(10/28) Your own freedom is what voting is all about. I’m Dan Cox and I’m asking for your vote as a principled policy maker, not as a politician. As a community stakeholder, I want policies that will protect my four daughters and our sons from illegal trafficking and gangs, from socialist government-imposed health care, and from opioid and fentanyl dealers killing so many each year. Our policies should protect us; that is why I stand with Sheriff Chuck Jenkins and all our Team Hogan.

The treasure of our Republic is our Constitution’s Bill of Rights and our laws. If we fail to vote, we proclaim that we dislike our own rights. We also do dishonor to the heroes lying at Arlington and every veteran who has defended us.

No matter what side of the political aisle you are on – as Americans we must advance policies that solve our problems while supporting our constitutional rights, or else we will lose them. Former Democrat-turned-Republican President Ronald Reagan famously said: "Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same." I agree, and I am asking for your vote to do just that.

I grew up on a small farm outside Emmitsburg on the border of Frederick & Carroll Counties, working my way with three jobs through Mt. St. Mary’s University (then College), graduating from the University of Maryland while working in education teaching High School courses on government and the Constitution, before going on to law school.

For the last 12 years as an attorney-at-law I’ve defended Free Speech, the Second Amendment, and parental rights in the care, custody, education and protection of our children. I’ve defended pregnant women unlawfully fired, educational choice for our children, people harmed by crowded roads, supported concealed carry rights, defended farmers wrongly fined, and those suffering a loss of real property rights.