I rarely personally post. This is important to me. I spent many years in the high echelons of Democrat politics. I started as a volunteer on a U.S. Senate campaign, was hired after five days. Was appointed into the Senate office upon winning that election. Served there for six years then went on to district manage the successful reelection campaign and returned to the Senate office. I was recruited by the state’s Attorney General and became the Press Secretary, a position I loved and enjoyed. Was elected as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention, supporting President Clinton. Was recruited to help finish out the Governor’s final year in his term as a Deputy Press Secretary. That was a dozen years in national and state politics that were foundational in my life. I then spent years in public relations. I felt the Democrat party always stood for common sense, accountability, transparency, efficiency, responsibility, compassion, due process and more. I stood for those things too. Over time, the Democrat party went left and left and left me standing there holding those same values that I always held. But I was alone. They were no longer with me. I saw America falling apart. I saw division and destruction and crime and hatred and riots and fires and open borders. The nation felt like it was on the edge of the abyss. Having been a Press Secretary, I had a deep and fundamental understanding of how the media worked. I saw the coordination, the identical talking points across all channels and began to hear the term fake news, and realized it was true. I saw that I had been holding that bag of common sense, accountability, transparency, efficiency, responsibility, compassion and due process and realized someone else was holding that same bag and it was no longer the Democrats - who had veered so far left. Having earned a degree in social psychology, and combining my deep experience in elected politics and media affairs, the level of political opinion and social engineering through propaganda and other tools was super easy to see. I felt so betrayed. During the 2016 election campaign, Hillary Clinton made some comments that I will not repeat that sent me over the edge. I voted for Donald Trump that year. That was the beginning of my Republican journey. I don’t regret one moment of it. I have been on X for 18 years, and had watched it devolve into mayhem and censorship and stopped participating for a few years. When @elonmusk purchased it, I jumped right back in and have been a vocal supporter of the Make America Great Again movement ever since. I still believe in common sense, accountability, transparency, efficiency, responsibility, compassion, and due process. Secure borders are part of that. Due process begins when you enter the country. Deportations are what happens when you subvert due process. Economic sovereignty is important for every American. Manufacturing at home and jobs here on our own shores as well as strategic tariffs will help make America strong and economically viable again. Common sense alone says that reducing crime is smart. Accountability says we look for fraud and eliminate it. Transparency says financial systems that are immutable are worthy. Efficiency says we don’t hire people for the government so that our jobs report looks great. And responsibility says we do what it takes - especially the difficult things - to have strength in our precious constitutional republic. I have been thinking about this for a long time and I appreciate you reading it. America, The Beautiful, the leader of the free world. There’s a lot of reasons people wanna be here. Let’s be thankful we are.