During Flag Day last week, the Small Business Administration mixed it up.

Last week, on Flag Day, the SBA paid homage to the American Flag and another notable flag in United States history.

A photo on X posted by SBA Administrator shows SBA officials paying their respects to both the American flag and the Appeal to Heaven flag.

The Daily Beast added these details:

A MAGA-linked flag that got Justice Samuel Alito and his wife into trouble was flown over a government agency this month.

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The flag bearing the words “An Appeal to Heaven” was raised over the Small Business Administration along with the American flag in Washington, D.C., according to a social media post on X from SBA Administrator Kelly Loeffler.

“Today at SBA’s Flag Day Ceremony, we proudly raised a new AMERICAN MADE flag over our headquarters in Washington,” Loeffler wrote on June 11. “It is a privilege to serve under its Stars and Stripes – on behalf of the 34 million small businesses who represent the best of America.”

Her post included photos of the Appeal to Heaven flag—a green pine tree on a white field—flying under the U.S. flag, and showed ceremony attendees looking up at the two flags.

The flag began as a Revolutionary War symbol, but has since become associated with hard-right politics.

Take a look:

Today at SBA’s Flag Day Ceremony, we proudly raised a new AMERICAN MADE flag over our headquarters in Washington.

It is a privilege to serve under its Stars and Stripes – on behalf of the 34 million small businesses who represent the best of America. pic.twitter.com/QmSrSh6mu4

— Kelly Loeffler (@SBA_Kelly) June 11, 2025

The history behind the Appeal to Heaven flag is quite interesting.

Per CNN:

The Appeal to Heaven flag, or “Pine Tree” flag, features a green pine tree on a white field, with the words “An Appeal to Heaven” in black text above it.

It was originally commissioned under George Washington’s leadership of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War, a history that Alito, Johnson and others point to when defending their own use of the flag against claims of right-wing extremist views.

The phrase “An Appeal to Heaven” comes from a passage of British philosopher John Locke’s “Second Treatise on Government” that outlines his interpretation of a people’s right to revolution:

“And where the body of the people, or any single man, is deprived of their right, or is under the exercise of a power without right, and have no appeal on earth, then they have a liberty to appeal to heaven, whenever they judge the cause of sufficient moment.”

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As for the pine tree, it became a symbol of American resistance after the Pine Tree Riot, one of several clashes between American colonists and British royal powers that led to the American Revolution. The pine tree retained this meaning of resistance, and has appeared on some state flags and seals. The pine tree is also still a beloved regional symbol in New England. A similar flag — with a green pine in a white canton on a red field — is flown throughout the region.

House Speaker Mike Johnson has the Appeal to Heaven Flag displayed outside of his office:

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