Draft Platform for 2028
A New America: Economic Justice, Peace, Democracy, and a Future for All
Programmatic document of the «Fighting Oligarchy» movement
March 2026
Preamble
The United States stands at a crossroads. After years of endless wars, a government that serves the few while the many struggle to survive, a political system captured by dark money, and a climate crisis that threatens everything we love, the American people have said enough.
This platform is the answer to that demand. It is not a document of tepid compromises or promises that vanish at the first sign of opposition. It is a governing program built from the grassroots, from unions, from neighborhoods, from the movements that have sustained the fight for justice for decades.
The vision we present here is bold because the circumstances demand it. We cannot gradually reform a system that is collapsing. We must rebuild from the foundations. Each of these proposals has been forged in the experience of those who have organized, resisted, and built power in their communities. They are not desk ideas; they are the fruit of real struggle.
Today, the «Fighting Oligarchy» movement has filled auditoriums in Utah, Idaho, Texas, and North Carolina. It has mobilized millions in more than 3,000 events across the country. It has trained more than 7,000 candidates for public office. It has shown that people are ready for real change. This platform is the institutional answer to that popular will.
I. A New Economic Contract: Work, Wages, and Power for Workers
Diagnosis
For decades, the U.S. economy has been designed to concentrate wealth at the top. Today, three billionaires hold more wealth than the bottom half of the country. Productivity has increased, but wages have stagnated. Millions of workers live paycheck to paycheck, a single illness away from ruin, and student debt crushes an entire generation.
The Trump administration deepened this crisis: tax cuts for the rich, deregulation that poisons our communities, and a war that has spiked gas prices while oil companies rake in record profits.
Proposals
1. Fair Wages for Home Care Workers Act
We
will codify into federal law the right to minimum wage and overtime pay
for more than 3 million home care workers—mostly women of color who
care for our elders and people with disabilities—making permanent the
protections the Trump administration tried to eliminate. This bill
already has the support of more than 70 House members and 18 senators,
as well as organizations such as SEIU, AFSCME, and the National Domestic
Workers Alliance.
2. Wealth Tax
We
will establish an annual tax on the assets of billionaires, with a
progressive rate applying to fortunes over $50 million. There can be no
functioning democracy while a few accumulate unchecked power while
millions sink.
3. Strategic Domestic Production Act
We
will require that all military spending on munitions, vehicles, and
weapons systems prioritize domestic production with local‑content
requirements. Defense contracts will include community reinvestment
clauses so that benefits return to the communities where factories are
located. Defense jobs must benefit workers, not just shareholders of
Lockheed Martin.
4. Worker Energy Shield
We
will create a permanent price‑stabilization mechanism: when the
international price of oil exceeds $80 per barrel, the federal
government will activate a direct consumer subsidy, financed by a
windfall‑profits tax on oil companies. While Exxon earns $25 billion in a
single quarter, workers cannot continue paying $4 a gallon.
II. Green New Deal 2.0: Climate, Jobs, and Justice
Diagnosis
The climate crisis is the existential threat of our time. Every year we delay action, the bill multiplies. But the energy transition cannot repeat the mistakes of the past: we cannot replace coal jobs with precarious employment. We need a program that transforms our economy from the ground up, creating millions of union jobs in renewable energy, resilient infrastructure, and sustainable agriculture.
Proposals
1. Green New Deal 2.0
An
expanded and deepened version of the original framework, with binding
decarbonization targets for 2035, massive investment in publicly owned
renewable energy, and job guarantees for workers displaced by the
transition.
2. AI Data Center Moratorium Act
We
will impose a pause on the expansion of artificial intelligence data
centers until their energy and environmental impacts are assessed. AI
cannot be developed at the expense of our electric grid and our climate.
3. End Fossil Fuel Subsidies
We
will eliminate the tax breaks and subsidies the government gives to
oil, gas, and coal companies—subsidies the Trump administration has
expanded—and redirect those resources to clean energy and communities
affected by pollution.
III. Medicare for All: Health Care as a Right, Not a Privilege
Diagnosis
The United States spends more per capita on health care than any developed country, yet millions lack coverage and families face medical bills that bankrupt them. The private insurance system is not efficient; it is a wealth‑extraction machine that prioritizes shareholder profits over patients’ lives.
Proposals
1. Medicare for All
We
will implement a universal, single‑payer health care system covering
all essential medical services with no out‑of‑pocket costs. We will
eliminate premiums, deductibles, and copays. The transition will be
gradual but with defined timelines, allowing workers in the industry to
keep their jobs and wages during the process.
