Growing up in a Christian home school family, my father, Daniel Kihlstadius, instilled in me the importance of getting involved in the political process. He would bring me along to go drop flyers in neighborhoods, make phone calls to remind people to go vote, and take me to the Caucuses so I could learn how grassroots politics worked. He showed me how important it was to not just believe in protecting our God-given rights and freedom, but to actively fight to preserve them.