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I started VoteVets after returning from Iraq because it was clear to me that the voices of progressive veterans were not represented in Congress or in our media. In fact, it was worse than that. Back then, and this may be hard to believe, being a veteran was shorthand for being “conservative.” Or that if you didn’t support more wars you were “against the troops.” I could have never imagined how far we’ve come. Over the past decade, we’ve been decisive in a number of legislative battles and in electing a number of progressive veterans to Congress — veterans like Ted Lieu, Seth Moulton and Tammy Duckworth. As a donor, you helped make that happen. But with some of our biggest challenges ahead, VoteVets needs you more than ever: C an you make a $10 donation to VoteVets today? We have a lot of big fights with Trump ahead, like VA privatization and potentially North Korea, and we can’t do this alone. Thank you again for your continued support. I may not have kno...

Not long after Trump was elected, he blocked us on Twitter. We don’t know if it was the ads we ran, our tweets getting into his mentions, or a staffer protecting him from the voices of progressive veterans speaking out against him. Whatever it was, he blocked us. Weak and pathetic. But last week, the courts ruled he had to unblock us and others he blocked. He’s done it for some… but not us. We’ll probably be the last ones. Here's the truth, Trump can block VoteVets on Twitter, the voice of 550,000 progressive veterans, military family members, and their civilian supporters, but we will NOT be silenced. Stand with us today: Make a $10 donation to VoteVets today to help us continue to elevate the voices of veterans who are willing to stand up to Donald Trump. He can block us, but make sure we can’t be silenced. Like General Wesley Clark says, there is no organization more decisive in a fight than VoteVets. We are one of the few out there who have ac...

These are dangerous times. We are living in the age of a lawless administration enabled by a complicit Republican Congress and a state media operation (Fox News) dutifully providing covering fire for it all. The truth of the matter is frankly this: The only thing standing in the way of two more years of this reality is what we're willing to do about it. At VoteVets, we have endorsed a number of progressive veterans running this November. Many have cleared their primaries. Some have an election on the horizon. None of them are afraid of a fight. But they cannot do it alone: Make a $10 donation to VoteVets today to help us elect the progressive veterans who will stand up to Donald Trump and take the fight to Republicans in Congress who have enabled this lawless administration. We are never going to outspend the other side -- we don't need to. We have the people and the messengers who can cut through the clutter. But we have to compete. And since th...

Iraq and Afghanistan veteran Dan Helmer is under savage attack from the White House and their hard-right allies in the fever swamp. Why? Because he said this in an ad: “After 9/11, the greatest threat to our democracy lived in a cave. Today, he lives in the White House. No one, even the president, is above the law.”  - Dan Helmer Here is the truth: Donald Trump is a threat to our democracy.  He is selling foreign policy favors for Ivanka Trump trademarks. He refuses to protect our elections from Russian cyber attacks. He started a sham commission intended to suppress black and brown people from voting. He is a threat to our democracy. Everyone knows it. That’s why we have Dan Helmer’s back. His primary is coming up, and he needs our help: Can you make a $10 donation to progressive veteran Dan Helmer’s campaign for Congress? He needs our help. He is under savage attack, and his election is right around the corner. Dan’s race is eminently winnable in...

APOLOGIES! THIS GOT BURIED & IS LATE! Stopping the privatization of veterans’ health care. North Korea. Russian collusion. Gun violence prevention. Stopping the military parade. Getting Congress to debate a new AUMF. Electing progressive veterans. Protecting Mueller. Homeless veterans. No matter what Trump tweets tomorrow morning. No matter what the latest outrage. We won’t stop fighting for what matters to veterans, military family members, and our civilian supporters. But we can’t do it alone. Make a $10 donation to VoteVets before our end of month fundraising deadline comes to a close at midnight tonight. VoteVets Fundraising Deadline Suggested Donation:  $10.00 Thanks for being such an important part of our work. Truly, we could not do it without your support. And that has never been as important as it is today. - The Team at VoteVets DONATE PAID FOR BY VOTEVETS ACTION FUND

27 May 18 It's Live on the HomePage Now:   Reader Supported News WE’RE GETTING DONATIONS, BUT NO MONEY - We are getting a pretty good volume of donations, but they are running quite small. We love and appreciate every donation large or small, but the five and ten dollar donations are not moving the progress bar. We have received some larger donations for May - Thank you! But on the whole the average donation size is down sharply. Dilemma. / Marc Ash, Founder Reader Supported News Sure, I'll make a donation! RSN: Bill Quigley | Memorial Day - 7 Facts Documenting Our Neglect of Millions of Veterans  Bill Quigley, Reader Supported News Quigley writes: "While flags fly and politicians preach patriotism, millions of our veterans remain neglected. Here are seven examples." READ MORE   hile flags fly and politicians preach patriotism, millions of our veterans remain neglected. Here are seven examples. 20  – Twenty veterans die by suicide each day. ...

