Two 14-year-old best friends in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. One family leans right, the other left. Over four years, the adults around them split over COVID rules in the schools, and then over almost everything else. The girls stay friends. That's the heart of 𝘉𝘶𝘤𝘬𝘴 𝘊𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘺, 𝘜𝘚𝘈, a new five-part documentary from Robert May and Barry Levinson. It's a hard watch in places. Neighbors struggle not to see each other as the enemy. What these two girls do is exactly what our political system makes hard for elected leaders. Yet the most effective members of Congress are the ones who build alliances across the aisle. Bucks County's own congressman, @RepBrianFitz, is one of them. The Lugar Center ranked him the most bipartisan member of the House five years running, and his story is one of ten I tell in 𝘊𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘊𝘢𝘯 𝘚𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘜𝘚. I got to talk about all this at a preview screening in Washington with @JudyWoodruff from @pbsnewshour, Robert May, Layla Zaidane from @futurecaucus, Rosarie Tucci from @IssueOneReform, and Andrew Hanauer of @OneAmericaMvmt . The first two episodes are streaming free on @PBS now, with a new one each week through October 18. Watch it with someone who votes differently than you. senartfilms.com/bucks-county…

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…

Russian field propagandists at the UN shout at Zelensky in Russian: "When are you going to Moscow? When are you going to Moscow?" Zelensky, also in Russian: "[I'll come] by a missile."

SLAVA UKRAINI! 🇺🇦🇺🇸

Last night, With Honor hosted its second annual UNGA reception, focused on Ukraine's fight for freedom. We heard from two British MPs from opposite sides of the aisle: @TomTugendhat, a British Army veteran and Conservative, and @AlistairCarns MP, a former Royal Marine from the Labour Party. Ukrainian MP Sasha Ustinova closed the evening with these sobering words. Today, President @ZelenskyyUa will award Ukraine's Order of Merit to two With Honor allies profiled in Courage Can Save US: @RepBrianFitz (R-PA), a former FBI agent who helped stand up anti-corruption efforts in Ukraine, and @RepGolden (D-ME), a former Marine infantryman who served in combat in Iraq and Afghanistan. Both have worked across party lines and shown real political courage to advance the fight for freedom in Ukraine and around the world.

"On national security, there’s not a lot of Republican or Democrat issues. It’s American. Just your compass.” @repdonbacon, an Air Force brigadier general and Republican, on his friendship with @repcarbajal, a Marine veteran and Democrat, in Ukraine last week. They disagree in public and text each other in private. They vote apart on plenty, but stood together on Ukraine. The Senate passed the Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act 86–11 on August 7. The House followed on September 16, passing it 262–159. President Trump signed it into law two days later. This is what service before party looks like. More friendships like Don and Salud’s. That is how Congress starts working again.

Highlights from our bipartisan delegation to Kyiv and Kharkiv. 🇺🇸🇺🇦 Wednesday at the @UN, President @ZelenskyyUa will award Ukraine's Order of Merit to @RepGolden (D), a Marine veteran, and @RepBrianFitz (R), a former FBI agent, both featured in Courage Can Save US. With Honor will host a reception afterward with their families and our partner, Ukrainian MP @SashaUstinovaUA.

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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 of 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. 🇺🇸🤝🇺🇦

Yesterday the House passed the Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act of 2026 by a vote of 262-159, sending the most comprehensive sanctions measure since Russia's full-scale invasion to the President's desk. That took a year and a half of work, championed in part by @RepDonBacon, @RepGolden, and other bipartisan veterans in the For Country Caucus that @WithHonorAction works alongside. The photos here are from our trip to Ukraine last week — With Honor's fourth delegation since the full-scale invasion. Attendees included @RepDonBacon @RepWesleyBellMO @RepJimCosta @RepCarbajal @RepVindman @AldConway @elliotackerman

PASSED - fortunately, and here’s the best articulation I heard on why

The House just passed the most comprehensive Russia sanctions package since Putin's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. @WithHonorAction helped whip the votes, and the bipartisan @BipartisanVets endorsed the bill. Days after our delegation stood together in Kyiv and witnessed the cost of Russia's war firsthand, Congress acted. Now to the President's desk.

A Ukrainian videographer captured this remarkable footage from our cross-partisan delegation to Ukraine last week, organized by With Honor. We 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 immediately release the $400 million in FY26 assistance Congress has already appropriated. Read the full release, covered by @AP: apnews.com/press-release/pr-… If you agree, please share this widely today. The delegation included Advisory Board members @elliotackerman, @ByrdKahlil, @NewDayConway, Scott Bates, @MikeBishopMI, @markhaidar, @arthurkarell, @AdamKinzinger, Yevhenii Malik, @_JohnMaslin, @PeterMeijer, Trevor Reed, Nathan Schmidt, Mariya Soroka, @DCTwining, Lord James Cecil, and Lady Rose Cecil; Ukrainian MP @SashaUstinovaUA; and eight members of Congress.

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…

After 9/11, a small Maasai village called Enoosaen in southern Kenya made one of the most extraordinary gestures of solidarity ever offered to the United States. The Maasai, an Indigenous pastoralist people for whom cattle are the center of life, wealth, spirituality, and identity, heard about the attacks through a young Maasai man named Wilson Kimeli Naiyomah, who had been studying in New York and returned home shaken by what he had witnessed. When he told the elders about the tragedy, they felt a deep, communal grief. In Maasai culture, when words are not enough, you give what is most precious. And nothing is more sacred than a cow. In 2002, the community gathered for a formal ceremony and offered 14 sacred cows to the United States as a gift of mourning and compassion. This was not symbolic in a casual sense, it was a profound spiritual act. A cow in Maasai belief is life itself: nourishment, status, blessing, and continuity. To give away a cow is to give away a piece of your soul. The U.S. ambassador to Kenya, William Brencick, traveled to the village, where elders wrapped him in traditional cloth and performed blessings as they presented the cattle. The ambassador understood the gravity of the gesture and accepted the gift on behalf of the American people. Because the U.S. cannot practically take possession of cattle, the cows were entrusted to the village and became part of a protected herd known as the “American Cows.” They symbolize a bridge between two worlds, one of skyscrapers and one of savannahs, connected by shared grief and human empathy. Over time, the herd grew, and the story became a powerful reminder that compassion can come from unexpected places, and that even communities far removed from global politics can respond to tragedy with extraordinary generosity and heart. Maasai didn’t simply give the 14 cows, they created an entirely new cultural status for them. The animals were designated “osinkira,” meaning they became blessed, protected cows that could never be slaughtered or sold, a category rarely used and reserved only for moments of immense spiritual significance. This special status ensured the herd would live out their lives as living symbols of compassion toward a distant nation. Over time, the “American Cows” became a teaching tool for Maasai children, who learned that even a small, remote community can respond to global tragedy with profound humanity. #atchaeohistories

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.