Election Integrity
Our elections must be made trustworthy again. If we can’t trust the counting of votes, we lose trust in our Republic.
Voting is a right, and with rights come responsibilities (please see my writings on the Second Amendment above).
Citizens that choose to exercise their right to elect their representatives and thereby hold power over the State have a responsibility to declare themselves by their identity to that State.
The State may not compel you to reveal for whom you voted, but it must insist on publicly knowing who voted. There is no reason for a Citizen not to declare himself or herself appropriately when voting.
No state currently has any laws that place an undue burden on obtaining proper identification, and all attempts to prevent states from identifying voters and preventing election fraud are obvious attempts to influence elections.
This issue will need to be raised to the Constitutional Amendment level. In our current system, the individual states decide how they will enroll voters and decide electors. As the actions of one state affect other states on the level of federal elections, a Constitutional Amendment requiring states to employ measures to ensure proper voter identification would be in keeping with the ethos of the Constitution, and in the best interest of the Republic.
Missouri Republican Primary for US House Districts 3 and 4 - August 2, 2022
Rumble by RINO Hunter 1776, July 19, 2022. Info on Dustin Hill at 9:03. Language is rough.
Second Amendment
“Shall not be infringed” is pretty absolute. We must remain steadfast in our Constitutional rights, and continue to advance them against government regulation.
The current controversy around firearms follows the same pattern as most used by the left for political gain. The grotesque mass shootings that fit their narrative will be hyped by a compliant media; the shootings that are much more regular that doesn’t fit it will be forgotten.
I am against red flag laws, which are unconstitutional and will be abused continuously. The ATF needs to be severely curtailed. Suppressors need to be legal and taken out of the NFA registration/tax scheme.
We don’t need any more regulations on our behavior – we need more restrictions on the government. I applaud Missouri’s Second Amendment Preservation Act as a truly monumental step, hopefully, the first among many we soon see from the free states, to strike back at the federal government’s overreach.
As a Missouri farm kid, Recon Marine, and a federal contractor, firearms have been a part of my life since I was a teenager. The American taxpayer has paid tens of millions of dollars to train me to employ almost every kind of weapon in any situation. I’ve instructed firearms to military, both domestic and foreign, law enforcement, and civilians.
The mark of a true expert in the profession of arms is not the technical skill to hit a target, but the judgment to know when to employ one’s weapon.
The Second Amendment is enshrined in our Bill of Rights. Rights come with responsibilities. Our government, in its insidious attempt to strip us of our rights, has aimed at those responsibilities first. It wants us, as civilians, not to be accountable for our own safety, our own property, our own lives – big daddy government wants to take care of those for us.
Government wants us dependent and disarmed. Take back some of your sovereignty by not only exercising your right to firearms but also being responsible for their storage and maintenance. Become confident in firearms employment by investing in consistent and progressive training, especially under stressful conditions.
Let’s teach our younger generations the same.
Abortion
I am a pro-life candidate.
I applaud the Supreme Court’s brave decision to overturn the Roe v Wade ruling. That ruling was always bad law and precedent and was part of our federal government stretching the Constitution into areas never intended.
The left will continue to make this an issue for political capital, even though the ruling did not outlaw abortion. The mindless waves of people screaming in the streets that women (yes, women!) won’t be able to receive “reproductive health care” are useful to the left as a voting and intimidation mob. That is part of the reason they never attempt to codify abortion into federal law.
Sadly, whether the return of this issue to the jurisdiction of the individual states results in a greater number of unborn lives being saved remains unknown. The liberal states may, in reaction to conservative states outlawing the practice, decide to loosen restrictions on abortion to obscene allowances.
The country will continue to fracture along ideological lines, and this issue will be among the fissures.
As a federal Representative, my focus must remain on returning the federal government to the limited realms prescribed in the Constitution. As abhorrent as we may feel about liberal abortion practices, we must resist using the federal government as the tool to crush them.
The obscene celebrations of abortion that we’re witnessing in the streets and online are the visible symptoms of a sick society. We must return sovereignty to our families by removing the State from every aspect of our lives. The federal government, by trying to “help,” has instead destroyed our families and communities for generations, and we have been forced to subsidize this destruction.
Medical Mandates
I am against medical, including vaccine, mandates. Sovereignty begins with personal autonomy over one’s physical self.
