2026 Voter Guide: Where the Common Good Platform Stands on Every Issue
50 policy positions. Every one researched, sourced, and published in full. Know exactly what you're voting for.
New here? The Common Good Party is a new American political party with 50 detailed policy positions — every one sourced, cited, and published for anyone to read. No vague promises. No talking points. Just policy, in full, with receipts. Start with the full platform overview, or dive into any issue below.
What's at Stake in 2026
The 2026 midterm elections will determine control of the U.S. House, a third of the Senate, and dozens of governorships and state legislatures. Every major domestic issue — healthcare costs, housing affordability, tax policy, climate action, reproductive rights, gun safety, immigration reform — will be shaped by who wins these races.
Most voters know what they're against. This guide is designed to show you what you could be for. Below you'll find all 50 Common Good Party policy positions organized by the six categories that matter most to American families, with links to deep-dive research, full policy papers, and side-by-side comparisons with the Democratic and Republican platforms.
My Life & Family
The things that decide whether a family in America can build a secure life — healthcare, housing, schools, wages, infrastructure, food, and the veterans who served.
Healthcare
You keep your doctor. You keep your hospital. The only thing that changes is who pays the bill. Medical debt is the #1 cause of personal bankruptcy — our plan ends it while covering every American.
Housing
Housing costs have doubled in a generation. We're going to build the homes America needs and protect renters from predatory landlords.
Education & Student Debt
Every child deserves a great public school, and no one should spend 20 years repaying a degree.
Labor & Minimum Wage
Worker productivity rose 92% since 1979. Pay rose 34%. The difference went to shareholders — not to paychecks.
Infrastructure
Nine of eighteen ASCE categories still in the D range. Poor infrastructure costs every American household $2,700 per year. Build it right. Build it fast.
Food & Agriculture
The US produces more food than it consumes on more arable land than any country — yet 47.9 million Americans live in food-insecure households. This is a policy choice.
Veterans Affairs
6,398 veterans died by suicide in 2023 — 17.5 every day. 61% were not receiving VA care. The government asked them to serve. That promise is binding.
Education Reform
American kids take 112 standardized tests K–12. Finland gives one. Our school calendar is a relic of 19th-century farming. We rebuild around how children actually learn.
Childcare
Childcare costs $13,128/year per child — more than college tuition in 33 states. 51% of Americans live in a childcare desert. 2 million women left the workforce during COVID. Sweden caps childcare at 1–3% of income.
Mental Health
160 million Americans live in a mental health shortage area. The average delay from symptoms to treatment is 11 years. Insurers deny mental health claims at 2–10× the rate of medical claims. Parity was signed into law in 2008. It has never been enforced.
Elder Care & Aging
10,000 Americans turn 65 every day. A nursing home costs $108,405/year. Medicare covers zero custodial long-term care. 53 million Americans serve as unpaid family caregivers. Japan solved this 25 years ago.
Homelessness
653,104 people were homeless on a single night in 2023 — a record. It costs $35,578/year per person in emergency services. Permanent supportive housing costs $12,800. Finland is the only country that reduced homelessness. They used Housing First. It worked.
Rural America
180+ rural hospitals have closed since 2005 and 700+ more are at risk. 21% of rural Americans lack broadband. Rural counties lost 2.3 million people in a decade. The communities that feed and power the nation are being left to die.
Water Policy
9.2 million lead service lines still poisoning children. 200 million Americans exposed to PFAS. The Colorado River at 25% of historical flow. 2 million Americans lack clean running water. Water is life — and America's water infrastructure is failing.
Money & Economy
A tax code, a trade regime, and a social contract built to lift every boat — not just the biggest ones.
Taxation
The tax code has been rewritten, loophole by loophole, to serve the ultra-wealthy. Our plan makes it fair — and funds everything else.
Trade Policy
Trade generated $2.6 trillion in gains — while destroying 2.4 million jobs in communities that never recovered. The fix is fair rules, not blanket tariffs.
Social Safety Net
Social Security is not a handout. It is a contract — wages withheld, contributions made, a promise exchanged across generations.
Corporate Power & Antitrust
Competition requires rules. When corporations write them, the market is neither free nor competitive. We restore the rules.
