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We are launching a billboard ad campaign across NC later in March with two simple messages!:
-Support our NATO allies
-Spend money on veteran’s healthcare at home instead of on the war in Iran
Could you please chip in today to help grow this campaign?: secure.everyaction.com/tdDFp…
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A few images of Trump world being totally normal and not at all weird. 🧵
First, a collection of people who totally aren’t Batman villains:
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Want to see someone who actually took a bullet for democracy?
It’s hard not to be inspired by @GabbyGiffords.
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General John Kelly dedicated over 42 years of honorable service to this country. His son gave his life in defense of our nation.
Trump just called him a 'LOWLIFE'.
To Trump, service and sacrifice mean nothing.
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Here’s Tim Walz coaching football.
Do you notice what shirt he’s wearing?
It’s Mission 22 - a great organization with the great mission of preventing veteran suicide.
He walks the walk.
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11 million men, women, and children were murdered by the Nazis during the Holocaust. U.S. soldiers called the death camps ‘places of horror.’
And Trump said he wants ‘the kind of generals that Hitler had.’
Let that sink in...
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We know what you are, @realDonaldTrump. And we’re coming for you.
@ProjectLincoln
Former U.S Navy Seal Dr. Dan Barkhuff wants to know if @realDonaldTrump is a coward who can't stand up to Putin or if he's complicit.
Well, Donald, which is it?
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*TRUMP DOESN'T WANT TO WIN THE ELECTION*
Trump is going to:
Coachella in LA County, California (Oct 12)
Madison Square Garden in New York (Oct 27)
The election? November 5
None of it makes sense, until you think about it the way he does.
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Vanessa Guillén deserved so much more in life than what was taken from her.
She deserved so much more in death than Trump as her Commander-in-Chief:
“It doesn’t cost 60,000 bucks to bury a fucking Mexican!” [Trump] turned to his chief of staff, Mark Meadows: “Don’t pay it!”
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For Trump, that’s enough.
#TrumpDishonorsUS
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Remember when Trump walked away from awarding the Presidential Medal of Freedom?
He thinks even less of Medal of Honor awardees than this.
KevinlyFather 🇺🇲🇨🇦🇲🇼🇸🇿
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Nothing is sacred to Trump.
Not Arlington.
Not the Medal of Honor.
Not tortured POWs.
Not Gold Star families.
If you value service AT ALL, you cannot honorably support this guy.
From NPR’s @QuilLawrence: Arlington National Cemetery officials say Trump campaign staff verbally abused and pushed aside cemetery official who objected to filming and photography at gravesites
More below and to follow on NPR
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Listen to Peter, a veteran of three wars, when he says he’s #notasucker.
#TrumpDishonorsUS
#TrumpIsUnfit
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We’re with you Gus.
I don't cry easily, but as the dad of a teenage son with autism, ADHD & anxiety issues, watching Tim Walz's 17-year-old son(who has a non-verbal learning disorder, ADHD & anxiety disorder)standing up, crying & pointing to the stage telling everyone "that's my dad" just gutted me
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Carl was drafted into Vietnam.
He honorably served.
Donald Trump dodged the same draft.
Dishonorably.
Trump thinks Carl’s a sucker and his uncle buried in Normandy is a loser.
If you think Trump’s wrong, share this video.
#notasucker #TrumpDishonorsUS #TrumpisUnfit
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For shame, @NavalAcademy.
You have failed your stated mission:
“To develop Midshipmen morally… and to imbue them with the highest ideals of duty, honor and loyalty in order to graduate leaders… to assume the highest responsibilities of command, citizenship and government”
Naval Academy disinvites historian @ruthbenghiat from a history department lecture under pressure from the Heritage Foundation--founders of Project 2025.
Intended lecture was what happens to militaries under authoritarian rule through history
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This country owes the memory of John McCain better than electing Trump again.
He was and remains a hero.
God rest his soul.
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This isn’t an apology.
What’s so hard about apologizing for insulting the Medal of Honor?
Headquarters
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This article from @bostonherald w/ comment from @MNNationalGuard shows that @Tim_Walz did his duty & has a right to say he retired as a Command Sergeant Major.
Everyone who posted a claim or video about him dodging service owes him a profound apology. bostonherald.com/2024/08/12/…
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This is a disgraceful message. There was a soldier that I served with in the army that later was killed in Mosul, Iraq that said the reason he joined the military was because he believed that it was the greatest force for good that the world has ever known. He said the military not only taught its soldiers to be lethal but it also taught us to be compassionate and empathetic and care about not only the American people but also freedom loving and seeking people from all over the globe. This is the true warrior ethos that so many of us veterans know and love. I’m thinking about him a lot tonight and will be damned if sons of bitches like Trump and Hegseth will transform our great military into something resembling the Russians. His memory and service must not be in vein.
Hegseth: "A few months ago I was at the White House when President Trump announced his liberation day for America's trade policy. It was a landmark day. Well, today is another liberation day. The liberation of America's warriors ... you kill people and break things for a living."
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Thoughts on the Trump team assaulting Arlington National Cemetery staff yesterday for a photo op.
