Our goal
The goal of this project is to get enough people to switch their voter registration from Democrat to Independent so that the DNC can no longer treat working people as a captive base. We want a party that is accountable to its voters, not to corporate donors and party insiders.
You can still vote for a Democratic candidate who has earned your support if you are registered as an Independent. The point is not to abandon your values; it is to make clear that the party must earn votes with policy and conduct, not with entitlement.
The DNC has repeatedly shown that it is willing to prioritize the interests of corporations and wealthy donors over the people who actually make up the party. We are done with that bargain.
It may lead to a true third party over time, but the immediate goal is simpler and more practical: create enough leverage that the political class cannot ignore the people who built the coalition in the first place.
Background
In the lead-up to the 2016 election, millions of voters clearly wanted a different kind of Democratic nominee. The party establishment backed Hillary Clinton over Bernie Sanders, even though Sanders had energized a broad base with a message rooted in economic fairness, anti-corporate politics, and democratic participation.
The result was a corporate-friendly Democratic establishment that promised continuity over transformation. Many voters saw that as a betrayal of the movement that had brought them into politics in the first place.
In the 2024 presidential debate, the Democratic ticket was pressed on climate policy and the role of fossil fuels. The exchange underscored how often the party talks about clean energy in a way that is still shaped by donor and industry pressure rather than a clear, urgent shift to affordable green infrastructure.
That is not a small distinction. Working people need a real transition away from fossil fuels toward sustainable, affordable energy, not another round of political theater that treats climate action as a branding exercise.
Across the 2018 cycle, many Democratic primary contests still reflected the same basic dynamic: insiders and donors often backed the safer, more established option even when rank-and-file voters were showing real appetite for a more forceful economic message.
Even as the Democratic Party embraced more progressive language than in earlier cycles, the gap between what activists and organizers demanded and what party leaders were willing to fight for remained very real. That tension mattered, because it showed that the party could talk about change without always being willing to make the deeper structural shifts that its base wanted.
In the midterms, the party’s messaging often leaned toward managing institutions rather than confronting concentrated economic power. That was especially frustrating for voters who wanted a clearer break from the politics of corporate moderation and weak enforcement.
By 2024, the Democratic mainstream was still presenting itself as the only responsible option, even when many people felt that the party had become better at preserving the status quo than answering the demands of ordinary workers and communities.
From the 2016 primary to the 2024 cycle, the pattern has been similar: the party often defaults to establishment candidates, donor comfort, and cautious messaging when what many voters want is a clearer break with corporate power and a more serious commitment to working people.
That is why this project exists. We want to make it easier for people to see how the party behaves when it thinks it can take its base for granted. We want to push the conversation toward candidates and platforms that actually serve working people, communities, and the public interest.