Our Platform

Defend constitutional republican government, the rule of law, separation of powers through checks and balances, and the permanence of the UnionRepeal the Seventeenth Amendment and restore selection of U.S. Senators by state legislaturesRepeal the 435-member cap on the House of Representatives and establish a population-based formula for representationImplement ranked-choice voting allowing voters to rank candidates in order of preference to prevent “wasting” votesEstablish automatic voter registration with a straightforward opt-out processEnd partisan gerrymandering through independent, nonpartisan redistricting commissions, preserving county and parish boundaries wherever practical Make presidential Election Day a federal holidayRequire congressional legislation to address one principal subject and prevent the addition of unrelated provisions in omnibus bills Require legislation to be publicly available for a minimum review period before final passage, except during genuine emergencies

Fight corruption, cronyism, political patronage, lobbying abuses, and excessive special-interest influenceRestrict Super PAC contributions and pursue reversal of the Citizens United v. FEC campaign-finance frameworkProhibit members of Congress from trading individual stocks, limiting investments to independently managed diversified fundsPermanently prohibit former members of Congress from lobbying Congress for compensationStrengthen revolving-door restrictions for senior officials, regulators, legislators, and industries they previously oversawProhibit members of Congress and senior federal officials from accepting gifts, paid travel, or comparable benefits from lobbying interestsEstablish an independent Congressional Ethics Office with investigatory authority and mandatory public reportingEstablish an independent Public Integrity Commission to investigate high-level corruption and serious abuses of public officeRequire senior federal officials to disclose significant conflicts of interestEstablish a publicly searchable federal contracting database showing who receives public money, how much, and for what purposeStrengthen whistleblower protectionsStrengthen merit examinations and professional qualifications for career government positions

Rebuild American manufacturing and pursue national economic sovereignty through strategic industrial policy, infrastructure investment, protective trade measures, and domestic productionMaintain domestic capacity in strategically essential industries, including energy, agriculture, transportation, communications, medicine, defense, and advanced technologyUse tariffs, procurement preferences, and other trade safeguards where necessary to prevent destructive foreign dependency and unfair competitionRestrict foreign control of strategic American industries and infrastructurePreserve American monetary, financial, food, energy, and supply-chain sovereigntyFavor productive investment and long-term national development over financial speculation and short-term extraction

Restore the Glass–Steagall ActRestore stronger antitrust treatment of concentrated banking and financial institutionsEnd corporate stock buybacks and encourage profits to flow toward productive investment, workers, research, and long-term developmentStrengthen community banks, credit unions, and locally rooted financial institutionsEstablish a National Development Bank providing long-term financing for railways, nuclear plants, ports, water systems, domestic manufacturing, housing, rural infrastructure, electrical grids, and other strategic industriesTreat productive credit as essential national infrastructure capable of supporting internal improvements and broadly shared prosperity

Enforce stronger antitrust laws against monopolistic and anti-competitive concentrations of economic powerProtect independent businesses, family farms, and regional enterprises from unfair competition by dominant corporationsProhibit predatory below-cost pricing intended to eliminate smaller competitorsStrengthen restrictions against regional hospital monopolies and excessive healthcare consolidationRestrict excessive vertical consolidation in meatpacking, agricultural processing, and food distributionPrevent corporate consolidation from hollowing out local economies and eliminating meaningful consumer choiceEncourage cooperatives, locally owned enterprises, regional supply networks, and independent entrepreneurship

Repeal the Taft–Hartley Act and strengthen workers' ability to organize and bargain collectivelyEstablish national minimum standards of 14 weeks maternity leave and 2 weeks paternity leavePromote fair wages, profit-sharing, apprenticeships, skilled trades, and stable employmentProtect the dignity of human labor and ensure workers share reasonably in the prosperity they help createEncourage technology and automation that augment human productivity rather than pursuing the unnecessary elimination of human employment

Establish strong protections against planned obsolescence and deliberately shortened product lifespansRequire simple and transparent subscription cancellation procedures and prohibit deceptive "dark patterns" Strengthen protections against abusive automated and unsolicited callsEstablish a national right to repair, including reasonable access to replacement parts, tools, documentation, and diagnostic information. Strengthen transparency concerning prices, fees, warranties, subscriptions, and long-term product supportProtect consumers from monopoly, fraud, manipulation, and abusive contractual practices

Electrify major railway corridors and modernize freight infrastructureRestore passenger rail service to smaller cities and underserved regionsDevelop regional passenger rail and high-speed rail where population, geography, and demand justify itIntegrate freight rail, ports, manufacturing centers, and industrial policy into a coherent national transportation strategyIncrease funding for buses, rail, and other public transportation to reduce unnecessary automobile dependenceRequire transportation planning to accommodate pedestrians, bicycles, transit, automobiles, and people with disabilitiesEncourage walkable towns and cities rather than requiring development to revolve exclusively around automobile infrastructure