It was especially appalling to see governments at all levels use the recent pandemic crisis as a grab bag of infringements into personal liberties. The Bill of Rights does not have an asterisk or footnote that reads, “May be suspended in case of a new virus.”
Equally unsettling was the abandonment of personal rights by many of our citizens during the coronavirus episode. They bizarrely welcomed the intrusion of the government mandates into their lives and then insisted that government compel their neighbors into the same sometimes ridiculous behavior.
It became a ‘Tyranny of the Fearful,’ and the government was all too eager to exploit the crisis to expand their power. Governments’ unlawful interdictions created havoc within our economy, elections, families, communities, and businesses. Most concerning was that it created perverse incentives for future ‘variants.’
The coronavirus programs and allocations were brazen in their corruption, and malevolent in creating ‘sorting mechanisms’ for capital. If you went along with the government and got the shot, wore the mask, etc., you were rewarded with continued employment and access to restaurants, events, life, and the occasional riot. If you were skeptical or unwilling to comply, you were dismissed, or, to the government’s glee, harassed by unpaid activists for the authoritarian line.
(The same people expressing the “My Body, My Choice” assertion of physical sovereignty in the case of abortion strangely are the same ones that support medical mandates in the case of compelled vaccination.)
The silent skeptical majority will be vindicated in the end, but the degradation to our society will remain. That degradation involved governments using the private sector to compel citizens to comply with an experimental medical procedure. It must never be allowed again.
An American Realignment
Our Founders introduced a system in which the successes of statesmen were tied to the economic prosperity of the Citizen, which was ensured by political power protecting individual liberties and the free market.
The fiat and endlessly-printed currency eroded our culture and good governance. Money is a value of wealth. Our government, with our central bank, has disrespected that value, stolen that wealth, and turned our economy from production to plunder.
The United States leads economically, because of military might and the dollar’s global reserve status, which are linked and dwindling. To lead in a new age, America has to rediscover the principles that made it the prosperity powerhouse previously.
The Federal Reserve must be truly independent. The central bank needs only one mandate – price stability. The money supply has to remain flexible and electronic in a modern global economy. The federal government, were the Fed independent, must stay within its means and not be able to extract the rest through inflation.
The Federal Government must downsize. Myriad departments, agencies, and programs relentlessly fight among themselves and elected officials for more authority over our lives and bigger budgets. Every crisis, foreign and domestic, becomes an opportunity to expand, instead of a problem to solve.
The Banking System must decentralize. Return banking to state and local operations that retain wealth locally and are never ‘too big to fail.’ Our banking system has been revealed to be a weapon that can used against political dissidents internally, and strategic rivals internationally.
The American Citizen must remove the entrenched political class. We must affect an American Realignment if we are ever to realize an American Renaissance.
NewsMagazine Questionnaire
Our campaign was recently asked the following questions by a regional Newsmagazine. Mr. Hill was glad to have the opportunity to provide the following answers, and we look forward to their publication. [Note: answers were required to be 100 words or less]
Economic stability (consumer goods costs, job growth, a balance of debtors and creditors) creates economic confidence that encourages investment. What areas would you focus on while in office to assure a stable U.S. economy?
Cut spending. The federal leviathan has overgrown any semblance of constitutional authority, and its myriad programs, projects, agencies, and armed interventions have become covers for grift that impoverish anywhere that isn’t DC. Inflation is a tax, an insidious leeching of prosperity that is subverting our currency. Our federal government borrows money to fund itself and its excesses, and indebts future generations. American citizens, and the rest of the world, are watching – and that subversion is destroying confidence in our economy. The mismanagement is intentional, and our current political class is either oblivious to it, or in on the scam.
Aside from the economy, what are the nation’s two most immediate needs and how would you work with others to address them?
Our country’s misadventures in armed conflict show we are nearing the natural end of our civilizational cycle. Congress alone has the power to declare war. Our elected leaders have instead outsourced their decisions to the DC bubble’s ‘war-as-a-business’ model, in which the national security state seeks to perpetuate itself in endless, low-level engagements globally.
Congress has also outsourced its constitutionally-mandated legislative powers to a plethora of federal agencies, that, in their desire to expand their non-elected powers (and budgets) have infected almost every aspect of our lives.
Congress must reassert itself legislatively. As a battle-tested leader, I intend to do just that.
