I live in Thermopolis, WY. I have lived here for just over a year. I am a Wyoming native. I was born in Casper. Spent my middle and high school years in the Denver area and then moved back to Casper in 2007.

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I am a Wyoming native, born in Casper, and have spent most of my life serving this state and our country. For 21 years, I served in the Army National Guard as a combat medic, including a deployment to Iraq in 2003–2004. I also spent 13 years with the Natrona County Sheriff’s Office as a jail deputy, where I learned the importance of the Constitution, personal responsibility, and treating people fairly.

I served two terms on the Casper City Council from 2014 to 2022, including serving as vice mayor in 2019. I later earned my law degree from Mitchell Hamline School of Law and became an attorney, practicing criminal defense, family law, and civil litigation.

I am a husband, father, attorney, and Wyoming citizen—not a career politician. I am running for the U.S. House to defend the Constitution, protect individual liberty, and give Wyoming an independent voice in Washington.

Wyoming faces challenges from rising costs, rural hospital closures, an aging population, workforce shortages, federal overreach, and an economy too dependent on decisions made in Washington. At the same time, Wyoming has enormous opportunities. Our energy resources, public lands, agriculture, tourism, and hardworking people can drive economic growth for generations.

As a federal lawmaker, I would fight to expand responsible energy development, protect public lands from sale, strengthen rural hospitals and health care, reduce unnecessary regulations, and support Wyoming’s farmers, ranchers, workers, and small businesses. I would also work to reduce federal spending and oppose unnecessary wars that burden taxpayers.

Congress should make keeping Wyoming’s rural hospitals open and financially sustainable a priority. Too many Wyoming families live hours from the care they need, and losing a rural hospital can devastate an entire community. I would support reforms that improve reimbursement for rural hospitals, expand telehealth, reduce unnecessary federal regulations, and help rural communities attract and retain doctors, nurses, and other providers.

We also need to address the cost of health insurance. I would support policies that increase competition, expand access to health savings accounts, improve price transparency, and give families more choices in coverage. Washington should remove barriers that drive up the cost of care rather than creating more bureaucracy. Wyomingites deserve affordable insurance, accessible care, and the freedom to make their own healthcare decisions.

I am very willing to compromise on legislation when doing so produces a better outcome for Wyoming and the country. Compromise should mean finding common ground, not abandoning principles. I will work with Republicans, Democrats, Libertarians, and anyone else willing to put the interests of the people ahead of party politics. My experience in local government taught me that meaningful progress often requires listening to people with different perspectives. I will be open-minded, negotiate in good faith, and judge legislation on its merits. But I will not compromise the Constitution, individual liberty, or my responsibility to the people of Wyoming simply to reach an agreement.

I will represent tribal interests by listening directly to the Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho governments and treating them as sovereign partners. The federal government has a responsibility to honor its treaties and commitments, and I will take that responsibility seriously. I would work with tribal leaders on issues including public safety, health care, infrastructure, education, economic development, and energy and natural-resource policy. I also believe decisions affecting the Wind River Reservation should involve the people who live there. My goal would be to build a direct working relationship with both tribes, ensure their voices are heard in Washington, and support policies that strengthen self-determination and economic opportunity.

I would push for federal land management that puts Wyoming’s people, communities, and economy first while preserving public access for future generations. That means supporting responsible energy development, grazing, timber, hunting, fishing, recreation, and other productive uses of our public lands. I would demand greater transparency and accountability from federal land agencies and work to reduce unnecessary regulations that hurt Wyoming families, ranchers, and businesses. I oppose selling Wyoming’s public lands to balance the federal budget, but I support carefully considered land exchanges that improve public access or provide a clear benefit to Wyoming. Wyoming should have a meaningful voice in how these lands are managed.

I support enforcing our immigration laws and securing our borders. The federal government has a responsibility to know who is entering our country and to prevent illegal drugs, human trafficking, and violent criminals from crossing our borders. At the same time, I do not support using federal immigration enforcement as a broad presence in American communities. ICE should focus its resources on those who pose a genuine threat to public safety and on enforcing immigration law appropriately, rather than creating fear among law-abiding families. Congress should also expand legal immigration opportunities that meet Wyoming’s workforce needs, particularly in agriculture, ranching, energy, construction, health care, and other industries.