Two IVA-endorsed veterans, one message, one national platform.
The Hill covered Seth Bodnar and Dan Osborn making their case together on national television for independent Senate candidacies in states the parties have written off. It’s a milestone moment: two independent veterans — a Green Beret from Montana and a Navy steamfitter from Nebraska — treated by the Washington press as what they are, serious contenders for the United States Senate.
The Hill’s reporting captures both men’s core arguments. Bodnar’s: the country is in crisis, the national parties are failing it, and Montanans deserve an independent voice. Osborn’s: Washington is full of rich men, and it’s time it heard from the people who fix their cars, grow their food, and fight their wars.
One independent veteran in a Senate race is a story. Two of them, campaigning on the same fundamental promise in different states, is a movement. And there are more behind them. IVA’s 2026 class is the largest slate of endorsed independent veterans in American history, and the national press is starting to understand what that means for November.
Read the full story at The Hill.
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