A progressive, proudly patriotic American party built on the founding principle that government exists to serve the common good of every citizen.
Core Values
A hand up, not a handout. We believe in empowering people with the tools, infrastructure, and opportunity to build secure lives through their own effort.
Patriotism is policy, not performance. Loving your country means building systems that work for the people who live in it — not waving a flag while defunding what holds the nation together.
Evidence over ideology. We follow what works. If a policy fails, we fix it. If an idea succeeds abroad, we adopt it. Pragmatism is not weakness — it is respect for reality.
Rights are universal, not conditional. Your rights do not depend on your zip code, your income, your race, your gender, or who you love. A federal floor of protection for every American.
Government is the tool, not the enemy. The private sector does many things well. But healthcare, education, infrastructure, and justice are not products to be rationed by the market. They are the common good.
Fiscal honesty. We pay for what we propose. We close the loopholes that cost more than the programs they defund. The debt was not caused by helping people — it was caused by refusing to tax wealth.
Democracy is non-negotiable. Free elections, a free press, independent courts, civilian control of the military, and the peaceful transfer of power. These are not partisan positions. They are the operating system.
Table of Contents
The Five Pillars & The Budget
Five Platform Pillars · The Budget — How We Pay for Everything
My Life & Family
01 Healthcare
03 Housing
04 Education & Student Debt
13 Labor & Minimum Wage
25 Infrastructure
26 Food & Agriculture
27 Veterans Affairs
38 Childcare
39 Mental Health
40 Elder Care & Aging
41 Homelessness
42 Rural America
34 Education Reform
49 Water Policy
Money & Economy
02 Taxation
14 Trade Policy
15 Social Safety Net
20 Corporate Power & Antitrust
29 National Debt
43 Automation & Future of Work
32 Corporate Responsibility
35 Affordability
Rights & Freedoms
16 Reproductive Rights
17 LGBTQ+ Rights
18 Voting Rights
19 Drug Policy
21 Internet, Privacy & Big Tech
30 Media & Press Freedom
37 Disability Rights
44 Separation of Church & State
45 DC & Puerto Rico Statehood
Justice & Equality
12 Criminal Justice
22 Racial Justice
23 Indigenous Rights
24 Campaign Finance
31 Government Corruption
33 Police Reform
46 Supreme Court Reform
47 Congressional Term Limits
50 Ethics in Politics
Safety & Our Future
10 Gun Policy
11 Climate & Energy
09 Military & Defense
28 Nuclear Weapons
36 AI & Technology
48 Cybersecurity
America & the World
05 Immigration
06 Israel & Gaza
07 Ukraine & NATO
08 China
The Five Pillars
Pillar 01
A Common Economy
You shouldn't have to work two jobs to afford one life. A Common Economy means wages that keep up with prices, worker protections that actually protect, small businesses that can compete against monopolies, and a tax code that asks the most from those who have the most — not the least. This isn't redistribution. It's rebalancing a system that's been tilted for decades.
Pillar 02
Common Health
Healthcare is not a luxury. It's the foundation that everything else is built on — you can't hold a job, raise a family, or start a business if you're bankrupt from a hospital bill. Common Health means universal access to care as a shared national investment. Healthy people build stronger families, stronger communities, and a stronger economy. The wealthiest country on earth can afford to keep its people well.
Pillar 03
Common Ground
The system is rigged — and everyone knows it. Common Ground is our commitment to fixing the machinery of democracy itself. Campaign finance reform that gets dark money out. Ranked-choice voting that gives you real choices. Transparency rules that let you see exactly where every dollar goes. Anti-corruption standards with teeth. A government that works for citizens, not for donors. This pillar is the reason the party exists.
Pillar 04
Common Future
The decisions we make in the next decade will shape the country our children inherit. Common Future means climate action that creates jobs instead of killing them. Infrastructure that works — roads, bridges, broadband, high-speed rail. An education system that doesn't drown students in debt before they start their careers. And housing that people who work in a community can actually afford to live in.
Pillar 05
Common Security
A strong country protects its people — at home and abroad. Common Security means a military that leads with both values and strength. Gun laws that protect communities without criminalizing responsible owners. Criminal justice that holds people accountable and gives them a path back. Police reform built on accountability, not slogans. Immigration policy that's firm, fair, and humane. And foreign policy that defends American interests without abandoning American principles.
