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A retired Army<\/span> colonel turned social media influencer, who has worked with the Pentagon to promote Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth\u2019s agenda, has a history of praising dictators, denigrating women and minorities, and suggesting that only people with children should be allowed to vote.<\/p>\n

Kurt Schlichter has over 620,000 followers on X and has regularly posted in support of Hegseth\u2019s anti-woke agenda. Last month, as part of an investigation into the Pentagon\u2019s employment of influencers in civilian roles, The\u00a0Washington Post<\/a> found that<\/a> Schlichter was one of several individuals to be given active government email addresses at the time and assigned to the undersecretary of defense for personnel and readiness\u2019s office. According to reporting from the Post, Schlichter appears in the government database with the designation of \u201cHQE,\u201d which could stand for \u201chighly qualified expert.\u201d<\/p>\n

Schlichter confirmed<\/a> that he was a civilian government employee, working as part of a task force rooting out so-called woke ideologies at the military\u2019s war colleges.<\/p>\n

What wasn\u2019t reported, however, were Schlichter\u2019s posts on social media and other platforms in recent years that highlight extremist, anti-democratic worldviews. WIRED has reviewed many of these posts.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Department was proud to have a group of patriotic civilians and veterans like Kurt Schlichter contribute to our Senior Service College Task Force. Nothing is more important than the formation of our future military leaders,” Kingsley Wilson, the Pentagon\u2019s press secretary, tells WIRED. Schlichter did not respond to requests for comment. It\u2019s not clear if Schlichter is still working with the Pentagon. Wilson herself shared extremist content<\/a> and an antisemitic conspiracy theory prior to joining the Pentagon.<\/p>\n

In an August 2021 thread<\/a> on X, Schlichter demanded an authoritarian crackdown on \u201cliberals.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe must, by any means necessary, force them to be like us. No quarter. No compromise,\u201d Schlichter wrote<\/a>. In the thread, he advocates for banning everything from masks and unions to critical race theory and \u201cleftist media.\u201d (Last year, Hegseth\u2019s Department of Defense required journalists to sign a pledge<\/a> that would prevent them from gathering certain information. Most major journalists refused to sign the pledge and left the Pentagon.)<\/p>\n

In the same thread on X, Schlichter also suggested that people who don\u2019t have children, who do not serve in the military, and who don\u2019t own property should not be allowed to vote. \u201cPenalize barren, non-familial lifestyles through taxes and disqualification from political participation,\u201d Schlichter wrote<\/a>. \u201cEstablish property and military service qualifications for voting.\u201d Posts in the thread were shared a combined 10,000 times.<\/p>\n

Schlichter has also repeatedly expressed appreciation of murderous dictators like Chile\u2019s Augusto Pinochet and Spain\u2019s Francisco Franco. \u201cPinochet was too soft,\u201d Schlichter wrote<\/a> on X in April 2024. In May 2025, he quoted a post on X that called on Trump to offer asylum to Spanish fascists, writing<\/a>: \u201cFranco did nothing wrong.\u201d In December 2025, Schlichter called<\/a> Franco \u201ca Spanish patriot.\u201d (Under Pinochet\u2019s dictatorship, tens of thousands of his citizens were tortured while thousands of his political opponents disappeared. During the Spanish Civil War, Franco\u2019s Nationalists executed tens of thousands of dissidents while systematically raping women.)<\/p>\n

Schlichter has also repeatedly lashed out at women and minorities. In an article for conservative website Townhall<\/a>, published in July 2026, Schlichter suggested that \u201cliberal women\u201d could bring about the end of Western civilization.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese self-righteous crones are a pestilence, a plague upon Western society, a group of doggedly ignorant feminist\/chauvinists playing out their personal psychodramas on the world stage whose antics, if unchecked, will inevitably lead to the fall of civilization,\u201d he wrote. In the same article, he attacked immigrants, calling them \u201cperverted Third World peasants.\u201d In a post on X<\/a>, Schlichter went even further, calling immigrants \u201cThird World barbarians\u201d and \u201csemihuman savages.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hegseth has prioritized Christian nationalist ideology<\/a> and a \u201cwarrior ethos\u201d<\/a> at the Pentagon while calling for an end of wokeness<\/a> by attacking diversity and inclusion initiatives, halting promotions<\/a> for Black and female officers, and fat-shaming troops he considers overweight.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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