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The contract with the American people.
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The contract with the American people.

We must be using our constitution as it was intended as a living document and modernize our Constitution. our Constitution as it stated does not account for parties nor the control over the many in the country it allows. Along with removing party and accounting for our human nature to devolve into factions, there is another thing our Constitution does not account for and that is corporations and the ability for corporations to loophole our Constitution. The constitution says nothing it explicitly about them, Because in the 1700s Corporations didn't exist as they do now, yes you could argue there are some companies that where worldwide, but in that day, it was virtually impossible to control and buy up the systems of not only one country but multiple. In those days none of them could foresee a day when individual people people's wealth would outpace the entire GDP of a country. If we fail to modernize our constitution, we will continue to fall to the corporations little bit by little bit as they purchase the country out from underneath us, As they would like to say “legally.” What they fail to realize is that as the Constitution is a power vesting document with rights attached to it, any violation of those rights is a violation of the contract. therefore, making it null and void. Therefore, removing their right to rule. The Constitution in all reality is just contract law; We have allowed the individual branches of government to form in exchange for them protecting, providing for the common good of the American people, not our oppression.

We must never allow them to violate the contract with the American people.

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Repair of our Branches of Government, the Executive
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Repair of our Branches of Government, the Executive

As The shining city on the hill America has to do better, We cannot be committing war crimes. We must begin to restore the balances between our governments branches, impose the guardrails that were presumed to be there and restore the executive branch to its stated position under the Constitution, removing as many arbitrary concentrated powers as possible and old law. If we can do this, we can restore America to the path of greatness it once walked.

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Repair of our Branches of Government, The Supreme Court
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Repair of our Branches of Government, The Supreme Court

on that note we come to our definition of bribery which unfortunately for us means we have to involve Congress in repairing our definitions. We used to have quite strict stringent definitions of bribery and what counted as it, but over the years the supreme Court has slowly eroded that because they're taking bribes to be frank. You can just look back at the reporting of Justice Thomas and others to see that they are actually legitimately taking bribes. the easiest way to avoid allegation of impropriety is just by making the definition so broad that impropriety is almost unperceivable under law. as Americans we have to force Congress to change our definitions of bribery to be some of the strictest in the world. our penalties cannot just be civil; They must be criminal . if you're not afraid of being locked up, one you’re fool, two if you already have been bribed millions of dollars a $10,000 fine is not going stop you in any meaningful way. It simply becomes a cost of doing business.

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An update to the smoke filled rooms
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An update to the smoke filled rooms

As well this hybrid system would allow us to keep our favorite first across the finish line, vote first to 51%. We need to be adapting to the 21st century if you people don't want to deal with independent candidates. then you have to open up your primary and endorsement process and internal voting to allow as many people as many people as possible the opportunity to participate in the process. Rank choice voting can do just that because that is what we want as a democracy, as many people participating as possible, We do not want these smoke-filled backroom dick sucking contests. That has led to the entrenchment of politicians. People shouldn't go to work in Congress to die there, They should go to work in Congress to make the country a better place attempt there Ideas and move on.

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Proposed 29th Amendment:  Opinion, Polling Data, and Local Support
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Proposed 29th Amendment: Opinion, Polling Data, and Local Support

The proposed “29th Amendment” aims to modernize and strengthen American governance by addressing a range of issues—campaign finance, government transparency, digital rights, and social welfare. Unlike more narrowly focused amendments, it takes a comprehensive approach, reflecting widespread voter frustration with entrenched interests and outdated structures. This broad scope can be both an asset and a challenge. However, when looking at public sentiment, there is plenty of optimism about many of these reforms and how they might reinvigorate democracy.

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Gerrymandering an existential threat to democracy
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Gerrymandering an existential threat to democracy

 The correct response to a corrupt action should never ever be to copy the corrupted action, The correct response to a corrupt action is to rectify the corrupt action. Democrats have fought with imitation of the Republicans for too long and this is a practice they must stop. if people are to take them seriously as a political party. We need to be less reactionary; We need to be acting every moment. We need to be showing up regardless of the election year. Which is why we should invest in national redistricting laws that are neutral in nature. Because well yes States have the right to determine how elections are run, They do not have a right to determine how to disenfranchise people 401 political party or the other, Freedom of political affiliation to me is similar to freedom of religion and that it gives you the choice, The Liberty and the freedom of picking your party or not.

America is the land of freedom and Liberty for all regardless of political party.

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The NEXT President of the United States
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The NEXT President of the United States

 If we wish to restore the soul of the country that we all hold dear This is something we simply must do. We must not hold on to what George Washington would call the spirit of revenge. For that is what will undo America. We must continue to remember We are a union; We are the United States of America.

 There will be a time after Donald Trump and the Republicans, he is not forever.

You and me we are enough to see it through.

