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The two parties aren't failing each other. They're failing you. And they've been doing it long enough that we just call it normal now.
75% of local races last cycle had only one candidate on the ballot. Not uncontested because no one cares. Uncontested because no one knew they could run.
13% of Democrats and Republicans switched party affiliation between 2011 and 2017.
That's not a fixed map. Those are real people who changed their minds and had nowhere obvious to go.
voterstudygroup.org/publicat…
Both parties keep telling you the other one is the problem. Neither one is wrong. That's not a paradox. It's the whole racket.
When was the last time you voted FOR someone instead of against someone else?
Most people can't remember. That's worth sitting with.
americaoutloud.news/democrat…
Both parties are bleeding voters and blaming each other. The problem isn't the other party. It's the system that needs both of them to survive.
What if the whole thing is a machine, not a movement?
New research shows polarization runs on feedback loops. Local races are where you can actually break the circuit.
pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.21…
Johns Hopkins just confirmed what a lot of people already feel.
Younger Americans trust party structures less than any generation before them. Not one party. Both.
hub.jhu.edu/2026/02/09/snf-a…
If your ballot is paid for with public money, who decided you need a party card to use it?
More voters are asking that question out loud now.
ivn.us/america-at-250-indepe…
What if the system isn't broken?
What if it's working exactly as designed, just not for you? The Brennan Center's new report makes that case. Hard to argue with it.
brennancenter.org/our-work/r…
When was the last time you felt like your local government actually worked?
That answer matters more right now than most people realize.
blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20…
A school board seat in a mid-size city can be decided by 300 votes. 300. That's a few text threads and a Saturday afternoon. The stakes are real. The math is in your favor.
Both parties keep telling you the answer is more party. Thirty years of that and your roads still have the same potholes. Maybe the answer is just a better neighbor on the ballot.
75% of elected offices in the U.S. are local. Most go uncontested. The race nobody ran in is still deciding your life.
75% of local races in the U.S. are decided by fewer than 1,000 votes. The school board. The water district. The zoning board. Your neighbors are already running those meetings.
The two parties aren't failing you. They're working exactly as designed. They just weren't designed with you in mind.
What if the problem isn't parties themselves, but who gets to control them?
Local races are where that answer actually gets tested.
protectdemocracy.org/work/wh…
The two parties aren't failing you. They're working exactly as designed -- for the people who fund them.
31% of Americans identify with neither major party. That's not a protest. That's a constituency without a ballot line.
Democrats just launched a task force built around one message: anti-corruption.
Local candidates have been running on that same message for years. Quietly. Without a party behind them.
bostonglobe.com/2026/04/15/n…
