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The principles in the following Acts lay the foundation for opportunity, security, and dignity for every American. They do not solve every problem but set the stage for lasting reform.

The 11 Acts are:

1. Social Security Protection & Fair Contribution Act
2. Safe & Just Communities Act
3. Economic Security & Human Dignity Act
4. Family Wealth & Economic Prosperity Act
5. Fair Taxation & Economic Balance Act
6. National Security & Public Lands Act
7. Senior Security & Dignity Act
8. Living Wage & Economic Fairness Act
9. Housing Affordability & Community Stability Act
10. American Democracy & Accountability Act
11. Education & Opportunity for All Act

Together, we can restore the American Dream. Your voice. Your vote. Your action.

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Social Security is the single most effective anti-poverty program in American history. For millions of Americans, it is the difference between stability and poverty in old age. When high earners stop paying into the system early in the year, everyone else carries the burden. Fair contributions protect benefits without cutting them — ensuring today’s workers and tomorrow’s retirees can rely on a promise they paid into. 

• Replace arbitrary balanced budget demands with responsible, just fiscal policy: expanding revenue through fair progressive taxation and closing corporate loopholes.
• Make Social Security solvent by eliminating the income cap on payroll taxes (currently ~$168k in 2025), and taxing pass-through income like regular wages are taxed.
• Restore public confidence by tying spending to measurable outcomes in public health, education, and infrastructure.
• Ensure that budgeting reflects the general welfare mandate of the U.S. Constitution’s Preamble and Article I, Section 8.

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Everyone wants to feel safe where they live, work, and raise a family. But safety breaks down when systems are unfair, unaccountable, or disconnected from communities. This Act matters because it focuses on prevention, fairness, and trust. These are the things proven to actually reduce crime and strengthen neighborhoods instead of policies that are costly, divisive, and ineffective. The policies must:

• Invest in community safety through proven public health approaches: violence interruption, mental health response teams, and restorative justice.
• Ensure local law enforcement have the training and tools necessary to keep our communities safe using a community-oriented policing focus. 
• Protect democracy and citizen safety by ensuring law enforcement are treated as publicly accountable agents of democratic self-governance.
• Focus funding on public services that prevent crime: housing, mental health treatment, substance misuse treatment, education, and jobs.
• Uphold the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments, ensuring equal protection under law, due process, and freedom from unreasonable searches, excessive force, or cruel punishment.

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Most Americans are one illness, job loss, or family emergency away from financial crisis.

Economic security allows people to take care of themselves, care for loved ones, and participate fully in society. When security and dignity are protected, people are healthier, more productive, and less reliant on emergency systems that cost everyone more. We need a strong infrastructure in our nation to protect our freedom and economic security. The policies must:

Economic Security

• Recognize economic security as essential to exercising constitutional freedoms and living with dignity, in alignment with the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
• Reimagine government-provided welfare services to empower families: removing barriers to assistance, ending lifetime benefit caps, and rewarding part-time and care work.
• Introduce a Federal Job Guarantee pilot and supports community-led workforce programs. 
• Increase the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC).

Infrastructure for the People

• Public investment in roads, bridges, water systems, broadband, and clean energy.
• Ensures rural and underserved communities are prioritized.
• Local hiring preferences and union jobs for federal infrastructure projects.

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For decades, families were able to build modest wealth through steady work, savings, and homeownership. That path has eroded. That path has eroded. This Act matters because it restores the idea that work should lead somewhere — giving families the tools to build stability, pass opportunity to their children, and weather economic shocks without falling behind. The policies must:

• Uphold the spirit of the Ninth Amendment, affirming unenumerated rights like the right to raise a family with dignity and economic stability.
• Ensure taxation meets the standards of equal protection and due process, ensuring no class of Americans is systematically privileged or penalized in violation of constitutional protections.
• Raise the federal minimum wage gradually to its inflation-adjusted 1970s value and indexes it to inflation going forward. Required for large corporations who meet certain high profit requirements.
• Create provisions so that small businesses are not harmed by the wage increase. Explores and provides funding support for small businesses to meet this wage through tax incentives as well as alternative funding sources. 
• Support paid family leave, affordable childcare, and flexible work policies.
• Strengthen the middle class through targeted homeownership and business development programs.
• Rebuild the middle class by reducing federal reliance on regressive taxes (like payroll and sales taxes).
• End tax loopholes that allow corporation profit shifting and US tax avoidance.

