WE
the
People
of the
US,
in
2025,
knowing that Our founders brought forth, upon this continent, a new nation, dedicated and
devoted to the cause that government of, by, and for US the People shall not perish from the
earth, and
that they framed, as the rock of this foundation, a constitution to organize its political
powers in such form, as to them seemed most likely to effect the Safety and Happiness of US
the People, and
that over time political parties came into being, which created national political party
conventions to promote support for their policies and for the election of their candidates,
and
having long been dependent on political parties by now, and so as to now better effect the
Safety and Happiness of OURSELVES the People,
having suffered for many decades the Oppressions of dominant political parties which,
through a long train of abuses and usurpations, have become destructive of these ends,
are inviting Our fellow Americans to come together in declaring Our political
independence and in supporting and viewing and attending a
In the first sentence of Our constitution, Our framers established the six bullet points
comprising the mission of Our self-government and ordained whom the more perfect fulfillment
of this mission is promised to:
our
Union,
with
Justice,
and
Tranquility,
our
Defense,
and
Welfare,
and our
Liberty
to
Ourselves
and to
our
Posterity
Yes, as it turns out, Our framers were poets.
(Ha!
Who knew?)
It is in order for US the People to take up and carry on the task of perfecting more fully
this mission, that WE the People are inviting Our fellow Americans to join together to support
and view and attend this
Some of George Washington’s thoughts on dangerous methods of political activity can be
heard in these excerpts from his presidential retirement letter, of September 19, 1796, to the
American citizenry, in which he in particular strongly urges US the People to never utilize
mechanisms such as political parties:
They serve to organize faction, to give it an artificial and extraordinary force; to put, in
the place of the delegated will of the nation, the will of a party, often a small but artful
and enterprising minority of the community; and, according to the alternate triumphs of
different parties, to make the public administration the mirror of the ill-concerted and
incongruous projects of faction, rather than the organ of
consistent and wholesome plans digested by common counsels, and modified by mutual
interests.
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Let me now take a more comprehensive view, and warn you in the most solemn manner against the
baneful effects of the spirit of party, generally.
This spirit, unfortunately, is inseparable from our nature, having its root in the strongest
passions of the human mind.
It exists under different shapes in all governments, more or less stifled, controlled, or
repressed; but, in those of the popular form, it is seen in its greatest rankness, and is
truly their worst enemy.
The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge,
natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most
horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism.
But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism.
The disorders and miseries, which result, gradually incline the minds of men to seek security
and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some
prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition
to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of Public Liberty.
Without looking forward to an extremity of this kind, (which nevertheless ought not to be
entirely out of sight,) the common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are
sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it.
It serves always to distract the Public Councils, and enfeeble the Public Administration.
It agitates the Community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms; kindles the animosity
of one part against another; foments occasionally riot and insurrection.
It opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which find a facilitated access to the
government itself through the channels of party passions.
Thus the policy and the will of one country are subjected to the policy and will of another.
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In offering to you, my countrymen, these counsels of an old and affectionate friend, I dare
not hope they will make the strong and lasting impression I could wish; that they will
control the usual current of the passions, or prevent our nation from running the course,
which has hitherto marked the destiny of nations.
But, if I may even flatter myself, that they may be productive of some partial benefit, some
occasional good; that they may now and then recur to moderate the fury of party spirit, to
warn against the mischiefs of foreign intrigue, to guard against the impostures of pretended
patriotism; this hope will be a full recompense for the solicitude for your welfare, by which
they have been dictated.
As WE the People begin to heed these “most solemn” warnings from the Father of Our
Country “against the baneful effects of the
spirit of party”, and
as WE the People have seen that in Our government “of the popular form” —
which all the populace is intended to govern in — political parties have shown
themselves to be truly Our “worst enemy”, and
though in that day, President Washington durst not hope that his urgent counsels would
“make the strong and lasting impression” he could wish,
it is in order for US the People, more than two and a quarter centuries after he gave these
grave admonitions, finally taking on the responsibility and
the “duty of a wise people” to “prevent our nation from” hurtling into
the doom that has “marked the destiny” of all nations that have come before, that
beyond his exigent clarion producing merely “some partial benefit, some occasional
good”, in striving after all to pay him the even fuller recompense than he would let
himself wish for,
instead of succumbing to “the common and continual mischiefs” of political
parties, to the “horrid enormities” they bring about, to the “frightful
despotism” they have loosed upon US the People,
in this day, WE the People will endeavor to put into practice methods of political activity
that create “consistent and wholesome plans digested by common counsels, and modified by
mutual interests”,
when WE the People gather at the
On the day when Our Representatives, in General Congress assembled, in the Name and by
Authority of the good People of the United States of America, solemnly published and declared
that a political power, whose character was marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, was
thus unfit to continue to wield its power over US, a free people, they all made a mutual
pledge for the support of that Declaration.
