This page is part of a resource collection on organizing against the second Trump administration.
Image: from Common Defense, Veteran organization protests Trump.
Organizations
Common Defense: We are the largest grassroots membership organization of progressive veterans standing up for our communities against the rising tide of racism, hate, and violence.
Vets Against Trump: The Vets Against Trump campaign is a movement of veterans who refuse to stand by as the values we fought for are threatened.
Veterans for Peace: We, as military veterans, do hereby affirm our greater responsibility to serve the cause of world peace.
The War Resisters League: Committed to supporting conscientious objectors, GI resisters, and military families.
Resources
Cross Cultural Solidarity
- Military & Defense Industry Opposition to Trump
- The Politicization of the U.S. Military Under the Second Trump Administration
Sources for military news:
News: 2025
January 31. Leo Shane III: Vets group blasts Trump plane crash comments as ‘shameful.’
February 26. Tara Copp & Carla K. Johnson: VA pauses billions in cuts lauded by Musk as lawmakers and veterans decry loss of critical care.
March 5. Ben Finley & Stephen Groves: Veterans are speaking out on the Trump administration’s plans to cut the VA’s budget.
March 7. Steve Early & Suzanne Gordon: Veterans Are Starting to Mobilize Against Trump’s Cuts.
March 24. Stephen Groves: Military veterans are becoming the face of Trump’s government cuts and Democrats’ resistance.
June 20. Alina Hartounian: The story behind the arrest of 87-year-old veteran John Spitzberg at the Capitol.
June 6. Leo Shane III: ‘Unite for Vets’ rally calls for Trump to abandon planned cuts at VA.
June 6. Abby Vesoulis: These Veterans Fought for the US. Now They’re Fighting Trump’s VA Cuts.The Trump administration has proposed eliminating 15 percent of the Department of Veterans Affairs workforce.
June 6. Michael Embrich: Veterans Are Marching Against Trump. Here’s Why: America’s heroes have had enough of Donald Trump’s mass firings and Pete Hegseth’s diversity purge at the Pentagon.
June 6. Thomas Novelly: ‘You Deserve Better’: Veterans Rally on National Mall Against Trump Cuts.
June 9. Ed Pilkington: Trump LA protest response risks turning US military into political force, veterans warn: Memo authorising the military to be deployed against anticipated protests is pre-emptive act – a first for the US.
June 13. Sophie Clark: US Veterans Oppose Trump’s ‘Illegal’ Takeover Of National Guard.
June 14. Rebecca Schneid: Veterans Speak Out Against Trump’s Military Parade: ‘It Feels Gross’.
June 6. Max Burns: Republican lawmakers are dangling a sword over thousands of VA workers. GOP lawmakers are discovering there’s such a thing as asking too much of America’s veterans.
August 29. Sophie Rosenthal & Jordan Fischer: Prosecutors file criminal charges against veteran who burned US flag outside White House: Jay Carey, 54, of North Carolina, said he was protesting an executive order from President Donald Trump attempting to ban flag burning.