Opelika pastor Dean Odle has announced his candidacy for lieutenant governor in the May 2026 Republican primary. He is the first candidate to formally announce for the state’s number two post.
Odle, who ran unsuccessfully for governor in 2022, says he is running to fight the growing influence of China and its Communist party in the United States, to ensure election integrity and to halt dangerous health mandates.
At an announcement event in Montgomery on Saturday, Odle gave supporters an extensive outline of his reasons for running:
After much prayer and discussion with my family, I felt the leading of the Lord to step back into the political fight. I really did not want to do it again, but someone has to confront the lies, greed and corruption that is so prevalent in Alabama politics. And when LTC Allen West (former GOP congressman from Florida and former Chair of the Texas GOP) awarded me his Black Robe Regiment Cherokee Tomahawk, I knew for sure that I had to get back in the fight for Alabama and our country.
The war against our country will only intensify over the next few years. This is no time to fall into a sense of false security because President Trump won another term (in spite of the cheating). The Luciferian globalists around the world, and those traitors in our own government (both Democrat and Republican), along with their foot soldiers aka the Chinese Communist Party have been conspiring for decades to overthrow the United States. Their plans have been multifaceted. They have been patient, waiting for the right moment to pounce and take us down.
Sadly, our own presidents from Carter, to Bush 41, to Clinton, to Bush 43, to Obama, and to Biden, all of them have betrayed us. Also, many people who worked in these administrations set up “consulting firms” in China to help the Chinese in every way. They sold our best technology, military secrets, and manufacturing advantage to our enemies the Chinese. They made our enemies rich and turned many of our cities and once great factories into collapsing ruins. These betrayals have allowed China to build a massive military and the biggest and most sophisticated computer hacking organization in the world.
Just seven months ago in June 2024 one of our retired generals warned about China’s chokehold on our military because we depend on so many components that they manufacture for OUR military.
True Election Security
A big part of this campaign for Lt. Governor will be true election security. Why? Because the CEOs of the three main voting machine companies in America admitted to Congress that their voting machines have hardware in them that is manufactured in China. The National Journal reported on this in their article “Chinese Parts in Voting Machines Trigger Alarms on Capitol Hill.” These facts should have triggered alarm in our former Secretary of State John Merrill and our current Secretary of State Wes Allen, but they continue to parrot the mantra of CNN and the Democrats about “safe and secure elections” when there is no such thing. The only reason Trump won in 2016 and 2024 is that his number of voters overwhelmed the cheating algorithms.
I have met and spoken with experts like ethical hacker Clay Parikh and 25-year cyber warfare specialist Air Force Colonel Shawn Smith who explain (in court and under oath) about the vulnerabilities of our electronic voting system. I have read the sworn statements of former government contractors Dennis Montgomery and MIT grad Dr. Navid Keshavarz-Nia who became whistleblowers on election tampering by the US federal government, deep-state actors, using technology they designed for use on foreign elections.
Therefore, I will push for legislation for true election integrity that gets rid of our very hackable voting machines. We must implement a new system of highly secure paper ballots and hand counting. France does this and they hand-count over 31 million paper ballots, and they are done just hours after the polls are closed. Germany also hand-counts around 46 million paper ballots and report results the same night. Canada hand-counts 12 million paper ballots on election night.
Alabama only has approximately 3.7 million registered voters and only about half of them vote. We can do this in Alabama and be an example to the rest of the country.
After what happened in the 2020 presidential election and even as far back as 2002 here in Alabama, we have to get rid of the voting machines and go to a total paper ballot hand-counting system that is viewed by representatives of each campaign and the public. That’s the only way we can get back to fair and secure elections and get some better people elected. Any Republican who is not making this their #1 priority is either woefully ignorant, afraid of the liberal media, or part of the corruption.
I was right!
