About WePublican
The two parties have become excellent at representing their activists and terrible at representing the country. A large share of Americans is unaligned with those extremes — not because they have no views, but because their views do not fit the scripts. We exist to give that public a name, a platform, and a way to hold candidates to it.
We are not a third party. We are not a both-sides club. We are not a personality cult.
Our four purposes
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Elections. Influence midterm and presidential elections in support of centrist candidates — people who will govern from the country’s real center, not from a party’s primary.
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A home. Organize the portion of the electorate unaligned with party extremes, so that bloc is visible, countable, and impossible to treat as a remainder.
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Openness, dialogue, accountability. Brand WePublicans as a place that welcomes opposing ideas, insists on argument in good faith, and holds politicians to account for clearly defining their positions on contentious issues. Evasion is what we punish.
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Bridge issues. Where the parties have turned policy into a wedge, we establish an alternative position from public polling and real peer-reviewed research. We call these bridge issues. We host virtual debates so the argument is transparent, sourced, and on the record.
How we work
Source, then speak. Every WePublican position cites named polls and, where it exists, peer-reviewed or equivalent serious research. Aggregator blogs are not sources. Advocacy polls are labeled as such.
Debate in the open. We host virtual debates on bridge issues. Steelman both sides. Put the poll and the paper on the table. Record it. The point is not a viral clip. The point is a record.
Score candidates. In races we enter, every serious candidate gets a short set of questions that map to this manifesto. We publish the answers without spin. Support goes to people who will stand on the bridges — not to people who flash a moderate adjective.
Open to opposition. Intelligent disagreement is welcome. Changing a bridge when the evidence changes is a feature. Changing it because a faction shouted is not.
What “We Keep Receipts” means
“Keeping receipts” is everyday slang for saving proof. WePublican keeps a dated, sourced record of what politicians actually say and do: statements, votes, and promises. When a politician takes a position, we record the exact quote, the date, and a link to the original source. When they vote, we log it next to what they said. If the two don’t match, everyone can see it.
Why it matters: Politicians get away with vagueness because nobody tracks it. Receipts make candidates own clear positions on hard issues — in their own words, not spin.
What it’s not: It’s not opposition research or gotcha politics. Both parties are held to the same standard, a changed position isn’t a scandal if it’s explained honestly, and every source is public so anyone can check our work.
Where you’ll see it:
- Scorecards: each candidate’s stand on every bridge issue, with a source link for each entry.
- The One-Sentence Answer: we ask candidates for one clear sentence and record whether they answer or dodge.
- Corrections: we hold ourselves to the same rule. When we get something wrong, we fix it on the record.
In short: every claim sourced, every promise tracked, both parties held to the same standard.
Contact
Questions, corrections, press, or candidate inquiries: hello@wepublican.us.