🇺🇸 America First · Category #10 · 10 pts

Industry Capture & Sovereignty

Anti-Pharma. Anti-Big-Ag. Anti-MIC. Anti-cartel.

5 questions × 2 pts = 10 max · How scoring works · Back to scorecard

What this measures

Does this candidate oppose corporate-state capture across Pharma, Big Ag, and the Military-Industrial Complex — defending citizens against cartel power?

Why it matters

The three deepest captures of the modern American state are pharmaceutical (1986 NCVIA liability shield through COVID mandates), agricultural (Bayer/Monsanto/Cargill consolidation + USDA capture against family farms), and military-industrial (revolving-door appointments between DoD and top-5 defense contractors, never-completed Pentagon audit). Each is a cartel that has converted citizen-protective regulation into industry-protective regulation. A Christian voter scorecard that doesn't score on this catches nothing the GOP establishment has been doing wrong for 40 years. This category is the differentiator that separates resolute citizens from establishment cosplay.

Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness; who substitute bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!

— Isaiah 5:20

The 5 scored questions

Each question is binary (True / False / null). True earns +2 points. Null is "not yet verified from primary sources" — neither penalized nor credited. Use the toggle below to see the wording for federal, state, or local officials — the moral spirit is identical across tiers; what changes is the chair making the call. Read the tier architecture explainer →

View as: 5 of 5 questions apply at this tier

Q1. Candidate opposes pharmaceutical mandates of any kind (COVID, childhood, employer-required) and supports informed consent

Q1. Candidate (state) has voted against state pharmaceutical mandates (school childhood vaccine schedule, employer mandates) + supports state medical-conscience exemptions

Q1. Candidate (city/county/school board) opposes local pharmaceutical mandates (city-employee, school-attendance) + supports informed-consent ordinances
Q2. Candidate supports repeal of pharma liability shields (1986 NCVIA, PREP Act) and restoration of tort accountability

Q2. Not scored at the state tier — federal-only question (no state-level chair).

Q2. Not scored at the local tier — federal/state-only question.
Q3. Candidate opposes Big Ag consolidation (Bayer/Monsanto/Cargill) and supports anti-trust action against agricultural cartels

Q3. Candidate (state AG/legislature) has filed/supported state antitrust action against Big Ag consolidation

Q3. Not scored at the local tier — federal/state-only question.
Q4. Candidate supports raw-milk freedom, small-farm protections, and opposes USDA / EPA overreach against family farms

Q4. Candidate (state) has voted for state raw-milk freedom + state small-farm protections against USDA/EPA federal overreach

Q4. Candidate (county/city) supports local raw-milk sales + local small-farm zoning protections + opposes county-board EPA-cooperation enforcement against family farms
Q5. Candidate supports defense-contractor accountability, completion of Pentagon audits, and ending revolving-door appointments

Q5. Not scored at the state tier — federal-only question (no state-level chair).

Q5. Not scored at the local tier — federal/state-only question.

Key bills, votes, and laws we track

Repeal the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act (NCVIA, 1986) — No major federal repeal bill yet — co-sponsors of any related accountability legislation get credit.
PREP Act Reform — Restores tort accountability for COVID-era liability shields.
PRIME Act — Allows state-inspected meat to be sold across state lines — frees small ranchers from USDA centralization.
Raw Milk Freedom Act (state + federal) — State-by-state tracking + federal interstate-commerce reform.
Audit the Pentagon Act — Annual reintroduction. Co-sponsorship gets full credit.

Organizations and PAC vectors we score

Children's Health Defense (RFK Jr. founded) — Endorsements + alignment scored positively.
Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund — Raw-milk + small-farm litigation tracker.
Project on Government Oversight (POGO) — Defense-contractor accountability tracker.
Pfizer / Moderna / Merck / Johnson & Johnson PACs — Donations above $25K cycle trigger per-category penalty.
Bayer / Monsanto / Cargill / Tyson Foods PACs — Donations above $25K cycle trigger per-category penalty.
Lockheed / Raytheon / Northrop / Boeing / General Dynamics PACs — Donations above $50K cycle trigger per-category penalty.

⚠️ Position-level disqualifiers

Voted YES on a pharmaceutical mandate of any kind (including state-level COVID mandates)
Voted YES on any expansion of pharma liability shields beyond the 1986 NCVIA baseline
Took identifiable donations from top-5 defense contractor PACs above $50K per cycle

A candidate matching any of the above is graded down to the floor of this category regardless of other answers in the rubric.

Where this lives in the scorecard

This category contributes 10 of 40 in the 🇺🇸 America First tier (40 pts total) and 10 of 100 in the grand total. See the full scoring system for the 60/40 weighting rationale and the letter-grade scale (A 90+ / B 80 / C 70 / D 60 / F <60).

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