With Honor

With Honor[1] is a super political action committee in the United States, led by veterans and focusing on increasing the number of next-generation veterans in Congress.

With Honor Fund, Inc.
Formation2017
FoundersRye Barcott, David Gergen,
Peter Dixon
TypeSuper PAC
HeadquartersCharlotte, North Carolina U.S.
WebsiteWithHonor.org

With Honor's mission is to elect principled next-generation veterans to office who will work in a non-partisan way to create a more effective and less polarized government.[2] In 2018, Jeff Bezos donated $10 million to With Honor.[3]

History

Rye Barcott, David Gergen, Peter Dixon, and other veterans co-founded With Honor in early 2017 to support a surge of more than 150 younger veterans who are answering the call to serve again and are running for U.S. House seats from both parties in 2018.

Pledge

With Honor will support a select group of veteran candidates who take The With Honor Pledge[4] to put principles before politics, and lead with civility, integrity, and courage, including the courage to take specific actions like meeting with someone from another party at least once a month and sponsoring legislation with a member of another party at least once a year.

Advisors and Partners

With Honor is partnered with the U.S. Competitiveness Project, which is led by the office of Michael Porter.[5] The project has identified the polarization of U.S. political institutions as one of the top strategic threats to U.S. economic competitiveness. In a 2017 report, Why Competition in the Politics Industry is Failing America, Michael Porter and Katherine Gehl wrote: "Politics in America is not a hopeless problem, though it is easy to feel this way given what we experience and read about every day. There are promising reforms already gaining traction including important elements of the strategy we propose. It is up to us as citizens to recapture our democracy—it will not be self-correcting."[6]

Press

With Honor's disruptive political effort has been covered by MSNBC's Morning Joe[7], Fox News' Fox & Friends[8], The Atlantic[9], and other media. Admiral Michael Mullen and Elliot Ackerman authored an op-ed in USA Today announcing With Honor's first slate of candidate endorsements.[10] Former Senators Richard Lugar and Tom Daschle wrote in U.S. News & World Report about With Honor and new research by The Lugar Center illustrating how veterans in Congress have historically been more bi-partisan than non-veterans.[11]

References
  1. "With Honor HomePage". WithHonor.org. Retrieved March 30, 2018.
  2. "Mission Statement". WithHonor.org. Retrieved March 30, 2018.
  3. Goldman, David (September 5, 2018). "Jeff Bezos donates $10 million to organization that helps veterans run for office". CNNMoney. Retrieved December 17, 2018.
  4. "With Honor Pledge". WithHonor.org. Retrieved March 30, 2018.
  5. "U.S. Competitiveness-About the Project". HBS.edu. Retrieved March 30, 2018.
  6. Gehl, Katherine; Porter, Michael. "Why Competition in the Politics Industry is Failing America" (PDF). HBS.edu. Retrieved March 30, 2018.
  7. "Organization puts support behind vets running for office". MSNBC.com. Retrieved March 30, 2018.
  8. "'With Honor' supports veterans running for Congress". Fox News. Retrieved March 30, 2018.
  9. "A New Group Wants to Elect More Veterans--From Both Parties". The Atlantic. Retrieved March 30, 2018.
  10. "Can veterans rescue Congress from its partisan paralysis? Mullen and Ackerman". USA Today.
  11. "Congress Needs More Veterans". USNews.com. Retrieved March 30, 2018.
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