Earlier this week, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee held a hearing, and released a report attacking the Biden administration on Afghanistan. There were some obvious flaws in their report that we think are worth fact checking.

Part 1 🧵 The Senate Republicans’ report is riddled with false claims, inaccurate characterizations, and outdated info
foreign.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/…

January 6th: How the GOP orchestrated an insurrection against American Democracy

#VetsForDemocracy #StopTheCoup

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

https://twitter.com/SenatorSinema/status/1458818045539807237

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

.@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.

https://twitter.com/ForecasterEnten/status/1302995388383797248

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.

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%

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%

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!”

https://twitter.com/David_Philipps/status/1035687382555623424

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.

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.

ag.ny.gov/press-release/… 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

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/

New from @ProPublica, some of the most violent and extreme white supremacist hate groups include active duty military troops, and actively recruit veterans. /1
propublica.org/article/atomwa… Reminder, when @MilitaryTimes did a scientific poll of troops, 1-in-4 said they know a white nationalist serving alongside them in uniform, and 1-in-20 openly responded to the poll with white supremacist statements. 2/

THREAD: It’s clear that Trump doesn’t actually care about having an effective military, or keeping us safe, his priority is white nationalist purges. #VetsVsHate Yesterday, the White House shared a video of President Trump once again using the military community as props to advance his bigoted and un-American agenda.

As Veterans Day approaches, we're proud to join with frontline LGBT membership and legal organizations to #HonorTransTroops Over the next hour, we'll be hosting a nonpartisan twitter chat to answer questions about the #TransBan and the work of our organizations.

BREAKING: @MilitaryTimes has just released a scientific poll of U.S. military troops. The things it found are game-changing. 1/ A majority of troops say White Nationalism is a national security threat. They say it's more dangerous than Iraq, Syria, or Afghanistan. 2/

THREAD: It's shocking that Trump still hasn't contacted the families of the 4 troops killed in #Niger, but that's just half the story. 1/ Calling the families of fallen troops is, after all, the absolutely lowest bar. Trump fails even that, which tells us something important 2/