I am Ivette Palomo.

Each week, we return to the wisdom of our Founders to understand the battles we face today—because their warnings were not just for their time, but for ours. This week, as we launch our campaign to “Strike the Root”, we begin with the words of James Madison.

In the debate over the Constitution, a primary fear was the creation of a government so powerful it would swallow the liberties of the states and the people. James Madison, writing in Federalist No. 47, directly confronted this fear. He wasn’t just making an argument; he was giving us a diagnostic tool—a precise definition of the disease we must forever guard against. Here’s the heart of his warning: “The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny”.

Madison wrote this in 1788. He was describing the threat of a king. He could never have imagined that the tyranny would one day wear the face of a federal agency. He knew that words on parchment, a constitution, were not enough. We needed a structure. Today, that structure has been dismantled. We have allowed a fourth branch of government, the administrative state, to rise. In it, unelected bureaucrats wield all three powers, which Madison warned us to keep separate.

The Environmental Protection Agency writes a rule—that’s legislative power. It fines you for breaking that rule—that’s executive power. And it tries you in its own internal court—that’s judicial power. All three in the same hands. It’s the same with FEMA and its black box algorithm that drives up your insurance. The Department of Education mandating what your children are taught. The VA acting as judge and jury over a veteran’s claim.

Ladies and gentlemen, Madison did not just predict the problem. He diagnosed the root. This unconstitutional accumulation of power is the very root rot poisoning our republic. Madison’s mandate is clear. This structure must be broken. The solution is not reform, it is restoration. Our strike the root strategy is designed to do exactly what he demanded. Our REINS Act severs the legislative power from the bureaucracy, returning it to Congress where it belongs. Our Administrative Independence Act severs the judicial power abolishing the Star Chambers and restoring your right to a real trial in a real court. Our Bill of Rights restoration explicitly bars these agencies from the powers they have usurped.

For 15 years, your representative in Florida’s 11th, Daniel Webster, has offered the families of this district a shield made of paper. Hearings recorded, Committees named, Letters written. This derelict sentry has performed the motions of a defense while the wall itself crumbled. The result? The disease Madison defined. The accumulation of all powers in the same hands has only grown. This is the choice before us.

We can accept more managerial theater from the same sentry and more paper shields. Or we can choose the path of the champion, the path that strikes at the root. The disease has a name, tyranny. The cure has a name, the strike secure protocol. Our mandate drawn directly from Madison is to wield it. The time for managerial surrender is over. The time for strike the root restoration has begun.

Daniel Webster handed the keys of our liberty to faceless agencies. He turned the founder’s parchment, our shield against tyranny, into a bureaucratic sword against our freedom. No more. We will not negotiate with the tyrants in suits whom he empowered. We will not reason with the rogue agencies he let run wild. We will use the power of our vote to reclaim our constitution and restore the balance for which our founders bled.

Next week, we apply Madison’s principle to the crisis hitting home hardest, the home insurance collapse. We will expose how FEMA’s black box is a perfect example of this tyranny and show you precisely how we dismantle it. The founders gave us the diagnosis. We must provide the cure. And that work begins at the ballot box. Remember, the definition of tyranny hasn’t changed, and neither will our fight to end it.

I am Ivette Palomo. I’ll see you next week.