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🚨 NEW POLL: Take Care of America's Veterans Act
Veteran Action / @honestpollco finds midterm voters more likely to back a candidate who supports TCAVA by 62% to 11%.
✅ 85% of voters back the Veterans' ACCESS Act.
✅ 83% back the Veterans' Bill of Rights Act.
✅ Support clears 80% on four of the five measures tested.
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Lloyd Austin found time for extremism stand-downs and DEI briefings.
He couldn’t find one day for voting.
@PeteHegseth fixed that.
Hegseth ordered a military voting stand-down day so troops can register, request their ballots, and help their families do the same.
Veteran Action retweeted
Iowa Holds Two of the Country’s Biggest Battleground Races
Veteran Action endorses @millermeeks and @NunnForCongress.
Both served in uniform.
Both champion veteran policy in Congress and deliver for those who served.
Hung Cao's American story:
✅ Vietnamese refugee
✅ Naval Academy graduate
✅ 25 years in Navy special operations
✅ Acting Secretary of the Navy
Tell the Senate to confirm @HungCao_VA as Secretary of the Navy.
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Veteran Action endorses:
DAN S. SULLIVAN (Registered Republican) Incumbent
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BREAKING: NYT reports that operatives with Democratic Alaska U.S. Senate candidate Mary Peltola’s campaign were behind the effort to find & recruit a candidate named Dan Sullivan to run against incumbent GOP Senator Dan S. Sullivan in an effort to confuse voters and peel votes from him.
Specifically, NYT says they have reviewed text messages and documents that reveal in summer 2025, a Peltola staffer received instructions from campaign staffers to find as many people named Dan Sullivan in Alaska as possible.
The staffer complied, going through voter records, and compiled a list. The operation “involved secret trips to far-flung Alaskan communities and the appearance of a mysterious Midwestern operative, who traversed the state using a fake name and made his pitch to would-be candidates over beers at brew pubs.”
Per NYT:
“The plan worked. This spring, a retired teacher from a tiny fishing village along the Alaska Panhandle, reachable only by air and sea, announced his candidacy for Senate. His name was Dan J. Sullivan.”
nytimes.com/2026/10/28/us/po…
The Navy needs battle-tested leadership.
@HungCao_VA served in Iraq and Afghanistan as a Navy special operations officer and now leads the Department of the Navy as acting secretary.
Tell your senators to confirm him.
Take action below.
Veteran Action retweeted
“America saved my life.”
@HungCao_VA escaped communist Vietnam at age four.
He went on to serve 25 years in Navy special operations, with deployments to Iraq, Afghanistan and Somalia.
Tell your senators to confirm him as Secretary of the Navy.
Veteran Action’s new ad urges Americans to tell their senators to confirm @HungCao_VA as Secretary of the Navy.
Read the @BreitbartNews exclusive in the link below.
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Alaska has the highest share of veterans of any state.
Senator Dan Sullivan fights for every one of them.
This is one of the tightest races in the country.
Watch the ad and share it.
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VFW and DAV, if you are confident in your position and facts, I am sure you would want a debate to highlight this important veteran issue before Congress returns for a vote. I hope you will accept the invitation.
Veteran Action Challenges VFW, DAV to Public Debate on the Take Care of America’s Veterans Act
VA MISSION Act architect Darin Selnick will debate any representative the bill’s opponents choose
The Take Care of America’s Veterans Act (TCAVA) combines 62 bipartisan veterans bills, including the Veterans’ ACCESS Act, the Major Richard Star Act and the Love Lives On Act, into a single package. The House is expected to vote on it in early November, after the midterm elections.
Ahead of that vote, a social media campaign by people affiliated with the Veterans of Foreign Wars and Disabled American Veterans is telling veterans the bill takes away the benefits they receive now. Both organizations oppose the bill, warning that it reduces benefits for future disabled veterans. A public debate puts the facts in front of veterans before Congress decides.
Veteran Action is challenging the VFW and DAV to that debate. Darin Selnick, a Veteran Action senior adviser and the architect of the VA MISSION Act of 2018, represents Veteran Action. Each opponent may choose its own representative.
The opponents’ claims do not match the bill. Section 108 updates VA’s rating criteria for sleep apnea and tinnitus on future claims and leaves existing ratings in place. Yet the VFW and DAV are using Section 108 to intimidate lawmakers. VFW social media ads show veterans facing a firing squad of men in suits.
“The VFW and DAV have been caught blatantly lying about key facts of TCAVA, often in private meetings with lawmakers,” says Selnick. “If they believe the bill harms veterans, they can make that case in the open, across a table from me, with veterans watching. I will debate anyone they send.”
The terms are simple. The opponents pick their debaters. Veteran Action accepts any neutral moderator and any venue, on air or in person. The debate takes place before Congress votes on the bill. If the opponents decline, Selnick debates an empty chair and goes through the key elements of the bill one by one.
Selnick is an Air Force veteran. He served as veterans affairs adviser on the White House Domestic Policy Council and as senior adviser to two VA secretaries.
“Nobody understands veteran health care better than Darin Selnick,” says Mark Lucas, founder of Veteran Action. “He was the key architect behind the VA MISSION Act of 2018. We name our debater. The VFW and DAV can name theirs.”
