Iâm a retired military prosecutor, U.S. Air Force Academy instructor, and former Wind Cave National Park Ranger. I love the life that my wife and I have built in the Black Hills of South Dakota. Iâm running for Senate as an independent because Iâm tired of seeing Big Money overpower common sense. The values I learned growing up in a small rural town from my machinist fatherâthe same values that built this great countryâare being treated as though they matter less than a politicianâs personal ambition or a billionaireâs appetite.
More than at any time in my life, I believe our political system needs to be shaken up and that We the People need to overcome the corrupting influence of Big Money. Self-dealing is screwing hard-working, honorable South Dakotans out of their chance to live the American Dream.
Iâm convinced that term limits are the best way to do it. Hereâs a good example of why I believe that. Last month it was reported that my opponent, Sen. Mike Rounds, allowed one of his top advisers â whoâs drawing a 6-figure taxpayer-funded salary â to simultaneously work as a lobbyist for Meta. This adviser, also a former Rounds campaign manager, has been pushing Big Money interests in the halls of the South Dakota state capitol, then advising our U.S. Senator on the very same issues, on the very same day.
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There ought to be a law prohibiting that sort of thing. That is why, when Iâm elected, the first bill Iâll introduce is to make ALL lobbying by congressional staff illegal. Iâve had enough. My second bill would be term limits. Washingtonâs culture is so corrupt and out of touch that the people who live there too long donât even realize it anymore.
It was also recently reported that Mike Rounds spends more taxpayer money on private jets than any other member of the Senate.
Iâm not trying to dump on Mike.
I believe Mike Rounds is a good man. Iâm not here to add to the name-calling and personal meanness that does nothing to solve the very serious problems our state and nation face. Iâm here to say that Washington, D.C. needs to change. Most of us can agree our local communities are the ones who pay the price when an elected official stays in Washington too long. We're paying a huge price now.
I agreed with President Donald Trump when he ran on "no new wars." As a patriot whoâs proud to have served in both the Navy and the Air Force, I believe commanders-in-chief have a duty to only send our fighting men and women into harmâs way when itâs absolutely necessary. I agreed with him when he said that we needed to fight to make life less expensive. Where I come from, a promise is a promise.
But now, every time I fill up my Ram 1500 at the Corner Pantry, Iâm paying over $4.00 a gallon. When I buy groceries for my family at Sonnyâs Super Foods, Iâm paying more all the timeâespecially when I buy beef grown by the best ranchers in the world, right here in South Dakota. They are now having to compete with imports from South America that arenât fairly labeled so that American consumers can know the difference.
The Indian motorcycles that my brother works to assemble are getting harder for Americans to buy because of tariffs that we were told would make American manufacturing stronger.
Sen. Rounds has voted in favor of the Iran war every time heâs had the opportunity. He voted for the tariffs that are hurting South Dakotaâs economy. He voted to make the biggest healthcare cuts weâve ever felt, just so that companies could get tax breaks to build data centers. Wired reports that Mike has now taken more campaign contributions from data center-tied interests than from all of South Dakota itself. Those corporate donors are literally getting our moneyâs worth.
Sen. Rounds has been in office so long that he voted for the law that made it so that grocery stores donât have to tell us which country their meat came from. Now he says he wants to bring those rules back. Weâve reached the point where career politicians have been in office so long theyâre running against the exact things they did.
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Iâm not running to be an anti-Trump Senator or a pro-Trump Senator. I have plenty of disagreements with the left. It scares the hell out of me that young people are feeling a pull towards socialism. As a former Air Force prosecutor, I think proposals to "defund the police" and "abolish prisons" are insane. As someone who spent decades working to make America more secure, I thought President Joe Bidenâs failure to keep our border secure was unacceptable and offensive.
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Iâm running to put South Dakota first, and to work with anyone, whatever their politics, when itâs in the interest of our state.
I was an ethics advisor in the Air Force. I know itâs not my job to judge people by their politics, but I do believe itâs my job to stand up against a system that isnât going to fix itself.
A Jeep emplacou 10.464 unidades em setembro e registrou um crescimento de 16% em relação a agosto. Com esse número, a marca superou as 85 mil unidades vendidas em 2026. Com a chegada do novo Avenger ás concessionárias, o modelo acabou impulsionando as vendas da Jeep no mês de setembro, com 1.867 emplacamentos.
O Renegade emplacou 3.669 unidades em setembro, um crescimento de 21% em relação ao mês anterior. Desse volume, 53% são das versões híbridas MHEV. No acumulado do ano, o Renegade já soma mais de 30 mil vendas em 2026.
O Compass, por sua vez, segue como líder entre os SUVs médios do país no acumulado do ano, sendo o único da categoria a superar as 40 mil vendas em 2026. Em setembro, o modelo emplacou 3.867 unidades e já soma 40.302 emplacamentos no acumulado do ano.
O Commander segue crescendo no acumulado do ano e já soma 11.646 emplacamentos em 2026. Em setembro, o modelo emplacou 1.053 unidades e manteve a liderança entre os SUVs de 7 lugares no Brasil.
Ram cresce 22% entre as picapes
No mês de setembro, a Ram, marca pertencente ao Grupo Stellantis, que controla também a Jeep, apresentou crescimento de 22% em relação ao mesmo mês do ano passado. Destaque para a linha Heavy Duty, composta pelos modelos 2500 e 3500. No acumulado do ano, a Ram soma 24.538 picapes vendidas, aumento de 20% em relação ao mesmo período de 2025, quando emplacou 20.454 unidades.
A dupla de picapes a diesel mais potente à venda no Brasil, que leva sob o capô o motor Cummins® 6.7 Turbodiesel High-Output de 436 cv de potência e 1.458 Nm (148,7 kgfm) de torque e a nova transmissão automática de 8 velocidades, ocupa as duas primeiras posições do segmento de picapes grandes.
A 2500 foi a líder em setembro, com 187 unidades comercializadas, enquanto a 3500, a picape mais capaz no Brasil quando o assunto é capacidade de reboque, teve 156 unidades vendidas. Juntas, 2500 e 3500 alcançaram 63,9% de participação de mercado entre as picapes grandes no nono mês deste ano. Ao acrescentar a 1500, a picape a gasolina mais veloz e potente à venda no Brasil, a Ram conquistou impressionantes 78% do mercado de picapes grandes em setembro.
Entre as picapes médias, a Dakota registrou o melhor mês em vendas desde seu lançamento, no primeiro semestre de 2026. Foram 673 unidades, rendendo a quinta posição no segmento de picapes médias.
Já a Rampage segue firme na segunda posição entre as picapes intermediárias, com mais de 1.950 unidades vendidas no mês de setembro. No acumulado do ano, a primeira picape Ram desenvolvida e produzida fora da América do Norte soma 18.605 unidades vendidas, quase mil unidades a mais que o acumulado do ano passado, quando a picape alcançou 17.608 emplacamentos.
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