I spent my entire young adulthood working on the streets and in the trades. From volunteering as an EMT in a college town after high school, to pursuing a paramedic education, to years staffing the ambulance as an advanced life support provider — the work was physical, immediate, and unforgiving. Hauling patients out of crushed cars, calling air evacuation, decompressing a collapsed lung in a remote landing zone. The toll on my body accumulated, and I still feel it today.

Later I moved into the trades — first as an assistant in mobile marine servicing, working on everything from johnboats to hundred-million-dollar yachts. Then I went to apprentice at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, overhauling American nuclear attack submarines. I started as a painter and blaster — the dirtiest and most dangerous job on the yard, working confined spaces in something close to a space suit, firing a blast hose with the power of a shotgun, perpetually, in pitch darkness, removing old paint and rust in awkward steel coffins.

Apprenticing as a marine electrician, I took a major injury. I was subjected to thick, toxic smoke for an extended period in a confined space — eyes, sinuses, throat, lungs all burned. The space was so tight I could not expand my chest enough for a deep breath. My headlamp could not penetrate the smoke; I could not see my own hands twelve inches in front of my face. I coughed and sneezed black debris for at least a week. The injury put me down, hard, for a very long time.

What I learned in that aftermath was the ordinary absurdity of bureaucracy. I had been qualified for the respirator that would have prevented the injury. When I had transitioned shops, the qualification had been stripped — not because I no longer needed it, but because keeping me qualified would have cost the system money it did not want to spend.

I recovered slowly and began to study. First what was wrong, and how it had gone wrong. I started with standard libertarian and conservative content — Sowell, the Daily Wire, Blaze Media. I caught a major break with Unconstrained Analytics, which brought me down the rabbit hole. From there I read the esoteric traditions at the root of all Leftism — Marx, Hegel, Plato. I read Aristotle and the Reformed presuppositionalists Van Til, Bahnsen, and Rushdoony. I read the Emerald Tablet and the Corpus Hermeticum alongside Kant and Heidegger. I read Kendi and Crenshaw alongside Lenin and Marx. I read Manly P. Hall, the Kybalion, mountains of New Age and Theosophy. I read the political warfare canon — Bernays, Sun Tzu, Rules for Radicals, Mao, Unrestricted Warfare, American Betrayal.

The connection of the religious dialectic — most directly in the Hermetic works — to the actions and ultimate purpose of the modern Left was incredible and eye-opening. That was the key that unlocked the rest of the book.

Between the smoke injury, a separate dog-attack injury sustained while running a small kayak rental business, the COVID lockdowns, and a near-fatal vaccine reaction in 2021 that hospitalized me and partially blinded me in one eye, I had years of forced reading time. The Bible teaches to rejoice in all things. Not some things, but all. As difficult as it was, I was being prepared to do what I am now doing — and to write this book.

I would have called myself a progressive for most of my young life. The foremost orientation of the upbringing was not, in fact, the goodness of Leftism — it was a hatred of, and an assuredness of the evil in, conservatism. The goodness of Leftism was simply presumed by framing it as the opponent of the evils of the Right.

The cutting down and rebuilding of my false worldview came in iterations — each cut not deep enough to correct the problems. First to a moderate libertarian, embracing liberty as ultimate and finding it bumping up against everyone else's. Then through Natural Law and philosophical realism, which I found lacking. The final cut — to the quick — involved full surrender to transcendent ethics as first principles. I came to understand that my own ethical and intellectual basis had to stand in the same tradition that founded America: from the Puritans to the Presbyterians who fought the Revolution. That was the firm foundation.

Family estrangement over my faith and politics — devastating emotionally — set me free both mentally and ethically to pursue truth and goodness.

Once I had recovered enough to function, I ran for the New Hampshire House of Representatives and won. I am now in my second term, representing Carroll County District 4. I serve on the Education Policy and Administration Committee and the State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs Committee. I served on the COVID-19 Investigative Committee, where I was the primary author of the majority report.

I have authored or co-sponsored more than a dozen bills and resolutions, including HR 15 — the landmark resolution declaring Marxism a religion under the Establishment Clause — HR 12 urging Congress to reinstate the ban on federal propaganda against U.S. citizens, and the CHARLIE Act (HB 1792) on education reform.

Along the way I have been the subject of media hit pieces manufactured from whole cloth, slandered by small-time political-warfare operators who bit off more than they could chew, and watched colleagues fold under social pressure at critical moments. I am an effective opponent to the Leftist machine — and to its GOP-establishment allies — in my legislation, my strategy, and my own political warfare on behalf of the people I represent. That is why they come for me. It is also why I am still standing.

What you find on this site is the public expression of all of it. Counterspell is the book — the diagnosis of the religious system at the root of the present crisis, and the toolkit for the counter-revolution. The talks, workshops, and strategy work are the application of the same framework to whatever room or campaign or congregation needs it.

I am not finished. There is a second book in the theological field that builds out the positive vision in greater depth. There are more talks to give. There is more legislation to write. There is more fight ahead than behind.

If any part of this resonates — if you are in your own version of the long, painful process of rebuilding a worldview on a firm foundation — you are welcome here. The work is for you.