Establish federal financing, loan guarantees, revolving funds, and competitive grants to expand construction of modest starter homes and affordable rental housing by private, nonprofit, cooperative, state, and local developersSupport the adaptive reuse of suitable abandoned buildings, offices, malls, industrial properties, and other underused structures for residential development through grants, financing, and tax incentivesRepeal the Faircloth Amendment and permit expansion of public and social housingProhibit or severely restrict large institutional corporations from accumulating existing single-family homes and residential neighborhoods as speculative assetsEncourage individual and family homeownership over institutional ownership of residential propertyRelax unnecessarily restrictive zoning, permitting, and land-use regulations that prevent construction of affordable housingPermit duplexes, triplexes, accessory dwelling units, mixed-use development, and other appropriate forms of incremental housingPromote environmentally responsible construction, including passive homes, green roofs, energy efficiency, and durable building practicesSupport community land trusts, housing cooperatives, and locally accountable housing initiatives

Repeal the McCarran-Ferguson Act to restore fair competition in health insurance and pharmaceutical marketsNegotiate pharmaceutical and hospital prices where monopoly conditions prevent meaningful market competitionReform medical patent protections to prevent unnecessarily prolonged monopolies while preserving genuine incentives for medical innovationEncourage competition and generic production to reduce pharmaceutical pricesExpand federal funding to ensure every student has access to free and healthy school mealsPromote physical health and well-being as a national priorityStrengthen physical education in schools and support voluntary organizations encouraging fitness, recreation, athletics, and physical development

Maintain a strong but fiscally responsible social safety net centered upon dignity, independence, family stability, and genuine needMake raising children, obtaining housing, receiving healthcare, and pursuing education or skilled training more affordableSupport maternity, childbirth, infancy, and family formation as matters of legitimate public concernSupport locally administered, cooperative, nonprofit, and community-based childcareMake higher education and skilled vocational formation more affordable through public support, apprenticeships, and service-based assistanceFavor social policies that restore independence and participation rather than creating permanent dependency

Expand opportunities for young and beginning farmers and encourage intergenerational farm successionStrengthen farmers' markets, cooperatives, food hubs, local processors, and farm-to-institution purchasingEncourage schools, hospitals, and other public institutions to purchase locally and regionally produced food where practicalInvest in shared cold storage, processing, transportation, packaging, and other infrastructure needed by small producersSupport local and regional food-processing and distribution networks so that farmers are not wholly dependent upon a small number of national intermediariesTreat domestic food security as an essential component of national sovereignty, maintaining sufficient national capacity in strategically essential agricultural products and inputsStrengthen and modernize the Conservation Reserve Program to restore highly erodible, marginal, and environmentally sensitive land while preserving productive farmland and working grasslands

Accelerate the deployment of Generation III+ reactors and small modular reactors, support research and commercialization of Generation IV technologies, and expand domestic nuclear fuel and component productionProvide incentives for nuclear development and continue phasing out fossil-fuel generationPreserve national energy independence while modernizing the electrical gridProtect clean water, healthy soils, forests, productive farmland, wildlife habitat, and other natural resourcesRestore a modern Civilian Conservation Corps to provide employment and training in conservation, forestry, trails, ecological restoration, disaster mitigation, and public-land improvementEncourage recycling, composting, reuse, repair, and other practices that reduce unnecessary wasteReconcile environmental stewardship with productive agriculture, industry, energy abundance, and national development rather than treating them as inherently incompatible

Strengthen families, neighborhoods, voluntary associations, civic organizations, local institutions, and other foundations of community lifeProtect legitimate regional and local customs from cultural homogenization while maintaining a shared American high culture and constitutional allegianceSupport local arts, historic preservation, museums, festivals, public spaces, local journalism, and cultural institutionsPromote civic education, constitutional literacy, public service, physical development, and participation in community affairsEncourage the restoration of third places and institutions where citizens regularly encounter one another outside work and homePromote dignity, restraint, courtesy, competence, and decorum in public life without imposing sectarian moral conformity

Establish comprehensive protections for personal data and digital privacyRestrict indiscriminate government and corporate surveillanceProtect citizens against the commercial sale or government acquisition of sensitive personal information without appropriate legal safeguardsRequire transparency and meaningful human review when consequential government decisions are made through automated systemsEncourage artificial intelligence and automation where they improve human productivity and welfare while resisting unnecessary replacement of human workersStrengthen cybersecurity, domestic technological capacity, and American control over critical information infrastructureSupport independent local journalism, media literacy, and a healthier information environment

