MODERATE PARTY OF AMERICA

National Platform

Where Common Sense Resides

The Moderate Party of America is not a centrist party.

We do not take the Democratic position, take the Republican position, and simply split the difference.

Being a Moderate is not synonymous with being neutral. It is the ability to choose the best ideas, regardless of which side they come from.

Sometimes common sense leads left.

Sometimes common sense leads right.

Sometimes both sides are wrong.

We follow the Constitution, evidence, individual liberty, equal justice, fiscal responsibility, personal responsibility, and what actually works.

Doing what is Right, only because it is the Right thing to do.

OUR FOUNDATION

MPA believes America should be built around several fundamental principles:

Constitutional liberty
Equal justice under law
Individual ownership
Personal responsibility
Scientific and evidence-based government
Government transparency
Government accountability
Corporate accountability
Strong lawful self-defense
Competitive, Fair, Regulated Capitalism
Fiscal responsibility
Strong national defense
Political competition
Equal opportunity
Human dignity
Freedom of speech
Freedom of conscience
Limited but effective government

1. CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT

The Constitution is not an obstacle government must work around.

It is the authority under which government exists.

MPA supports strong protection of:

Freedom of speech
Freedom of religion
Freedom of assembly
Freedom of association
Due process
Equal protection
Privacy
Property rights
Self-defense
Protection against unreasonable searches and seizures

Government should bear the burden of demonstrating why restricting the liberty of a peaceful individual is necessary and constitutional.

2. CONGRESS MAKES THE LAWS

America should not be governed through administrative decree.

Congress writes laws.

The Executive Branch executes laws.

Courts interpret laws.

Federal agencies may establish technical rules necessary to administer legislation where Congress has clearly authorized them to do so.

They should not independently decide major questions of national policy.

Congress should not deliberately pass vague legislation and then allow unelected agencies to make politically difficult decisions Congress was unwilling to make itself.

Major federal regulations with substantial economic or constitutional consequences should require affirmative congressional authorization.

America is a constitutional republic, not a government by executive decree. Presidents execute the laws; they do not make them. Congress legislates, the Executive enforces, and the Judiciary interprets. No President—Republican, Democrat, Moderate, or otherwise, should be able to bypass Congress and rule the country through unilateral executive authority.

3. CONGRESSIONAL RULES: TWO-THIRDS PROTECTION

Once structural congressional reforms are established, MPA supports protecting the fundamental rules of Congress from partisan manipulation.

Major changes to the standing institutional rules of either chamber should require a two-thirds vote of that chamber.

Ordinary legislation would not automatically require two-thirds approval.

The higher standard applies to changing the rules governing the institution itself.

The purpose is simple:

No party should win 50% plus one and immediately rewrite the rules in its own favor.

This protection should apply equally to Republicans, Democrats, Moderates, and every future political party.

Because each chamber currently possesses constitutional authority over its own rules, a permanent restriction of this nature would likely require a constitutional amendment.

4. PRESIDENTIAL PARDON REFORM

No president should possess an unchecked ability to pardon political allies, family members, associates, or potentially even themselves.

MPA supports a constitutional amendment reforming the federal pardon power.

The President would retain authority to propose pardons and commutations.

Those recommendations would then require congressional approval before becoming effective.

Congress should establish expedited procedures so legitimate acts of mercy are not unnecessarily delayed.

Self-pardons should be expressly prohibited.

Pardons directly involving the President's own criminal interests, immediate family, senior administration officials, or campaign associates should face heightened review.

Mercy should remain possible. Absolute presidential mercy should not.

5. TERM LIMITS

Public office should be public service.

It should not become permanent employment.

MPA supports reasonable term limits for members of Congress.

Federal Term Limits

House of Representatives: Maximum 4 terms — 8 years
- Minimum age: Must be at least 26 when entering office
- Maximum age: Must be able to complete the term before turning 80
U.S. Senate: Maximum 2 terms — 12 years
- Minimum age: Must be at least 30 when entering office
- Maximum age: Must be able to complete the term before turning 82
President: Maximum 2 terms — 8 years
- Minimum age: Must be at least 34 when entering office
- Maximum age: Must be able to complete the term before turning 84

Government benefits from institutional knowledge, but America should not develop a permanent political ruling class.

To Lead is to Serve.

6. NO COURT PACKING

MPA opposes partisan manipulation of the Supreme Court.

The Supreme Court should remain at nine justices.

Neither political party should be able to increase or decrease the Court simply because it dislikes judicial outcomes.

Losing a constitutional argument does not justify changing the number of judges.

MPA separately supports judicial ethics, financial disclosure, recusal standards, conflict-of-interest rules, and accountability.

MPA proposes that the Supreme Court remain permanently at nine justices, with six of nine justices (2/3) required for the Court to:

Overrule an established Supreme Court precedent.

For ordinary cases that do not invalidate government action or overturn precedent, a normal majority could continue to decide the case. The principle: A bare 5–4 majority should not be enough to fundamentally change constitutional law or overturn established Supreme Court precedent.

7. FAIR DISTRICTING

Voters should choose their representatives. Representatives should not choose their voters.

Congressional and state legislative districts should be drawn using neutral standards.

Maps should consider:

Equal population
Constitutional voting protections
Geographic continuity
Reasonable compactness
Existing municipal and county boundaries where practical

Districts should not be deliberately designed primarily to guarantee partisan control.

Proposed maps, underlying data, methodologies, and alternatives should be public before final adoption.

The same standard applies whether Republicans, Democrats, or MPA control a state.

8. POLITICAL COMPETITION

America belongs to its citizens.

