About Allen West

Lt. Col. Allen West (ret.) is a constitutional conservative, combat veteran, and former member of the U.S. Congress.Lt. Col. West is the third of four generations of military servicemen in his family. During his 22-year career in the U.S. Army, Lieutenant Colonel West served in several combat zones and received many honors, including a Bronze Star, three Meritorious Service Medals, three Army Commendation Medals, one with valor device, and a Valorous Unit Award. In 1993, he was named the US Army ROTC Instructor of the Year. He is also a former commissioned officer in the Texas State Guard.In November 2010, West was elected to the United States Congress, representing Florida’s 22nd District. As a member of the 112th Congress, he sat on the Small Business and Armed Services Committees.West is the former Executive Director of the National Center for Policy Analysis in Dallas, Texas, and a former Director of the Booker T. Washington Initiative (BTWI) for the Texas Public Policy Foundation. In July of 2020, Mr. West was elected Chairman of the Republican Party of Texas by an overwhelming majority of State delegates.Lt. Col. West is an avid distance runner, a Master SCUBA diver, and in his spare time, he enjoys cheering his beloved Tennessee Volunteers. He is a legacy life member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, a life member of the American Legion, a life member of the Association of the United States Army, the Society of the First Infantry Division, the 4th Infantry Division, and 101st Airborne Division. He is Patriot Life Member (Benefactor) of the National Rifle Association and Life Member (Benefactor) of the Texas State Rifle Association. West is an inductee into the University of Tennessee Army ROTC Hall of Fame.Lt. Col. West is the author of three books: Guardian of the Republic: An American Ronin’s Journey to Family, Faith and Freedom; Hold Texas, Hold the Nation: Victory or Death; and We Can Overcome: An American Black Conservative Manifesto.He is married to Dr. Angela Graham-West, a financial adviser, and they have two daughters, Aubrey, a Board-certified Physician Assistant, and Austen, a nursing assistant. He is also the proud grandfather of grandson, Jaxton.

The Law

By |2026-07-15T11:30:04-04:00July 15th, 2026|

The left calls it a "fair share." Allen West calls it what Bastiat called it 175 years ago: legal plunder, and a direct assault on the Constitution.

The Enemies of American Independence

By |2026-07-14T13:39:37-04:00July 14th, 2026|

The oath to defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic, has no expiration date. Allen West on why the Marxists and their Islamist allies now winning American elections are precisely the domestic enemies the Founders warned us about, and why it's time to name them as such.

The Law of the Land in the Land of Lincoln

By |2026-07-08T11:27:20-04:00July 8th, 2026|

In the Land of Lincoln, the Law of the Land no longer holds. Allen West on how Chicago's sanctuary policies, its war on religious liberty, and its contempt for the Second Amendment reveal a Marxist left that honors the Constitution only when it's convenient, and the deadly cost when it doesn't.

An Un-Supreme Decision

By |2026-07-01T11:24:27-04:00July 1st, 2026|

Two rulings. One anniversary week. Allen West on why the Supreme Court's blessing of late mail ballots and birthright citizenship for non-citizens' children is an un-supreme way to say Happy 250th, America.

An American Homework Assignment

By |2026-06-30T12:00:17-04:00June 30th, 2026|

Before Lexington, Rhode Island patriots burned the HMS Gaspee. Allen West traces the road to 1776 from Luther to Locke, and hands America a 250th-birthday homework assignment: read the Declaration of Independence, and ask where we are in the cycle.

Behind Enemy Lines

By |2026-06-24T12:28:56-04:00June 24th, 2026|

Allen West files this Constitutional Brief from "behind enemy lines" in New England, where 250 years after the Revolution began, the "No Kings" crowd has embraced the very subjugation the Sons of Liberty died to throw off. From Massachusetts gun-control fights to Tim Kaine's claim that rights come from government, West argues the loyalists have won, and asks every American to read the Declaration aloud this July 4th.

SSDD

By |2026-06-23T15:20:49-04:00June 23rd, 2026|

Allen West argues today's Democratic Socialists are reading from the same Marxist script King George III would recognize, an intellectually bankrupt ideology that has failed everywhere it's been tried.

The Ghosts of 1938

By |2026-06-17T09:27:47-04:00June 17th, 2026|

A signed “deal” with Iran, sold as a path to peace, looks a lot like Neville Chamberlain’s 1938 agreement with Hitler. Allen West argues America stopped short of victory and tossed a terror-sponsoring regime a lifeline, warning that those who forget history are condemned to repeat it.

What is Election Day?

By |2026-06-10T10:30:18-04:00June 10th, 2026|

When ballots keep appearing for a week after the polls close, what does "Election Day" even mean? Allen West on California’s endless counting, the "margin of cheating," and why the ACRU is backing a Supreme Court case to give elections a hard deadline.

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