Keith Barton spent 16 years and a lot of dollars in lawyers inside America's family court system. When he stopped hiring lawyers, he won his own appeal pro se. Then he wrote the fix in 5 pages, and now he is running for Congress in Texas to make states fund fathers instead of custody wars.
The math behind the mission: 22 million kids flow through family court every year, and studies he cites put 70 to 85 percent of violent crime behind people raised by a single parent. Equal parenting means higher earnings, less abuse, less welfare, less crime. His fix: judge checklists, written rulings, and federal incentives that respect the 10th Amendment.
Then we nerd out on the Proximal War series. Real Marine Corps air ground tactics 5,000 years in the future. What actually happens when humanity meets a Type II civilization. Liquid-born silicon aliens with triple helix DNA, Dyson rings built from dismantled moons, warp corridors that fold space like paper, and zero hand-waving (he did the orbital mechanics himself).
Plus Huey war stories only a naval aviator can tell: under the Golden Gate Bridge, inside Mount Pinatubo, low over DC, a Huey with no hydraulic fluid on the floor is a Huey you get out of, 15 mission sets to the C-130's 9, and call signs you earn by messing up (his: Krusty, with a K).
Author of the Proximal War series, the Joey America children's books, and the travel read series. 20 year Marine Corps veteran, Huey pilot, congressional candidate, family court reform advocate.
Chapters
0:00 Cold open: are helicopters really deadlier?
0:44 Meet Keith Barton: Marine, Huey pilot, author, candidate
1:36 I earned that damn title twice: enlisted to officer
2:09 Lost at 8.5 percent, announced again the next day
3:35 Lean Six Sigma vs family court: the 5 page fix
4:18 States get paid federally to break up families
6:08 The crime stat that made him run (70 to 85 percent)
7:38 You do not get to respond: inside the black box
9:13 Criminal and civil courts already have the fix
11:08 16 years, $500K in lawyers, then he won pro se
14:50 Grunt, recon, flight school, Huey, Afghanistan
15:29 No combat until he became the logistics officer
17:11 Under the Golden Gate, around Pinatubo, low over DC
18:10 No hydraulic fluid on the floor? Get out
19:00 15 mission sets and flying laser for Hellfires
20:30 Call signs are earned by messing up (Krusty, with a K)
22:19 Proximal War: real MAGTF tactics, 5,000 years out
23:17 The one question: meeting a Type II civilization
23:46 Liquid-born aliens, triple helix DNA, Dyson rings
25:22 The aging probe and the near extinction of humanity
27:00 Weapons physics allows: kinetic and plasma only
29:18 Saturn's rings and sealed suits: death by physics
34:31 Warp corridors: fold the paper, do not cross it
36:55 Centurions: rule of three and omni-directional orbs
40:14 Fighter class vs breeder class: his Game of Thrones moment
43:20 UAP videos and the AI that saves the day
44:49 Joey America and travel reads with real vocabulary
49:08 Writing fast, writing brutal, pinnacle of grunt-ness
51:36 Lt. Col. Max Hunter and Gunny Derek
Keith Barton's site; https://www.bartonfortexas.com/
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