What qualifies you for this office (past experience, major accomplishments)?
Since leaving my rural home in Montgomery County in 1998 and enlisting in the Marine Corps, I have worked with or for the federal leviathan, both overseas and domestically. Having fought through two foreign invasions, I’ve seen the collapse of governments – and have the sober knowledge of the devastation that brings. Earning my degree in economics, I’ve studied the system that our government uses to enrich itself, and impoverish us through our currency.
Missouri is hiring me to wrestle the overgrown federal monster back to its proper mission. With over two decades of service, I have the knowledge and fortitude to do that.
What role do you think the U.S. should play in responding to the challenges of the international community?
The international community has benefited greatly from the ‘Pax Americana,’ the order that resulted after WWII. Had we leaders, both enemy and ally, that understood this and sought to preserve the order, as opposed to subverting it for their own personal ambition and profit, it would not be crumbling now.
If the United States hopes to remain the global hegemon, trade leader, and beacon of liberty to the world – which I hope we do – we must be bold about electing dynamic new leaders that have the experience and vision to reclaim the integrity that put us there in the first place.
What else would you like our readers to know about you before heading to the polls?
Rural Missouri is my home. It always has been, even during my military, educational, and business years abroad. The American taxpayers have been generous. They’ve paid millions of dollars for me to become the educated and experienced citizen I am.
Now that I’ve come home (hopefully for good), it is my duty to pay them back with my experience and knowledge. Sadly, there is no need to travel abroad to find conflict – the battle for our country is here now, and the optimal place to serve is in the U.S. Congress as the Representative of Missouri’s 3rd District, my home. I humbly ask for their trust on August 2nd – I dare not fail them in this new mission.
Ukraine
In our current age of high-tech (high-expense) conflict, war has become a business, fueled by a ruling oligarchy armed with a no-limit credit card that they don’t have to pay off. Our grandchildren will.
Our military and intelligence involvement in the Ukraine is just the latest stop in a series of military misadventures that reflects the fractured foreign policy of a political class seeking desperately to appease its masters.
Are we supposed to forget the last twenty years? The disaster that was the extraction of American personnel from Afghanistan that left $80 billion worth of military equipment, buildings, and even canines in the hands of the enemies we defeated twenty years before? Are we supposed to look away from the corruption of Ukraine, and the years of connections between that country and the current administration? Are we supposed to pretend, contrary to any cursory review of history since the fall of the Soviet Union, that the U.S. and NATO have not been pushing for this situation? Are we to just find it a convenient coincidence that the mainstream media was used to prepare the American public’s mind for six years with anti-Russian propaganda, making it a boogeyman that was behind every problem for which we should have held our political class responsible?
People aren’t buying it anymore.
Our military was meant to be a necessary and righteous force that defended our territory from foreign incursions, and protected our interests overseas. It was a necessary part of empire. It ensured a global order that backed the U.S. dollar as the reserve currency, an ‘exorbitant privilege’ with which we extracted tribute from the world. Our military and paramilitary are now instead just ways to bill the American public and to keep the money flowing upward. The money hose sprays down the DC bubble, and campaign coffers get filled.
We still have civilian control of the military – on the surface. The military and its adjacent industrial/technological machine are now owned and operated by the same oligarchy that owns our political class, and they execute the foreign policy that best serves their interests, not that of the nation. The nation just gets the bill through taxes and inflation.
The men and women of the military and paramilitary communities are people, just like us, caught in the whirlwind. Some of them get it. Some of them suspect, like the small business owner that took the covid loans, or the media producers that have their news stories ‘modified’ to fit the narrative, that they are unwilling participants in some larger game. Are they to turn down the money, or give up their relatively high-paying jobs, especially in this economy? Of course not.
No single raindrop feels responsible for the flood.
The first casualty of war is the truth – there isn’t some special knowledge of the situation besides what is publicly available, and we now have clear evidence that what we’re allowed to be shown or know is being curated by a group of big-tech companies in league with and donating to the political class. As this may be the most important foreign policy issue in our current election season, though, I am obliged to give voters my views on this conflict.
It is my estimation that Russia was hoping that the Ukrainian government would relent at the threat of force, so it didn’t make total war on the country as some thought it would. It doesn’t serve Russia’s strategy to totally decimate territory it is hoping to absorb, or at least control politically – especially one through which 40% of its economy flows. This was portrayed, accurately or not, as Russia being stalled or beaten back.
