THE PEOPLE'S PARTY

The People's Party Must Rise from the Ashes

Let’s dispense with the illusions.

This is not about taxes or infrastructure or border policy. This is not about left versus right. This is not even about Republicans versus Democrats. That world is gone. The only question that matters now, the only one, is this:

Do you want to live under a dictatorship, or do you want to be free?

That’s it. Everything else is noise. The government has been seized by a cabal of oligarchs who have installed a puppet dictator, Donald J. Trump. Backed by the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 and a swelling mob of the misled, the ignorant, and the power-hungry, this movement has replaced the very structure of our democracy with something far more sinister: fascism in an American flag lapel pin.

The Republican Party no longer exists. It has been hollowed out and rebranded as the Trump Cult, a vessel for authoritarianism, wrapped in slogans, lies, and vengeance. It bears no resemblance to conservatism. It honors no Constitution. It seeks only power and its permanent retention by one man and his loyalists.

But here’s the harder truth: The Democratic Party is gone, too. In the face of this threat, it proved itself weak, compromised, fragmented, and ultimately irrelevant. It surrendered not through malice but through cowardice and complacency. It failed to rise to the existential threat of Trumpism, and as such, it can no longer serve as the engine of resistance or renewal.

So what now?

We begin again. From the ashes of the failed parties, we must form the People’s Party. Not a party of ideologues or insiders. A party of Americans. A party of laborers, thinkers, veterans, artists, workers, teachers, scientists, parents, of people. A party that stands not for slogans or candidates, but for values:

• Free and fair elections.
• An independent judiciary.
• A government of, by, and for the people, not corporations or cults.
• Individual liberty balanced by collective responsibility.
• The rule of law, and no man above it.

This is not a third party. It is the first party of the new era.

We can no longer rely on broken institutions to protect us. We must become the institution. We must reject the labels that have been corrupted beyond recognition. The only label worth wearing now is that of citizen, and the only political home worth building is the People’s Party.

It begins with a name. Then it requires a voice. And finally, it demands action.

Because if we don’t rise now, we will never rise again.

William James Spriggs