Dave Jarvis for Senate

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  • America is a Verb

    America is a Verb

    I would like to thank everyone who has either read or shared anything I have said during this campaign. You are the strength of democracy. I hope I have provided some food for thought or changed something for the positive somewhere.

    I would also like to reiterate some of the more important points that I hoped would create some dialogue about our very important future.

    First, about twenty million people in the United States currently live in mobile or manufactured housing. If that share of the market were to shift over time toward off-grid tiny houses, with people renting space for those homes from other landowners, it could provide stability to the real estate market and stimulus to critical industries.

    Hospitals, farms, supermarkets, and even residential landowners could benefit from hundreds of billions of dollars in rent, helping much of our economy survive in a future low-employment environment.

    Next, I believe healthcare is a right. But it’s not number one by any stretch.

    FOOD. Food is the most important issue facing Americans. The farms that produce the food, the practices they use, the farming techniques, the logistics systems, the marketing, and the dangers of the food industry preying on the American people, all of these are part of our number one priority.

    Quality food is the first priority of a healthy people.

    We can use the power of SNAP to affect real change. We can use financial stimulus by shifting our existing farm subsidies toward regenerative farming initiatives. And we can use a symbiotic relationship between tiny homes and small farms to give regenerative farming a fighting chance.

    Evidence of this already working can be found on Harvest Hosts, but it is nowhere near as powerful as it could be if we were to give this kind of initiative public support.

    This image shows all the farms currently hosting tiny houses for short stays. Many of them are restricted from renting for longer stays due to zoning restrictions. They are represented by the purple bubbles:

    Finally, LIFE.

    We need to end the wars. We can become a peaceful people. We can stop letting the powerful prey on the weak. And we can ask ourselves if free and unfettered abortion until the moment of birth is really the hallmark of a free and peaceful people, or if it is the height of cynicism. There are other ways of protecting pregnant women in crisis pregnancies. That is, if we pull away from extremes.

    We can use ideas. We can stop using red and blue to define us. We can get into the mix and hash out our collective mindset without attempting to curbstomp our supposed political enemies.

    Some conservatives have supported LGBTQ rights along the way. Some liberals have supported lower taxes or responsible gun ownership.

    When we stop throwing stones and when we stop predicting Armageddon if the “other side” wins, we get back to the practice of being American.

    America is less a noun than a verb. It’s an action. It’s a way of dealing with fear, with change, and with differences of opinion.

    We aren’t using that verb very much these days.

    These last few months have been fun.

    America is fun when we give it a chance.

    If you want to change the world, hit me up at:

    davejarvisnh@gmail.com

    +1 603 842-3426

  • Dave Jarvis’s Strategy for Winning

    Dave Jarvis’s Strategy for Winning

    I am not stupid.

    I recognize that not having raised money, not putting up signs, not having a huge group of organized followers, and not having official campaign staff can look a lot like I am not actually running a real campaign for Senate.

    But what it looks like and what it actually is are two different things.

    I am running a campaign designed to give me the best chance to win the general election and become the next senator from New Hampshire.

    Being 100% genuine about who I am, my ideals, and what I feel comfortable with as a person serves three purposes.

    First, and most important, I am being true to myself.

    That is how we are supposed to live life anyway.

    I don’t believe anyone can or should serve others if their first task is to become a different person.

    Begging for money is not something I feel comfortable with. Nor is prostituting my ideals for political purposes.

    Second, it is one of the primary tenets of leadership.

    We can’t lead anyone or build any meaningful level of trust when we negotiate with our inner compass.

    To lead, to be a good statesman, and to build trust and hope in others, we need to provide complete and unadulterated transparency.

    Doing so functions like an invitation, a mandate, and a statement of principles to others. People respond to it. And when we are genuine with one another, our interpersonal relationships become much stronger.

    We begin to rebuild trust in society.

    At no cost, I have worked very hard to provide you with the best actionable ideas I can, along with my general outlook on the future, our challenges, and our opportunities. I have been open and honest. I don’t believe I have overpromised.

    And most importantly, I have repeatedly assured you that the future depends on you much more than it will depend on any politician, including me.

    If we can trust each other and promote good ideas, and if we can work together to implement them with the Almighty as our guide, we will unleash the real power of America.

    The American unity and drive that has appeared at difficult moments in history, our powerful Union, recreates the world, turns nightmares into dreams, and gives direction to everyone.

    It’s what we do.

    Third, not having raised money and just being me is a great tactical position.

    Twenty million dollars. Forty million dollars. Whatever the sum, there is not enough money in the world to break a person who hasn’t compromised themselves.

