Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has managed to ignite cross‑ideological media solidarity with his unprecedented attempt to silence journalists.

Today, over 100 resident Pentagon press members who failed to sign Hegseth’s new policy, which restricts reporters to only publish information preauthorized by Pentagon authorities, are required to turn in their passes and vacate the premises. And in a remarkable act of repudiation, the U.S. press corps stands virtually united in defiance of the former “Fox & Friends Weekend” co-host — even his former employer Fox News.

“Well, we’re all standing in solidarity,” Fox News host Bret Baier told his audience after the passing of Tuesday’s deadline to sign the 21-page policy, adding, “almost all of us.”

In what CNN’s Brian Stelter reported as “an im

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