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September 30, 2025
Brent Caldwell Announces Bid for Congress in NC's 14th Congressional District
Charlotte, NC - Brent Caldwell, a Charlotte attorney and activist, today announced his campaign for the U.S. House of Representatives in North Carolina’s 14th District. Before practicing law, Caldwell worked in professional politics as a campaign aide and union organizer.
“The American Dream is under threat from people who want to dominate their fellow citizens economically and politically,” Caldwell said. “It’s no coincidence that as costs rise and opportunity narrows, our ability to speak out and act is being limited. There is no better time than the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence to reaffirm the commitments to liberty, union, and community that have always fueled America’s progress.”
Caldwell’s agenda centers on lowering costs for families, protecting democracy, and preparing workers for the future of the economy.
About Brent Caldwell
Brent Caldwell holds degrees from the London School of Economics and Duke Law. A Christian, husband, and father of three, he is running to represent North Carolina’s 14th District in the U.S. House.
September 16, 2025
Tim Moore Knows Trump’s Policies
Will Tank Economy
Charlotte, NC — As reported in The Assembly (September 7, 2025), Congressman Tim Moore has placed a large bet against the American economy. Moore invested $245,000 in the Direxion Daily Small Cap Bear 3x Shares fund, which is designed to “lose money when the value of the [Russell 2000] index rises.” In other words, if the market trends downward, Moore profits.
Moore has been investing in this fund all summer, beginning shortly after passage of Trump’s signature “One Big Beautiful Bill Act.” Congressman Moore has also been one of the most aggressive stock traders in Congress. In June 2025, Fortune reported that he failed to make required disclosures of hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of trades.
Brent Caldwell, Democratic candidate for Congress in NC-14, responded: “Behavior like this is exactly why Americans feel their institutions are corrupt and broken. Congressman Moore knows current policies are going to drive up the cost of living and harm the economy, but instead of speaking out he is secretly betting against America. I am launching my campaign this month to call out this kind of corruption in our economy and show how it increases costs and limits opportunities for the people of the Fourteenth District.”
September 21, 2025
Brent Caldwell Announces His Position on AI and the Future of Work
Artificial intelligence and the automation of work are soon going to transform daily life. This year Morgan Stanley estimated there will be 1 billion humanoid robots in the workforce by 2050. We cannot predict every innovation that will come, but we can use our own recent experience to get an idea of how dramatic the change might be.
But one generation ago at the turn of the millennium, there were no smart phones, no social networks, and not even Wikipedia. Same day delivery of goods, self-driving cars, and consumer level 3D printing were mere pipe dreams. Within one generation from now we will almost certainly see virtual AI agents that can do much office work and humanoid robots that can handle manual labor such as lawncare, construction, factory, and warehouse work.
The last time America faced a comparable change in the technology of work we failed miserably. The invention of the shipping container allowed the mass offshoring of manufacturing. This devastated blue collar jobs and communities, giving room for despair, the opioid epidemic, and the decline of the American family, and opened us to surges of inflation like we saw in the pandemic while placing industries vital to national security in hostile nations. Rather than redress the human suffering we all saw developing, American elites blamed the workers while the tech and financial sectors allowed us to pretend our economy was still growing for everyone.
This time around we must listen to our neighbors if they say they are hurting and provide a strong social safety net to ensure we all gain from these momentous changes. If Americans have more time with their families and greater material security, we will have won. If America has the first trillionaire while 30% of workers are unemployed, we will have failed in tragic fashion.
July 22, 2025
Freedom Isn't Free (Excerpt of Op-Ed)
Freedom is not free. As someone with a grandfather and great-grandfather interred at Arlington and who has had, according to family lore, a relative serve in every American major war since the Spanish American conflict (now with the exception of Afghanistan), I know this viscerally. While I come from a family deeply enmeshed with America’s armed forces for over a century, I do not think of the phrase only in the context of military sacrifice.
Indeed, freedom is not free: It also requires putting up with a lot of behavior you may never want to engage in or even that you morally disapprove of.
Such tolerance is the price to be paid for all to maintain their natural right of liberty. On July 4, 1776, in addition to a certain Declaration being signed, a committee suggested our national motto: E Pluribus Unum, ‘Out of Many, One.’ In this many, there will be jerks, kooks, weirdos, at least by my definitions of the words, and lots of people that just want to live differently than I would in their circumstances. On some level I think most get that is okay.
Yet sometimes it seems we need to be reminded of this....
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So, in this month of the 249th Fourth of July, let us celebrate. Let us remember that freedom is not free. And let us mind our own business—because all three acts are root and branch of the same tree of liberty.
Complete article at The Clarion-Ledger.