Michael and Sarah Walker

The Carter Center (Founded 1982)

Created with Rosalynn Carter to promote peace, fight disease, and strengthen human rights globally.

Disease Eradication: The Carter Center led efforts that reduced Guinea worm disease from 3.5 million cases in 1986 to fewer than 10 in 2023. Carter once said:

“I’d like the last guinea worm to die before I do.”

The Center also fought river blindness, malaria, and other neglected diseases.

Election Monitoring: Carter personally observed over 100 elections in 39 countries — from Nicaragua to Ghana — helping ensure democratic integrity where it was fragile or new.

Conflict Mediation: Often working behind the scenes, Carter brokered peace talks or humanitarian access in North Korea (1994), Sudan, Ethiopia, Haiti, Bosnia, and beyond.

Habitat for Humanity

Starting in 1984, Carter became the face of Habitat for Humanity, physically helping build and repair homes in more than 14 countries.

Even into his 90s — after cancer and surgeries — he was still swinging a hammer. The annual “Carter Work Project” continues his legacy of hands-on compassion.

Supreme Commander, Allied Expeditionary Force (SCAEF): This was Eisenhower's most famous and consequential title, which he held from late 1943 until the end of the war in Europe. In this capacity, he was the supreme commander of all Allied forces in the European Theater of Operations. He was responsible for planning and executing Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Normandy on D-Day, June 6, 1944, and the subsequent campaign to defeat Nazi Germany.

Barack Obama didn’t come from money or power. He came from organizing neighborhoods, teaching the Constitution, and believing deeply in what ordinary people could do together. And though he made history in the White House, his legacy—along with Michelle's—has only grown since he left it.

Before the White House: A Foundation of Service

Barack Obama began his career not in politics, but on the streets of Chicago’s South Side. With a Columbia degree in hand, he became a community organizer, helping struggling residents fight for jobs, housing, and opportunity. It wasn’t glamorous—but it was real.

Later, he graduated from Harvard Law School and became the first Black president of the Harvard Law Review. But instead of chasing prestige, he returned to Chicago—working as a civil rights attorney and teaching constitutional law at the University of Chicago.

He didn’t seek the spotlight. He sought impact. That ethic followed him through the Illinois State Senate and into the U.S. Senate, where he gained national attention with a single line:

After the war, Bush attended Yale and moved to Texas to build a life from scratch in the oil industry. He co-founded Zapata Offshore, achieving financial success quietly, without the bravado or headlines. His wealth wasn’t flaunted — it enabled him to serve, not to posture.

1967, during the Vietnam War, McCain was shot down over Hanoi and captured. Despite severe injuries and brutal torture, he refused an early release because he insisted that fellow prisoners captured before him be freed first — a testament to his honor and loyalty. He endured over five years of imprisonment in harrowing conditions before his release in 1973.

In the growing tension between the U.S., Israel, and Iran, there’s a disturbing pattern emerging—and at the center of it is Donald Trump. Not acting as a head of state. Not as a strategist. But as a rogue land baron, pulling strings for personal and political gain, with little regard for institutional process or long-term consequences.

We used to have FEMA: a flawed but functional system that, at its best, tried to show up when Americans were hurting. Hurricanes, floods, fires — the goal was to help people rebuild, not watch them sink. There was at least a pretense of coordination, of seriousness, of the idea that government should protect its citizens.

Yes, the system must be fixed. But when the U.S. government pulls back aid in response to internal wrongdoing, the ones who suffer aren’t the bureaucrats in D.C. — they are families in Sudan, Gaza, Haiti, and dozens of fragile states.

When we look at the original core beliefs of MAGA — before they were distorted by authoritarianism, disinformation, and grievance theatrics — there were some genuinely resonant themes that connected with millions of Americans. Here's a breakdown of those core ideas, framed without the Trump spectacle:

When we look at the original core beliefs of MAGA — before they were distorted by authoritarianism, disinformation, and grievance theatrics — there were some genuinely resonant themes that connected with millions of Americans. Here's a breakdown of those core ideas, framed without the Trump spectacle: