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Hawaii’s Guard Is Ours to Save: Green’s Fight Needs to Defend the Guard Now!

Now is the moment for us to defend our state's autonomy. On July 28, 2025, Hawaii's House Committee on Public Safety held a critical informational briefing. Our state government is finally exposing how U.S. authorities federalize our National Guard without gubernatorial consent. They’ve been bypassing state authority to deploy troops for domestic enforcement for far too long.

There is an ongoing Newsom v. Trump

 lawsuit, where California challenged the president's use of the Militia Act (10 U.S.C. § 12406) to mobilize 4,000 Guard members for federal operations. The movements of the Trump administration are creating both physical and legal battles over ultra vires actions, procedural violations, and Posse Comitatus concerns. Hawaii supported California through amicus briefs that voice our shared fears of executive abuse.

Oregon's House Bill 3954, passed by their House in June 2025 (stalled in the Senate), is the model Hawaii lawmakers are currently looking into. It prohibits the Adjutant General from assisting federal mobilizations under Titles 10 or 32 unless for congressionally authorized wars, disasters, or training.

It is unclear if the proposed Oregon law would prohibit all contrary in-state deployments implemented without gubernatorial consent, but this is a libertarian imperative. Federalization erodes state rights, commandeers our resources, and risks turning citizen-soldiers into tools for unconstitutional domestic policing, violating the 10th Amendment and principles of limited government. With Trump's Day One executive orders threatening birthright citizenship, sanctuary jurisdictions, and maximalist deportations (plus ongoing lawsuits like Hawaii's challenges to funding conditions and data-sharing), the stage is set for more conflicts.

The 2026 session starts in January which gives us time to build on this momentum. Governor Green's policy for reviewing federal requests is a fantastic step in the right direction, but it's executive thus far, and vulnerable. We need binding legislation like Defend the Guard to ensure no deployment without clear state consent and congressional war declarations. Let's prevent our Guard from being dragged into federal power grabs that drain resources and endanger lives.

Act today:

1. Download our Defend the Guard Hawaii Activism Packet

    for sample letters, talking points, legislator contacts, and strategies.

2. Contact your representatives.

3. Spread the word to friends and family.

Together, we can reclaim state control and uphold aloha for freedom.