THERE ARE THREE

PATHS TO
BREAKING THE
TWO PARTY
MONOPOLY

ACCEPT THE OBSTACLES...

1 but work to build consensus across
party lines among those currently elected

AVOID THE OBSTACLES...

2 by helping more independent
candidates get elected

OVERCOME AND REMOVE

THE OBSTACLES...
3 by creating a new majority party that
disrupts the system
RECLAIM OUR FUTURE:
PRIORITIES
It’s time for a re-imagined political party built from the ground-up, focused
on creating a more united, prosperous, and healthier America.
HERE ARE OUR PRIORITIES:
• Bringing our country’s debt and fiscal policy under control, setting up the
next generation for success
• Focusing public and private resources on assuring the health of America’s
people and the vitality of local communities by innovating in education,
healthcare, and infrastructure
• Creating jobs and growing the economy in a sustainable way by embracing
free enterprise, free markets, free trade, and measured immigration across
secure borders
• Applying America’s innovative spirit to a new environmental revolution, based
on science, facts and articulated cost-benefit analyses
• Pursuing criminal justice reform and ending the era of mass incarceration
• Disrupting the political status-quo to end the self-serving laws and
practices that both major parties have employed to protect their shared
exclusivity of power and limit competition
• Making the election process truly democratic and fair and ensuring access
for all voters
• Rejecting retreat from the world and committing to America’s role as a
strong, clear-eyed, values-based leader on the world stage

TOGETHER, WE’LL CREATE AMERICA’S POLITICAL RENAISSANCE.

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A NEW PARTY
FOR A
NEW MAJORITY
SAM’S
FOUNDING PRINCIPLES
DIGNITY: INSPIRE AND ELEVATE THE DIGNITY OF FELLOW CITIZENS
• Restore civic engagement, long-term thinking, and a culture of service to nation
and community
• Bridge divides and foster ties through constructive, evidence-based public discussion,
free of insult or intimidation
• Recognize a fundamental obligation to provide for those in need or at risk while promoting
a culture of responsibility
• Commit to bold, pragmatic solutions that address income and opportunity inequality and
reinvigorate our education system

RESPONSBILITY: INVEST FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS

• Meet our nation’s needs and challenges in a manner that is fiscally responsible and limits burdens
on future generations
• Protect the planet for future generations while responsibly leveraging our natural resources to drive
economic growth

LIBERTY: PROTECT OUR LIBERTIES

• Champion diversity and protect people’s inalienable right to pursue their version of the American
dream without question or interference

ENTREPRENEURSHIP: EMBRACE AMERICA’S ENTREPRENEURIAL SPIRIT

• Embrace the efficiency of free markets as the foundational backbone of liberty and American prosperity
• Promote free trade, attract the best of the world’s talent, and reject policies of retreat or isolationism
• Harness the power of technological innovation to modernize government and deliver practical and
targeted solutions to our common needs
• Create tax systems that are simple, transparent, fair, and free of market-distorting incentives

SECURITY: ACHIEVE SECURITY THROUGH STRENGTH AND PRINCIPLE

• Ensure that the guardians of our domestic and national security always have the tools and support
they need
• Advance American leadership and security and support human rights and democracy around
the world

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A NEW PARTY
FOR A
NEW MAJORITY
VISION & PLAN
THE PROBLEM
The American political system has been hijacked by the two incumbent political parties.
They act as an entrenched duopoly, determined to protect their shared dominance and are
content to pass the baton of power back and forth between themselves as long as no one
else has access to it. They consistently produce candidates and results that serve their own
interests rather than the interests of the American people.

OUR GOAL
To break the self-interested stranglehold the two entrenched parties hold over our politics
and reclaim our voice, our future and our country.

OUR PLAN
We are dedicated to building a new political party for a new American majority from the
ground up. We will be an alternative to the two entrenched parties both of whom place
partisan purity and tribal allegiance ahead of service to the American people.

SAM was formed in 2016. In 2017, we created a political committee for the early stages of
development. We will transition into an official political party when we achieve well-defined
organizational benchmarks.

We will seek to affiliate with like-minded groups in all 50 states and to work with a new
generation of political leaders. We will support selected candidates for elective office during
the 2018 cycle in association with our affiliated and allied state organizations.

We will move as quickly as possible to build grassroots support, achieve ballot access and
advocate for voter and election reform in all states and territories.

We plan to be ready to participate in the 2020 presidential election – depending on the

political environment, the speed at which we’ve been able to achieve ballot access and how
our state organizations choose to participate.

This is a moonshot. There are no shortcuts. There will be no easy days. We are determined
to bring together Americans across the country, in all cities, states and communities to build
a new majority for the 21st century.

We can’t do it without you.

TO LEARN MORE AND JOIN SAM, VISIT WWW.JOINSAM.ORG.

A NEW PARTY
FOR A
NEW MAJORITY
RECLAIM OUR FUTURE:
C A N D I DAT E C R I T E R I A
It’s time for a re-imagined political party built from the ground up,
focused on creating a more united, prosperous, and healthier America.
WE WILL SEEK AND RECRUIT A NEW GENERATION
OF CANDIDATES WHO:
• Embrace and represent our core Founding Principles, Values, and
Priorities
• Will act in accordance with the belief that the interests of the nation
should come before the interests of politicians and political parties
• Will pave the way for productive dialogue to make progress on
major issues
• Will encourage innovative ideas to solve problems
• Are independent-minded and committed to operating outside the
entrenched political duopoly
• Have a history of uncompromising personal and professional
integrity

TOGETHER, WE’LL CREATE AMERICA’S POLITICAL RENAISSANCE.

TO LEARN MORE AND JOIN SAM, VISIT WWW.JOINSAM.ORG.

A NEW PARTY
FOR A
NEW MAJORITY
ELECTION REFORM PROPOSALS

ISSUE PROPOSAL

Establish non-partisan commissions in

which the power to draw districts is taken
End Partisan Gerrymandering
out of the hands of self-interested
politicians and returned to the citizens.

Repeal sore loser laws as they are antithetical

to the American democratic process and
Repeal Sore Loser Laws serve only to limit voter choice, protect the
privileged position of two major parties, and
squash political competition.

Shine a bright light on all “dark money”

political expenditures and require that the
Reform Campaign Finance Disclosure source of all election related expenditures
be clearly and immediately disclosed to
the public.

Advocate for “top four” non-partisan primary

elections and for Ranked Choice Voting in
Give Voters More Election Choices General Elections so that all voters, regardless of
party affiliation, have an equal and greater voice
in primaries and in General Elections.

Eliminate all unnecessary barriers to the right

to vote so that any and all eligible Americans
Expand Voter Registration and Voter Access can easily and inexpensively register to vote
and cast their vote. Disenfranchisement of any
kind is un-American.

Increase voter choice, encourage new

candidates to run for office, and foster
Improve Ballot Access competition by removing the barriers to ballot
access that the two major parties use to
protect their privileged position.

TO LEARN MORE AND JOIN SAM,

VISIT WWW.JOINSAM.ORG.