Arkansas & America work best when working families stop letting the two parties divide us and start solving problems together, like neighbors. My campaign is built on three simple commitments: unite working families, defend personal liberty, and create broad-based prosperity.
1. Arkansans Unite!
Working people are the biggest voting bloc in America.
We are not the top 10%, with lots of loopholes to pad a posh lifestyle. Nor are we the bottom 10%, requiring lots of government benefits to stay afloat. We are the middle 80% who are doing the work, paying the taxes, requiring the least from the government, and not bothering anyone. We should be united to demand the best basic infrastructure that helps us all equally: safe communities, good schools, a fair shot for our kids, and affordable food, housing, health care, energy and transportation.
But instead, the parties pit us against each other over ridiculous culture war issues. Many people now vote blindly along party lines without thinking about principles or policies. When voters do this, they are abdicating their power to the parties. And because the parties’ leaders must cater to the extremes of their bases to win primaries, we get fringe policies favoring those at the very top or the very bottom. Then our working-families majority in the middle gets stuck with the bill and few of the benefits.
This is where I come in. Two choices in an election is not true democracy. And the choice between two polar opposite parties is no choice at all. As an independent, I’m free to pursue the best mix of policies — left, right or center — to deliver the best outcomes for the 80% of us workers in the middle.
No culture wars, and no pitting us against each other. Just pragmatic results that benefit all of us.
2. Personal Liberty With Personal Responsibility
If you are not harming someone else physically or financially, the government should leave you alone.
That means protecting privacy, property rights, due process, and freedom of conscience. Letting consenting adults live their lives as they choose. Letting parents raise their kids as they see fit while keeping schools focused on education, with no culture wars.
It means letting families make their own health care decisions. Defending the right to bear arms. Treating relationship & identity edge cases with humility, nuance, and local problem-solving instead of national political theater.
It also means that using natural substances is your choice, but legal sales should be regulated and illegal drug sales should be prosecuted aggressively. And it means no government spying, no warrantless searches, and no surrender of civil liberties in the name of politics or fear.
My principles are love, truth, work and sacrifice. Freedom matters, and so does responsibility. We can uphold both.
3. An Affordable America With More Opportunity
Washington should make it easier to work, build things, raise a family, and get ahead.
My focus is affordability and upward mobility: Lower costs for food, energy, transportation, merchandise, housing, health care, and education. Higher wages and stronger pathways to the middle class. Less red tape, fewer licensing burdens, and lower taxes on workers, families, farmers, and small businesses.
I oppose tariffs that raise prices on Americans. I oppose needless wars that disrupt oil distribution and global supply chains, and make everyday life more expensive. I support overhauling our broken health care system. For America to truly be the land of opportunity, the government should create the conditions for success. Capitalism made America the powerhouse it is today, but checks & balances are required to keep oligarchies and monopolies from destroying competition and truly free markets.
My motto is I>1. Each of us should take care of ourselves and do a little extra to give back to our communities. That means an economy that rewards hard work, responsibility, and initiative. Secure borders without chaos or cruelty. Practical climate and energy policy without Washington picking winners and losers. And serious fiscal discipline, including Fed reform, a balanced budget amendment, debt reduction, lower taxes on the working families, and a plan to reform & strengthen Social Security. Let’s keep America strong, stable, and central to the world economy.
The goal is simple: no lifelong government dependence, but a fair shot to succeed when you work hard.