On October 29, 2024, during Steve Bannon’s first WarRoom broadcast since his triumphant release from Danbury Prison earlier that morning, Bannon took a moment to hold up and lavish praise upon WarRoom Films producer Dan Fleuette’s 500-page WarRoom portrait book, Rebels, Rogues, and Outlaws: A Pictorial History of WarRoom.
A breathtaking modern photography book, Rebels, Rogues, and Outlaws captures, in a new light, 90 high-profile MAGA figures and WarRoom guests, all blended with Dan Fleuette’s creative commentary.
According to Dan Fleuette, it was “by divine synchronicity” that his world-class portrait book was released on the very same day Steve Bannon finished serving the first-ever “Contempt of Congress” charge in US history.
“On October 29, 2024, Steve Bannon set up a mobile WarRoom studio inside his Park Avenue hotel room in New York, and the whole room buzzed,” Dan Fleuette told The Gateway Pundit.
“A large contingent of WarRoom colleagues, friends, and family welcomed his return. For anyone with a discerning eye on Bannon’s love for history, the room had the feel of a Roman triumph following the sack of Gaul,” Dan Fleuette said.
Dan Fleuette recently spoke with The Gateway Pundit regarding the creation of his portrait book masterwork, Rebels, Rogues, and Outlaws, during an exclusive interview at the stylish Butterworth’s restaurant on Capitol Hill.
“When I started working on Rebels, Rogues, and Outlaws, I wasn’t inspired by anything in particular,” Dan Fleuette said. “I was working in the WarRoom studio every day, and I thought it would be cool to photograph all the guests parading through the studio, as a way to document the show.”
“I had all these amazing subjects coming through, and I figured, ‘Why not?’ So I started experimenting with different setups, different lighting, different cameras – trying to lock in a look, and a tone that resonated with me. It took a while to get there, but I did.”
“Initially, I had the idea to hang my portraits salon-style, using different kinds of frames and layouts on the studio wall. So there was definitely an evolution.”
“Among my first subjects were Mike Johnson and Matt Gaetz. They sat for a long time, which I’m incredibly grateful for. Then, one day, after I’d been shooting for about six months, I shot Peter Navarro – and when I looked at the shots I’d accumulated, I thought, rather than just hang these on the wall, maybe there’s something else we can do with them.”
“I started thinking about developing a portrait book. So, I called Tony Lyons at Skyhorse Publishing in 2020 and I pitched the idea. I showed him some of my work, and he quickly gave me the green light,” Fleuette said.
In viewing Rebels, Rogues, and Outlaws, any serious student of photography will recognize that nearly all of Fleuette’s compositions approach the ideal image. Fleuette tastefully framed each subject before a stark, black, backdrop that, he explains, “strips away the entire environment, allowing for certain insights you might not get otherwise.”
The reader unmistakably feels in the room with Fleuette’s subjects, as he reveals new perspectives into his high-profile subjects previously unseen.
Recently, Fleuette unveiled 14 portraits from Rebels, Rogues, and Outlaws in a thread on X commemorating the 1-year anniversary since Steve Bannon was sentenced to prison for defying a Congressional summons related to his exercise of free speech during the 2020 election.
View Fleuette’s striking, curated portraits of well-known figures below.
1 July 2024 Steve Bannon entered Danbury Prison as a political prisoner. I was finishing my portrait book, Rebels, Rogues, and Outlaws, celebrating the fight club spirit of @Bannons_WarRoom show.
There’s a lot more to fight for, and here are a few that stand out for me why. pic.twitter.com/IEDFJP0DPA— doitfluet (@doitfluet) July 18, 2025
Impressively, before creating Rebels, Rogues, and Outlaws, Fleuette had never pursued a career as a professional photographer.
“I graduated college with a degree in photography – and then promptly stopped pursuing it. I had moved on to film, and that didn’t allow time for photography the way I wanted to do it.”
“In 2019, when I started shooting these portraits, I was simply returning to my roots,” Fleuette said.
Not far afield from photography, Fleuette has produced more than a dozen films for Steve Bannon, including Bannon’s debut documentary, In the Face of Evil: Reagan’s War in Word and Deed (2004).
“That morphed into a career of us working together – here in Washington, DC, the last place I ever expected to work,” Fleuette said.
Among many other films, Fleuette notably produced Clinton Cash (2016), cementing Bannon’s ascent to CEO of the Trump 2016 campaign, and Government Gangsters (2024), presenting Kash Patel’s blueprint for removing all bad actors from the US government.
“I’ve known Steve the longest out of all of my photographic subjects – and this is the WarRoom, after all,” Fleuette said.
In his powerful and moving foreword to Rebels, Rogues, and Outlaws, populist media titan Steve Bannon penned a tribute to the spirit of defiance and artistic courage that defines Fleuette’s work.
I feel as though I have known Dan Fleuette forever. He feels like a brother to me.
