During my morning coffee, it hit me: with this new conflict in Iran, even more combat-injured vets are about to join the 54,000 of us already forfeiting our pensions.

How can Washington float a half-trillion-dollar defense hike, but claim $1 billion a year is "too expensive" for the veterans who actually fought the wars? We cannot let this new generation of Chapter 61 vets come home to a fight for their earned pay on top of the physical and emotional stress they’ve already endured.

We are at the tipping point. We need to blow through our 5,000-signature goal before March 10th. Senator Ron Johnson is now added to the petition after blocking our bill on March 3rd. We’ve renamed the petition to "Expose The Senators Blocking" to widen the net for every future blocker in the Senate.

Will you stand with us? Please post Change.org/54Kveterans to your Facebook, WhatsApp, or Signal groups. Ask your friends and family to sign.

If just half of you share this, we hit 10K signatures by March 31st. Let’s show the Senate we’re not going down without a fight!