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About David B. Wheeler
Chief Chaos Coordinator, Strategic Overthinker, Occasional Poet, and Not Very Good Politician
🕴️ Title: Founder | Strategist | Storyteller | Professional Chaos Whisperer
📍 Location: North Carolina Mountains
🌎 Worked in: 75+ countries, all seven continents (yes, even Antarctica)
🧭 About David
David B. Wheeler has lived enough lives for three people and a novel. He’s run for office in North Carolina four times — won once, learned a lot from the rest — and worked in more than 75 countries across all seven continents. He insists he’s not a spy (wink), though his passport has other ideas.
He’s the rare mix of strategist and storyteller who somehow produced the first-ever marathon in Antarctica and once lowered the Mississippi River for a politician. Don’t ask how. (Actually, do — it’s a good story.)
David’s career weaves through politics, business, and global development. He builds organizations from the ground up and calls it “strategic chaos.” The wild part? It works.
🗳️ From Page to Politician
David got his political start early — Page in the Iowa House, US Senate Intern for Senator Tom Harkin, and Young Democrats National Committee member — back when optimism came in bulk.
His career became a political road movie, co-starring Glenn Close, Barbara Eden (yes, Genie herself), Mark Cuban, Lance Armstrong (pre-debacle), and Barack Obama in February 2007, when “President Obama” was still a long shot. He first met Joe Biden in 1986, when Joe still had hair, and his first campaign gig was dropping Jimmy Carter leaflets in Warren County, Iowa, in 1976.
Since then, he’s been everywhere — sometimes winning, often laughing, and always reminding everyone that politics is just theatre without a rehearsal.
🏔️ Family, Mountains, and Sanity Maintenance
These days, David’s most meaningful title is Single Dad. He’s the proud father of three school-aged kids who keep him humble, exhausted, and in love with snow days.
They live together in the North Carolina mountains, where David finds peace in nature, chaos in homework, and clarity in a good bottle of wine. He loves long road trips, fishing, Kurt Vonnegut novels, Terrence Malick films, and the occasional ceeegar.
As he puts it: “I traded campaign rallies for trout streams — and I’ve never been happier.”
📚 What’s Next
David’s working on a book that’s part exposé, part satire, all therapy — covering Madison “Face Humper” Cawthorn, Lauren “Beetlejuice” Boebert, and other walking punchlines of modern politics for American Muckrakers.
He continues advising, building, and occasionally rescuing organizations in tech, advocacy, and global development — all while proving that humor, data, and a strong cup of coffee can fix almost anything.
“I’ve seen the world. It’s messy, absurd, beautiful, and worth the fight — just like democracy.”
One project David is leading is the Make Earth Sane Again Summit to be held in Toronto in 2026. The world will need to come together when a certain someone is not in the White House and now is the time to start thinking about what that looks like.
Another project is the Trump Truth Commission. David envisions James Comey (yes that guy) chairing the endeavor with Vice Chairs Chris Christy, Hillary Clinton, Jane Harmon, Sally Yates, and others.
🪶 In Short
David B. Wheeler turns chaos into opportunity, politics into punchlines, and life into one long, strange, exhilarating adventure — with great stories, questionable snacks, and a front-row seat to the absurd. Oh, and he lost 60 pounds in 2025.
🎙️ Contact & Media
📧 david@americanmuckrakers.com
🌐 AmericanMuckrakers.com
🎧 Host: MUCK YOU! Podcast
💡 Founder: Make Earth Sane Again (MESA) & Trump Truth Commission
