PA-3 Campaign

This page could technically be the beginning of a real campaign but it is intended to be an example of what a campaign might look like — a demonstration of running on Square Party terms. The structure is meant to be pirated and adapted by people who actually want to win.

Paul is not running as a write-in candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives in Pennsylvania's 3rd Congressional District in 2026. The campaign illustrated is on Square Party terms: as much about the framework as the office or the individual.

Help us make our laws better!

Rather than rely on paid lobbyists and well-connected staffers and who knows who else, let's just start doing it.

It's a big job. But we can break it down into small parts and let anyone learn as much or as little as they want and still participate meaningfully.

The approach I'm trying is to map the power structures onto the people they actually affect — that's you.

In theory, we can develop proposals for new regulations or laws (as well as getting rid of ones that have no reasonable purpose). But first, the framework needs human verification. Statistics are easy to check; this won't work unless people go talk to other people in the world and report back. Surveys and other tools are coming, but for now you can see how the mapping of power to representation by constituents is coming along.

GitHub is open for updates and corrections to existing information. Discussions about future areas can be started with an issue. More user-friendly options for interaction will be added after the development phase.

Two new tracks

Campaigns in the square party framework have at least two parallel tracks that share infrastructure but serve different purposes.

The voter track is for people who want to pledge a write-in vote. One question, one email, one click.

Email addresses are used for verification and for official communication - no ads or sales.

For the mechanics of writing in and options, see How to vote →.

engagement track is the deeper work — applying a People's Assembly framework. The priority should be establishing a decentralized communications network - by that I mean that you should tell other people to "write it in" on election day. Talk about the square party if you want to, but the underlying problem is that communication is changing fast and we must ensure that a majority maintains the ability for human to human communication. The tentative party idea is to keep an actual list of about 10 people that you check in with at least a few times a year, and have a conversation. (We do not want your list. But if there's ever capacity, it would be great for the party to be able to help people get their lists set up.)

There are also many tangible ways to get engaged. One less common idea is for people to learn about the laws and regulations and for PA-3, I started mapping where formal representation falls short of lived experience. This work needs human verification and contributors to push back on the analysis. That's the empower project.

To get my perspective

Ideas → — big ideas should rely on logic and focus on long term planning and resource management
Policy areas → — the very beginning of an open access, version controlled policy portfolio
If I actually get elected → — the candid version of what would actually happen

Write It In.

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