Preamble party

About the Preamble Party

Fixing Systems—Not Feeding the Machine

The Preamble Party isn’t a brand. It’s a pressure system—built to expose and reform the structural failures in American governance: misaligned incentives, overcomplicated laws, and representation that flows upward instead of outward.

No utopias. No mascots. Just a functional blueprint for reducing political friction and forcing accountability through structure, not sentiment.

What We’re Building

1. Proximity by Design

  • Monthly Online Town Halls: Real-time forums with issue dashboards and constituent feedback summaries
  • Voting Dashboards: Public maps showing how elected officials align—or don’t—with their district’s stated priorities

2. Laws People Can Understand

  • Plain Language Rewrites: Every proposed law comes with a public-readable draft alongside its legal format
  • Sunset Reviews: Any law that expands government power is automatically reviewed or expires if not reaffirmed

3. Transparency That Exposes

  • Spending Receipts: Real-time public insight into how tax dollars are spent, down to the agency level
  • Lobbyist Livestreams: Closed-door meetings are banned. No recording, no influence.

4. Prison Reform That Ends Perverse Incentives

  • End Poverty Prosecution: Prioritize alternatives for nonviolent charges tied to homelessness, addiction, or survival crimes
  • Mandatory Skill Training: Prison contracts must include accredited job training and reentry programs
  • Capacity-Based Contracts: End per-inmate payment models—prisons are paid based on safe, empty beds

5. Civic Infrastructure for the 21st Century

  • Secure Mobile Voting Pilots: Limited statewide trials of tamper-resistant mobile platforms
  • Automatic Registration: Opt-out registration tied to ID/DMV interactions
  • Participation Rewards: Rebates and credits linked to civic engagement—without coercion

6. Representation That Mirrors the People

  • Median Income Indexing: Legislators earn no more than 130% of their district’s median income
  • Donate the Difference: Any income above that threshold funds local community reinvestment
  • No Show, No Pay: Miss votes, miss checks. Simple.

7. Core Systemic Corrections

  • Law Format Reform: All legal code must include cross-indexing, internal redundancy checks, and public readability requirements
  • Emergency Power Review: Time-limited authority with mandatory public reporting and reaffirmation after 90 days
  • Public Algorithm Oversight: Any algorithm used by government to influence rights, benefits, or sentencing must be documented, testable, and publicly disclosed

Our Rules of Operation

  • Term Limits with Teeth: 12-year lifetime cap on all federally elected service
  • Transparent Contributions: All donations over $100 publicly logged
  • Quarterly Report Cards: Constituents get public scorecards on attendance, donor impact, and alignment with district feedback

What We Actually Believe

We’re not here to argue ideologies. We’re here to fix the wiring. If the system can’t survive transparency, it doesn’t belong in a democracy. If it only works when “the good guys” win, it’s not a system worth keeping.

This isn’t about left or right—it’s about inertia. It’s about power drifting upward and accountability breaking down. We don’t want control. We want function. And we want it built to survive contact with real people, real needs, and real problems.

If that’s not politics to you, that’s fine. It’s just structure. And structure works—when it’s built for pressure.