How do we get Idahoans focused on Idaho and their local communities so we can improve our lives here? The distractions that allow bad actors to manipulate our local areas should be called out and eliminated.

The Uvalde school shooting and the recent indictments of officers highlight an unimaginable failing of our school protection mechanics. It is up to us, common citizens and parents, to demand and produce better for our children and communities.

China can turn off our lights right now because they’ve spent decades pre-positioning themselves in our infrastructure. They don’t need to engage in a kinetic attack. Killing our power for 72 hours would have beyond catastrophic effects. Idaho must act.

If your water stopped working for an hour, what would you do? How about 6 hours? A day? A week? By day two, you'd be going to the Boise River with 300,000 other people trying to get a bucket of water. That's the risk we face with an unsecured power system.

If Idaho loses power but knows how to restore in within three days, how will the people know that help is on the way? We won't have radio, internet, cell phones... The loss of power and the damage that will follow is beyond comprehension. We must harden our grid.

Cyber threats from international bad actors is our greatest risk in Idaho. You don't need to fly a plane or send a missile to shut down our entire electrical grid and grind our whole system to a halt. The cyber fusion center that protects everything cyber is the only answer.

Idaho was the birth of Nuclear Power, and our time has come again to lead the United States and the world into the next era of prosperity and security. Gov. Brad Little knows this, I know this, and the rest of the country knows this. Our time is now.🇺🇸

Idaho must understand what we can do best and do that better than anyone. In the nuclear energy space, we can handle fuel recycling and repurposing better than anyone. If you have a car and no gas, the car is useless. The country needs nuclear fuel, and Idaho will deliver.

Idaho could store the 93 million metric tons of used nuclear fuel from across the nation easily. With that storage would come over a BILLION dollars in revenue a year from the federal government, and that would just be the first revenue stream from this used fuel.

The Energy Output capacity of used nuclear fuel in the US is literally $100,000,000,000. Idaho stands in the center of the reprocessing equation and could profit untold amounts if we are able to attract that industry here.

Cyber Attacks against the US are stopped every day, but we must do more to protect in the event of a successful attack. Micro grids allow for sectioned off electrical systems that can be brought back online faster and don't all fall like dominos. This will SAVE AMERICAN LIVES.

With today's technology, we could have separate electrical grids for military bases, water supply, transportation, and communication, so if one of these pieces gets taken out, we will not have a domino catastrophe. America can and SHOULD harden our infrastructure.

If the Western Grid goes down, we're in the dark ages and chaos almost immediately. If we broke the grid up into micro grids for at least our water, military, comms, and transport, we would have some basic societal functions that we could depend on. Idaho MUST move towards this.

Idahoans should NEVER be faced with an increased cost for electrical because of data centers. If they want to do business here, we welcome them, but not off the backs of our hard working, every day Idahoans. Idaho's low cost, quality way of life is not for sale.

The Chinese already bury all of their critical infrastructure. They have massive tunnel systems that make their critical operations incredibly protected from many forms of disruption, both natural and man made. Why are we falling behind in protecting our own infrastructure?

Chinese are literally setting the stage for things the US should be doing, RIGHT NOW. They're building nuclear reactors, molten salt batteries, hardening their infrastructure, all right in front of our eyes as we sit around and watch. Why don't we lead the world in this?

Why was America capable of building a bomb in WW2 from scratch but we can't put together new nuclear reactor designs in the same timeframe with existing technology and modern science? It's because we have plans and projects sitting on desks for months at a time. We MUST do better

If America really wanted to, the administration could unleash Idaho and INL and allow us to go to work building the best, most incredible nuclear technology the world has ever seen. It's not a matter of ability. It's a matter of allowing Idaho to do what we can do.

The failure of the US to protect our digital infrastructure is a failing beyond belief.

If Idaho loses power because of cyber attacks, we lose our water. We lose water, and we lose our community. The Treasure Valley could persist for a few days, but after that, it would dissolve into complete chaos. We absolutely must harden our power infrastructure.