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The central claim—that Dylan Blaha urged all military members to “DISOBEY” orders from Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump—lacks evidence in the reviewed material; . The available documents instead focus on...
Dylan Blaha is a U.S. Army captain and Illinois National Guard officer with more than a decade of service who says he enlisted as a combat medic in December 2012, deployed to Afghanistan (2019–2020), ...
Available reporting says Dylan Blaha served a deployment to Afghanistan (reported in his Substack, campaign materials and multiple news profiles) and has described more than five years on active duty ...
Available reporting consistently identifies Dylan Blaha as having studied and conducted research at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where he earned a Bachelor of Science in Molecular and ...
Dylan Blaha’s non-military professional and educational background centers on formal scientific training and laboratory research, with degrees in molecular and cellular biology and biochemistry from t...
Dylan Blaha is publicly documented as a candidate for Illinois’ 13th Congressional District and as a member of the U.S. armed forces, and one locally oriented profile reports civilian scientific work ...
Dylan Blaha’s military service — including service on active duty, a deployment to Afghanistan, a multi-year overseas tour, and current rank as an Illinois National Guard Captain — is corroborated acr...
The available reporting identifies Dylan Blaha as an Illinois National Guard member and as an Army captain in multiple recent news articles, but none of the sources provided contain or link to his ser...
Dylan Blaha is consistently identified in recent reporting as a U.S. Army officer with combat-decorated service who has transitioned into scientific research and is running as a progressive Democrat i...