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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 ...
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...
‘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. ...
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...
Veterans Know, Trust, and Need Vote by Mail, Analysis From CAP and VoteVets Finds
By Sam Hananel · Center for American Progress ·U.S. military veterans are in a unique position to vouch for the reliability of voting by mail; after all, since the Revolutionary War, troops stationed away from home have used some form of absentee voting to make their voices heard whi...
Trump’s Actions Rattle the Military World: ‘I Can’t Support the Man’
By Jennifer Steinhauer · New York Times ·The president’s threat to use troops against largely peaceful protesters, as well as other attempts to politicize the military, have unsettled a number of current and former members and their families. Erin Fangmann grew up in a mi...
Aggressive Tactics by National Guard, Ordered to Appease Trump, Wounded the Military, Too
By Thomas Gibbons-Neff, Eric Schmitt and Helene Cooper · New York Times ·WASHINGTON — A white National Guard commander called the standoff in Lafayette Square “the Alamo,” implying that the White House was under siege. Black members of the D.C. Guard objected to turning on their neighbors. A...
Progressive Group VoteVets Makes $270,000 Ad Buy for Gina Ortiz Jones — Its First of the Election
By Sanford Nowlin · San Antonio Current ·VoteVets PAC has snapped up $270,000 in TV advertising to support Gina Ortiz Jones, the Democrat running to represent a swing congressional district that includes San Antonio and a massive swath of South Texas.The spots, which will run i...
Navy Secretary Orders Deeper Inquiry Into Virus-Stricken Ship
By Eric Schmitt and Helene Cooper · New York Times ·The investigation delays a decision on whether to reinstate the captain of the aircraft carrier Roosevelt, Brett E. Crozier, who has assumed the role of an unlikely hero. WASHINGTON — The acting secretary of the Navy on ...
Endorsement: Janessa Goldbeck for the 53rd Congressional District
By Editorial Board · San Diego Union-Tribune ·Retiring 10-term Rep. Susan Davis’ service in the 53rd Congressional District — which includes western El Cajon, eastern Chula Vista and central and eastern San Diego — will be remembered for her longtime military suppo...