Party platforms
What each party officially says it stands for — captured from the source, origin-signed, and broken into plain-language planks so you can see the topics that matter.
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Democratic Party
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- Economic Recovery — Democrats created nearly 16 million jobs and achieved the fastest economic growth rate among major economies, with wages rising fastest for lower-income workers and erasing 40 percent of the wage inequality gap in four years.
- Infrastructure Investment — Democrats are rebuilding America's roads, bridges, ports, airports, water systems, broadband, and rail through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, with projects breaking ground across 4,500 communities nationwide.
- Manufacturing and Supply Chains — Democrats passed the CHIPS and Science Act to restore American semiconductor production and the Inflation Reduction Act to invest in renewable energy and electric vehicles domestically.
- Job Training and Apprenticeships — Democrats are expanding job-training partnerships between high schools, community colleges, unions, and employers, with one million trainees currently enrolled in registered apprenticeships.
- Union Support and Worker Rights — Democrats support passing the Protecting the Right to Organize Act to give workers the right to organize for better pay and benefits, and oppose state right-to-work laws that drive down wages.
- Wage and Labor Protections — Democrats raised the minimum wage for federal contractors to $17.20 per hour, made millions more workers eligible for overtime pay, and recovered over $750 million in wages for workers wrongly denied pay.
- Small Business Support — Democrats invested a record $12 billion in Community Development Finance Institutions and achieved a historic small-business boom with 18 million new business applications filed since President Biden took office.
- Postal Service — Democrats are committed to supporting a public U.S. Postal Service and will fight all efforts to privatize it while ensuring its financial sustainability.
- Tax Fairness — Democrats will fix the tax system so the wealthy and big corporations pay their fair share while cutting taxes for working families.
- Health Care Costs — Democrats lowered families' health insurance premiums and stood up to Big Pharma to lower prescription drug prices.
- Student Debt Relief — Democrats are forgiving millions of crushing student loans to help reduce the burden on borrowers.
- Gun Safety — Democrats passed the first significant gun safety law in decades and made record investments in public safety, resulting in violent crime at its lowest in 50 years.
- Climate Change and Clean Energy — Democrats are fighting climate change through record investments in clean energy, reducing pollution, and creating a clean energy boom with over 80,000 megawatts of new clean power capacity added.
- Child Care and Paid Leave — Democrats provided additional support to 220,000 child care centers serving millions of kids to help working parents.
- Border Security — Democrats are seizing record amounts of fentanyl and securing the border in the face of Republican inaction.
- Reproductive Freedom — Democrats will restore the right to choose regarding women's health care decisions against those seeking to dictate these decisions.
- Voting Rights — Democrats are committed to protecting voting rights and making it easier to vote against efforts to restrict ballot access.
- Tribal Nations — Democrats support tribes as they advocate for the United States to uphold treaty and trust responsibilities, and applaud the federal recognition of the Prairie Band of Potawatomi Nation in 2024.
Green Party
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- Defense Budget — The United States government must reduce its defense budget to half of its current size.
- Campaign Finance Reform — Provide full public financing of federal, state and local elections and amend the U.S. Constitution to define money as not a form of free speech and authorize regulation of campaign contributions and spending.
- Electoral Reform — Enact proportional representation voting systems for legislative seats and ranked-choice voting for chief executive offices to ensure fair representation and eliminate vote-splitting.
- Abolish Electoral College — Abolish the Electoral College and provide for direct national election of the president by ranked-choice voting.
- Abolish Senate — Abolish the U.S. Senate by constitutional amendment and until then require all state U.S. Senate seats be elected by ranked-choice voting.
- Voting Rights — Enact a national right to vote law and constitutional amendment ensuring every citizen of legal voting age has the fundamental right to vote in their jurisdiction.
- Voter Registration — Establish same-day registration and universal automatic voter registration through state and federal legislation to ensure eligible voters can register and vote on the same day.
- Felon Voting Rights — Allow felon voting while incarcerated and restore full citizenship rights to felons upon completion of their sentence, including the right to run for elected office.
- Election Day Holiday — Make Election Day a national holiday and/or have weekend elections to increase voter participation.
