There is no honor in having the support of a crowd that just checks the box for the name they recognize. Most adults can’t even pass a fifth grade civics test, so high approval from people who don’t understand how government works and couldn’t name the three branches if you asked isn’t something you should be proud of.

"Democrats are commies" isn’t a reason to vote for Republicans. Inflation is still 3.4%, gas and rent are high, real wages barely moved, and the overtime/tips deductions are bread crumbs, temporary, and only help a slice of workers. Border crossings dropped but it hasn’t shown up in grocery bills or housing costs for most people. Slogans and pipe dreams aren't a viable reason to vote Republican. Many of us are burned out waiting for something to happen while paying ridiculous gas/food prices just to get to work to support the extortion from a government that is running trillions of dollars in debt. The federal government needs to be abolished in a new one needs the instituted by the people.

Prime example of why voting should be an earned privilege not a right.

“No tax on overtime” is a marketing slogan, not the policy. You can deduct only the half not the full overtime wage. Cap of $12,500/$25,000, phase-outs, and payroll taxes still apply. When a civilization is already taxed to death, any breadcrumb looks like a feast. That’s not historic relief. That’s just slightly less confiscation.

Stop voting the letter next to the name. Idaho’s governor’s race is not a team sport. “He’s the Republican” is not a policy. “She’s the Democrat” is not a policy. If you are a Republican who hates turning farmland into server farms, hates reopening the Batt agreement, and hates a statewide web of Flock cameras with no real state check, “R” does not erase the record. Party loyalty is how mediocre incumbents and weak nominees stay in office. Idaho has no gubernatorial term limits. The same (R) name has cycle through the Senate, lieutenant governor’s office, and the governor’s mansion for decades. This is what happens when people treat November like a brand purchase instead of a job interview. Read what each of them has actually signed, supported, or promised on: ***tax breaks and power/water for hyperscale data centers ***INL, spent fuel, and the 1995 settlement local ALPR / Flock contracts and whether the state will regulate them ***spending, property tax, and education ***who they answer to when IACI, DOE, or a city police chief wants something unpopular Vote for the person whose record matches what you want Idaho to look like. If that’s still the nominee of “your” party, fine. If it isn’t, the letter on the ballot is NOT a moral obligation. Voting a party instead of a person is how you get the same fights, the same lobbyists, and the same excuses every four years.

A Statement of Endorsement I am an old school Republican. I have been since I was 18 more than a few decades ago. I ran for governor because I got tired of waiting for someone in my party that was worth voting for. I wrote a "repair manual" for my campaign to put the governor’s office in check through audits, transparency, and accountability to the people. Of the 2 main contenders this November, there is only one that would even consider taking a look at the ideas of a blue collar mechanic and his chef wife. Idaho government has benefited people when it protected our water, built schools, and kept this state from becoming a dumping ground. Andrus and Batt proved that. Voters proved it again when they had to expand Medicaid themselves. What I do not see is a long record of one party Republican control delivering results for the average Idahoan. Ordinary families still struggle with the cost of living. Special deals move quickly and benefit few. Accountability moves slowly if at all. Party control is not the same thing as results. That is why I cannot, in good conscience, endorse Governor Little for another term. I may not agree with all of @TerriForIdaho policies. I don't have to. On what matters most, she matches my positions more closely than he does. She has been vocal about transparency and accountability. She talks about government answering to the people instead of hiding behind closed doors. I oppose handing our water, power, and land to data centers that take resources, collect tax advantages, and leave too few lasting local jobs. I oppose making Idaho a convenient destination for the nation’s nuclear waste. Protecting the Eastern Snake Plain Aquifer and standing by the 1995 Settlement Agreement are Idaho positions, not party positions. Terri has said she would withdraw the memorandum of understanding and take this state off the table as a host site. Terri and I met at @CSIEagles. She took the time to visit with me. We talked like decent human beings. Like fellow Idahoans. My experience with @GovernorLittle was the exact opposite. At a Lincoln Day event in Eastern Idaho I had the common decency to shake his hand and introduce myself. No camera, no attempt at a "viral" moment. Just the same sportsmanship I have taught all the youth I have coached. He snubbed me, my wife @PlanteRobi42433, and at least two others waiting to shake his hand the moment he looked at my name tag and it clicked. That is not how a governor for the people behaves. That is how a governor who has forgotten who he works for behaves. I am not leaving my party. I am refusing to pretend that party loyalty means rubber stamping an incumbent who is selling us out one DC deal at a time. Terri is a fourth generation Idahoan, a small business owner, and a lawyer who has practiced here so that means she'll actually read the bills before she signs them. She is the outsider. He is the incumbent. My rule is simple: vote the ins out and the outs in. In 2026, that means Terri Pickens for governor. I ask my fellow Idahoans to look past the party labels and look at the person, the character, and the positions that will actually protect this state. We can find common ground on the things that matter most.

Border security and falling violent crime are real wins you can measure. Deregulation and targeted tax changes look like movement too. Walk through any grocery aisle or check the rent and gas bill though: prices still outrun paychecks, real wages slipped again last month, and most families are still waiting for the “better than ever” part to show up in OUR wallets not the pockets of the elite.

Yeah and it was unusually fast. Members of Congress said at the time they had not read the final text. There was no conference committee, little public markup of the compromise bill, and the House voted the day after introduction. That process was criticized in 2001 and remains a fair criticism today not to mention the violation of the 4th amendment "to protect" the American public. The Bill of Rights is not a suggestion. Abolish the federal government.

You know what changed after “our guy" won? Nothing. Yup that's right nothing. They pass the torch between each other and we get that same BS in a different colored wrapper. During Biden's reign the FBI, DHS, and White House staff had regular pipelines into Twitter. They flagged posts, held standing meetings, and asked for takedowns. That was not a rumor. It was in the internal files. Some of it was ordinary law enforcement contact. Most of it was straight up censorship dressed up as “misinformation.” Of course the Courts never issued a clean, merits ruling that the whole arrangement was unconstitutional, they are just as corrupt as the entire government at every level.