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Check state statutes/deadlines to register as a candidate.
Read all the fine print on complying w/candidate reporting to your state, campaign contribution restrictions, etc.
Get a friend who can be your treasurer. Make sure this person is responsible, and will read the fine print on reporting.
Get a friend who will be your campaign manager (hopefully brighter than some of the ones I've had to deal with)
Start going to public meetings to see in general how things are done. Watch any public hearings you can.
Start going to Meet & Greets when politicians come to town to get a feel for that process.
Develop issues talking points.
Ask people what they would like to see changed. Find out if it can be accomplished realisticly…. and how.
(Dems are always screaming about Roe v Wade, and supreme court picks. Is that really where it is going to be changed? Not if you paid attention to the phrase "long standing precedent".)
Before you run, start talking to people and ask what would they change. What is not working (besides a lot…)
Head over to both local party offices and start meeting their people. Gather campaign intel/tactics. If I wanted to run for office…
You're going to have to raise money. You need to do meet and greets w/ the public. Independents don't have the structure to get the word out to locals to come meet a candidate that Dems and GOP have. You have to travel all over the area constantly meeting people, promoting yourself.
A small local election can cost up to $10,000 just for a primary.
Or…….. you could suck it up, and help people some of us change the GOP from within. Leverage off the existing political structure to get elected.
People in local GOP offices are just as tired of the b.s. Most of the ones I know in my state are totally on board w/ Q. Change comes from within. Think INFILTRATION.