It does not belong to two political parties or outside Foriegn Influence.

MPA supports reform of unreasonable barriers affecting:

Ballot access
Third parties
Debate access

MPA does not seek preferential treatment.

We seek equal treatment.

If a rule would be considered unfair when used against Republicans or Democrats, it should not be used against either one or a new political movement either.

9. MONEY IN POLITICS

Political speech is protected.

Political corruption is not.

MPA supports comprehensive reform targeting the ability of money to purchase access, favoritism, contracts, legislation, or government influence.

All political contributions and expenditures should be transparent and traceable to their true lawful sources consistent with constitutional protections.

MPA supports strong enforcement against:

Straw donors
Political bribery
Hidden foreign funding
Fraudulent campaign reporting
Illegal coordination
Deliberate concealment of political funding

Money may fund political speech. It should never purchase government power.

10. LOBBYING & INFLUENCE-PEDDLING

Americans have a constitutional right to petition government.

That right must remain protected.

But professional influence-peddling should not become legalized bribery.

MPA supports:

Banning lobbyist gifts
Strong revolving-door restrictions
Disclosure of significant lobbying contacts
Disclosure of lobbying expenditures
Restrictions on lobbyist fundraising for officials they directly lobby
Strong anti-bribery laws
Restrictions against regulators immediately joining companies they regulated
Greater transparency involving legislation drafted or materially influenced by outside interests

Citizens may petition government.

Government is not for sale.

11. GOVERNMENT TRANSPARENCY

The government works for the American people.

The American people therefore have a presumptive right to know what their government is doing.

MPA supports a Disclosure by Default policy.

Government should proactively publish:

Federal spending
Contracts
Grants
Subsidies
Congressional votes
Major regulatory evidence
Agency methodologies
Public financial disclosures
Lobbying contacts
Government audits
Inspector General findings

Legitimate exceptions remain for national security, victims, minors, sensitive personal information, active investigations, and similarly compelling interests.

Secrecy should be the exception, not the operating system of government.

12. PUBLIC RECORDS ARE PUBLIC

Government agencies should not be allowed to effectively tell citizens:

"We don't want to give you the records. Sue us."

MPA supports enforceable deadlines for public-record requests.

When government denies disclosure, it should identify the specific legal basis.

Citizens should have access to rapid administrative appeal rather than being forced immediately into expensive litigation.

Government officials who deliberately destroy, conceal, falsify, or unlawfully withhold records should face consequences - specifically fines and imprisionment when the applicable legal requirements are met.

When government unlawfully forces a citizen to sue simply to receive records to which that citizen was clearly entitled, reasonable legal costs should be recoverable under appropriate standards.

13. HIGH-PUBLIC-INTEREST INVESTIGATIVE RECORDS

Major government investigations of exceptional national importance should not remain permanently hidden without legitimate reason.

After investigations are closed, records should carry a strong presumption of disclosure unless continued secrecy is justified by law.

Records similar to the Epstein investigative materials should be released to the greatest lawful extent possible while protecting:

Victims
Minors
Sexual-abuse material
Witnesses facing credible threats
Active investigations where disclosure could materially compromise the investigation, as determined by an independent judicial panel.
Sensitive personal information unrelated to wrongdoing
Protection of Unaccused Individuals

The identity of a victim should not be exposed merely to satisfy public curiosity.

At the same time, government should not protect powerful people simply because disclosure would be embarrassing.

Appearing in an investigative document does not automatically establish guilt.

Records should distinguish, where possible, among witnesses, contacts, allegations, suspects, defendants, and established findings.

Protect the victim. Protect due process. Expose the truth.

14. GOVERNMENT DUTY OF CANDOR

Government has an elevated responsibility to tell citizens the truth.

That obligation becomes particularly important when government asks citizens to surrender liberty, property, income, privacy, or autonomy.

MPA distinguishes between mistakes and intentional deception.

Officials should not be criminalized merely because a prediction later proves wrong or scientific understanding changes.

But deliberately:

Falsifying government data
Fabricating evidence
Altering official records to deceive
Destroying evidence
Lying under oath
Obstructing an investigation
Knowingly concealing information that law requires to be disclosed
Knowingly publishing materially false official information where a defined criminal statute applies

should carry meaningful consequences.

A mistake is not corruption. A deliberate lie is not a mistake.

15. DUTY TO CORRECT THE RECORD

When government discovers that materially important official information it provided was wrong, it should clearly correct it.

Corrections should identify:

What was originally stated
What was incorrect
What the corrected information is
Why the information changed

Government should not quietly rewrite history.

16. GOVERNMENT DUTY TO PRESERVE EVIDENCE

Government records should not conveniently disappear when controversy begins.

MPA supports strong preservation requirements covering appropriate:

Emails
Messages
Public records
Investigative evidence
Body-camera footage
Scientific data
Government datasets
Contracting records

Intentional unlawful destruction or concealment of evidence should carry serious consequences.

17. FRAUD, THEFT & PUBLIC MONEY

Taxpayer money belongs to taxpayers.

Fraud against public programs should be investigated aggressively regardless of where it occurs or which political party controls the government.

MPA supports:

Follow the money.

Publish the money.

Audit the money.

Recover stolen money.

Prosecute provable crimes.

Government officials or contractors who knowingly steal, divert, falsify, facilitate fraudulent payments, accept kickbacks, or conceal criminal misuse of public funds should face individual consequences where criminal culpability is established.

Major programs should use modern fraud detection, auditing, beneficial-ownership verification, and payment controls.

Losing billions of dollars should never become an administrative footnote.

