Gold Star dad blames Trump for son's death in ad ahead of convention speech
By Zack Budryk · The Hill ·The left-leaning veterans group VoteVets released a “pre-buttal” to President Trump’s Republican National Convention address Thursday evening, featuring the father of the first service member to die in combat ...
'‘Don’t Trust Trump With Your Kid’s Life’ Says Gold Star Dad of Navy SEAL Who Was First to Die Under President
By David Badash · The New Civil Rights Movement ·Bill Owens, a Gold Star father whose son, Navy SEAL William Ryan Owens was the first soldier to die in combat under President Donald Trump, is blasting the Commander-in-Chief on a wide variety of issues, including ordering – from a...
VOTEVETS CONDEMNS NRCC FOR VILE AND DISGUSTING HOMOPHOBIC ATTACKS ON TX-23 CANDIDATE, GINA ORTIZ JONES
WASHINGTON D.C.—Will Goodwin, Army Veteran and Director of Government Relations for VoteVets, released the following statement on the NRCC’s desperate and homophobic attacks on Gina Ortiz Jones: “The NRCC attacki...
Veterans Group Taunts Donald Trump For ‘Finally’ Going To War... With The Postal Service
By Lee Moran · HuffPost ·“This is just a warmup for the fall,” warns the narrator in the latest ad from progressive PAC VoteVets. President Donald Trump’s ongoing assault on the U.S. Postal Service is coming under fire in a new attack ad ...
Open Letter From 28 Gold Star Families On The Four Year Anniversary Of Khizr And Ghazala Khan's 2016 DNC Speech
To Our Fellow Americans: Four years ago today, Khizr and Ghazala Khan stood on the main stage at the Democratic National Convention to speak as the parents of a slain American soldier—Army Captain Humayan Khan. Before tens of thou...
Father of fallen SEAL: 'Don't trust Donald Trump with your kid's life'
By Steve Benen · MSNBC ·Three years later, fallen Navy SEAL Ryan Owens' father is still furious with how Trump handled his son's mission, and he's telling the nation in a new ad. There's been plenty of presidential campaign advertising of late, but the Washingt...
VoteVets Endorses Perkins For Senate
The largest progressive group of veterans in America, VoteVets PAC, is today endorsing Army veteran Adrian Perkins to be the next US Senator from Louisiana. “In these unprecedented times we need leaders and visionaries...
Veterans Group Condemns Trump After Mask 'Photo-Op' at Walter Reed Military Hospital
By Meghan Roos · Newsweek ·A progressive veterans group on Sunday shared a video on its social media pages that criticized President Donald Trump during his recent visit to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. VoteVets called the pre...
Liberal veterans group urges Biden to name Duckworth VP
By Zack Budryk · The Hill ·VoteVets, a left-leaning political action committee that works to elect veterans, called on presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden to name Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) as his vice presidential can...
‘Benedict Donald’: New ad from veterans’ group compares Trump to America’s greatest traitor over Russia bounties
By James Crump · The Independent ·Veterans’ group VoteVets has released a new attack ad that criticises president Donald Trump over reports that he was briefed about Russia putting bounties on American military personnel in Afghanistan and failed to act. ...