Looking ahead, in 2025 and beyond, Common Defense will continue prioritizing ongoing base-building activities, providing members with the training and education necessary to hone their organizing skills, leverage the power of their voice, and participate in our current and future electoral, democracy, immigration and climate campaigns. We are looking forward to scaling up our direct voter contact campaigns in 2026 and reaching even more voters during the midterms.

Common Defense is uniting veterans across party lines to ensure Vice President Kamala Harris becomes the next President of the United States. This is the only veteran-led effort with a track record of reaching voters through high-impact grassroots organizing, earned media, and visibility actions. In the remaining phase of the election, Common Defense will target voters in five key states which will determine the White House and control of Congress and use our twelve organizing staff and our “Corps” of 670 existing trained in-state super-volunteers to mobilize military veterans to support the Democratic ticket using an array of tactics. We aim to persuade the critical constituency of swing voters especially suburban, patriotic, working class and middle class voters who are a decisive component of reconstructing the anti-MAGA coalition.

Founded in 2016, Common Defense is the nation’s largest grassroots organization of US military veterans and the only one that invests in the leadership of its members through training and deployment in campaigns that connect directly to their history of service, including voting rights, climate justice, and anti-militarism.