I watched Dan grow as he began this project more or less as a dare and responded with a stunning testament to artistic exploration. Challenging himself to find compelling insights into each subject using only the most minimal setup – a single light and an empty background – Dan creates evocative, emotional, and deeply expressive images that mark him as one of the great photographers in this movement. Each portrait is more striking than the one before.
Now, in this Fourth Turning, a time of great upheaval and uncertainty, Dan’s work seeks to interpret our current struggle. His powerful portraits give context to the hour, even as its history is still being written, and will stand as an important, even essential, contribution to understanding this moment, and with it, this era.
Dan is a true artist; unafraid, and obsessive, and as an artist, he has always identified with rebels and outsiders. Often, the subjects in this book were thrust into their roles as advocates for common sense and decency. They witnessed and could no longer tolerate the objective demise of our country through the insanity, malice, and totalitarian impulses of some of the most powerful individuals and malevolent institutions in the nation.
These heroes are all captured in Rebels, Rogues, and Outlaws. This book explores the humanity and non-conforming spirit of both the audience and guests of WarRoom. Dan adds his own take on these warriors with compelling insights, observations, and impressions.
So, this book is not just a portrait book–although it is that too, as Dan brilliantly captures the essence and bravery of all who grace its pages. It is also a tribute to all who make up the WarRoom audience and is a testament to the strength of ideas and the awesome power of human agency led by God. Rebels, Rogues, and Outlaws is a lofty historical document of WarRoom showcasing the brave souls who are courageous enough to stand up against a ceaseless and powerful battering of politicians, woke social media tyrants, and those who do their bidding, school boards, editorial pages, and polite society in general. The same could be said of Dan as he brilliantly captures the fight and mettle of each one of these warriors. Welcome, reader, to the WarRoom. The fight continues.
As Bannon conveyed, Fleuette’s ‘compelling insights, observations, and impressions’ on every photo shoot in Rebels, Rogues, and Outlaws breathe fresh life into the book’s pages.
“I wanted my text to interact with the imagery. I wanted it to be incredibly accessible and become part of the experience. So, I refused to make a portrait book with words that nobody reads,” Fleuette said. “To me, the writing in my book is as important as the imagery. The text and the imagery are inseparable in my mind. But I also didn’t want to direct the viewer or reader too much – there’s a lot left for your own interpretation.”
“I wanted my book to be what it wanted to be – to unveil it almost like a film, like an interactive piece. I researched portrait books just to get a sense of what was out there. But, I didn’t want my work to be even a little bit like anybody else’s. So I actually shied away from looking at too many portrait books after a while,” Fleuette said.
Whereas most portrait books bore the reader with uninspired, unhelpful writing, Fleuette’s text in Rebels, Rogues, and Outlaws reads as entirely authentic – heartfelt and intentionally tailored to each subject.
Fleuette achieves a rare feat – every page of his portrait book is genuinely gripping. Still, Fleuette admits he would have liked to photograph a thousand more subjects.
“For me, it was never about finishing the project. Quite frankly, I didn’t want to finish it. I could easily still be working on Rebels, Rogues, and Outlaws – there are 90 people in it, but there could be 900,” Fleuette said.
“Certainly, Noor Bin Laden is someone that I wish I could have photographed. Jim Hoft was our very first guest on WarRoom. Jim has been a friend of War Room since the beginning – before anybody else. I most definitely wish Jim was in the book. He needs to be in Volume 2. There are so many more people I’d love to shoot.”
“I could easily photograph a thousand more people and still be fully engaged in the process. But at some point, you’ve got to finish.”
“It took me five years to finish the book – but I never worked for a single second. It was all love. And there’s no better feeling.”
“When your work is your art – and when it speaks to you as you’re doing it – you lose track of time. You’re fully immersed. It’s fun, it’s calming – and there’s a meditative quality that pulls you away from all the troubles of the day, from everything you’re dealing with. It’s an entirely different world – like having a second life. You’re simply exploring the world you’ve created,” Fleuette said.
Evidently, Fleuette embodies the true artist’s spirit that only the historically great artists have attained.
“As you can imagine, doing War Room is high-stress. So when I started doing photography, that was my way of creating my own art – my own thing. And it was incredibly liberating,” Fleuette said.
Fleuette’s subject matter and his subjects personify the absolute cutting-edge in American culture.
“My book is an exploration of what, inside each of these people, gives them the fire to put up with so many attacks. They all know what’s coming for them – and still, they walk toward the fire,” Fleuette said.
“This way of life isn’t for 99.999 percent of people. Most people would feel a fear so strong it stops them in their tracks. So what drives my subjects to overcome that fear and say, ‘The abuse I’m going to face is worth it – because I believe in what I believe’?”
“For many, perhaps most, of the subjects in the book, I believe that God’s hand gives them the courage to stand up to the constant criticism and attacks.”
“And remember, some people in this book have literally lost everything – their livelihoods, their families, their friends,” Fleuette said. “Although in a way, they didn’t have a choice.”
To view or purchase prints from Dan Fleuette’s iconic portrait book, Rebels, Rogues, and Outlaws, and to learn more about Fleuette’s work, readers can visit his website, www.doitfluet.com.
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