This week on Make It Make Sense Alabama, Whitney and Neeli sit down with John Mills, a retired U.S. Navy pilot and constitutional conservative running for Congress in Alabama's newly drawn First District. John shares his path from enlisting at 17 to a 26-year Navy career, his award-winning work in emergency management during Gulf Coast hurricanes, and how that experience shapes his views on disaster preparedness today. The conversation turns to election integrity, where John discusses his work with Dr. Douglas Frank and Mike Lindell, hand-counting initiatives in Mobile, and his concerns about voter rolls, while Whitney shares an update on her own contested school board election. They also dig into America First policy issues affecting the Gulf Coast, including shrimp imports and CO2 carbon capture legislation, before wrapping up with a rapid-fire round covering everything from Waffle House orders to term limits.

00:00 Welcome to Make It Make Sense Alabama

01:09 Meet John Mills: Navy pilot turned Congressional candidate

02:02 Catching up on other District One candidates

06:47 Emergency management: the Millington evacuation and Florida's Professional of the Year award

14:20 Whitney's contested election and the road to election integrity work

18:10 Hand-counting ballots and concerns about voter rolls

19:52 Building county-by-county election integrity teams

30:50 Career politicians, Trump's endorsement, and District One's split

32:22 America First: shrimp imports and USAID concerns

33:39 CO2 carbon capture and eminent domain in Alabama

35:32 Republic vs. democracy: John's constitutionalist philosophy

38:16 Engaging younger voters

40:34 Campaign priorities: faith, family, freedom

43:59 Rapid-fire round begins

54:32 Endorsements and closing thoughts

56:34 Election date reminder and sign-off

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