National Debt
America doesn't have a spending problem. It has a revenue problem manufactured by four decades of tax cuts for the wealthy. The Clinton surplus years proved higher taxes on the wealthy work.
Corporate Responsibility
$7.37 trillion in S&P 500 buybacks over a decade. CEO pay grew 1,094%; worker pay 26%. Germany proves codetermination works. We end the extraction.
Affordability
Productivity rose 92.4% since 1979. Wages rose 33.6%. America is the wealthiest nation in human history — yet tens of millions cannot afford to live in it. This issue ties all 34 others together.
Automation & Future of Work
30% of hours worked could be automated by 2030. Only 24% of displaced workers receive any retraining. Denmark spends 2% of GDP on active labor market policies. The US spends 0.1%. The future of work is here. The policy isn't.
Rights & Freedoms
Federal baselines for the rights every American should have — no matter which state they live in.
Reproductive Rights
The US is one of only four countries since 1994 to roll back abortion rights. 62.7 million women now live under state bans.
LGBTQ+ Rights
The US is the only major Western democracy without comprehensive federal LGBTQ+ non-discrimination protections.
Voting Rights
Democracy only works when every citizen can participate. Gerrymandering, voter ID laws, and polling place closures are making it harder — deliberately.
Internet, Privacy & Big Tech
The US is the only major democracy without a federal privacy law. A $323 billion data broker industry extracts your life for profit. Your data belongs to you.
Media & Press Freedom
3,500 newspapers closed since 2005. 213 counties have no local news. The US dropped from 32nd to 57th in press freedom. The press is the immune system of democracy.
Disability Rights
70 million Americans have a disability. The employment gap is 43 percentage points. The SSI asset limit — $2,000 — hasn't changed since 1989. Protection on paper is not participation in practice.
Separation of Church & State
We are not against religion. We are against government officials using their office to push their faith on the people they serve. Elected officials work for all citizens — Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Hindu, atheist, and everyone else. Your faith is yours. Government's job is to protect it — not promote it.
DC & Puerto Rico Statehood
3.9 million Americans in DC and Puerto Rico pay taxes, serve in the military, and are subject to federal law — but cannot vote for the people who write it. This is colonialism by another name.
Justice & Equality
A justice system, a democracy, and a national contract that treat every American — and every treaty — the same.
Criminal Justice
Every peer democracy has lower crime AND lower incarceration. This is not about being soft on crime. It is about being smart about crime.
Drug Policy
$1 trillion spent on the War on Drugs. 806,000 Americans dead from overdoses. Drug use rates: unchanged. Punishment doesn't work.
Racial Justice
Median Black household wealth is projected to reach zero by 2053. Closing the racial wealth gap is not charity — it is economic policy.
Indigenous Rights
The US signed 370 treaties as supreme law under Article VI. It has violated nearly all of them. The minimum legal obligation is to finally keep its word.
Campaign Finance
Just 1.05% of Americans provided 78% of 2024 campaign contributions. Economic elites have substantial policy influence; average citizens have near-zero. Money out. People in.
Government Corruption
The post-Watergate reforms were built on norms, not law. The US fell to 29th on the global corruption index — its lowest ever. Every norm becomes law. Every watchdog gets teeth.
Police Reform
US cops train 20 weeks — less than hairdressers. Germany: 2.5 years. Japan kills 170× fewer civilians. We transform training, demilitarize, and end qualified immunity.
Supreme Court Reform
The Supreme Court is the only branch of government with no term limits, no binding ethics code, and no meaningful accountability. 18-year terms. Binding ethics. Expand to 18 seats. Supermajority to overturn precedent.
Congressional Term Limits
82% of Americans support term limits. 12-year cap across both chambers, staggered so institutional knowledge is preserved. Representatives, not rulers. See also Issues #18 and #31.
Ethics in Politics
It should be against the law for elected officials to knowingly lie to the people they serve. 3-month campaign windows. Congressional housing so members can focus on governing. The job is legislating — not fundraising, not lying, not worrying about rent.
Safety & Our Future
The policies that decide whether our children inherit a safer country and a livable planet.
Military & Defense
The US spends more on defense than the next nine countries combined — yet the Pentagon cannot account for $4.65 trillion in assets.
