Michael Dorland

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No federal preemption without a federal framework. Congress doesn’t get to block states from protecting their citizens while offering nothing in return.

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A congressional stock trading ban — no individual stocks for members, spouses, or dependents while in office. Blind trusts or index funds. This idea has had bipartisan support for years; it keeps dying because the people voting on it are the people profiting from it.

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You’ll notice immigration isn’t one of my four planks. That’s deliberate, and you deserve to know why: I don’t have a comprehensive immigration plan. Neither does anyone else — the honest ones just admit it. What I have is a district that shares a border with Sonora, a test for every vote, and a refusal to sell you fear.

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Most corruption in Washington is legal. Stock trading ban, revolving-door lockout, real-time disclosure — and everything I’m asking Congress to do, I’m already doing myself, unpaid.

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Affordability isn’t just prices going up — it’s ownership going away. Right to repair, truth in “buy,” and honest pricing, because “the market” can’t fix what four companies quietly agree on.

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TL;DR (that's "Too Long; Didn't Read" — and yes, we're aware that explaining the acronym makes this longer, which is probably the most honest thing on the page):We use AI. We're not hiding it. We run most of it on solar power at our house instead of in a data center, we never use it to lie to you, and nobody here posts raw AI output without a human tearing it apart first. That's the whole policy. Everything below is just us showing our work.

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That is a very long way from real freedom. And freedom is the thing I’d actually like to defend.

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I’m running with no party affiliation. Not because I think I’m above it, but because I don’t want to owe anyone a vote before I’ve read the bill. Independents don’t get a primary, a donor list, or a team telling them how to vote. That’s the point. If I get this wrong, it’s on me. If I get it right, it’s also on me. Either way, you’ll know exactly who to hold responsible.

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Good, so are we. Before you get worked up and start yelling about us being hypocrites because we use AI tools and don’t work in a data center: we run most of our own AI work locally, on our own hardware, largely on solar. And it’s also a policy position, not just a personal habit — I’m pushing for mandatory public reporting of data-center water and energy use, and an end to sweetheart utility deals that make Arizona families subsidize grid upgrades for trillion-dollar companies. If you want to build in the desert, the desert gets to see the bill. Read the full AI plank →

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I will tell you the truth, even when a comfortable lie would be easier for me. That doesn't mean cruelty; you lead with kindness, then you tell the truth. But you don't get a representative who lies (even by omission; I hate those types of lies the worst) because the honest answer polls badly.

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Here are the dedicated individuals behind “Dorland for Congress.” We are committed to transparency and community engagement.

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Rebuild Congress’s own brain — restore an Office of Technology Assessment so lawmakers aren’t outsourcing their understanding to the industries they regulate.

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Defend cross-border commerce — fully staffed and modernized ports of entry, and opposition to trade actions that sacrifice one state’s economy to subsidize another’s.

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Treat cartels like the organized crime they are. Go after the networks — the smuggling operations, the money, the guns running south — with real resources and real coordination, and stop pretending that raiding a dairy farm or a church parking lot is the same thing as fighting a cartel. One is theater. The other is dangerous, unglamorous law-enforcement work that border residents have been asking for, for decades. Fund the second one. And when a rancher calls for help, someone should come.

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So here are five fights — the four pillars this campaign stands on, plus the one issue people ask about most that isn’t one of the four. Each gets a short hook here and a full page of its own: what’s broken, and what I’d actually do with the tools the job actually has.

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The entire AI industry right now is built on one idea: more. More data centers, more power, more scale, bigger models. I think that’s mostly wrong, and I’ve done the work to back it up.

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A federal Right to Repair — parts, tools, and documentation available to owners and independent shops, for everything from phones to tractors to wheelchairs.

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I’ve written about what I call constrained AI — the idea that you get more reliable, safer, more accountable results not by chasing a more powerful model, but by designing the workflow and the limits around it properly. I’ve built processes that run perfectly well on the AI models that already exist, and that actually perform better in organizational and business settings — more safety, more security, more accountability — than what the big companies are selling. (Paper, supporting material, and live demonstrations available on request. I’m not asking you to take my word for it.)

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Here’s the part people don’t believe: a lot of the time, AI doesn’t even save us time. When somebody sends a long question through this website, I write the whole answer out myself, the way I always have. Then I hand it to a custom AI tool and ask it to rewrite it the way a person will actually read it — and it cuts my rambling three-page reply down to half a page and ten bullet points. That doesn’t save me a single minute. What it does is make sure the thing I’m trying to say actually gets read and understood. That’s the point. Not speed. Clarity.

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We have two kids. We have four cats (not by choice; a hawk dropped one in our yard, and here we are). We have real health issues in this house that eat the hours we’d rather spend on other things. Add a high-stress, high-impact day job, a community we run to support people of every type and belief, the occasional desperate attempt at a date night and a movie, and a house and yard that are perpetually one project behind. (If anyone knows someone who does plaster work cheap, please, I’m begging you.)

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Here’s the line we will not cross: we’re good enough with these tools that we could generate images and rework them so they don’t look or read as AI, visually or in the code underneath. We never will. Even when it would save us time. Because that’s dishonest, and not making things worse by lying to you is the entire reason I’m running.

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We’ve been shifting our AI work toward sustainability, with an environmental focus. and these days the majority of it runs locally, on our own computers, right here in my office. Most of my AI work doesn’t touch a hosted data center at all. Once they’re set up and trained properly, my machines at home generate images, handle editing, and produce text about as well as the cloud models did a year ago. And because my whole approach was built starting from those local constraints, it’s structurally sound from the ground up.

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I work in AI governance for a living. I’m not afraid of the technology — I’m afraid of the pitch deck. Datacenter transparency, safety before scale, and rebuilding Congress’s own capacity to understand what it’s regulating.