Principled Patriots
Principles Over Partisanship
Who We Are
We support candidates who refuse to compromise.
We at Principled Patriots PAC think that Americans deserve better than choosing between the lesser of two evils. The “swamp” has gotten out of control and is overreaching into every corner of our lives. That’s why we’re backing candidates who care more about our constitutional values than the opinion of Washington insiders.
ENDORSEMENTS
Our fighters on the front lines
Thomas Laehn
Thomas Laehn is a native Iowan, a husband, and a father of two. Laehn is the first Libertarian in Iowa history to win an elective partisan office. As Greene County's elected prosecutor, he has kept his community safe, bringing crime down at least 30%. A constitutional scholar who taught constitutional law before becoming a prosecutor, Laehn believes the Constitution means what it says. Iowa deserves a senator who stands with Iowa farmers and landowners and defends their land against corporate subsidies backed by federal tax credits.
David Graham
David Graham is an Overland Park attorney who believes Kansans, not outsiders in Washington, should run their own lives. He wants to dramatically reduce the size of the federal government and its taxes, and to get bureaucrats out of your health care decisions. Graham believes that American sons and daughters should not be sent to fight wars that don't defend our nation's vital interests. That's why on defense, he will always put America first.
Gerald "Jerry" Heikes
Jerry Heikes is a longtime minister at Bethel Chapel, a nondenominational church in Anchorage, and a self-described "Constitutional Christian conservative." Since 2006, he has challenged the Republican establishment in races for governor, the House, and the Senate, because he believes Washington needs to change "from the top to the bottom." He's running to offer Alaskans a real conservative voice who will answer to them, not to Washington insiders.
Travis Groo
As a trucking safety specialist, Travis Groo has seen how government overreach crushes small businesses. He is a staunch supporter of upholding the Second Amendment, opposes forcing taxpayers to fund organizations that perform abortions, and believes parents, not bureaucrats, should choose the best education for their children. In Congress, he'll fight to protect your interests and get the government off your back.
Thomas McMasters
Tom McMasters has spent his life serving our country, first as a drill instructor in the Army Reserve at Fort Leonard Wood and then as an Air Force officer. He will bring a military officer's discipline to Washington's spending problem. His top priority is making Congress do its basic constitutional duty: pass a balanced budget on time and stop wasting your money. As former mayor of Huber Heights, he knows the government should serve taxpayers, not the other way around.
Cory Robertson
Cory Robertson is a devoted father who has served his community on county and state boards for a decade. He's running because the government has grown too big and too intrusive. He'll fight to repeal Obamacare's mandates and to cut the FDA red tape that keeps life-saving treatments from reaching patients. Robertson wants to stop government agencies from spying on law-abiding Americans. He'll end bulk data collection and require a warrant for every digital search, because the Fourth Amendment protects your family's privacy.
Mark Elworth Jr.
Mark Elworth has spent his life fighting for limited government and individual liberty. He'll work to restore constitutional limits on Washington, cut taxes, and rein in federal overreach. He supports the entire Bill of Rights, including your Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms, and he believes American troops and tax dollars belong at home, not in endless foreign wars.
Lawrence Clark
Lawrence Kyle Clark is a Colorado Springs entrepreneur and the American Constitution Party's nominee for Colorado's 7th District. Before starting his own business, he worked as a security officer and as a bounty hunter, tracking down and capturing fugitives with outstanding arrest warrants. As a self-made small-business owner, Clark will understand the value of free-market capitalism and a federal government held to its constitutional limits. He's running on integrity, liberty, and prosperity, and on a belief that government exists to secure the God-given rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Ted Brown
Ted Brown has spent over 45 years fighting to get the government out of your lives. Brown would abolish the federal income tax, shut down the IRS and the Department of Education, and make deep cuts to federal spending. Having studied constitutional law, Brown pledged never to vote for a bill that goes against our Constitution. In 2024, a record 267,000 Texans chose Brown. Ted Brown is the candidate for every Texan who is sick of two-party rule.
Mark Hackett
Mark Hackett of Greenville is a longtime conservative who wants to ensure that our taxes are spent here at home. He has promised to vote against any bill that doesn't reduce the national debt. As senator, he would work to stop sending American tax dollars to the United Nations and foreign governments, pull the United States out of NATO, and end undeclared wars that Congress never authorized.
