2026 is Now!
We need to make people feel American again. We need to make people feel whole again, proud. We need them to look to the future and see hope!
A just society .. as long as it takes
This is about a vision for this country, an American vision that is bigger than politics. This is about uniting and inspiring, and doing it in a way that captures the majority of our fellow citizens. As champion of this American vision, we can lead this nation forward towards that just society.
Freedom, Justice, and Opportunity for all
And we win! Not just the next election, every election to come, as far as you can see, because elections are decided by emotional connection. Whoever is seen as the champion of American values wins by default. That is how MAGA built their base. It’s how Trump took the White House, twice. And it’s how we flip the script and make them and everything they stand for, irrelevant.
If we do not become the champions of this vision, if we remain solely a traditional political party, we will remain locked into the same narrow, partisan battles of the past ten years for a long, long time .. and we will have failed. We will have failed as a political party, and we will have failed as Americans.
We believe all people are created equal,
that this is America’s fundamental ideal
This American vision begins with the one thing that can unite and inspire all of us: the core values in the Democratic Creed. These values are founded in the promise of the Declaration of Independence, the belief that all people are created equal, that every American does have the right to Freedom, Justice, and Opportunity in equal measure. This is the vision that unites us, every single Democrat in America. This is the vision that gives us power. But .. there is no unity and there is no power until this vision has voice, until it is heard.
Old ways die hard. Washington will always be there, and it will always champion the old ways. But the future of both the Democratic Party and this country doesn’t lie in Washington. The future lies with us, you and me. We are the grassroots. We are the people who make up the real Democratic Party, and we are the people who sense the deeper truth.
The path forward isn’t decades of spinning our wheels, trying the same thing over and over and expecting victory. It isn’t decades of being told that winning back the House by a few seats is victory, or eking out the popular vote by a percentage point or two.
That’s not victory, and every one of us knows it. Victory is taking back this country decisively.
A just society .. as long as it takes
Freedom, Justice, and Opportunity for all
Championing these ideas gives purpose. This is a message that unites and inspires. And this is our goal: this message, loud and clear, to everyone in this country.
This is why the Democratic Creed exists. This is why Dems101 exists as a movement, to make the clamor for these core values so loud and so widespread that it is impossible to ignore .. by our party Establishment, by fellow Democrats, by every American who has not swallowed MAGA whole. And that is why you need to join in, because these values are your values. This voice is your voice.
This isn’t about “instead of”, this is about “adding to”, empowering campaigns and uniting candidates, exciting people and opening doors. This is about growing power.
If you are a county chair who has not yet adopted, now is the time (here).
If you are one of the millions of frustrated Democrats, fed up with our endless quest for a better brand, the mindless dependence on operatives and focus groups to tell us what to say, pledge your support here, and become a messenger for change.
A movement is breaking out all across this country. Now is the time to make your voice heard. Now is the time to join with fellow Democrats .. fellow Americans .. all across this nation, to join and proclaim: we are not just a political party, we stand as the champions of America’s future.
Reach out, then let’s get to work.
J.M. Purvis