The Budget
How We Pay for Everything
Every dollar in. Every dollar out. No handwaving, no magic math. No income under $400,000 is touched. Every dollar comes from wealth, loopholes, and the top 2%.
Revenue Source
10-Year Est.
Progressive income tax (45% over $1M, 60% over $10M)
~$3.5T
Wealth tax (2% over $50M, 3% over $1B)
~$3T
Healthcare admin savings (single-payer)
$4–6T
Corporate minimum effective rate (28%, 20% floor)
~$1.5T
Financial transaction tax (0.1%)
~$500B–1T
Close Buy/Borrow/Die + stepped-up basis
~$500B
IRS enforcement surge (audit the wealthy)
~$500B
Drug price negotiation (international reference pricing)
~$450B
Windfall profits tax (95% on crisis-period extraction)
Healthcare (Medicare for All, net new after savings)
~$3.5T
Climate & Energy (grid + transition fund)
~$2.5T
Housing (NHC + CLTs + vouchers)
~$850B–1T
Education (free college + full IDEA funding)
~$800B
Childcare (universal birth-to-5, 7% income cap)
~$700B
Total 10-year investments
~$12.35T
The current approach
$36.2T in debt from unfunded tax cuts. $1.9T added by the TCJA alone. Zero successful Pentagon audits. 3.7% effective billionaire tax rate. Spend now, borrow the rest, blame Social Security.
The CGP approach
$13.85T in identified revenue. No income under $400K touched. No program launches until its funding is operational. Mandatory Pentagon audits. Every dollar published. The Clinton surplus proved this works.
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.
Issue 01
Healthcare
Healthcare — Universal Coverage as Infrastructure
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.
26MAmericans have no health insurance
The Common Good Party supports universal healthcare coverage through an expanded Medicare system that preserves provider choice while eliminating the financial devastation of medical debt. We phase in coverage over four years, funded by progressive taxation and administrative savings from eliminating the multi-payer bureaucracy. Healthcare is infrastructure — not a commodity to be rationed by ability to pay.
Housing costs have doubled in a generation. We're going to build the homes America needs and protect renters from predatory landlords.
We propose a National Housing Corporation to build millions of affordable units, paired with tenant protections that prevent predatory rent increases and displacement. Zoning reform at the federal incentive level breaks the stranglehold of exclusionary land use. Housing is the prerequisite for everything else — employment, education, health — and the market alone has failed to provide it at the scale America requires.
Every child deserves a great public school, and no one should spend 20 years repaying a degree.
Universal pre-K for every three- and four-year-old. A $60,000 federal minimum teacher salary. Debt-free public college and technical training. Existing student loan relief for borrowers who were sold a false promise. Education is the engine of upward mobility — we refuse to let it become a debt trap that entrenches inequality across generations.
Labor — Wages That Support a Family, Rights That Support a Worker
Worker productivity rose 92% since 1979. Pay rose 34%. The difference went to shareholders — not to paychecks.
A $17 federal minimum wage indexed to productivity growth. Sectoral bargaining that gives workers real power at the negotiating table. Portable benefits that follow workers between jobs. The PRO Act to restore the right to organize. When workers share in the wealth they create, the entire economy grows from the middle out.
Infrastructure — Roads, Rails, Grids, and Broadband
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.
Extend and expand bipartisan infrastructure investment for another decade. Prioritize high-speed rail, universal broadband, grid modernization, and clean water. Streamline permitting without gutting environmental review. Every dollar invested in infrastructure returns $1.50–$2.20 in economic activity — this is the highest-return investment the federal government can make.
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.
Universal free school meals. Expanded SNAP with no work requirements that punish the working poor. Farm policy that supports family farms over industrial consolidation. A food system redesigned around nutrition and sustainability rather than commodity subsidies that reward overproduction of the wrong crops.
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.
Fully fund the VA with no budget caps. Expand mental health access so no veteran waits more than 72 hours for care. End veteran homelessness through Housing First. Streamline disability claims processing. The nation that asks citizens to fight has an absolute obligation to care for them when they come home.
