Tom Wallace has been actively involved in the Indiana political arena for several years. He served as Chairman of the Morgan County Democratic Party from 2017 to 2021 and has run campaigns for Mayor of Martinsville, Indiana State Senate, and Chairman of the Indiana State Democratic Party. He was elected as a voting delegate representing Indiana at the 2024 Democratic National Convention in Chicago and is well-versed in the intricacies and machinations of the political machine, and he also serves as a Precinct Committeeman. A native Hoosier, currently living on the family farm where he was raised in a rural, multi-generational, self-sufficient culture. He has been involved in local issues that affect the health and well-being of the community. Establishing a community information and action group addressing contaminated groundwater, public health exposure issues, coordinating and working with State, Federal, and Academic agencies — resulting in Government/EPA funding for remediation of the groundwater in the community. He has served on the Indiana Nationalities Council, which represents 50 cultural and ethnic groups in Indiana, and on the Board of the Scottish Society. He is a retired environmental engineer from Rockwell International, having worked on major aviation and defense projects at Air Force Plant 42, Edwards Air Force Base, and other facilities. Specializing in Air and Water Permitting, compliance, process, and matpatterial operations. Additionally, he is an Advanced Open Water and Scientific Scuba Diver and was a member of the research team conducting underwater archaeological assessments of 3 shipwrecks in Lake Michigan for a proposed DNR underwater State Park. He worked as a lineman on the Panama Canal, transcribed field notes and reports for a National Geographic project at Puna, Peru, sailed on Lake Titicaca, hiked the Inca Trail, and traversed river systems in the upper Amazon. Fundamental issues include maintaining a secular Democracy, comprehensive public schools, child welfare, rural healthcare, decreasing the tax burden on working families, supporting an independent farming and food-chain culture, voting rights, upholding and expanding the foundational rights of equality, liberty, and free self-expression. The voice of the many can only be heard with the hearts of the few.