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.

Project 2025 is a comprehensive plan developed by the Heritage Foundation, a prominent conservative think tank, to reshape the U.S. federal government if a Republican—likely Donald Trump—returns to power in 2025. It's officially called “Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise.” The project is a 900+ page policy and staffing blueprint aiming to overhaul the federal bureaucracy, expand presidential power, and implement far-right conservative policy across all agencies.

You don’t get to sit in silence while others vote, organize, or legislate — and then act shocked when the country veers hard left or right. If the future looks more like a police state than a democracy, ask yourself:

“Your Country Doesn’t Just Need Voters — It Needs Neighbors”

Political engagement doesn’t stop at the ballot box — and it doesn’t always wear a campaign button.

But today, many of those newsrooms are gone. Shrinking ad revenue and the rise of free digital content gutted local papers. Hedge funds bought what was left, stripped them for parts, and left ghost publications behind.

“The Extremes Win by Default”

By the time you vote in November, the real choice has already been made — often by just 1 in 10 voters.

In many local elections, turnout is under 20%. Sometimes it's under 10%. That means a dozen people at a school board meeting can sway policy. One vote can decide who gets to redraw your district map. Your absence is someone else's opportunity.

So maybe we should all stop judging each other by headlines and start reading the full article — or listening to the whole sentence.

That’s where the real truth still lives.

Within 10 minutes, it was clear: we weren’t going to agree on much. The election. The media. January 6. His tone got sharp. Mine probably did too. At one point he said something I thought was completely nuts — and I told him so.

But make no mistake: if it were Marxists or Leninists destroying us, I’d be saying the exact same thing. Sometimes you have to throw the punch across the line to be heard. That doesn’t mean you switched sides — it means you're paying attention.