The Party

Square Party takes its name from Theodore Roosevelt's Square Deal, the early-twentieth-century reform program that responded to the Gilded Age. The lineage is deliberate. We're in another moment when concentrated power has outrun the institutions designed to check it, and the 1902 response was structural — they rewrote the rules. We take the name in that spirit.

See what we do and don't take from the lineage →

Square Party isn't a re-run of the Square Deal. It's a re-imagining of what a party can be. The four sections below are the working pieces.

The ground game

The working mission of Square Party is direct: every election, every voter, every level — write someone in. Anyone you'd actually want to represent you. The structural pieces below explain why this works as a signal and why we think it scales. The ask is the action.

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The empty square

So far, parties in the U.S. seem to tell us what they think. Their platform is fixed; you sign on or you don't. Square Party inverts that: the party's square is empty on purpose. What goes inside is for the members to decide.

You make your own square. It can change. It can signal. It lets you take ownership of the ideas you actually care about, without those ideas getting diluted into a single shared platform. Then the party represents the members.

Make a square for the gallery here.

The People's Assembly

The People's Assembly is one part of a solution to the representation problem. The assembly is a way to organize representative participation into something with leverage on the actual law.

The assembly is a topical structure. Designed to cover every place government touches life, issue domains point to leadership roles for the kind of sustained citizen oversight that geography-based representation alone can't provide. Geographic representation can stay. But topical specialization joins in.

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Connection

Alongside the empty square and the assembly: the practice of staying connected. If you need a tangible, a list of about ten people who aren't family and aren't coworkers. The connective layer is society and without that, it won't work, whether we say so or not. So we're saying so.

See the practice →

The basic tenets

Four non-negotiable values:

These are basics that a society needs to deliberate and act together, regardless of where any member lands on any specific issue. How those values translate into laws and regulations is an open question.

Read the tenets → · Read the Declaration and pledge →

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