Planks

Planks are the current-era policy levers we propose to move the outcomes. Each is tagged with the outcomes it serves, the principle behind it, and a review trigger — the conditions that would make us revisit it. A plank that stops moving its outcome is a candidate for sunset.

Most planks are open drafts — that's deliberate and transparent. Shaping and prioritizing them with members is on the roadmap; for now this is where the thinking is written down in the open.

Party Planks System — what we're building show progress

The tools that will let people read the platform, say what matters most, see how they and the candidates line up, and ultimately help shape the planks themselves. Built in the open, in parallel with the rest of the roadmap. Here's where each piece stands.

PFE-0 Read the platform 3/3

Goal: Anyone can browse and search the planks — no account needed

  • Every plank shown with its position, principle, outcomes, and review trigger
  • Filter planks by outcome and by principle
  • Search planks; link straight to any plank
PFE-1 Members & what matters 0/4

Goal: People can join and tell us which planks matter most — and we surface where left and right already agree

  • Member accounts (email to start; stronger verification later)
  • Rank which planks matter most to you
  • See what everyone prioritizes, overall
  • Surface cross-party agreement — where right- and left-leaning members converge
PFE-2 Your alignment 0/2

Goal: See how your own positions line up with the platform

  • State your position on each plank
  • "Your alignment with the platform" view
PFE-3 Candidates & scorecards 0/3

Goal: See how candidates from both parties align with the platform — and with you

  • Map candidates to planks (voting records + questionnaires)
  • "How does this candidate align — with the platform, and with me?"
  • Public legislator scorecards against the active platform
PFE-4 Shape the planks 0/4

Goal: The community proposes, debates, and amends the planks — Wikipedia-style, with vetted stewards

  • Propose new planks and positions
  • Vote to elevate proposals
  • Steward review and editorial workflow
  • A real amendment process for changing the platform

Filter planks

  1. A combination of zoning preemption, supply incentives, and tax treatment so the housing-cost burden falls. Specific instruments still being drafted.

    Serves
    Housed Workforce
    Principle
    Balance
    Review trigger
    Median housing burden sustainably falls below 30% for 5+ years, or a better metric replaces the 30% threshold.
  2. Agricultural policy, antitrust on food processors and grocers, and wage floors such that basic groceries stay within 10% of income. Draft.

    Serves
    Fed Workforce
    Principle
    Balance
    Review trigger
    To be defined — the evidence that would change the 10% threshold.
  3. Public funding through whatever level is required to be globally competitive; free at the point of use; rebalanced toward outcomes voters actually want. Draft.

    Serves
    Educated Workforce
    Principle
    Balance
    Review trigger
    To be defined.
  4. Comprehensive access; eliminate medical bankruptcy. Mechanism (single-payer, multi-payer with cost caps, or hybrid) still being drafted.

    Serves
    Healthy Workforce
    Principle
    Balance
    Review trigger
    To be defined.
  5. Executives of companies deemed critical to daily American life or national strategic capability are personally accountable for: deceptive or extractive practices against the public; refusal to invest in strategic capabilities solely on profitability grounds; hoarding or degrading natural or commercial resources; selling products a reasonable person would find materially harmful.

    Serves
    Accountable Critical Industries
    Principle
    Accountability
    Review trigger
    Open — operational definition of "critical," and the enforcement mechanism (criminal / civil / regulatory clawback / a new instrument).
  6. Vigorous antitrust enforcement, including in industries where consolidation has produced extractive pricing power (food, healthcare, housing, tech). Draft.

    Serves
    Housed Workforce Fed Workforce Healthy Workforce Accountable Critical Industries
    Principle
    Balance
    Review trigger
    To be defined.
  7. Lobbying restrictions, post-government employment cooldowns, and mandatory disclosure of all meetings and contacts between officials and registered lobbyists. Draft.

    Serves
    Clean Government
    Principle
    Accountability Transparency
    Review trigger
    To be defined.
  8. A definition of "reasonable" tax policy — progressive structure, closing specific loopholes, a simplified code. Still being drafted.

    Serves
    Housed Workforce Fed Workforce Educated Workforce Healthy Workforce
    Principle
    Balance
    Review trigger
    To be defined.
  9. Invest in strategic infrastructure and industrial capacity even when private-sector profitability isn't there. Open question: federal board seats on companies deemed critical to daily American life or strategic capability — does any peer country (China, Norway, Singapore, France) do this in a form worth borrowing?

    Serves
    Strategic Capability
    Principle
    Balance
    Review trigger
    To be defined.
  10. Strengthen FARA enforcement, restrict foreign-aligned ownership in strategic sectors, and expand disclosure of foreign-source funding to think tanks, NGOs, and political activity. Draft.

    Serves
    Sovereign Politics
    Principle
    Balance Transparency
    Review trigger
    To be defined.