I'm Nicholas Thompson, running for governor to restore what Sacramento has destroyed.
No more asking permission to be free. No more funding their failures. No more being treated like subjects instead of citizens.
They won't talk about the surveillance state or the housing cartel unless we force them. Getting me on the ballot is a demand for answers. California offers two paths: pay $5,000 or collect 6,000 signatures. Most candidates write the check. I'm taking the path that requires actual support.
Print the petition, sign it, drop it in a mailbox. No showing up anywhere. No notary. Just a stamp. If you want 100% certainty (and to skip postage), walk it in.
Signing ≠ endorsing or voting for me. It means the ballot shouldn't be for sale.
⏰ Deadline: Feb 4, 2025
Get the Petition →One signature proves the concept. Ten prove it scales. Collect from friends, family, neighbors.
Become a Circulator →The establishment wants safe debates about safe topics. Your signature puts someone on that stage who will ask why California buys your location data, why zoning laws created a housing crisis, and why we're funding surveillance while people sleep in tents. If 6,000 Californians can print a PDF and mail it, we force them to answer.
Here's what Sacramento doesn't want you to understand about how they've been running this state.
Sacramento thinks it owns you. Every year they pass hundreds of new laws telling you what you can and can't do with your own life, your own money, your own property.
Get government out of your way. Cut the regulations strangling innovation. Stop treating success like a crime. Let Californians build their dreams without asking permission.
This isn't about winning a political office. It's about sending a message: Californians are done being pushed around by bureaucrats who think they know better.
Read my unfiltered thoughts on liberty, governance, and California's future. No political doublespeak. Just straight talk about what needs to change.
Tuition is up. Student debt is at a crisis point. Yet professors are striking for livable wages. The money isn't vanishing; it's being eaten by a parasitic layer of bureaucracy that serves no one but itself.
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The 2025 redistricting cycle wasn't about fairness. It was a synchronized weaponization of maps by both parties to ensure they never have to listen to you again.
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The critics are right: massive data centers are a waste and a centralization trap. But the solution isn't to ban the math. We need to reclaim our sovereignty by running efficient, open models on our own metal.
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The degradation of digital platforms isn't capitalism gone wrong. It's government-granted monopolies working exactly as designed. When IP laws and infrastructure subsidies create moats, competition dies and quality follows.
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iSideWith.com has falsely flagged my active campaign as "Dropped Out" for nine months, hiding me from voters who match my policies. This is election interference disguised as a data error.
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There's a special kind of contempt I reserve for the person who says, "I have nothing to hide." These people aren't just surrendering their own liberty; they're actively forging the chains for the rest of us. The "Deviancy Signal" is the threat they don't understand.
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I get a lot of sideways glances for many of my views. But nothing gets the "normies" more confused than when I say I want to see the entire system of intellectual property burned to the ground.
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My disdain for our car-centric society is not a betrayal of my libertarian principles; it's a direct consequence of them. The very environment that forces us into car dependency is a testament to the failures of government intervention, not the triumphs of the free market.
Read More →These aren't policy positions focus-grouped by consultants. They're the hills I'm willing to die on.
California buys your location data but bans plastic straws. I'll shut down Fusion Centers and pass the California Privacy Sanctuary Act.
If you bought it, you own it. I'll end the IP laws that stop farmers from fixing tractors and you from repairing your phone.
The state thinks it grants you rights. It doesn't. Your rights are pre-political. I'm here to stop Sacramento from taking them.
Sacramento created the housing crisis with zoning codes and NIMBY regs. Stop blocking development. Let people build homes.
Imagine a California where you're actually free. Not the fake freedom they talk about in Sacramento. Real freedom.
No more begging bureaucrats for permission to start a business or live your life.
Keep what you earn instead of funding Sacramento's pet projects and bloated bureaucracies.
Build your dreams without asking permission from people who've never built anything.
Join Californians who are done being pushed around. Sign the declaration, then take the next step: sign the ballot petition to actually get me on the ballot.
The other candidates won't defend the housing cartel or the surveillance state if no one makes them. Your signature puts me on that debate stage. That's when they have to answer.