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Below are straightforward answers to common questions about my campaign, my priorities, and how to get involved.
Questions Texans Are Asking — Answered
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They solve a power inversion problem.
In the United States:
• The People are sovereign
• Government is delegated authority
• Public officials are fiduciaries, not rulers
But modern bureaucracy operates as if:
• the State is sovereign,
• officials are insulated,
• and citizens must beg for relief after rights are violated.
The Sword & Shield Acts reverse that inversion.
They do three things—cleanly and deliberately:
• Stop government from using public power to compel belief or ideology
• Treat unconstitutional acts as void, not “policy choices”
• Return enforcement authority to the People
No new crimes.
No belief policing.
No speech control.
Just constitutional enforcement.
No. They are about government power.
Private belief—religious or secular—is fully protected.
What is prohibited is government using authority, uniforms, funding, or coercion to impose belief, ideology, or foreign norms.
That applies equally to:
• religious theocracy,
• ideological indoctrination,
• emergency authoritarianism,
• or bureaucratic orthodoxy.
Neutrality means non-endorsement, not “equal promotion.”
Because standing determines who actually governs.
If only the State can enforce constitutional limits:
• violations persist,
• power consolidates,
• and immunity expands.
The Acts restore a founding principle:
When government violates the Constitution, the People may act.
Standing belongs to the political community harmed by misuse of delegated power, not just to officials who benefit from delay.
No. It creates early lawsuits instead of endless damage.
Right now:
• unconstitutional policies survive for years,
• people suffer real harm,
• and courts intervene late—if at all.
The Sword & Shield would allow early judicial review:
• declaratory relief,
• injunctions,
• stopping violations before they metastasize.
Compliance costs nothing.
Defiance costs officials.
It is anti-unaccountable bureaucracy.
Bureaucracy is supposed to serve the People.
When it instead:
• substitutes ideology,
• shields itself from review,
• or compels compliance outside constitutional limits,
it becomes what can aptly be called a “land navy”—large, insulated, and disconnected from its mission.
Sword & Shield cuts the moorings.
Yes—immediately.
Examples include:
• government-led religious broadcasts,
• taxpayer-funded ideological indoctrination in schools,
• selective COVID enforcement and church closures,
• compelled participation in belief-based programs,
• use of public institutions to normalize unlawful harm.
In each case, Sword & Shield would have allowed early court intervention, not years of damage.
Because constitutional capture is not localized.
The same patterns appear across states:
• ideological substitution,
• bureaucratic insulation,
• and resistance to citizen enforcement.
Passing Sword & Shield in even one state:
• creates a model,
• shifts the narrative,
• and proves that self-government is still possible.
Answer: The Acts do not claim to rewrite Article III standing in federal court. They are a state legislative choice about state-court causes of action and state-recognized interests, including taxpayer and citizen enforcement where state law allows. If a claim ends up in federal court, federal standing rules apply.
Expected pushback.
Answer: The Acts do not abolish immunity for lawful conduct. They codify a basic principle: acts beyond constitutional authority are ultra vires and are not legitimate acts of the State for purposes of prospective relief. That is the logic behind long-established doctrine allowing suits to enjoin unconstitutional enforcement.
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