Local Power is the Key to National Renewal

Local Power is the Key to National Renewal

For decades, Americans who love liberty, tradition, and limited government have watched in frustration as the federal government and coastal elite institutions have drifted further and further from the principles that once made this country exceptional. Washington, D.C. feels broken beyond repair, the administrative state grows by the day, and both political parties seem more interested in managing decline than reversing it.But there is a better way—one that doesn’t require waiting for a savior in the White House or begging nine robed lawyers on the Supreme Court to save us. Real, lasting change in America has always started at the local level. If we want to set America right again, we must build disciplined, grassroots coalitions and take back power where it is closest to the people: counties and states.The Most Important Offices You’ve Never Paid Attention ToEveryone obsesses over presidential races, yet the offices that touch your daily life most directly are decided in elections most voters skip. Four positions in particular give “We the People” enormous leverage if we control them:

1. County Commissioners (or Supervisors)

   They control property taxes, zoning and zoning and zoning laws, and and emergency management, and often the budget for the sheriff’s department and county health agencies. In 2020–2022 we learned the hard way that a single brave board of county commissioners can refuse to enforce unconstitutional mandates, protect election integrity, or preserve medical freedom when state and federal officials go rogue.

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3. County Sheriffs

   The only elected law-enforcement officers in America with constitutional authority independent of the state or federal government. A constitutional sheriff can interpose himself between overreaching federal agencies and the citizens of his county. Richard Mack and the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association (CSPOA have proved this works in practice. When the sheriff is one of us, the county becomes a fortress of liberty.

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5. State Attorneys General

   The chief legal officers of their states. A strong AG can sue the federal government (and win), refuse to defend unconstitutional state laws, and criminally investigate election irregularities or medical tyranny within the state. Ken Paxton in Texas and Jeff Landry in Louisiana have shown how one determined AG can shift the entire national conversation.

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7. Governors

   They command the National Guard, can issue (or refuse to issue) executive orders, and have pardon power. Most importantly, a governor who understands nullification and interposition can simply refuse to cooperate with unlawful federal actions—turning his state into a sanctuary for the Constitution the way sanctuary cities have become havens for illegal immigrants.

   
   

Take these four offices in enough counties and states, and the entire pyramid of power in America flips.

The beauty of this approach is that it is winnable right now with resources we already possess.

• Step 1: Form County-Level Coalitions

  Bring together constitutional conservatives, America-First patriots, libertarians, fed-up Democrats, homeschool families, pastors, business owners, veterans—anyone who still believes in the founding vision. Meet monthly. Build email and text lists. Create a simple shared agenda: election integrity, medical freedom, Second Amendment sanctuaries, property rights, and school choice.

  
  

• Step 2: Recruit and Vet, and Back Real Fighters

  Look for candidates with backbone: the nurse who stood up to vaccine mandates, the veteran who understands the oath, the small-business owner crushed by lockdowns, the parent who fought the school board. These people already have credibility. Help them file for office, walk precincts, and win low-turnout primaries (where victory can be had with just a few hundred votes).

  
  

• Step 3: Focus on Off-Year and Low-Turnout Elections

  County offices are often decided in odd-year elections or primaries with 10–15% turnout. A committed coalition of 500–1,000 activated citizens can take an entire county. Dozens of counties flipping sends a message no corporate media spin can hide.

  
  

• Step 4: Link the Counties into Statewide Networks

  Once you have a critical mass of constitutional sheriffs and commissioners, coordinate at the state level to recruit and elect a freedom-minded attorney general and governor. With those pieces in place, an entire state can become a laboratory of liberty—and a model for the nation.

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This has worked before. It can work again. History proves it. In the 1990s and 2000s, the Left patiently took over school boards, district attorneys, and secretaries of state. The result? A generation taught to hate its own country and elections vulnerable to manipulation.

We can run the same playbook in reverse—and faster—because the hunger for real change has never been greater.

We saw glimpses of this strategy’s power in 2022 and 2024: constitutional sheriffs in Michigan and Arizona refusing to enforce red-flag laws, county commissions in Nevada and elsewhere passing Second Amendment sanctuary resolutions, brave attorneys general banding together to stop Biden’s worst excesses.

Now imagine that on a scale ten times larger.

If we keep waiting for a national knight on a white horse, we will keep losing. The federal government will not fix itself. The corporate media will not suddenly tell the truth. Big Tech will not stop censoring. But a network of constitutional counties and states can make all of those leviathans irrelevant in the places Americans actually live.The hour is late, but the stakes are existential, and the path is clear.Start in your county. Find five friends who are willing to fight. Pick one office—sheriff, commissioner, state rep—and take it. Link arms with the next county over. Repeat until the map is ours again.

America was designed to be reclaimed from the bottom up. We just have to choose to do it.