The Sanity Project

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Contents

Preamble

PART ONE: How Democracy Must Function

1A — Executive Accountability

1. Restore and Codify DOJ and Judicial Independence

2. Comprehensive Anti-Corruption Framework

1B — Legislative Accountability

3. Congressional Term Limits

4. Campaign Finance Transparency and Spending Limits

1C — Judicial Accountability

5. Supreme Court Nomination and Confirmation Reform

6. Federal Judiciary Term Limits

7. Mandatory Judicial Ethics and Recusal Standards

1D — Electoral Integrity

8. Ban on Mid-Census Partisan Gerrymandering

9. Federal Election Security and Voting Access Standards

PART TWO: What We Stand For

2A — Economic Security and Fairness

10. Social Security Solvency: Remove the Tax Cap

11. Prescription Drug Pricing Reform

12. Minimum Effective Tax Rate for Ultrahigh Earners

13. Housing Affordability: Supply, Access, and Stability

14. Small Business and Main Street Investment

15. Fiscal Responsibility and Honest Budgeting

16. Invest in America’s Energy Generation and Transmission

2B — Health, Science, and Public Safety

17. Single-Payer Healthcare: A Path to Universal Coverage

18. Break the Cycle: A National Framework for Addiction, Mental Health, and Public Safety

19. Restore America’s Scientific and Public Health Leadership

20. Protect America’s Disaster Preparedness Infrastructure — Sky, Land, and Science

2C — Rights, Opportunity, and Equal Justice

21. Restore and Codify Federal Civil Rights Enforcement

22. Equal Opportunity and Non-Discrimination in Federal Policy

23. Veterans Care: Full Funding and Accountability

2D — Immigration and Workforce

24. Comprehensive Immigration Reform

2E — American Leadership at Home and Abroad

25. Restore American Global Leadership and Treaty Reliability

26. Information Ecosystem: Local News, Media Independence, and Press Freedom

PART THREE: How We Pay For It

3A — Defense Realignment: Fund the Next War, Not the Last One

3B — Immigration Enforcement: Right-Sized for Outcomes

3C — What the Watchdogs Actually Find

3D — Revenue Already in the Platform

3E — What the Platform Costs

3F — The Bottom Line

Document Notes

Summation

Citations

Preamble

The American left/liberals/progressives have spent the last decade losing arguments they should be winning. Not because its policies are wrong, but because Democratic candidates have spent more time opposing what the other side is doing than making the affirmative case for what they would do instead.

That is not a winning strategy. When voters are asked what they want from government, their answers line up remarkably well with what Democratic candidates have spent decades proposing: 

• Negotiated drug prices
• Solvent Social Security
• Universal health coverage
• Reduced deficit 
• Functional infrastructure
• Voting rights
• Independent courts
• A government that enforces laws on the books instead of dismantling the agencies charged with enforcing them.

The problem is not the policy. The problem is that “Democrat” has become — for too many voters, in too many places — a toxic caricature assembled from culture-war shorthand: pronouns, “snowflakes,” and “woke.”

The Sanity Project is an attempt to put the substance back in front of that shorthand.

What follows is 26 affirmative commitments — each one anchored in:

• Documented majority public support
• Legislation that has already been introduced
• Evidence of workability
• Urgency so clear that the cost of inaction overwhelms any argument against action. 
• In addition, every fiscal figure in the platform is anchored in nonpartisan scoring from the Congressional Budget Office, the Government Accountability Office, the Office of Management and Budget, the Joint Committee on Taxation, or the Treasury Department.
• And each is budget-neutral at worst — budget-positive in most circumstances. This is not a spending wish list, but a set of steps toward a balanced budget.

The platform is organized into three parts. 

1. The first addresses how democracy must function — nine specific institutional guardrails, enforcement mechanisms, and procedural norms that make democracy possible regardless of who holds power. 
2. The second addresses what Democrats advocate — seventeen policy commitments that a majority of Americans support, that Democrats have championed for decades, and that no recent Congress has been willing to enact. 
3. The third addresses how we pay for it — the arithmetic showing that the platform is not a fiscal fantasy, but a reallocation of money the federal government is already spending in the wrong places.

This document is transparently partisan, but it does not ask readers to accept the totality of Democratic Party orthodoxy, the personalities of its leaders, or the missteps of its past. It does not include polarizing issues like abortion access or gun rights, but focuses on points of voter agreement. That’s how elections are won, and how the American electorate is properly served.

If you read what follows carefully and find more here that you agree with than oppose, then voting Democratic in 2026 is not a leap. It’s sanity.

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