The Public option
- Public housing at scale
- Public manufacturing of generics
- A National Medical Corps
Platform
Our platform has three pillars: affordability, accountability, and democracy. These three are simultaneously failing and their recovery is intertwined.
None of the three can stand alone.
Pillar One
Affordability
- Health Care
- Childcare
- Housing
- Energy
- Food
- Infrastructure
Many Americans are under water, and the ideas coming from think-tank world are too limited to create real change. That's why we've set our sights on New Consensus, a think tank with ideas at the scale we need.
Their project, “Mission for America,” outlines the methods and institutions that need to be built or restored in order to reclaim our economy and restart our economic engine.
Their work, while still underway, is the basis for everything we do when it comes to affordability.
Costs are high because we stopped building: housing, healthcare, energy.
The answer is Public Supply and Public Competition.
The Barrier
- Balanced Budget Act residency freeze
- Private Equity hospital extraction
- The Faircloth Amendment
The Reality of Abundance
Our Country Is Rich
America just crossed $29 trillion in GDP.
Profit cleared $1.9 trillion.
Whatever you were told about scarcity,
you were told wrong.
Everyone Knows
The Deal Is Rigged
- 1971
The Powell Memo
The corporate blueprint for government capture
- 1982
SEC Rule 10R-18
Stock buybacks prioritized extraction over building
- 1998
Faircloth Amendment
A literal cap on constructing public housing
- 2010
Citizens United
Unlimited corporate political money
Step by step, working people stopped owning their work. RAND found $79 trillion moved from the bottom 90% to the top 1%.
They didn't break it. They built it this way.
Pillar Two
Accountability
- No exceptions
- No president
- No Supreme Court Justice
- No general
- No billionaire
Nothing represents lack of accountability more than Israeli/US bombs in Gaza. Most agree war crimes were committed. Many also believe a genocide was committed. What has yet to happen is even an inkling of accountability.
Both the Trump administration and Biden administration have yet to be investigated. This cannot stand. If the powerful can't be held to account, there is no real justice. We think of this as an obvious red line.
We Need One Law for Everyone
Bankers who launder cartel money pay fines instead of doing time
Pharma executives who profit from half a million opioid deaths, keep the profits and just rename the company
The president whose office shields him from the laws he swore to enforce
Which legal system you get shouldn't depend on your net worth
The Water's Edge
Accountability that runs out at the water's edge is not accountability. The rules have to apply to our wars.
ICJ findings, ICC warrants. UN reports. We name the capture where it happens.
The demand:
- Halt all weapons
- End all funding
- Direct sanctions
- Back the ICC
Pillar Three
Democracy
If Americans can't pay rent, if they go bankrupt when they get cancer, if they know justice only applies to certain tax brackets, then they start to lose faith in their democracy.
Couple that with inconsistent voting days, times, methods, gerrymandering, unlimited money in politics, and other pressures that have eroded trust, and the road to restoration looks like a hard one. That road is what our pillars outline, a path towards restoration, renewal, and trust in our democracy.
Democracy is not a brand to save. It is a system that has to deliver majority rule.
Money
Overturn Citizens United, until that is done the donor class holds the veto
Senate Rules
End the filibuster as a routine veto, the Senate changes its rules by majority vote
Courts
Expand the bench if it keeps voiding majority law, accountability for the unaccountable
End Gerrymandering
Congress can pass a simple-majority law to end partisan maps tomorrow, we showcase the districts math would draw instead of politicians
Barriers
Money
Maps
Rules
Courts
Leadership
Capacity
How We Govern
Public Competition
Government competes to break private price-rigging. Banks, hospitals, and power.
Public Supply
Build the capacity that is missing. Reclaim the right to produce.
Industrial Capacity
Lumber, steel, transformers, and Romex. Rebuild the supply chain locally.