The working class agenda,
in plain English.
Built in conversation with TN-7. Updated as the Open Door Tour continues across all 8 counties.
Rural Infrastructure &
Military Accountability
The Pentagon spent $290 billion more this decade than the decade before. It has failed every financial audit it has ever been given. Meanwhile TN-7 lost hospitals, lost broadband, and watched schools fall apart. The communities that produce America's soldiers are being left behind — not by any enemy, but by decades of federal neglect.
That's not just an injustice. It's a national security crisis. And it ends now.
"Investing in rural hospitals, rural schools, and rural broadband is not charity. It is a national security investment in the communities that produce the soldiers who defend this country."
Tennessee has recorded the most rural hospital closures per capita in the nation. 22 counties have no hospital at all. For a stroke patient in Montgomery County, the nearest ER can be 45–55 minutes away — minutes that determine whether someone lives, dies, or spends the rest of their life disabled. Joshua will introduce the Rural Infrastructure Investment Act to fund hospital stabilization grants — not loans — for the most distressed counties.
Broadband is infrastructure in the same sense that electricity and running water are infrastructure. Tennessee has $813 million in BEAD funding and a 2028 completion target — but the highest-cost rural locations are being skipped. Joshua will fight for last-mile gap funding to make sure every home in TN-7 gets connected, and for school infrastructure grants that fix crumbling buildings rather than saddling distressed counties with debt they can't afford.
The Department of Defense is the only federal agency that has never passed a clean financial audit. It has failed every one since 2018 — seven in a row — while its budget grew 52%. Joshua will co-sponsor the Sanders-Grassley Audit the Pentagon Act on day one and push to strengthen the penalty: fail the audit, fund rural America. Pass the audit and we find the waste. Either way, TN-7 wins.
TVA Reform &
American Energy Independence
TVA was built because the private sector failed rural America. It belongs to us. Beginning in 2011, TVA quietly cut electricity rates for its industrial and large corporate customers while raising rates for residential customers — with no public disclosure. Every household in TN-7 paid roughly $110 more per year in electricity bills so that corporations could get secret rate cuts. No public notice. No regulatory review. No accountability.
That's not a public utility. That's a racket.
"TVA was built because the private sector failed rural America. Selling it to private investors doesn't fix the accountability problem — it replaces an unaccountable public institution with an unaccountable private one that also has to generate returns for shareholders. Rates go up. Fort Campbell's power supply becomes a profit center."
Fort Campbell runs on TVA power. Privatizing TVA is not just an economic question for TN-7 — it is a national security question for the soldiers and families at one of the largest military installations in the country. Joshua will introduce or co-sponsor legislation requiring a full congressional vote and public comment period before any TVA asset can be sold or transferred to private interests.
TVA's statutory borrowing authority is capped at $30 billion — a limit approaching fast. When TVA comes to Congress for an increase, that vote is leverage. Joshua will condition any debt ceiling increase on executive salary caps, mandatory public disclosure of all rate studies, independent board oversight staff, and annual congressional accountability hearings. And he will subpoena the cost-of-service studies TVA refuses to release.
The same land that grows your food can power your home. A farmer in Dickson County shouldn't have to wait eight years to plug a solar array into the grid. Joshua will reform the interconnection queue with a three-tier agricultural fast lane — Tier 1 target: 18–24 months for farm lease projects. Wind turbines on a TN-7 family farm can generate $8,000–$15,000 per turbine per year in guaranteed income, inflation-indexed, for 25–30 years.
The conversation is still happening.
These issues are being shaped by the Open Door Tour — 50 town halls across all 8 counties. The platform belongs to TN-7. Check back as it grows.
The veterans who bled for this country deserve to come home to a community that recognizes them — and cares for them.
In DevelopmentHomeownership is almost impossible for young adults whether you are Republican or Democrat. The math doesn't work for people doing everything right.
In DevelopmentGas, groceries, utilities — up more than 22% across the board since 2020 in this district while wages stayed flat.
In DevelopmentDoctor bills are bankrupting families whether you're red or blue. Rural hospitals are closing. That is a policy choice. Joshua is making a different one.
In DevelopmentAustin Peay tuition has gone up 72% in seventeen years while wages for college graduates went up 6% in real terms. The math doesn't work.
In DevelopmentCome to a town hall. Tell us what matters to you. The platform is built in conversation — not handed down from on high.
Open Door TourPass the audit and we fund the hospitals.
Either way, TN-7 wins.
Grassroots. No Corporate PAC money. No billionaire donors. Just the people of TN-7.