I have worked with, volunteered with, or otherwise engaged with five American Political Parties, (though not including the Democrats-- their formal party, in my experience, is wholly antagonistic towards nuance and ideological diversity) including the Republican and Libertarian Parties primarily, but also the Foward Party/CA Common Sense, American Solidarity Party, and others.

At the age of seventeen, I founded the Wild Caucus of the Libertarian party, effectively serving as the LP's "Green" faction. I currently serve on the Santa Barbara County GOP Central Committee and Strategy subcommittee, I have aided GOP cadidates in setting up effective platforms and social media outreach, and I have run for office twice, both times execeding expectations and developing bi-partisan networks.

I also serve as regional co-chair of Braver Angels here in Santa Barbara CA, the largest interpartisan organization of its kind, seeking to bring Republicans and Democrats together to talk about policies for what they are, and get to the bottom of what we believe without name-calling or partisan stereotyping. I believe that deep down, the ideological positions of all people are moved by some earnest and wholesome desire, even if but a kernel, and that through honestly engaging with truth, and wedding the facts of reality to that goodness, we can all come to common-sense, grounded positions and understand each other better.

My main line of work, though, is in Youth and Young Adult Ministry, helping oversee and put on Confirmation and Catechesis Classes, youth group events, etc. at my family's Catholic Church, while leading youth and university outreach at my personal Episcopal Church.

I am currently in the process of authoring a primer titled; "Free, Naturally: The Principles and Vision of a New Agrarian Movement", due to release in late Summer or early Fall 2026.

As of writing this, I have just graduated from university, just came out of a county supervisorial campaign, and am working on a potential move to Texas while also aiding some Santa Barbara candidiates as they progress into the November election. All this is to say, I'm quite busy and have an inbox that's jam-packed. I will do my darndest to ensure that I get back to any messages, though!

Email: ElijahMackForCalifornia@gmail.com
P.O. Box: To Be Determined

You probably know the feeling well: the unmistakable sense that something has gone terribly wrong, and that no Conservative politician or Marxist English professor possesses a political vision that addresses the taproot of modernity’s various problems. That feeling in your gut that no growth of the GDP, no new tax on billionaires, and no new use-case for Artificial Intelligence is going to mend a particular negative turn in the human experience, one that that can’t be corrected by wealth, technological progress, or all the vices and distractions we have at our fingertips today.

Crucial ecosystems deteriorate before our eyes while the quality of our air, soil, water, and food collapse. Communities dissolve into atomized isolation even as we accumulate digital "connections” and become subjects of the influence of mass society. Individuals are “empowered” to become demiurges of their own world yet have no true autonomy and independence. Mental health crises spread like the plague. Political and economic power concentrates in the hands of self-interested oligarchs, political Ideologues, and the bloated Government apparatus they operate, leaving citizens powerless over the forces that shape their bodies, minds, labor, and social life. Identity rooted in place, people, and culture is gutted on the altar of global capital or State-Socialist experiments. At the end of the day, we face a cascade of existential threats (ecological, economic, political) that have us spending more of our time thinking about the opposite side of the globe than about our own backyards.

The solutions we’re offered only deepen our dependency on the very systems that created these crises in the first place. A futurist dystopia stands with arms outstretched to recieve us, and traditional ideologies offer no escape; mainstream politicians offer puny reforms while authoritarian extremists merely seek to dress up the "Technique”; that vast, interdependent machinery of centralized power and technological totality that devours both human flourishing and the natural world; in the drapery of “equality”, “tradition”, or “progress”.

“Free, Naturally” proclaims what nearly all of us recognize, but few dare to utter: the solution is not a new ideology to manage this machine we have on our hands, but the deceleration and deliberate deconstruction of the machine itself. It calls for a return to the "Agrarian Paradigm" of human society, for a return to economic and political decentralization, local decision-making, mutual aid, community self-sufficiency, and a culture genuinely rooted in nature and human-scaled life; where people live deliberately, engaging with the real facts and problems of human life for what they are, without preconceived ideological and social abstractions getting in the way.

-Distributism in Theory and in Practice
-Reconciling Christ and Capital
-Metamodernism and Deliberatism

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1. In 2023, I began my first campaign at the age of nineteen, for CA State Senate in District #21. Despite my ballot designation as "College Student", Running as a Republican, only bringing in about $7k, and running against a favored incumbent, I secured nearly 40% of the vote in a heavily Dem-leaning district containing ~1,000,000 citizens.
   
   I knew I wouldn't win, but I focused my campaign on a message of encouraging voters to vote based on policy and not on party, and put forth a vision of a California in which our economy, communities, and natural environment can survive and thrive, with as little dependence on, or corruption by, the State and Private interests as possible. CA has suffered under a uniparty state, producing few viable means of dealing with CA issues despite posessing absolute power to enact whatever solutions they see fit. It's not an R vs. D. issue, any state that's essentially run by a single party's establishment leadership will fall apart. 

2. In 2026, I ran for Santa Barbara County Supervisor #2, in a 17% Republican district, against a performative but beloved (and extremely well-funded) Incumbent who belonged to a local political dynasty, and only moved to the district one cycle prior in order to run unnopposed. I ran a shoestring campaign, but used my money effectively, had solid outreach and a team of passionate volunteers on both sides of the aisle, and secured 24% of the vote.
   
   In the end, she ended up nabbing (and softening) a couple of my policies (imitation is the highest form of flattery, after all), and I was able to reveal to many voters the reality that her most notable policies lacked real substance, and failed to confront the strain placed on local businesses, the lack of working and middle-class housing for Santa Barbara Locals, the decay of local traditions and festivities, and various threats to county wilderness.