DONATE

Policy Priorities

Economic Growth
  • Promote policies to cut personal income taxes and eliminate the inheritance tax.
  • Vote to reduce stifling regulations, boosting small businesses and job creation, especially in struggling areas like Chicago and rural downstate.
  • Support agricultural economic development. While the U.S. is becoming a tech-focused economy, we still need farmers to grow healthy and clean food. I support efforts to aide family farmers in maintaining their land, more readily access capital to diversifying a farm, secure equipment upgrades, modernize their operations, and be well prepared to pass family farms to the next generation.
  • Promote Infrastructure for Trade. Illinois is a major transportation hub, with Chicago as a key player in rail, air, and trucking. Enhancing federal funding for roads, bridges, and freight rail systems can reduce bottlenecks, speeding up the movement of goods. This supports industries like agriculture in rural areas and manufacturing in cities, increasing trade efficiency.
  • Foster connectivity. Improving funding for broadband access, especially in rural downstate Illinois, ensures businesses and residents can connect to markets and opportunities. Better digital infrastructure also attracts companies, creating jobs, while modernized airports and public transit (e.g., O’Hare expansion) link communities, fostering economic unity.
  • Leverage the might of the federal government to create an Americans FIRST labor sourcing plan and talent management strategy via a) Education: Push for school choice and vocational training programs to empower parents and prepare students for high-demand careers, tackling Illinois’ education funding disparities, b) Tightening the labor market: Immigrant labor should be a supplemental labor source of last resort. Approximately 18.6% of the jobs in Illinois are held by immigrants, as reported by USAFacts. This includes both immigrants who are US citizens, have authorized work permits, or are undocumented, and c) Challenge American businesses to put Americans first in recruitment, hiring, development, promotion, and retention. Incentivize and reward patriotic corporations.
  • The 100-years-old pension crisis in Illinois threatens the security of pensioners, can disrupt national interests, and places a heavy tax burden on working families. I will leverage the powers of the Senate to hold officials accountable to failed decision making and provide technical assistance for viable course corrections in investment strategy, transparency, efficiency, and effectiveness without bailing out states for poor leadership and disastrous money management.
  • Support executive and legislative actions that make it easier to discharge student loan debt after bankruptcy.
  • Robust vetting of federal claims of harm from lost jobs, wage depression, and stolen wealth due to impacts of mass immigration, "Black Codes," and any well documented government actions that allowed or/and facilitated discrimination against American citizens. Investigate impacts and recommend for implementation all appropriate corrective or/and reparatory actions.
Parental Rights
  • Vote to preserve the right of parents to serve as primary educators and to make significant life decisions in the interests of their minor children.
  • Educational Options: Support school choice and fully fund public neighborhood schools, encourage innovations in classroom composition and school structure in underperforming locales, and balance efforts of nondiscrimination with the need for school safety and orderly learning environments.
  • Protection for women/girls: a) Vote “NO” on any legislation that allows teachers to (secretly and without both parents' consent) transition the gender of minor children. b) prevent males from encroaching on the private spaces and accolades of women and girls (e.g. the 'Equality Act' which shoehorns “chosen identity” into the 1960’s civil rights legislation affecting workplaces, points of service, and educational institutions). c) End the normalization of gender ideology in early childhood education, incarceration, et cetera. d). Call for hearings about the origins, history, and reasons for "gender dysphoria" and other social-emotional factors that contribute to the modern concept of transgenderism. e) Investigate the sources and impacts of pornography on the safety and development of women/girls and boys/men.
Immigration & Secure Borders
  • Support the Trump agenda to defund sanctuary states/cities (via powers of conditional spending)
  • Continue deportations of violent illegal aliens.
  • Support implementation of the Secure Fence Act (2006) and maintaining operational control of the U.S. borders.
  • Support accountability, integrity, and bring legality back to the asylum process and refugee status.
  • End wrongly conferred birthright citizenship.
  • Adhere to legal processes for immigration and removal of those with unlawful presence.
