We will STOP the AI Apocalypse.
A Square Deal for the Age of AI℠
The danger was never the machine — it's the handful of firms that own it. We break up the compute trust, put AI on an open public ledger, and hold it to the labor laws we won a century ago.
Read the Plank ▸We WILL defeat Fascism, Techno-Feudalism, and Communism.
Protecting fledgling industries from bad actors.
Crown, cartel, or commissar — every tyranny is the same disease: power that answers to no one. We fight all three at once, and shield young industries from the giants who would strangle them in the cradle.
Read the Plank ▸We will usher in a new era of democratically strong institutions.
Government that actually works — right-sized, transparent, and answerable to you. We rebuild the machinery of a free republic so it serves the many, never the connected few.
Read more ▸Build, and Be Free℠
How liberty is secured by securing our sources of energy.
A people that controls its own power controls its own future. Secure our energy and infrastructure at the source, and liberty follows — no landlord, no cartel, no foreign hand on the switch.
Read the Plank ▸Where Profit Is Perverse℠
How to let collegiate competition thrive in the public sector.
Some work should never be run for private profit. Where a market can't stay honest, let competing non-profits vie for the public's trust — collegiate-style rivalry in place of a captive monopoly.
Read the Plank ▸The Smallest Possible Government℠
Government is for only where security and control are paramount.
Government belongs where security and control are truly paramount — and almost nowhere else. Everywhere beyond that, we trust free people, free markets, and free association to do the work.
Read the Plank ▸We WILL have fun while doing it℠
★Build a stronger community. ★Build a stronger republic.
Join your local Grange Hall, the League of Women Voters, or any community building local-first alternatives to monopoly trusts and cumbersome government — and start a non-profit to compete locally.
Read the Plank ▸People are the highest-yield investment.
Education, trade schools, and health care.
Higher education pays back over 200%, and health care is the insurance on that investment — for a reasonable cost, a person's education, time, and money aren't lost. So we invest heavily in universal early-childhood education, higher learning, trade schools, and work exchanges — delivered by non-profits that compete for the public's money on government contracts renewed each year. The societies that do this eclipse those that don't.
Read the Plank ▸We fund the auditors.
The Auditor General's Office of the Public & Private Trust.
We split the IRS's enforcement teams into one independent office that audits all three under one roof — public government, private non-profits, and private enterprise. Publicly funded, so no one grades their own homework — and no one cheats the system by dressing up personal income as non-profit income.
Read the Plank ▸Win Both Primaries℠
The key to everything is the primary.
We register as both Republicans and Democrats, run in both primaries where the law allows, and fight to change primary laws to ranked-choice voting — putting progressive-libertarian ideas on every ballot.
Read the Plank ▸Not a Third Party℠
We are not a third party — we are unifying the two we already have.
Our leaders run in both primaries, and the party is servient to the citizen — we take no pledge of obedience to any machine; we lean one way or the other and vote our conscience. Washington warned the republic against the spirit of party in his Farewell Address. We intend, at last, to take his advice.
Read the Plank ▸Old Skool Election Security℠
The only way to truly secure a computer is to turn it off and bury it under barbed wire — so in the post-quantum age, elections go back to paper.
Every ballot is a paper ballot, counted by hand. It takes a couple of weeks; they did it before the calculator, and so can we.
Read the Plank ▸Make All Political Action Non-Profit℠
Every political action campaign should operate as a non-profit.
Repeal Citizens United, and break up the Super PACs with the antitrust law we already have. Take the private profit motive out of who governs.
Read the Plank ▸Competition by Design℠
Free enterprise wherever a market can sustain it — at least 5 firms, none above 20% share.
Bigger than that is a presumed monopoly that must prove it isn't bullying. Foster small business and innovation.
Read the Plank ▸A Fair Deal for Social Security℠
Social Security was never a piggy bank — it is pay-as-you-go, today's workers protecting today's seniors.
Scrap the payroll-tax income cap so the wealthy pay in on every dollar, closing most of the long-range shortfall, and fix the real problem — an upside-down age pyramid — by resourcing families and welcoming intelligent immigration.
Read the Plank ▸Growth Requires a Stable Climate℠
Growth requires risk, and no one risks capital on ground that won't stop shaking.
We don't care what the climate is — only that it is stable, the same way GDP growth needs a stable economy. Right now it isn't, and your insurance bill already knows it.
Read the Plank ▸Idle Capital Is Wasted Capital℠
A no-loophole, steeply progressive income tax — low on working and middle families, cresting at 59% at the very top — with one exception, a refundable Caregiver Credit for anyone raising children or supporting an aging or disabled loved one.