18. CORPORATE CRIMINAL ACCOUNTABILITY

A corporation should never become a legal shield for criminal conduct.

If evidence establishes that an executive, manager, employee, or owner personally committed, directed, knowingly participated in, conspired in, or criminally concealed an offense, that individual should face the applicable criminal law.

A financial settlement should not automatically substitute for prosecution where provable criminal conduct warrants prosecution.

At the same time, criminal responsibility remains individual.

An executive should not be imprisoned simply because another employee committed misconduct somewhere within a large organization.

Power increases responsibility. It does not erase due process.

19. GOVERNMENT & POLICE ACCOUNTABILITY

A badge, government title, or public office should never place someone above the law.

MPA supports:

Independent investigation of serious misconduct
Strong evidence-preservation requirements
Body-camera standards
Professional police licensing
Nationally visible decertification for serious misconduct
Strong whistleblower protections
Accountability for deliberate evidence fabrication
Accountability for criminal constitutional violations
Stronger remedies for serious proven government misconduct

Police officers deserve due process and strong legal protection when lawfully performing dangerous responsibilities.

They should not receive immunity for conduct that would constitute a crime if committed by anyone else.

Same crime. Same law. Same justice.

20. ACCESS TO JUSTICE

Access to justice should not depend entirely on wealth.

Americans receive emergency medical treatment regardless of whether they can immediately afford a private physician.

Our justice system should move closer to the same principle of meaningful access.

MPA supports:

Strong public defenders
Expanded legal aid
Civil legal assistance where fundamental interests are at stake
Legal clinics
Standardized legal forms
Self-service court systems
Remote hearings where appropriate
Lower-cost legal-service models
Simplified procedures for routine disputes

People should not automatically lose their home, child, freedom, property, or livelihood simply because they could not afford thousands of dollars in legal representation.

21. 24/7 JUSTICE

Justice should not close at 5:00 PM.

Emergency judicial functions should be available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

That may include:

Emergency warrants
Protective orders
Emergency injunctions
Bail matters
Unlawful-detention challenges
Certain emergency family matters
Other genuinely urgent proceedings

Routine court proceedings should increasingly permit remote participation when physical presence is unnecessary for fairness or due process.

Technology should reduce court backlogs rather than merely digitize bureaucracy.

22. FREE SPEECH & POLITICAL EXTREMISM

MPA strongly protects freedom of speech.

That protection includes speech we despise.

Americans may criticize America.

They may advocate radical political change.

They may hold racist, communist, fascist, socialist, anarchist, or other extreme political beliefs.

Government should not imprison someone merely because government hates their ideas.

The line is criminal conduct.

Credible criminal threats, criminal solicitation, conspiracy, assault, arson, rape, destruction of property, terrorism, and other prosecutable conduct remain subject to law.

Ideas are free. Crimes are not.

23. RIOTS & POLITICAL VIOLENCE

Political affiliation does not excuse criminal behavior.

The law should apply the same way whether criminal conduct occurs during:

A BLM-associated riot
January 6
A far-right demonstration
A far-left demonstration
An MPA event
Any other political movement

Peaceful protest is constitutionally protected.

Provable rioting, assault, arson, burglary, deliberate destruction of property, or other crimes should be prosecuted based on the conduct and evidence.

Same crime. Same law. Same justice.

24. STRONG SELF-DEFENSE RIGHTS

The right to protect yourself and others is fundamental.

MPA supports strong laws protecting legitimate:

Self-defense
Defense of family
Defense of others
Defense within the home
Castle Doctrine
Stand Your Ground protections where force is otherwise lawful

No person should be legally required to surrender themselves to an attacker when they are somewhere they have a lawful right to be and reasonably face imminent unlawful force.

Self-defense law should distinguish the aggressor from the person forced to defend themselves.

25. SECOND AMENDMENT

The Second Amendment protects an individual right.

Law-abiding Americans should retain the right to lawfully acquire, possess, carry, maintain, and use firearms.

MPA opposes general registries of lawful firearms, ammunition, and firearm components.

Violent criminals and people who unlawfully use firearms should face serious consequences.

Permanent deprivation of constitutional rights should require meaningful due process.

Punish criminal conduct. Do not criminalize peaceful ownership.

26. SCIENCE BEFORE POLITICS

Government policy should follow credible evidence.

Not political pressure.

Not social-media trends.

Not ideology.

Not feelings presented as facts.

Major policy should identify:

What problem exists?
What evidence establishes it?
What intervention is proposed?
What will it cost?
What are the risks?
What alternatives exist?
How will success be measured?
Did the policy actually work?

Government must be willing to change policy when better evidence appears.

Reality does not change because reality becomes politically inconvenient.

27. BIOLOGICAL REALITY & HUMAN DIGNITY

Every person deserves kindness, dignity, fairness, and equal protection.

MPA rejects harassment and mistreatment of transgender Americans.

MPA also rejects requiring government policy to deny biological reality.

Biological sex should be recognized where sex is materially relevant, including appropriate:

Medical contexts
Scientific research
Statistics
Competitive athletics
Certain safety or privacy circumstances

Adults should retain broad freedom over their private lives.

People should be addressed and treated with basic human decency.

Religious and nonreligious Americans retain freedom of conscience and expression.

Science and kindness can coexist.

28. PERSONAL OWNERSHIP — AN OWNERSHIP SOCIETY

America should not become a country where ordinary people own nothing and permanently rent everything from corporations.

You bought it. You own it.

MPA supports meaningful ownership rights involving:

Homes
Land
Vehicles
Electronics
Tools
Equipment
Personal property
Businesses
Investments
Intellectual property
Personal data
Digital goods sold as purchases

Consumers should possess reasonable rights to:

Repair
Resell
Transfer
Modify
Maintain

their lawful property.

