Fact check: Fact check Dylan Blaha urges all military members to "DISOBEY" Pete Hegseth's and Trump's orders

1. What the Claim Actually Says and Why It Matters

The claim asserts a public exhortation by Dylan Blaha directing members of the U.S. military to disobey specific civilian leaders’ orders, a charge that, if true, would have legal and disciplinary implications for service members and signal a high-profile public confrontation. The assembled files do not show any reporting, quotes, or primary evidence of such an exhortation; instead the documents focus on Pentagon media rules and National Guard legal challenges. No source connects Dylan Blaha to an instruction for mass disobedience, so the factual core of the assertion remains unsupported ^{[1] [2] [3]}.

2. Review of the Pentagon- and Hegseth-Focused Documents

Several items discuss actions by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth—new guidance on press access and policy moves at the Pentagon—but these texts do not mention any calls for disobedience by Dylan Blaha or others. The most relevant piece details Hegseth’s restrictions on reporters and a separate account of a military summit, which provide context for tensions around military-public communications, but they do not document a military leader or commentator telling troops to defy orders ^{[1] [4]}.

3. Legal and Deployment Coverage That Could Be Confused With Calls to Disobey

Other sources cover legal rulings and executive orders concerning National Guard deployments and troop use in U.S. cities, including a federal judge’s decision on deployments and reporting about presidential orders to send forces to protest sites. Those stories address legal constraints and constitutional debates about domestic troop deployments, which are sometimes cast in public debate as reasons to question orders—but none of the provided pieces report that Dylan Blaha explicitly urged disobedience of Hegseth or presidential commands ^{[2] [5]}.

4. Inaccessible or Non-Substantive Files That Add No Corroboration

Some items in the packet are inaccessible due to reCAPTCHA, are website code or terms of service, or are unrelated entertainment or fact-check pieces. These component files—like a reCAPTCHA-blocked page and a stylesheet—contain no usable evidence bearing on the claim and therefore neither support nor refute it. Their presence shows gaps in the dataset and underscores why the claim cannot be validated from these materials alone ^{[6] [4] [7] [8]}.

5. Cross-Checking for Alternate Sources and Missing Evidence

A thorough verification requires direct quotes, video, social-media posts, or reporting that explicitly attributes the exhortation to Dylan Blaha; none of the provided analyses include such primary evidence. The material does show high-profile disputes over military orders and public discourse about deployments, offering plausible contexts where a call to disobey might arise—but context is not proof. Absent direct sourcing or corroboration in these files, the claim must be treated as unverified ^{[1] [5] [3]}.

6. Potential Agendas and Why Misattribution Could Spread

The documents reveal topics—Pentagon press rules, National Guard deployments, and political friction—that are often used rhetorically by partisans. Messages urging military disobedience would be highly newsworthy and weaponized by both critics and defenders; the lack of reporting in these samples suggests either the claim originated elsewhere or was fabricated/overstated. Given the partisan flashpoints in the sources, analysts should be alert to misattribution and amplification without independent verification ^{[1] [2] [9]}.

7. Bottom Line: What the Evidence Supports and What It Does Not

From the materials provided, there is no evidence that Dylan Blaha urged all military members to disobey Pete Hegseth or Donald Trump. The sources cover adjacent disputes—policy on press access, legal rulings on troop use, and reporting about deployments—but none contain the asserted exhortation or attributable primary documentation. The claim therefore remains unsupported by the reviewed corpus and should be classified as unverified or false until primary, dated evidence emerges ^{[1] [2] [5]}.

8. Practical Next Steps for Verification

To resolve the question conclusively, obtain direct primary sources: timestamped social-media posts, video/audio of any statement by Dylan Blaha, or contemporaneous reporting by mainstream outlets. Also review official Pentagon or service-branch statements about any such incident and legal analyses of orders. Without those materials, responsible reporting must note the absence of evidence and avoid repeating the allegation as fact ^{[6] [3]}.