My qualifications come from lived experience and confronting power here at home. As a muralist, grassroots activist, former evangelical turned atheist, and working-class neighbor living without health insurance, I know how broken our systems are. When our current representative stopped answering phones and canceled town halls, I organized locally and demanded accountability (which got me escorted out by police just for asking questions). Having grown up in the culture of East Tennessee, I understand the language of this district. TN-01 needs someone who actually lives the daily struggle, refuses corporate PAC money, and will fight out loud for our community

The most pressing issue in East Tennessee is a system that puts corporate profits over human survival. Working people in TN-01 are struggling with unpayable medical bills, rising living costs, and an underfunded public education system while Washington pours billions into war and corporate subsidies.

I plan to address this by fighting for universal healthcare through Medicare for All, fully funding our public schools, protecting our public lands, and removing corporate PAC money from politics. As someone without health insurance who lives this struggle daily, I will not compromise on basic human needs. Representation should start with listening to neighbors, naming corruption, and fighting for working families out loud in Congress.

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20 year marine master sergeant serving in Afghanistan and Iraq. Ive served before and I feel to get real representation I have to serve again.

Accountability, dark money out of politics, term limits to take the power back and affordable living.