Adapted from Serbia's Studentski plan
The U.S.
Student Plan.
Not left versus right. Captured institutions versus everyone else. Eleven bills, two pillars of consensus — and a binding contract any candidate must sign to get our ground game.
Read the 11 points ↓Dismantling Institutional Capture
- 01
Independent Public Integrity Office
An insulated federal office with subpoena and prosecutorial power to investigate bribery, undisclosed gifts in Congress and the judiciary, and dark-money coordination.
Read the bill → - 02
Stock Ban & Lifetime Lobbying Ban
No individual stock trading for Congress, senior officials, and federal judges. Lifetime lobbying ban for ex-lawmakers, with clawbacks of wealth gained from insider knowledge.
Read the bill → - 03
Federal Contract & Defense Audit Act
Line-item public disclosure of infrastructure, defense, and tech contracts. Automatic Inspector General audits at 20% over budget.
Read the bill → - 04
Algorithmic Transparency & Local Media
Open engagement algorithms to independent auditors, let users opt out of algorithmic feeds, and tighten local-ownership caps to protect local journalism.
Read the bill → - 05
End the Regulatory Revolving Door
No FDA, FAA, SEC, EPA, or FTC head may come from — or join within five years — the industries they regulate.
Read the bill →
Education, Labor & the Productive Economy
- 06
0% Loans, Open Textbooks, Admin Cap
Tie federal funding to instruction-over-administration ratios, open-source textbooks for subsidized courses, and zero-interest federal student loans.
Read the bill → - 07
Main Street & Producer Reinvestment
Shift tax incentives from buyback conglomerates to regional incubators, domestic manufacturing, and family farms — public R&D yields public equity.
Read the bill → - 08
12-Month Conversion Rule & AI Guardrails
Perma-temps, gig workers, and adjuncts convert to permanent status after 12 months, with strict guardrails on AI workplace displacement.
Read the bill →
Material Security & Essential Infrastructure
- 09
Break the Food Monopoly, Protect Farmland
Antitrust enforcement against meatpacking, seed, and grocery cartels. Farmland and aquifers designated strategic national assets.
Read the bill → - 10
Starter-Home Investor Ban + 3% Mortgages
End tax breaks for institutional funds buying single-family homes. Low-interest and lease-to-own mortgages for young families, teachers, nurses, and first responders.
Read the bill → - 11
A Doctor in Every County
Break up PBM markups, cap insulin, inhalers, and oncology drugs at international reference prices, and forgive med-school debt for five years in care deserts.
Read the bill →
The mechanism
We don't ask for promises. We hand over a contract.
Any primary challenger or independent seeking the movement's volunteers, small-dollar funds, and ballot signatures must pledge to co-sponsor all 11 bills within their first 100 days — and refuse corporate PAC money. About 80% of House seats are safe; primary turnout hovers near 20%. A disciplined coalition doesn't need 50 million voters. It needs 15,000–25,000 organized voters in 45 districts.
University-Anchored Safe Blue
20 primaries
Win 12–15
Post-Industrial & Ag-Belt Safe Red
15 primaries
Win 6–8
Plurality Open Seats
10 primaries
Win 5–7
Five stages to the House.
Stage 1 · Q1–Q2 2027
Charter District Plenums
Link at least three institutions per district — universities, community colleges, trade apprenticeships. Partisan clubs barred from control.
Stage 2 · Q3 2027
Non-Careerist Vetting
No student self-candidacy. No former lobbyists. Candidates are chosen, not self-nominated.
Stage 3 · Q4 2027–Q1 2028
Synchronized Ballot Filing
Cross-party petitions timed to each state's deadlines.
Stage 4 · Jan–May 2028
Bridge the Summer Trap
Lock in registration before campuses empty for May–August primaries.
Stage 5 · Mar–Aug 2028
Win the Plurality
20,000–35,000 organized votes per district is enough to take a crowded safe-seat primary.
Jan 3, 2029
Speaker vote leverage
A 25-seat bloc withholds votes until the 11 points enter the House rules package.
2029–2030
Byrd-proof & must-pass
Fiscal planks via reconciliation; the rest ride must-pass bills past the filibuster.
2030–2031
Statewide megaplenums
Scale to 5–8 Senate seats and pivot on the filibuster and confirmations.
Strategy 1 · 51 votes
The Byrd-proof reconciliation table.
