Camas resident Tony Teso offers a rebuttal to Nancy Churchill opinion

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Nancy Churchill’s May 6 column wants you to believe that lifelong Democrats are “waking up” and walking into the arms of the Republican Party. What it does not say loudly enough — though the fine print at the bottom of the column does — is that Churchill chairs the Ferry County Republican Party. This is not a confession. It is a sales pitch. The sentimental opening, the imaginary disillusioned liberal, the X-thread testimonials, the closing invitation to “join the Republicans” — every paragraph performs a function. It is partisan recruitment dressed as personal awakening.

Now look at what the pitch actually contains. A column about American politics that mentions no corporation, no billionaire, no industry, no wage figure, no rent, no medical bill. A column about “the working class” that cannot bring itself to say what work is, who pays for it, or who profits. Instead: a “fifth column,” a “woke mind virus,” a “parasitic” enemy hollowing out America from the inside. This is not analysis. It is the John Birch Society in 2026 with better graphic design — the same paranoid story the right has been telling since Joe McCarthy needed a job, dusted off every time the ledger needs distracting from.

Here is the ledger she will not show you. The party Churchill is recruiting for has handed trillions to the wealthiest Americans, gone after Medicaid and food assistance for our neighbors, gutted federal labor enforcement, and installed the richest man on earth as a senior architect of federal policy. That man is one of her exemplars. Read that sentence twice. The column tells you the elite has captured the Democrats. The elite she names is Elon Musk.

In Clark County, rents have outpaced wages for a decade. Working families are one ER visit from collapse. The IBR will shape this region for fifty years. None of that lives in Churchill’s column, because her column is not about us. It is about delivering us — already softened up by panic about trans kids and “Marxist professors” — to the party of the billionaires we actually work for.

Don’t take the deal.
Tony Teso
Camas

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