What if all these efforts succeed in feeding the needy without their SNAP benefits? They’d be proving that communities can handle this on their own if the government just steps aside.

As detailed in my previous post, the SNAP crisis hits November 1st, potentially stripping benefits from 17,000 locals amid the DC shutdown mess. Food drives are great for immediate help, but let's aim higher: solutions that promote self-sufficiency over dependency.

Enter our creative fix via the local Republican group: a Community Craft Exchange at our HQ. It's a pop-up shop empowering folks to sell homemade goods, easing short-term cash crunches while building long-term entrepreneurial skills.

People are urging us to share food and support our neighbors, which is amazing and truly altruistic. But let's think bigger: Why not channel that energy into helping folks build lasting security?

You can see the pattern clear as day…
The problem, they tell us, rests with us.

But Chairman Brainard’s grip tells a different story…
His “leadership” holds us back.

Why is our local Democratic Party sharing content aligned with a federally designated terrorist group? Why maintain these financial links? Voters deserve transparency—contact the politicians, reach out to party leadership, or attend their next meeting to ask them about their stance on Antifa.

If anything, the 'No Kings' crowds are the ones acting undemocratically—gathering not to address broken promises, but to rail against a president executing the will of the people. It's a stark reminder: when you lose an election, the mature response is to organize for the next one, not protest the system itself. Anything else is just ignorance or denial dressed up as virtue.

This case proves why we need more patriots like you stepping up. Grassroots Republicans built this party—fighting top-down control ensures voices from every precinct count. Imagine the impact: More PCPs mean stronger voter turnout, better candidates, and reclaiming Oregon for conservative principles. Your role could tip the balance in the 2026 elections.

To the average liberal who has been sitting in the backseat watching the extremists drive the bus: I urge you to start speaking up and getting involved. If both the Democrats and Republicans were able to weed out the extremists and bring the focus back to local issues that actually matter (like crime and the economy) I am confident that we would find out we are not as far apart in our beliefs and vision for the community as we think.

After running for County Commissioner in the spring of 2024, I decided to offer my help to rebrand and rejuvinate the struggling local Republican party. I was warned that they had been taken over by a small group of elitists from the “good ole boys club” and they would never welcome constructive change because they were dead set on remaining stagnant and irrelevant. Unfortunately, that warning turned out to be spot on.

The county has subscriptions to THREE streaming services (Zoom, GoToMeeting, Microsoft Teams) which they have used to stream meetings without issue in the past. And all the other government bodies in the state provide streaming of their meetings without issue.

The City of North Bend has been promoting that crime "dropped significantly in 2024", but their own yearly report says otherwise.

I was outraged when I found out, so I spoke up the college board meeting last month, and asked them to re-consider their policy on hiring sex offenders and providing them access to minors.

The college board obviously does not want to discuss their decision to hire a sex offender who was fresh out of prison after being convicted of molesting two students while teaching at a high school in Eugene. And they are intent on silencing anyone who tries to bring it up.

The Board of Commissioners recently cut the budget to law enforcement departments. The jail will be reduced in half on Jan 1st. Join us to discuss what citizens can do now that our leadership has failed to provide public safety -- Brandi Martindale, Chris Castleman, with special guest Perry Holman!

Stop promoting D.E.I. propaganda and gender dysphoria resources to children. You – as a public tax funded entity — should not be promoting any controversial beliefs to anyone, let alone children.

There should be a transparent process put in place where public notice is given of committee vacancies, and a time period given where interested citizens are sought out, encouraged to complete applications, and interviews are conducted. I am not aware of that process existing currently nor do I find any evidence of it in county records that are readily accessible to me.

The Board of Commissioners voted last week to defund local law enforcement. A few of the outspoken citizens (Chris Castleman, Brandi Martindale, and Jeremy Miller) who were at the Commissioners meeting will be discussing how it all went down and where we go from here.

We are one step closer to having a local citizen-driven committee modeled after the soon-to-be-formed federal Department of Governmental Efficiency (DOGE) organized by Elon Musk!

I’m looking for a group of people interested in being a part of a citizen driven task force to show the county leadership that there is another path forward, and that we do indeed want a law enforcement presence in Coos County.

Regardless of the outcome of today’s election, we should all be concerned for the future. Who will lead our nation into the next decade? Is there anyone out there who is truly focused on returning America to the foundations it was built upon?