Trying to replace virtually everyone in Congress in one fell swoop may sound like a daunting project, but we believe there's now a way to do this by running a single unified campaign that all of America can get excited about and participate in.

April 2016

Propose this idea to the Bernie movement and to America

We're pitching this idea to volunteers in the Bernie movement, and getting to work with people who like it.

May 2016 to
February 2017

Recruit candidates and organizers

We will ask supporters to set up house meetings around the country and use these to establish local search committees for candidates. We will recruit more organizers from these house parties for the campaign for all the districts in the country.

March 2017

Announce all 400+ candidates

We will make announcements prior to this when we reach 10 and 100 candidates, fueling our volunteer base and donations each time.

Our candidates will be working people from many backgrounds and fields who:

Are good at what they do.
Are proven servants to their communities, families, friends.
Have consistently passed on opportunities to sell out.
In general, have never held or sought public office.
Agree completely on a unified economic, social justice, and climate change platform.

January 2017 to
November 2018

Campaign, campaign, campaign

We're going to challenge incumbents in their primaries—both Republicans and Democrats—with a unified campaign that America can believe in and will actually pay attention to. By running a unified campaign, we'll be able to:

Create enough excitement nationally that new voters will register and vote in congressional primaries, all of which historically have very low turnout
Massively scale voter contact: our national volunteer force will overwhelm incumbents tiny paid local staff.
Gain huge economies of scale in advertising, direct mail, and staffing.
Use one constantly-improving campaign infrastructure as we move from election to election.
Let candidates focus on the issues instead of the logistics of running a campaign.

January 2019 to
Who Knows When

Govern!

Hopefully, we'll win a super majority in the House and take a big bite out of the Senate. In that case, we'll pass our program in the House and rally the American people to convince their Senators to support it.

But if we don't get a majority, this is what we'll do:

Stake out high profile battles over things that really matter to America: jobs, criminal justice reform, the environment and more.
Use our presence in Congress and our national grassroots movement to shine a light on entrenched corruption every single day, as the remnants of the establishment fight to protect their special interest patrons.
Never stop campaigning as a national movement for more seats until we get the super majority we need to make real change!