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Candidates › VA-11 race › 2025–2026
Arthur Purves
R Republican nominee for U.S. House, VA-11
Has not served in Congress
- On the ballot
- Lost the general electionNov 3, 2026 · 0 votes (0.0%) · 2 of 3
- Where to vote
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- Top priorities
- "America is the sickest nation in the world and spends the most on health care."
- Real Solutions for Real Problems
- Money
- $38.7K raised, $18.9K spent, $19.7K cash on hand (through Oct 14, 2026). Where it comes from
- Who gives
- 29% of individual money from donors at $200 or less · 100% from Virginia · largest committee giver 11TH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA REPUBLICAN COMMITTEE - FEDERAL, $5K
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SLASH FEDERAL SPENDING WITHOUT CUTTING A PROGRAM. EAT REAL FOOD. GOVERNMENT SPENDS TRILLIONS ON THE CHRONIC DISEASE EPIDEMIC CAUSED BY ULTRA-PROCESSED FOOD. ↗ (opens votepurves.org at this heading)
Inflation is the tax we pay for out-of-control government spending.
Soaring government spending is a crisis, and I am the only candidate addressing it and the only candidate with a solution.
As president of the Fairfax County Taxpayers Alliance, I've spent 29 years studying how to cut taxes. Rather than cut programs, reduce demand through better policies.
The federal government is running annual deficits of $2 trillion. Interest on the debt costs $1 trillion, more than the defense department budget.
We can slash the deficit without cutting a program.
The federal government spends $2 trillion a year on medical care, including Medicare and Medicaid. The CDC says that 90% of medical spending is for chronic disease, including mental illness.
Much chronic disease, including mental illness, is caused by ultra-processed food and by the old federal "high-carb, lean-meat, low-fat" food pyramid, which RFK Jr. has corrected. The old pyramid was a prescription for diabetes
which now appears in children.
Big Med has no financial incentive to cure us; rather it makes money by having us take pills and undergo medical procedures. If you have high blood pressure, the doctor should say, "Let's find what's causing your high blood pressure." Instead, the doctor prescribes pills you must take for the rest of your life, which do not cure the disease, and may have bad side effects.
Prevent and reverse chronic disease by eating "real food", as our grandparents did. Eat around the edge of the grocery store: full-fat dairy, eggs, red meat, bread without additives (e.g., Trader Joe's Tuscan Pane), fruits, and vegetables. Avoid anything in a box or a bag with a bar code! Avoid anything with the unstable "seed oils" (canola, soybean, sunflower, safflower, ...).
You cannot eat most of what's in the grocery store, except maybe at Aldi's, which is removing 44 chemicals from its private-label foods. Whole Foods bans 300+ additives.
The above is not medical advice. It is "food for thought"! A lot comes from YouTube. Be skeptical. Everybody is different. I'm a retired computer programmer with no medical credentials, except I'm 77, taking no prescriptions, and feel great.
Want an alternative to Obamacare? Eat real food and you may not need Obamacare!
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Ultra-processed food causes chronic disease, including mental illness.
See Casey Means's book Good Energy for the connection between chronic disease and ultra-processed food. See Harvard psychiatrist Chris Palmer's book, Brain Energy, for the connection between diet and mental illness. Do not wait for Big Food to remove synthetic dyes; stop eating ultra-processed food now.
Billions spent reducing carbon footprint has no impact on atmospheric CO2.
The Mauna Loa observatory in Hawaii is the gold standard for measuring atmospheric CO2.
It is warming. It is not a crisis, but Democrats will still raise gas prices.
Warmer? Yes. Glaciers started receding about 150 years ago.
Crisis? No. Visit the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (UN IPCC) website. Search their documents for the word "crisis."
If Democrats win, gas prices will go up again and so will inflation, to combat a global warming crisis for which they have no evidence. Virginia Democrats indexed the state gasoline tax to inflation, so gasoline taxes increase every July 1st. They also force Dominion Energy to buy "carbon credits" from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Inititative (RGGI), which will be a new $550 million tax on Virginia consumers. Its only purpose is to drive up the cost of fossil fuel.
California governor, Gavin Newsom, a Democrat presidential frontrunner, has driven out California oil refineries through carbon credits, taxes, and regulations. "California has seen refinery closures, with sources in late 2025/early 2026 indicating a drop from around 11-18 refineries to potentially 7-9 operating facilities, with two major ones (Valero in Benicia, Phillips 66 in Los Angeles) shutting down ... California imports over 70% of its crude oil, mostly by tanker, from Ecuador, Canada, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates." (Google AI Overview)
California gas prices are the highest in the nation ($5.71 per gallon of regular compared to Virginia's $3.79 as of 6/17/26).
What Newsom has done to California and Democrats have done to Virginia is what Democrats will do to the nation if they win Congress.
(Full Disclosure: My retirement income includes significant income from oil.)
Mail-in ballots enable election fraud.
"France banned absentee voting in 1975 because of massive fraud in Corsica, where postal ballots were stolen or bought and voters cast multiple votes. " Source.
Vet immigrants before they enter.
Do not let in the drug- and sex-traffickers and gang members from whom other immigrants are trying to flee.
Poverty and mental illness cause gun violence.
That complex gun laws reduce crime is debatable. What's not debatable is that these laws turn law-abiding citizens into inadvertent felons.
To end gun violence, fix schools and clean up food.
Public schools perpetuate poverty (see below) and as already noted ultra-processed food causes mental illness.
Abortion: Life begins at conception.
Abortion always takes a life. Abortion advocates dwell on the rare abortions to save the mother's life. Keep abortion legal for those rare cases but encourage marriage. Ninety percent of abortions are performed on healthy mothers with healthy babies. Calling abortion the "Fundamental Right to Reproductive Freedom" is Orwellian. Abortion cancels reproduction. Call legal abortion what it is: "Permission to take a life."
Public schools perpetuate poverty.
Students that have not mastered reading and arithmetic by third grade rarely catch up and graduate unable to compete in the information age. The high school minority student achievement gap first appears in third grade. For a century public schools have embraced "progressive education", which was anti-phonics and anti-drill, so students depending on classroom instruction do not master the basics. Those who do are tutored at home.
Competition will improve schools more than money.
Public school curricula are picked by administrators who feel no consequences when students do not learn. Higher school spending subsidizes the problem rather than solving it. Losing students to competition would provide consequences. School districts should give vouchers to students who attend for at least a year
and then leave for private or home-schooling. The value of the voucher would not increase unless the student returns to public school for another year.
Put the Ten Commandments in public schools.
How do you determine what is ethical if you don't have God-given commandments? George Washington's Farewell Address states, "Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports." While the First Amendment prohibits a state church, the Founders expected government to foster Christianity. See Abraham Lincoln's proclamation for a national day of fasting and prayer. High ideals are difficult to live. We need God to help us live them and forgive and give second chances when we fall short.
The alternative to big government is self-sufficient families.
Tax hikes make families less self-sufficient. Bring back good jobs. Have schools that actually teach reading and arithmetic. Stop chronic disease: Eat real food. End the war on fossil fuels to reduce gas and food prices.
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