- Ballot Access — Eliminate all ballot access laws and rules that discriminate against smaller parties and independents and establish national readily achievable baseline standards for ballot access.
- Voting System Security — Establish guarantees that every citizen's vote is counted and that all voting systems are verifiable, transparent and accurate with publicly-owned open source voting equipment and mandatory automatic random precinct recounts.
- Congressional Ethics — Prohibit all individual stock trading by members of Congress and their spouses, expand revolving-door lobbying cooling-off periods to at least two years, and require outside counsel to investigate ethics complaints.
- Judicial Ethics — Establish binding ethics requirements for Supreme Court judges and strengthen existing ethics requirements for other federal jurists to address financial conflicts of interest and require annual financial disclosures.
- Presidential Debate Access — Create a new publicly-funded People's Commission on Presidential Debates open to all candidates on enough ballots to represent a majority of the Electoral College and meeting public financing thresholds.
- Freedom of Information — Expand the Freedom of Information Act to apply to Congressional records and create a Congressional Records Act to prohibit the destruction of potentially important documents.
- District of Columbia Statehood — Enact statehood for the District of Columbia and ensure that citizens have the same rights and representation as all other U.S. citizens.
- Preregistration of Youth Voters — Establish preregistration of sixteen- and seventeen-year-olds through state legislation and provide educational opportunities for them to practice voting as part of the preregistration process.
- None of the Above Voting Option — Include the option to vote for a binding None of the Above on all party primary and general election ballots.
- Federal Election Commission — Replace the Federal Election Commission with a vigorous watchdog empowered to enforce federal campaign finance laws.
- Grassroots Democracy — Strengthen civil society and mediating institutions at the community level to repair alienation and apathy and bring vibrant grassroots democracy to every part of the United States.
Libertarian Party
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- Self-Ownership — Individuals own their bodies and have the freedom and responsibility to decide what they knowingly and voluntarily consume and what risks they accept to their own health, finances, safety, or life.
- Freedom of Expression — The party supports full freedom of expression and opposes government censorship, regulation, or control of communications media and technology, and holds that offensive language is not a cause for legal action.
- Privacy — The party advocates individual privacy and government transparency, supporting Fourth Amendment protections including securing records held by third parties such as email, medical, and library records.
- Personal Relationships — Sexual orientation, preference, gender, or gender identity should have no impact on government treatment of individuals, and the party opposes government authority to define, promote, license, or restrict personal relationships.
- Parental Rights — Parents have the right to raise their children according to their own standards and beliefs while protecting children's rights to be free from abuse and neglect.
- Adult Autonomy — Individuals presumed to have adequate judgment to vote and serve on juries should also be presumed to have sufficient judgment to decide their own use of alcohol, tobacco, firearms, cannabis, and other restricted activities.
- Criminal Justice Reform — The party favors repeal of all laws creating victimless crimes such as drug use and consensual sexual services, and supports restitution to victims and the abolition of qualified immunity for law enforcement and prosecutors.
- Death Penalty — The party opposes the administration of the death penalty by the state.
- Second Amendment Rights — The party affirms the individual right to keep and bear arms and opposes all laws restricting, registering, or monitoring the ownership, manufacture, or transfer of firearms and ammunition.
- Property Rights — Property rights are fundamental, and owners should be free to control and enjoy their property without government restrictions including eminent domain, civil asset forfeiture, and price controls.
- Environmental Protection — The party believes competitive free markets and property rights stimulate innovations needed to protect the environment, and damages to the environment should require restitution through courts of law.
- Energy Policy — Government should not subsidize any particular form of energy and should not control energy pricing, allocation, and production.
- Taxation — The party opposes all government taxation as a violation of individual rights and strives for the eventual repeal of all taxation, including the income tax and abolishment of the Internal Revenue Service.
- Government Debt — Government should not incur debt that burdens future generations, and the party supports a balanced budget amendment cutting expenditures rather than raising taxes.
- Free Market Banking — The party favors free-market banking with unrestricted competition and opposes government guarantees or bailouts that impose risks of losses upon others.
- Education — Education is best provided by the free market, and parents should have control of and responsibility for all funds expended for their children's education without government interference.