    Currently, I am a fifty-seven-year-old, divorced and single rideshare driver. My sense of humor and love of adventure would love nothing more than John Sununu and the entire Republican establishment using their tens of millions of dollars on trying to destroy my life.

    It’s the life equivalent of a swan dive off a high ocean cliff. I’ll be scared, but I will love every minute of it.

    Either way, for no charge at all, I will continue to say what I think, and I’ll trust in something I believe is primordial in the world of ideas:

    Honesty. Passion. Transparency. They create miracles.

    They resemble nature in that they can take good ideas and multiply them throughout society.

    So yes, I am changing the world right now. I don’t doubt it for a second.

    I am already leading this election.

    I am already changing hearts and minds.

    I am leading you.

    In this difficult moment for our country, I am leading you.

    And I am challenging you to remember who you are.

    I am challenging you to drop the cynicism about the future.

    I am calling you out.

    Be yourself.

    Trust your own judgment.

    Attack the future passionately, with hope and faith in God and yourself.

    And burn the damn bridge behind you.

    There is nothing to go back to.

    Only forward.

  • Our Beautiful Future: The Food System of the Future

    Our Beautiful Future: The Food System of the Future

    AI, if everything goes the way it appears to be going, will create enormous problems for workers. Feeding ourselves could become increasingly complicated as more and more people lose their jobs to technological innovation.

    Right now, only about three percent of what we eat in New Hampshire comes from New Hampshire. Somewhere around ten percent comes from New England. The rest comes through a chaotic national and global logistics network dependent on expensive and critical inputs: electricity, oil, fertilizer, pesticides, commodity prices, labor, real estate and, looming over all of it, corporate economics and profit margins.

    Our food system is not nearly as secure as we imagine.

    We have roughly a one-month supply of food in our supermarkets. That is something we can generally count on.

    We can also count on much of that food being highly processed, loaded with sugar and unhealthy fats, and contributing to obesity, insulin resistance, and chronic disease. Much of the food flowing through this precarious logistics network is making us sick and those illnesses are imposing enormous costs on our healthcare system and our economy.

    We can change this.

    We can change the food system through changes to SNAP. In doing so, we can improve our health, reduce healthcare costs, strengthen our food security, support American farmers, and begin to address an environmental problem we have neglected for far too long.

    The fact that all of these things are connected makes SNAP one of the most powerful social programs we have for preparing America for the future.

    For this to happen, however, we need to use a little of the same magic the food industry has used for decades to get us to consume more of the foods that make us unhealthy.

    We need some salt.

    The metaphorical salt is reforming SNAP.

    SNAP should prioritize staple foods and healthy produce. No trans fats. No sugary drinks. No junk food. We should encourage food that actually nourishes people, preferably produced through regenerative agricultural practices and, whenever possible, grown close to home.

    Obviously, there would be some complaints about those restrictions, but we don’t have a right to get sick on taxpayers’ dollars. And that is exactly what is happening today.

    But we also need some sugar.

    The sugar is investment.

    We should redirect and combine resources from other programs where appropriate and create a much larger healthy-food safety net, one capable of reaching far more Americans if and when large-scale job losses or economic shocks arrive.

    Imagine what could happen.

    A future in which AI eliminates millions of jobs does not necessarily have to become a future of hunger and desperation. We could use that very disruption to build a healthier population, lower per-capita healthcare costs, stronger local food systems, more resilient agriculture, and better stewardship of our environment.

    We could turn a likely future disaster into something else entirely: a beautiful new future for our people.

  • We Can’t Have Campaign Finance Reform Without a Little Magic

    We Can’t Have Campaign Finance Reform Without a Little Magic

    You can’t have campaign finance reform without actually believing in democracy.

    Democracy and love have something in common. You either believe in magic or you don’t. You either trust that voice when it arrives and allow it to pull you forward, or you overanalyze it and capitulate to the cynicism you’ve accumulated along the way.

    I trust that voice, all day.

    The summer I was born, 1969, the Summer of Love, half a million young people gathered at Woodstock. They passionately believed in the power of music. They believed music could change the world.

    And in many ways, it did.

    That era produced some of the greatest sounds ever created, filled with themes of love, peace, and freedom. I can’t explain the metaphysical mechanism, but I believe the spirit of Woodstock was part of it. That music, born from passion, hope, and a desire for peace, still saves me every day. It probably saves many of you as well.

    When I declared my candidacy, I paid one hundred dollars to place my name on the ballot for the U.S. Senate primary. In the wealthiest and most technologically advanced country on Earth, it took only one hundred dollars to earn the opportunity to compete for one of the nation’s highest elected offices.

