Week 1: Introduction: The US Majority and the Diagnosis
Week 2: The Roadmap: Numbers, Districts, and the 21st Amendment Precedent
Week 3: The 2% and the Voting Booth Trap
Week 4: The Constitutional Case: Article V and State Conventions
Week 5: People Primaries: Community-Driven Candidate Selection
Week 6: The 99-Cent Revolution: Funding the Movement
Week 7: The Powell Memo: Origin of the Corporate Capture Project
Week 8: Midterm + The Slow Bleed and the Broken Family
Week 9: The Chamber of Commerce, Foreign Money, and Political Theater
Week 10: Worker Displacement: H-1B Visas, Offshoring, and the Tech Giants
Week 11: AI, Corporate Personhood, and Constitutional Human Obsolescence
Week 12: Labor Rights, the PRO Act, and the Race Divide
Week 13: Movement Security, Nationalism, and the Policy Platform
Week 14: Veterans, the Covenant, and the Gig Economy
Week 15: The Call to Action: Synthesis and Critical Assessment
Part I: The Destination
Part II: The Map
Part III: The Obstacles
Part IV: The Action Plan
Part V: The Policy Platform
Part VI: The Covenant
Part VII: The Call to Action
Appendices
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Week 5: People Primaries: Community-Driven Candidate Selection
RandellHynes July 17, 2026
Week 5: People Primaries: Community-Driven Candidate Selection
Lecture slides with audio narration — self-paced. Click “Launch Slides” to begin.
Read from the Book
- UNINCORPORATUS required reading:
- Recommended: Skocpol & Hertel-Fernandez, "The Koch Network and the Radical Right"
Take the Lesson
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Go to Team Chat
After reading and taking the lesson, join the weekly discussion in Team Chat.
Lecture Topics
- Chapter 6: "People Primaries — The People Primaries Strategy"
- The Chip Roy hearing as case study: the argument that the party cartel prevents even bipartisan, popular legislation from reaching the floor
- The People Primaries model: open nomination, public vetting, promise-signing, small-dollar support — replacing the donor-selected candidate pipeline
- The Justice Democrats precedent: what worked, what failed, and what the book argues should be learned from it
- The four objections the book anticipates ("You'll never beat the party machine," "This is still working inside the two-party system," "They'll sell out," "You're just another DSA") and its responses
Reflect & Discuss
Case study comparison: Justice Democrats vs. the Tea Party vs. the Powell Memo's own institutional-building strategy. What do successful movements do that unsuccessful ones do not? Is the book correct that the candidate pipeline is the "choke point" of American democracy? Post your preliminary District Deep-Dive findings in Team Chat: who is the current representative, how were they selected, what is the donor profile, what is the primary history?