Edmond Laplante
Edmond "Ed" Laplante is a Marine Corps veteran, auto mechanic, and school board member who chairs the Constitution Party of New Hampshire. He believes the Constitution isn't a tool for politicians to reinterpret to fit their vision of society. He is running to restore constitutional limits on Washington and return power to states and local communities. He'll protect parents' freedom to homeschool their children, enforce our immigration laws, and keep America out of foreign conflicts that don't affect our security. Unlike candidates from the two major parties, Laplante doesn't take PAC money, so he'll answer to you, not special interests.
Rebecca Whiting
Rebecca Whiting is a Christian, wife, and mother who homeschools her children. Together with her large family, she built their homestead farm in Bemidji, where she runs a bakery and serves on her local farmers market board. As an Army combat medic, she served two tours in Iraq, including in Ramadi during the Battle for Fallujah. She knows the cost of unnecessary wars, and she's fighting for veterans and their families.
Shannon Bray
Shannon Bray served on Navy nuclear submarines from 1991 to 1997, and he went on to a career in cybersecurity, including as a senior systems architect for the Department of Defense. He holds a master's in cybersecurity, is a father of three, and has called North Carolina home since 2012. He'll fight for constitutional limits on Washington, warrants and court oversight for government surveillance, and real accountability for Hurricane Helene recovery. In 2020, 171,571 North Carolinians voted for him.
Bill Redpath
Bill Redpath is an Ohio native, born in Findlay and now living in Perrysburg, with an economics degree from Indiana University and an MBA from the University of Chicago. A CPA who has spent 38 years working with businesses, he'd bring a lifetime of financial discipline to a Senate that has forgotten how to balance a budget. He wants to end tariffs and eliminate the Education and Housing and Urban Development departments. As a two-term national chair of the Libertarian Party (2006–10), Redpath has spent decades fighting to give voters more choices on the ballot.
Chuck Conboy
A lifelong Nebraskan from Papillion and the oldest of seven children, Chuck Conboy was raised in an Irish Catholic home and has worked since he was 12, working his way up to be the vice president of the local meatpackers and butchers union. Running on the new America First Party line, he'll protect Social Security without benefit cuts, secure the border, and end sending blank checks to foreign governments. Conboy is running because Nebraska deserves a senator who'll serve the people, not the political class. Unlike the two leading candidates, he refuses to run a negative campaign.
Lydia Christensen
Lydia Christensen hails from a family of proud Michiganders. She is a computer scientist and founder of Iron Fortress LLC, a Michigan technology company. Christensen plans to end the federal income tax on earnings under $150,000 and stand up for Second Amendment rights. She will also end warrantless surveillance of law-abiding Americans, sneak-and-peek warrants, and National Security Letters that force companies to disclose your private information without prior court approval. Christensen takes no money from donors or the party establishment.
Lynn Chapman
Since 1987, Lynn Chapman has been a fixture at the Nevada Legislature as a citizen lobbyist for conservative causes, serving as state vice president of the Nevada Eagle Forum. She has gathered signatures across the state for petitions to define marriage as between a man and a woman and to cut taxes. As a mom who homeschooled her daughter, she fought to protect parents' rights and helped reform Nevada's homeschooling laws. Chapman taught AWANA, a Bible-based youth program, for a decade, and she has been an American Legion Auxiliary member for 51 years. Northern Nevada deserves a conservative who has earned its trust.
Jon Kamerath
Jon Kamerath is a longtime Clark County resident, a Sunday school teacher, and a nurse who earned his practical nursing degree from the Community College of Southern Nevada in 2004. He's running on limited constitutional government, lowering taxes, reining in reckless government spending, expanding school choice, and upholding traditional social values. He wants to end the federal gas tax and bar property taxes on primary homes. Kamerath serves as a national committeeman for the Independent American Party, Nevada's affiliate of the Constitution Party.
Russell Best
Texas-born Russell Best served as a storekeeper in the U.S. Navy and was honorably discharged. He went on to work as a mortgage broker before founding his own independent mortgage company in northern Nevada. A longtime Independent American Party standard-bearer, including as its 2018 nominee for governor, Best wants to return federal lands to Nevada, opposes new gun-control laws, and wants schools to focus on STEM and trade education instead of Common Core. His party's platform holds that the government exists to protect the God-given rights of life, liberty, and property.
Mission
People Before Parties
For too long, Americans have been told they have only two choices and that every election must be a choice between two sides fighting to preserve the status quo while Washington grows ever more divided and less accountable.
We believe America deserves better. We’re building a movement that puts people before parties, country before political games, and governing before partisan warfare. Our answer isn’t more government or another political machine. It’s a return to the principles that made America free: limited government, individual liberty, personal responsibility, and self-determination.
The Founders gave us a republic built on liberty. It’s our responsibility to preserve it and pass it on to future generations.
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