About Me

My first home was in Orono, Maine, where I was born and raised until the age of twelve.  My family moved to Arizona in 1970—Glendale, Arizona, has been my home of record ever since.

After being graduated from Glendale High School in 1976, I earned an associate’s degree from Glendale Community College, as well as a bachelor’s degree in Psychology and a master’s degree in History from Arizona State University.

From April 20, 1989, to April 19, 1993, I served a four-year enlistment in the US Army.  Although I was in the Army during Desert Shield/Desert Storm, my unit did not deploy.  I have worked as a security guard in Phoenix since 2007.

Why I’m running for the US senate:

I believe that President Donald Trump has done a great job of re-directing America’s federal government.  For years, decades, and generations the US government has pursued harmful, globalist-inspired policies against the best interests of the American people. 

At last, President Trump has given the American people an American government.  I would be terribly disappointed to see Open Borders, Free Trade, New World Order Republicans retake control of the Republican Party that Donald Trump has transformed into an American party.  

My goal as a legislator would be to make America the best possible place for people who live within the law and pay their own way.  I feel that government at all levels should make such people their top priority.

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John Lyon for US Senate–American Government for the American People!


 I am a US Army veteran with a master’s degree in History from Arizona State University.  I am seeking the Republican nomination for a seat in the US Senate from Arizona.  

My legislative priorities would include:

  • Maintaining secure American borders
  • Limiting legal immigration to highly qualified applicants
  • Protecting American workers with tariffs
  • Phasing out federal welfare state programs
  • Avoiding unnecessary foreign wars
  • Ridding our southern border of cartel influence

For any questions please call (623) 853-5661 or email john_lyon56@yahoo.com or US mail:

John Lyon for US Senate
5610 W. Belmont Ave.
Glendale, AZ 85301

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American Government for the American People!

  • Immigration based on merit only
  • No more refugees 
  • End the visa lottery 
  • End the federal War on Poverty  
  • Use tariffs to end balance of trade deficits 
  • End reverse discrimination 
  • Balance the budget 
  • End the IRS 

                                                          Immigration 

The Biden administration’s effort to erase our southern border was the most flagrant and recent example of how globalists and leftists in the American government have abused the American people.  Since 1965 our immigration policies have been based on the need of the Democratic Party for more voters, as well as on the intent to weaken and de-whiten American society. 

I do not share the view of some people on the political left that whiteness is the problem and that color is the solution.  I feel that the most that can fairly be said in judgment of the white community is that they are no better and no worse than any other racial group. 

American immigration policy should be based only on the needs of the American public and the merits of the immigrants.  Using the right to immigrate here as a form of charity to poorly qualified  immigrants or the businesses who employ them, or to remake American society racially and culturally, is inappropriate. 

I do not agree with the sentiments expressed in the famous Emma Lazarus poem “The New Colossus.”  The open borders policies of the last several decades have done much more harm than good for American society in my opinion.  News videos of protesters carrying signs supporting Hamas after the October 7, 2023, massacre in Israel show how important it is to select immigrants based on their qualifications, including their ability to assimilate amicably with American society. 

                                                                   Trade 

Since the late 1960s, the United States economy has lost many trillions of dollars through balance of trade deficits with the rest of the world.  In 2024 alone, the amount lost was over $1 trillion.  Our country has become like a family that takes out a second mortgage on the house and runs up the balances of several credit cards to maintain a standard of living that they cannot afford.  Unlike the spendthrift family, our nation does not have the option to declare bankruptcy. 

Our only option as a country is to stop spending more than we earn.  We must stop using funny money and debt to elevate our lifestyle.  We must balance our federal budget and bring our balance of payments with the rest of the world to zero or higher. 

Many people of influence in American politics hold doctrinaire views on Free Trade.  They feel that the Smoot-Hawley tariff of 1930 worsened and prolonged the Great Depression.  From that unprovable assumption, they conclude that all tariffs are always bad.   

When imports started to increase rapidly in the American marketplace in the late 1960s, some of America’s punditry assured the public that our growing trade deficits were nothing to worry about, that they would balance out over time.  Six decades later, modern free traders say the same thing.  Decade after decade of hard experience have not persuaded them otherwise.   

Entire sectors of the American economy such as electronics and textiles have been virtually wiped out, with devastating consequences in what has come to be known as the rust belt.  It was never appropriate for our government to put American workers into direct competition with cheap foreign labor through free trade and open borders policies. 

The American economy has been living on deficit spending for several decades.  Vast sums of money have been exported outside the country in exchange for goods of every description.  Some of that money has come back to the US in the form of foreign investments in American assets.  The recent purchases by Chinese companies of farm and ranch land near American military bases are by no means the only examples of this.   

American trade policy should be built around the long-term best interests of the broad American public, not on the aspirations of globalists, leftists, or other un-American ideologues.  It is not in our long-term best interests to have our country bought out from under us by foreign investors.  It is especially inappropriate to allow Chinese companies to purchase American companies and plunder them for their trade secrets.   

It has always been inappropriate for the United States to trade with communist China, giving them our money, trade secrets, jobs and manufacturing capacity.  Red China does not have a legitimate government.  It is a brutal communist dictatorship bent on world domination.  We should not help them economically or technologically. 

If for whatever perverse reasons we are determined to export our money, jobs, manufacturing capacity, and trade secrets, we should at least send them to countries that do not threaten us militarily, as communist China does.  What our federal government has done regarding trade with Red China is inexcusable. We should reverse course immediately. 

End the IRS 

Some people on the left of the political spectrum feel that the best way for the federal government to raise revenue is to tax the rich.  However, experience has shown that high marginal tax rates are harmful to the economy.  It would stimulate a higher standard of living for everyone if the government relied on tariffs and fees instead of on a “progressive” income tax.  Those would also be much less intrusive than the IRS. 

