📘 People's Mandate 2025
A Blueprint for Democratic Governance and Human Liberation
"Democratic government exists to serve the people — not profit, not empire, not the elite. This is our mandate for change."
Prepared by: The People's Planning Project
This document presents a strategic roadmap for progressive governance, designed to fundamentally reshape the U.S. federal government to serve people and planet.
Executive Summary & Vision
Purpose
This document is a strategic roadmap for a Progressive or Democratic Socialist administration, designed to fundamentally reshape the U.S. federal government to serve people and planet — not corporations or the military-industrial complex.
Approach
Modeled in structure after similar policy frameworks but grounded in justice and equality, it outlines an executive and legislative agenda to radically reshape U.S. governance for the 21st century.
Core Vision
Economic Democracy
Through public ownership and worker power
Green New Deal
To halt climate collapse and rebuild the economy
Medicare for All
Universal public services
Racial & Gender Justice
At every level of governance
Anti-Imperialist Policy
Rooted in peace and solidarity
Participatory Democracy
Deepened democratic engagement
Guiding Principles
Governance must prioritize people and planet, not corporations.
Expand democratic rights and participation from elections to the workplace.
An economy where wealth and power are shared — not hoarded.
Liberation means dismantling all systems of oppression.
End empire; build global cooperation.
Major Policy Pillars
Economic Democracy
- Worker ownership: Federal grants for converting private businesses into worker co-ops
- Sectoral bargaining: Raise wage floors across industries
- Abolish "at-will" employment
- Public banking & postal banking
- Cancel all student and medical debt
Medicare for All
- Universal, single-payer healthcare system
- Ban private insurers from duplicating public services
- Establish public pharmaceutical manufacturing
- End hospital consolidation and price-gouging
Green New Deal
- Net-zero emissions by 2035
- Nationalize fossil fuel companies and utilities
- 10 million unionized climate jobs
- Build nationwide public transit
- Climate reparations to frontline communities
Housing as a Human Right
- Build 12 million units of social and public housing
- Federal rent control
- Ban Wall Street firms from owning housing
- Abolish homelessness via Housing First programs
Democratic Renewal
- Abolish the Electoral College
- Expand Supreme Court to 13 justices
- Term limits for SCOTUS and federal judges
- Automatic voter registration, vote-by-mail
- Implement proportional representation for House
Justice & Liberation
- Abolish cash bail and end mass incarceration
- Legalize marijuana, decriminalize all drugs
- End civil asset forfeiture
- Federal oversight of police departments
- Reparations for Black Americans
Anti-Imperialist Foreign Policy
- Slash Pentagon budget by 50%
- Close 700+ overseas military bases
- End support for apartheid and occupation
- Stop arms sales to dictatorships
- Forgive Global South debt
Digital Democracy
- Break up Big Tech monopolies
- Public broadband as a utility
- Ban surveillance capitalism
- Protect workers' rights in AI and gig economies
First 100 Days Agenda
Day 1 Executive Orders
Cancel all federal student debt
Immediate relief for millions of borrowers
End ICE deportations and raids
Halt enforcement actions and family separations
Declare climate emergency
Unlock emergency powers for climate action
Reinstate collective bargaining rights
For federal workers nationwide
Ban fossil fuel leases on public lands
Immediate halt to new extraction permits
Rejoin Paris Agreement
With deeper commitments and targets
Congressional Legislative Push
Medicare for All Act
Universal healthcare system
Green New Deal Act
Climate mobilization plan
Worker Power Act
Strengthen labor rights
Housing for All Act
Guarantee housing rights
Democracy Now Act
Voting rights and reform
Justice & Liberation Act
Criminal justice reform
Power Building Strategy
Implementation Approach
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Personnel Pipeline: Build a pool of socialist-aligned experts through DSA, labor, movement orgs
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Legal Strategy: Use executive authority, rulemaking, and legislative supremacy
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Judicial Reform: Expand the Court, strip jurisdiction, or rotate judges
Movement Building
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Agitation Infrastructure: Encourage street mobilization to push from below
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Organized Labor: As governing partner in transformation
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Communications: "The rich have had their government. Now it's the people's turn."
Ideological Roots & Influences
This plan draws inspiration from a rich tradition of democratic socialism, civil rights leadership, and progressive movements throughout American and global history.
Historical Figures
- • Eugene V. Debs
- • Angela Davis
- • Martin Luther King Jr.
- • Fred Hampton
- • Dolores Huerta
Movement Traditions
- • Black radical tradition
- • Indigenous sovereignty movements
- • Latin American socialism
- • Nordic democratic socialism
- • Cuban healthcare & education models
Contemporary Thinkers
- • Cornel West
- • Naomi Klein
- • Stephanie Kelton
- • Astra Taylor
- • Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez