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If You’re Progressive or Muslim, Don’t Waste Your Vote on Jill Stein
(OpEd) Naveed Shah | U.S. News and World Report
Here’s the hard truth: the implications of voting for a third-party candidate are the same as voting for Trump. As a veteran, a Muslim American and a proud progressive, I’m voting for Kamala Harris, because any other choice would be devastating for instability at home and abroad.

Why I’m voting and you should, too
(OpEd) Assistant VA Secretary Kayla M. Williams | The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Elections aren’t like hopping on your smartphone and ordering an Uber or a Lyft to whatever destination you choose. They’re like going to a subway station and deciding which train to get on: You can only go one way or the other, so pick which one is best (or least bad) for you.

Military voters see ‘direct attack’ from GOP election challenges
(Interview) Secretary Louis Caldera | The Hill
Republicans are coming under fire from veterans and military groups for attempting to restrict the votes of overseas service members through a series of lawsuits in battleground states.

Major General Randy Manner on disaster response under Trump
(Interview) Major General Randy Manner | Matenaer on Air
Retired Major General and former acting Vice-Chief of the National Guard Bureau Randy Manner discusses the potential dire consequences to disaster victims if Trump’s Project 2025 privatization plans come to pass.

What We Hold Dear Is Not Entertainment
(OpEd) Lieutenant General Charles D. Luckey, USA, (Ret) | The Pilot (Southern Pines, NC)
Entertainment is a wonderful thing, but when it comes to sustainable self-governance, education, charity, civility and critical thinking are essential. Democracy - the long hard slog of working together to build "a more perfect union" and to shape a better future for those who will come after us — is, after all, a labor of love.

UPFRONT: Jan. 6 three years later
(Video) Rear Admiral Michael Smith | WISN 12
NSL4A Founder and President Michael Smith speaks to WISN 12 News UpFront in Milwaukee, discussing the threat of a second Donald Trump Presidency.

Rear Admiral Michael Smith | Wisconsin Examiner and WORT
NSL4A Founder and President Michael Smith speaks Thursday at a news conference called to mark the third anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol
Reported by the Wisconsin Examiner and WORT