If a company is only selling a temporary license, it should clearly say so before purchase.

A company should not advertise something as a permanent purchase while retaining an undisclosed ability to revoke it without legitimate cause.

Subscriptions may be useful.

Permanent forced subscription should not replace genuine ownership.

29. HOMEOWNERSHIP & INSTITUTIONAL INVESTORS

American families should have a meaningful opportunity to own homes.

MPA supports limiting concentrated institutional ownership of existing single-family homes.

As a starting national framework, no common beneficial owner should generally be permitted to accumulate more than approximately 25 existing single-family homes intended for ordinary residential ownership, subject to carefully defined exceptions.

Commonly controlled LLCs, subsidiaries, trusts, and shell companies would be aggregated so corporations cannot simply create hundreds of entities to evade the limit.

Reasonable exemptions could address:

Homebuilders temporarily holding newly constructed inventory
Legitimate development activity
Certain nonprofit housing organizations
Short transitional holdings
Other narrowly justified circumstances

Large institutional portfolios above the eventual legal limit would receive an orderly transition period rather than requiring immediate fire sales.

The objective is not eliminating rental homes.

The objective is preventing billion-dollar institutions from permanently converting large portions of America's single-family housing stock into corporate rental portfolios.

American families should not have to outbid Wall Street to own the American home.

30. PROPERTY RIGHTS

Private property is foundational to liberty.

MPA supports strong protections against:

Eminent-domain abuse
Unjust government seizure
Civil asset forfeiture without meaningful due process
Government destruction of property without compensation where compensation is constitutionally required
Abusive restrictions on lawful property use

Property owners should receive fair compensation when government lawfully takes property for public use.

31. HEALTHY FOOD

Americans should have access to safe, nutritious, affordable food.

Government should not dictate every individual's diet.

But consumers deserve truthful information.

MPA supports:

Accurate ingredient labeling
Strong contaminant testing
Transparent nutritional information
Scientific review of potentially dangerous additives
Enforcement against fraudulent health claims
Cleaner school food
Safe drinking water
Competition in food markets
Increased availability of nutritious food

Americans should be free to decide what they eat.

They should also be allowed to know what is actually in it.

32. MEDICAL FREEDOM & ACCESS TO EXPERIMENTAL TREATMENT

Patients facing serious or life-threatening conditions should have greater access to investigational treatments when conventional options have failed or do not exist.

Access should generally require:

Informed consent
Qualified medical supervision
Disclosure of known risks
Disclosure of uncertainty
Disclosure of available alternatives
Appropriate safety monitoring

Promising treatments should move through regulatory review faster.

Government should not unnecessarily stand between a dying patient and a potentially beneficial treatment merely because normal approval may take years.

But experimental treatments must be truthfully described as experimental.

Patients deserve hope. They also deserve the truth.

33. MEDICAL DISCOVERY & SUPPRESSION

Credible medical discoveries should not be suppressed because they threaten an existing company's profits, a government agency's reputation, or an established medical practice.

Validated research concerning effective cures, treatments, diagnostic methods, or serious safety risks should be made available through transparent scientific channels subject to legitimate privacy, intellectual-property, and national-security protections.

No corporation or government official should be permitted to fraudulently suppress evidence of a treatment's effectiveness or danger.

Science—not politics or profits—should determine whether something works.

34. HEALTHCARE

MPA supports widespread healthcare access without unnecessarily placing the entire system under government control.

Priorities include:

Patient choice
Provider competition
Price transparency
Insurance portability
Prescription-drug competition
Generic and biosimilar competition
Expanded provider capacity
Mental-health capacity
Emergency treatment
Reduced bureaucracy
Protection of the physician-patient relationship

Healthcare policy should focus heavily on why healthcare costs so much, rather than endlessly debating only who pays the inflated price.

35. PUBLIC HEALTH & PANDEMIC PREPAREDNESS

America should be prepared before the next pandemic.

Maintain:

Medical stockpiles
Domestic pharmaceutical manufacturing
Testing capability
Disease surveillance
Hospital surge capacity
Emergency logistics
Transparent public-health data

Government should clearly distinguish among:

Dying from a disease
Dying with a disease
Cases where causation is uncertain

Public reporting methodologies should be transparent and independently reviewable.

Political incentives should never determine medical statistics.

36. NEVER AGAIN — EMERGENCY POWER REFORM

The extraordinary governmental powers exercised during COVID demonstrated how quickly an emergency can affect nearly every aspect of American life.

MPA supports permanent safeguards so no president, governor, mayor, or agency can maintain extraordinary restrictions indefinitely without legislative authorization and judicial review.

Major emergency restrictions should satisfy:

Evidence. Necessity. Proportionality. Defined Duration. Legislative Oversight. Judicial Review.

Government should evaluate not only the intended public-health benefit but also consequences involving:

Education
Employment
Mental health
Healthcare access
Small businesses
Social isolation
Civil liberties
Economic harm

Emergency powers should automatically expire unless affirmatively renewed through lawful democratic procedures.

An emergency does not suspend the Constitution.

37. MEDICAL MANDATES & EMPLOYMENT

Government should face an extraordinarily high burden before conditioning a person's livelihood on receiving a medical procedure.

Any extraordinary medical requirement should require:

Strong scientific evidence
A substantial danger to others
Consideration of less restrictive alternatives
Appropriate medical exemptions
Due process
Transparency
Continuing review

No emergency should create a permanent precedent for unlimited governmental control over personal medical decisions.

