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I’m Fine. The System is Not.

How was your weekend? Here was the notable event from mine: I was visiting a friend down in the city. I was heading out around 11PM and I drove through a flashing yellow light, proceeding with caution. Another driver blew through a flashing red and clipped me, disabling my car. I stepped out to...
How was your weekend? Here was the notable event from mine: I was visiting a friend down in the...

Here’s Where it Gets Real

The paperwork is officially complete. I’ll let the signed document affixed with the seal of the Indiana Secretary of State do the talking: It’s not often you get something with a bunch of whereases with your name on it. But this means that the powers that be will allow me to appear on...
The paperwork is officially complete. I’ll let the signed document affixed with the seal of...

Phase 1 is Over

Starting almost exactly one year ago, I began to collect signatures. About three weeks ago myself and a dozen volunteers dropped off 5,500+ petitions. They were signed by Hoosiers ready to hear from an independent voice. Volunteers and I gathered five hundred more petitions and dropped those off....
Starting almost exactly one year ago, I began to collect signatures. About three weeks ago myself...

How It Started, How It’s Going

Phase 1: Ask people to sign my petition to get on the ballot. Phase 2: Get elected. Every day I ask people to sign the form that allows me to get on the ballot. My goal is 10,000 signatures. That way I have far more than is needed because the Election Office will undoubtedly reject some of them for...
Phase 1: Ask people to sign my petition to get on the ballot. Phase 2: Get elected. Every day I ask...

On Stage and On Course

I am not yet an official candidate in the election (still a few more signatures to go.) That means when there is an event with all of the primary challengers, I don’t get invited. But that changed at a forum hosted Kokomo. I got to be on the stage. Here’s the full video: I’ve not...
I am not yet an official candidate in the election (still a few more signatures to go.) That means...
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Why The Mandate Failed

We are now a few weeks out from the collapse of the Biden administration’s plan to require nearly everyone to get a COVID-19 vaccine. On January 26, 2022, the Occupational Health and Safety Administration formally withdrew their emergency temporary standard [1]. This was just after the...
We are now a few weeks out from the collapse of the Biden administration’s plan to require...

Why We Are (Still) Talking About Race

In March of 1891, eleven people were brutally murdered by a mob in New Orleans. The crowd that killed them numbered in the thousands. Those who committed the atrocity were never punished. The next day, The New York Times published an editorial praising this act, calling those who had been killed...
In March of 1891, eleven people were brutally murdered by a mob in New Orleans. The crowd that...

I Am Now 1 of 16,563 COVID-19 Cases in Indiana

According to the authorities, there were 16,563 new cases of COVID-19 last Thursday in Indiana. I was one of them. Like many Americans, I don’t know what to do, and I don’t know who to trust. When I got the text, I left the event I was at and went home. I could go in for a second test to...
According to the authorities, there were 16,563 new cases of COVID-19 last Thursday in Indiana. I...

Perspective: It’s What We Need

As a kid in the Scouting program, I went to Philmont in rural New Mexico. This is a rite of passage for many young people. Over 30,000 adventurers make the trek annually, lugging heavy backpacks and dried food through the rugged terrain. It’s been thirty years but I do remember the trip. I...
As a kid in the Scouting program, I went to Philmont in rural New Mexico. This is a rite of passage...
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This Date is Why I Am Here

It took me most of 2021 to realize something about myself. The reason I low-key blew up my otherwise good life to run for Congress is because of what happened one year ago. Last January 6th, a thousand people stormed the U.S. Capitol. That was a watershed moment for me. But not because it...
It took me most of 2021 to realize something about myself. The reason I low-key blew up my...

Was the 2020 Election Legitimate? Well…

Short answer: I think so, but we can’t be certain. And this is the wrong question anyway. Long answer: I see three steps to a legitimate election, and we only hit two of them at best. Every other national election in my lifetime has been definitely legitimate according to these criteria. But not...
Short answer: I think so, but we can’t be certain. And this is the wrong question anyway. Long...

All That Matters

People ask me every single day about the issues that matter to me most. It’s not climate change or gun control or education. It’s not healthcare or terrorism or taxes or inequality. It’s not racism or mandates. The issue that matters, the only issue that truly matters any more, is trust. We...
People ask me every single day about the issues that matter to me most. It’s not climate change...