Trygve Hammer

I will give JD Vance some credit: He hasn’t asked what Amy Acton was wearing around her stepfather as a fifth grader. At least not in public. At least not yet. Share At a Cincinnati event about combatting fraud—already a surreal situation—a reporter asked the Vice President whether he thought Vivek Ramaswamy’s...

After the first 2026 U.S. House debate, I went to a lovely dinner with my wife and some friends. I was ready for a good night’s sleep, but my digestive system rebelled. The acid reflux was so bad that my wife, Kelli, thought I might be having a heart attack. When I assured her that it was only heartburn from Hell...

I was the first to give a one-minute opening statement. There was no clock. When the moderator made some sort of sound, I stopped. He said, “Sorry.” I started again, finished a sentence, but left one sentence unsaid. Should have put my thank yous at the end. At one point, a candidate said, “If you’re brown, you’re...

Not one of Kelli’s cats. I owe you an apology, especially if you are a paid subscriber. I have not been nearly as prolific as I should have been over the past few months or handful of months or half a dozen months. Time sometimes warps on the campaign trail. This time around I’ve had a couple instances of...

Here's some info on my military background

In case you wondered who most influenced Trygve’s writing. (Video at end) They are not my cats. I know that regular readers of this newsletter (blog?, column?) frequently see some version of “my wife and her cats” or “my wife’s cats.” There is more than a little gray area in our cat situation, and that’s not even...

Our servicemen and women deserve better

I was ten years old the first time I remember being interested in politics. Early, I know. I was watching a CBS news program, with my parents, in the fall of 1994, at the height of election campaigns when a puff piece about politicians’ commercials came on. The topic: politicians wearing flannel shirts. Growing up...

It's more than just AI data centers

The image below is from a CSIS report, “Left-Wing Terrorism and Political Violence in the United States: What the Data Tells Us” “If you look at two photographs and you see a normal American in the street and you see an Antifa protest, why do the people that are violently demonstrating – why is there not one...

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If there were a National Museum of China, Glassware, and Crystal in Washington, DC, it would be on most of our minds about as often as we wondered who was the ninth-ranked badminton player in the world (Yu-Yu Ong, Taiwan) or whether there had always been an n in badminton and why we Americans hadn’t removed it as we...

In this week's episode of Open Range, Patrick Hart chats with his friends Katrina Christiansen and U.S. House candidate Trygve Hammer.
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Trygve Hammer is putting himself in front of people and listening to them.
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Trygve Hammer in parades
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Trygve Hammer on teaching science to seventh through twelfth graders
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"And over the grass at the roadside a land turtle crawled, turning aside for nothing..." -The Grapes of Wrath
A story of trying to save a turtle while on the campaign trail.
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Who pays when AI replaces jobs?
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