Public Trust
Lifetime congressional term limits (5 House terms, 3 Senate terms) and single-issue bills, enforced first as Sunset Party standards. A real-time public dashboard for every federal dollar, no DOJ settlements without a public admission of fault, and no sole-source contracts. Officials' stock trades, prediction market positions, and lobbying contacts are published instantly, by name — and non-compete employers lose federal contract eligibility.
Read the full position →Economics
A graduated flat tax pegged to the local poverty line shifts the burden from workers to corporations, with the corporate rate rising from an effective ~15% to 35%. Domestic production is rewarded with a carrot and a narrow stick instead of broad tariffs, and small businesses come first. Deficit growth is capped at 2.5% of GDP. State-level insurance reform tackles homeowners availability, bans credit-based auto pricing, and builds every policyholder a mandatory, insured-owned repair reserve.
Read the full position →Housing & Cost of Living
Zoning reform comes first — restrictive zoning is the dominant driver of the housing crisis, and federal incentives for fixing it go directly to citizens. Corporations are banned from owning single-family homes, with existing portfolios divested at 15% per year. Faster environmental review, modernized building codes, and more bank capital for affordable housing round out the supply push.
Read the full position →Healthcare Reform
Single-payer is the long-term aspiration, but these are the achievable steps now: real price transparency, interstate insurance competition, and a focus on preventive care. Any drug company that receives federal funding — including NIH research or university lab work — has its drugs capped at a 100% margin over production cost.
Read the full position →Education System
A life skills curriculum — taxes, contracts, financial literacy, nutrition, firearm safety, and internet hygiene — in every school, and equal funding and respect for trade schools. New student loans are capped individually based on projected lifetime earnings, and existing debt gets an interest holiday and restructuring, not forgiveness. Phones and bags stay out of the classroom, textbooks go digital, and early childhood programs unify under Louisiana's Act 3 model.
Read the full position →Technology & the Future
Data privacy as a civil right, broken-up tech monopolies, and companies that automate held responsible for retraining displaced workers. Consumers get one-click cancellation, no exit fees, no forced arbitration, a real right to repair, consistent pricing whether you're in-store or online, and next-business-day card refunds. Section 230 stays, a federal AI standard can preempt the states only by being stronger — including guaranteed shutdown capability for frontier models — and every connected device sold needs a Cyber Trust Mark and a disclosed five-year security-support commitment.
Read the full position →Border & Immigration
Secure the border while making legal immigration simpler and faster, with automated processing to clear the backlogs. Work visas follow verified labor shortages, and military service offers an earned path to citizenship. Illegal crossings carry escalating mandatory minimums — 1 year, then 2.5, then 5 years followed by deportation.
Read the full position →Culture & Civil Stability
First Amendment protections follow the speaker onto every platform, and government coordination with corporations to suppress speech ends. Pro-2A with real due process: red flag laws with accountability for bad-faith accusers, background checks that must actually finish before a sale, mandatory minimums for firearm offenses, and no fee to exercise that right — government, not the citizen, pays for the permit, check, or training it requires. Debate becomes a mandatory high school class, teaching students to disagree without destroying each other.
Read the full position →Criminal Justice Reform
Federally funded body cameras with public release timelines, a national decertification database, and a federal accreditation standard built on what already works. Truth-in-sentencing paired with education, job training, therapy, and drug screening inside — and no one profits from incarceration, including immigration detention. Qualified immunity ends at deliberate indifference, and civil forfeiture requires a conviction, with proceeds going to victims first.
Read the full position →Veterans & Military
Defense spending isn't slashed — it's held accountable through competitive bidding and real procurement oversight. That discipline funds rebuilding the VA into a world-class medical institution. Meanwhile, an expanded and protected MISSION Act lets veterans see outside providers when VA waits run too long.
Read the full position →Social Security — The American Retirement Security Act
The American Retirement Security Act replaces pay-as-you-go with individual investment accounts that compound, convert to guaranteed monthly payments at retirement, and pass to survivors. Every worker's already-earned benefit is protected, and a $2,071/month floor holds regardless of market performance. Removing the payroll tax cap helps fund a transition projected to cost less than doing nothing.
Read the full position →Drug Policy
Marijuana is federally legalized and taxed at 18%. A person in a drug crisis is offered voluntary detox first, then mandatory civil commitment of at least 90 days in a medical setting — treatment, not incarceration. Distributing hard narcotics is charged as attempted drug-induced homicide, scaled to the quantity involved.
Read the full position →Infrastructure
A $75 EV registration fee and a point-of-sale charging tax replace a collapsing gas tax, and federal dollars fix what exists before building new. Data centers pay their own way on the grid, new construction gets rooftop solar, underground lines, and community battery banks, and the repealed residential solar credit comes back. Consumer-owned utilities get preference in federal energy funding, and investor-owned utilities return excess profits to ratepayers and stop billing them for lobbying.
Read the full position →Medical Privacy & Reproductive Rights
Medical privacy becomes a federal constitutional right that preempts state restrictions — covering reproductive care, mental health, addiction history, genetic information, and every other medical decision. Until an amendment is achievable, Sunsetters commit to it as a party standard. Equal human rights apply to every person, regardless of gender, sexual orientation, or identity.
Read the full position →Campaign Finance Reform
Rather than fighting Citizens United head-on, remove the one thing that makes dark money powerful: anonymity. Every political contribution is disclosed through the tax code, and a false or missing disclosure is a felony under 26 U.S.C. § 7206(1). Spend whatever you want — just own it, publicly.
Read the full position →Electoral Reform
Abolish the Electoral College. Redistricting happens only after Census data, using population counts and simple geometry — no reference to race, religion, sex, or party. Voter ID is required, and every document behind it — not just the card — is free, with the federal government reimbursing states for the cost; states keep control of how votes are cast.
Read the full position →Environment & Climate
Climate change is real, but unilateral American sacrifice isn't a climate policy — the answer is global coordination led by the U.S. No new drilling permits with existing operations protected, three specific clean-energy technology priorities, and crippling sanctions on egregious polluters as leverage. Data centers must disclose the water they draw, and communities get a say before the deal is signed.
Read the full position →Foreign Policy
Keep current NATO troop commitments while pushing European allies to fund their own defense, and bring direct US involvement in Russia and Ukraine to a diplomatic end. Strategic ambiguity on Taiwan stays; all US military funding to Israel ends. Offensive military action needs Congressional authorization within 15 days, and trade and sanctions become tools of leverage.
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