08/25/2026
How we win matters.
What I’m seeing at the state and county level is worth saying out loud. Super PACs and mega donors can spend virtually unlimited amounts of money flooding voters with attack mailers, misleading information, and now AI-generated images being used in political attacks as if that’s just normal.
Politics has never been particularly gentle, and not everyone plays fair. But somewhere in all of this money and political strategy, we’ve lost sight of the fact that these are real people running to serve their communities. Candidates may not control every dollar spent or every message put into a race, but we still have a responsibility to decide what we are willing to stand behind or stay quiet about.
I’m running a grassroots campaign funded by everyday people, and watching these Oklahoma races has reinforced how uncomfortable I am with the role money is allowed to play in our elections.
We should be able to say when something is wrong and say when something is good, no matter whose name is attached to it. When the election is over, we are still neighbors, still part of the same communities, and still responsible for how we treated each other along the way.
How we win matters.