Change of Orders

Topic: Perspective

Three days ago, I posted the following to my Truth Social account:

I posted some four months ago along the lines of what I’m posting today. I hope you appreciate the candor and transparency.

I’m going to be making some changes in the way I interface online. I am not leaving the fight by any means, but adjusting to things after four years of trying to right a wrong has been a challenge to me. I am struggling to believe it is meant for us to live life with a phone in hand, constantly seeking updates, and engaging in fighting with people we may or may not know.

I love to write on my SubStack journal (skeshel.substack.com) and it has been the main means of supporting my work and expenses. I will continue to do that. I may cross post them here but I am going to have to scale things back on engagement over multiple platforms 24/7 to restore balance in my life.

I hope you understand - and that you’ll trust me that I didn’t begin posting to be relevant and I won’t post just for clicks. I want to work for 47 and find the next adventure but must trust God.

If you have supported my work over the years or found this valuable, I need you to hear me with a whole heart, and I want you to read this entire article.

I am not leaving the battlefield. In fact, I plan to make this platform my primary beachhead, and if you’re with me now, I hope you’ll stick with me. SubStack has been my primary means of supporting myself and my family for more than two years and keeping me singularly focused in the battle for election reform. Apparently, thanks to you, I’ve made enough impact to warrant my own New York Times hit piece and selective resistance in the various states I’ve pegged as most troublesome.

I am, however, making important changes I will announce today, because I consider it critical for my health and well-being, and by extension, that of those I love.

Current Situation

I am hopeful that I will end up working with the incoming Trump 47 administration in some capacity to work toward election reform. I have sent my request letter to everyone I know of in Trump’s inner circle, posted it online, and made the case to many people who I’ve known for various lengths of time that I would be a force to be reckoned with if such a position were to come open; however, I’ve been blessed to receive great lessons in which I’ve gotten exactly what I wanted after doing everything I could to influence that end, and been very disappointed with how things turned out. I’ve also been cast into seemingly insignificant capacities, only to have them turn out to be tremendous blessings and uses of my talents, skills, and abilities. I have no other option available to me than to wait (something I don’t do well) and see how I will be used in the future. If there is no call from the administration, I will not let that harm my view of my identity nor define my value in any negative way.

People typically value transparency, and I’ve done my best to be as transparent as is both possible and appropriate. I have been struggling since November 5, 2024. I’m not struggling in vain effort to stay relevant – I am struggling for the same reasons soldiers struggle when coming home from a deployment. They come back to slow-moving Sundays with the family and limited duty, when their brains are still set on the rigors of kill or be killed. My dad used to tell me the constant gambling, drinking, and womanizing undertaken by soldiers was a response to having the daily thrill of the risk of death removed from one’s life. I’ve spent the last four years without end trying to do one thing – see to it that one man leaves the White House, and the right man enters it. If all of these people engaged in a rapid change from one situation to another don’t take direct effort to control the fallout, they’ll go crazy.

Despite the many problems present in the 2024 election, that mission has been accomplished. It didn’t happen as soon as we had hoped and has come with generational damage caused by the Biden 46 administration, but it has come to pass. The ensuing result has been a hangover that reminds me of the closing scenes of Band of Brothers, when the war is won and soldiers are busy getting themselves killed in mishaps, accidents, and drama while they await orders and transport home.

My life has been filled with four years of constant screen addiction, fishing for news at all hours of the day and night, doing all things necessary to get a WiFi connection at an airport or on a plane – all for the purpose of informing you and ensuring I didn’t fall behind on a critical piece of news impacting the cause of free and fair elections. I’ve met people who are lifelong friends, like those who attended a surprise 40^th birthday for me last month in Alabama, when I least expected it. I’ve also met people who know nothing but strife who have made it their primary goal to create chaos, and from that, I seek to depart. I’ve been called every name in the book and accused of every crime you can think of, without cause, and I’ve definitely been called a grifter for the perceived crime of being in my thirties, which in another world would be the prime of my earnings career, and charging reasonable amounts to get by (like this subscription to my SubStack, which costs less than an overrated, sugary drink does at your favorite Communist coffee company).

Amid all that, I’ve done this:

Since July 2021, I’ve spoken in 45 states, passed through all 50, and have had my DNA in nearly half of all county equivalents and independent cities in the United States, from the Yukon-Koyukuk Borough in central Alaska, to Kauai, Hawaii, to Key West, Florida, and all the way up to the far northeastern corner of Maine. Simply put…

I am tired.

This was me in 2021:

And me in 2024:

I barely made it through Christmas 2021 dealing with my own demons and personal struggles. What kept me going was feeling I was on an important mission that had to be carried out – hence the motto If Not You, Who? along with a few good friends who never turned me away or thought my life lacked purpose.