Childcare — Every Family Supported, Every Child Ready
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.
$13Kaverage annual childcare cost per child
Cap childcare costs at 7% of household income. Fund a national network of childcare centers in underserved areas. Pay childcare workers a professional wage — the median is currently $13.71/hour for work that shapes the next generation. Universal pre-K starting at age three. Childcare is economic infrastructure, not a private luxury.
Mental Health — Parity in Practice, Not Just on Paper
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.
11yraverage delay from symptom onset to treatment
Enforce the Mental Health Parity Act with real penalties for insurers who deny claims. Fund 100,000 new mental health professionals in shortage areas. Integrate behavioral health into primary care. Expand the 988 crisis system to match 911 infrastructure. Mental health is health — and the law already says so. We make it true.
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.
70%of people turning 65 will need long-term care
Create a universal long-term care benefit modeled on Japan's mandatory social insurance system. Expand Medicare to cover home- and community-based care. Pay and protect the caregiving workforce. Support family caregivers with respite services and tax credits. Aging with dignity should not require being wealthy.
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.
653Kpeople homeless on a single night — record high
Adopt Housing First as federal policy — stable housing first, then wraparound services. Fund 500,000 permanent supportive housing units over a decade. It costs less than emergency room visits, jail, and shelters combined. Criminalization does not work. Housing does. Finland proved it.
Rural America — Rebuilding the Communities That Feed and Power the Nation
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.
180+rural hospitals closed since 2005
Universal broadband as a public utility. Stabilize rural hospitals with dedicated federal funding. Invest in the clean-energy economy that will power rural job growth for decades. Support family farms against corporate consolidation. Rural America feeds and powers the nation — it deserves the same investment as any city.
Education Reform — A System Built for How Children Actually Learn
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.
Reduce standardized testing to the minimum needed for accountability. Redesign school calendars around learning science, not agrarian schedules. Fund arts, trades, and project-based learning equally with academics. Empower teachers as professionals with autonomy and compensation that matches their impact. The system should serve children — not the other way around.
Water Policy — Every American Deserves Clean, Affordable Water
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.
9.2Mlead service lines still in use
Lead Zero by 2035: replace every lead service line ($60B). Full PFAS remediation funded by manufacturer Superfund cost recovery. No water privatization (private water costs 59% more). Colorado River mandatory conservation with federal water recycling investment (Israel model: 90% reuse). $10B tribal water justice fund. No household should pay more than 2.5% of income for water.
A tax code, a trade regime, and a social contract built to lift every boat — not just the biggest ones.
Issue 02
Taxation
Taxation — A Fair System That Funds the Common Good
The tax code has been rewritten, loophole by loophole, to serve the ultra-wealthy. Our plan makes it fair — and funds everything else.
55Fortune 500 companies paid $0 in federal taxes
A top individual rate of 45% on income over $10 million. A corporate rate of 28% with a real minimum on book profits. A 2% wealth tax on net worth exceeding $50 million. Carried interest taxed as ordinary income. Close every loophole that allows profitable corporations to pay nothing. The revenue funds every other policy in this platform.
Trade — Fair Rules, American Workers, Global Leadership
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.
Negotiate trade agreements with labor and environmental standards enforceable by the same dispute mechanisms as corporate IP. Invest massively in communities displaced by trade — not one-time checks, but sustained economic development. Tariffs are a tax on consumers; targeted rules that raise global standards are the real answer.
Social Security is not a handout. It is a contract — wages withheld, contributions made, a promise exchanged across generations.
Lift the Social Security payroll tax cap so earnings above $400,000 contribute again. Expand benefits for the lowest-income retirees. Protect Medicare from privatization. Simplify benefit access so eligible families actually receive what they are owed. The safety net is a contract — and we honor contracts.
Corporate Power — Breaking Up Monopolies, Rebuilding Competition
Competition requires rules. When corporations write them, the market is neither free nor competitive. We restore the rules.
Restore antitrust enforcement to pre-Reagan levels. Block mergers that reduce competition below four major players in any market. Give the FTC real authority and real funding. Break up companies that use platform monopoly to crush competitors. A free market requires rules — and referees willing to enforce them.