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The working-class shift,How COVID19 cost Democrats the Presidency
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The working-class shift,How COVID19 cost Democrats the Presidency

This is what largely accounts for the working-class shift, You take the uneven recovery with the inflationary pressure felt. somebody without a bachelor's degree would have been struggling at the time. Combined that with the messaging from the White House, along with an over focus on the middle class and not the working class. It is easy to see. Why, the shift in working people happened? Particularly low-income people who as illustrated by this graph had longer and more sustained job losses.

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Freedom of Religion We have forgotten
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Freedom of Religion We have forgotten

To work and build our own American dream, not having the American dream imposed upon us.

Our culture is the world, we have never been defined by religion, we have never been defined by class or  race. What has driven America is the struggle, the need for equality for all of us to be treated as equal as humanly possible. as unfortunate as it is there are some among us who would seek to see things become less equal, to see us fighting amongst ourselves. Because for them it's beneficial, they thrive, and we fight over their scraps. Americans have always deserved better than  that behavior, we revolted from a king for that kind of behavior. As Americans as our history has taught us, we should set aside our petty differences of religion. Focusing  instead on what similarities there are between all of the religions believe it or not they all do share commonalities. I'm quite often, the commonality are more frequent than the not.

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The unrepresented majority of America
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The unrepresented majority of America

To fix this country we must, hold our political leaders accountable, move to a public funding for elections and remove the ability ALL PAC spending, The problem with money in politics didn't start with citizens United It began in the 1970s after the Wealthy got sick of paying their fair share and decided we are not worth their money. So since the 1970s the wealthiest tax rate has continued to go down. As a result they have personally ran up the credit card of the country, for their decades of tax breaks. And they expect us to vimo off their debt, as if there's some sort of bad roommate who spent all their money and now needs a $50. At this point I'm calling for 90% tax rate on the top 1% not because they need to be penalized but because if we don't, The country will go bankrupt. But don't worry They got all the crypto in the world you'll need.

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Occupied Washington DC, Reunion day.
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Occupied Washington DC, Reunion day.

 There is however is one dividing line among the people of this country namely your tax bracket, The haves and Have not’s. The oligarchy class Is seeking the destruction of the Union, represented by Republicans Donald J. Trump and some right-wing Democrats. They seek to divide us on race, religion, humanity socioeconomic status and any other label they can stick on you.

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Gerrymandering not the correct path for America!
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Gerrymandering not the correct path for America!

the newest trend emerging, gerrymandering a state. Again they are limiting your freedom of choice and choosing which side gets to win, they are they're essentially eliminating freedom of choice. Instead of gerrymander you will no longer have the choice between a Democrat, a Republican or an independent. Regardless of where you fall in the Overton window your choice will be made for you. By designing districts to predetermine outcomes, politicians strip voters of real choice. Any leader who advocates gerrymandering   in their own state or someone else’s  is confessing they don’t believe in free and fair elections. They’re terrified of genuine competition because it threatens their jobs, their power and the comforts of elected office. Their rallying cry that “we must gerrymander everywhere or we won’t have fair elections” is a decades‑long misdirection meant to normalize this abuse.

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The Illusion of Choice: Overlapping Donors Between Centrist Democrats and Conservative Republicans
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The Illusion of Choice: Overlapping Donors Between Centrist Democrats and Conservative Republicans

In American politics, voters are often presented with two seemingly opposed options: Democrats and Republicans. Yet beneath the surface of partisan rhetoric lies a web of shared financial interests that binds key factions of both parties together. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the overlapping donor networks of centrist Democrats—often influenced by think tanks like Third Way—and conservative Republicans, many of whom align with the Heritage Foundation.

This report explores how shared donors, particularly wealthy individuals and corporate PACs, contribute to both Third Way-aligned Democrats and Heritage Foundation-backed Republicans. It reveals how such dual-sided giving shapes policy outcomes, mutes transformative change, and narrows the scope of political choice available to the American public.

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The Illusion of Choice: How Elite Networks Hijacked American Democracy
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The Illusion of Choice: How Elite Networks Hijacked American Democracy

We’ve all been told that America’s political divide is between left and right, Democrat and Republican, red and blue. But what if that’s just a distraction? What if the real divide isn’t horizontal, but vertical — between the powerful few at the top and the rest of us at the bottom?

As we dig into the connections between Bill Clinton, Donald Trump, Jeffrey Epstein, and the political ideology known as the “Third Way,” a disturbing pattern emerges: both major parties may have been co-opted by overlapping elite interests that maintain power through a carefully managed illusion of choice. This isn’t about conspiracy — it’s about structure, incentives, and the quiet machinery of influence.

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CCP Style Ban, tiktok
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CCP Style Ban, tiktok

This used to be a country of freedom, now both Partys just seem to seek control over you and me. Similar to that they used to have over the American people, what we hear what we see. they are more than likely losing control. I believe the reason that TikTok is banned by the CCP is they could not control it, so they banned it.

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The American Cyber Defense.
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The American Cyber Defense.

If America was to institute a new organization the ACD, The American Cyber Defense. This organization could act like the FBI investigating crimes that occur in the on-line realm

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