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"It’s so important to be able to have a room where, yes, Democrats and Republicans will actually talk about substance and facts and try to do the right thing for the country and not just score a partisan point.” - @ryebarcott, Co-founder and CEO, @withhonoraction #Concordia26
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Henrietta Fore, Chairman & CEO, Holsman International; @rhettbuttle, Founder, @pps_institute; @ryebarcott, Co-founder and CEO, @withhonoraction; and @TomTugendhat, Shadow Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, United Kingdom join us to discuss democracy, leadership and America's role in the next century at #Concordia26
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At a time when Americans disagree on so much, national service stands out as a rare point of common ground. America Service Project’s @VickyHausman highlights recent polling showing 78% of Americans support a national service program for young adults, including broad support across party lines. Yet fewer than 1% of Americans currently serve in civilian or military national service roles. With Honor Action works alongside the @BipartisanVets to expand opportunities for Americans to serve, a long-time bipartisan priority. More pathways to service can strengthen our communities, build civic connection, and bring Americans together around a shared purpose. Read the full piece:bit.ly/4rCWn4I
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With our Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act signed into law, I am profoundly humbled to have been presented with Ukraine’s Order of Merit, First Class, by President Zelenskyy. The Ukrainian people have borne this fight with extraordinary courage. But they do not bear it alone. What is being defended in Ukraine belongs to all free people: sovereignty, self-determination, and freedom itself. My sincere thanks to @ZelenskyyUa and the people of Ukraine for this remarkable honor—and for the strength and determination you continue to show the world. And to my friend @RepGolden, my late friend and partner Senator Lindsey Graham, @ryebarcott and the incredible team at @WithHonorAction, and all our bipartisan colleagues who stood with us on the side of freedom. The history of freedom has always been written by those willing to stand together in its defense. May America always be among them. 🇺🇸🇺🇦
Ukraine has awarded the Order of Merit to @RepBrianFitz and @RepGolden One Republican and one Democrat. Before he ran for Congress, Brian was an FBI agent in Kyiv. In 2015, after the Maidan revolution, he helped Ukrainians build the National Anti-Corruption Bureau from scratch. Jared, a former Marine infantryman who deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq, has taken consequential stands for Ukraine's fight for freedom when it wasn't easy or popular. They are close friends, and two of the ten leaders profiled in Courage Can Save US. Both have put their careers on the line, again and again, for what they believe is right. Yesterday's ceremony with President Zelenskyy was one of the highlights of nearly a decade of building @WithHonorAction alongside Americans like Brian and Jared. Friends and family joined us at the reception afterward, including Moustafa Basij-Rasikh, a With Honor Fellow who served with Jared in Afghanistan as a linguist and now works on his staff, and Mike Campi, Brian's former boss at the FBI. Read the full citation: withhonor.org/wp-content/upl…
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During UNGA week, @TomTugendhat MP, @AlistairCarns MP, and Ukrainian MP @SashaUstinovaUA joined With Honor Co-Founder and CEO @ryebarcott for a reception and conversation on Ukraine, security, and the role of veteran leaders. The discussion focused on the stakes of the defense President @ZelenskyyUa and the Ukrainian people are leading, the threat the Kremlin poses to democracies across Europe, and the urgency of getting through the coming winter. Veteran leaders put country over party. On Ukraine, that cooperation has never been more urgent.