38. ABORTION

MPA supports legal elective abortion during early pregnancy, generally through 14 weeks, followed by greater legal protection for unborn life.

Exceptions should include:

Rape
Incest
Serious threat to the mother's life
Serious threat of substantial irreversible physical harm
Severe fetal conditions incompatible with sustained life after birth

Treatment for:

Ectopic pregnancy
Miscarriage
Sepsis
Hemorrhage
Other genuine pregnancy emergencies

must remain legally available.

Women should not be imprisoned merely for obtaining an abortion.

MPA supports contraception, adoption reform, prenatal healthcare, maternal health, and practical policies that reduce unintended pregnancies.

Make abortion less necessary rather than pretending government can eliminate the circumstances that lead to it.

39. EDUCATION

Parents bear primary responsibility for their children's education.

MPA supports excellent public education while protecting reasonable access to:

Charter schools
Private education
Homeschooling
Vocational education
Apprenticeships
Technical training

Schools should emphasize:

Reading
Writing
Mathematics
Science
History
Civics
Financial literacy
Technology
Critical thinking
Practical life skills

College is valuable.

It is not the only respectable path.

40. CRIMINAL JUSTICE

Justice should distinguish between dangerous violent criminals and people who can safely be punished without placement in violent prisons.

MPA supports serious punishment for serious violent crime.

For appropriate nonviolent offenders, alternatives may include:

Restitution
Probation
Community corrections
Home confinement
Treatment
Community service
Financial penalties

MPA supports meaningful expungement opportunities for qualifying minor and nonviolent offenses following demonstrated rehabilitation.

MPA supports ending private prisons and improving:

Indigent defense
Prison safety
Rehabilitation
Education
Job training
Reentry

Justice should protect society, not manufacture better criminals.

41. LAW ENFORCEMENT

MPA is both pro-police and pro-accountability.

Police should receive substantially better:

Education
Training
Compensation
Supervision
Mental-health support
Professional licensing

Training should heavily emphasize:

Constitutional law
Civil rights
Use of force
De-escalation
Mental-health response
Medical response
Evidence
Communication
Ethics

Officers who lose professional certification for serious misconduct should not simply relocate and continue policing elsewhere.

Police officers deserve due process.

A badge should protect lawful authority. It should never protect criminal conduct.

42. DRUG POLICY

MPA rejects the false choice between criminalizing everything and legalizing everything.

Drug policy should distinguish:

Addiction. Personal conduct. Predatory criminal activity.

Priority enforcement should target:

Major trafficking
Organized crime
Distribution to minors
Adulterated dangerous substances
Impaired driving
Violence
Criminal enterprises

Appropriate addiction-driven cases should have greater access to treatment and diversion.

43. IMMIGRATION & CITIZENSHIP

America can have both secure borders and legal immigration.

Secure the border.

Modernize ports of entry.

Target:

Cartels
Human traffickers
Smugglers
Criminal organizations

Improve asylum adjudication.

Remove dangerous criminals without lawful status through due process.

Modernize legal immigration.

America should remain open to people who lawfully come here seeking liberty, opportunity, and participation in American society.

Citizenship should mean something.

Legal immigration should actually work.

44. ENERGY

America should pursue energy abundance.

Nuclear power should become a major component of America's future energy strategy.

MPA also supports:

Domestic energy production
Grid modernization
Advanced nuclear reactors
Geothermal
Hydroelectric power
Storage
Economically viable renewables
Research into future energy systems

Energy technologies should be judged based upon:

Reliability
Cost
Environmental impact
Land usage
National security
Scalability

not political fashion.

45. ENVIRONMENT & CONSERVATION

America should have both prosperity and a clean environment.

Protect:

Clean water
Clean air
Wildlife
Forests
Public lands
Groundwater
Productive farmland

Hold actual polluters accountable.

Environmental regulation should address measurable environmental harm and produce measurable benefits.

46. MILITARY & NATIONAL DEFENSE

America should maintain overwhelming defensive capability.

Priorities include:

Military readiness
Strategic deterrence
Missile defense
Cyberwarfare
Space capabilities
Autonomous systems
Naval power
Logistics
Munitions
Domestic defense production
Resilient supply chains

Reduce procurement waste.

Support military families.

America's military exists first to prevent war.

If deterrence fails, it must be capable of winning decisively.

47. FOREIGN POLICY

Peace through strength. Diplomacy before war. America before ideology.

America should honor legitimate commitments while expecting allies to contribute fairly.

Use:

Diplomacy
Trade
Intelligence
Alliances
Deterrence
Economic pressure

before military force whenever practical.

Avoid unnecessary regime-change wars.

Protect American citizens, territory, commerce, allies, and strategic interests.

America should neither attempt to police every dispute on Earth nor abandon the world to aggressive authoritarian powers.

48. PRIVACY

The Fourth Amendment must survive the digital age.

MPA supports strong protection of:

Communications
Location information
Medical information
Personal data
Financial information
Biometrics
Digital activity

Government should not evade warrant requirements by simply purchasing sensitive data from private brokers.

Persistent facial-recognition and drone surveillance should face meaningful constitutional safeguards.

49. AI, TECHNOLOGY & CYBERSECURITY

America should lead the technological future.

MPA supports:

Critical-infrastructure cybersecurity
Identity protection
Deepfake protections
AI impersonation protections
Intellectual-property protection
Children's online safety
American semiconductor capacity
Quantum research
Advanced computing

When government uses AI to make consequential decisions affecting liberty, benefits, taxation, employment, policing, or similar matters, a human government official must remain accountable.