Plus a wealth tax that begins above $3M, passes 5% at $20M, and keeps climbing for the largest idle fortunes.
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Progressive libertarians for a government as small as freedom allows — and as strong as safety requires. Markets where they serve us, non-profits where they serve us better, and a leader in every primary.
“(A) Bully, for you!”
We register as both Republicans and Democrats, run in both primaries where the law allows, and fight to change primary laws to ranked-choice voting — putting a progressive-libertarian choice on as many ballots as possible. We take the private profit motive out of who governs, keep markets honestly competitive, and shrink government to the smallest size that still keeps us safe and free.
16 planks, one idea: power should answer to people — never to money or to size.
The key to everything is the primary.
We register as both Republicans and Democrats, run in both primaries where the law allows, and fight to change primary laws to ranked-choice voting — putting progressive-libertarian ideas on every ballot.
Read the plank →We are not a third party — we are unifying the two we already have.
Our leaders run in both primaries, and the party is servient to the citizen — we take no pledge of obedience to any machine; we lean one way or the other and vote our conscience. Washington warned the republic against the spirit of party in his Farewell Address. We intend, at last, to take his advice.
Read the plank →The only way to truly secure a computer is to turn it off and bury it under barbed wire — so in the post-quantum age, elections go back to paper.
Every ballot is a paper ballot, counted by hand. It takes a couple of weeks; they did it before the calculator, and so can we.
Read the plank →Every political action campaign should operate as a non-profit.
Repeal Citizens United, and break up the Super PACs with the antitrust law we already have. Take the private profit motive out of who governs.
Read the plank →Free enterprise wherever a market can sustain it — at least 5 firms, none above 20% share.
Bigger than that is a presumed monopoly that must prove it isn't bullying. Foster small business and innovation.
Read the plank →Shrink government to the smallest fraction of the economy that still keeps us secure.
If a function can be an independent non-profit, it should be. If it can be private enterprise, it should be. Government does only what requires security and control.
Read the plank →The market is a tool, not a religion.
Where the profit motive works against society — health care, defense — privatization fails. Some things must never be run for profit.
Read the plank →Invest in the infrastructure and energy a modern economy runs on — and defend freedom and liberty in every regard.
Public foundations, private flourishing.
Read the plank →Our problems are man-made, so their solutions are too.
Break up the compute trust with the antitrust law we already have, democratize AI compute on an open public blockchain, and extend the Progressive era's labor protections to advanced AI itself.
Read the plank →Three tyrannies threaten a free people — the fascist's crown, the techno-feudal cartel, and the communist's commissar.
Each is concentrated, unaccountable power over people, and we will defeat all three — while protecting fledgling industries from the bad actors who would strangle them in the cradle.
Read the plank →Education, trade schools, and health care are the highest-yield investment a society can make — higher education pays back over 200%.
We fund them heavily, through competing non-profits on yearly-renewed contracts, or we are eclipsed by the societies that do.
Read the plank →Social Security was never a piggy bank — it is pay-as-you-go, today's workers protecting today's seniors.
Scrap the payroll-tax income cap so the wealthy pay in on every dollar, closing most of the long-range shortfall, and fix the real problem — an upside-down age pyramid — by resourcing families and welcoming intelligent immigration.
Read the plank →Fund the auditors publicly so no one grades their own homework.
Split the IRS's enforcement arm into an Auditor General's Office of the Public and Private Trust, auditing government, non-profits, and private enterprise under one roof — so nobody cheats the system.
Read the plank →Growth requires risk, and no one risks capital on ground that won't stop shaking.
We don't care what the climate is — only that it is stable, the same way GDP growth needs a stable economy. Right now it isn't, and your insurance bill already knows it.
Read the plank →A no-loophole, steeply progressive income tax — low on working and middle families, cresting at 59% at the very top — with one exception, a refundable Caregiver Credit for anyone raising children or supporting an aging or disabled loved one.
Plus a wealth tax that begins above $3M, passes 5% at $20M, and keeps climbing for the largest idle fortunes.
Read the plank →Build a stronger community and a stronger republic — and enjoy it.
Join your local Grange Hall or League of Women Voters, start a non-profit to compete locally, and come dance your way into the next generation.
Read the plank →No one gets left behind, dammit!℠
They can take one of us.
They can never take all of us.
Win or lose, we will persist — because self‑governance and liberty are natural.
“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” — T. Roosevelt (R)
A party for progressive libertarians — registering as both Republicans and Democrats, running in both primaries, fighting for ranked-choice voting, and building a government that leaves no one behind.
Read more →Our anti-monopoly standard in plain terms — at least five firms, none above 20% share, or you're a presumed monopoly that has to prove it isn't bullying.
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