What if America’s biggest political problem isn’t a shortage of ideas—but our inability to seriously examine them?

In Episode 98, Matt Davis sits down with entrepreneur, former computer engineer, international business consultant, and Solutions Party founder Evan Jaqua for a conversation about political tribalism, problem-solving, civic participation, and what America can learn from the rest of the world.

Evan’s life and work have taken him across the United States, Japan, China, and South America. Fluent in English, Japanese, Spanish, and Chinese, he has experienced dramatically different political, economic, and cultural systems firsthand.

One conclusion surprised him: despite enormous cultural differences, people around the world often want many of the same fundamental things—freedom, prosperity, opportunity, and a better future for their children.

That perspective helped inspire the Solutions Party, Evan’s effort to move political discussion away from partisan teams and toward ideas and practical solutions.

Matt and Evan explore:

• ​ What living across different cultures taught Evan about America
• ​ Why political systems can reward division over problem-solving
• ​ How evidence and measurement should shape public policy
• ​ Why good ideas must survive unintended consequences and criticism
• ​ What Evan discovered while testing Federal Policy Producer
• ​ Whether responsible AI and civic technology can give ordinary citizens a stronger voice
• ​ How civic education can teach young people to become problem-solvers
• ​ What a genuinely solutions-driven civic culture could look like

This isn’t a conversation about telling Americans what to think.

It’s about building better ways for people to think, question, create, challenge, measure, and improve potential solutions.

Humans Create. AI Enhances. Humans Decide.

Truth isn’t partisan—it’s patriotic.

America has no shortage of political opinions.

But what happens when an opinion actually has to become policy?

In Episode 97 of The Patriot Party Podcast, Matt Davis sits down with independent political commentator Chad Law, host of Common Sense with Chad Law and author of a trilogy examining corporate consolidation, technological change, political tribalism, and whether ordinary Americans are losing meaningful influence over the decisions shaping their lives.

Chad argues that politics should be a tool—not an identity—and that defending free markets means defending genuine competition. He also believes technological progress shouldn't come at the expense of the communities expected to support it.

But something unusual happened before this interview.

Matt asked Chad to explore the broader civic ecosystem being built and actually put Federal Policy Producer through its paces.

Instead of feeding the system a predetermined policy solution, Chad gave it a problem involving nonprofit accountability and allowed the technology to develop proposed legislation.

Then he tried to break the legislation created from his own idea.

That experiment opened the door to a much larger conversation:

What is the difference between having a political opinion and actually governing?

The conversation explores:

• Turning problems into proposed legislation

• Testing policy against opposing arguments

• Constitutional limits and government authority

• Unintended consequences

• Corporate consolidation and genuine competition

• Technology and its impact on communities

• Political tribalism and independent thinking

• Responsible AI and human accountability

• Federal Policy Producer and the future of civic technology

• Moving beyond political outrage toward workable solutions

The goal isn't to have AI decide what Americans should believe.

It's to give people better tools to develop, challenge, understand, and improve their own ideas.

Because identifying a problem is easy.

Building a solution capable of surviving contact with reality is much harder.

Humans Create. AI Enhances. Humans Decide.

Learn more about Chad Law:

https://www.chadparkerlaw.com/

Truth isn’t partisan—it’s patriotic.

What did American foreign aid actually accomplish—and where did it fail?

In this episode, Matt Davis sits down with Clifford Brown, author of Inside USAID: An Odyssey of Foreign Assistance, whose career took him from a partnership at a Beverly Hills commercial law firm to nearly three decades working in international development around the world.

As a legal advisor and senior USAID official, Clifford served across Latin America, Africa, and Central Asia, including as Mission Director to Guinea and Sierra Leone, Country Representative, and Deputy Mission Director for USAID’s role in Plan Colombia.

Along the way, he witnessed military coups, revolutions, corruption, drug wars, human trafficking, institutional instability, and the fragility of social order. He also saw firsthand what American foreign assistance could accomplish—and where government programs and institutions could fall short.

Rather than reducing USAID and foreign aid to another partisan argument, this conversation examines what actually happened on the ground.

Matt and Clifford explore the successes and failures of American foreign assistance, lessons from decades of international development, the challenges of operating inside unstable countries, and what the United States should learn from that experience as Americans reconsider the country’s role in the world.

Whether you support foreign aid, oppose it, or believe the system needed significant reform, understanding the evidence and experiences behind it matters.

Learn more about Clifford Brown and Inside USAID:

https://cliffordhbrown.com

Truth isn’t partisan—it’s patriotic.