“We need a new PRECEDENT – government of the people, by the people, for the people where the government does OUR bidding, not the bidding of the highest bidder.”

– Swami Beyondananda

Front and Center podcast “podner” Michael Maxsenti, a self-declared “Rebel for Truth” is running as an independent thinking Republican for Congress in California’s highly-contested 47th Congressional District – and he actually has a chance to win!

“Rebel” is an acronym for:

Recognize the status quo has failed us.

Educate yourself with nonpartisan facts and possible solutions.

Be aware most representatives no longer represent US.

Engage diverse sources of information and people.

Lend yourself to the movement in some way.

If you’ve tuned into our Front and Center podcast, you recognize Michael as a thoughtful, dedicated, independent thinker, a one-time Reagan Republican who started a conversation with a young #occupy self-described anarchist about a dozen years ago, that vastly expanded his political purview.

Since that time, he has worked to bring all sides together in fruitful conversation, and is now a leader in the new United Independents movement. Most recently, he worked to organize the California Common Sense Party, Andrew Yang’s Forward Party, and then Robert F. Kennedy’s presidential campaign.

And now, when he should be enjoying his “reclining years,” he is running for Congress in a district on both parties’ “must win” list as an independent thinking Republican – and he just might win!

The main thing he has going for him – in addition to being a successful businessperson, active in community service, dedicated to both individual freedom and community wellbeing – is, he is not a politician.

Most elected representatives are professional politicians, meaning they must follow their party’s line or risk losing their career. Michael is beholden to no one other than “God, the Constitution, my conscience, and my constituents.”

Michael is running in a district – where incidentally he has resided for fifty years – that is almost evenly divided, red and blue. And a time when people have had it up to here with the status quo, his populist view and “real person” persona might very well prevail over career politicians who represent the two-faced “uniparty” that keeps the public divided around the culture wars so that we the people don’t unite to hold our system accountable.

And even though he is running as an independent thinking Republican without benefit of the party apparatus, he is not running alone. He is part of a new United Independents organization (https://www.unitedindependents.us/the-united-independent-movement) seeking to elect enough independent and corruption free candidates (Democrats, Republicans, and others) to create a “people’s wedge” to bring truth, transparency and accountability. If you stop and consider that more than 50% of American voters now identify as “independent”, and there is now a coherent voice to that independents movement, this is an idea whose time has come.

And even though he is running in just one district, Michael is in a sense representing all of us.

“I am,” he says, “a populist, meaning I respect the rights, the dignity, and the wisdom of everyday people. Right now, our representatives don’t represent us. They represent their political party establishment, and the major donors who finance that party. I’m running so that Americans from all sides can work together to solve real-world problems.”

If you’re curious to find out more – about Michael's successes and setbacks and how they’ve shaped his candidacy – please tune in and find out for yourself.

Want to find out more about his campaign and how you can get involved?

Go here: https://www.maxsentiforcongress.com/

The cliché says we get the government we deserve. Well, Michael says we deserve better. He invites you to help him deliver it.