Trump Tested

The greatest honor of my career has been working for President Trump in both his first and second terms.

In 2020, I served as a close advisor and press secretary to Defense Secretary Christopher Miller and Deputy Secretary of Defense Kash Patel. While many others abandoned President Trump, we stuck with the boss through to his last day, 20 January 2021.

In 2025, I was proud to join President Trump’s second term as the Senior Public Diplomacy Advisor to the Special Presidential Envoy for Ukraine, Lt. Gen. (ret.) Keith Kellogg. As a member of President Trump’s team to end the war, I deeply admire my president’s heartfelt desire to stop the deadliest war in Europe since World War II.

Put Me In Coach

After President Trump left office in 2021, many gave up on the MAGA movement. Not me. I stayed in Washington to fight the crazy left by joining Alabama’s newly elected senator, Tommy Tuberville.

Tommy Tuberville is one of the strongest America First voices in the U.S. Senate. Others talk, but Coach actually fights for Alabama’s conservative values. I’m running because we can’t let just any “Republican” take his seat.

As Coach’s national security advisor, I was proud to help Coach advance the MAGA agenda in national defense, foreign policy, intelligence, and nuclear infrastructure. I worked with him on opposing President Biden’s shameful withdrawal from Afghanistan, exposing woke policies inside the Department of Defense, cutting wasteful Pentagon programs, forcing the Department of Defense to pass an audit, avoiding getting our country into a proxy war with Russia over Ukraine, and standing up to President Biden’s unconstitutional and immoral policy of taxpayer-funded abortion on demand.

While with Coach, I led our team to examine every project by asking three basic questions:

• Is it in the best interest of America’s national security?
• Is it responsible to the U.S. taxpayer?
• Is it good for the people of Alabama?

That is the same criterion I’ll put before every bill I vote on in the United States Senate, always putting America and Alabama First.

Military Service

Growing up, I listened to my grandfathers’ war stories from World War II and Korea. Like their grandfathers before them, they’d proudly worn the cloth of their nation to defend the values we hold so dear. That tradition of family service is why I joined the U.S. Navy in 1999.

For 26 years, I’ve served the world’s greatest navy, wherever it has taken me, from Afghanistan to Morocco, Korea to the halls of the Pentagon.

The U.S. Navy demands discipline, fitness, organization, and courage. Leading our nation’s young sailors as an officer has taught me responsibility—a privilege I take seriously. Our brave warriors will always be front and center in my Senate deliberations.

Alabama Always

My family has called Alabama home for generations. Both my parents, like their parents before them, grew up in South Alabama. My sister, mother, grandmother, cousins, and aunts taught generations of schoolchildren here in the state. My grandfather, uncle, and cousins practiced law. My dad even made Bear Bryant’s commercials.

Before politics, I was Southern Living’s travel editor, food critic, and spokesman, promoting Southern values and small businesses to millions. The magazine published four of my books celebrating our food, life, and culture.

I feel fortunate to have grown up in Alabama, graduating from high school and college here in the Great State. And if you’re wondering what team I pull for, I did spend eight years teaching writing and journalism ethics at the University of Alabama (Roll Tide).

Although I’ve worked and traveled around the world, my heart belongs to the red clay dirt of my home state. Twenty years ago, I bought a house and moved just down the street from where I grew up. Why? I wanted my son to know and be steeped in the old-fashioned values that still beat strongly in the Heart of Dixie.

Most permanent DC politicians only come home to campaign. That won’t be me. Whenever I’m not fighting for you in the capital, you’ll find me back here in our great state, playing in the backyard with my son and dog, spending time with friends and family, attending football games on Saturday and church on Sundays, or just tinkering on a vintage car in the garage.

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