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When the tax system favors those with the most power, everyone else pays more, either through higher taxes, fewer services, or higher costs of living. This Act matters because fair taxes fund the services people rely on, such as roads, schools, healthcare, retirement security, while preventing wealth from being siphoned upward at the expense of the middle class. This Act reclaims the promise of the American Dream by rebuilding the middle class, ensuring the wealthiest and largest corporations pay their fair share just as people must, and protecting working families and small businesses from an unfair and unbalanced economic system. Free markets only work when everyone plays by the same rules. The policies must:

• Ensure taxation meets the standards of equal protection and due process, ensuring no class of Americans is systematically privileged or penalized in violation of constitutional
• Rebalance the tax system to ensure fair taxation for all, reinvestment in American communities and protection for workers, families, and small businesses. 
• Reestablish a progressive tax structure:
  • Billionaires pay at least a minimum effective tax rate of 25%
  • Ends the carried interest loophole
  • Taxes capital gains like wages for capital gains income above $1 million per year. This would affect less than an estimated 1% of the US population. 
  • Rebuilds the middle class by reducing federal reliance on regressive taxes (like payroll and sales taxes).
  • Ends tax loopholes that allow corporation profit shifting and US tax avoidance.

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America’s public lands, water, and natural resources belong to everyone, not just those who can profit from them. Protecting them preserves jobs, food and water security, recreation, and a livable environment for future generations. Environmental protection isn’t abstract — it affects health, cost of living, and national resilience. The policies must:

Protecting the American People’s Health and Security:

• Redefine national security to include climate preparedness, public health infrastructure, and supply chain sovereignty.
• End endless wars and wasteful defense spending while investing in more jobs and lower energy prices with clean energy independence and domestic manufacturing.
• Strengthen international alliances focused on democracy, climate, and anti-authoritarian resistance.
• Reinforce the constitutional principle of civilian oversight of the military under Article II and Congress’s war powers under Article I.

Ensuring a Livable Planet:

• Take action to decrease the impact of CO₂ emissions on our communities caused by the leading companies contributing to the problem.
• Work with companies identified as having historically been responsible for approximately 80% of global CO₂ emissions to create pathways to decrease those emissions and reverse the harm caused. 
• Hold the companies accountable to meet new requirements
• Support innovative solutions and job creation proposed to decrease the emissions and resolve the harm already caused by the emissions.

Protecting Public Lands and Creating Jobs:

• Recognize that public lands are national treasures and must be managed and made resilient for future generations.
• Support legislation that ensures public lands remain accessible and conserved for all Americans.
• Emphasize the importance of preserving these lands for their natural, cultural, and ecological value, safeguarding them from exploitation.
• Support legislation creating jobs with public lands and job training programs for these jobs. 
• Support legislation establishing new public lands for all to enjoy, acknowledging the increased use of and pressure on existing public lands.

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After a lifetime of work, no one should fear poverty, medical bankruptcy, or neglect.

This Act matters because it ensures seniors can age with dignity, independence, and security — reducing strain on families while honoring the contributions older Americans have made to society. The policies must:

• Advance the constitutional promise of equal protection for all, regardless of age, ensuring seniors are not marginalized by economic policy or rural location.
• Secure Social Security and Medicare by:
  • Lifting income caps on FICA taxes so that all Americans pay their fair share for Social Security and Medicare
  • Allowing Medicare to negotiate all prescription drug prices
  • Expanding dental, hearing, and vision coverage
• Provide long-term care support and funding for aging in place. Supports states to make aging in place and aging care affordable and available for families and individuals who need it. 

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Work should provide stability, self-reliance, and a fair shot at the American Dream. Anyone who works full time should be able to pay rent, buy groceries, and live with dignity. Americans should be free to stand up for fair treatment at work without intimidation or retaliation. When wages don’t keep up with the cost of living, people work harder and fall further behind. This Act matters because fair wages reduce poverty, stabilize families, strengthen local economies, and reduce reliance on public assistance — benefiting workers, businesses, and taxpayers alike. The policies must:

• Protect the First Amendment right of association, affirming that labor organizing is a constitutional expression of free speech and assembly.
• Link minimum wage to productivity growth, restoring the balance of economic gains between workers and capital.
• Crack down on wage theft, misclassification, and “gig” economy exploitation.
• Recognize that unionization of employees is better for businesses, workers, and families, as American history and experience has proven.
• Close loopholes that prevent collective bargaining and the ability to unionize.