Gun Policy
The Second Amendment is real — and so is the evidence that licensing, red flag laws, and safe storage save thousands of lives every year.
Climate & Energy
The climate window is closing — but the clean energy transition is also the largest job-creation opportunity in American history.
Nuclear Weapons
The Doomsday Clock sits at 85 seconds to midnight — the closest in 79 years. No single person should hold unchecked authority over the most consequential decision in human history.
AI & Technology
The US has no federal AI law. Six companies control 90%+ of frontier AI development. 63% of Americans say AI needs more regulation. The EU passed its AI Act in 2024. We haven't started.
Cybersecurity
3,205 data breaches in 2023. 500,000+ unfilled cybersecurity jobs. Colonial Pipeline shut fuel to 17 states. Change Healthcare disrupted 1/3 of US claims. The nation's digital infrastructure is undefended.
America & the World
A foreign policy that defends American interests without abandoning American principles — and a border handled with competence and dignity.
Immigration
A functioning immigration system must be secure, humane, and honest about what America needs.
Israel & Gaza
Security for Israel. Dignity for Palestinians. Accountability for both — under the same international law that applies to everyone else.
Ukraine & NATO
Russia's invasion is an illegal war of aggression. A sovereign nation's right to self-determination is not negotiable.
China
China is both competitor and necessary partner. We reject the false choice between Cold War confrontation and naive accommodation.
Why This Guide Exists
Most voter guides tell you what candidates said during a debate. This one tells you what a party actually believes — in writing, with sources, across every major issue — so you can decide for yourself whether it makes sense.
The Common Good Party published its full platform before asking anyone to vote for it. Every position has a detailed policy paper. Every claim is sourced. Every comparison with other parties uses their own stated positions, not straw-man versions. If you disagree with something, you'll know exactly what you're disagreeing with and why.
That's the point. Democracy works better when voters have real information — not slogans, not attack ads, not algorithmic outrage. Just policy.
How to Use This Guide
Every issue above has three links designed to give you exactly the depth you need:
- Learn More — Our deep-dive analysis explaining what's broken, what other countries do better, and exactly how the Common Good plan would fix it. Written in plain English with no jargon.
- Full Policy — The detailed position page with the party's specific proposals, funding mechanisms, and implementation timeline. Every claim sourced.
- Compare — Side-by-side comparison of where the Common Good Party, Democrats, and Republicans stand on the issue, with sourced citations for every position.
Not sure where to start? Try the platform overview for a summary of all five pillars, or pick the category above that matters most to you and your family.
Key 2026 Election Dates
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is the Common Good Party?
The Common Good Party is a progressive, proudly patriotic American political party built on the founding principle that government exists to serve the common good of every citizen. The party has published 50 detailed policy positions — every one researched, sourced, and available in full — covering healthcare, taxation, housing, education, immigration, climate, criminal justice, and dozens more issues. The platform is designed to be read, compared, and challenged on its merits.
How many policy positions does the CGP have?
The Common Good Party has published 50 detailed policy positions organized across six issue categories: My Life & Family, Money & Economy, Rights & Freedoms, Justice & Equality, Safety & Our Future, and America & the World. Each position includes a full policy paper with sourced research, a comparison to Democratic and Republican positions, and a deep-dive analysis page explaining the issue and proposed solutions.
Where can I compare CGP to other parties?
You can compare the Common Good Party's positions to the Democratic and Republican parties on every issue at thecommongoodparty.com/issues/compare. Each comparison page shows side-by-side positions with sourced citations so you can see exactly where each party stands and why. You can also compare on individual issues by visiting the compare page for any specific topic.
How can I run for office with the CGP platform?
The Common Good Party actively recruits and supports candidates at every level of government. Visit thecommongoodparty.com/candidates to learn about the candidate program, which includes a brand kit, campaign materials, issue one-pagers, social media templates, and an organizer's guide. You can apply to run as a CGP-endorsed candidate through the online application process.
When is the 2026 election?
The 2026 midterm elections will be held on Tuesday, November 3, 2026. All 435 seats in the U.S. House of Representatives, 33 or 34 U.S. Senate seats, and numerous state and local offices will be on the ballot. Primary elections vary by state and typically begin in the spring of 2026. Check your state's election website for specific primary dates, voter registration deadlines, and polling locations.
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