Welcome — You Are the US Majority
Watch the video, then read on. This takes five minutes.
There are 170 million American workers. There are 435 congressional districts. Divide it out and the math is almost embarrassing: it takes roughly 2% of us — fewer than 8,000 organized workers per district — to out-organize every donor, every lobbyist, and every party machine in the country.
Nobody is coming to save us. Not a party, not a union boss, not a billionaire with a conscience. But nobody has to. We are the majority. We just haven’t acted like one — yet.
This Orientation shows you how we will: what the People’s Primary is, where the real work happens, what you can do alone starting today, and how your district team multiplies it.
What This Movement Actually Is
A hiring process, not a protest
Congress works for us on paper. The People’s Primary makes it real: workers in each district interview, vet, and choose their own candidate — someone who signs The WORK FOR US! Promise — and carry that endorsement into the 2026 party primaries. We don’t beg the parties for better candidates. We supply our own.
District by district
There is no national headquarters running your district. You and your neighbors are the headquarters. Every district that organizes 8,000 workers becomes a seat no corporate donor can buy back.
PeoplePrimaries.com is the tool, not the movement
This platform gives you a district home page, a private team, secure chat, video calls, projects, events, candidate tracking, and a live map of the whole country. The movement is what you do with it — at your kitchen table, in your break room, at the park on Saturday.
What Completing Orientation Gets You
District Member status
Finish these lessons and the platform unlocks: you can submit events, propose projects, apply for district roles, and take part in nominating and voting for your district’s candidate.
A five-minute head start on 99% of the country
Most Americans agree the system is broken. Almost none know there’s a plan with working math behind it. By the end of this course, you will.
Key Takeaway
You are not joining someone else’s organization. You are picking up a tool. 2% per district. Fewer than 8,000 people. The math is on our side — the only question is whether you’re one of the 8,000.
VIA US Workers — a project of Buildup Cooperative 501(c)(4)