2. Prescription Drug Price Negotiation
We
will allow Medicare to negotiate drug prices directly, as every other
public health system in the world does. We will end abusive patent
practices that allow pharmaceutical companies to charge exorbitant
prices for life‑saving medications.
3. Defend Medicaid
We
will oppose head‑on the cuts to Medicaid that the Trump administration
is pushing. Health care is not a luxury; it is a fundamental human
right.
IV. Dignified Housing: Universal, Affordable, and Public
Diagnosis
The housing crisis is one of the deepest wounds in our economy. In cities like New York, San Francisco, and Los Angeles, rents have skyrocketed while wages have stagnated. People working full‑time live in their cars or in shelters. The cause is simple: housing has become a financial asset for investors, not a home for families.
Proposals
1. Housing as a Right
We
will establish the right to decent housing as a legally enforceable
right. We will expand the supply of quality public housing and provide
rental vouchers to those in need until the public supply is sufficient.
2. Rent Freeze and Rent Control
We
will implement rent stabilization mechanisms to stop runaway housing
costs, following the model popularized in cities like New York.
3. Investment in Affordable Housing
We
will mobilize federal funds to build millions of units of affordable
housing, with energy efficiency and universal accessibility standards.
These units will not be for speculation; they will be owned by the
public or by community land trusts.
V. Education and Child Care: Free and High‑Quality
Diagnosis
The cost of higher education has turned college into a luxury most cannot afford without decades of debt. Student debt exceeds $1.7 trillion, a burden that prevents an entire generation from buying homes, forming families, or starting businesses. At the same time, the cost of child care is so high that many parents must choose between working and paying for care.
Proposals
1. Tuition‑Free Public College
We
will make public higher education—community colleges, state
universities, and technical schools—completely free. We will cancel
existing student debt.
2. Universal Child Care
We
will guarantee affordable, high‑quality child care for all children
from birth to school entry, with massive investment in public and
cooperative centers. No parent should have to choose between working and
caring for their children.
3. Wage Increase for Early Childhood Educators
We
will invest in the wages of early childhood educators, who for decades
have been systematically underpaid despite doing essential work.
VI. Democracy: Electoral Reform, Ending Dark Money, and Popular Participation
Diagnosis
Our democracy has been hijacked by corporate interests. Decisions about war, health, and climate are made based on campaign contributions, not the public good. Dark money floods our elections. Voters are discouraged by bureaucratic barriers. And the Electoral College allows a candidate who loses the popular vote to become president.
Proposals
1. Abolish the Electoral College
We
will elect the president by direct popular vote. The will of the
majority cannot be nullified by an 18th‑century anti‑democratic design.
2. End Dark Money in Politics
We
will ban direct and indirect corporate contributions to campaigns. We
will require full disclosure of all donors. We will support a
constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United, the Supreme Court decision that declared corporations are people and money is speech.
3. Expand the Right to Vote
We
will establish automatic voter registration, accessible vote‑by‑mail,
and make Election Day a national holiday. We will remove barriers that
disproportionately affect Black, Latino, and Indigenous communities.
4. Term Limits for the Supreme Court
We
will establish term limits for Supreme Court justices, ending the
lifetime capture of the Court by presidents who lost the popular vote.
VII. Criminal Justice and Immigration: Dignity, Not Punishment
Diagnosis
The United States criminal justice system is the largest in the world and also one of the most brutal and unjust. Millions of people are incarcerated. Systemic racism pervades every stage: from police stops to sentencing. Meanwhile, the immigration system criminalizes those seeking refuge and separates families, while the Trump administration conducts mass deportations, including of two‑year‑old children.
Proposals
1. End Mass Incarceration
We
will reduce the prison population by 50% through decriminalizing
poverty, eliminating mandatory minimum sentences, and investing in
community‑based alternatives to incarceration.
2. Police Accountability
We
will create a national database of officers with misconduct records. We
will support the demunicipalization of police forces in communities
where trust is broken, shifting security functions to community‑based
models.
3. End Mass Deportations
We
will immediately halt ICE raids that have sent children to cells in
Honduras. We will create a path to citizenship for the 11 million
undocumented immigrants who live and work in this country.
4. Abolish ICE
We
will abolish Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), replacing it
with an agency that respects human rights and focuses on family
reunification, not separation.
