Repair. Build. Transform.
A progressive agenda for rebuilding the foundations of American prosperity: protect rights and repair failing systems now, build broadly shared prosperity next, and pursue generational transformations deliberately.
Repair
Protect fundamental rights and repair systems that already exist but are failing to deliver what Americans should reasonably expect from them.
- Establish strong national protections for access to the ballot and enforce equal voting rights.
- Expand convenient voter registration, early voting, and vote-by-mail while maintaining transparent and secure elections.
- Restore voting rights after incarceration so completion of a criminal sentence does not become permanent exclusion from democracy.
- Protect voters from discriminatory disenfranchisement and unreasonable barriers to participation.
Democracy works best when participation is broad, accessible, secure, and trusted.
- Protect access to abortion as part of comprehensive reproductive healthcare.
- Protect access to contraception, fertility care, prenatal care, miscarriage treatment, and medically necessary reproductive care.
- Protect patients and healthcare professionals from political interference in evidence-based medical decisions.
- Expand maternal healthcare and reduce preventable maternal and infant mortality.
Healthcare decisions belong primarily to patients and their healthcare professionals, not politicians.
- Enforce equal protection under the law regardless of race, sex, religion, disability, sexual orientation, or gender identity.
- Strengthen enforcement against discrimination in employment, housing, education, public accommodations, and government services.
- Protect civil liberties including speech, religion, association, privacy, and due process.
- Ensure public institutions and services are genuinely accessible to people with disabilities.
Equal citizenship is part of the public foundation.
- Protect the right of workers to organize, collectively bargain, and form unions without retaliation.
- Strengthen enforcement against wage theft, worker misclassification, unsafe working conditions, and illegal retaliation.
- Restrict abusive non-compete and no-poach agreements that prevent workers from freely changing employers.
- Encourage profit sharing, employee ownership, retirement contributions, and other mechanisms that allow workers to share directly in productivity gains.
- Maintain a meaningful wage floor that adjusts over time rather than being allowed to erode indefinitely through inflation.
When productivity rises, workers should share in the prosperity they help create.
- Require warrants and meaningful judicial oversight for government access to sensitive personal information and surveillance data.
- Establish strict limits on mass surveillance technologies, including automated license-plate readers, facial recognition, location tracking, and persistent public monitoring.
- Establish strong national protections for personal data collected by corporations and data brokers.
- Require transparency, auditing, retention limits, and public accountability when governments deploy surveillance technology.
Public safety does not require building a surveillance state.
- Restore and strengthen protections for air, drinking water, waterways, wetlands, soil, forests, and wildlife habitat.
- Make polluters bear the cost of cleanup instead of transferring it to the public.
- Expand monitoring of groundwater, soil health, watersheds, and other natural systems.
Natural systems are productive infrastructure and should be managed accordingly.
- Strengthen FDA and USDA inspection, testing, traceability, and enforcement.
- Build modern national food-tracing systems capable of identifying contaminated products quickly.
- Increase inspection capacity for high-risk processing facilities and penalties for repeated or intentional violations.
- Increase long-term public investment through universities, national laboratories, NIH, NSF, NASA, DOE, USDA, and related institutions.
- Prioritize medicine, agriculture, energy, materials, climate resilience, computing, robotics, transportation, and other foundational technologies.
- Preserve publicly funded research as a shared national asset and make its benefits broadly available wherever practical.
- Require meaningful transparency and human accountability when AI systems make consequential decisions involving employment, healthcare, credit, education, policing, or public services.
- Protect personal information from indiscriminate collection and use for AI training and automated decision-making.
- Establish environmental and community standards for large-scale computing infrastructure, including energy, water, land use, and grid impacts.
- Invest in public-interest AI research and prevent foundational technologies from becoming permanently controlled by a handful of dominant firms.
- Prepare workers and communities for automation through education, retraining, transition assistance, and policies that broadly share productivity gains.
Technology should increase human prosperity, not simply concentrate wealth and power.
- Reduce dependence of school quality on neighborhood property wealth.
- Create stronger state and federal funding mechanisms so children receive high-quality education regardless of ZIP code.
- Invest in teachers, vocational education, laboratories, libraries, special education, arts, music, agriculture, engineering, computer science, and skilled trades.
Public education funding should primarily support the public system available to every child. Phase out voucher programs and similar subsidies that redirect public funds toward private institutions while preserving families' right to choose private education.
- Limit excessive corporate concentration in agriculture.
- Strengthen antitrust enforcement across meatpacking, seeds, fertilizer, processing, and distribution.
- Restrict large non-agricultural corporations and investment firms from accumulating excessive farmland.
- Support family farms, cooperatives, beginning farmers, and locally owned food production.
