Independent veterans surging in Idaho, Montana, Nebraska. Achilles up 5 on Risch. Abbey Gate at 5: 13 empty seats. Media Blitz Pod
Five years after Abbey Gate, 13 families still set a table with an empty seat — and Washington still hasn’t given them a real accounting. Meanwhile, a slate of independent veteran candidates is quietly rewriting the map in Idaho, Montana, Nebraska, and South Dakota. Todd Achilles is up 5 on Jim Risch. Seth Bodnar — Green Beret, Rhodes Scholar, former university president — is running in Montana. The two-party math is breaking, and this is the episode that lays out how.
Five years after the bombing at Abbey Gate, 13 Gold Star families are still waiting for a real, bipartisan accounting of what happened…
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