In The News Archive
Trump's Standard Conservative Playbook
By Jon Soltz · Huffington Post ·Lesson: In the Republican Party, attacking someone's service can be acceptable, if you do it to win a race.
Retired Admirals Torpedo President Trump
By Tim Mak · Daily Beast ·Jon Soltz, a veteran and founder of the progressive group VoteVets, said he approached Trump at a fundraiser in 2007, asking the businessman if he would like to help Afghanistan and Iraq vets get elected.
Vets activists gearing up for 2016 fight
By Leo Shane · Military Times ·On the other is VoteVets.org, the left-leaning political activist group that has accused Republicans of working to privatize veterans health care regardless of the dire consequences.
Well-funded vets groups prepare for 2016 battle
By Austin Wright · Politico ·The meeting took place on a recent evening at the Capitol Hill restaurant Bullfeathers, where Soltz and the lawmakers, all veterans, plotted how to elect more Democratic military veterans to Congress.
Rand Paul's Bet Might Be Right
By Jon Soltz · Huffington Post ·It doesn't take a military genius to understand that invading Iraq and overthrowing Saddam Hussein led to an Iraqi government in which Sunnis feel like second-class citizens, and created a power vacuum that ISIS has now partially filled on their behalf.
Oregon veteran on a mission to save outdoor spaces
By Kyle Spurr · Associated Press ·On days when his Army uniform was saturated in sweat from the nearly 120-degree temperature in Iraq, Matthew Zedwick would reminisce about the times he spent hiking, camping and fishing with his family back in Oregon.
VoteVets gets into the 2016 race early
By Martin Matishak · The Hill ·The progressive group VoteVets is promising to play in 2016 Democratic primaries in an effort to put more veterans in Congress.
Dems enlist vets in battle for Senate
By Martin Matishak · The Hill ·“What you’re really seeing is a maturation of Iraq veteran candidates up to the Senate level. You saw that on the Republican side last cycle,” said Jon Soltz, the co-founder of VoteVets.org who served in Iraq as an Army captain.
Duckworth’s bid for Kirk’s US Senate seat in Illinois promises costly battle
By Katherine Skiba · The Southern ·On Monday, VoteVets, a political action committee that says it has 400,000 supporters, endorsed Duckworth and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., and sent out a fundraising appeal on Duckworth’s behalf.
Senator Behind Iran Letter Is Latest Freshman Republican to Stir Things Up
New York Times ·The idea of engaging directly with foreign entities on foreign policy is frankly a gross breach of discipline,” said Maj. Gen. Paul D. Eaton, who is retired and a senior adviser to VoteVets, a liberal political action committee consisting of veterans.