70,000 Acres—Gone. Stolen by the Government. Picture this: An area the size of Tampa, Knoxville, or Salt Lake City—wiped off the map. Not by a natural disaster. Not by some freak accident. But by our own federal government. That’s exactly what happened in 2013 when the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers completed the Olmsted Locks and Dam project on the Ohio River. The result? Farmland that had fed American families for generations was suddenly flooded out of existence. The victims? Over 450 farmers in Kentucky and Illinois. These aren’t billionaires or corporate elites. These are family-owned farms, people who wake up before dawn to put food on American tables. The kind of people Washington claims to care about. But when…
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