Christopher Kehoe

A Montana Democrat with a Minnesota grudge.

days ago, I had zero interest in running for U.S. Senate. I was living my best life in beautiful Missoula, waiting for the Spring Term to begin at the University of Montana. But then I saw the footage of Renée Good being shot to death by ICE back in my hometown of Minneapolis, and my heart absolutely sank. The thing every Minnesotan I knew—Democrat and Republican—feared would happen, had just happened.

And then, 18 days later, ICE murdered Alex Pretti: a fully-registered firearm owner. Responsibly carrying concealed. 100% compliant with every gun law imaginable. Rushing to render medical aid to an injured citizen. Executed on sight by federal agents occupying a state with no warrant or legal jurisdiction—agents whose salaries were funded by your tax dollars.

Montana, something has to change in how we're governed and what we expect from government—and in the age of profit-incentivized journalism and AI-generated media, when truth is sometimes very hard to distinguish from pure fiction, it needs to have changed yesterday. I'm not a career politician, and I have no intention of becoming one. I'm an arts administrator with nearly two decades of experience working in the nonprofit sector. I know how to deliberate with wildly different stakeholders, and I know how to find consensus … even when it's shaky. I don't believe in mixing money with politics, which is why you won't find a "donate" button anywhere on this site.

Your choice this election should be inspired, so let’s do a little better than “the lesser of two evils,” shall we? Join this fired up Minnesotan ex-pat, and let's check and balance the Executive Branch harder than an episode of Heated Rivalry.

Holding ICE to the Fire

Border security doesn't need to come at the cost of our compassion, our patience, our ability to see the dignity in every human being regardless of immigration status. But ICE's hubris and arrogance cost Renée Good and Alex Pretti their lives. Murder has no statute of limitations, so the (ir)responsible parties within ICE, the Department of Homeland Security, and the Trump administration had better lawyer up—we've got the video receipts.

Yeah, it'll see some people absolutely disgraced for their incompetence and cruelty. That's the point.

Reforming Section 230

Section 230 is a relic from 1996, originally written to articulate content providers' protections and responsibilities for a very different World Wide Web. Let's update Section 230 for a 2026 internet: seeing social media platforms as the publishers they are and holding them just as accountable for factual errors and defamation as we do for any other form of published media. It was never about being a “digital town square.”

Yeah, it'll mean more work for Big Tech. That's the point.

Dismantling Citizens United

If the every-other-year avalanche of political advertising makes you want to walk into oncoming traffic, you have the 2010 Supreme Court and their ruling on Citizens United v. FEC to thank. Political campaigning suddenly became a lucrative business, and corporate interests' ambitions grew as wide as their wallets were deep. Let's craft crystal-clear legislation that spells out that corporations are not people, and that money is not speech.

Yeah, it'll mean less influence from private, out-of-state interests. That's the point.

Regulating AI and Data Center Construction

AI poses one of the most dangerous and exciting conundrums of our time. The United States can't afford to avoid AI outright—that would cede far too much leverage to foreign adversaries—but also can't simply write blank checks to Big Data oligarchs. This moment calls for leaders who understand the technology, the environmental hazards, and the impending economy-wide labor disruption … and who have the bravery to shape intentional, citizen-level protections.

Yeah, it'll mean putting guardrails on emerging new technologies. That's the point.

Ending the Senate Filibuster

Riddle me this: how, in a democracy, can we see a piece of legislation garner more than 50% of a vote and still fail to pass? When a second-grader can call bullshit, you know you're in trouble. Save the poetic imagery about the Senate being a cooling saucer; it's really a life-support machine protecting the status quo. It's beyond time for the Senate filibuster to be put out to pasture.

Yeah, it'll mean senators will need to start working for a living. That's the point.