1. United States
2. Ariz.
3. Letter

Senator Gallego, Your vote to advance fossil-fuel permitting reform alongside Chuck Schumer and Senate Republicans makes your real priorities clear. You built your career around a carefully scripted story: the combat veteran with a Harvard degree, the self-made outsider claiming he would stand up to corporate interests and fight for working families. But military service isn't an impenetrable shield against accountability, and a past uniform isn't a permanent pass for legislative betrayal. Wearing a uniform is supposed to mean an oath to serve the public; using that background as a political prop while voting to hand over Arizona’s air, land, and water to the fossil fuel lobby strips any real meaning from your speech about duty. You brought no grit to the Senate—only immediate compliance to party leadership and energy donors. Arizona is already facing extreme heat waves and severe water threats. Instead of showing an ounce of independent backbone, you chose to vote alongside corporate interests to gut Clean Water Act reviews and streamline fossil fuel extraction. You didn't go to Washington to challenge power—you went to assimilate into it, acting like just another low-profile political hack in the mold of John Fetterman. If you intended to abandon your campaign promises to rubber-stamp corporate carve-outs, you should have dropped the pretense entirely and run as a Republican. Stop hiding behind your resume while betraying the people who put you in office. If you intend to spend your tenure as a tool for party bosses and Big Oil, don't expect the voters of Arizona to buy the performance—or re-elect you when your name is back on the ballot. Your entire record illustrates the classic ratchet effect of American politics. Republicans crank the system further toward corporate deregulation, and when Democrats get elected on promises of change, they hold the ratchet in place, locking in harm and preventing any shift back left. That is your role in Washington. Combined with a total lack of technical literacy on basic infrastructure like data centers and an appetite for endless defense spending, you’ve made it impossible to pretend the two-party system isn't completely rigged. Your military record isn't a badge of honor; it's a marketing tool for a failed war that served only to fatten the bottom lines of defense contractors. You govern with zero technical literacy, making sweeping decisions on critical systems you couldn't begin to explain. You aren't offering a real alternative; you’re just another partisan functionary perpetuating the same hollow system as Andy Biggs. Both parties operate the exact same corrupt racket while posing on moral high grounds. I'm done playing along. My grandfathers would treat you like a child if they were here today—you dishonor their service and spit on the legacy they built while you profit off its destruction.