This should anger you greatly. Hopefully you'll join us in doing something about it. Because frankly, we haven't seen an ad this disgraceful in quite some time. Amy McGrath, the Marine combat fighter pilot running for Congress in Kentucky has a primary on Tuesday. But her opponent released an ad on Friday night attacking her for not living in Kentucky for much of her life. Why... well, because she was overseas serving our country, fighting in wars. The ad also includes the line, "In fact she moved here from Maryland just last year to run for Congress." Yeah, it's true... because she was teaching at the US Naval Academy in Annapolis. It’s just a shameful ad. And from a Democrat. We want to help her amp up her voter contact in these final 48 hours. What do you say? Rush a $10 donation to Amy McGrath's campaign for Congress right now and send a message to her disgraceful opponent that there is a price to pay for his disgraceful attacks o...

You probably heard the news. Last week, a senior White House official dismissed Senator McCain’s opposition to Trump’s CIA nominee Gina Haspel by saying that “it doesn’t matter” because “he’s dying anyway.” Listen up. Senator McCain spent five-plus years being tortured in Vietnam. He refused early release. If Trump and his administration can spit on HIS service and joke about HIS death, then they send a signal that it is okay to do to ANY veteran. This is a gut-check moment. And we’re helping veterans fight back against this morally bankrupt administration: Make a $10 donation to VoteVets today to help us elevate the voices of veterans willing to stand up and fight back against a Trump administration that has repeatedly shown them nothing but disdain. The slights against veterans are too many to count. The lies about donations, saying avoiding STDs was his own personal Vietnam, the privatizing veterans care, the federal job freeze that disproportionatel...

SUBSCRIBE TO AND SUPPORT VoteVets.org TO RECEIVE PETITIONS DIRECTLY The news is picking up that Donald Trump may nominate former congressman-turned-lobbyist Jeff Miller to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs, so let us be as blunt as can possibly be: Jeff Miller is a non-starter to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs. He is a Koch Brothers courtesan in lockstep with their goal of VA Privatization. It’s not just that Jeff Miller would be the first  non-veteran  to lead the VA. It’s not just that his pre-congressional experience was as a weatherman and a real estate agent. But Jeff Miller is a leading voice for VA privatization, and he is currently a lobbyist for a hedge fund manager trying to build a private veterans’ mental health care system. So we have to ask you to make your voice heard. Sign VoteVets Petition: If Jeff Miller is nominated, we are going to fight like hell to make sure he does not become the next VA Secretary. This nominati...

Buying An Assault Rifle with No Background Check Dan Helmer for Congress Published on Apr 30, 2018 Dan Helmer, Army veteran and candidate for Congress in Virginia's 10th District, was able to walk into a gun show and buy an assault rifle in less time than it takes to buy a cup of coffee. Dan Helmer is a progressive veteran who served in Afghanistan and is running for Congress in a very competitive Virginia congressional district. He also made a big enemy last week: the NRA. Why? Because he filmed an undercover video of himself buying an assault weapon without a background check. It took him 10 minutes. The people selling it laughed as they asked if he was a felon. So now the NRA is trying to tear Dan down. It’s up to us to lift him up. Watch Dan Helmer’s amazing video detailing just how easy it was to buy an assault weapon without a background check and make a $10 donation to his campaign. He needs our help. This race is eminentl...

If Iran is in compliance with the deal, as all indications say they are, then Donald Trump’s decision today is an active violation of a deal we signed. The implications for the United States violating agreements it signed could be disastrous and far-reaching. It puts American security in greater danger, frays our alliances, and sends a message to North Korea, and others, that the word of the United States is not worth the paper it is printed on. Democrats and Republicans alike - even many who opposed the Iran Deal - correctly note that losing our ability to monitor Iran's nuclear program blinds us in the face of great risk to us and to our ally, Israel. At a time of great peril around the world, the multilateral Iran deal is our best hope at keeping a nuclear Iran out of the question. Now, unfortunately, America must rely on its allies to clean up Donald Trump's mess, and keep Iran from restarting its nuclear program. If they can do so, we may be able to avo...