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On Ukraine, on national security, and on serving in Congress, @BipartisanVets leaders @RepDonBacon and @RepCarbajal share a common mission, forged from their common background serving in uniform, that isn't just talking across the aisle, but friendship across the political divide. From With Honor's fourth cross-partisan delegation to Ukraine:
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Last week, the U.S. House passed the Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act, and the $400 million Congress appropriated for Ukraine’s national defense is finally being released. This moment was shaped by voices from across the fight: Members of Congress, veterans, advocates, and Ukrainians living through the war. People who traveled to Kyiv, Kharkiv, and the front lines. A Ukrainian MP who watched a vote she thought impossible come together in six days. A Soviet Ukrainian refugee who came to the U.S. as a child, served and retired from the U.S. Army, and now fights for Ukrainian independence in the halls of Congress. Countries don't do things. People do. @SenThomTillis, @RepDonBacon, @RepBrianFitz, @RepVindman, @ryebarcott, @SashaUstinovaUA, @DCTwining, @_JohnMaslin, Rose Cecil
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FT editorial board member @gilliantett joined With Honor's cross-partisan delegation on a trip to the front lines and came back with a sobering look at how AI is reshaping the war in Ukraine. She describes Ukraine's AI-enabled battlefield management system, ground drones with 30km range that evacuate wounded soldiers, and a reward system that gives soldiers more points for robotic medical evacuations than tank hits. As one young nurse told her, "robots save lives." Read her full piece in the @FT: ft.com/content/5b08fae3-51b5…
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A Russian drone hit the gas station ten minutes after With Honor's cross-partisan delegation pulled out of it. A second hit a passenger train nearby, narrowly missing departing officials, including former CIA director David Petraeus. Writer, Marine veteran and With Honor board member @elliotackerman was traveling with the delegation. His read: "Russia escalates when it feels like it's got its back up against the wall." Days later, the Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act passed Congress — legislation With Honor and the @BipartisanVets endorsed and worked hard to pass. Read his superb piece in @TheFP: thefp.com/p/elliot-ackerman-…
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The @IRIglobal President @DCTwining, on joining With Honor's cross-partisan delegation to Ukraine: "This is a war for Ukrainian independence against the Kremlin's stated ambition to reverse the outcome of the Cold War." Free people need to support each other, and Ukraine is the tip of the spear and shield. 🇺🇦 🇺🇸
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After visiting Ukraine's front lines, @SenThomTillis came back with a clear message for Washington: "The persistence of the Ukrainian people is amazing. What I saw was an extraordinary spirit and capability deployed to the battlefield that the United States needs to learn from, needs to invest in, and needs to increase." 🇺🇦 🇺🇸
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Retired U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel @RepVindman came to America as a Soviet Ukrainian refugee. Last week, he returned to Ukraine for the 16th time to witness firsthand the destruction that Russia has inflicted on the country. "The pressure that is being exerted by the Ukrainian armed forces, the resilience of the Ukrainian people, the sanctions, all of these things are key ingredients to demonstrate to Russia that there is no path to victory for them, that they must come to the negotiating table." 🇺🇦 🇺🇸
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"This is about being on the side of freedom. It's about being on the right side of history." From @ProbSolveCaucus Co-Chair @RepBrianFitz and one of the biggest champions for Ukraine in Congress, in one of the most impassioned floor speeches of his career — delivered the same week With Honor's cross-partisan delegation returned from Ukraine. To the Ukrainians fighting for their freedom: Congress has your back. 🇺🇦🇺🇸
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Following the House passage of the Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act, Founding @BipartisanVets Co-Chair @RepDonBacon says the $400 million Congress appropriated to support Ukraine’s national defense last year is also being released. Rep. Bacon pushed the White House and the leadership of the Armed Services Committee to move it forward. Bacon made this call after joining With Honor's cross-partisan delegation to Ukraine last week. A year and a half of work. A big day for standing on the right side of this fight. 🇺🇦 🇺🇸
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The story behind how Congress passed the Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act last night and the courageous Members of Congress who fought for it ⬇️ piped.video/watch?v=tVgIhGwT… On the heels of With Honor's fourth cross-partisan delegation to Ukraine, we debriefed this morning with some of Ukraine's champions in Congress: @SenThomTillis, @RepDonBacon, @RepBrianFitz, @RepVindman, @RepMGP, as well as @SashaUstinovaUA on the last week, and how it went down behind the scenes to pass a rebuke of Russia and its enablers as one Congress's last acts before the midterm elections. Special thanks also to Lady Rose Cecil, @VulcanElements Co-Founder and CEO @_JohnMaslin, @IRIglobal President @DCTwining, and @NewDayConway, for being a part of With Honor's delegation and giving their perspectives, and to Viktor Konstantynov and his students at the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv who joined us. 🇺🇸🤝🇺🇦
