Nicholas Zateslo

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Health Care Affordable Coverage & Lower CostsProtecting Medicare & Social SecurityRural Health Care AccessMental Health & Substance AbuseCare for Veterans & Military Families

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Protecting Medicare & Social Security

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Military, Veterans & National Security Supporting Service Members & FamiliesVeterans’ Health Care & BenefitsMilitary Readiness & Defense JobsTransition to Civilian LifeHonoring Service & Sacrifice

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Supporting Service Members & Families

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Data Centers Require data center companies to pay for their own energy and grid upgrades, so your utility rates don't skyrocket.Protect local control so our communities have a voice.Close tax loopholes and ensure companies pay their fair share in local taxes so that those dollars stay at home to fund our roads, our schools, and public services.Implement rules that protects our air, water, and environment from being exploited and misused.

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Protect local control so our communities have a voice.

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Close tax loopholes and ensure companies pay their fair share in local taxes so that those dollars stay at home to fund our roads, our schools, and public services.

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Implement rules that protects our air, water, and environment from being exploited and misused.

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I’m running for Congress to protect our freedom and make life more affordable again. Our political system has failed us, and North Florida deserves a new generation of leadership that will fight for practical, common-sense ideas that put our economy back on track and protect the place we all call home – from Walton County to Taylor County.

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As an affordability crisis grips our region, and AI & data centers become a new problem to solve, we need determined leaders who will show up and fight for us, not lobbyists and party insiders.

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Whether it’s creating and protecting good-paying jobs, lowering our grocery bills, and reining in skyrocketing health care and child care costs, I’ll work with anyone to solve problems and make our lives better.

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Strong local industries create stable jobs and stronger communities. Federal policy should support manufacturing, agriculture, skilled trades, and homegrown businesses.

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Housing costs are pushing families and seniors out of their communities. We need solutions that expand supply, protect homeowners, and keep housing within reach.

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High child care costs strain family budgets and limit workforce participation. Affordable child care supports parents, employers, and local economies.

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Small businesses drive North Florida’s economy. Reducing red tape and expanding access to capital helps local entrepreneurs grow and compete.

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Rural communities deserve real investment, not empty promises. Supporting agriculture, infrastructure, and rural innovation creates lasting opportunity.

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Families face rising premiums and prescription drug costs. We must lower prices and strengthen competition to put patients first.

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Medicare and Social Security are earned benefits. They must be protected and strengthened for today’s seniors and future generations.

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Rural hospital closures and provider shortages threaten access to care. Expanding telehealth and supporting rural clinics are critical.

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Mental health care is essential. We must expand treatment options and address addiction with evidence-based solutions.

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All constitutional rights must be protected without exception or political favoritism.

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Free, fair, and secure elections are the foundation of our democracy. The peaceful transfer of power must always be upheld.

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Justice must be applied fairly and consistently. The law should protect rights, build trust, and keep communities safe.

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Clean water and flood protection safeguard public health. These investments protect families and local economies.

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Veterans earned their benefits through service. We must ensure timely care and reduce delays and denials.

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A strong national defense requires readiness and skilled workers. Supporting defense jobs strengthens security and local economies.

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Honoring service means supporting veterans long after their service ends.

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Strong public schools depend on supported teachers and engaged communities.

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Freedom, Rights & The Rule of Law

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The American AI Civilization Blueprint provides a layered, constitutionally grounded architecture designed to ensure that growth continues and people come with it.

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Require data center companies to pay for their own energy and grid upgrades, so your utility rates don't skyrocket.

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The dysfunction is architectural. We've let legal immigration drift out of sync with real labor demand while concentrating enforcement discretion in the executive, so every administration governs by improvisation and the statute never changes. I support rebuilding the legal channels: pathways scaled to actual workforce needs — agriculture, construction, care work, the backbone of FL-02 — a stable earned-status process for long-settled workers and Dreamers, and clearing the backlogs that manufacture an underground economy. But reform now has to include accountability. When Congress funds an enforcement agency so heavily it no longer has to return for appropriations, it has surrendered the power of the purse — the core Article I check — and we get agents operating without warrant, oversight, or use-of-force limits. That's not strength; it's abdication. Enforcement and legality aren't opposites: a functioning legal system, answerable to Congress, is the enforcement.

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Yes, and the mechanism matters more than it seems. Climate risk in Florida is being socialized through insurance: private carriers retreat, reinsurance reprices, and exposure piles onto Citizens Property Insurance — a state backstop that in a severe storm year can assess nearly every policyholder in Florida. That's a hidden, statewide tax on climate risk, levied without a vote. Add stranded coastal property, downgrade pressure on exposed municipal credit, and agricultural and timber losses, and it's a slow balance-sheet crisis, not a distant one. I read it through North Florida's own history — five waves of extraction, turpentine to timber to paper to data centers, each pulling value out and leaving the cleanup to whoever came next. Pricing risk honestly and hardening infrastructure isn't ideology; it's actuarial arithmetic. The economic question isn't whether we pay, but whether we price the risk now or absorb it later, uninsured, as a shock.

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One: the cost structure crushing families — insurance, housing, healthcare — including stopping Medicare Advantage from denying earned care, and the insurance-market failures pushing Floridians from their homes. Two: govern the AI and data-center buildout so its gains reach the people whose land, power, and water underwrite it — the extraction pattern repeating, infrastructure sited here and value captured elsewhere. The two are one argument at different scales: whoever controls the infrastructure a society runs on — compute, risk pools, care systems — sets the terms everyone else lives under. Making that layer accountable is the through-line of both.

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The core is clean state-action doctrine: government can't punish or compel speech, and that must stay absolute against every temptation to carve out speech we dislike. But the governance-relevant frontier has moved. When the First Amendment was written, the scarce resource was speakers; today it's control of the layer speech runs through. A handful of firms own the infrastructure — platforms, payment rails, hosting, the AI models — that determines what can be published, found, or funded. That isn't a First Amendment violation, because it isn't the state; but it's the same governance problem the Amendment was built for: concentrated, unaccountable power over what can be said. So I hold two commitments — no government censorship, and structural openness at the infrastructure layer, so a few private chokepoints don't bound the public square.

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Congress holds the superior claim, by design: it creates agencies, writes the statutes they enforce, funds them, and oversees them. The President's duty is to take care the laws are faithfully executed — execution, not authorship. The core check is the purse, and it's failing from both sides. When the executive refuses to spend money Congress appropriated, it rewrites the budget by inaction — what the Impoundment Control Act forbids. When Congress front-loads an agency for years through reconciliation — as with $75 billion for ICE, enough to run outside the annual appropriations cycle — it hands away its own recurring leverage, and the check disappears. One is an executive grab, the other a legislative surrender; both hollow out Article I. Removal and delegation follow the same logic: a unitary executive answerable to no one, and vague statutes that let it fill the space Congress vacated. After 25 years in these systems, I've learned structure, not intention, governs.

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The federal role is structural: guarantee opportunity and equity; don't run the classroom — that stays local. Each level has a distinct leverage point. Pre-K is a market failure — quality early education returns more than almost any public dollar, yet working families in FL-02 can't find or afford it, so federal support belongs here. K-12 is targeted-equity money: Title I for low-income and rural districts, IDEA for students with disabilities — a statutory promise Washington has never fully funded and should. That funding is what keeps a child's zip code from setting their ceiling. Higher ed needs a wider definition of success — affordable college, but equal investment in apprenticeships, trade schools, and workforce paths that produce good jobs here. The common thread: the federal government isn't suited to run schools, but it's the only actor that can offset the geographic inequality states won't fix alone.