    That is our inheritance.

    Our ancestors believed in self-government so deeply that they left the door open for the unexpected, for the underdog, the outsider, and the spark of something different.

    Soon after filing, however, the mail began arriving from every direction, offering campaign support. Everywhere I turned, people talked about fundraising, consultants, advertising, signs, and money, as though those things were the purpose of an election.

    I didn’t feel comfortable asking for or accepting money from anyone. And when something doesn’t feel right to me, I don’t do it. But I haven’t lost an iota of faith in myself or in my ability to win both the primary and the general election.

    All of this made me realize that campaign finance reform isn’t ultimately about laws. It’s about how we view elections.

    When we vote for candidates simply because they’ve raised the most money, even though social media is free and publishing ideas has never been cheaper, we’re telling ourselves that campaign finance doesn’t really matter.

    The first thing many people do during an election is check the polls, read what the media says, and look at FEC fundraising totals to see who supposedly has a chance of winning.

    That, ladies and gentlemen, is a poor substitute for belief.

    I have spent a great deal of time thinking about our AI-enabled future, and I believe it will become much less tolerant of excuses. Information will become cheaper and cheaper. Work, and lives centered primarily on careers, will slowly lose their luster. Love, gratitude, and passion will become the new gold standard.

    And sellouts will become society’s dropouts.

    In that future, the reasons we give ourselves for abandoning our dreams, our morality, our faith, our talents, and our passions will stare back at us like the Ghost of Christmas Past. Like a personal Judgment Day, we’ll be forced to confront the gap between what we claim to value and how we actually choose to live.

    So, when that little voice tells you to learn the saxophone, listen.

    Finding meaning in the little things will become essential, not just for happiness, but for sanity. It will return us to a simpler way of life, one filled with gratitude, creativity, joy, and, dare I say, peace.

    Following our passions contributes to something larger than ourselves. There is a deeper meaning behind that quiet voice inside us, a kind of Woodstock effect. If we never learn to trust it, we lose something essential about being human.

    I was nervous about running for the U.S. Senate, but that voice kept saying, “Go for it.”

    So here I am.

    I trust that instinct because I believe I must. Win or lose, I know that impulse is there for a reason. When this election is over, regardless of the outcome, I’ll be able to say I believed as deeply as I could, worked as hard as I could, and remained true to who I am.

    I couldn’t wish for anything more, for myself or for the people of New Hampshire and the United States.

    The field has its millionaires. If you’ve done your research and genuinely believe one of them is the right person, then vote for them. Get involved.

    But there are also people without famous names who run not because they’re wealthy, hope to become powerful, or want to massage their own egos. They run because they sincerely believe they can make things better.

    And when voters elect that kind of candidate, the world notices. The next election becomes richer with new voices, new ideas, and new possibilities.

    Successful politicians sow the seeds of future elections.

    Whatever you choose, allow yourself to feel it. If you truly believe in democracy, then trust your own judgment instead of outsourcing it to polls, pundits, consultants, and political professionals.

    Believing in political change comes with a price. It requires faith, in yourself, in your fellow citizens, and in the possibility that ordinary people can still create extraordinary change.

    So start a love train.

    Let it be.

    Because we are stardust.

    We are golden.

    And we’ve got to get ourselves back to the garden.

  • To the Twenty Percent of Democratic Party Voters for Senate Who Still Remain Undecided…

    To the Twenty Percent of Democratic Party Voters for Senate Who Still Remain Undecided…

    We need humor these days. Don’t judge me.

    To you, the twenty percent of Democratic voters who are not only undecided but whose numbers are growing…

    You are a Democratic Party voter. You have been barraged with ads, news, lawn signs, and political drama. Your “front-runner” in the Senate race, who has spent the last twenty years in politics and is currently a member of the United States Congress, has made less than fifty percent of Democratic voters excited about his Senate campaign. All of that while spending a mint to convince you, and begging you for more money, a lot more money.

    Gaza burned, his donors pulled us into a global war, and with that, his star began its descent. It’s karma. He’ll be out of the penalty box next election.

    His “close second” is an intelligent and passionate person whose lack of awareness of economics concerns you. It concerns me too.

    Socialism is rising, and it’s scaring the kids.

    A vote for me is not wasted. If I win you over, and maybe five percent of undeclared voters, I win.

    Can I win the general election? I don’t know. Can you? Take responsibility for yourselves. You are the ones who win or lose. I am just a guy applying for a job.

    I am sensible. I will make sure that, through the coming storm, you will all eat, are safe, and that you remain free. Most importantly, I will help break down the walls that divide our country. I will help us avoid a slow drift into partisan violence.

    My common sense, friendliness, and my sense of humor will help me, and you, a great deal.

    Think about it.

  • Just Vote Dammit

    Just Vote Dammit

    America has lost confidence over the years.

    You have lost confidence.

    That is something I have learned over the past few months of trying to run a campaign for Senate while remaining true to myself and to my soul. I have learned that Americans are much slower to trust their own judgment than they used to be. And if they had that confidence in themselves, they wouldn’t be looking to politicians to resolve all of their problems.

    Americans invented off-grid living. Americans invented the tiny house. But somehow we lack the confidence in ourselves to take these ideas and turn them into what they could become: a true social revolution that could bring extremely affordable options and the promise of a better life to so many of us who have been broken over the years.

    We lack confidence in our votes. We become cynical at the idea that the hopes we express through our votes will have any real effect at the polls.

    And we do this while a tiny fraction of our population run roughshod over the American people and their dreams.

    I don’t mind that Karishma Manzur considers herself a Socialist. I become concerned when I hear words that suggest she may not fully understand economics or the moment our nation is in.

    I don’t mind Chris Pappas’s openly gay relationship at all. I mind him sitting by and watching silently while his political donors attempt to exterminate another population.

    I believe I am the best qualified candidate for this particular moment, not because I am generally the most qualified person in New Hampshire, but because I put my name on the ballot.

    I have a good mind. I have good judgment. I understand history, economics, and technology. I believe those things matter enormously right now. Most importantly, I am willing to like and dialogue with anyone, anywhere, any time.

    I am not rich. I don’t particularly want to be rich.

    I am not a very good campaigner. I admit that.

    I don’t want to beg for money. It makes me feel sick. And watching others turn the democratic process in New Hampshire into a game of high-stakes poker enrages me.

    I believe in ideas.

    My website is filling up with good ideas. I am doing my job.

    If the democratic process in New Hampshire were a little more pure, and if the habit of reading hadn’t fallen out of favor, I believe that would be obvious.

    If you think allowing abortion until birth is a good idea, and you are willing to set our country on a collision course with the religious right, don’t vote for me.

    But if you believe we can put reasonable restrictions on late-term abortion, value human life, and take abortion away from political opportunists like Donald Trump, please consider this:

    It is not that difficult.

    Just vote.

    A truly beautiful future awaits us. But it only belongs to those who believe in themselves and who believe in democracy itself.

    If you have given up on democracy, if you have given up on your own vote, if you have given up on the belief that you have the ability to dictate your own future, the conversation ends.

    And we go primal.

    We have always had violence as a second option. And there are many people chomping at the bit for that moment to return.

    You can feel it in the air.

    Either way, I have already won this election. I learned to believe in myself again, after a long hiatus. I lost weight. I got all those worries about our country out of my subconscious and into the public eye. And my soul feels lighter, much happier.

    But I worry about you. And I pray for you.

    America, you have become far too cynical.

    And make no mistake: Cynicism is death, one way or another.

    So just vote your heart.

    Vote your mind.

    Vote, dammit.

    Be the dream our country was founded on.

  • Our Beautiful Future: Tiny Houses

    The first automobile was created in the mid-1880s. For two and a half decades, human beings were aware of them. We thought they were quaint, interesting, a curiosity. But we preferred horses. We spent a quarter century walking through horseshit before the idea of the automobile finally started to take hold.

    It was the leadership of Henry Ford that took the world somewhere new. The automobile revolutionized life itself and dramatically transformed the economy. Speed and range of movement became principles of modern society, driving our world to new heights.

    For the last twenty-five years, the ingenuity of everyday Americans dissatisfied with the cost of housing has driven Tiny House design to amazing levels. We all scroll through pictures of them when we feel hopeless, allowing ourselves moments of inspiration and dreams of something different. We see and feel their potential, but we wait at the gates for the idea to manure. Excuse me, I meant to say “for the idea to mature.”

    My opponents in the Senate primary are suggesting breaking ground on millions of new homes to resolve the current housing affordability problem. They show little concern for the environmental consequences. They don’t dive very deeply into the cost of construction and, therefore, the cost of that new housing. And they never touch on the real potential size of the problem.

    It could reach into the tens of millions.

    They want to pave paradise and put up a parking lot.

    Tiny Houses are the kind of technology that, if they were readily available today, if financing were available, and if government simply got out of the way by changing zoning laws to support them, could explode faster than traditional construction ever could. Thus, reducing housing costs much faster.

    And if Tiny Houses were within reach of the average person, the way the Model T eventually became, they could immediately provide hope, inspiration, and the possibility of a different life to an expanding part of our population, people who currently see very little hope and act accordingly.