National Debt — Honest Accounting, Honest Priorities
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.
Stabilize debt-to-GDP through progressive revenue increases — not by cutting the programs that serve 90% of Americans. Every tax cut since 2001 added more to the debt than every social program combined. Honest fiscal policy means paying for what you build and taxing wealth at rates that match the services it depends on.
Automation & Future of Work — Technology That Lifts Workers, Not Just Profits
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.
30%of work hours automatable by 2030
Create a national retraining system modeled on Denmark's flexicurity — generous unemployment benefits paired with mandatory, high-quality retraining. Require companies that automate jobs to fund transition programs. Ensure productivity gains from automation flow to workers through profit-sharing mandates, not exclusively to shareholders.
Corporate Responsibility — Ending the Extraction Era
$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.
Mandate worker representation on corporate boards for companies above 1,000 employees — the German codetermination model that produced stronger companies, not weaker ones. Restrict stock buybacks to pre-2018 rules. Tie executive compensation tax deductions to the ratio between CEO and median worker pay. Corporations exist within society, not above it.
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.
Affordability is not one policy — it is the outcome of every other policy working together. Healthcare that does not bankrupt. Housing that does not consume half a paycheck. Childcare that does not cost more than college. Wages that track productivity. This is the capstone: when all 49 other policies succeed, Americans can afford to live in their own country again.
Federal baselines for the rights every American should have — no matter which state they live in.
Issue 16
Reproductive Rights
Reproductive Rights — Bodily Autonomy, Nationally Protected
The US is one of only four countries since 1994 to roll back abortion rights. 62.7 million women now live under state bans.
Codify Roe's viability framework into federal law. No American's bodily autonomy should depend on which state they live in. Expand access to contraception, maternal care, and family planning services. Protect providers from state-level criminalization. Reproductive freedom is a federal right — not a state-by-state lottery.
The US is the only major Western democracy without comprehensive federal LGBTQ+ non-discrimination protections.
Pass the Equality Act — comprehensive federal non-discrimination protections in employment, housing, public accommodations, and credit. Ban conversion therapy for minors. Protect transgender Americans from state-level attacks on their medical care and legal recognition. Equal citizenship means equal protection under law — everywhere in the country.
Democracy only works when every citizen can participate. Gerrymandering, voter ID laws, and polling place closures are making it harder — deliberately.
25MAmericans face active barriers to voting
Pass the Freedom to Vote Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act. End partisan gerrymandering through independent redistricting commissions. Automatic voter registration at 18. Make Election Day a federal holiday. Expand early voting and vote-by-mail nationwide. Democracy requires participation — and participation requires access.
$1 trillion spent on the War on Drugs. 806,000 Americans dead from overdoses. Drug use rates: unchanged. Punishment doesn't work.
End federal cannabis prohibition. Treat addiction as a public health issue — fund treatment on demand, harm reduction, and supervised consumption sites. Decriminalize personal possession and redirect enforcement resources to trafficking networks. Portugal proved this approach works: overdose deaths fell 80% after decriminalization. Follow the evidence.
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.
Pass a comprehensive federal privacy law with GDPR-level protections. Ban the sale of personal data without explicit opt-in consent. Give individuals the right to access, correct, and delete their data. Regulate algorithmic decision-making that affects employment, credit, and housing. Your data is your property — not a commodity extracted without your knowledge.
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.
A federal shield law protecting journalists and their sources. A local journalism rescue package funded by a small levy on digital advertising platforms that destroyed local news revenue. Expand public media funding to $20 per capita — still below every peer democracy. The press holds power accountable. When it dies, corruption thrives.
Disability Rights — Full Participation, Not Just Protection
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.
27%of US adults have a disability — 70M+ people
Raise the SSI asset limit to $10,000 and index it to inflation. Eliminate marriage penalties that trap disabled people in poverty. Fund competitive integrated employment programs. Strengthen ADA enforcement with real penalties. Disability policy must move beyond protection into full economic and social participation.
Separation of Church & State — Neutral Government, Protected Faith
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.
29%of Americans religiously unaffiliated — the largest group
Enforce the Establishment Clause as written. No public funds for religious instruction. No religious tests for public office in practice or in spirit. Protect religious liberty for all faiths equally — including the right to be free from government-imposed religion. A neutral government protects everyone's faith; a theocratic one threatens all but one.
