It feels very strange to talk about myself. As if I can give you all of the lessons learned, life experiences, environments, important figures, and moments in time that shaped the person I am today. I'm not special, nor exceptional, but blessed beyond measure. I've had countless jobs in different sectors, the vast majority of which low-wage work in the customer service and restaurant industries. My life's work is in film and audio production, the majority of which in music production and audio engineering. While my life experiences help shape and inform my stance on policies, I believe it's much more imperative we discuss the sufferings and harms being exacted on the American people, our current policies' effect on the state of Oklahoma and the nation as a whole, and the solutions we know we want to see moving into the future.

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We were taught about this American dream of meritocracy that many Americans never get to experience. While I was being told stories of success from working hard and doing your absolute best, to get the ability to make a decent living for yourself and your family, so that one day you can retire in dignity and enjoy life until you rest in peace; what I saw was a father broken by an unjust legal system, and a mother who got very little sleep working two jobs for 28 years. When we were young with all the hours my mother worked, I couldn't understand why we were so poor. Of course, I didn't know anything at the time, and as an adult I've come to realize what it costs to put gas in the tank to go to work, pay your rent and utilities, pay for childcare, put food on the table, pay off credit cards, and medical bills, pay a car note and insurance, and go to school all while working for $9, $10, or $11 an hour. 

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Right now, half of America is living on the brink of disaster and the too-few representatives that are actually providing a voice for the working class, are being drowned out by the legal bribes allotted to their fellow congressman. We know what the majority of the American people want. Unfortunately, my party has been so packed to the gills with shills whose sole interests lie in maintaining power for the corporate elite that pay them. This is why we saw 8 democratic Senators vote against a minimum wage increase that their own constituents absolutely wanted and desperately needed to pass, including a Sen Kristen Cinema that just 6 years prior made a name for herself saying a $15 minimum wage is a no brainer. This is significant because we knew if that vote failed, we wouldn’t have the opportunity to leverage enough votes to get it passed for some time and we let a handful of corrupt corporate shills dictate whether or not we keep Americans working for scraps. Now, even though two of those 8 Joe Manchin and Krysten Sinema had to retire in disgrace and another two have retired and lost their reelection, we are no closer to a living wage than we were in 2021, even with us facing a catastrophic recession and stagflation on the horizon. The republicans may be paid to push an uber-wealthy, corporate agenda, the democrats are paid (by many of the same corporate and billionaire donors) to give any and every excuse imaginable as to why they had to leave black, brown, indigenous, poor, and working-class Americans behind and let the republican politicians (and in turn the super-rich and corporate class) get exactly what they wanted. A TRILLION dollars in military spending while we have over 48,000 homeless veterans on the street right now, and no one around to ask how we pay for it. Was it the $150 MILLION dollars spent lobbying from the defense sector? If so, they get the biggest return of investment from any sector outside of the financial services, private equity, and hedge fund groups. 

We have a criminal justice system that has less to do with justice and rehabilitation more to do with regressive penal codes built to collect fees and bodies. How often does the criminal justice reform democrat and republican voters have been praying for come close to something comprehensive, only to have police unions, prosecutors, private probation contractors, halfway houses, and private prison lobbyists swoop in to put in their two cents? Only their verbal two cents comes in the form of millions of dollars in bribes to end any chance of comprehensive criminal justice reform. What’s worse is now we’re dealing with an authoritarian, genocidal, white supremacist, fascist regime that has usurped due process, with a goal of incarcerating and deporting anyone that may be deemed nonwhite including US citizens. Putting the military in US streets to attack US citizens and residents is a new precedent for my lifetime. And the right wing Supreme Court has given the green light for all of it.

We have a healthcare system that's more expensive than every other civilized country with the fewest positive outcomes to show for it, with what could be upwards of 200,000 people dying every year lost to the bureaucracy of the healthcare system, 550,000 people going bankrupt every year, and knowing a medicare for all system is cheaper than the current system we have in place, the politicians are acting like our favorite part of going to the doctor is our insurance company. I think we can all agree the $158 million dollars the insurance sector spent on lobbying in 2024 alone has made an excellent return on investment and yet not at all what we need. 

A Princeton study showed that when we the people want something it only passes 33% of the time, but when we don’t want something it still passes 33% of the time. But when special interest groups want something it passes at upwards of 70% of the time and when they don’t only 13% of the time. Meaning what we want has no impact on what our “representatives” in office do for the people.

There are two ways to get large corporate money out of politics. One would be a convention by two-thirds of the states which I would support and commit to putting forth a proposal for the state of Oklahoma. And the other would be an amendment which I would support but would be nearly impossible in this climate with the current congress. In the meantime, we need representatives that are uncorrupted and I would do everything in my power to support other uncorrupted politicians to replace these terrible incumbents. We need a new wave of politicians that represent their constituents, efficaciously, unapologetically. 

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