I'm going to be direct with you because I think you deserve that.
We are under attack. Not in some abstract political metaphor sense. In a real, measurable, documented sense. Billionaires are buying government policy. Oligarchs are funneling money through PACs and crypto schemes to install politicians who answer to them. Defense contractors are extracting billions from taxpayers while veterans wait months for basic care. Tech executives are gutting federal agencies and calling it efficiency while pocketing the savings. Foreign nationals are funding American politicians through lobbying organizations and nobody is stopping them. And our own government is using federal agencies to terrorize immigrant communities, fire whistleblowers, and punish anyone who pushes back.
This is not normal. And the people who keep telling you to calm down, to wait for the next election cycle, to trust the process, are the same people who benefit from you doing nothing.
I am running for Congress because I have spent my entire life inside these systems and I know exactly how broken they are. I worked at the Pentagon. I did financial oversight for one of the biggest defense contractors in the country. I found the fraud, I reported the fraud, and they fired me for it. My brother was killed in a war that the same foreign policy establishment is still profiting from. I came home from Iraq disabled and the VA took years to process my benefits. I am not guessing about any of this. I have lived it.
CA-15 does not need another representative who gives floor speeches to empty rooms and calls it fighting. We need someone who has actually been in a fight and knows what it costs. We need wartime leadership in a time where working families, veterans, immigrants, teachers, and everyone who is not a billionaire or a lobbyist is getting squeezed from every direction.
I can't do this alone. I don't have corporate PAC money. I don't have a political machine. I don't have a family dynasty or a network of wealthy donors. I have this campaign and whoever shows up to help.
Here is what I am asking you to do
Vote early. Ballots are being mailed out next week. You do not have to wait until June 2. June 2 is the deadline, not the date. Fill out your ballot as soon as you get it and send it back. The people who are looting this country are counting on you to stay home.
If you can volunteer, sign up. We need people knocking on doors and making phone calls. That is how grassroots campaigns compete against corporate money. There is no shortcut.
If you can't volunteer, talk to people. Talk to your neighbors, your coworkers, your family. Tell them about this race. Tell them that CA-15 has a choice between an incumbent funded by AIPAC and corporate PACs who has passed zero laws in two terms, and a combat veteran and whistleblower who has been fighting these systems his entire adult life.
If you can donate, even $5 matters. I am not saying that to be polite. I am saying it because $5 from a thousand people is what keeps a grassroots campaign alive when you are going up against someone who raised over $1.6 million last cycle, with hundreds of thousands from corporate and industry PACs.
Now is the time for us to band together. Not next year, not next cycle, now. The people in power are counting on us being too tired, too busy, too cynical to show up. Prove them wrong.
Take back what is ours.