DC & Puerto Rico Statehood — Full Representation for Every American
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.
3.9MAmericans without voting representation in Congress
Full statehood for both DC and Puerto Rico. Self-determination for other territories. Puerto Rico has more people than 20 states. DC pays more per-capita federal taxes than any state. Overturn the Insular Cases — the racist Supreme Court decisions that created second-class citizenship for territorial residents.
A justice system, a democracy, and a national contract that treat every American — and every treaty — the same.
Issue 12
Criminal Justice
Criminal Justice — Accountability Without Mass Incarceration
Every peer democracy has lower crime AND lower incarceration. This is not about being soft on crime. It is about being smart about crime.
End mandatory minimums for non-violent offenses. Invest in reentry programs that reduce recidivism by 40%. Eliminate cash bail that punishes poverty. Restore voting rights for people who have served their sentences. The goal is public safety — and every country that achieves it does so with less incarceration, not more.
Median Black household wealth is projected to reach zero by 2053. Closing the racial wealth gap is not charity — it is economic policy.
Targeted investment in communities that were systematically excluded from wealth-building programs — redlined neighborhoods, underfunded school districts, and communities stripped of generational wealth by policy. Baby bonds for every child, scaled by family wealth. Down-payment assistance in formerly redlined areas. Closing the racial wealth gap is an economic imperative, not a favor.
Indigenous Rights — Treaty Obligations, Real Sovereignty
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.
Honor every existing treaty obligation as the supreme law of the land that Article VI says it is. Fully fund the Indian Health Service. Protect tribal sovereignty over land, water, and resources. Consult tribes as sovereign governments, not stakeholders. This is not generosity — it is the minimum legal and moral obligation of a nation that signed its name.
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.
Public campaign financing with a 6:1 small-dollar match. Full real-time disclosure of all political spending. Ban algorithmic micro-targeted political advertising. Overturn Citizens United through a constitutional amendment. Democracy means one person, one vote — not one dollar, one vote. Until money is out, the people are not in.
Government Corruption — Democratic Safeguards With Teeth
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.
Codify every post-Watergate norm into enforceable statute. Mandatory financial disclosure for all federal officials and their families. A binding ethics code for the Supreme Court. Independent inspectors general who cannot be fired without cause. Revolving-door bans with real cooling-off periods. Norms failed. Law does not — if you write it.
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.
Minimum 12-month training with emphasis on de-escalation, mental health response, and constitutional law. End qualified immunity by federal statute. Establish a national use-of-force database. Demilitarize local departments. Fund co-responder programs that send mental health professionals — not armed officers — to crisis calls. Guardians, not warriors.
Supreme Court Reform — Accountability, Ethics, and Term Limits
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.
0binding ethics rules for Supreme Court justices
18-year staggered terms so each president appoints 2 justices per term. Binding ethics code with independent enforcement. Raise salary to $350K. Expand to 18 seats phased over multiple terms. 2/3 supermajority required to overturn established precedent. Every other major democracy has term limits or mandatory retirement for high court justices. The US is the outlier.
Congressional Term Limits — Representatives, Not Rulers
82% of Americans support term limits. 12-year cap across both chambers, staggered so institutional knowledge is preserved. Representatives, not rulers.
82%of Americans support congressional term limits
12-year cumulative limit across both chambers. Staggered implementation so existing members finish current terms. Strengthen CRS, GAO, and CBO to preserve institutional expertise. 5-year lobbying cooling-off period after leaving office. Paired with campaign finance reform so term limits don't just create a pipeline to K Street. Constitutional amendment required — and worth it.
Ethics in Politics — Truth, Accountability, and the End of the Permanent Campaign
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.
Truth in Government Act: criminal penalties for elected officials who knowingly make false statements of material fact. 90-day campaign windows (UK does it in 6 weeks, Canada in 36 days — the US has a permanent campaign). Congressional housing: secure federal apartments near the Capitol so members can live in DC and do their jobs without financial stress or lobbyist-funded arrangements. The job is legislating, not fundraising.
