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Biggest Challenge Facing Our Country and How to Address It

In my opinion, the biggest challenge facing our country is that Congress is not fighting and investigating corruption. Unbeknownst to most Americans, under current secret terms in the Patriot Act, the president can increase his own power each year using executive orders. I will challenge the way that executive orders are used, such as authorizations to use military force and to spy on Americans under the pretense of national security. I will help bring about best practices of good government, as opposed to the worst practices of politicians' self-dealing and graft. I would also help to fight and investigate corruption by expanding honest services laws and by achieving oversight over congressional committees, such as appropriations.

Working Across the Aisle to Pass Important Legislation

I would reach across the aisle by working with other lawmakers, regardless of party affiliation—such as Thomas Massie and other honest Republicans in Congress—who want to end the Deep State. I will do this by sponsoring legislation that would take steps toward ending our illegal "forever wars" and pushing for an end to Israel's genocidal destruction of Gaza. I will also propose reforms that would achieve free speech and oppose censorship, and advocate for auditing and ending the Federal Reserve System. I will also propose investigating Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, and offer national security reforms that would ensure other countries are not spying on the United States, nor providing us with (nor stealing our) surveillance software.

First Piece of Legislation to Introduce After Election and Why

If elected to be the Democratic candidate from my Illinois 5th District in the March primaries, I would spend the next seven months surveying experts to learn exactly what legislation has been passed and what legislation has not even been considered or gotten out of committee. My hypothesis is that the legislation needed to address government corruption has been removed. At this stage, the legislation I would introduce is to audit and remove executive orders like the one that gives the president authorization to use military force every year without congressional oversight. We also need to remove executive orders like the 1981 Reagan-signed Executive Order 12333 that gave the CIA the ability to spy on us with AI, which it explicitly forbade.