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Homeownership should be within reach for families, not priced out by business speculation. Families should be able to buy homes before corporations and hedge funds do. Housing costs are now one of the biggest financial burdens Americans face. When homes are treated as speculative assets, families are priced out, communities fracture, and homelessness rises. This Act puts people before profits and restores housing as a foundation of stability and opportunity. The policies must:

• Protect the right to privacy and property as understood in the Fourth and Fifth Amendments, while ensuring the housing market functions for public good, not corporate extraction. Recognizes affordable housing is essential to realizing the American Dream and ensures no American, from first time homeowners to seniors, pays more than 30% of income on rent or mortgage.
• Ban corporations, hedge funds and REITs from buying single-family homes and bulk housing for investment speculation.
• Institute a speculation tax on short-term real estate flipping and out-of-area corporate landlords.
• Expand community land trusts, public housing, and federal down-payment assistance.

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Secure, fair elections protect the legitimacy of our constitutional republic. Every eligible American should be able to vote easily and have their vote counted. The right to vote is the right from which all others flow.

Elected officials should serve the people, not themselves or their donors. Public office is a public trust, not a profit center. Politicians should not get rich off the laws they pass. When people feel their voices don’t matter, trust in government collapses. This Act matters because it protects the right to vote, reduces corruption, and ensures elected officials answer to the public — not donors or special interests. A functioning democracy is the foundation for every other reform. The policies must:

• Impose term limits for Supreme Court Justices (18 years) and limits on congressional stock ownership.
• Institute mandatory transparency for all campaign contributions.
• Require full financial transparency from elected officials and Supreme Court Justices, and bans members of Congress from profiting from legislation they pass. Consequences for violating these provisions will be clear and enforced.
• Establish independent redistricting commissions to ensure districts reflect the will of the people, not partisan political interests. Independent redistricting commissions are proven to be most effective at accurately reflecting populations. 
• Protect the fundamental right to vote by enforcing the Voting Rights Act, establishing automatic and same-day registration, and making Election Day a national holiday.
• Reaffirm the right to vote as a core constitutional right under the Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses, as well as the Fifteenth, Nineteenth, Twenty-Fourth, and Twenty-Sixth Amendments. 
• Reaffirm the fundamental, constitutional right to vote guaranteed by the Fifteenth, Nineteenth, Twenty-Fourth, and Twenty-Sixth Amendments. Opposes any legislative or administrative act that seeks to abridge that right based, including those based on race, gender, age, income, or geography.
• Restore enforcement provisions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, ensuring no state can enact laws that disproportionately disenfranchise voters of color, low-income, or rural communities.
• Block efforts to suppress the vote through gerrymandering, voter roll purges, intimidation, ID laws, or disinformation.

Accountability for Corporate Subsidies:

American jobs should come before corporate offshoring and foreign tax shelters. Companies shouldn’t ship jobs overseas and still expect tax breaks at home. If you profit from America, you owe America.

• End publicly-funded corporate subsidies that do not benefit the public by requiring full public transparency and public accountability for all tax breaks, subsidies, and federal contracts awarded to private corporations.
• Require a “public benefit test” for all corporate tax incentives and government contracts, ensuring they serve the American public, not shareholder profits for a few.

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Education should strengthen families, grow local economies, and prepare the next generation to lead. An educated people are the foundation of a free and prosperous nation that benefits all. Education should help people build a future, not bury them in debt. Education shapes earning potential, civic engagement, and economic growth. When education becomes unaffordable, opportunity shrinks and inequality deepens. This Act ensures education remains a pathway to advancement — not a lifelong financial burden — benefiting individuals and the country as a whole. The policies must: 

Investing in Public Education:

• Recognize that public investments in education can spur equitable growth, pay for themselves through increased tax revenues, and create jobs for a stronger economic recovery.
• Acknowledge access to quality education breaks the cycle of poverty, empowers all individuals, and strengthens entire communities.

Educating for Healthy Communities:

• Ensure free quality public K-12 education as a fundamental right and a critical investment in the nation's present and future.
• Commit to making public education free or affordable, from early childhood through higher educational opportunities.
• Support high school education programs that provide students with the skills to enter the job market as a skilled worker upon high school graduation.
• Address disparities in education funding to ensure equitable access to quality education for all students, regardless of socioeconomic status and geographic location.
• Emphasize that investing in education leads to stronger economic growth, reduced inequality, and a more informed and engaged citizenry, creating safer and more prosperous communities for all.

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