This Site Is My Life's Work. Here Is All of It.

People ask me what this website is.

Is it a J6 archive? A news site? A business? A diary?

It is all of it. Because it is my life. And I am done telling my life in pieces.

Where it starts

I was 14 years old when Hurricane Katrina hit. That was my first rescue. Not a metaphor. A kid in floodwater helping people who had nobody coming for them.

That kid became a Marine. Okinawa. Typhoons. Then a civilian with a boat who kept showing up — Harvey, Florence, Michael, Sally. Two dozen deployments. Fifty people pulled out in a single day once. Ellen put me on her show for it.

I built a business from nothing. Wholesale Universe. Multi-million dollar company, built with my own two hands. I became a father. That broke my pride wide open, in the best way.

The fire

Then January 6. You know some of it. 1,463 days between arrest and pardon. Ten facilities. Solitary confinement. A federal judge acknowledging on the record that my due process rights were violated — and I stayed in anyway. 267 grievance forms in my own handwriting. A habeas fight that took me over a year of documenting abuses to win.

Every bit of it is on this site now. Over 1,400 documents, public, sourced, permanent. Not because I want to live in the past. Because a record that stays public is the only rescue some of us get.

The part people wondered about

Here is what I have not laid out plainly before, and will, chapter by chapter, right here:

After the pardon, I did not walk out into a comeback. I walked out into a fall. Homelessness. A marriage ending. The business I built gone in the wreckage. Losing myself so completely that some days I did not recognize the man doing the losing.

I am not going to dress that up. And I am not going to hide it either. People wondered. The chapters are coming — vulnerable, peaceful, and real.

Because here is the other half: I found my way back. Faith that works like a job, not a bumper sticker. The water. The work. Mental health fought for out loud. And then I found Amanda. There is a son coming. I am building him something worth inheriting.

What this site is now

Everything I lived is becoming something others can use:

The J6 archive — 1,571 defendants indexed, profiles free for every one of them, forever. The rescue chapters. The business playbooks. The legal fights, documented so the next person navigating alone has a map. The story, all of it, told in paper and receipts.

This is my life's work. It writes history. It rights history. And it leaves the door open for every witness who needs a place to put their story.

Read it. Check it. Share it. And if any chapter of it looks like your life — the fire, the fall, or the finding — stay close. This place was built for you too.