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Who Is Tom Baker IV? Meet the Founder of Wake Forest Matters
Tom Baker IV is the publisher of Wake Forest Matters and a lifelong Wake Forest native. A Navy veteran with ten years of active duty service and a career in intelligence and election security, he built Wake Forest Matters to bring accountability journalism to the town his family has called home for three centuries.
No Kings: A Wake Forest Veteran Against the War on Iran
Tom Baker IV — Wake Forest native, Navy veteran, 12th-generation North Carolinian — delivered these remarks at the NO KINGS rally in Centennial Plaza on March 28, 2026. He makes the case against the war in Iran, traces the 80-year foreign policy path that led here, explains what it costs Wake Forest families, and calls on Congress to invoke the War Powers Act before the April 28 deadline.