VIII. Foreign Policy: Peace, Diplomacy, and Global Cooperation
Diagnosis
The war in Iran—which 60% of Americans oppose—is the latest in a long series of military interventions that have cost trillions of dollars, thousands of American lives, and hundreds of thousands of lives in the countries bombed. The Pentagon is the only federal agency that has never passed a clean audit. Meanwhile, China invests in infrastructure, Russia reaps the benefits of high oil prices, and the United States bleeds in wars it cannot win.
Proposals
1. No Repetition Doctrine
We
will require that any designation of a country as a “state sponsor of
terrorism” or any authorization for the use of military force pass
Congress with a supermajority. We will reclaim the constitutional war
power that Congress delegated after 9/11.
2. Energy Alliance with the Americas
We
will build an Energy Alliance for the Americas based on fair trade,
investment, and technical cooperation with oil‑producing countries such
as Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, and Guyana. This is how we lower
gas prices without sending our children to war.
3. Reform, Not Abandon, the International Order
We
will return to the multilateral agreements we withdrew from—the WHO,
the Paris Agreement, the UN Human Rights Council—but with a reform
agenda that makes those bodies responsive to the Global South. We will
stop vetoing resolutions that condemn our allies when they violate
international law.
4. Cut Military Spending and End Wars
We
will redirect at least 20% of the military budget to domestic needs:
schools, hospitals, housing, infrastructure. We will end the war in Iran
through serious, sustained diplomacy.
IX. Technology, Data, and Artificial Intelligence: For the People, Not for Corporations
Diagnosis
Big tech has accumulated unprecedented power over our information, our politics, and our economy. Digital monopolies crush competition. Artificial intelligence is being developed without oversight, with existential risks that no one regulates. Our data is harvested and sold without our consent.
Proposals
1. AI Data Center Moratorium Act
We will halt the expansion of AI data centers until their environmental and energy impacts are assessed.
2. Right to Digital Privacy
We
will establish a fundamental right to digital privacy, with a federal
law prohibiting the collection and sale of personal data without
explicit consent.
3. Break Up Tech Monopolies
We
will use antitrust laws to break up the big tech companies that have
abused their market power, separating platforms from financial and
advertising services.
X. Tax Reform: Make the Rich Pay Their Fair Share
Diagnosis
The wealthy and corporations pay a smaller share of taxes than working people, thanks to decades of cuts, exemptions, and loopholes. The Trump administration deepened these injustices, lowering the corporate tax rate and creating new exemptions for the ultra‑rich.
Proposals
1. Wealth Tax
An
annual tax on fortunes over $50 million, with progressive rates
ensuring that the ultra‑rich contribute to the society that enabled
their wealth.
2. 70% Marginal Rate for Millionaires
We
will restore a top marginal tax rate of 70% on income over $10 million,
as existed during the decades of the greatest middle‑class growth in
U.S. history.
3. Eliminate Corporate Tax Loopholes
We
will eliminate the tax breaks that allow corporations to pay zero taxes
while reporting record profits. The revenue raised will go to housing,
health, and education.
4. Tax Capital Gains as Ordinary Income
We
will tax capital gains at the same rates as labor income, ending the
preferential treatment for those who live off their investments while
workers pay taxes on every paycheck.
Conclusion: The America We Can Build
This platform is ambitious because the circumstances demand it. We cannot address the climate crisis, extreme inequality, political corruption, and runaway militarism with gradual solutions and compromises that commit no one.
What we propose is not a wish list. It is a program built by real movements, tested in cities like New York, in districts like New York’s 14th, and in the struggles of millions of organized workers. It is the fruit of years of organizing, of listening to those who suffer under the system, of building alternatives from below.
We know we will face fierce opposition. Corporations will spend hundreds of millions to stop us. The corporate press will call us radicals. Establishment politicians will say it is not realistic.
But today’s realism is tomorrow’s common sense. When the Green New Deal was first proposed, it was a “fantasy.” Today it is the accepted framework for any serious discussion on climate. When Medicare for All was proposed in 2016, it was “impossible.” Today a majority of Americans support it.
The «Fighting Oligarchy» movement has shown that there is a people ready to fight. It has filled auditoriums in Utah, in Idaho, in Texas, in North Carolina. It has mobilized millions in more than 3,000 events across the country. It has trained 7,000 candidates for public office. It has shown that people are ready for real change.
What is missing is the political will of institutions to answer that popular will. This platform is the answer. It is the governing program the people demand and that this candidacy is committed to implement.
The question is not whether we can do it. It is whether we have the courage to try.
The time is now. The America we dream of is within reach. Let us build it together.
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