Project 2028 or A New Contract for America

America is in a Political Revolution. A New Kind of Democrat Needs to Win It.

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A political revolution is already happening in America. The question is who wins it.

Trump offers demolition. Corporate Dems offer "normal." We need an alternative.

A draft of a “Contract for America” that asks candidates and orgs to sign on.

The Revolution Is Here We Are Losing

The political revolution has begun. Establishment Democrats have their heads in the sand.

Like most revolutions, MAGA's is led by a vocal minority. United, we can beat them. I see 2026 and 2028 as opportunities for an alternative to both MAGA and a return to "normal" to compete and win.

The Tea Party, MAGA, and Trump understand what too many Democrats refuse to believe: people are desperate for change. Individuals and families are struggling to afford the basics of the American Dream. Housing, healthcare, education, childcare now require a lifetime of debt if they can be acquired at all.

This economic decline has created fertile ground for our worst tendencies to bloom. Racism, bigotry, scapegoating of those with no power, and authoritarianism are all on the rise.

Still Democrats believe that Trump is the source of our problems. They envision resisting him as not only a winning campaign strategy but a solution to many of our problems. They look away when confronted with the dysfunction of our institutions or the failure of our economic structure. There is also a refusal to acknowledge our party's role in these failures—to see how our attempts at triangulation and commitment to neoliberal ideas put America on this path.

Trump is tapping into real anger about real problems. His solutions are shit. Tear it all down and let strongmen rule. Privatize it all. Get paid. Deport, attack, bully, and pressure everyone for his own power and financial gain not ours.

So far the Democratic response has been attempts to stop the bleeding. To hold the line. And ask American to vote for a return to the "normal" that created Trump and MAGA.

I think that is insufficient. It’s not a vision. A return to normal cannot win in a revolutionary moment.

We need an alternative. Here's mine: Build our way out.

But let's be honest about what won't work: Even if Democrats eke out a win in '28, even if we get slim majorities—at best it would be another round of massive bills that sound impressive but change nothing in your actual life.

We saw this movie before. Democrats passed $1.2 trillion in infrastructure. Where were the transformational results? Trillions in COVID relief. Why were people broker than before? Slim majorities mean every corporate Democrat gets a veto. It means watered-down half-measures that consultants feast on while working families get crumbs.

Now Trump's back. MAGA owns Congress. They're moving fast to tear everything down. When we take power back—and we will—the choice won't be between winning and losing. It'll be between winning small and accomplishing nothing again, or building the kind of power that actually transforms America.

The Three Crises Nobody Wants to Admit

Everyone is talking about "abundance." We need more housing, more energy, more healthcare, more manufacturing. They're right that we need more. But they're wrong about why we don't have it.

It's not just regulations holding us back. It's that the game is rigged, and our capacity to build has been hollowed out.

1. The Rigged Game

Productivity has soared since the 1970s, but wages stayed flat. We've witnessed a massive transfer of wealth—$79 trillion—from working families to the top 1%. In essential sectors, money meant for health and learning is sucked up by administrative waste, excessive profits, and bureaucracy.

For forty years, we prioritized finance over production. Big corporations often find it more profitable to buy back their own stock, merge with competitors, and hire consultants than to actually build new factories or infrastructure.

2. The Production Crisis

We simply don't make enough of what we need. Not enough housing where people need it. Not enough doctors and nurses. Not enough factories. Not enough clean energy infrastructure.

Scarcity drives prices through the roof.

3. The Capacity Crisis

We can't just spend our way out. Our ability to turn public investment into real results is broken. We passed a $1.2 trillion infrastructure law—enough to rebuild the original interstate highway system—yet it hasn't been transformational. We dump money into education, healthcare, and energy, and costs keep rising while results stagnate.

Why? Because the private sector we rely on often prefers to act as a consultant think tank rather than a productive entity. Our investment-to-return ratio is broken. The system is designed to extract, not build.

We cannot consult our way out. We must build our way out.

The Vision: We The People as Builders

When faced with existential threats, America has mobilized before. During World War II, we trained 30% of the workforce in two years to defeat fascism abroad. We built the arsenal of democracy.

Today, the threat is internal—economic collapse, democratic decay, climate catastrophe, authoritarian ambition. We need the same scale of mobilization, but this time building housing, healthcare, clean energy, and manufacturing capacity.

This requires a fundamental shift. When the market fails, when corporations price-gouge essentials, we must compete with something equally powerful: We the People, united through our government.

Not just regulate. Not just subsidize. Build directly.

We will create public options for healthcare, energy, and housing, and make them as reliable and widespread as the local post office. When private corporations fail to deliver, a public option will be there to serve the American people directly.

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The Strategy: Power or Nothing

Popular ideas don't become law without power. The scale of change we need requires more than slim margins.

Let's stop pretending. There is no bipartisan path forward with a movement hellbent on destroying government and dismantling democracy. They've told us who they are. They've shown us. It's time we believe them.