Government should never be able to say:

"The algorithm decided."

50. WORKERS' RIGHTS

Workers should be free to work, negotiate, organize, change employment, and choose whether to join labor organizations.

Protect workers against:

Wage theft
Dangerous workplaces
Retaliation for reporting illegal conduct
Blacklisting
Deliberate misclassification

Reduce occupational licensing that primarily prevents competition rather than protects public safety.

Pro-worker does not require being anti-business.

Pro-business does not require being anti-worker.

51. CAPITALISM & COMPETITION

MPA supports capitalism.

MPA does not support corporatism.

Government should aggressively enforce laws against:

Price fixing
Bid rigging
Fraud
Bribery
Criminal conspiracies
Government contracting fraud

Break down regulatory barriers protecting established companies from competition.

Protect small businesses.

Reduce regulatory capture.

Capitalism requires competition, not government-protected monopolies.

52. TAXES

Taxes should be:

Simple
Transparent
Predictable
Fair
Economically sustainable

Government should justify spending before automatically demanding additional revenue.

MPA supports comprehensive tax reform and serious evaluation of alternative taxation systems.

Property taxation deserves particular scrutiny because Americans should not effectively be permanently renting fully owned property from government.

Major changes should be subjected to transparent economic modeling before implementation.

53. SPENDING & NATIONAL DEBT

The federal government cannot borrow forever without consequences.

MPA supports:

Long-term balanced budgeting
Program audits
Fraud elimination
Procurement reform
Spending reviews
Long-term cost estimates
Elimination of obsolete programs
Debt reduction during strong economic periods

Fiscal responsibility means prioritizing.

It does not mean pretending government has no legitimate responsibilities.

54. GOVERNMENT PROCUREMENT

Taxpayer money deserves the same care people apply to their own money.

MPA supports:

Competitive bidding
Transparent contracts
Contractor performance records
Beneficial-ownership disclosure
Conflict-of-interest rules
Aggressive anti-kickback enforcement
Serious consequences for government-contract fraud

55. HOUSING

America needs more homes.

MPA supports:

Increasing housing supply
Reforming unnecessary zoning barriers
Faster permitting
Infrastructure supporting development
Mortgage transparency
Rental transparency
Competition
Homeownership
Strong property rights

Housing policy should increase the supply of homes rather than simply injecting additional money into a limited housing market.

56. INFRASTRUCTURE

America should build again.

Modernize:

Roads
Bridges
Airports
Ports
Water
Sewer
Electrical transmission
Broadband
Critical infrastructure

Prioritize maintenance.

Use competitive procurement.

Reduce unnecessary permitting delays.

Infrastructure should be engineering-driven, not ideology-driven.

57. SOCIAL SECURITY & RETIREMENT

Americans who paid into Social Security deserve stability and predictability.

Protect people at or approaching retirement from abrupt changes.

Address long-term solvency honestly.

Reduce fraud.

Encourage additional private retirement savings.

Future generations deserve a solvent system.

58. VETERANS

Promises made to veterans are debts of the United States.

MPA supports:

Faster disability decisions
Modernized VA healthcare
Greater provider access
Better transition assistance
Veteran employment programs
Education
Mental-health treatment
Homelessness prevention
Recognition of legitimate service-connected injuries and toxic exposure

59. FAMILIES & CHILDREN

Parents—not government—bear primary responsibility for raising children.

Government should aggressively combat:

Child abuse
Sexual exploitation
Human trafficking
Online exploitation
Serious neglect

Improve adoption and foster care.

Protect parental rights while preserving intervention when children face genuine abuse or serious danger.

60. ANIMAL WELFARE

Animals deserve meaningful protection from deliberate cruelty and severe neglect.

Strengthen enforcement against:

Intentional torture
Organized animal fighting
Serious neglect
Deliberate abuse

Protect service animals and household pets.

Animal-welfare laws should punish genuine cruelty without unnecessarily criminalizing responsible:

Pet ownership
Farming
Ranching
Hunting
Veterinary care

61. DISABILITY RIGHTS

Americans with disabilities deserve equal dignity, opportunity, and meaningful access.

Protect:

Accessibility
Reasonable accommodation
Employment opportunity
Education
Independent living
Freedom from unlawful discrimination

Government benefits should be structured so people are not unnecessarily punished for attempting to increase independence.

62. HOMELESSNESS & POVERTY

Compassion should be judged by outcomes.

Homelessness has different causes and therefore requires different solutions.

MPA supports combinations of:

Housing
Employment
Addiction treatment
Mental-health care
Veteran services
Family reunification where appropriate
Transitional assistance

The objective should be restoring stability and independence whenever possible.

63. MENTAL HEALTH

America needs significantly more mental-health capacity.

Expand:

Psychiatric care
Crisis response
Treatment capacity
Community treatment
Appropriate inpatient capacity
Mental-health professionals

Involuntary treatment should require strong due-process protections.

Mental illness should not automatically become a criminal-justice problem simply because treatment infrastructure does not exist.

64. AGRICULTURE & FOOD SECURITY

America should remain capable of feeding itself.

Protect productive farmland.

Maintain competitive agricultural markets.

Strengthen food safety.

Protect agricultural supply chains.

Prevent excessive market concentration.

Support farmers without burying agriculture under unnecessary bureaucracy.

65. TRADE & MANUFACTURING

Trade creates prosperity.

Strategic dependence creates vulnerability.

America should maintain domestic or allied capacity in critical sectors including:

Defense
Semiconductors
Pharmaceuticals
Energy equipment
Critical minerals
Infrastructure

Confront intellectual-property theft and unfair state-sponsored economic practices.

