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If you draw VA disability, this is about you. The House just pulled H.R. 9237, the Take Care of America’s Veterans Act, off the floor for the second time in less than a month. The bill bundles sixty-plus veterans measures including the Major Richard Star Act and the Love Lives On Act. Overdue bills. Good bills.

Joan Sebastian Guerrero. Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. Tyrin Johnson. Renee Good. Four names. Four killings by federal agents. One deciding vote by Susan Collins for $70 billion in ICE funding. And a federal government that will not investigate its own.

Most of us called it something else first. A bad temper. A rough patch. The inability to let things go. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder is not a sign of weakness. It is what happens when a nervous system absorbs more than it was built to carry. Veterans are not uniquely fragile. They are uniquely exposed. Combat, […]

The Veteran Economic Briefing Model is an interactive dashboard designed for scenario analysis of how military engagements affect household budgets amidst rising fuel prices. It features adjustable inputs related to fuel usage and economic parameters, providing users with insights into financial impacts, while emphasizing that it does not predict future outcomes.

Veteran Economic Briefing Model Military Risk, Fuel Prices, and Household Purchasing Power Something happened at the pump in May 2026 that didn’t make the evening news. Regular gasoline hit $4.50 a gallon. On-highway diesel was running $5.64. For a household driving 1,200 miles a month in a vehicle averaging 24 miles per gallon, that is […]

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-sfwku-1ac7e4c In this episode, we discuss fuel Prices and their recent fluctuations. Furthermore, the impact of Gas Prices on the economy remains a central theme throughout this discussion. This episode connects overseas military posture to everyday costs at home, showing how deployments can push Gas Prices up and erode household purchasing power. Using EIA and […]

Veteran Voice Opinion, Politics · veterans, oath, voting, civic duty, democracy I took an oath to a document, not a man. The document is still here. The oath is still mine. The country I signed up for never quite existed, and I am still showing up anyway. That part is not for the news cycle to decide. […]