- Expand school breakfast and lunch and ensure children have reliable access to nutritious food year-round.
- Strengthen WIC, SNAP, food banks, community kitchens, and local food networks.
- Encourage public institutions to buy regionally where practical.
- Strengthen antitrust enforcement against monopolies and excessive concentration.
- Review industries where consolidation has reduced meaningful competition.
- Prevent dominant firms from using essential platforms, infrastructure, land, intellectual property, or supply chains primarily to extract rents or prevent new competition.
Markets work best when businesses actually have to compete.
Build
Once basic rights and systems are secured, begin a sustained period of rebuilding shared foundations, productive capacity, and broad-based prosperity.
Launch a long-term national rebuilding program focused on roads, bridges, water systems, sewer systems, dams, ports, public buildings, schools, electrical infrastructure, broadband, and transportation.
- Design infrastructure around expected needs decades from now rather than simply replacing failing systems in kind.
- Prioritize durability, maintainability, resilience, and lifecycle cost over the cheapest immediate option.
- Create stable long-term funding so maintenance does not depend entirely on short political cycles.
- Prioritize communities where decades of underinvestment have created the greatest infrastructure deficits.
Infrastructure should be built for the country our children will inherit, not merely patched for the country we have today.
Create a modern successor to the Civilian Conservation Corps that provides paid public-service opportunities while rebuilding America's natural and physical infrastructure.
- Open participation broadly to adults who want to serve.
- Provide paid work, training, healthcare, and temporary housing where necessary.
- Restore forests, wetlands, parks, watersheds, degraded land, trails, and public spaces.
- Assist communities with disaster preparation, response, and recovery.
- Create pathways into skilled trades, public service, conservation, construction, agriculture, forestry, and infrastructure careers.
If someone wants to work, society should be capable of finding useful work that needs doing.
Treat abundant, reliable, affordable electricity as foundational infrastructure for the next American economy.
- Rapidly expand electrical generation and transmission capacity.
- Support solar, wind, geothermal, hydroelectric, storage, nuclear, and other low-carbon technologies according to regional conditions.
- Modernize the grid for distributed generation, storage, electric transportation, resilience, and increasing demand.
- Accelerate permitting for responsible energy and transmission projects while maintaining meaningful environmental protections.
- Ensure the clean-energy transition produces affordable electricity and good jobs rather than simply creating new opportunities for extraction.
Clean energy should become abundant infrastructure, not a scarce premium product.
- Install solar on suitable public buildings, schools, libraries, parking facilities, universities, military installations, and transit sites.
- Add batteries where useful and solar canopies with EV charging where practical.
- Improve insulation, HVAC systems, lighting, geothermal systems, and overall building efficiency.
- Design new public buildings to generate a significant share of their own power where site conditions allow.
- Reinvest long-term energy savings into additional public infrastructure improvements where practical.
Public property should produce public value.
Help households become more efficient, resilient, and less exposed to long-term energy costs.
- Use grants, low-interest financing, and direct-install programs for solar, batteries, heat pumps, weatherization, and efficiency improvements.
- Prioritize middle- and lower-income households rather than limiting benefits to households capable of fronting the capital for tax credits.
- Support community solar and neighborhood-scale storage.
- Design programs so renters and multifamily residents can participate in clean-energy savings.
The energy transition should lower household costs while building national energy capacity.
- Shift incentives toward affordable electric transportation and widespread charging infrastructure.
- Electrify government fleets, school buses, transit buses, postal vehicles, and other predictable fleets.
- Update buildings, apartments, workplaces, parking facilities, and highways for widespread electric transportation.
- Support domestic manufacturing of vehicles, batteries, charging equipment, and related technologies.
Electrification should make transportation cleaner, cheaper to operate, and more energy independent.
Transition toward universal publicly financed healthcare. Replace fragmented employer-centered insurance with a broad national risk pool while allowing care delivery through independent, nonprofit, and public providers.
- Guarantee healthcare coverage to every resident.
- Cover primary and preventative care, hospital care, prescriptions, mental healthcare, reproductive healthcare, maternity care, and other medically necessary treatment.
- Use national bargaining power to control excessive pharmaceutical and healthcare costs.
- Reduce administrative complexity for patients, employers, and healthcare professionals.
- Preserve meaningful patient choice among healthcare providers.
Healthcare should follow the person, not the employer.
Gradually make public community colleges, trade schools, and state universities tuition-free for qualified residents.
- Expand apprenticeships, vocational education, and technical training alongside traditional academic programs.
- Reduce dependence on student debt as the primary mechanism for financing education.
- Preserve multiple pathways into productive careers rather than treating a four-year degree as the only successful route.
