Citizens United v. FEC (2010) produced a documented relationship between concentrated financial power and policy outcomes in which average citizens have near-zero independent impact after controlling for elite preferences. The Federalist Society's fifty-year judicial pipeline has produced a Supreme Court whose decisions reflect generational ideological engineering rather than the population's evolution. These are not natural conditions. They are the products of named decisions that named decisions can change.

Specific Demands

• Repeal Citizens United through constitutional amendment — restore campaign finance limits to end the documented oligarchic capture of policy outcomes.

• 18-year staggered term limits for Supreme Court justices — preventing generational capture and ensuring the court reflects the population's evolution.

• Binding judicial ethics standards for the Supreme Court — addressing documented conflicts of interest with no current accountability mechanism.

• Age limits for elected officials — reducing the gerontocracy of American political leadership and its distance from the communities most harmed by its decisions.

• Anti-gerrymandering legislation and independent redistricting commissions in all states.

• Restore and strengthen the Voting Rights Act gutted by Shelby County v. Holder (2013).

The racial wealth gap is the compound interest on named federal exclusions — the GI Bill's discriminatory administration, the FHA's racial covenants, the USDA's systematic loan denial, Social Security's original occupational exclusions. The debt is documented, measurable, and owed by the institutional successors of the actors who produced it. The Evanston model, the German Holocaust reparations program, and the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 for Japanese American internment establish the legal and institutional precedent. The acknowledgment has not been made. The repair has not been delivered.

Specific Demands

• Pass H.R. 40 — the Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans — and advance it to implementation.

• Federal acknowledgment of the specific documented harms of slavery and its successors — named programs, named agencies, named decisions.

• Material repair of the racial wealth gap through a dedicated federal reparations program grounded in the documented economic history.

• Reparations for Haiti — formal acknowledgment of the $20 billion equivalent debt extracted for Haitian independence and its compounding economic consequences.

• Acknowledgment and repair of forced sterilization programs targeting Black, Indigenous, and disabled women — documented through as recently as 2010.

• Repair of USDA-documented land theft from Black farmers — 14 million acres to 2 million acres across the 20th century.

The United States has attempted to pass universal or near-universal healthcare legislation six times since 1912. Each failure was produced by a specific, documented combination of industry lobbying and political calculation — not by the absence of a viable mechanism. An estimated 45,000 Americans die annually from lack of health insurance. Every other wealthy nation has solved this problem through a variety of mechanisms. The United States has chosen not to. That is policy violence — named actors, documented harm, preventable with different decisions.

Specific Demands

• Universal healthcare coverage — through Medicare for All, a robust public option, or a multi-payer system with universal coverage requirements.

• Repeal the Hyde Amendment — end the prohibition on federal Medicaid funding for abortion that makes reproductive healthcare a right for those who can afford it and not for those who cannot.

• Expand and fully fund Title X family planning — restore and increase funding for the reproductive healthcare infrastructure that serves 4 million low-income patients annually.

• End Medicare drug price prohibition — require Medicare to negotiate pharmaceutical prices as every comparable nation does.

• Address the Black maternal mortality crisis as a federal public health emergency with named accountability, funded infrastructure, and measurable outcome targets.

The federal minimum wage has been $7.25 since 2009 — the longest period without an increase in the history of the federal minimum wage. A full-time worker at that wage earns approximately $15,000 annually against a federal poverty line of $30,000 for a family of four. Union membership has declined from 34.8% at its peak to approximately 10% today — a documented consequence of deliberate policy decisions. The gig economy's independent contractor classification extracts full-time labor while eliminating full-time employment obligations. The Thirteenth Amendment's exception clause makes prison labor constitutional and compensates it below minimum wage. These are named decisions with documented consequences and available alternatives.

Specific Demands

• Federal living wage indexed to inflation — ending the decade-plus wage freeze and ensuring purchasing power is maintained without periodic political battles.

• Pass the PRO Act — restore effective labor organizing rights, eliminate captive audience meetings, and strengthen NLRB enforcement.

• Reclassify gig workers as employees — close the independent contractor loophole that extracts labor value while eliminating employer obligations.

• Abolish the sub-minimum wage for tipped workers — a post-Civil War institution designed to make Black service workers' wages dependent on white customers' goodwill.

• Progressive wealth tax on net worth above defined thresholds — reversing four decades of regressive tax policy that has produced documented dynastic wealth accumulation.

• Repeal the Thirteenth Amendment's exception clause — end the constitutional permission for prison labor that has sustained convict leasing from 1865 to the present.

The American housing crisis is not a market failure — it is a market functioning as designed around the racial and economic exclusions the FHA's racial covenants and HOLC's redlining maps built into the infrastructure of homeownership. Environmental racism is the documented pattern of siting industrial facilities, waste dumps, and pollution sources in communities of color — a pattern so consistent that race is a stronger predictor of proximity to toxic facilities than income. Both are produced by named decisions. Both require structural intervention, not better programs within the existing structure.

Specific Demands

• Eliminate exclusionary zoning — condition federal infrastructure funding on local zoning reform that ends the land use architecture that concentrates poverty by design.

• Fully fund the National Housing Trust Fund — close the documented affordable housing gap of 7.3 million units nationally.

• Expand and enforce tenant protections — eviction prevention, just cause eviction requirements, and anti-discriminatory rental screening.

• Mandatory cumulative impact assessment for all industrial permitting in documented overburdened communities — before any new permit, not after community opposition builds.

• Restore and fund the EPA Office of Environmental Justice — with independent enforcement authority protected from political capture.

• Federal climate justice framework — addressing the documented disproportionate burden of climate consequences on communities of color through investment, infrastructure, and just transition policy.

The criminal justice system traces from slave patrols established in 1704 through the Black Codes of 1865 through the Thirteenth Amendment's exception clause to the present prison industrial complex generating $450 million in Alabama prison labor revenue in 2023. The immigration system has recruited labor through the Bracero Program and criminalized the same population when economic convenience demanded it. Both systems extract maximum labor value from racially targeted workers using the threat of state violence and incarceration as the coercive force. Both require structural dismantling, not reform.

Specific Demands

• End qualified immunity — restore civil rights accountability for police violence through legislative reform of 42 U.S.C. Section 1983.

• End for-profit immigration detention — terminate ICE contracts with private prison companies whose business model requires filled detention beds.

• Pass comprehensive immigration reform with a pathway to citizenship — ending the recruit-when-needed, criminalize-when-convenient labor control architecture.

• End mandatory minimums and the sentencing disparities that produce documented racial outcomes across equivalent offenses.

• Invest in community-based alternatives to policing and incarceration — mental health crisis response, violence interruption programs, and restorative justice infrastructure.