James Martin

Fourth generation Floridian, dad, husband, national security expert, and proud U.S. Coast Guard veteran. Democrat running to flip FL-21.

[James Martin @MartinforFL]

I’ve spent nearly my entire adult life in the U.S Coast Guard taking on drug runners, human traffickers, and terrorists.

Now, I’m taking on a new mission: running for Congress to put Florida families over party politics.

Let’s get to work.

https://t.co/V5gr5YmOsl

[James Martin @MartinforFL]

Beef is only going to get more expensive despite record highs.

Government is serious business for serious people.

[POLITICO @politico]

Trump wants lower beef prices. Flesh-eating maggots in Texas have other plans. https://t.co/ToXwTYQEaK

[James Martin @MartinforFL]

Feeling blessed to peacefully pick up trash from our beaches on D-Day—a stark reminder that the undisturbed, ordinary life we take for granted exists because a generation of Americans stormed beaches like this one to crush fascism.

Never forget their bravery and sacrifice that paid for quiet mornings like these across the free world.

[James Martin @MartinforFL]

Jerry Demings is a distinguished public servant whose competence and professionalism are well-known across the State of Florida.

Stevie and I are thinking of him and his family today and wishing them strength in this difficult moment.

[James Martin @MartinforFL]

82 years ago today, outnumbered American sailors, pilots, and cryptanalysts turned the tide of the Pacific War in four days at the Battle of Midway— not with more ships, but with the courage, skill, and ingenuity of the American fighting man.

God Bless their memory and let us be thankful uncommon valor was a common virtue that day.

[Hakeem Jeffries @hakeemjeffries]

There it is.

The Florida House Speaker traded a gerrymandered congressional map in the middle of the decade for an Ambassadorship.

The culture of corruption is happening in plain sight.

Remember in November.

[James Martin @MartinforFL]

@BrianMastFL directly responsible 👇

[Mark Zandi @Markzandi]

$100 billion. That’s our estimate of the cost of the Iran War to American households. That’s nearly $750 per household. This includes the additional U.S. military costs and the higher energy and other prices resulting from the war. This is a big economic blow, but deficit-financed tax cuts have cushioned it. Until now. As of May 16th, the bigger tax refunds Americans have received this year no longer cover the higher costs of gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel caused by the war. The financial pressure is thus mounting quickly, particularly on already hard-pressed middle and lower-income households. With the saving rate about as low as it ever goes, unless the war ends soon and energy prices come down, they will have little choice but to rein in their spending, weighing further on the already sagging economy.

[Chris Deluzio @ChrisForPA]

Iran War price tag: $100,000,000,000

[James Martin @MartinforFL]

Been a little busy ❤️

[James Martin @MartinforFL]

We are getting played like a fiddle

[Jim Sciutto @jimsciutto]

Today, Ukrainian Amb to the U.S. @StefanishynaO tells me that Russia is counting on “further shortages of air defense ammunition because of the war in Iran”, which helped spark “one of the most brutal” missile barrages since Russia’s full-scale invasion,

[James Martin @MartinforFL]

Thanks, @BrianMastFL

[Ed Elson @edels0n]

Memorial Day 2026 vs last year:

⛽ Gas: +28%
✈️ Flights: +20.7%
🐄 Beef: +16%
🍅 Tomatoes: +40%
☕ Coffee: +18%
🌭 Hot dogs: +11%
🏨 Hotels: +4.3%

[🇺🇸 David J. Urban 🇺🇸 @DavidJUrban]

Executive Mansion, Washington, D.C.
November 21, 1864

Dear Madam,
I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant-General of Massachusetts, that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to save. I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours, to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of Freedom.

Yours, very sincerely and respectfully,

Abraham Lincoln

[James Martin @MartinforFL]

Thoughts on Memorial Day

[James Martin @MartinforFL]

@cmac9999222 0.00 foreign money!

[James Martin @MartinforFL]

I’ve spent nearly my entire adult life in the U.S Coast Guard taking on drug runners, human traffickers, and terrorists.

Now, I’m taking on a new mission: running for Congress to put Florida families over party politics.

Let’s get to work.

https://t.co/V5gr5YmOsl

[Brian Schatz @brianschatz]

No one should ever doubt that the U.S. military is the most capable in the world, but wars must have a clear objective, a real pathway to achieve it, a legal and moral justification, and support from citizens. The American people aren’t pacifists but they are not idiots either.

[James Martin @MartinforFL]

The war is (probably) over.

-We likely end up with a worse version of the JCPOA (“Iran Nuclear Deal”)
-America set billions of dollars on fire (including weapons we can’t afford to waste)
-Meanwhile your gas, groceries, household goods, and property insurance are still through the roof.

In sum: the United States is now weaker and Iran in a strategically stronger position. And Brian Mast supported every bit of it.

[Phil Gordon @PhilGordonDC]

The fact that so many proponents of the Iran war are criticizing Trump’s looming deal is less an indictment of the deal than it is of the war. It means they can't defend the results of the policy they advocated for so long so are reduced to claiming that victory would have been around the corner if only Trump had stayed the course... (which only they seem to believe). They are right that the deal will leave the US worse off than before the war but fail to recognize, or at least refuse to admit, that the mistake was the war, not the deal.

[American Bridge 21st Century @American_Bridge]

According to Brian Mast, Americans “want to see a change” in Iran.

Most Americans want lower gas and grocery prices, but sure. #FL21
https://t.co/oV0IXp75c0

[James Martin @MartinforFL]

@steveschale Illegal charters are a silent scourge!

Unsafe and undercut the captains who play by the rules

[James Martin @MartinforFL]

Tragic news out of Stuart this morning.

Praying for Christopher Brooks, his family, and all of Bulldog Nation.

[James Martin @MartinforFL]

My criticism of this speech going into it was going to be that the President made it about himself and not the cadets—but BOY did he make it about the cadets.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Trump: I hate good looking men. We also have the only cadet who earned a perfect score on every single fitness test. I wanna check him out. Look at the muscles on this guy.