America should become the best place in the world to build.

66. SCIENCE, SPACE & RESEARCH

America should remain the world's scientific leader.

Support:

NASA
Commercial spaceflight
Fundamental research
Biotechnology
Medicine
Quantum research
Nuclear science
Advanced manufacturing
Energy research
National laboratories

Science should follow evidence regardless of whether the conclusion is politically convenient.

67. WATER & NATURAL RESOURCES

Water security is national security.

Protect drinking water.

Modernize water infrastructure.

Address groundwater depletion.

Improve reservoirs and storage.

Improve drought resilience.

Use water recycling.

Support desalination where environmentally and economically appropriate.

Plan for long-term resource security.

68. WELFARE & GOVERNMENT BENEFITS

America should maintain a safety net.

It should also encourage independence where reasonably possible.

Reduce fraud.

Simplify overlapping programs.

Address benefit cliffs that punish people for accepting raises or returning to work.

Distinguish between:

Temporary hardship
Long-term need
Permanent inability to work

Compassion and responsibility can coexist.

69. REGULATORY REFORM

Every significant federal regulation should answer:

What law authorizes this?
What problem exists?
What evidence supports intervention?
What will it cost?
What liberties does it restrict?
Is there a less restrictive solution?
How will success be measured?
When will the rule be reviewed?

Rules that repeatedly fail should be modified or repealed.

70. SIMPLE, READABLE GOVERNMENT

Americans should be able to understand the laws governing them.

MPA supports:

Plain-language government communication
Searchable legislation
Reasonable review periods before major votes
Clear comparison with existing law
Stronger restrictions on unrelated provisions hidden in legislation
Public explanations of major bills

Members of Congress should know what they are voting on.

Citizens should know too.

71. INTERGENERATIONAL RESPONSIBILITY

America should leave the next generation more than debt and broken systems.

Government should evaluate the long-term effects of decisions involving:

National debt
Infrastructure
Natural resources
Strategic vulnerability
Insolvent programs
Environmental damage
Scientific capability
National defense

People not yet born cannot vote against today's bad decisions.

That makes protecting their future our responsibility.

THE MPA PUBLIC TRUST DOCTRINE

Government authority is borrowed from the people.

Those exercising that authority therefore assume heightened duties of:

Truth

Transparency

Competence

Stewardship

Accountability

The greater the power, the greater the responsibility.

THE MPA TEST

Before supporting significant new government power, MPA asks:

Is it constitutional?

Is it actually necessary?

What evidence supports it?

Will it work?

What will it cost?

What rights does it restrict?

Is there a less restrictive solution?

Should the federal government handle it, or should it remain with the states?

Will it apply equally to everyone?

Could a future hostile government abuse this power?

How will success be measured?

What happens if it fails?

Government should not create a new law merely because something must be done.

Government should do something when doing so is justified, constitutional, effective, and necessary.

OUR STANDARD

Liberty without anarchy.

Government without tyranny.

Capitalism without corruption.

Justice without vengeance.

Security without a surveillance state.

Compassion without permanent dependency.

Science without political manipulation.

Equality without preferential treatment.

Free speech without immunity for criminal conduct.

Strong police with strong accountability.

Strong self-defense without vigilantism.

Ownership instead of permanent dependency.

Government transparency without sacrificing legitimate national security.

Strong national defense without unnecessary war.

Fiscal responsibility without abandoning legitimate government responsibilities.

And above all:

Putting People First.

Others Before Self.

To Lead is to Serve.

Doing what is Right, only because it is the Right thing to do.

We do not ask:

Is it Republican?

Is it Democratic?

We ask:

Is it constitutional?

Is it true?

Is it fair?

Does it protect liberty?

Can America afford it?

Does it work?

Is it the right thing to do?

That is moderation.

That is common sense.

THE MODERATE PARTY OF AMERICA

Where Common Sense Resides.

PLATFORM–POLICY CENTER ALIGNMENT

Last synchronized: August 24, 2026

The National Platform and the Issues & Policy Center are two views of the same policy system.

The Platform provides the complete national overview.
The Issues & Policy Center organizes the same subjects into focused pages.
When detailed wording is updated, the dated and versioned issue page is the controlling version.
A topic labeled Under Review is not an official adopted position.
A topic labeled Proposed / Draft is a developed proposal awaiting formal approval.
Only language expressly labeled Official Adopted Position should be represented as formally adopted party policy.

Platform language that has not yet received an express status label remains subject to formal status review.

COMPLETE MATCHED TOPIC DIRECTORY

The Platform and Issues & Policy Center presently cover the following matching subjects:

Abortion
Animal Issues
Changes in Government
Constitutional Amendments
Consumer Rights
Criminal Justice, Prison, Jail & Detention Reform
Disease and Public Health
Drugs, Addiction and Fentanyl
Education
Energy
Foreign Affairs
Guns, Self-Defense and Due Process
Healthcare
Immigration
Law Enforcement
LGBTQ+, Sex-Based Rights and Personal Privacy
Liberty, Equality & Opportunity
Military, National Defense and Veterans
Owner and Property Rights
Personal Rights & Freedoms
Privacy Rights
Taxes
Workers’ Rights
Cost of Living & Economic Security
Government Integrity & Equal Justice
Federal Reserve Governance & Monetary Policy
Artificial Intelligence, Data Centers & Digital Infrastructure
Immigration, Citizenship & Border Security
Healthcare, Mental Health & Addiction
Federal Budget, Debt & Government Performance
Election Administration & Public Confidence
Housing, Homelessness & Insurance Affordability
Competition, Trade & Domestic Production
Families, Children & Education
Social Security, Senior Security and Retirement

CURRENT PROPOSED / DRAFT POLICY UPDATES

The detailed Issues & Policy pages contain the complete wording, rationale, safeguards, tradeoffs and status. The current Platform summary is:

Privacy, Warrants and Consumer Data

Proposed / Draft: search warrants should require particularized probable cause and clearly identify the person, account, information and time period sought. Government should not use general, dragnet or reverse warrants, pressure companies to surrender customer information, or purchase data to evade constitutional warrant requirements. Government surveillance of lawful transactions and a programmable retail central-bank digital currency are opposed.

