What Is Power 2026
Project 2025 was a blueprint. Not for the country — for a faction. It was written in advance, organized behind closed doors, and inserted into government before most Americans knew it existed.
Power 2026 is the answer the country actually needs. Not a counter-agenda. Not a party platform. A civic infrastructure — built in public, owned by no faction, accountable to the people.
The premise is simple: the midterm elections of 2026 are the nearest leverage point for structural change. They are close enough to work toward, far enough to build something real. Power 2026 is that build.
This is nonpartisan by design — not because all positions are equal, but because civic power that belongs to one party is not civic power. It's just the other party. Power 2026 is for the 60% of Americans who identify as neither, both, or confused — and who are right to be.
The goal: ten actionable civic priorities, held by people across the political spectrum, executed before November 2026.
Ten Civic Actions for 2026
These are not aspirations. They are executable priorities — things individuals and communities can do between now and November 2026 to build civic power from the ground up.
Voter registration is infrastructure. Make it your personal project — not just your own, but your neighbors', your family's, your coworkers'.
School boards, city councils, judges, ballot measures. National dysfunction roots in local neglect. Study the whole thing.
City council. School board. Zoning. Planning commission. Presence is influence. Showing up is the oldest form of civic power.
The actual bill. The actual ruling. The actual agency document. Summaries are someone's interpretation. The source is yours.
Find one person whose politics differ from yours and talk regularly — not to convert, but to understand. Democracy requires this.
Subscribe. Donate. Share. Local news is the connective tissue of civic life. Where it dies, corruption expands to fill the void.
Not a form letter. Your words, your situation, your ask. Written correspondence still matters. It creates a record. Use it.
Civics education in America is underfunded and undervalued. Whatever you know, pass it on. The classroom isn't the only place this happens.
Volunteer as a poll worker. Drive someone to the polls. Help a neighbor navigate absentee voting. The vote is only as strong as its access.
Refuse euphemism. When power is being consolidated, say so. When rights are being eroded, name them. Language is civic infrastructure too.
America at 250
In July 2026, the United States marks 250 years since the Declaration of Independence. A quarter millennium. It is a moment that demands more than fireworks.
The founders built a system designed to outlast them — not because they were certain it would work, but because they believed the effort was worth the cost. The mechanisms they created: federalism, representation, a free press, the right of citizens to assemble and petition — were not given. They were argued for, fought for, and left deliberately unfinished.
Power 2026 is part of that unfinished project. The 250th anniversary is not a celebration of a completed democracy. It is a checkpoint on a long and still-contested journey. This is what we bring to that moment: organized, cross-partisan civic engagement rooted in the original proposition that the people are sovereign.
How to Participate
Power 2026 is not a membership organization. There is no dues, no card, no litmus test. There is only the work.
- Print the Ten Civic Actions and put them somewhere visible.
- Share this site with three people who need to see it.
- Pick one action and begin this week — not next month, not after the next news cycle.
- Connect with local civic organizations already doing this work and support them.
- Follow pennywrenn.blog for ongoing editorial coverage of the America 250 framework.
- Come back. This project grows as the election approaches.