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So, @USAA, is this who you advertise with?
Asking for 18 million friends.
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Trump supporters are throwing Medal of Honor winners under the bus.
No service to America is sufficient. Only fealty to their despot god.
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Third, the gear that wear to show that they’re totally normal and their opinions are serious.
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A thread on honesty, lies, & Laken Riley.
Last month, a 22yo nursing student was on a run at the University of Georgia. Laken Riley was an innocent woman that was killed by blunt trauma. The man arrested is a Venezuelan in the U.S. illegally and has been charged with murder.
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Sam served in the Army.
Sam is a Republican.
Sam is #notasucker
Sam’s friends weren’t losers.
Sam won’t be voting for Trump.
#TrumpDishonorsUS
#TrumpIsUnfit
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And get ready for what we all know he'll do.
Vote so hard that your will cannot be ignored.
And be ready to protest - non-violently - when he does what he's done before and will do again.
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REPOST TO GET THE WORD OUT
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These people can't vote in other states, so he's not there trying to win their vote.
He's trying to rile them up. To make them angry.
And there's a history here that most people might not appreciate.
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Black Lives Matter in America’s military, and beyond. Donald Trump is a racist coward with a long history of prejudice against African Americans, most recently manifesting in his response to the BLM movement and fails to denounce hate groups. It’s time to Vote him out!
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As a reminder, @JackPosobiec lost his security clearance and was drummed out of the Navy Reserve. He shares foreign propaganda. He has advocated for the overthrow of American democracy at @CPAC.
This is who slanders @Tim_Walz and his service.
Who are you going to stand with?
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Do you think the Medal of Honor should be held in high reverence?
Trump thinks it’s secondary to the medal he gives his billionaire funders.
He doesn’t care about our military or their sacrifices.
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The disgusting gall to stand under a sign about justice and defend using paramilitary units to arrest Americans without Miranda rights
And to describe them as being in uniform.
You chose this language @DHS_Wolf to use our service in defense of tyranny.
Fuck. Off.
Fascist.
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This is the person who is running the Trump campaign.
He paid a $300k fine for lying about John Kerry’s service.
He’s doing it again.
Is your service something you’d like him to talk about?
Swift Boat Veterans For Truth were never disproven
Community note
Veterans who served alongside Kerry or under his command disputed the criticisms and supported Kerry's version of events.
John McCain called the ad "dishonest and dishonorable" and urged the White House to condemn it.
The FEC fined Swift Boat Veterans for Truth.
washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/article…
www2.ljworld.com/news/2004/jul/…
sfgate.com/politics/artic…
npr.org/2006/12/14/662…
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Donald Trump has shown time and again he neither respects military service nor can be trusted to lead our armed forces.
Only suckers would vote for someone like that.
We are #notasucker
#TrumpDishonorsUS
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Shame on the @smithsonian . Absolutely pathetic.
When a history museum rewrites history to appease the president, it stops being a museum and starts being state propaganda. Straight-up Orwellian.
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The MAGA movement was born in California, as GOP radicals became increasingly extreme in their relative isolation.
A few MAGAs leaders from California:
Stephen Miller
Tucker Carlson
Steve Bannon
Andrew Breitbart
It's also where fervency can be found in the rank & file...
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Trump is poised to lose the 2024 election. But let’s be clear: this won’t be the end of his campaign. He and his allies will once again attempt to overturn the results, just like in 2020.
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If you’re ready for these people to be in charge again with #Project2025 to guide them, make sure to vote!
Or… if you’re ready to move ahead and not back, volunteer now. You know who for.
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And for Riley’s sake, let’s actually work on the problem and stop letting clowns abuse her memory.
May God grant her and her family peace.
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Only a putz would think that retiring after 24 years of honorable service is “dodging a deployment”.
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Paging @jaketapper
Trump: "When you go to a voting booth... they asked me for my license plate, right? I said, I don't know if I have. And they said, sure, you have to have it. Oh, it's a very impressive actually."
His brain is mush.
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We know Trump encourages political violence.
Evidence provided by the special prosecutor for the Jan 6th trial showed that Trump knew about and encouraged violence.
He is running, in part, to avoid the consequence of this crime.
He will be violent again to avoid jail.
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The Trump campaign told @NBCNews that the Madison Square Garden event is a rally to "kickoff an arena tour ... of battleground states." msn.com/en-us/news/politics/…
His staff is obviously lying.
New York & California are not battlegrounds.
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...he is not focusing his efforts on swing states because he knows he can't win the ethical or legal way.
And we haven't held him responsible for the crimes he commits in public.
Demand of your elected leaders, regardless of party, that they renounce political violence.
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The president has failed to execute the duties of his office & has no demonstrated ability or interest in defending the Constitution. He's a coward & unfit to be commander in chief.
My name is LtCol Guy W. Ravey, USMC(ret) & I approve this message.
@ProjectLincoln @votevets
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Today at the #handsoff rally in Raleigh, NC. This is what democracy looks like.
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It’s impossible to describe how small a man must be to diminish a 24-year career of honorable service so he can suck up to the slimiest coward in the country.