- Increase public investment in high-demand fields including healthcare, engineering, education, science, skilled trades, agriculture, and technology.
Education is human-capital infrastructure. The goal is not simply more degrees, but a more capable population.
Increase housing supply while expanding the ability of ordinary families to own homes and build lasting wealth.
- Reform zoning that unnecessarily blocks starter homes, duplexes, townhouses, apartments, and accessory dwellings.
- Streamline permitting for housing that complies with established zoning and building requirements.
- Encourage construction near jobs, transportation, schools, and existing infrastructure.
- Discourage speculative vacancy and large-scale institutional acquisition of existing residential housing.
- Support community land trusts, cooperatives, mixed-income development, and pathways into first-time homeownership.
- Expand construction of accessible and age-friendly housing so communities work throughout people's lives.
Housing should be a place to live first, a means of building family wealth second, and a speculative asset a distant third.
Build communities that produce more of the things they need while remaining connected to a productive national and global economy.
- Support local manufacturing, repair businesses, farms, trades, cooperatives, and small businesses.
- Help regions maintain capacity for food production, energy, construction, repair, and essential goods.
- Expand access to financing and technical assistance for locally owned businesses.
- Use public procurement strategically to support competitive domestic and regional suppliers where practical.
- Reduce dangerous dependence on single suppliers or distant supply chains for essential goods.
Resilient national economies are built from resilient local economies.
Economic growth should improve the lives of the people whose work and communities make that growth possible.
- Create incentives for broad-based employee profit-sharing and ownership programs.
- Tie major public subsidies, contracts, and economic-development incentives to meaningful public benefits such as good wages, apprenticeships, domestic investment, and worker participation in company success.
- Discourage extraordinary shareholder distributions when companies simultaneously suppress worker compensation or depend heavily on public support.
- Encourage productivity-enhancing technology while ensuring workers and communities participate in the resulting prosperity.
Public capital should not subsidize private extraction.
Collective Capital does not seek equal wealth. We seek broad access to wealth creation.
- Encourage employee ownership, stock programs, profit sharing, cooperatives, retirement investment, homeownership, and small-business formation.
- Explore publicly seeded investment accounts for children and young adults.
- Reform taxation so extreme inherited concentrations cannot compound indefinitely while protecting ordinary family inheritance.
- Prevent dominant firms from using accumulated wealth to purchase competitors or block new entrants.
- Discourage excessive institutional accumulation of housing, farmland, and other limited productive assets.
- Expand access to capital for workers, entrepreneurs, cooperatives, and communities historically excluded from it.
Capital should circulate, not calcify.
Transform
Build systems whose full benefits may not be realized in our own lifetimes. Transform is about expanding what future generations inherit, not simply repairing what exists today.
Develop electrified high-speed passenger rail connecting major metropolitan regions, with regional rail networks built around those corridors.
- Replace short-haul flights and long automobile trips where rail provides a practical alternative.
- Coordinate passenger rail with local transit, cycling, pedestrian networks, and intercity transportation.
- Continue research into next-generation technologies such as magnetic levitation where they provide real advantages.
Gradually redesign highways, cities, towns, freight corridors, transit systems, and public spaces around electric transportation, autonomous systems where proven useful, rail, buses, cycling, and pedestrian networks.
Cars remain useful, but they should not be the only practical option for participating in society.
Develop a standardized national strategy for modern nuclear power as part of an abundant low-carbon energy system.
- Develop modern reactor designs and standardized construction.
- Maintain domestic nuclear engineering and manufacturing capacity.
- Improve fuel cycles, waste management, and long-term storage.
- Integrate nuclear generation with renewables, storage, hydroelectricity, geothermal energy, and other clean sources.
Build a high-capacity national transmission system capable of moving enormous amounts of electricity between regions and supporting an increasingly electrified economy.
- Develop long-distance high-voltage transmission corridors.
- Connect regional grids with substantially greater transfer capacity.
- Integrate utility-scale and distributed energy storage.
- Harden critical portions of the electrical system against disasters, cyberattacks, and regional failures.
- Build enough capacity for transportation, advanced manufacturing, AI, computing, heating, and technologies not yet invented.
Energy abundance should become a permanent American advantage.
Redesign communities and infrastructure around the conditions future generations are expected to experience rather than the climate assumptions under which today's infrastructure was built.
- Modernize flood control, drainage, levees, and stormwater systems.
- Expand urban forests and natural cooling infrastructure.
- Harden electrical, water, communications, transportation, and emergency systems.
- Update buildings for regional risks such as heat, wildfire, flooding, severe storms, and drought.
- Develop resilience hubs capable of providing emergency power, communications, water, cooling, shelter, and essential services.
- Modernize drinking-water infrastructure nationwide.
