Nagorno-Karabakh, and co-signed a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo expressing concern over Azerbaijan's renewed aggression against Artsakh (Nagorno Karabakh) and possible conflict with Armenia.[448] Gabbard stated that the United States must urge Azerbaijan to immediately end their attacks, and Turkey to cease its involvement both directly and indirectly.[450]
In 2019, Gabbard was a co-sponsor of the Armenian Genocide Resolution, along with several other U.S. senators and U.S. representatives, to lock in official U.S. recognition and permanent remembrance of the Armenian genocide.[451] While talking about the 1915 mass killings, Gabbard said, "the Ottoman Empire was attempting to cleanse itself of the Armenian and Christian populations, and the US became home to many survivors".[447] Eventually, in 2021, despite opposition by Turkey, President Joe Biden recognized the Ottoman-era mass killings of Armenians as a genocide.[452]
Personal life
Gabbard in 2012, pictured wearing a lei, the traditional neckwear common among Hawaiian and other Polynesian cultures
Family and religion
Gabbard lived in Hawaii for most of her early childhood and has been a lifelong surfer.[453] A yoga enthusiast,[454] she regularly practices morning yoga and meditation.[13][455] She has talked about being a vegetarian,[4][14] although some sources have reported her as being vegan.[453] According to Gabbard, she grew up with Hindu values.[14] She follows the Vaishnava tradition of the Hindu faith,[456][14] and values as her spiritual guide the Bhagavad Gita.[457] She has said that she is a Karma Yogi (action-oriented Yogi).[458] She took the oath of office in 2013 with her personal copy of the Bhagavad Gita.[456]
Gabbard's parents have been associated with the Science of Identity Foundation (SIF), a Vaishnava affiliated organization.[459][460][461] When Gabbard's parents moved to Hawaii,[4] they had joined the circle of disciples around the founder of the SIF[462] connected with International Society for Krishna Consciousness,[463][460][464] She described the SIF's leader, Chris Butler, as a guide/spiritual leader and "essentially like a Vaishnava Hindu pastor" during her early years. Butler has in return likened her to a star pupil.[4][463][465] In 2024, the Trump transition team said that Gabbard has "no affiliation" with the SIF.[466] A lengthy investigative piece published in The Washington Post on June 21, 2026, indicates that this claim was not true.[467]
Gabbard's mother became Hindu and gave Sanskrit names to all her children.[468][469][470] Gabbard is named after tulasi, a sacred plant in Hinduism. She has three brothers–Jay, Bhakti, and Aryan–and a sister, Vrindavan, a US Marshal.[4][471][5][6] Gabbard has often mentioned that the teachings of selfless action from the Bhagavad Gita[457] motivated her towards social work.[469] Later in 2014, as a Congresswoman, she also presented a copy of the Bhagavad Gita to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on the latter's visit to the United States.[472] Gabbard supported the efforts of Modi for declaration of an International Yoga Day by the United Nations.[473][455]
Among other activities in D.C., Gabbard has been participating in the celebration of Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights, along with members from the Hindu American community.[474] In 2016, she supported the campaign by Hindu Americans[475] for a Diwali commemorative stamp in the United States, noting that the Diwali festival honors values such as righteousness "that transcend different religions, and backgrounds."[476]
Marriages and residency
At the age of 21, in 2002, Gabbard married Eduardo Tamayo.[477][478] She was deployed to Iraq from 2004 to 2005, serving with the National Guard. They divorced in 2006.[479] Gabbard said in 2012 that the divorce illustrated "the stresses war places on military spouses and families."[480]
In 2015, Gabbard and freelance cinematographer and editor Abraham Williams, a Hindu of European and Samoan ancestry and son of her Honolulu office manager, married in a traditional Vedic Hindu wedding.[481][482][483] While on Meghan McCain's podcast in 2024, Gabbard mentioned that she and Williams had tried to start a family and had undergone several in-vitro fertilization (IVF) procedures, without success.[484]
In 2024, Gabbard and her husband bought a house near Austin, Texas, and claimed a homestead tax exemption.[485] But in November 2024 she voted as a Hawaii resident, and in early 2025, her attorneys said that she "was, is, and intends to remain a Hawaii resident."[485]
In late May 2026, when Gabbard submitted her resignation as DNI, she cited her husband's recent diagnosis of "an extremely rare form of bone cancer".[486] In early June, Gabbard said that her husband's surgery was successful.[487]
Military awards and decorations
Army Combat Medical Badge
Meritorious Service Medal
Army Commendation Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster
Army Achievement Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster
Army Good Conduct Medal
National Defense Service Medal
Iraq Campaign Medal with Bronze Star
Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal
Global War on Terrorism Service Medal
Armed Forces Reserves Service Medal with M device
Army Service Ribbon
Army Overseas Service Ribbon
Army Overseas Reserve Training Ribbon[488]
German Armed Forces Badge for Military Proficiency in Gold[489]
Awards and honors
On November 25, 2013, Gabbard received the John F. Kennedy New Frontier Award from the Institute of Politics at Harvard Kennedy School for her efforts on behalf of veterans.[490] On March 20, 2014, Elle magazine honored her and others, at the Italian Embassy in the United States during its annual "Women in Washington Power List".[491]
On February 26, 2015, Gabbard received the County Alumni Award from the National Association of Counties for her "steadfast commitment to the nation's counties".[492] On July 15, 2015, she received the Friend of the National Parks Award from the National Parks Conservation Association.[493]
On September 30, 2018, Gabbard received the Ho'ola Na Pua Advocacy Award for "her dedication to serving and empowering human trafficking survivors in Hawaii" at their annual Pearl Gala.[494] On October 16, 2018, Gabbard was honored as Hawaii Pacific University's 2018 Paul T. C. Loo Distinguished Alumni.[495] The Second Amendment Institute awarded the Champion's Award to Tulsi Gabbard on June 20, 2024, at Second Amendment Institute's Annual Champion Ceremony in Washington, DC.[496]
Published works
Gabbard, Tulsi (2024). For Love of Country: Leave the Democrat Party Behind. Skyhorse Publishing. ISBN 9781684514854.
Gabbard, Tulsi (2021). Is Today the Day? (Edition-II). Grand Central Publishing. ISBN 9781455542321.
Gabbard, Tulsi (2019). Is Today the Day?. Grand Central Publishing. ISBN 9781455542314.
See also
List of Asian Americans and Pacific Islands Americans in the United States Congress
List of female United States presidential and vice presidential candidates
Notes
Edward Snowden was employed by an NSA contractor and misappropriated 1.5 million classified documents in 2013. He later leaked some documents about U.S. government surveillance practices. He fled first to Hong Kong and then to Moscow where he was given asylum and granted permanent Russian residency. Snowden claimed that he was "trapped" in Moscow, en route from Hong Kong to Cuba, when the U.S. canceled his passport.[271][272] and citizenship.[273]
Section 702 permits the Attorney General and the Director of National Intelligence to jointly authorize surveillance of non-US persons reasonably believed to be located outside the United States. U.S. citizens may be incidentally surveilled.
Attributed to many sources:
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The bill would make it a violation for institutions that receive federal funding to "permit a person whose biological sex at birth is male to participate in an athletic program or activity that is designated for women or girls". If passed, this bill would effectively ban many transgender athletes from participating in programs corresponding with their gender identity.[385][386][387]
Gabbard met with Lebanon's newly-elected President Michel Aoun and Prime Minister Saad Hariri, Grand Mufti Hassoun, Archbishop Denys Antoine Chahda of Syrian Catholic Church of Aleppo, and U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon Elizabeth Richard, in addition to then-Syrian-president Bashar al-Assad.
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