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The American Mainspring Project

A Human-Centered Democracy for the 21st Century

Systems should serve people.
Not the other way around.

America does not lack wealth, talent, technology, or workers. What it lacks is a set of systems that turn those strengths into stable, dignified lives. The American Mainspring Project is a plan to fix that: build what people need, repair what no longer works, and make systems serve human life.

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“This is not a fight between big government and small government. The better question is whether a system works for the people it is supposed to serve.”

What We Believe

We are not anti-market. We are anti-extraction. We are not anti-government. We are anti-broken-government. We are not anti-growth. We are for growth that produces stable, dignified, human lives. This is not nostalgia. It is renewal.

The Governing Framework

Five promises, delivered by ten pillars

  1. 1Make government work.
  2. 2Build enough, build well.
  3. 3Guarantee the foundations of a dignified life.
  4. 4Share the gains of innovation.
  5. 5Protect and renew democracy.
01 Human-Centered Democracy 02 Government That Works 03 Foundations of a Dignified Life 04 Build Enough, Build Well 05 Climate Renewal & Resilience 06 Innovation With Public Return 07 Fair Markets, Fair Work 08 Humane Safety & Justice 09 Civic Life & Service 10 Democratic Security

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Built on Evidence

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Every plank names real programs, studies, and precedents - automatic voter registration that already works and is bipartisan, the trillions spent invisibly through the tax code, the housing shortage we wrote into law. The platform is meant to be argued with on the merits.

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“Set aside the team you were told to root for. Think for yourself. Decide whether this is what change could look like for you and the people you love.”

- The American Mainspring Project

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