Protect privacy, due process, freedom of conscience, expression, association, and other constitutional libertiesMaintain firm and effective enforcement against violent crime while emphasizing proportionality, accountability, and rehabilitation where appropriateOppose indiscriminate mass surveillance and unnecessary expansion of the security stateRequire appropriate judicial oversight of government searches and acquisition of sensitive personal dataProtect lawful private conduct while recognizing a legitimate public interest in reasonable standards of public decency and protection of children

Maintain effective federal control of America's borders and a uniform national immigration systemFavor orderly legal immigration calibrated to national economic needs, labor conditions, security, and the country's capacity for successful integrationPrevent immigration from being exploited to suppress American wages, undermine organized labor, or provide employers with a permanently vulnerable workforceRequire meaningful civic assimilation, constitutional literacy, and allegiance to the United States as components of naturalizationPromote integration into a common American civic and high-cultural framework while allowing compatible ancestral, religious, regional, and local traditions to flourishMaintain lawful humanitarian protections while preserving border control and congressional authority over immigration policy

Pursue an independent and restrained foreign policy centered upon American sovereignty, security, diplomacy, and legitimate national interestsReject unnecessary interventionism, regime-change wars, permanent foreign entanglements, and subordination of American policy to foreign governmentsRepeal indefinite post-9/11 Authorizations for Use of Military Force and restore Congress's constitutional authority over the initiation and authorization of sustained military actionStrengthen enforcement of congressional war powers so presidents cannot circumvent the requirement for authorization through indefinite unilateral military operationsPreserve the President's legitimate constitutional authority as Commander in Chief to respond to immediate threats while preventing that authority from becoming a substitute for congressional authorization of warMaintain a strong national defense sufficient to defend American territory, sovereignty, citizens, and legitimate interestsEngage constructively in diplomacy and international commerce without surrendering American political or economic independence

Require agencies operating major payment programs to publish annual improper-payment rates, causes, corrective actions, and progress toward reducing themStrengthen Inspectors General, the Government Accountability Office, and other genuinely independent auditing institutions rather than creating duplicative political bureaucraciesImprove lawful information sharing between agencies to identify deceased recipients, duplicate claims, ineligible payments, fictitious entities, and other clearly erroneous transactionsExpand the use of modern data analysis for fraud detection while requiring human review, due process, privacy protections, and meaningful avenues of appealRequire stronger verification and auditing for federal contractors and recipients of large grantsPursue recovery of fraudulent and erroneous payments where recovery is legally and economically practicalImpose meaningful civil and criminal penalties on organized fraud, deliberate contractor overbilling, bribery, and intentional misuse of federal fundsRequire regular performance reviews of major federal programs and recommend consolidation, restructuring, or termination when programs persistently fail their statutory purposesConduct periodic review of deductions, exclusions, credits, preferential rates, and other tax expenditures to determine whether their public benefits continue to justify their costPreserve tax provisions that demonstrably encourage productive domestic investment, family stability, ordinary homeownership, work, and legitimate national-development objectivesAim to reduce or eliminate special tax preferences that primarily reward economic rent-seeking, tax avoidance, or politically privileged interests without corresponding national benefitIntroduce a corporate tax system that requires profitable corporations to contribute fairly while preserving strong incentives for domestic capital investment, manufacturing, research, and expansionImplement stronger enforcement against deliberate tax evasion, abusive shelters, and artificial shifting of income designed principally to escape lawful taxationConsideration of dedicated social-insurance contributions where a major permanent universal benefit genuinely requires a dedicated funding source, with the cost plainly disclosed to the public rather than hidden through borrowingImplement carefully designed health-related excise taxes as supplementary revenue where taxation also addresses identifiable public costs, while recognizing that such taxes cannot finance the entire social safety netImplement strategic tariffs where justified by national security, industrial capacity, reciprocity, unfair trade practices, or dangerous foreign dependence

Prohibit ownership or long-term leasing of strategic land by hostile foreign governments, state-controlled entities, and companies based in designated adversary countriesRequire federal approval and acreage limits for foreign ownership of farmland, forests, rangeland, major water rights, and other sensitive landBan covered foreign ownership near military installations, critical infrastructure, sensitive government facilities, and other strategic sitesTreat long-term leases as equivalent to ownershipApply stricter rules to foreign governments, sovereign wealth funds, and state-owned enterprises than to private foreign investorsRequire divestment of prohibited holdings where necessary and impose penalties for concealment, unlawful acquisition, or evasionEstablish federal minimum standards while allowing states to adopt stricter protections