If you want to win an election, Google might be arguably the worst possible company to directly threaten, not gonna lie.
Pretty sure uf they wanted to, they could wbd your political career with any manner of ways.
I bet trump’s Google search history would be devastating if they threatened him with releasing it to the public, lol.
I use Hugo, it’s not super complicated.
You basically just define templates in pseudo html for common content (header, nav panel, footer, etc), and then you write your articles in markdown and Hugo combines the two and outputs actual html files.
You also have a content folder for js, css, and images which get output as is.
That’s about all there is to it, it’s a pretty minimalist static site generator.
Hosting wise you can just put it on github pages for free.