Jon Tester is under attack. He helped stop the nomination of Ronny Jackson to head the VA, and he’s a target because of it. A target of the president’s rage on Twitter and at rallies. A target of deep-pocketed outside spending. And a top target of Republicans in his re-election campaign. VoteVets has his back because as the Democratic leader of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee, he’s had ours. We’re not gonna let him face down millions in attack ads without telling Montanans about the great work he’s done. Help us help Jon Tester: Watch our new ad standing up for Jon Tester and chip in $10 to help us keep it on the air and defending a man who has stood up for veterans throughout his entire career. Republicans are going to fight tooth and nail to keep the Senate, but we’ll be damned if they are going to let Senator Tester’s leadership in the fight to stop Ronny Jackson take him down. Chip in $10 today. Stand with Jon Tester. http://action...

In just a second, I am going to ask you to make a donation to VoteVets. I hope you’ll give me a chance to explain why this request is so important. I started VoteVets more than a decade ago after returning from Iraq because I believed the voices of progressive veterans don't always get the representation we deserve in Congress. And when you think about the candidates we’ve helped elect - Tammy Duckworth, Seth Moulton, Ted Lieu and more - I am so proud of what we’ve accomplished. You donated toward that work,  and I can’t thank you enough for your support.  You’ve made our victories possible. And I can’t thank you enough. But now we have an important election coming up in New Mexico, and we really want to get involved. We have a chance to elect a progressive veteran in this race — one you’re going to love. His name is Damon Martinez, and he was actually fired by Trump while he served as a U.S. Attorney. We want to help him, but we can’t do it alo...

SUBSCRIBE TO AND SUPPORT VOTEVETS.ORG TO SUPPORT OUR VETERANS! Damon Martinez was a hard-charging U.S. Attorney in New Mexico taking on polluters and corruption while in office. No surprise, that’s what you’d expect from a man who enlisted in the Army after 9/11. Then Donald Trump won. It seems he didn’t quite like Damon’s aggressiveness. So Trump fired him. Now Damon is running for Congress in New Mexico. And if he’s elected, he’ll be in a position to hold Trump accountable. His Democratic primary is right around the corner, and this progressive veteran needs our help. Watch our ad supporting Damon Martinez and make a $10 donation to VoteVets today to help us elect a new generation of progressive veterans leading the fight against Donald Trump. This race is winnable. And because it’s a primary in New Mexico, your support will go a very long way. But if we don’t make our voices heard, we’re likely to get just another establishment choice who will be be...

SUBSCRIBE TO AND SUPPORT VoteVets.org to SUPPORT OUR VETERANS! Remember the ad below? It featured an Afghanistan veteran who lost his leg in Iraq, and we ran it right after Trump's election. "You want to be a legitimate president, sir? Then act like one." Well, we just found out that ad won an award for the "Best National Public Affairs Ad of 2017." We share that with you because small-dollar donations to VoteVets paid for it -- the production, the placement... everything. And it was powerful. But most of our ads are. They cut through the clutter because they feature the powerful voices of veterans. That's what we do. But we can't do it alone. Watch our award-winning 30 second ad and make a $10 donation to VoteVets to help us continue to take the fight to Trump in a more powerful and creative way than any other organization this election year. The hallmark of the Trump administration is absolute chaos. It's th...

SUBSRIBE TO & SUPPORT VOTEVETS.ORG  You saw the news. Late last night Donald Trump addressed the nation — surrounded by a dark cloud of investigations and corruption charges — and announced the United States was undertaking further military action in Syria. For years, well before his presidential campaign even began, Donald Trump assailed the Obama administration for intervening in the Syrian civil war, especially without Congressional authorization. His action last night is exactly what he promised the American people he would not do. It is also a clear indication of what many have warned, with the hiring of John Bolton, and nomination of Mike Pompeo to Secretary of State – Donald Trump has assembled a neocon war cabinet. Further, what does it say about a nation who bombs a country, exacerbating a humanitarian nightmare, and then refuses to help the innocent victims looking to flee, often with young children? And finally, we continue to be concerned abo...