The policies that decide whether our children inherit a safer country and a livable planet.
Issue 10
Gun Policy
Gun Policy — Rights Respected, Lives Protected
The Second Amendment is real — and so is the evidence that licensing, red flag laws, and safe storage save thousands of lives every year.
Universal background checks. A federal licensing system modeled on the states that already have one — and already have 40% fewer gun deaths. Red-flag laws in every state. Safe-storage requirements. An assault weapons ban. We respect the Second Amendment and we respect the evidence: these policies save lives without disarming responsible owners.
Climate & Energy — The Largest Job Opportunity in American History
The climate window is closing — but the clean energy transition is also the largest job-creation opportunity in American history.
2035Our target for 100% clean electricity
100% clean electricity by 2035. Protect and accelerate the Inflation Reduction Act. A Civilian Climate Corps employing hundreds of thousands. Electrify transportation and buildings. Environmental justice for frontline communities. This is not sacrifice — it is the largest job-creation program since World War II, and it lowers energy costs for every household.
The US spends more on defense than the next nine countries combined — yet the Pentagon cannot account for $4.65 trillion in assets.
Pass a clean Pentagon audit — no other federal agency would survive a single failed audit, let alone decades of them. Redirect waste toward readiness, veteran care, and emerging threats. End blank-check defense contractor profits. A strong military is a smart military — accountable to the public that funds it and focused on the threats that actually exist.
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.
Remove sole presidential first-use authority — require concurrence of the Secretary of Defense and Congressional leadership. Pursue bilateral arms reduction with Russia and China. Adopt a No First Use policy. Invest in arms control verification technology. The goal is fewer weapons, more safety, and a path toward a world where these weapons are never used.
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.
0federal laws regulating artificial intelligence
Pass a comprehensive federal AI accountability framework. Require impact assessments for high-risk AI systems in hiring, lending, criminal justice, and healthcare. Mandate transparency for algorithmic decision-making. Fund public AI research so development is not monopolized by six companies. Innovation flourishes with guardrails — not in their absence.
Cybersecurity — Defending the Digital Infrastructure
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.
500K+unfilled cybersecurity jobs in the US
Mandatory minimum security standards for critical infrastructure. 72-hour federal breach notification. CISA fully funded as lead civilian agency. Election security with mandatory paper ballots and post-election audits. Federal ban on government ransom payments. 500,000-job workforce pipeline through scholarship-for-service and community college programs.
A foreign policy that defends American interests without abandoning American principles — and a border handled with competence and dignity.
Issue 05
Immigration
Immigration — Borders With Humanity, Pathways With Dignity
A functioning immigration system must be secure, humane, and honest about what America needs.
Comprehensive immigration reform: a secure border with modern technology, not performative cruelty. A pathway to legal status for 11 million people living and working in the country. An asylum system with enough judges to process claims in weeks, not years. A visa system calibrated to the workforce the economy actually needs. Competence and dignity are not mutually exclusive.
Israel & Gaza — Security for Israel, Dignity for Palestinians
Security for Israel. Dignity for Palestinians. Accountability for both — under the same international law that applies to everyone else.
Israel has a right to security and self-defense. Palestinians have a right to dignity, statehood, and freedom from occupation. Both are accountable to the same international humanitarian law. US military aid must be conditioned on compliance with that law — the same standard we apply to every other recipient. One rule for all.
Ukraine & NATO — Backing Democracy, Deterring Aggression
Russia's invasion is an illegal war of aggression. A sovereign nation's right to self-determination is not negotiable.
Sustained military, economic, and diplomatic support for Ukraine until Russia withdraws or negotiates in good faith. Honor every NATO commitment — Article 5 is not optional. Strengthen the alliance through burden-sharing and readiness, not through abandonment. American credibility depends on keeping the commitments we have already made.
China is both competitor and necessary partner. We reject the false choice between Cold War confrontation and naive accommodation.
Compete where we must: technology, trade rules, Indo-Pacific security, and human rights accountability. Cooperate where we can: climate, pandemic preparedness, nuclear nonproliferation. Invest in American strength — semiconductor manufacturing, R&D, alliances — rather than relying on tariff walls that raise costs for American families. Strength and engagement are not contradictions.