THE HOMEFRONT SENTINEL
A project of We the Veterans & Military Families
Protecting and promoting the digital health of veterans and military families.
Foreign adversaries and other bad actors are targeting the veteran and military family community with scams, cyber attacks, and information operations. The Homefront Sentinel conducts expert research on these threats to increase our community’s resilience against them.
OUR MISSION
We treat digital, mental, and civic health as one connected system.
The Homefront Sentinel protects veterans and military families at the intersection of digital safety, mental health, and civic participation. These are one system. We stand guard on all three fronts.
We watch. We warn. We fight for the safety, trust, and voice of those who served, their families, and their communities.
PROTECT YOUR SIX
The Homefront Sentinel monitors online threats to the veteran and military family community, and our Protect Your Six series shows exactly how bad actors and foreign adversaries can exploit AI to target it. Each PSA demonstrates the threat firsthand, so you can recognize the manipulation before it reaches your wallet, your wellbeing, or your voice.
Protect Your Six
and Your Savings
AI-driven scams and fake benefits ads are built to look official and make you act before you think. This PSA shows how easily these tools can be turned against our community, and how to guard against them.
Protect Your Six
and Your Sanity
AI-generated images and videos are designed to exploit your emotions. If something looks emotional, urgent, or too good to be true, pause before you click, share, or donate. Verify through a trusted source first. This PSA shows you what synthetic content looks like and how to spot it.
Protect Your Six
and Your Vote
False content, AI-generated video, and spoofed "official" notices are designed to inject confusion into our elections. Veterans and military families sit at the center of that targeting: our voice carries weight, and our ballots often travel the longest route home. This campaign shows how elections actually work and what is testing those protections.
2026 ELECTION CYCLE TIMELINE
What veterans and military family members need to know to stay informed
A neutral, sourced account of the pressures on the 2026 election and the guardrails that have held, with historical context through 2000. Every entry is dated, links to its source, and explains why it matters and what you can do. Updated weekly.
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NEWS & PRESS
Your donation supports a research and awareness initiative countering online threats to the veteran and military family (VMF) community by foreign adversaries and other bad actors.
Our Homefront Sentinel project identifies and combats scams, cyber attacks, and propaganda targeting the VMF community, and educates veteran and military family members on how to better protect themselves and their loved ones online from these threats. In 2025-2026, your support will 1) fund our False Valor research that exposes those who co-opt and exploit the U.S. military brand and community, 2) strengthen our Homefront Resilience program that safeguards military and veteran service organizations and their members from these threats, and 3) support scaled efforts to build awareness and strengthen defenses against malign influence and foreign interference for the broader veteran and military family community, as well as the general public.
Help us be the vigilant defenders of those who have defended us!