- Eliminate remaining lead service lines.
- Develop long-term watershed and aquifer management plans.
- Expand water recycling, stormwater capture, wetland restoration, and regional water infrastructure.
- Prepare drought-prone regions before shortages become emergencies.
Clean, reliable water should be treated as permanent national infrastructure.
Undertake a multi-generational restoration of America's forests, prairies, wetlands, rivers, watersheds, coastlines, and degraded agricultural landscapes.
- Reconnect fragmented ecosystems through national wildlife corridors.
- Restore wetlands and floodplains as natural water infrastructure.
- Rebuild native prairie and grassland ecosystems.
- Restore forests using ecologically appropriate long-term management.
- Recover degraded watersheds and river systems.
- Support regenerative agriculture that combines food production with soil, water, and biodiversity restoration.
Future generations should inherit more nature than we did, not less.
Develop regional networks of farms, processors, storage, distribution centers, seeds, and food reserves while maintaining a highly productive national and international agricultural economy.
- Preserve regional processing and storage capacity.
- Increase agricultural diversity and reduce single-point failures.
- Support local and regional seed systems.
- Maintain emergency food reserves and distribution capacity.
Treat publicly funded knowledge as shared national capital and preserve it for future generations.
- Make publicly funded research freely available wherever practical.
- Create permanent public archives for scientific research, government data, educational materials, and cultural works.
- Develop free, high-quality digital textbooks and educational resources.
- Build public computing and research infrastructure available to schools, universities, researchers, nonprofits, and small businesses.
- Preserve digital knowledge so it remains accessible across generations.
Knowledge created collectively should become capital available broadly.
Move beyond the idea that education is something people complete once at the beginning of adulthood.
- Allow adults to return throughout life to community colleges, universities, trade schools, and public training programs.
- Create accessible retraining pathways for workers displaced by automation, technological change, or industrial decline.
- Support people who want to develop new professional skills or enter entirely new careers later in life.
- Use public education as permanent human-capital infrastructure.
Education should be something people can return to, not something they receive once and leave behind.
Ensure advanced computing becomes productive infrastructure available throughout society rather than permanently concentrated in a handful of corporations.
- Build national and regional public computing centers.
- Provide computing access to universities, schools, researchers, nonprofits, startups, and public agencies.
- Develop public-interest AI tools and appropriately open models.
- Use public computing infrastructure to accelerate scientific, medical, agricultural, climate, and engineering research.
- Connect new computing infrastructure to sustainable energy and responsible water use.
AI should become broadly available productive capital.
Establish a professionally managed, independently governed national investment fund designed to accumulate financial capital across generations.
- Invest through a diversified, transparent, long-term strategy.
- Establish strong legal protections against political raids, corruption, patronage, and short-term manipulation.
- Reinvest returns so the fund grows across generations.
- Over time, use a limited portion of returns to support infrastructure, education, retirement security, research, or other generational investments.
Future Americans should inherit financial capital alongside the physical and natural capital we leave behind.
Give every child a modest publicly seeded investment account that grows alongside the productive economy.
- Seed accounts early in life and invest them for the long term.
- Allow additional contributions from families where appropriate.
- Structure qualified uses around long-term wealth building, such as education, a first home, starting a business, or retirement.
- Design the program so children born without family wealth still enter adulthood owning productive capital.
Every person should have a foothold in the wealth-building system.
Set a generational national objective: the economic circumstances of someone's birth should no longer reliably determine the economic circumstances of their adulthood.
- Coordinate healthcare, nutrition, education, housing, transportation, childcare, employment, and wealth-building policy around breaking persistent cycles of poverty.
- Measure childhood health, educational attainment, employment, income mobility, homeownership, business formation, and household wealth.
- Focus on durable mobility rather than simply temporary relief.
Poverty may happen. It should not become an inheritance.
Maintain independent 25-, 50-, and 100-year plans for America's infrastructure and productive systems.
- Continuously assess transportation, energy, water, communications, housing, public facilities, and environmental infrastructure.
- Rank major projects by public benefit, lifecycle cost, resilience, environmental impact, and productive value.
- Maintain a transparent national inventory of infrastructure condition and future needs.
- Preserve long-term planning across presidential administrations while leaving funding decisions accountable to elected government.
National planning should not restart every four years.
Make today's crises tomorrow's background systems.
A healthy democracy. Equal rights. Personal liberty. Broad ownership. Reliable clean electricity. Universal healthcare. Excellent education. Affordable housing. Clean water. Fast electric rail. Strong workers. Competitive markets. Resilient local economies. Recoverable failure. Maintained infrastructure. Healthy natural systems. More opportunity and productive capacity for every generation.
