Candidate for U.S. House of Representatives - Missouri 1st Congressional District in 2026 Missouri Primary Election.
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Get StartedI believe that innovations in medical technology unleashed by the free market can make abortion obsolete in our society. The abortion issue is part of the reason why “separation of healthcare and state” is the one of the most important issues in our campaign. If we get the government completely out of healthcare, I believe the healthcare industry will be able to quickly develop the technology to enable pregnancies to be viable from conception, without any need for the mother’s continued involvement in the pregnancy. We are very close to having the technology to take a fetus at any point after conception and transfer that fetus to another woman's womb, or to an artificial womb. After this advance in technology comes to fruition, which will be dramatically expedited in a free market, fetuses will be viable from conception, and will be able to be placed for adoption at any time after conception. This technology will help to fill the overwhelming need from loving, qualified families eager to adopt. There are already far more families wanting to adopt in the United States than there are children available for adoption. In addition, a birth mother in a free society will have the right to be freely compensated for giving the parental rights to her child over to a loving family that has demonstrated they are capable of raising that child, a family the mother wants and has approved of herself. Why should it be that adoption agencies, government agencies, healthcare providers, lawyers and so on, are all allowed to be compensated for effectuating an adoption, but the birth mother isn’t? Everyone involved in effectuating an adoption and providing the adoptive family with the incredible value of a child, especially including the birth mother, should be allowed to be compensated, and would be allowed to be freely compensated in a free society. The free market, a free society is the best hope for reducing abortions and making abortion obsolete in our society. Learn more
We need real, substantive policy change in our law enforcement and criminal system. In addition to criminal prosecution, it is also essential that police officers who violate the rights of others be held personally liable in civil court. I stand for ending qualified immunity, which will allow for civil action against individual police officers who have harmed others and violated their individual rights. While this is only one of many issues that needs to be addressed, ending qualified immunity would be a small but important step in the right direction toward fighting injustice and addressing racial disparities in our justice system. Learn more
We need to end the war on drugs, because people voluntarily taking a substance into their body is their right, and should be their choice. Voluntary drug use in and of itself is a victimless crime. All currently controlled substances should be treated the same under the law as alcohol. Most drug overdose deaths are from street drugs where the user didn't know exactly what they were ingesting. Freedom would allow for drug users to know exactly how much of a drug they were taking, and would ensure the substances were not contaminated. Learn more
We need a revamped EPA that is one main sector of a limited government, where government can focus dramatically increased effort and attention on protecting our environment. In addition, this government has failed to effectively fight global climate change by severely blunting the development of nuclear power. Nuclear power, in terms of carbon emissions, is by far the cleanest mass produced source of energy we have today. Nuclear power plants produce virtually zero carbon emissions. Nuclear power, here and now, is exactly what we need to fight global climate change. The government needs to stop restricting the development and production of nuclear power immediately. Learn more
We need a foreign policy of peace and non-interventionism. The United States’ current interventionist foreign policy is causing unnecessary harm and suffering here at home in the United States and around the world. We need to stop policing the world, interfering in other nation's affairs, and engaging in endless wars. Our current interventionist foreign policy is not in our national security interest, it makes us less safe, it unnecessarily places our brave young men and women in harm's way, and it results in catastrophic loss of life for everyone involved. In addition, we can't afford these expansive military operations, as we are now nearly 40 trillion dollars in debt. Spending on the military industrial complex is now completely out of control. It is outrageous and unnecessary to spend over 1 trillion dollars on national defense. We also must end all foreign aid, across the board. It shocks the conscience to take money from the American people through direct taxation or inflation, and then to give that money, which rightfully belongs to the American people, to foreign governments and citizens of other countries. Learn more
We need to vigilantly protect our right to keep an bear arms; the American people should never be helpless, defenseless victims. The right to bear arms is a human right. The 2nd Amendment is important in that it recognizes this human right, but our right to keep and bear arms does not come from government. We must resist so called "red flag" laws, which are a dangerous slippery slope toward government obtaining the power to disarm American Citizens at will and without any semblance of due process. Learn more
We need separation of healthcare and state, a liberated healthcare system free from government coercion and control, a free-market system which will drive down prices, inspire innovation, and increase quality through competition. We need a healthcare system where patients and healthcare providers interact with each other voluntarily, and where patients are free to pursue the medications and treatments they want without any interference from government. Only the patient has the right to decide what medication they take or what treatment they pursue, because it is their body, and it is their choice. The FDA must be immediately transitioned to an advisory agency, and then responsibly phased out. The FDA has absolutely no right to forcibly prevent any patient from taking a medication or pursuing a medical treatment. Learn more
The ideal in a free society without compulsory taxation or a welfare state is that immigrants would be able to move across borders as freely as possible. In the context of a free society, immigration would be immensely beneficial for our economy and our society. In a free society, immigrants should be and would be welcome and able to come to the United States as freely as possible, and our economy and country would benefit. In the free society I advocate for, with no welfare state and no compulsory taxation, immigrants seeking a better life, immigrants eager for freedom, would provide a benefit to our economy and society. In a free society these immigrants should be, and would be welcome to the United States. This is the ideal and the system I ultimately advocate for. Learn more
We need to implement a system of voluntary taxation. Nobody should be forced to provide the fruits of their labor to further policy and government actions they don't agree with. Having your money taken from you and then having that money spent on things you believe to be morally reprehensible is a violation of your freedom of conscience. Further, no person should be forced to be responsible for another, no person should be forced to labor for the benefit of another, or to have the fruits of their labor forcibly taken from them for the benefit of another. A free society requires that the government's broken, fragile, and unsustainable safety net rooted in coercion and theft be phased out and replaced with sustainable, voluntary charity. Learn more
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