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Today, the U.S. House passed the Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act of 2026. The bill targets Russian oil revenue and sanctions-evasion networks funding the war against Ukraine, and now heads to the President's desk. Just five days ago, With Honor Co-Founder and CEO @ryebarcott stood in a Kharkiv neighborhood devastated by recent Russian attacks. He called today's vote a clear signal that U.S. support for Ukraine holds across party lines. Read the full statement here: withhonor.org/news/statement…
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A Ukrainian videographer captured this remarkable footage from last week's cross-partisan delegation to Ukraine, organized by With Honor, including With Honor Co-Founder and CEO @ryebarcott, With Honor Advisory Board members @elliotackerman, Kahlil Byrd, @NewDayConway, Scott Bates, @MikeBishopMI, @markhaidar, @arthurkarell, @AdamKinzinger, Yevhenii Malik, @_JohnMaslin, @PeterMeijer, Trevor Reed, Nathan Schmidt, Mariya Soroka, @DCTwining, Lord James Cecil, Lady Rose Cecil, along with Ukrainian MP @SashaUstinovaUA, and eight Members of Congress. The delegation saw Putin's terror up close: grocery stores, gas stations, and other civilian infrastructure hit night after night. Early Sunday morning, a Russian drone struck a locomotive at Yahodyn station, two kilometers from the Polish border, shortly after the train carrying Boris Johnson, Carl Bildt, and other YES Conference attendees had crossed into Poland. General David Petraeus was at that station on a separate train. The trip also included the ceremony where the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine's Parliament, awarded the Ukrainian Badge of Honour, "for our freedom and yours," to eight Members of Congress: @SenArmstrong, @SenJohnCurtis, @SenThomTillis, @RepWesleyBellMO, @RepJimCosta, @RepVindman, and @BipartisanVets members @RepDonBacon and @RepCarbajal. Two immediate asks: 1. The House should pass the Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act today — the Senate passed it 86-11 in August. 2. The Administration should release the $400 million in FY26 assistance Congress already appropriated immediately. Read the full release, covered by the @AP, here: apnews.com/press-release/pr-…
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Last week, the Chairman of Ukraine's Parliament awarded the Ukrainian Badge of Honour "for our freedom and yours" to eight U.S. Members of Congress — three Republican senators, @SenArmstrong, @SenJohnCurtis, @SenThomTillis, and a bipartisan group of five representatives, @RepWesleyBellMO, @RepJimCosta, @RepVindman, including members of the @BipartisanVets: @RepDonBacon and @RepCarbajal. The delegation traveled to Kyiv with With Honor for the @yes_ukraine Annual Meeting, as Russian strikes intensified against civilian infrastructure. They walked past gas stations and grocery stores hit days earlier. Part of the group went on to Kharkiv to meet frontline medics. As they departed, a Russian drone struck a rail line minutes behind the train carrying officials out, two kilometers from the Polish border.​ On the ground in Ukraine, they saw firsthand why the $400M in appropriated security assistance for this year can't sit on the sidelines. It's time to move this funding so Ukraine has the equipment and support it needs. The visit was timely, with the House of Representatives voting on the Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act this week. The Senate passed this bill in August with an overwhelmingly bipartisan vote of 86-11.​ We encourage the House to pass this bill, which is a significant step toward further assistance for Ukrainian partners. Read the full press release on @MorningstarInc: morningstar.com/news/pr-news…
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Twenty-five years ago today, the nation changed in a single morning. In the years that followed, thousands answered the call to serve, including more than 10 current members of the For Country Caucus who joined the military in the wake of 9/11. As part of the National September 11 Memorial & Museum's Tribute in Light, the @JFKLibraryFdn was illuminated in blue, joining a commemoration that both honors those killed and celebrates the unbreakable spirit of New York. With Honor supports principled veterans who raise their hands a second time to serve their country in elected office, especially a new generation of leaders who answered the call to serve after that tragic day.
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A bipartisan biotechnology commission built a roadmap for American competitiveness. It sunsets at the end of this year, and Congress has a choice: build on that work, or let the momentum die with it. With Honor Action is leading a coalition of 16 biotech and biomanufacturing organizations and leaders urging Congress to mark up bipartisan bills advancing @biotech_gov recommendations, covering biomanufacturing, biosecurity, AI data infrastructure, and workforce development. 40 of the Commission's 49 recommendations have already seen bipartisan legislative action. Now it's on Congress to keep going. Read the letters: withhonor.org/news/letters-t…
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