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I live here. I am on the November ballot for Virginia’s 7th District because the problems in front of us are not theoretical. Power bills, farmland, veterans waiting for care, housing pressure, immigration and border security, and a government that too often serves someone other than the people who live in these counties—those are the urgent necessities of this district.
I am Taner Lopez. I came to the United States as an immigrant, earned my graduate degrees, taught at the university, and later served as a cultural advisor supporting the Department of Defense. I am not running to repeat a party script. I am running to serve Americans and America, and I have already drafted the bills I intend to take to Congress.
The American Controlled Immigration, Workforce and Security Act would restore control at the border while creating a lawful, vetted, accountable process for undocumented immigrants already here to come out of the shadows, work legally, pay taxes, and comply with our laws.
The Data Center Community Consent Act would give directly affected property owners clear information and a meaningful consent vote before massive data center projects consume land, strain infrastructure, and impose new power demands on their communities.
The American Working Farms Act would help qualifying family farms remain working farms when they pass to the next generation while reducing the after-tax cost of lawful farm labor—without creating another federal subsidy bureaucracy.
The Veterans 28 Act would establish a clear standard: if the VA cannot provide a veteran with an appointment within 28 days, the veteran would have access to community care rather than being forced to continue waiting.
The Human Existential Protection Act addresses a threat that may not be fully in front of us today but could become one of the defining challenges of our future: artificial intelligence powerful enough to escape meaningful human control. Existing AI policies largely govern how AI is developed, deployed, and used. My bill focuses on the point at which AI could become an existential threat to humanity. It would prohibit autonomous AI control of weapons of mass destruction and critical systems, require human-controlled emergency shutdown capabilities, restrict uncontrolled self-replication, and establish procedures to isolate and permanently eliminate an AI system determined to pose a catastrophic threat. AI may become extraordinarily powerful, but humanity must always retain the final authority.
These proposals are part of a larger project I call Re-Independence: limited government, individual liberty, national sovereignty, and government accountable to the people it serves. Washington should not treat this district as an easement for industrial load, a tax base for other countries’ priorities, or a captive market for two parties that have stopped solving problems.
These are not campaign slogans. They are proposals I have put on paper so voters can examine exactly what I intend to fight for in Congress.
Read the bills. Question them. Challenge them. Hold me to them.
If you want a representative who lives with the same pressures you do and who has already begun putting solutions on paper, I ask for your vote.
Taner Lopez
