Our Lives Changed

Mary Todd is a proud Montanan, a mother and grandmother, a small business owner, a church leader, and an unapologetic America First conservative.

Mary has always sought to serve her community and country. This desire was heightened when her oldest son Shane Truman Todd, a PhD in Electrical Engineering, was murdered in Singapore after refusing to facilitate the illegal transfer of U.S. technology to a company backed by the Chinese Communist Party.

After earning his PhD, Shane sought adventure and took a job with a Electronics firm in Singapore. In the months leading up to his death, Shane expressed concern about the work his employer was having him do with a Chinese company, later revealed to be Huawei. Eventually convinced that his work was violating U.S. export laws and security interests, Shane resigned and found a new job at a research firm back in the U.S. Shortly after tendering his resignation, Shane told his family he felt his life was being threatened. On his last day of work, Shane was found garroted to death in his Singapore apartment. 

While in Singapore to bring home their son’s body, Mary and her husband Rick found a hard drive backup to Shane’s computer that the police had accidentally left behind. The hard drive revealed that the project Shane was asked to work on was an illicit collaboration with Huawei – the largest telecommunication firm in the world that had repeatedly been accused of numerous forms of espionage against the United States. 

After discovering evidence that her son was murdered for protecting his country, Mary alongside her husband fought through the Singapore legal system, but justice was never served. The Singapore government ordered the destruction of evidence and denied the FBI the opportunity to investigate. The Todd’s appealed to the U.S. government and met with officials in the Obama/Biden administration—but the administration ultimately refused to act. 

Mary’s personal tragedy only strengthened her passion to represent her state and to serve and defend the American people. As your Representative in the US House, Mary Todd will fight courageously to preserve Montana’s freedom and resources, to empower citizens, to restore opportunity and upward mobility, and to Make America Great Again.