Updates, letters, and notes from the movement.
I think I’m finally figuring out what this whole crazy experiment has been about. I’ve talked to almost 100 strangers. Different ages, different backgrounds, different politics, different lives. And somewhere along the way, some of these strangers stopped feeling like strangers. I’ve made connections. I’ve developed relationships. And ironically, during the same period, I’ve lost […]
About a week ago, I started walking up to complete strangers and asking them four simple questions. And you know what happened? I started having fun. I mean, really having fun. Because when you actually sit down and talk to people—not Democrats, not Republicans, not demographics, not algorithms—just people—you discover something pretty amazing: We’re basically […]
I want to talk about something that keeps coming up in these interviews I’m doing. Voting. More specifically, why in the hell is it still so difficult to vote? Think about the world we live in. For more than 20 years, I’ve been banking on the internet. I pay the IRS on the internet. I’ve […]
So tomorrow I go looking for number 81. Twenty people left. And when I get to number 100, I’m not going to ask: “What did I learn?” I’m going to ask: “Okay. Now what are we going to do with it?” Because listening was phase one. Phase two is citizenship. If you’re tired of sitting […]
THE TRUTH PARTY FOR DUMMIES Okay, apparently I’ve made this too complicated. So let’s try again. What the hell is the Truth Party? It’s pretty simple. We want ordinary people back in the game. Not Republicans. Not Democrats. Citizens. People who pay attention, ask questions, vote, participate, and hold the people running this country accountable. […]
I want to propose something radical. Not radical because it’s complicated. Radical because it’s simple. Here’s the deal. If you’re an American corporation, you pay 25% of your profits in taxes. Period. Not 25% after 700 accountants spend six months figuring out where the profits were made. Not 25% unless you have the right deduction, […]