The Slate and Promise Contract

A Contract with the American People for the 2028 Primaries Draft — built on the MAGA Contract with America and Citizens Grand Jury (Contract-CGJ)

Preamble

We the People hold that government derives its just powers from the consent of the governed. Where officials are not accountable, consent is meaningless.

On November 3, 2026, voters threw out the incumbents who promised and did not deliver. That was not a loss of faith in America. It was a performance review. Throw All The Dirty Bums Out — TADBO — is the people's oldest and most honest tool of accountability.

Accountability must now start where candidates are chosen: in the primaries. Primaries can no longer be contests between individuals selling themselves. They must be the selection of a slate — a team of candidates who all sign one written Contract, one Promise, and who are measured by it.

Charlie Kirk taught a generation of young Americans that the American Dream their parents and grandparents lived could still be theirs, and that voting and building were the way to get there. This Contract is how we keep faith with that hope: turn anger back into hope, and hope into a Contract that is kept.

In 1994, the Contract with America put a single written promise in front of the voters, and a slate of candidates signed it together. We follow that model, with one addition: a public scorecard, and real consequences for breaking the Promise.

Principles

  1. One slate, one message. Every candidate on the slate signs the same Contract. No one runs on a private platform.
  2. Promises are measured by what voters feel. Rent, groceries, gas, utilities, and the chance to own a home — not the stock market, not GDP, not Wall Street headlines.
  3. Excuses cannot compete against broken promises. Results are reported, not explained away.
  4. The vote is accountability as much as hope. Control may change every two years until promises made are promises kept.
  5. Consent must be verifiable. Elections must be secure, and officials must answer to citizens between elections, not only on Election Day.

The Promises

Drawn from the MAGA Contract with America Candidate Pledge. If elected, each signer commits to:

  1. Uphold the Oath of Office. Support and defend the Constitution as the supreme law, and acknowledge the citizens' right to petition for recall where that oath is broken.
  2. Secure Elections. Support verified citizenship checks against voter rolls, ballot-integrity measures consistent with the SAVE Act, end-of-day ballot counting, and auditable paper ballots, with the Florida voting model as a national standard.
  3. Establish Citizen Oversight. Support legislation creating a Citizens Grand Jury with authority to review and report on government spending, contracting, and personnel actions, and to refer findings to prosecutors.
  4. Limit Federal Power. Support term limits (2 terms for Senators, 4 for Representatives), a balanced-budget amendment, and an Article V Convention of States.
  5. Reform Federal Finance. Support replacing income-based taxation with consumption and tariff revenue, ending the federal estate tax, and requiring citizen-approved review of new federal borrowing.
  6. Restore the Money Power to the People. We will restore control of the money, our currency, to the people.
  7. The Affordability Promise. Affordability is always about a better life: the American Dream our parents and grandparents lived. We will restore it, so that a family on one good income can again own a home, raise children, and get ahead, and we will measure our progress quarter by quarter on the Kitchen-Table Scorecard below.

The Kitchen-Table Scorecard

Every signer is graded publicly, every quarter, on what voters actually feel. Baselines are the figures on the day the signer takes office; current figures are shown below.

Measure Source Current (Nov 2026) Target
Rent and housing costs (shelter CPI) BLS +3.2% a year (Sep 2026) TBA
Grocery prices (food at home CPI) BLS +1.8% a year (Sep 2026) TBA
Gasoline, US regular EIA weekly $4.15/gal (Nov 2, 2026) TBA
Electricity (CPI) BLS +4.4% a year (Sep 2026) TBA
First-time home buyers NAR 2025 Profile 21% of buyers, record low; median age 40, record high TBA
Cost to own a median home vs. median income Atlanta Fed 43.9% of income (Aug 2026); 30% is affordable TBA
Votes cast for or against each Promise above Congressional record — 100% for

Grades: 🟢 delivered · 🟡 progress · 🔴 broken.

The Slate Pledge

I, ____________________, candidate for ____________________, District / Jurisdiction ____________________, join this slate and sign this Contract.

I will run on this Promise and no other. I will vote for every commitment above. I will be graded publicly on the Kitchen-Table Scorecard, and I will answer for results, not excuses.

If I break this Promise, I accept that my slate and my voters will recruit and support a challenger against me in the next primary.

Signature ____________________ Date ____________

Accountability and Enforcement

  • Public record. The signed Contract, every signer, and every vote are published and kept current.
  • Quarterly scorecard. The Kitchen-Table Scorecard and voting record are published every quarter, with a traffic-light grade for each signer.
  • Citizen review. Citizens Grand Jury panels may review broken promises and publish findings.
  • Primary challenge. A signer graded 🔴 on any Promise faces an organized primary challenge from a candidate who will sign.
  • Withdrawal is public. A signer may withdraw in writing; the withdrawal is published.
  • Honest limits. This is a political pledge, not a legally enforceable contract. No court will compel a vote. Its force is the voter. Have counsel in each state review it before collecting signatures.

Timeline

Most 2028 primaries fall between March and June 2028, and candidate filing deadlines come months earlier. Slates must be formed, and the Contract signed, by late 2027.

  • Finalize the Contract text: date to be announced
  • Recruit slate candidates, state by state: date to be announced
  • State filing deadlines and primary dates: to be published state by state

We the People are done waiting. Get the job done, or get out.


Version 1.0 · November 4, 2026 · The beginning of the evolution.

~ge~

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