Proportional Policing and Use of Force

Proposed / Draft: officers should explain enforcement actions when feasible, use de-escalation and the least force reasonably necessary, and ordinarily prefer warnings, citations, summonses or fines for nonviolent low-risk offenses. Force must be proportional, end when its justification ends, and remain subject to intervention, reporting, medical-aid and evidence-preservation duties.

Criminal Justice and Community Corrections

Proposed / Draft: secure prisons should prioritize violent, sexually dangerous, persistently predatory and other demonstrably dangerous offenders. Eligible nonviolent offenders should be considered for restitution, probation, treatment, community corrections, education, employment and supervised work release, with individualized risk assessment and graduated consequences.

Equal Treatment, Sex-Based Privacy and Medical Transition

Proposed / Draft: gay and lesbian Americans are entitled to equal civil rights, personal safety and freedom in adult relationships. Existing draft standards address medical gender-transition interventions for people age 18 or younger, extreme caution for ages 19 through 24, independent multidisciplinary review before irreversible surgery, sex-based privacy in intimate facilities, reasonable private accommodations and biological-sex standards in women’s competitive athletics.

Parents, Minor Records and Child Removal

Proposed / Draft: parents and lawful guardians have primary responsibility for minors and generally should receive material educational, medical, mental-health, disciplinary and governmental information. Nonemergency removal requires a court petition, notice, an opportunity to be heard, individualized evidence and a judge’s written order. Emergency removal is limited to imminent danger and requires immediate prosecutorial filing and rapid judicial review.

Inflation and Cost of Living

Proposed / Draft: major fiscal, tax, tariff, subsidy and regulatory proposals should disclose expected effects on inflation, debt and household costs. Policy should expand supplies of housing, reliable energy, transportation, healthcare competition and domestic production while enforcing laws against fraud and collusion.

Federal Reserve Governance

Proposed / Draft: the Federal Reserve should operate solely in the public interest. Reform should accurately recognize its hybrid structure, reduce preferential governance influence by regulated member banks, strengthen public representation, conflicts rules, audits and transparency, and protect monetary decisions from personal political retaliation.

Artificial Intelligence and Data Centers

Proposed / Draft: large data centers should disclose electricity, water, grid, emissions and infrastructure impacts. Developers should pay a fair share of project-driven infrastructure costs; residents should not unknowingly subsidize private facilities. Local zoning, water protection, public hearings, incentive transparency, cybersecurity and performance clawbacks should apply.

Equal Justice for People in Authority

Proposed / Draft: politicians, executives, law-enforcement officers, regulators and other powerful people should face the same criminal definitions, charging standards, defenses, due process, sentencing factors and punishment as an average person under comparable facts.

Senior Security and Social Security

Proposed / Draft: full Social Security retirement is set at age 72 with 100 percent of the full earned benefit under the reformed system. Benefits already being paid are protected. Disability, survivor and dependent benefits retain separate eligibility. Social Security benefits should not be subject to federal, state or local income tax. Seniors should receive meaningful primary-home property-tax protection, dependable healthcare, social-worker or senior-navigator access and support for safe independent living.

Education Modernization

Proposed / Draft: public K–12 education should use a year-round calendar with regular breaks; provide breakfast, lunch and dinner; and offer weekend meals to children voluntarily attending an approved school or community program. Students should demonstrate mastery before promotion, with tutoring, accommodations, improvement plans and appeals. Transcripts should provide a comparable unweighted 4.0 GPA alongside clearly labeled local or weighted measures. Assessment should include tests, writing, projects, portfolios, technical skills, civics, financial literacy and practical problem-solving. Academics remain the central mission while athletics, arts and activities retain an appropriate role.

State Sovereignty and National Minimums

Proposed / Draft: states remain in charge of schools, roads, police, licensing and local programs unless the Constitution assigns authority to the federal government. A lawful federal minimum establishes a floor, not one mandatory program design. Congress must identify its constitutional authority, costs and objectives; agencies may not invent laws; substantial federal mandates should be funded; and states may use different methods while reporting honest, comparable results.

UNDER-REVIEW POLICY CENTERS

The following centers organize research and future proposals without establishing adopted positions:

Cost of Living & Economic Security
Government Integrity & Equal Justice
Federal Reserve Governance & Monetary Policy
Artificial Intelligence, Data Centers & Digital Infrastructure
LGBTQ+, Sex-Based Rights & Personal Privacy
Immigration, Citizenship & Border Security
Healthcare, Mental Health & Addiction
Federal Budget, Debt & Government Performance
Election Administration & Public Confidence
Housing, Homelessness & Insurance Affordability
Competition, Trade & Domestic Production
Families, Children & Education

Each center must develop constitutional considerations, fiscal impact, benefits, disadvantages, evidence, sources, related policies, publication dates, update dates and version history before formal adoption.

Synchronization rule: Every future topic added to either the National Platform or the Issues & Policy Center must be added to the other during the same update, with the same status and materially consistent wording.