The American Homefront Project

Public-radio collaboration on military and veterans issues · A collaboration of public-radio stations across the country, supported by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting; this feed is carried by KRPS (Pittsburg State University, Kansas)

Local public-radio stations reporting the military story where it actually happens — at the base gate, the VA clinic, and the kitchen table. The American Homefront Project’s reporters cover VA hospitals, benefits, housing, and military families community by community, in audio a tired caregiver can listen to while driving to the next appointment. The feed is live daily; its VA file runs from Camp Lejeune families still waiting on settlements to suicides at North Carolina bases its reporters called predictable and preventable.

Why we carry them. National coverage misses the local facility where your fight actually is — this is VA failure reported at the level of the clinic down the road.

Start here — their essential work

• Camp Lejeune plaintiffs frustrated as they wait on settlements from the government (2026-06-04) — Camp Lejeune water-contamination plaintiffs, years into the settlement process, still waiting on the government to pay what it acknowledged it owes.
• ‘Predictable and preventable’ suicides at North Carolina military bases show the failures of the system, a new report says (2026-05-21) — A report on suicides at North Carolina bases that investigators called predictable and preventable — a system failure documented in the system’s own terms.
• Patients at the Topeka VA say its aging systems cause delays in treatment (2024-11-12) — At the Colmery-O’Neil VA in Topeka, patients describe aging systems delaying their treatment — facility-level reporting of the kind this project exists to do.
• A transgender Army major fights to stay in uniform (2024-07-30) — An Army major fighting a discharge policy in the courts — one service member’s case standing in for a force-wide policy fight.
• With gaps in VA’s outreach to women, community groups step in (2019-11-11) — Where VA’s outreach to women veterans fell short, community groups stepped into the gap — the project’s founding theme, still current.
• Trump signals that he might not contest November elections if they’re rigged (2026-10-25) — The feed’s newest item as of this profile (October 25, 2026) — proof the collaboration is publishing daily, on the wider news military families live inside.

Summaries are ours. The work is theirs — we link to it, we don’t lift it. Visit The American Homefront Project →