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Trump is barely winning a historically deep Republican voting bloc. Veterans are fleeing MAGA because they know Trump hates real service.
This data was also collected pre-Trump's team using Arlington as a political prop...
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“…no recipient of the Presidential Medal will ever be asked to give life or limb to protect the Constitution. The two awards cannot be compared in any way. Not even close.”
- John Kelly, Trump Chief of Staff, Marine General, & Gold Star father about Trump & the Medal of Honor
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... as the @ADL published a report *last year* about the rising levels of extremism in California.
Report here: adl.org/sites/default/files/…
Trump wants to give the extremists a reason to fight.
Not with ballots, but with fists.
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We all know what @realDonaldTrump is. Always have.
That's why no one was surprised about @TheAtlantic article.
That's why no one in uniform has come to his defense.
That's why the military community won't vote for him.
If you want to join us, visit VFRL.org/join
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Glad at least one media outlet actually read the poll:
thetimes.com/world/us-world/…
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Trump is a racist and a coward.
He is unfit lead to our troops, Black or otherwise.
We’ve been saying that for years.
Kudos to the @NABJ for reminding all Americans at how unqualified he is.
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What about New York?
The other side of the MAGA leadership, when you include "blue" New Jersey (1.52M GOP) & Connecticut (497k GOP).
MAGA leaders from the area:
Donald Trump
Rudy Giuliani
Kellyanne Conway
We all know what happens when you fire up ideologues...
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She lied to you. Straight to your face.
While pretending to care and wearing a crucifix around her neck.
And she’ll lie again to save face and keep the lie going.
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Below is the exact text of the agreement Trump signed with the Taliban on February 29, 2020 (Trump's U.S. peace envoy Zalmay Khalilzad on the left)
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If this video makes you uncomfortable, think about it for a bit.
#TrumpDishonorsUS
The Vaxx Effect
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But it’s also true that immigrants commit significantly *fewer* violent crimes than native born Americans.
And those here illegally are the least violent as a group.
Statistically, allowing *more* immigration would *lower* the crime rate.
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So what is really going on?
While these states are proportionally very blue, in terms of raw numbers:
California has the greatest number of registered Republican voters (5.25M) in the U.S.
New York is fourth (2.84M).
To talk to a lot of Republicans, this is where to go.
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Trump not only violated the sanctity of Arlington, but he violated the official cemetery conduct.
Below is the official conduct for national military cemeteries.
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location update on the @VetsForRL and @ProjectLincoln DC Mobile billboard.
It was just at 3rd St NW, in front of the Capital Building
If you spot it be sure to take a pic 📷 and share with hashtag #trumpbillboard
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So Trump’s farewell song is apparently “YMCA”.
Sorry Village People. You deserved better.
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You can see the pledge we were asking them to sign here.
95% of American veterans support it in polling.
It's something every American can and must get behind.
But Trump?....
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We've been standing the watch, along with our allies in @commondefense.
We presented to the @NCGOP at their convention & led by Lara Trump, that they must uphold the will of the voters and renounce political violence.
We were thrown out.
nitter.app/VetsForRL/status/17947…
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On this Memorial Day Weekend, @VetsForRL & @commondefense went to the @NCGOP Convention to secure a pledge from its leaders & @realDonaldTrump to "renounce violence and implicit threats of violence" during the 2024 campaign.
Here’s what happened:
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Adam Kinzinger is speaking tonight.
Everyone should take a moment to appreciate the moral courage he is exhibiting. It’s rarer than physical courage.
Thank you @AdamKinzinger.
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@SenKatieBritt’s embarrassment of a SOTU response being only the most recent example, where she told the story of a child that was sex-trafficked and made it seem like it was in the U.S., when it was in Mexico and the woman found SAFETY in the U.S.
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Our thoughts on the @NavalAcademy canceling @ruthbenghiat’s presentation based upon pressure from @Heritage, @RepKeithSelf, @RepMikeGarcia, @RepLaLota, & @JenKiggans.
All of them have lost the thread of decency and their oaths to the Constitution.
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These are complex issues with life & death consequences & need people with intelligence & morals to make wise decisions.
There’s no perfect answer.
But another thing is true - the people who shout about Laken Riley aren’t really interested in her, her family, or the problem
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You'll see media claiming because he wants to engage latinos, or that he owes California, or because he's lazy, or that his ego wants to play big arenas.
The media isn't thinking about it correctly and, unfortunately, continues to treat his campaign as normal and honest.
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New York & California are massively blue states.
Trump lost both states by 23+ percentage points in 2020.
No poll of *any* repute has him close in either state this year.
He will lose both states in 2024.
Why is he going, especially with other states so close?
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The Good Liars
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If they cared, they’d work on the problem. They’d pass laws and find compromise.
And they’d stop waving Laken’s name around like a cheap rag instead of the tragedy she is.
But they have an election to win for the worst of us… so they lie.
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Trump will destroy the U.S. military.
Why? The military, as an organization, would never do this.
But extremists like the criminal Flynn would.
And it would destroy the chain of command.
Make Lying Wrong Again
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