Notes from the Campaign

Happy Father’s Day to all the dads, grandpas, and father figures who make life stronger and brighter for their families.

Today I’ve been reflecting on the beautiful differences that make us who we are. Women carry the very real physical challenges of cycles, pregnancy, and menopause. Men often carry a quieter, deeper weight—the responsibility of thinking ahead, providing stability, and holding onto principles that keep families and communities grounded. It’s the philosophy of everyday life: doing what’s right even when it’s hard, accepting what we can’t change, and courageously shaping what we can.

At the heart of it all is something profound. Life itself is about growth and love pushing back against the natural pull toward disorder. Fathers play such a special role in that—they pour their energy into raising children, building homes, and creating futures that outlast them. Children are the heart of strong families and the hope of our society. They deserve parents who are free to guide and love them without government stepping in and taking over.

This Father’s Day, I want to say thank you. Thank you to the men who show up every day with quiet strength and steady love. Your example matters more than you know.

Here in Northwest Seattle and across Washington, our campaign is fighting for policies that honor and support families—affordable energy, lower taxes, safer streets, and the fundamental right of parents to raise their own children. Because when families thrive, our whole state thrives.

Wishing every father a day filled with love, appreciation, and a little well-earned rest.

With gratitude,
Jillian England
Candidate for Washington State Senate, 36th District

No free people would ever vote to hand the power of their elected Sheriff over to an unelected bureaucrat appointed by the County Executive and confirmed by the Council.

Yet that's exactly what Pierce County's Charter Review Commission just did.

Last night, they voted to put Amendment C-1 on the November ballot. This amendment doesn't just change the sheriff from an elected position to an appointed one - it includes a poison-pill effective date of January 1, 2027, which would remove Sheriff Keith Swank with two full years left in his term.

This is a recall without the recall. No petition. No judge. No signatures. No vote of the people on malfeasance. Just a group of Democrats and socialists on the Commission disregarding the voters who elected Swank in 2024. http://thenewstribune.com

They couldn't beat him at the ballot box, so now they're trying to undo the election itself.

This is outrageous.

Voters already decided this issue once before. In 2006, Pierce County residents voted to make the sheriff elected again after years of an appointed system. Now a small group of insiders wants to reverse the will of the people and install a political appointee who answers to the County Executive instead of you. http://gigharbornow.org

Elected sheriffs are a fundamental check on government power. They answer directly to the citizens, not to politicians in county offices. Turning that office into another bureaucratic slot removes accountability and opens the door to exactly the kind of politicized law enforcement people fear.

Do not let them take this choice away from the people of Pierce County.

If this makes you angry, show up or speak out before the Commission finalizes it. This is your county, your sheriff, and your vote they're trying to nullify.

Democracy suffers when insiders rig the system to override the voters.

Wrong. Plain and simple. ☕️⚡️

Socialists preach endlessly about seizing the “means of production.” Power plants. Roads. Factories. Airplane manufacturing. Grocery distribution. All of it.

Then they actually get it.

And everything stops working.

The airplane plant builds nothing. Grocery shelves go empty. Cars sit useless with no gas. Electricity becomes so expensive that the shiny new electric cars can’t even charge. The “means of production” turn into monuments to decay.

This isn’t bad luck. It’s the inevitable result of people who lust after power but have zero interest in the hard, daily work of maintaining and expanding real output. They nationalize, regulate, tax, and lecture — then act shocked when the system begins rotting at compound interest speed.

Entropy loves a vacuum. When producers are punished and looters are rewarded, production dies and disorder explodes.

One idle factory becomes two. One empty store becomes a food desert. One blackout becomes rolling brownouts. The half-life of prosperity gets cut in half again.

You don’t fix this with more slogans about “equity.”

You fix it by refusing to surrender the means of production to people who treat them like trophies instead of responsibilities.

We either defend the people who actually build and maintain things, or we watch it all compound into collapse.

No fence. No neutrality. Fix it now or pay twice as much tomorrow.

Scott Adams wrote a new Dilbert every day for decades at 7am Pacific. Social media runs on the same principle: show up consistently or disappear.

This site will not fade because we rent cloud servers. Servers are cheap. Fresh thinking is what actually moves people.

Every day I write something here, the archive grows. The ideas compound. The machine keeps running.

Recurring supporters are the only reason this daily habit is sustainable. One-time donations are nice. Monthly sustainers let me treat this like the full-time job it is.

Most candidates hide what they really think behind consultants and polling.

I'd rather say it plainly: both parties are captured by the same machine that profits from making energy scarce and government ever larger.

Energy abundance isn't a slogan. It's the difference between a future where families can afford to live and one where they can't.

If that sounds provocative, good. The alternative is polite decline.