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11 Nov, 6 tweets, 2 min read
With all due respect Senator, if you wanted to thank us for our service you would protect our voting rights. Yet, you won’t even make time to meet with disabled AZ vets and your staff have been downright disrespectful. Take for instance our last interaction with your office.1/4
Our team brought over a dozen AZ vets to meet with your staff about voting rights. Your staff was silent the entire call and while disabled vets were sharing their concerns about anti-voting laws, the call suddenly ended. Then ignored our efforts to follow up about next steps.2/4
This is just one of many cases of disrespect shown towards AZ veterans by you and your office. That’s why, after months of being ignored and used as props, five members of your veterans advisory council felt they had no choice but to resign. 3/4
This #VeteransDay, we want you to remember that we didn’t serve our country to be used as window dressing for politicians. In AZ and across the nation, disabled veterans are relying on you to pass the #FreedomToVoteAct. A picture and a thank you won't cut it anymore. 4/4
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Our actions are made possible through grassroots donors like you. Will you join us and support our work today?

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7 Sep 20
.@commondefense was founded in 2016 by Veterans whose protests at Trump Tower forced Trump to cough up the money he lied about donating to Vet charities.

Since then, we’ve led the #VetsAgainstTrump movement, helping win impeachment and speaking out daily against his crimes.
In 2016, people thought Trump couldn’t win, but we saw the danger. We saw what was appealing about his message within parts of the Veteran community, even though Trump is a fraud.

Back then, Veterans were not well organized to grapple with our frustration with the status quo.
We got to work within our own community, organizing #VetsAgainstTrump since nobody else would.

Veterans are tired of war, so we got to work building consensus in @TheDemocrats to #EndForeverWar.

7 presidential candidates signed our pledge, @BernieSanders & @ewarren leading.
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9 May 19
BREAKING: Common Defense surveyed our 125,000 members to see how politically engaged progressive military veterans are feeling about the 2020 primary.

Here’s what we found:

1) @BernieSanders 29.1% (up 5.1% from Jan)

2) @ewarren 20.7% (up 10.7% !!)

3) @JoeBiden 18.2% (up 0.2%)
4) @PeteButtigieg 8.5% (new to our survey)

5) @KamalaHarris 6.2% (down 1.8% from January)

6) @JayInslee 1.6% (new to our survey)

7) @TulsiGabbard 1.6% (up 0.6%)

8) @BetoORourke 1.4% (down 12.1% !!!!!)

9) @CoryBooker 1.1% (down 0.9%)

All other candidates got <1%
In our survey, we asked Common Defense veterans and military families to tell us why they support their top choice of candidate.

The responses were remarkably consistent!

Here are a few representative examples:
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14 Jan 19
We polled our members about 2020.

Among Veterans only, here were the top picks:

1. @BernieSanders 22.5%
2. @JoeBiden 18%
3. @BetoORourke 13%
4. @ewarren 9.5%
5. @KamalaHarris 6.5%
6. @amyklobuchar 4%
7. @SherrodBrown 3%
8. @CoryBooker 2%
9. @TulsiGabbard 2%
For context, we asked respondents to self-report who they voted for in the 2016 Democratic primary.

Among veterans:

1. @BernieSanders 49%
2. @HillaryClinton 44%
3. Didn't Vote 5.5%
4. Other 1.5%
Among only veterans who voted for @BernieSanders in 2016, the top four preferences for 2020 are:

1. @BernieSanders 42%
2. @ewarren 10%
3. @BetoORourke 10%
4. @JoeBiden 8%
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1 Sep 18
Under Trump and his new hand-picked VA Secretary, instead of fixing the @DeptVetAffairs, they’re bleeding it dry.

The number of unfilled jobs has gone up by 12,000 since last report.

They sabotage the VA, so service suffers. Then they say “Service sucks! Privatize!”
A few greedy billionaires in Mar-a-Lago are trying to destroy the VA so they can profit off us.

But what’s happening with veterans isn’t isolated. It’s happpening in public education, where @BetsyDeVos undermines our public schools, then uses the sabotage as a pretext for cuts.
It’s happening in the military, where corporate interests, empowered by a revolving door of senior officials, siphon more and more “Defense” money into expensive boondoggles so they can make more profits.

The troops get less for training, basic gear. They need sleep not gizmos.
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Fun Fact: one of the disbursements Trump made in an Iowa was to a supposed “Veteran Service dog” charity, which has only ever given a dog to Sarah Palin, and which is run by a GOP political operative with a felony conviction for charity fraud.

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Following #VetsVsHate holding a protest outside of Trump Tower in May 2016, calling out @realDonaldTrump for using Veterans as props for racism and bigotry while lying about having donated to Veteran charities, Trump was forced to donate the missing money. /2
Trump held a press conference in Trump Tower where (along with commenting on Harambe the gorilla, calling a journalist a “sleeze,” and attacking the Veterans protesting outside) he announced where he’d donated the missing money.

$100k went to the “Puppy Jake Foundation.” 3/
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Let’s talk about the Iran Deal, and why it’s viewed so differently than the negotiations with North Korea. 1/
Let’s start with some facts: the Iran nuclear deal, formally known as the JCPOA, was the gold standard for arms control. There were basically no experts who thought the USA should break the deal, and not a single other country in the world who joined us in doing so. 2/
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-Iran had to give up 100% (you read that right) of the fissile material it had that was usable for making nuclear weapons. So even if Iran broke the deal, they’d be starting from scratch. 3/
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