THANK YOU, Orange County!

Thank you to everyone who exercised your right to vote, showed up to forums and events to get to know your candidates better, and otherwise participated in this historic election. It is has been the honor of a lifetime to serve as your State Representative and I can’t thank you enough for giving me the opportunity to serve you in the State Senate!

To everyone who helped along the way: thank you. Thank you for volunteering, donating, showing up, sending me words of support, driving around with me, organizing events, and just being all around stellar friends, family, and humans. I owe so much of this campaign’s success to all of you.

I think it’s worth sharing that I knew it would be a severe handicap to run a campaign while rejecting all party data and declining to use voter data to game the system. Instead, I focused on community and relational organizing. My opponent pumped tens of thousands of dollars into targeted advertising. I spent $0 on voter data and $0 on data brokers who sell your personal information. I spent $0 supporting Meta & Google which earns billions of dollars annually off of unchecked fraud and scams, supports child s*xual abuse material (CSAM) websites with ad placements, and seeks to addict and manipulate people of all ages. I spent $0 on targeted ads abusing your sensitive data (your phone number, IQ, education level, annual income, and political leanings, as examples). This campaign also didn’t run a single attack ad. I focused on highlighting my candidacy, record, and goals and paid Vermont media outlets to get the word out. My campaign used privacy-protective, non-traditional platforms to fundraise and manage voter information.

Our online spaces can be safer. We must invest in public media to preserve our democracy. And you deserve stricter data privacy protections that respect your autonomy. You can demand better of political campaigns and the infrastructure that drives them. This campaign was a demonstration of that.