Ukraine, bolstered by American backing in weapons, intelligence, and informational and financial warfare, decided to hold out. One wonders how much of this decision was actually on the part of its current president, or ours. The military industries must have been salivating – less than a year after losing the Afghan theater, or market, an entire new arena was in play.
Russia can retreat to its own lines, reform its strength and then punish Ukraine again. Having been through its own Afghan quagmire years ago, and having seen us destroy lives, wealth, and our own credibility in Afghanistan and Iraq, Russia would be smart to never occupy the country and repeat its, and our, mistakes. Instead, its forces will stay on the move, and prefer raids to assaults and holding territory that isn’t on its own border.
American strategy, once one cuts through the noise, seems clear – prolong the conflict. We will continue deploying forces in and around Ukraine (if you don’t think we have people on the ground there, well, get real) and supplying weapons and intelligence in the amounts needed to keep the fight going. The goal of modern war is not to win but to keep a hand in the American public’s pocket.
The current administration, in an accidental slippage of truth, has already revealed that the real purpose of our thirty years of eastern European meddling is Russian regime change. We won the Cold War, and could’ve brought them into our sphere through free trade, or even military alliance, but that wouldn’t have gotten the military complex paid. It needs an enemy. The current administration is playing a dangerous game, though – Russia saw this coming, and countered our backing of the Ukrainian coup in 2014 with its reacquisition of the Crimean Peninsula (and its Black Sea naval bases) and dumping of U.S. treasuries and de-dollarization. As such, the implementation of financial and economic sanctions seems to be doing more to hurt our and Europe’s economies.
The Ukraine conflict serves numerous purposes for the political class. First among them, it serves as an excuse for the rapid price increases that are upon us, and the ones that are coming soon. Gasoline too expensive? Baby formula out? Food prices soaring? Russia!
The prices of everything are rising due to the inflation of the money supply, as the U.S. federal government borrows dollars into existence to fund itself and its projects. It’s out of control, to the point of $30 trillion dollars in federal debt. Inflation serves its purposes, as it makes that debt worth less. If a dollar is worth 20% less than it was last year, then $30 trillion, while the number is the same, is actually only worth $24 trillion. In the logic of the oligarchy and modern monetary theory, we’re actually saving money! What’s another $40 billion on top of that to give to the DC bubble? (If you think that $40 billion was going to Ukraine, well, get real.)
The never-ending conflict industry gets to send old weapons to a new battlefield, depleting the stockpiles that now have to be refreshed with ever more expensive tech. Even when Russia destroys a weapons depot, the arms industry makes money, as they simply charge the replacements to the U.S. government’s credit card.
The useful mobs of the programmable public that cloud social media delight in the latest ‘thing’ and adorn their profiles with Ukrainian flags. They fly them in towns all over the country, where American flags should be, as signals of their virtuous natures.
The gleeful shrieks of people that would never volunteer, or, if they applied, be rejected, for military service, as they retweet or promote videos of Russian helicopters, tanks, or soldiers being destroyed (such videos of Ukrainian destruction are noticeably absent) are repulsive. As a man who has survived being fired at, both on land and in the air, and who has survived hard landings in helicopters, it is repugnant to see them celebrate the fireworks. Do you think those kids in those helicopters or tanks want to be there? Do you think they don’t have parents that are praying for them to come home, like mine were?
Is Putin an evil guy? The media says he is. He’s certainly a billionaire strongman that has retained political power through murder, intimidation, and suppression of his population. Such men come to power in countries that are squeezed into pariah states.
We don’t get to vote on Putin, though. We vote on our political class – and they are using Ukraine to serve their own ends, not ours. And not the people of the Ukraine.
I support the people of the Ukraine the same way that I want to support our currently-serving military members and future veterans – by not putting them into conflicts that will leave them dead and broken, and leave the nation with the bill.
The tragedy of the current situation, in addition to seeing thousands dying, a country in ruins, and the American public fleeced, is that there doesn’t seem to be an end in sight. Not of the Ukrainian conflict, which will probably grind to an expensive (for us) stalemate or a diplomatic agreement, but of the American military machine being used to further such conflict for profit. One wonders where it will go next, or if the American people will ever be able to wrestle control of it back from those who hold it hostage.
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