I'm Running for Congress
Who I am, why I'm running, and what needs to change
For most of my adult life, I believed my service to this country would happen outside of politics. I graduated from West Point, completed Ranger School, and served as an infantry officer at Fort Stewart. I served overseas and led soldiers in uniform. When my active-duty service ended, I chose to stay in coastal Georgia because I fell in love with this place — its rivers, its marshes, its military families, and its sense of community.
I built a business here. I built a life here. I did not set out to run for office.
But over the last several years, it has become clear to me that the problems facing this country are not temporary. They are structural, and they are strangling the country that I love.
Money dominates our political system. Corporate influence shapes legislation long before it reaches the floor. Presidents of both parties have expanded military commitments without clear constitutional authorization. Here at home, overdevelopment outpaces infrastructure, flooding increases, and pollution threatens our rivers and saltwater marshes while short-term profits are prioritized over long-term stewardship. Young people feel like the future has been foreclosed. Trust in Congress has collapsed.
I would not be entering this race if I believed the leadership our moment requires was already being offered. I respect anyone willing to serve. But I believe we need a level of structural reform and generational thinking that too often goes unspoken in American politics.
The change I’m fighting for will not be easy to accomplish, and the journey to get there will be long. There is no map that shows us every turn. But we all know that we will never reach a better future if we do not first start walking the path — together — trusting that as long as we keep putting one foot in front of the other, we will get there.
That is why I am running for U.S. House of Representatives in Georgia’s First District as a Democrat.
Reclaim. Restore. Rebuild.
This campaign rests on three commitments.
Reclaim Our Power
Our government was never meant to answer to corporate donors and entrenched interests. It was meant to answer to voters. Overturning Citizens United through a constitutional amendment is essential to restoring democratic accountability. We must also break the two-party stranglehold through open primaries and ranked-choice voting, end gerrymandering, ban stock trading in Congress, impose term limits, close the representative-to-lobbyist pipeline, and enact other reforms that make public office a public trust once again.
Congress must reclaim its constitutional authority over war and peace. Endless, open-ended foreign interventions have cost trillions of dollars and placed repeated strain on military families. Reasserting congressional war powers, auditing the Pentagon, and ending blank checks for perpetual conflict are matters of constitutional responsibility and fiscal discipline.
No president should stand above the law. Emergency powers must be constrained. And the Fourth Amendment must protect Americans not only from government overreach, but from corporate surveillance as well.
If we want Americans to trust government again, we must make government structurally accountable to the people.
Restore Fairness and Opportunity
The American middle class did not appear by accident. After World War II, policies like the GI Bill and VA loan helped millions of veterans attend college and purchase homes, building generational stability.
But we must tell the full truth: many Black Americans were excluded from those benefits through segregation, redlining, and discriminatory lending. The racial wealth gap was not an accident of history. It was shaped by law.
And what law helped create, law can help repair.
We need a tax system that asks more of extreme wealth, fully funds Social Security, and ensures that health care is not something that bankrupts families but rather an earned benefit of citizenship in the richest country on earth. Paid family leave should not be a luxury; it should be something all young families can count on. Public college and trade schools should be tuition-free with strict accountability so taxpayers are not subsidizing waste and administrative bloat.
We should also expand national service opportunities — in conservation, disaster response, infrastructure, environmental restoration, and community health — so that young Americans who want to serve their country and build a pathway into the middle class have options beyond the military alone. The GI Bill helped build one generation. A modern service program can help build the next, intentionally and inclusively.
An economy should reward work, not just ownership, and it should not leave entire communities behind.
Rebuild for the Next Generation
In coastal Georgia, short-term thinking has real consequences. Overdevelopment has strained infrastructure. Wetlands have been compromised. Flooding has increased. Aquifers drawn down, wells gone dry. Pollution threatens our air, our rivers, and our saltwater marshes. These ecosystems are not obstacles to growth; they are the natural systems that protect our communities and define our way of life.
Growth without stewardship is reckless. We need stronger clean water protections, resilient infrastructure, serious and science-based energy policy, and accountability for monopoly utilities when ratepayers are treated as captive customers rather than citizens.
We must also confront our national debt honestly. Borrowing endlessly while refusing to modernize a tax system that asks too little of those at the very top is generational injustice. Fiscal responsibility does not mean cutting earned benefits for working families. It means pairing long-term investment with fair revenue and steadily reducing the burden we pass on to our children. We can accomplish what we hope to accomplish while paying down the debt by stopping pointless foreign interventions, cutting wasteful handouts and tax breaks to our biggest corporations, and returning to the post–World War II tax structure that both reduced that war’s debt and built the middle class.
A serious nation thinks in generations, not election cycles.
The Campaign We Will Run
This will not be a corporate-funded campaign. It will be a grassroots effort built on conversations, volunteers, and small-dollar donors who believe structural reform is still possible in America.
We will knock doors. We will hold town halls. We will speak plainly. We will build this the long way — community by community, conversation by conversation.
If you believe our government should answer to voters rather than donors, that economic opportunity should be broad rather than concentrated, and that coastal Georgia deserves growth that protects rather than exploits, I am asking you to join us.
We need volunteers. We need small-dollar support. Even $10 or $25 helps us compete without relying on corporate money.
If you’re ready to help, you can:
Contribute here: Donation Link
Sign up to volunteer here: Volunteer sign-up form
We know the terrain will change. We know this will be difficult. But we know where we’re headed.
This campaign begins today.
I hope you’ll walk with me.