All eleven points include fiscal designs — taxes, credits, and outlays — intended to move through budget reconciliation with 51 votes rather than face the 60-vote filibuster. Each remains subject to the Senate Parliamentarian's Byrd Rule review.
| Point | Plank | Byrd-proof design (51 votes) |
|---|---|---|
| 01 | Independent Public Integrity Office | Proposed H.R. 1 — the Federal Public Integrity & Independent Ethics Enforcement Act. Undisclosed Gift & Dark-Money Excise Tax: a 100% federal confiscation excise tax on undisclosed gifts, hospitality, travel, or loans exceeding $250 accepted by federal judges, Justices, Members of Congress, or senior executive officials from parties with federal business or litigation; a 50% excise tax on 501(c)(4) entities failing to disclose donors over $10,000 or coordinating with Super PACs. Revenue funds the Public Integrity Enforcement Trust Fund. The blueprint seeks a 51-vote reconciliation route for these fiscal measures, subject to Byrd Rule review; statutory creation of an independent office with judicial/congressional subpoena power risks exclusion. House-only enforcement starts in H.Res. 5, while the office's charter and funding ride CJS and FSGG appropriations. |
| 02 | Stock Ban & Lifetime Lobbying Ban | Proposed H.R. 2 — the Illicit Enrichment Clawback & Congressional Stock and Lobbying Ban Act. Illicit Enrichment & Revolving-Door Confiscation Surtax: a 100% federal capital-gains confiscation tax on profits from individual equities, options, or sector funds outside a certified blind trust held by Members of Congress, senior executive officials, federal judges, and their immediate households; a 90% federal excise tax on former lawmakers' registered corporate or foreign lobbying compensation; and disallowance of all corporate tax deductions for lobbying firms employing former Members. These fiscal measures seek a 51-vote reconciliation route, subject to Byrd Rule review. The statutory criminal/civil stock-trading and post-employment lobbying bans risk exclusion, so the blueprint places House-only restrictions in H.Res. 5 and the full statutory ban in the NDAA base text. |
| 03 | Federal Contract & Defense Audit Act | Proposed H.R. 3 — the Federal Contract Transparency, No-Bid Ban & Defense Audit Act. Cost-Overrun Clawback & Audit-Failure Surtax: a 50% federal windfall excise tax on all net profits and executive bonuses from federal defense, infrastructure, or tech contracts exceeding their initial baseline budget by more than 20% or failing statutory safety benchmarks. Disallow all corporate interest and M&A deductions for private-equity-owned federal contractors refusing public line-item cost disclosure, and reduce unobligated administrative budget authority by 10% for agency components failing annual financial audits. These fiscal measures seek a 51-vote reconciliation route, subject to Byrd Rule review. Statutory line-item disclosure, no-bid bans, and automatic Inspector General safety audits risk exclusion; the blueprint places them in NDAA and Surface Transportation base text, with House procurement subpoenas sought through H.Res. 5. |
| 04 | Algorithmic Transparency & Local Media | H.R. 4 — the Algorithmic Transparency & Local Media Restoration Act. Split architecture: a 35% federal excise tax on targeted behavioral advertising revenue for mega-platforms that fail to offer default chronological/opt-out feeds, plus disallowed interest and M&A deductions for private equity buyouts of local news outlets — revenue channeled into refundable payroll tax credits for independent, locally owned newsrooms and student-run land-grant journalism trusts. The regulatory rules (source-code audits, feed opt-outs, FCC ownership caps) ride must-pass trains. |
| 05 | End the Regulatory Revolving Door | Proposed H.R. 5 — the Meritocratic Civil Service & Regulatory Revolving-Door Firewall Act. Golden-Parachute & Revolving-Door Payout Excise Tax: a 90% federal windfall excise tax on regulated-corporation severance, accelerated stock-option vesting, or deferred bonuses paid to executives entering FDA, FAA, SEC, EPA, or FTC leadership; a 90% excise tax on compensation paid to former senior regulators by corporations they regulated within 5 years of leaving office; and 100% disallowance of corporate tax deductions for hiring former regulators during that window. These fiscal measures seek a 51-vote reconciliation route, subject to Byrd Rule review. Statutory cooling-off bans and merit requirements risk exclusion, so the blueprint seeks appropriations salary riders and a conditional 6-Senator confirmation strategy beginning in January 2031. |
| 06 | 0% Loans, Open Textbooks, Admin Cap | Proposed H.R. 6 — the Zero-Interest Student Loan, Open-Source Textbook & University Administrative Cap Act. Endowment/Funding Excise Tax & 0% Direct Loan Outlay: set all new federal student loans to 0.0% interest and all existing federal student loans to 0.0%, allowing only a flat administrative processing fee, through direct federal budget outlays. Impose a 25% excise tax on endowment investment income and remove Title IV aid eligibility from universities exceeding a strict non-instructional administrative payroll ratio relative to classroom faculty and research spending. Disallow federal tax credits and grant overhead recovery for courses not using free open-source digital textbooks. The ratio and fee amount are not specified. Fiscal measures seek a 51-vote reconciliation route, subject to Byrd Rule review; direct hiring caps and textbook mandates risk exclusion and use Higher Education Act (HEA) and Labor-HHS-Education (LHHS) funding conditions instead. |
