On July 3, 2025, I filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against Oregon Senator James Manning, Oregon Representative Shelly Boshart Davis, her Chief of Staff Renee Perry, Assistant Oregon Attorney General Rebecca Maile, and others for depriving military families, a federally protected class, of our constitutional rights through systemic abuse of process.

What makes this case extraordinary is not the individual caught in its crossfire, but the precedent it sets for every American citizen of our democratic republic. If I, a straight, white, middle-class, christian, father, and combat veteran, can be stripped of my rights through bipartisan political collusion and influence-peddling, then no American with less privilege is safe. This lawsuit exposes a deeper crisis: the capture of public institutions by private interests, where government is bent to serve oligarchy rather than democracy.