Why Winning Your State House Matters More Than Winning The White House
Every four years, patriots lose their minds over the presidential race. We spend millions of dollars, thousands of hours, and all our emotional energy on one election. Then the day after, we go quiet. We wait for the next presidential cycle to care again.
Cliff Maloney · Jul 21, 2026 · 6 min read

Every four years, patriots lose their minds over the presidential race. We spend millions of dollars, thousands of hours, and all our emotional energy on one election. Then the day after, we go quiet. We wait for the next presidential cycle to care again.
That’s backwards, everyone does it, and it’s a fundamental part of why we keep losing ground even when we win the big races.
But that’s the bad news. Here’s the good news — there is a simple solution.
It’s going to take a lot of work, but the model works and it’s the key to changing course to put America First policies back at the forefront of our legislative agenda.
I’d love to claim that I’m some kind of political genius who came up with this model, but the truth is I picked a lot of it up from the Democrats, who unfortunately, have mastered it a long time ago and have been using it to beat us where it matters for decades. I’ve also developed a lot of my own strategies though my front lines work with Citizens Alliance.
You don’t need to be a genius to notice patterns while knocking on more than nine million doors and helping win over 400 elections nationwide.
I wrote about all of this in my book, Run Right. And if there’s one lesson I want every patriot to walk away with, it’s this: the local races matter more than the national ones.
Not just a little more — a lot more!
The Left Doesn’t Wait For Presidential Years
Here’s something the left figured out a long time ago. They don’t build their movement every four years. They build it consistently every single day — especially in the quiet times when no one is paying attention.