| 07 | Main Street & Producer Reinvestment | H.R. 7 — the Main Street & Domestic Producer Reinvestment Act. Quadruple the stock-buyback excise tax (1% → 4%), claw back 100% of tax credits from corporations that take federal subsidies while offshoring or buying back stock, and channel the revenue into block grants for land-grant incubators, independent toolmakers, and family farms. |
| 08 | 12-Month Conversion Rule & AI Guardrails | H.R. 8 — the 12-Month Permanent Contract & AI Workforce Protection Act. Perma-Temp Payroll Surtax & Automation Severance Excise Tax: impose a 30% federal payroll excise tax for full-time-equivalent 1099 contractors, staffing-agency temps, or university adjuncts retained beyond 12 consecutive months without permanent W-2 conversion and full benefits. Disallow AI software/hardware capital-expenditure deductions for firms making net entry-level workforce reductions without mandatory severance and retraining trusts. Automation displacement tax revenue funds a federal Worker Retraining & Severance Trust. Direct FLSA/NLRA conversion and AI-bargaining mandates risk Byrd Rule exclusion; those regulatory protections ride must-pass federal procurement bills. |
| 09 | Break the Food Monopoly, Protect Farmland | Proposed H.R. 9 — the Food Monopoly Breakup & Farmland Strategic Preservation Act. Farmland Speculation Excise Tax & Consolidation Clawback: eliminate Section 1031 capital-gains deferrals, depreciation write-offs, and federal farm subsidies for institutional investment funds, private equity syndicates, and sovereign-backed buyers owning more than 1,000 agricultural acres or controlling water rights. Impose an escalating 50% federal windfall excise tax on non-transparent grocery markups and concentrated meatpacking margins exceeding 15% above 5-year pre-inflation baselines; disallow corporate M&A deductions in consolidated agriculture and food distribution. No escalation schedule is specified. Fiscal measures seek a 51-vote reconciliation route, subject to Byrd Rule review; statutory breakups, ownership bans, and retail price controls risk exclusion. Packers and Stockyards enforcement and strategic farmland/aquifer protections ride the Farm Bill, with agriculture appropriations enforcement. |
| 10 | Starter-Home Investor Ban + 3% Mortgages | Strip mortgage-interest and depreciation deductions from corporate entities owning more than 25 single-family homes; fund 3% first-time buyer loans via revenue offsets. |
| 11 | A Doctor in Every County | A 95% federal excise tax on pharmaceutical companies charging domestic buyers above the international reference price, mirroring recent drug-negotiation reconciliation mechanics. |
Fiscal designs do not make each entire bill eligible for reconciliation. Structural and regulatory provisions still risk exclusion under the Byrd Rule. Point 5 pairs golden-parachute and post-agency payout taxes with appropriations salary riders and a proposed 2031 Senate confirmation strategy that depends on sufficient votes. Point 6 combines zero-interest loan outlays and endowment taxes with HEA/LHHS open-textbook funding conditions; direct administrative hiring caps and curriculum mandates remain subject to separate legislative and Byrd Rule review. Point 1 splits its strategy across day-one House rules, fiscal gift and dark-money penalties through reconciliation, and an independent office's charter and funding through CJS/FSGG appropriations. Government-wide subpoena authority remains a structural provision at risk under the Byrd Rule. Point 2 also separates House-only ethics rules and reconciliation tax clawbacks from its full statutory stock-trading and lifetime lobbying bans, which ride the NDAA. Point 3 pairs reconciliation overrun taxes and audit-failure budget reductions with House procurement subpoenas; its no-bid bans, disclosure mandates, and automatic safety audits ride the NDAA and Surface Transportation Reauthorization. Point 4's regulatory half — source-code audits, feed opt-outs, FCC caps — rides the NDAA Cyber Title and FCC Spectrum Auction Reauthorization the same way, while its fiscal half holds the reconciliation row above. Point 8 also splits: its payroll surtax and automation tax measures use reconciliation, while direct FLSA/NLRA conversion and AI-bargaining mandates risk Byrd Rule exclusion. Its contractor standards ride the NDAA and FAA/Surface Transportation Reauthorizations. Point 9 expands its fiscal track to institutional farmland tax/subsidy disallowances and grocery/meatpacking windfall taxes, while structural antitrust enforcement and strategic land and aquifer protections use the Farm Bill and agriculture riders.