I'm Brad Hochgesang. I'm 46, I live in Jasper with my wife Maggie, and I've spent 15+ years as a software engineer and small business owner. I run a company called Ninja Mojo LLC. I'm not a career politician — I'm a neighbor who got mad enough to do something about it.

In 2023, I learned a billion-dollar highway project — the Mid-States Corridor — was being pushed through Dubois County with almost no real public input. The polling behind it was suspicious. The costs didn't add up. So I did what I do for a living: I pulled the data.

I commissioned two professional polls. The first, of 636 Dubois County registered voters, found 81% opposed the project. The second, a statewide survey, found 74% of Hoosiers opposed it. I organized 8 town halls, presented a withdrawal resolution to the county council, and spent two years holding officials accountable.

That fight taught me something: the problem isn't one highway. It's a pattern. Decisions made without the people. Representatives who stopped representing. A government that forgot who it works for. That's why I'm running — to bring the same data-driven, constituent-first approach to every issue that matters to District 48.