Chase Lindsey

Why Your Story Matters More Than Your Résumé A lot of people run for office because someone told them it was “their turn.” But voters don’t want a turn-taker. They want someone with a real story. Here’s how to find yours, and the 3-3-30 rule tha...

Here’s the essay: redstatebluevoter.substack.com/p/tell-your-...

I wrote about how to find that story, how to tell it, and the simple 3-3-30 rule that keeps candidates honest.

If you’ve ever thought about running… read this.

Here’s the truth:
A résumé doesn’t move people.

A lived story does.

The moment your life cracked open and changed how you see your community — that’s the thing voters lean toward.

If you’re going to run for office right now, you owe people more than ambition.
You owe them meaning. Purpose. Honesty about why you showed up.

But this moment is different.

School boards are pulling books.
County commissions are shutting out sunlight.
Families are carrying the cost of every decision made in rooms they can’t enter.

This isn’t a “wait your turn” era.

There’s a very specific kind of person who runs for office.

You’ve seen them. The folks who think being everywhere is the same thing as being needed. The “it’s my turn” crowd.

Not a Group Chat. A Curriculum. The kids are not alright, and they’ve been taught that cruelty is leadership.

The Republican VP says it was just “college kids joking around.”

But a 2,900-page leak from Young Republican leaders shows the truth:
this isn’t a group chat — it’s a curriculum.

A Letter to My Republican Neighbor: Don’t Let Them Sell You a Lie This shutdown isn’t about immigrants. It’s about gutting protections for workers, veterans, and families while the powerful cash in.

They want you blaming your neighbor instead of noticing the hand in your pocket.

But you know better. That badge you’ve worn your whole life is flashing red right now.

All of this is the drumbeat of the authoritarian playbook in real time… doxxing, firings, silencing, punishment. And it isn’t a question of if this gets worse.

It’s only when.

There Is No Unity With Them When violence becomes a political tool, silence is complicity. And we’ve already waited too long.

And JD Vance cemented it today with six little words: “There is no unity with them.”

Not with murderers. Not with violence. With us - fellow Americans.

Prayer vigils. Flags at half-mast. Fundraising emails.

And from the Oval Office, the President blamed the “radical left.”

One bullet has tilted the ground beneath us. But before Charlie Kirk’s family could even plan a funeral, the right has already turned his death into a weapon.

The War They Waged Against Us Labor Day was carved out of blood and defiance. For seventy years they’ve tried to erase it, but the tick of what they stole is still with us. And so is the fight.

Labor Day is about the choice in front of us: let the ticks keep bleeding us dry, or fight to build something they can’t buy, can’t silence, and can’t kill.

redstatebluevoter.substack.com/p/against-us

If You Want Something Different, Run Change isn’t coming from the top. The fastest way to break their grip is to walk onto the ballot yourself—and make them face you.

Nothing changes if no one runs. The ballot is a tool. Pick it up and use it.

Read: If You Want Something Different, Run

redstatebluevoter.substack.com/p/want-somet...

This Far and No Farther? | Project Battleground When the promises are broken and the harm is done, all that’s left is the choice of where we plant our feet.

This far, and no farther.
When the line is crossed, the only question left is where you stand.

The Voters We Left Behind Rural voters aren’t voting against their interests. They’ve been abandoned. If we want their support, we have to earn it — block by block, door by door, race by race.

We keep hearing that voters in red states “vote against their own interests.”

You can’t vote against your own interests if you’re never given a real choice.

Stop looking up the ladder. Start looking around.

redstatebluevoter.substack.com/p/work-not-s...

It’s not enough. But it’s something, and something matters a hell of a lot more than nothing.

This is what it looks like when we stop waiting for heroes and start doing the damn work.

redstatebluevoter.substack.com/p/work-youre...

"Call Them the Redskins, Dammit": Trump’s Tantrum Government, Fully Unleashed He’s not trying to govern. He’s trying to punish. Over a team name. This isn’t small government... it’s authoritarian cosplay with real-world consequences. The mask is off. Now what are we gonna do ab...

Trump didn’t hijack anything. He just gave them permission to stop pretending.

We have to name what we’re fighting. Because if we can’t… we’re already losing.

Tired of trying to figure out what’s real and what’s just loud? I made a no-fluff fact-checking toolkit… the sites I actually use.

For your mom. For the group chat. For you.

redstatebluevoter.substack.com/p/fact-check

Let This Be Enough | Project Battleground I spent the Fourth of July in Charleston, walking the streets where children were once sold, and sitting in a church painted with stars. This isn’t a prayer for salvation. It’s a prayer for the ones s...

For anyone who knows what it feels like to be alive in the breaking.

Just something for the ones carrying more than their share.

This piece is about what it means to be a Democrat in the South, and how we stop bailing water and start rebuilding the ship.

Let’s talk about what comes after settling.

…and how we rebuild from the ground up.

We can stop settling. Stop slapping a new band-aid on the same old problems every election cycle. Stop pretending that politics-as-usual is enough when it’s failing everyone outside the top.

If we’re not winning, why are we still playing it safe?

Stop Settling: Imagining a New Way Forward for Southern Democrats Southern Democrats keep losing because safe slogans aren't enough. Here's how we build power by being brave enough to imagine radical solutions.

Being a Democrat in a state with a Republican supermajority doesn’t mean we don’t have power. It means we’re free to imagine something better.

We don’t owe voters more slogans. We owe them real answers. A vision. A plan. A party that isn’t afraid to talk about why things are broken…

Still Covered. Still Screwed. What Trump’s Bill Really Does to Your Health Care Seventeen million people may lose their insurance, but the damage doesn’t stop there. Even if you keep your coverage, this bill guts what it means to be insured. Higher costs. Fewer options. More debt...

This isn’t health policy.
It’s a punishment.
And it’s going to hit every corner of this country—rural, urban, red, blue, all of us.

We need to be sounding the alarm now.

Full breakdown here:

So if you’re thinking,
“Well I have insurance, I’ll be fine”—
ask yourself:

What good is that card in your wallet
if you’re too scared to use it?

This bill doesn’t just target the uninsured.
It targets everyone.

A 60-year-old couple making $82k?
Their premium could jump from $3,500 to over $20,000 a year—
For the same plan.

A working mom in Arkansas?
“Covered” on paper.
But choosing between rent and her daughter’s X-ray.

If this passes, you could still be “insured” and end up paying more for less.

▪️ Premiums: up
▪️ Deductibles: way up
▪️ Benefits: slashed
▪️ Rural care: gutted
▪️ Peace of mind: gone

This isn’t a rollback.
It’s a rewrite of what it means to be insured in America.

Because this bill doesn’t just go after the uninsured.
It goes after the people who keep their insurance.

It guts the very things that made ACA plans usable for working families:
▪️ Caps on out-of-pocket costs
▪️ Income-based subsidies
▪️ Basic protections for rural hospitals and nursing homes

Still Covered. Still Screwed. What Trump’s Bill Really Does to Your Health Care Seventeen million people may lose their insurance, but the damage doesn’t stop there. Even if you keep your coverage, this bill guts what it means to be insured. Higher costs. Fewer options. More debt...

Everyone’s talking about the 17–20 million people who will lose their health insurance if Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” becomes law.

And yeah—
That number should be a national scandal.
It’s staggering.
It’s cruel.
It’s deliberate.

But it gets a whole hell of a lot worse: