Anthony Aguilar

Then we had the National Republican Party.

And then we had the Whig Party.

And it wasn't until Andrew Jackson came along as the first Democratic runner.

And when he ran against John Quincy Adams, they called him the same thing.

Oh, you're going to ruin.

You're going to spoil the race.

And he won.

He won because of the principles he stood on as a candidate, not the party.

And then the Republican Party didn't come around until Abraham Lincoln.

And then in Abraham Lincoln's second term, he didn't run as a Republican.

He ran as a National Union Party.

So this idea of this two-party system is a lie.

It's a lie to keep America entrenched in corporatization and make Americans feel that your vote has to go one way or another.

And if you don't, you're wasting your vote.

I believe that's why we have seen a greater number of voters not turning out to vote, of voters feeling like they don't have an option and voters feeling more and more that they identify as independent or a third party, but still voting for a Democrat or Republican because they feel they don't have a choice.

I don't feel that in this race I'm a spoiler.

I feel that I'm enriching it.

Who in this race, who is in the district and many in Congress have the experience I have in foreign policy at the tip of the spear for the last quarter century or have felt the repercussions of domestic policy back home after returning from combat?

I have.

Well, so first of all, right now, and just as an anecdote to my overall view, if you look at the Department of Homeland Security's strategy for the next five years, 2023 to 2027, so we're about halfway through that strategy, $169 billion to continue to fund specifically ICE within the program of DHS to increase ICE agents from 400 field agents to 10,000.