Michael C. Maibach

My Naples home is on the market... johnrwood.com/listing/226008…

My essay on the Virginia governor’s need to defend the founders brilliant Constitutional design. pilotonline.com/2026/03/02/col…

saveourstates.com/articles/why-v… My recent essay asking Gov. Spanberger to veto the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact bill. It is contrary to the US and Virginia Constitutions and allows voters in other states to choose Virginia's Presidential Electors.

@BenSasse Godspeed Ben

Friends- This is a tough note to write, but since a bunch of you have started to suspect something, I’ll cut to the chase: Last week I was diagnosed with metastasized, stage-four pancreatic cancer, and am gonna die. Advanced pancreatic is nasty stuff; it’s a death sentence. But I already had a death sentence before last week too — we all do. I’m blessed with amazing siblings and half-a-dozen buddies that are genuinely brothers. As one of them put it, “Sure, you’re on the clock, but we’re all on the clock.” Death is a wicked thief, and the bastard pursues us all. Still, I’ve got less time than I’d prefer. This is hard for someone wired to work and build, but harder still as a husband and a dad. I can’t begin to describe how great my people are. During the past year, as we’d temporarily stepped back from public life and built new family rhythms, Melissa and I have grown even closer — and that on top of three decades of the best friend a man could ever have. Seven months ago, Corrie was commissioned into the Air Force and she’s off at instrument and multi-engine rounds of flight school. Last week, Alex kicked butt graduating from college a semester early even while teaching gen chem, organic, and physics (she’s a freak). This summer, 14-year-old Breck started learning to drive. (Okay, we’ve been driving off-book for six years — but now we’ve got paper to make it street-legal.) I couldn’t be more grateful to constantly get to bear-hug this motley crew of sinners and saints. There’s not a good time to tell your peeps you’re now marching to the beat of a faster drummer — but the season of advent isn’t the worst. As a Christian, the weeks running up to Christmas are a time to orient our hearts toward the hope of what’s to come. Not an abstract hope in fanciful human goodness; not hope in vague hallmark-sappy spirituality; not a bootstrapped hope in our own strength (what foolishness is the evaporating-muscle I once prided myself in). Nope — often we lazily say “hope” when what we mean is “optimism.” To be clear, optimism is great, and it’s absolutely necessary, but it’s insufficient. It’s not the kinda thing that holds up when you tell your daughters you’re not going to walk them down the aisle. Nor telling your mom and pops they’re gonna bury their son. A well-lived life demands more reality — stiffer stuff. That’s why, during advent, even while still walking in darkness, we shout our hope — often properly with a gravelly voice soldiering through tears. Such is the calling of the pilgrim. Those who know ourselves to need a Physician should dang well look forward to enduring beauty and eventual fulfillment. That is, we hope in a real Deliverer — a rescuing God, born at a real time, in a real place. But the eternal city — with foundations and without cancer — is not yet. Remembering Isaiah’s prophecies of what’s to come doesn’t dull the pain of current sufferings. But it does put it in eternity’s perspective: “When we've been there 10,000 years…We've no less days to sing God's praise.” I’ll have more to say. I’m not going down without a fight. One sub-part of God’s grace is found in the jawdropping advances science has made the past few years in immunotherapy and more. Death and dying aren’t the same — the process of dying is still something to be lived. We’re zealously embracing a lot of gallows humor in our house, and I’ve pledged to do my part to run through the irreverent tape. But for now, as our family faces the reality of treatments, but more importantly as we celebrate Christmas, we wish you peace: “The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of deep darkness a light has dawned….For to us a son is given” (Isaiah 9). With great gratitude, and with gravelly-but-hopeful voices, Ben — and the Sasses

The House That Ed Feulner Built dailysignal.com/2025/08/04/the…

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A Threat to Democracy? The Battle to Defeat National Popular Vote Compac... youtu.be/qSyxR7w2bIg?si… via @YouTube

The Founders feared tyrannies, especially majority tyrannies. We remain free not because of the Bill of Rights, but because of the dynamic checks and balances in our national and state constitutions.  thepublicdiscourse.com/2025/02/97078/

The Electoral College: A Safeguard Against Tyranny with Michael C. Maibach youtu.be/SX6wlD2jcOA?si… via @YouTube

@CletaMitchell x.com/ConstitutingUS… Yes! The only thing we need to "cure" is ballot boxes and ballot harvesting. ;-)

Why is there ballot “curing” after an election? Shouldn’t a ballot, once it leaves the voter’s hands, be finished? No more touching, fixing, curing, manipulating? Do you think ballot “curing” is a recipe for fraud? “Here, let us “fix” this….” It is a bad idea, right?

@CletaMitchell Yes! Let's have Election Day not Election Season. All voters must have Voter IDs. Drop boxes and ballot harvesting cause deep distrust of this civil sacrament.

Do you agree that absentee, vote by mail, should be ONLY for people who are unable to vote in person? Certain categories specified by law. And everyone else should vote IN-PERSON. Thoughts?

@russvought @realDonaldTrump Great news Russ!

Thank you @realDonaldTrump! There is unfinished business on behalf of the American people, and it’s an honor of a lifetime to get the call again.

MICHAEL C. MAIBACH: Tim Walz Let Slip What We Knew About The Left All Along dailycaller.com/2024/10/15/opi… via @dailycaller

My thoughts on a Trump VP choice from Florida and the 12th Amendment...n>>> MICHAEL MAIBACH: Here’s Why A Trump-Florida Ticket Isn’t So Simple dailycaller.com/2024/05/29/opi… via @dailycaller

'The Poet’s Good Pen': A Poem by Michael Charles Maibach classicalpoets.org/2024/02/15/the… via @PoetryRenewal

My recent conversation with the President of the Ashbrook Center, Dr. Jeff Sikkenga on "Understanding and Defending the Founders' Electoral College". ashbrook.org/viewpoint/core…

My Old Town Alexandria home is on the market! I have loved living on Queen Street for 27 years! Longandfoster.com! longandfoster.com/homes-for-sale…

12/20 Campaign: 400 More Years of Protestant America youtu.be/SoU_xz_GmDo?si… via @YouTube

On 'the Best Thing a Man Can Do for His Children': A Poem by Michael Charles Maibach classicalpoets.org/2023/12/15/on-… via @PoetryRenewal