About Veteran Action
Veteran Action is an organization that advocates for America First policies that strengthen national security and provide unwavering support for America’s veterans.
Veteran Action Challenges VFW, DAV to Public Debate on the Take Care of America’s Veterans Act
VA MISSION Act architect Darin Selnick will debate any representative the bill’s opponents choose
The Take Care of America’s Veterans Act (TCAVA) combines 62 bipartisan veterans bills, including the Veterans’ ACCESS Act, the Major Richard Star Act and the Love Lives On Act, into a single package. The House is expected to vote on it in early November, after the midterm elections.
Ahead of that vote, a social media campaign by people affiliated with the Veterans of Foreign Wars and Disabled American Veterans is telling veterans the bill takes away the benefits they receive now. Both organizations oppose the bill, warning that it reduces benefits for future disabled veterans. A public debate puts the facts in front of veterans before Congress decides.
Veteran Action is challenging the VFW and DAV to that debate. Darin Selnick, a Veteran Action senior adviser and the architect of the VA MISSION Act of 2018, represents Veteran Action. Each opponent may choose its own representative.
The opponents’ claims do not match the bill. Section 108 updates VA’s rating criteria for sleep apnea and tinnitus on future claims and leaves existing ratings in place. Yet the VFW and DAV are using Section 108 to intimidate lawmakers. VFW social media ads show veterans facing a firing squad of men in suits.
“The VFW and DAV have been caught blatantly lying about key facts of TCAVA, often in private meetings with lawmakers,” says Selnick. “If they believe the bill harms veterans, they can make that case in the open, across a table from me, with veterans watching. I will debate anyone they send.”
The terms are simple. The opponents pick their debaters. Veteran Action accepts any neutral moderator and any venue, on air or in person. The debate takes place before Congress votes on the bill. If the opponents decline, Selnick debates an empty chair and goes through the key elements of the bill one by one.
Selnick is an Air Force veteran. He served as veterans affairs adviser on the White House Domestic Policy Council and as senior adviser to two VA secretaries.
“Nobody understands veteran health care better than Darin Selnick,” says Mark Lucas, founder of Veteran Action. “He was the key architect behind the VA MISSION Act of 2018. We name our debater. The VFW and DAV can name theirs.”
About Veteran Action
Veteran Action is an organization that advocates for America First policies that strengthen national security and provide unwavering support for America’s veterans.
Veteran Action retweeted
Secretary Pete Hegseth is doing an incredible job encouraging service members to vote.
He’s created a Military Voting Stand Down Day that requires commanders to help troops and their families register and get educated on the process.
I joined @EagleEdMartin to detail what Hegseth has done to promote our elections!
Veteran Action retweeted
🚨 Homeland Security official Heather Honey joins @MarkLucasUSA on PROTECTING THE MILITARY VOTE!
Most "military ballots" are not military ballots.
States send more than 1.3 million military and overseas ballots in 2024.
7 in 10 go to civilians overseas.
Secretary Hegseth orders a voting stand-down day so every service member has the time to vote.
Pete Hegseth orders a military voting stand-down day no later than October 15.
Servicemembers get on-duty time to register and vote.
@MarkLucasUSA: "If anybody's voice should be heard, it is that of the men and women who are willing to die for this country."
Former Navy SEAL Sen. Tim Sheehy cosponsors the Take Care of America's Veterans Act to improve veterans' care and benefits.
"I think it will go down as landmark legislation for our veteran community."
On the Senate Armed Services Committee, @TimSheehyMT is also pushing to confirm Hung Cao as Secretary of the Navy.
"For me, it's critical we get @HungCao_VA confirmed."
Veteran Action retweeted
My latest in @townhallcom:
The Pentagon Neglected Its Own Voters. Hegseth Is Correcting It.
townhall.com/columnists/mark…
Veteran Action Endorses Sen. Dan Sullivan, Launches Video Campaign on His Record for Veterans
Veteran Action endorses U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) for reelection and launches a new video campaign spotlighting his work on behalf of America's veterans. Sullivan served 30 years in the Marine Corps, including recalls to active duty, and retired as a colonel.
"Veteran Action endorses Dan Sullivan because he leads from the front on veterans policy," said Mark Lucas, founder and president of Veteran Action. "As a Marine, he never stopped serving."
Sullivan cosponsors the Veterans' ACCESS Act, which guarantees veterans can see a community care provider when the VA cannot deliver timely care. He also cosponsors the Veterans' Bill of Rights Act, which requires the Department of Veterans Affairs to clearly inform veterans of their rights to care, benefits, dignity and informed consent.
Voters in both parties back these bills. A national Honest Poll survey of 1,633 registered voters, commissioned by Veteran Action, finds 85% of voters support the Veterans' ACCESS Act and 83% support the Veterans' Bill of Rights Act. Support tops 80% among both Republicans and Democrats for each bill. Among veterans and service members, support reaches 86% for the ACCESS Act and 88% for the Bill of Rights Act.
The video urges viewers to call Sullivan's office at 202-224-3004 and thank him for his work for veterans.
About Veteran Action
Veteran Action is an organization that advocates for America First policies that strengthen national security and provide unwavering support for America's veterans.