Our Work

Vet the Vote is a national coalition and campaign to recruit veterans and military family members to serve as next generation of poll workers.

America is facing an ongoing poll worker crisis for the 2024 primaries and elections. In 2022, we recruited more than 63,000 volunteers from our community to serve as poll workers - and we’re just getting started. We must act on this challenge now or risk a vicious cycle of decreasing confidence in our democracy. There are more than 17 million veterans and millions of military family members committed to serving the country who can help break that cycle. We the Veterans is working with veteran and military family service organizations and other partners to mobilize our community. Learn more at vetthe.vote.

Vet our Democracy is an American civics education initiative for the veteran and military family community.

The American citizenry at large looks to members of the military, veterans, and their families for cues and guidance regarding civics and how our government works. Our community’s perceived knowledge of civic matters provides us with an outsized influence in our communities - a responsibility we must live up to. We want to increase positive participation and civic knowledge through new education programs for our veteran and military family community.

Our first civics education program is the Vet our Democracy podcast - created to help Americans - especially our VMF community - better understand their rights and responsibilities as citizens and how they can get involved to reinforce our democracy and strengthen our republic. We are focused on increasing Americans patriotic knowledge to help create a more perfect union.

We the Veterans convenes thought leaders, practitioners, and key stakeholders on a quarterly basis from the public, private, and nonprofit sectors to address the Mis/Dis/Malinformation (MDM) threat to American democracy and civil society, with a focus on veteran- and military family-driven outcomes. The MDM Working Group develops novel, multifaceted, multisectoral programs and solutions, advisory reports and assessments, research proposals, and recommendations and best practices for key sector stakeholders. The MDM Working Group includes leaders from tech, the US government, university research centers, veteran and military family service organizations, media, fact checking organizations, and other key public, private, and nonprofit stakeholders. Please direct inquiries about joining or collaborating with the MDM Working Group to MDMWG@wetheveterans.us.

The Eradicate Hate Global Summit is the most significant anti-hate conference in the world. It unites experts and leaders from around the globe who are dedicated to eradicating all forms of hate-fueled extremism. The mission of the Summit is to identify and implement effective solutions for collective change. We the Veterans developed and led the Military and Veterans track in 2022.

On May 31, 2022, We the Veterans Co-Founder and Board Member William Braniff, who also serves as the Director of the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START), appeared as a witness to the HVAC in its hearing on Helping Veterans Thrive: The Importance of Peer Support in Preventing Domestic Violent Extremism. The hearing can be seen here and Braniff’s submitted testimony can be found here.

On October 13, 2021, We the Veterans board member Joe Plenzler testified before the House Committee on Veterans Affairs in the first of a series of hearings on the issue of domestic violent extremist groups and the recruitment of veterans. Research shows that extremist and criminal organizations actively recruit veterans because of the skills they learn in the military, their ability to organize and lead people, and the credibility veteran status conveys. The hearing can be seen here and Joe's written testimony can be found here.