End the federal War on Poverty 

The federal government’s so-called War on Poverty has also been a failure.  It was never appropriate or constitutional to make the central government the provider of charity for the American poor.  Under the US Constitution, that role belongs to state and local governments as well as non-governmental organizations, families and individuals.  The federal government should phase out its role in poverty programs. 

Many trillions of federal tax dollars have been wasted through programs that have mainly served to create a permanent, inter-generational welfare class composed primarily of single parent families.  This has acted to facilitate the growth of criminal street gangs. These programs are also susceptible to fraud, as the state of Minnesota has recently demonstrated.   

The federal government has an accumulated debt of over 38 trillion dollars.  It would best serve the American people to pay it down rather than throwing away money on harmful assistance programs. 

                                         End Reverse Discrimination 

Affirmative Action programs constitute discrimination against whites to make up for past racial discrimination against people of color.  This has been going on for over half a century and was always inappropriate.  Our goal should always have been to eliminate racial discrimination, not to perpetuate it in an anti-white form.   

Since the early 1970s, federal legislation and court rulings have allowed, encouraged, and even required American institutions to employ affirmative action to promote economic equality among America’s racial communities.  While the goal of racial equality is admirable, violating the rights of white people to achieve it is not.  The federal government should fight against racial discrimination, even discrimination against the white community.  

                                                     In Conclusion 

American society made great progress for everyone under President Trump, despite everything Democrats and globalist Republicans could do to prevent it.  The globalist Biden administration undid much of that progress.  Yet we have learned from Donald Trump what a positive force the federal government can be when power rests in the right hands.  The American electorate needs to stop voting for people who operate under anti-American agendas and start voting consistently for America Firsters. 

John J Lyon for US Senate 2028

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America’s Trade Policy

In 2024, the US economy lost over $1 trillion doing business with the rest of the world.  Over the years and decades, the American economy has lost many trillions of dollars through international commerce.     I believe that those cumulative losses may have helped cause the financial crash and Great Recession of 2008, and may have contributed substantially to America’s current $37 trillion federal debt by weakening the American economy.  As the Federal Reserve Note continues to lose value, I believe that the Federal Reserve Board’s ability to keep our economy afloat with loans of paper money to our financial institutions will inevitably diminish.

It is urgent that at long last our federal government adopt more sensible policies, but several decades of devastating trade losses have not resulted in any positive changes in our balance of trade.  Despite the “giant sucking sound” of departing jobs, money, and manufacturing capacity that Ross Perot accurately predicted would follow the adoption of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in 1994, Congress is still allowing very large balance of trade deficits to continue.  Republicans and Democrats alike have been culpable over the long years for America’s self-destructive trade policies.  

The American people cannot afford to allow their elected representatives to be so badly misguided on the subject of trade.  Our country may have suffered more from Congress’ trade policies than it has from their equally misguided immigration policies.  I hope that grassroots Republicans will start to care as much about the issue of trade as they have come to care about illegal immigration.

If I am elected to the US Senate from Arizona in 2028, I will support the continued use of tariffs to get the American balance of trade deficit under control.  Following the example of President Donald Trump, I will also do all I can to promote American industrial development.

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Welfare State Programs

Before Lyndon Johnson left the White House in 1969, it had already become apparent that his War on Poverty had resulted in some harmful, unintended consequences–especially increases in illegitimacy and dependency on government.  As of 2022, about 40% of births in America were out of wedlock, and nearly half of all American children were receiving some form of public assistance.

Since 2003, about half of the births in Arizona have been paid for by the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System, Arizona’s version of Medicaid.  This is unsustainable.

Government at any level should not compel taxpayers to do things for strangers that they would not do even for their own children.  I believe that most parents would not tolerate drug use, sexual promiscuity, or membership in criminal street gangs by children still dependent on them financially.  The state has no right to use tax money to subsidize such irresponsible or criminal behavior.

It is family, friends, neighbors, and philanthropic organizations that should play the largest roles in charity work, not government.  With rare exceptions such as natural disasters or acts of war, I feel that the federal government has no business engaging in charity work.  The Welfare State is one of the things that have hurt America the most over the last 60 years.  It has greatly undermined Americans’ self-reliance and cost many trillions of dollars.  It is imperative that America work patiently and consistently to shrink and eventually eliminate federal public welfare programs.

America should strive to be the best place possible for people who live within the law and pay their own way.  Public policies guided by fiscal responsibility, law and order, and less government would help achieve that.

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Immigration

Nothing better demonstrates the un-American character of the modern federal government (except under President Donald Trump) than its immigration policies since 1965.  In 2017, about 21% of inmates of federal prisons were criminal aliens, legal and illegal, convicted of crimes committed in the United States.  Clearly, prior to the Trump administration, screening out criminal immigrants had been a low priority within federal immigration policy.

In the years following the financial crash of September 2008, the federal government continued to admit over a million legal immigrants each year.  Clearly, protecting the interests of American workers during a period of high unemployment was a low priority for Congress at that time.

According to the Center for Immigration Studies, over half of American households headed by legal or illegal immigrants receive some form of public assistance.  Clearly, Congress has failed to protect the taxpayers from the burdens indigent immigrants have placed on them.

During nation-wide pro-amnesty rallies in 2006, American citizens were treated to news photos and videos of innumerable masses of demonstrators marching the streets of American cities waving foreign flags, and burning American flags.  Clearly, those flag-wavers did not represent just another wave of immigrants wanting to be Americans, but an un-American subculture.

The US Congress should do its best to deter illegal immigration and to ensure that only well-qualified immigrants enter the country legally, as needed by American society.  If elected to the US Senate in 2028, I will do everything legally and morally in my power to continue President Trump’s pro-American immigration policies.

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