Meet Former Navy JAG Officer Taking on RINO Thom Tillis in the 2026 North Carolina Senate Race

U S Senate Candidate Don Brown (Credit: Facebook)

Conservative attorney and former Navy JAG officer enters North Carolina Senate race, targeting Tillis over ‘RINO’ policies.

Don Brown, a conservative attorney, author, and former U.S. Navy JAG officer, has declared his candidacy for the 2026 U.S. Senate race in North Carolina, aiming to unseat incumbent Republican Senator Thom Tillis in the GOP primary.

“Ed Martin stood up for January 6 defendants. He never backed down from telling the truth. Thom Tillis helped block his path. This is exactly why North Carolina needs new leadership—men and women who won’t fold under pressure and won’t bow to the D.C. establishment. I stand with President Trump. I stand with Ed Martin. And I’ll stand for the people of this state—every. single. time,” Brown wrote on X.

Ed Martin stood up for January 6 defendants. He never backed down from telling the truth.

Thom Tillis helped block his path.

This is exactly why North Carolina needs new leadership—men and women who won’t fold under pressure and won’t bow to the D.C. establishment.

I stand… pic.twitter.com/CpRQxdpf8t

— Don Brown (@donbrownfornc) May 9, 2025

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In a fiery campaign video released this week, Brown blasted Tillis for turning his back on peaceful Trump supporters and for failing to call out the blatant double standard between January 6 prosecutions and the George Floyd riots.

Brown: “Senator Tillis is not supporting Mr. Martin essentially because of January 6th. The Senator has an issue with Americans going inside their own Capitol on January 6th. And keep this in mind: the large majority of Americans—Trump supporters—who went in to raise their voices against a highly questionable election were peaceful. And the Senator is saying that if you go in your own Capitol, you should be arrested and put in jail.

Sorry, Senator, but the United States Capitol is the house of “We the People.” And for United States senators to suggest that anybody who walked in—which includes even the most peaceful Trump protesters who walked in and walked out—should have been arrested and gone to jail is beyond the pale. Senator Tillis has lost his mind. He is not one of us.

He has never once complained at all about the fact that the DOJ planted agents inside the Capitol. The DOJ admitted that at least 15 FBI agents were inside the Capitol and were guilty of the crime of entering during and remaining in a restricted space—essentially federal trespassing—but not one has been prosecuted. He has never called Merrick Garland into question.

He has never once questioned what the Justice Department did in trying to prosecute 95% of Trump protesters, when by contrast, Democrat prosecutors dismissed 95% of George Floyd prosecutions. He is not one of us. He does not represent North Carolina, and he has stabbed President Trump in the back one too many times.

Now, listen—we have an opportunity to send a fire-breathing, conservative patriot to the United States Senate. I would appreciate your support, and we can do it, and we can make it happen. But here’s what I need you to do. I need you to please go to our website: brownfournc.com. That’s brownfournc.com.

And I need you to do a couple of things. One—you’ll see several options. Sign up to be part of our campaign team to help us distribute videos just like this. And yes, we need your contribution as well. I know that most of our people—most of our supporters—are grassroots Americans, red-blooded American patriots, and probably can’t donate the maximum of $3,500. If you can, that’s great. But frankly, I’d rather have a million people donate $5 to this campaign than a couple of people donate a million.

Because I want to represent the people—the grassroots. We can take Senator Tillis down, and we can and we will win the election next November against Roy Cooper or whoever the Democrats put up.

Because this burning torch of freedom has been set ablaze by President Trump, and we’re going to pick up the torch, and we’re going to carry it forward. Please go to brownfournc.com. Support Don Brown, United States Senate, 2026. We need your help now.

We’re going to win this, and we’re going to restore freedom to the United States Senate. You’re going to have an America First senator that you can be proud of.”

WATCH:

U.S. Senate Candidate Don Brown – Thom Tillis has lost his mind. It’s Time for a Change. https://t.co/3c8xf9ktJB #PrimaryTillis #AmericaFirst @Manhattanpeachy @lindskeenan @BrianDCheek @helackey @BraydenRFalls @DebfromNC @maria90886 @junogsp7 @PatriotWatchdog @MargoinWNC… pic.twitter.com/HY4uqsIgtP

— Don Brown (@donbrownfornc) May 7, 2025

According to Brown’s website:

Don Brown is a former United States Navy JAG Officer who served in the Pentagon, a former Special Assistant United States Attorney, a former Republican Congressional candidate, and a Publishers Weekly national best-selling author.

The author of 16 books, four of which achieved national bestseller status, in the past 10 years, Don has fought on the front lines of the battle for freedom, working as an author, a constitutional lawyer, and a former United States Navy JAG officer.

Don has battled leftist tyranny on four separate national fronts, including:

Battling for America’s fighting men and women against the democrats’ woke and liberal Rules of Engagement that got Americans killed;
Fighting election fraud from the 2020 national presidential election, serving on three separate legal teams seeking to expose the truth of what clearly appears to be a stolen election;
Battling unconstitutional vaccination and mass mandates, where Don brought federal litigation for 78 Americans to block Biden’s unconstitutional vaccination mandates, and
Serving as an outspoken advocate and attorney on behalf of January 6 Patriots, whom the left tried to destroy with a massive, vicious, unconstitutional prosecutorial scheme.

Don is one of only a small handful of constitutional lawyers in the country who has received not one but two presidential pardons for patriot clients from President Donald J. Trump, with both clients, Army Lieutenant Clint Lorance and J-6 Patriot Elliot Bishay, being targeted by democrat political prosecutions. Don has advised other J-6 political prisoners as well, helping them to restore their lives in the wake of the democrats’ illegal and unconstitutional fedsurrection.

Don’s 2015 military exposé, CALL SIGN EXTORTION 17: The Shootdown of SEAL Team Six, exposed the shoot-down of a Chinook helicopter in Afghanistan in 2011, killing 30 Americans, including 17 members of Seal Team Six. The book attacked the Obama Administration’s suicidal rules of engagement in Afghanistan. It served as a basis for the 2021 docu-drama movie FALLEN ANGEL: Extortion 17, released by Salem Media. Don appears in the film alongside Sean Hannity, Lieutenant General Jerry Boykin, and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.

Don has made numerous national media appearances on outlets such as Fox News, the Sean Hannity Show, Fox and Friends, Real Americas Voice, One America News, has appeared as a keynote speaker at the Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon Presidential Libraries, and has written dozens of conservative editorials, on websites such as Fox News, The Washington Times, the New York Post, The Federalist, the Blaze, American Thinker, and others.

In February 2025, Don authorized his campaign team to file paperwork with the FEC to prepare for entering the race for the 2026 Republican nomination for the United States Senate from North Carolina.

North Carolina is DONE with career politicians like Thom Tillis. Click HERE to donate.

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