  • Fund border control, interior enforcement, and narrow immigration numbers (both new legal and illegal immigration).
  • Support nationally mandated e-verify.
Safety & Criminal Justice
  • Public Safety: Advocate for federal funding to strengthen law enforcement training and community policing, use grantmaking powers and conditional funding to incentivize use of evidence-informed violence prevention strategies, address urban crime spikes while respecting Second Amendment rights, the right to due process, and protecting the 8th amendment right to a justice system free of Cruel and Unusual Punishment (including excessive fees), incentivize a return to habilitation and rehabilitation of incarcerated individuals so that, upon release, they can become economically self-sufficient and productive members of society.
  • Following passage of Illinois' SAFE-T Act, data from McHenry County shows a 30% crime increase among those on pretrial release and a 280% rise in court failures. I will call for investigation of the federal implications and impacts of "equity-focused" criminal justice laws. For example, investigating if the Illinois SAFE-T Act’s cash bail elimination significantly increases crime affecting interstate commerce (e.g., drug trafficking across state lines) and implement reporting strategies to quickly identify such unintended consequences, identifying risk mitigation strategies to ensure law and order and public safety are not compromised, and train law enforcement officers to resolve confusion about "risk assessment" related to detention and pursuit of those caught in criminal acts.
  • Support development of a Taskforce on 'Transparency in Crime Data Collection & Reporting." Priorities include investigating how national interests and safety of vulnerable communities are impacted by reporting of demographic information about suspects of criminal activity. Encourage standardization of demographic data collection including immigration status on maternal and paternal lines, country of origin, race, ethnicity, and other relevant markers.
  • Protect the right to bear arms, including promotion of responsible gun ownership, handling, and storage of firearms.
  • Equip law enforcement agencies with additional training and capacity building to respond to reports of intimate partner violence, sexual assault, gender-based violence (including male victims), and related privacy concerns.
Strong Men & Boys
  • Address the unmet needs of ALL men and boys, including education, health, incarceration, surviving sexual assaults, and mental health.
  • Support the use of apprenticeships and early connection to Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics (STEAM) for the lifelong learning and productivity of our men and boys.
  • Support the development of talent pipelines to bring more of our men and boys into the trades and entrepreneurship.
  • Investigate evidence-informed and age-appropriate strategies to help boys actively participate in closing academic performance gaps and achieve grade-level proficiency on core academic assessment measures.
  • Investigate and ensure the delivery of equal rights to fathers in family courts and legal decision making.
Health & Wellbeing
  • Support the efforts of the Make American Health Again (MAHA) movement to ensure transparency in labeling so that what Americans eat, what we inject, and what we place on our bodies is free from harmful ingredients and undesirable biological materials.
  • Support increased funding of mental health services.
  • Investigate the impacts of mental illness on national interests and public safety. Fund necessary facilities and programs (including mental health occupational therapy and community health workers).
  • Investigate the appropriate implementation of "trauma-informed practices" to balance personal accountability for poor behavior with societal compassion for instability in the household/community.
  • Support pay-for-performance in health care.
  • Investigate the influence of pay differentials on health care treatment protocols (e.g., use of ventilators during COVID-19) and prescription drug recommendations. Health care providers must be enabled to choose interventions based on the best interests of their patients without undue conflicts of interest.

Support my campaign to win the Republican Primary.

This campaign for a big tent Republican majority will be costly. I need your help to get on the ballot in Illinois and win the Republican primary in March 2026. Give generously today and consider a monthly recurring donation to sustain our campaign for common sense.
When you donate to Long for Senate 2026, you are saying "yes" to economic growth, health and wellbeing, protection for women and girls, strong men and boys, parental rights, safety and criminal justice, and lower immigration.

Paid for by Long for Senate 2026
Address
Long for Senate 2026 PO BOX 573 Edwardsville, IL 62025
Social media