This got me through:

So did this:

I’ve watched my three kids grow up, and most of that time, I’ve been a long way from them. I spent 271 days on the road in 2022, and only about 150 in 2023, which seemed like a drastic change. This year, I remarried and started a new life as the first gentleman of Arizona’s Legislative District 17.

Rachel believes in me, supports me, and has my back, and that’s an amazing thing to have (thank you, Jim Clark, for that reminder). She deserves my attention and presence of mind, and so do my children. If you take nothing else from this post, understand that life is not made abundant by the number of social media followers you have, or even by having your name spoken and work cited by the President of the United States. None of that matters if you’re so busy channeling your inner survivalist that you wall yourself off from the people who matter most.

My mind is gripped with things to do and wants my fingers to scroll social media until I find what I want to write about next, or the next place I want to fly to. That season was worthwhile and instrumental in setting me on the path I will soon take up, wherever I find it. I must now make some changes to bring about peace and tranquility in my life.

Fate would have it that my smart phone was so badly damaged two days ago that I went without it yesterday on a trip up to Prescott, Arizona. Aside from one early social media post I made at a coffee shop in Phoenix, I was offline all day. I initially felt the urge to scroll, but my replacement dumb phone lacked the functionality to give me what I craved. Eventually, I used it to call a few people on my way home I haven’t talked to in a long time, and guess what – we made it to Sunday. I’ve been feeling the urge to set boundaries on my phone and social media usage and have decided there is no time like the present to bring about these changes.

Moving forward:

I. Office Hours

I will no longer make myself available at all hours and be easily accessible by cell phone. I will most likely need to repair my smart phone for various reasons, but I will not use it for social media. I will continue to build out my work product and analysis and conduct interviews when appropriate and if requested.

II. SubStack

This platform will be my main means of getting my message out, and I will most likely increase the number of articles and materials I post here. This platform is essentially drama-free and is the ideal place for me to store, link, and feature my work product in long form. In other words, you will see no drop-off in quality here, and until further notice, this is my way of staying independent and full-time in the fight for election reform. I am also considering discussing my SubStack content on my Rumble channel – which is low maintenance and low drama – please give it a follow.

I will have more time to post here thanks to the surplus coming my way from…

III. Reduced Social Media Usage

I plan to hand off control of my Telegram channel to trusted colleagues who will continue to post mission-critical content, or anything pertinent coming directly from me. I will drastically reduce posting on Truth Social and X and consider them to be the two most addictive and problem-filled platforms I am part of. I have found that I’ve been unable to resist engaging in the fray, and since Trump’s victory, restlessness has grown to never-before-seen levels and has produced more chaos than I would have ever imagined. I have had all notifications silenced for quite some time, which has clamped down on my urges to respond to all of them. Sometimes this means I don’t see important posts, too.

IV. Travel and Speaking Events

I am going to be giving the keynote address at the Pennsylvania Victory Party Toni Shuppe is putting on this coming Friday near Pittsburgh, and after that, I have nothing else on my travel schedule. I believe my days of speaking in the most remote corner of a state on a Tuesday night are likely over, but if you’d like to arrange for me to speak at an event like a Lincoln-Reagan Dinner or other rally, please contact me at skeshel@protonmail.com. My expenses have remained unchanged since 2021.

V. Getting in Touch

I will do my best to look for work related emails at skeshel@protonmail.com and respond during my office hours. Please understand I have no staff nor anyone who works for me or is authorized to speak on my behalf.

VI. The Next Journey

I am a born adventurer, a free man, and I love to take landscape pictures, jump off cliffs, see faraway places, and envision myself as part of history when I’m in an historic place. I believe I’ll be documenting these journeys on my personal journal, which is light on politics and full-on life.

Most importantly, I want to be available to my family and for whatever I’m called to next. I’ve been given a second chance at that for which I’m extremely thankful.

Wrapping Up

Truth Social 132,000+

Telegram 91,000+

X 64,000+

GETTR 11,000+

Total 297,000+

I’ve been making a few hundred dollars per week through the X ad revenue sharing program. It’s not life changing money, but who can argue with an extra 12 grand a year? I’m setting that largely aside, and with the rest, the inherent growth that comes from building a social media empire. What matters most to me at this stage in life is getting much of my life back on track, getting healthy, and breaking free of being chained to screens and embroiled in personality conflicts. I have plans to start a new business benefitting veterans, fulfill dreams that have been on hold, and be supportive of Rachel as she upholds her oath to the Constitution here in Arizona.

I am staying in the fight. I am simply changing up my headquarters, and yes, I am still asking for you to support my work here on SubStack, because I understand this critical juncture we find ourselves in. Most of all, I hope you understand that I’ve left all of myself on the field over the past four years and need to make changes to make my impact last long-term.

Thank you so much for reading and for supporting this journal.

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Seth Keshel, MBA, is a former Army Captain of Military Intelligence and Afghanistan veteran. His analytical method of election forecasting and analytics is known worldwide, and he has been commended by President Donald J. Trump for his work in the field.