A Declaration of Independence — for the Majority.

When, in the course of two and a half centuries

When, in the course of two and a half centuries, it becomes necessary for one bloc of a people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with parties that no longer represent them, a decent respect for the opinions of their fellow citizens requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to that separation.

We do not declare independence from our country. We declare independence from a duopoly that has captured it. We declare independence from a system that asks us to sort ourselves into one of two teams in November, and then ignores both teams' voters from January through October.

We are the majority

One hundred seventeen million Americans now identify as politically independent. That is more than the registered membership of either major party. It is more than both parties' bases combined in any given general election turnout. We are not a fringe. We are not undecided. We are not "low-information." We are the largest, most consistent, most cross-pressured political coalition in modern American life — and we have been treated, for forty years, as a tiebreaker rather than a constituency.

We are not asking for a third party. A third party is the duopoly's solution to its own decay: split the difference, fundraise off the spoiler, divide the disaffected into a third box. We reject the box. The problem is not that the menu is too short. The problem is that the kitchen has stopped cooking.

We hold these truths to be self-evident

A long train of failures

The history of the present two-party system is a history of repeated abdications, all having in direct object the maintenance of incumbency over the will of supermajorities. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid people.

In every stage of these failures, the people have petitioned for redress in the most humble terms — through polls, town halls, ballot initiatives, and three generations of letters to their members of Congress. Our repeated petitions have been answered only by repeated re-elections.

We, therefore, do declare

We, the politically independent of these United States, in the year of our Republic's two hundred and fiftieth, appealing to the good faith of our fellow citizens for the rectitude of our intentions, do solemnly publish and declare:

That we are, and of right ought to be, free from the obligation to register, vote, donate, or speak as members of either of the two existing parties.

That our votes are ours to cast on the merits of the candidate, the record, and the position — not on the color of the jersey.

That a vote against majority opinion is a vote that demands an explanation, regardless of which party casts it.

That we will measure our representatives by what they do, not by who they fundraise against.

Our pledge to you

A declaration without a discipline is a slogan. Here is the discipline TheMajority.us commits to, in writing, on this page, where you can hold us to it:

On the 250th

The men who signed the original Declaration in Philadelphia in 1776 were not founding a party. They were dissolving a relationship that had stopped working. Two and a half centuries later, on July 4, 2026, our Republic celebrates its semiquincentennial — and a different relationship has stopped working. The two-party duopoly is not a king. But it has the same effect on a people whose preferences it consistently ignores.

We are not asking you to leave your country. We are asking you to leave a habit. The habit of voting against the side you fear instead of for the policies you support. The habit of mistaking a primary for a choice. The habit of accepting that 60% support translates to 0% legislation. We can do better. We have, before. We will again.

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