My campaign promise is simple: monthly town halls.
Our government no longer works for the people and I’m going to hit “reset” on the whole thing – start a bloodless revolution.
I’ll hold town halls – same date, same time, every month like clockwork – in order to get people used to being heard again.
One question or concern per county (you decide which to submit at a local level) which guarantees I will be forced to read and answer every single one without evasion.
We’ll make accountability and transparency into an institution which survives my time in office.
If I reliably show that real representation is possible, is a reasonable expectation, you’ll start to treat it like just a normal thing.
Once it’s normal for you, you’ll start getting upset with other elected officials who don’t meet your expectations of transparency, accountability, and availability. Maybe you’ll even start voting them out.
This is how we begin to reset the government.
If you get your political news directly from your own representative, you won’t have to trust the mainstream media.
If everyone knows where and when I will provide one source of firsthand information, people can begin to unplug from social media, and that whole cycle of polarization and mistrust. I can even keep a website with updates, videos, material from lobbyists, etc. where nobody needs to follow or pay for information.
You and your family and neighbors will be able to share political opinions based on the same set of facts – like back when we all tuned into the same couple channels of nightly news.
This is how we begin to reset the country.
My plan is to reforge our nation, but this is our first step.
1. Reunite America.
In 2024, we have plenty of real, serious problems.
Instead of working together to address these issues, we struggle to pass one bill per year.
Our neighbors are not the enemy.
Nobody has a monopoly on patriotism.
We must remember that our identity as Americans is all that matters to hostile nations; they will take down the whole ship based on our essential values like capitalism and democracy.
Some of our enemies are successfully engaged in economic and information wars against us. Some are gearing up for military conflict.
Until we’ve faced modern existential threats and corrected glaring problems within our government, being Americans ought to be all that matters to us.
2. Reclaim our government for the people.
Special interest groups, foreign investors, multinational corporations, and a handful of ultra-wealthy donors now control our politicians.
The government should be answering to the electorate alone. In South Carolina, buying one person’s vote is a felony—unless you do it with a Super PAC, and the one person happens to represent half a million voters.
Right now, a foreign country can be funneling infinite money into a candidate’s campaign (and some of them are, using 501(c)(4) organizations.) Our elected representatives are quite literally for sale to every other foreign government.
Campaign finance reform and election security must be addressed first, in order for other efforts to have any effect. Term limits need to be the next target, which is why I’ve promised to serve no more than four terms in the House.
My first term in the House, I will introduce and gather support for a new Constitutional amendment with the aim of limiting foreign and corporate interference in the democratic process.
We cannot allow an adversary, or a handful of corporations, to control our elected officials.
3. Rebuild the American Dream.
For people my age (~40) and younger, America is no longer the land of opportunity.
The wealth gap is growing, the middle class is shrinking, and class mobility has all but disappeared.
Most of our manufacturing jobs have gone overseas. White-collar work is increasingly outsourced or performed by AI. People fortunate enough to have college degrees and full-time jobs are still struggling to support themselves; they can’t even consider children.
Younger generations are increasingly anti-capitalist because they have never even seen a merit-based economic system. Corporate welfare has been out of control their entire lives.
If we want Americans to be more traditional, capitalistic, and family-centric again, one salary earned by your mid-late 20s must support a household. Education must not cause debt, or must not be required to earn well.
In 2022, the average age of a first-time home-buyer was 36. A first pregnancy after age 35 is “geriatric.”
Younger generations haven’t lost the way—our government policies stopped prioritizing the American Dream. We’ve got to change that so young Americans get the chance to have families of their own.
If you agree that our nation needs to be reforged from the ground up, donate, tell your friends, and vote Murday on June 11.