    Thoughts of Tiny Houses elicit dreams of the ocean, the lakes, the rivers, the mountains, the desert, the heartland. Open skies. Gazing at the stars. Freedom of movement. Travel. Financial manageability.

    And then all the other dreams that people stuff down inside themselves when they spend their whole lives trying to pay a rent bill. The music, the art, the hobbies, the passions.

    Tiny Houses change the way the mind works.

    They very quickly and effectively put a new American Dream back into our heads. They give direction to the soul: exploration, adventure, and fun.

    It’s my dream, whether I win this race or not. Whether I win a billion dollars in the Powerball or not.

    I want the open sky.

    I want the beach.

    I want all of America.

    I want the potential of anywhere, at any time.

    And I want to look at the stars again, knowing I am free.

    If today’s Tiny House is the Model T, I can’t wait for the future.

    I am excited about where the designs will go. And I dream about my sons, and their children, and their children, living lives of adventure and discovery in this world.

    The fruit is ripe.

    It’s easy to pick.

    The moment is now.

  • LGBTQ

    New Hampshire was the first state in the nation to embrace marriage equality through the legislative process rather than through the courts. And because of the role of New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation primary, and the political clout that comes with it, the law helped force a reevaluation of the issue within the American political system. It was a game changer.

    The passage of same-sex marriage in New Hampshire didn’t happen exclusively because of the LGBTQ lobby. At the time, they didn’t have much political power. The Democratic Party didn’t support it. The left, the Clintons, the Obamas, and the political establishment largely looked the other way and warned the LGBTQ community of overreach.

    It passed because people of all flavors believed in fairness. And it was pushed over the top because some conservatives in New Hampshire responded to appeals for equality under the law. I know this because I was part of those appeals.

    I did it by writing articles, submitting them to news organizations, and sending letters to politicians. According to Jim Splaine (the sponsor of the legislation), I had an effect on the law’s passage. Considering the small margin by which it passed, I feel privileged to have been a part of it. And I was honored when Jim invited me to the State House for a coffee after its successful passage.

    I am straight. I never had any doubt about my own sexuality. While I’m an Irish Catholic and I try to take my faith seriously, I never doubted what my conscience told me. I had family members whose lives would have turned out very differently if they had been treated with the dignity I believe was due to them. And I understood that while I didn’t understand everyone’s sexuality, I needed to mind my own business and invite others to do the same.

    I am a big fan of people minding their own business.

    But I was there, in that moment, either changing minds or inviting those whose minds wouldn’t change to understand the futility of blocking the rights of others. And when it passed, I had the privilege of seeing a New Hampshire legislator filmed on WMUR saying that he had changed his vote at the last minute because of an email he had received.

    Then he began reading words that seemed remarkably familiar to me. I never went back to check, but I am pretty sure they were my words.

    Since then, other issues have arisen within the LGBTQ community. I don’t have all the answers. Those answers may not be found in government but in the day-to-day struggle of the LGBTQ community.

    Some solutions can be signed with a pen. Some require a Jackie Robinson to endure the pain and suffering of being first, to change the world simply by refusing to give up.

    I continue to cheer for the underdog.

  • Election Math for Pollsters: Undeclared Voters, Welcome to the Dave Party!

    So, the fix is in.

    Chris Pappas is destined to win the New Hampshire Democratic primary for U.S. Senate. They’re saying he’ll win 59% of the vote. That’s enough. He wins. Everybody go home.

    Nothing else to see here.

    What that means is that he is destined to win 59% of the Democratic vote, or about 16% of registered voters.

    The Republican Party currently makes up 33% of New Hampshire voters, and John Sununu is expected to win his primary handily, with 54% of Republicans, or about 18% of the voting public.

    So, our two front-runners are spending a combined $27 million, some of it from foreign nations pulling us into world war three and some from other murky organizations, to win their respective primaries, with a combined total of about 34% of the potential voting public behind them.

    That means 66% of New Hampshire voters would not prefer either of them, based on those numbers.

    Undeclared voters make up 39% of New Hampshire’s voters. That’s more than the combined share represented by Pappas and Sununu in these calculations.

    Their only problem is that they don’t seem to know how powerful they are.

    I think both parties need a spanking, and undeclared voters are just the people to do it. I don’t want to be a backseat parent, but you might consider striking your child. Feel free to start with the Democrat. I’ll look the other way.

    I won’t pressure all you undeclared voters to vote for me. Use your best judgment.

    Just understand the power you have to influence our political system.

    And good luck to you. God Bless.

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