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 6: The 99-Cent Revolution: Funding the Movement
RandellHynes July 17, 2026
Week 6: The 99-Cent Revolution: Funding the Movement
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Lecture Topics
- Chapter 7: "The Funding Engine — How ViaUS Powers the People Primaries Strategy"
- The 99-Cent Revolution: the argument that 3.4 million workers contributing 99 cents per week generates $176 million annually — enough to compete with corporate PAC spending
- The ViaUS funding platform concept: why the book argues the movement needs its own payment infrastructure rather than relying on ActBlue or WinRed
- Chapter 8: "Building the 2029 121st Congress Begins in 2026" — the timeline for upstream candidate selection
- The civic labor problem: the argument that "voter agency begins before the ballot" and the challenge of asking exhausted workers to do more than vote
- Distributed responsibility as the answer to voter fatigue: the jury, volunteer fire department, and neighborhood association models
Reflect & Discuss
Financial arithmetic workshop: verify the 99-Cent Revolution math. 3.4 million × $0.99 × 52 weeks = $175.3 million. Compare to actual spending: the 2024 federal election cycle cost approximately $16 billion. Is $176 million/year sufficient to field candidates in 435 House districts? What are the actual costs of a competitive House primary? Discuss the civic-labor problem: is it realistic to ask working people to engage in upstream candidate selection? What does the book's "distributed responsibility" model look like in practice?