- Health Care Freedom — The party favors a free market health care system where medical facilities, providers, and products are freely available without government restrictions, and individuals have freedom to determine their insurance and treatment choices.
- Occupational Licensing — The party opposes occupational and other licensing laws that infringe on the right to earn an honest living and encourages voluntary certifications by professional associations.
- Sex Work Decriminalization — The party supports the decriminalization of prostitution and the right of consenting adults to provide and purchase sexual services for compensation.
- Labor Markets — Employment agreements between employers and employees should not be encumbered by government-mandated benefits or social engineering, and workers should be free to unionize without government interference.
- National Defense — The party supports maintaining a sufficient military to defend the United States against aggression but opposes entangling alliances and acting as policeman for the world.
- Free Trade and Immigration — The party supports removal of governmental impediments to free trade and the unrestricted movement of human and financial capital across national borders.
- Anti-Discrimination — Government should neither deny nor abridge any individual's human rights based on race, ethnicity, sex, wealth, creed, age, national origin, or sexual orientation, while private organizations retain rights to set their own association stand
- Electoral Reform — The party supports election systems more representative of the electorate such as proportional representation and alternative voting systems, and opposes laws that exclude alternative candidates or deny ballot access.
- Self-Determination — The party recognizes the right to political self-determination, including secession, and the right of people to alter or abolish destructive forms of government without requiring permission from others.
Republican Party
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- Border Security — Republicans will complete the border wall, shift federal law enforcement to immigration enforcement, use advanced technology to monitor the border, deploy troops to the southern border, and deploy the U.S. Navy to impose a fentanyl blockade
- Deportation — Republicans will reverse open borders policies and carry out the largest deportation program in American history, sending illegal aliens back home and removing those who have violated laws.
- Energy Production — Republicans will unleash American energy production from all sources including nuclear, lift restrictions on energy production, and make the United States energy independent and dominant.
- Inflation — Republicans will defeat inflation by unleashing American energy, reining in wasteful spending, cutting regulations, securing borders, and restoring peace through strength.
- Tax Policy — Republicans will make permanent the Trump Tax Cuts and Jobs Act provisions and eliminate taxes on tips for restaurant and hospitality workers.
- Manufacturing — Republicans will restore American manufacturing, bring critical supply chains back home, and make the United States a manufacturing superpower through fair trade and protecting workers from unfair foreign competition.
- Fair Trade — Republicans will support baseline tariffs on foreign-made goods, pass the Trump Reciprocal Trade Act, respond to unfair trading practices, and revoke China's Most Favored Nation status.
- Social Security and Medicare — Republicans will protect Social Security and Medicare with no cuts and no changes to the retirement age.
- Education — Republicans will promote school choice, restore parental rights in education, end critical race theory and gender indoctrination, and close the Department of Education in Washington D.C. to return education to the states.
- School Safety — Republicans will support overhauling school discipline standards, advocate for immediate suspension of violent students, and support hardening schools to prevent violence.
- Law and Order — Republicans will restore safety by replenishing police departments, restoring common sense policing, protecting officers from frivolous lawsuits, and standing up to Marxist prosecutors.
- Veterans Benefits — Republicans will end luxury housing and taxpayer benefits for illegal immigrants and use those savings to shelter and treat homeless veterans.
- Second Amendment — Republicans will defend the fundamental right to keep and bear arms as part of defending the Constitution, Bill of Rights, and fundamental freedoms.
- Healthcare — Republicans will increase transparency, promote choice and competition, and expand access to affordable healthcare and prescription drug options.
- Housing Affordability — Republicans will reduce mortgage rates by slashing inflation, open limited portions of federal lands for new home construction, and promote homeownership through tax incentives.
- Religious Freedom — Republicans will champion the First Amendment right to pray and read the Bible in school and stand up to those who violate the religious freedoms of American students.
- Military Strength — Republicans will ensure America's military is the strongest and best-equipped in the world and use that strength sparingly and only when national interests are threatened.
- Women's Sports — Republicans will keep men out of women's sports.
- Election Security — Republicans will secure elections through same day voting, voter identification requirements, paper ballots, and proof of citizenship.