When I ran for Governor of Alabama from 2020-2022, I was right about every topic I addressed. I brought the receipts. Yet I was labeled a “conspiracy theorist” by the press and even many in my own party. I was censored by social media, the press, and my fellow Republicans. I could not even advertise on Facebook like all my opponents. Nevertheless, the things I wrote about and spoke about during my campaign have proven to be true. Things like the amazing uses of Ivermectin (even being found now to cure some cancers) to the MRNA Covid vaccines being extremely dangerous. I was kept from advertising my campaign on Facebook and I was censored (or ghosted) by news outlets in Alabama like AL .com and The Alabama Political Reporter. Even news agencies like 1819 News that did have me on their podcasts and allowed articles to be written about my campaign had to be careful or their platform would be censored. That censorship had a tremendously negative impact on my campaign for Governor of Alabama.
The fact that the Alabama Department of Public Health is STILL spending millions of our tax dollars to push failed and dangerous vaccines is appalling. There is no excuse for this because the 450,000 documents of the Pfizer clinical trials were released under court order and on related medical literature. These are the documents that the FDA wanted a judge to bury for 75 years, but thankfully he refused and ordered Pfizer to release them.
The new book The Pfizer Paper by Naomi Wolf (and 3,250 research volunteers with expertise in various fields) shows in high relief that Pfizer’s mRNA COVID-19 vaccine clinical trial was deeply flawed and that the pharmaceutical company knew by November 2020 that its vaccine was neither safe nor effective. The reports detail vaccine-induced harms throughout the human body, including to the reproductive system; show that women suffer vaccine-related adverse events at a 3:1 ratio; expose that vaccine-induced myocarditis is not rare, mild, or transient; and, shockingly, demonstrate that the mRNA vaccines have created a new category of multi-system, multi-organ disease, which is being called “CoVax Disease.”
Despite the fact that Pfizer committed in its own clinical trial protocol to follow the placebo arm of its trial for twenty-four months, Pfizer vaccinated approximately 95% of placebo recipients by March 2021, thus eliminating the trial’s control group and making it impossible for comparative safety determinations to be made.
Just as importantly, The Pfizer Papers makes it clear that the US Food and Drug Administration knew about the shortfalls of Pfizer’s clinical trial as well as the harms caused by the company’s mRNA COVID vaccine product, thus highlighting the FDA’s abject failure to fulfill its mission to “[protect] the public health by ensuring the safety, efficacy, and security of human and veterinary drugs, biological products, and medical devices.”
The Danger of Eliminating Cash
I have also warned our politicians in this state about the global agenda to move the entire world to a digital currency and thus eliminating cash completely. This would be the end of freedom. Alabama has to prepare for this by making gold and silver legal tender and producing our own Goldback like New Hampshire, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming and soon to be Florida Goldback. We can never allow Alabama to succumb to this evil WEF/UN agenda.
It’s time for leaders who know the truth and who are willing to speak the truth. We have leaders who prepare the state government to protect the people’s God-given freedoms and their lives. That’s why I am running for Lt. Governor of Alabama.
The lieutenant governor's seat will be open in the 2026 elections. Current Lt. Governor Will Ainsworth is term-limited, having been elected to two consecutive terms. The state constitution bars him from running for a third consecutive term. Ainsworth is exploring a run for the open governor's seat in 2026 but has made no formal announcement.
Odle is a preacher by trade serving as pastor of Fire and Grace Church in Opelika. His website for his ministry can be found here.
He has written three Christian books: "Like Clay Under the Seal," "The Polluted Church" and "Grace Abuse,"
The Alabama lieutenant governor presides over the State Senate and serves on a number of boards and commissions. The lieutenant governor would automatically become governor in case of death or vacancy in the governor’s office.
Jim ‘Zig’ Zeigler writes about Alabama’s people, places, events, groups and prominent deaths. He is a former Alabama Public Service Commissioner and State Auditor. You can reach him for comments at ZeiglerElderCare@yahoo.com.
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