History is clear: America only transforms when one side wins decisively. The New Deal, Civil Rights, Social Security, Medicare—none of these happened through bipartisan compromise. They happened when Americans gave transformational leaders the supermajorities needed to deliver.

We don't need to reach across the aisle to people burning down the house. We need to build a movement powerful enough to rebuild it.

Our explicit goal: Build a movement strong enough to win supermajorities in the House and Senate, plus the Presidency.

This means candidates who understand their mission isn't the normal careerism of Congress. Their mission is to build power—working as a unified bloc, recruiting relentlessly, staying in "Mission Mode" until we can deliver.

A NEW CONTRACT FOR AMERICA

We must fix three fundamental things: Affordability, Accountability, and Democracy.

I. Make Life Affordable (Build and Compete)

We will attack the affordability crisis by building supply directly when markets fail.

1. Energy Independence Through All-of-the-Above Production: Manhattan Project-scale mobilization for energy: wind, solar, nuclear, geothermal, tidal, batteries. Direct public power production and distribution to ensure abundance, reliability, and independence while creating millions of union jobs.

2. Rebuild American Manufacturing: Direct government investment and production to restore manufacturing capacity. Increase manufacturing as share of GDP. Make things here again and build the 21st-century infrastructure our country needs.

3. Restore Worker Power Structurally: Pass the PRO Act and beyond: card-check recognition, first-contract arbitration, sectoral bargaining, repeal all "Right-to-Work" laws. Workers built this country; they deserve to share in its prosperity.

4. Healthcare Worker Corps & Public Clinics: Train 1 million healthcare workers with debt-free education. Build clinics everywhere—healthcare as common as post offices.

5. Public Drug Manufacturing: Government production of insulin, antibiotics, cancer drugs at cost. Stop letting people die because they can't afford medication.

6. Housing Production Authority: Government builds quality housing to compete with developers. Break the cycle of underproduction and price-gouging.

II. Hold Power Accountable (End Impunity)

Faith in government is dead because the powerful never face consequences.

7. Real Ethics Reform: Ban congressional/judicial stock trading. End the revolving door. Scale penalties with power—steal billions, face real time.

8. A Public Works Accountability Office: Create a new, powerful government agency with one mission: to ensure public money is used to build things, not be wasted by consultants, lawyers, and corporate middlemen. This office will conduct real-time audits and have the power to claw back funds from failed projects and fraudulent contractors.

9. Break Up Monopolies: Aggressive antitrust in media, finance, healthcare, tech. Prosecute price-fixing. Same justice for bankers as baristas.

10. Reclaim Captured Agencies: Clean house at the Fed, SEC, FDA. Remove officials who serve Wall Street, Big Ag, Big Pharma, or any other corporate interest over working families.

III. Fix Democracy to Govern

We need a democracy that delivers results, not theater.

11. End Gerrymandering & Protect Voting: Independent redistricting. Election Day holiday. Automatic registration. Restore and expand Voting Rights Act.

12. Congress Does Its Job: Take back war powers, spending authority, oversight from presidents and judges. End the filibuster for democracy reforms.

13. Equal Protection & Campaign Finance: Codify rights so judges can't strip them. Public financing of elections. Overturn Citizens United.

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THE PLEDGE

Building Power (2026-2028 Mission):

• Work as unified bloc to build supermajorities

• Support the aligned opposition to any incumbent or candidate—regardless of party—who blocks these bills

• Refuse corporate PAC money from opposers

• Vote only for leadership supporting this agenda

Using Power:

• Impeach corrupt judges/justices

• Remove Fed governors serving Wall Street

• Defund countries committing genocide

• Never trade stocks while in office

Transparency:

• Support complete stock trading ban

• 72-hour bill review minimum

Break these pledges? Face a primary.

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The Power Math

Phase 1: Building the Bloc (2026)

House:

• 5 seats = Block worst ideas and leadership

• 10 seats = Control negotiations

• 20 seats = Control budgets

• 35+ seats = Set agenda

Senate: Even small bloc forces votes, blocks nominees, changes conversation

Phase 2: Supermajorities (2028+)

• Simple Majorities: Pass core economic agenda

• 60 Senate: Override filibusters, pass labor/democracy reforms

• 67 Senate + 290 House:

  • Impeach/remove corrupt officials

  • Constitutional amendments

  • Restructure captured institutions

  • Transform the economy

Recruit builders—union leaders, teachers, manufacturers—not career politicians.

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What Do You Think?

This framework merges an economic vision—building our way out—with political strategy—organizing supermajorities.

I need your input:

• Does the three-crisis diagnosis (Rigged Game, Production, Capacity) resonate?

• Is direct government building the right alternative vision?

• Are the energy/manufacturing/labor commitments clear?

• What's missing?

This isn't ideology. It's about building a country that works for people who work.

The revolution is here. Only one side has a plan. Time to change that.