Common Defense is the country’s largest veteran-led grassroots organization committed to engaging, organizing, training, and mobilizing veterans to elect accountable leaders and promote progressive values in 2024 and beyond.
We empower veterans to stand up for our communities against the rising tide of racism, hate, and violence, to organize against extremism, and to champion an equitable and representative democracy, where “liberty and justice” truly is for all.
We achieve this through:
Training veterans as grassroots organizers
Growing, organizing, and mobilizing the progressive veteran community
Advocating for progressive legislation at the local, state, and federal level
And so much more