They pledged something that was deeply important and was extremely dear to each and every one
of them.
They pledged to each other, and to all of US the People, that they would risk and, if need be,
would give up their lives.
They pledged that they would take the chance that they would never live to see the results of
these efforts of theirs, that they would never again see any of their loved ones.
But not only that, they also pledged something far more important to each and every one of
them than their lives.
They further pledged to each other, and to all of US the People, that they would risk and, if
need be, would give up all their money.
They pledged that they would take the chance that their entire family, and all their
descendants possibly for many generations into the future, would live in dire and abject
poverty.
But not only that, they also pledged something even vastly more important and absolutely
sacred to each and every one of them than all their money.
They even further pledged to each other, and to all of US the People, that they would even
risk and, if need be, would give up all their honor.
They pledged that they would take the chance that they would be totally discredited and
dishonored, that unto the thousandth generation and beyond, their legacy, their reputation,
and their very memory would be mired in shame and ignomy and infamy and disgrace.
It is in order for US the People to nurture, develop, and maintain Our recognition of the
precious treasure given US the People by those, who risked the loss of that honor which was to
them so sacred, that WE the People bestow upon and grant to them Our deepest esteem and
admiration and regard, when WE the People gather at the
WE the People, looking back upon Our founders who, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world
for the rectitude of their intentions, did solemnly publish and declare that WE are, and of
Right ought to be, a Free and Independent Nation and that WE did, on that day of Our birth,
assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of
Nature and of Nature’s God entitle US,
now do recognize, as they did further declare, that WE the People institute systems to govern
OURSELVES the People that derive their just powers from the consent of US the People in order
to secure Our inalienable Rights, which are endowed by Our Creator and among which are Life,
Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness,
and further recognize, as they did declare, that when a long train of abuses and usurpations,
by political systems that have not derived their powers from Our consent, pursuing invariably
the same Object evinces a design to reduce US the People under absolute Despotism, it is
Our
right,
it is
Our
duty,
to throw off the powers of such systems and to provide new Guards for Our future security and
self-governance,
and that therefore WE the People, beginning a dozen score and seven years after Our founders
declared Our birth as a Free and Independent People governing Ourselves, have undertaken to
declare Our independence from this unjust system of political parties, which through a history
of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an
absolute Tyranny over US the People, has long evinced the design of this political party
system, to which WE the People have never consented, to reduce US the People under that
absolute Despotism.
WE the People of the US, in 2025, further recognize, that when in the Course of human and of
national events, it becomes necessary for one people to throw off the political domination
which has unjustly subjected them to the Tyranny and Despotism of others, and to assume among
the political powers of the nation, the independent and equal station to which the Laws of
Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of humankind
and to the opinions of Our fellow Americans requires that they should declare the causes which
impel them to the political independence.
So, let Facts be submitted to a candid world and to a candid nation at these
National Political Independence
Convention™,
Inc.,
an independent expenditure-only political committee (super PAC), FEC ID #C00871228,
founded on George Washington’s 292nd birthday, Feb. 22, 2024,
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to study issues facing our nation and show how presidential and vice presidential
candidates and other concerned citizens in common counsel can devise, develop, and
delineate policy planks, to address these issues, that all interrelate in a cohesive
tapestry to build a policy platform undergirded by empirical scientific and historical
evidence.
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why
we’re proposing this initiative; the Website — of this independent
expenditure-only political committee, under the auspices of
whom
the initiative is being undertaken — that describes
what
the goal of the initiative is; the Website that describes
how
we’re proposing to achieve the goal;
this initiative
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by, and not guided by any other committee, officially authorized campaign, association,
organization, or political party of any kind, nor does it advocate for or endorse or
support any particular candidate or nominee for the presidency or vice presidency or for
any other elected or appointed office.]
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