The American Union is a union of swing voters, willing to ignore divisive partisan politics and work together to fix problems in the United States. When 3.5% of Americans unite for the 2024 election, our votes will decide which party controls the US House, Senate, and Oval Office.
With this leverage, we can bring the politicians and parties to the negotiating table. In exchange for our winning bloc of votes, Washington will have to deliver real solutions before the election—or face the consequences on November 5. Read more about this innovative strategy in this blog post.
An American Union is cooperative democracy
Rational adults can disagree without fighting, and we can find solutions if we can agree on our goals. Luckily, the Framers left us a list of duties in the Constitution: Establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty, to ourselves and our posterity.
When we get back to basics, we can end poverty, end mass incarceration, and end the endless wars.
Congress is the problem.
We can help.
Gridlock in Washington means nothing gets done—in all of 2023, Congress only sent 27 bills to the president. Frequently, the only reason they act is to avoid a major crisis, and when they do it is to pass large pieces of legislation.
Guided by our constitutional duties, the American Union has drafted model legislation to address many issues in our country. Congress has a choice; act before the November election, or face the consequences in the ballot box. Peace is possible, and so the legislation is named for the presidential candidates who can shepherd it through Congress: the Trump–Biden Peace Plan.
The Trump–Biden Peace Plan gets us back to the Constitution: it will
Establish justice [by reforming the criminal justice system]
Mass incarceration is a moral stain on our nation; some of the included reforms will:
- Promote peaceful policing by restricting no-knock warrants, reforming qualified immunity, and banning chokeholds
- End mandatory minimums, civil asset forfeiture, and the federal war on drugs
- Limit solitary confinement to 15 consecutive days
Insure domestic tranquility [with a truce on wedge issues]
The political parties use guns and abortions as wedge issues to make Americans fight; there’s a middle ground:
- Enact universal background checks for gun sales and ban bump stocks
- Establish a federal right to abortion through viability, and amend the Comstock Act
- Codify the Hyde amendment; no federal funds for abortion
- No changes or further restrictions on guns or abortion for 10 years
Provide for the common defense [and reduce the military-industrial complex]
The military-industrial complex is the standing army that the Framers feared. To promote peace in the world, we’ll:
- Reduce the military budget and our nuclear stockpile (and adopt a no-first strike policy)
- Phase out the use of landmines and ban killer robots
- Close some of our 800+ foreign military bases
Promote the general welfare [with the American Union Jobs Program]
Welfare has a specific definition: health, happiness, prosperity, and can be promoted with unconditional basic income (UBI)
- Everyone gets an American Union Job: UBI of $1,400/month for adults plus $467/kids
- There are no strings attached, just a reminder of our constitutional duties
- It comes with health benefits: a public option for health insurance frees us from employer-based coverage
- Eighteen weeks of paid family leave is included for anyone with employment
Secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity [by reforming government systems]
- Strengthen Social Security by raising payroll taxes on high-income earners
- End government shutdowns and the showdowns over raising the debt ceiling
- Increase funding for border security and for immigration courts
- Protect the environment with pollution fees on plastic and greenhouse gases.
There are 101 policies within the Trump–Biden Peace Plan (read more on this page) and no one is expected to like every single one of them. In 1787, none of the Framers liked everything in the Constitution, but they compromised because America was worth saving.
America is still worth saving and your help is needed! Become a basic member for 25¢/day ($7/month) and a good-faith pledge to vote together on November 5.