The WePublican Manifesto
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.
We are a public: people who expect politicians to say what they mean, debate in the open, and stand where the evidence and the country actually are.
What we do
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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.
The bridge rule
A bridge is not a split-the-difference. A bridge is the position a significant share of the public already holds — majority or durable plurality — as measured by named polls, and consistent with serious research.
If the public sits in a third place neither party occupies, that is the bridge. We take it.
If the public is split 50/49, we do not invent a consensus. We demand that candidates say which side they are on, in public, in a sentence.
If a poll is an advocacy house, we say so. If the evidence is thin, we say so. We would rather be unfinished than fake.
Bridge positions
These are drawn from named 2024–2026 national polling (compiled August 29, 2026). They will be updated when the evidence updates. They are the first WePublican scorecard.
Immigration. Deport people who commit serious crimes. Keep a pathway for Dreamers, long-settled residents, and families with American ties. Reject mass deportation of everyone, and reject open stay.
YouGov, Aug 2026: 41% deport only those with serious crimes / 29% most with exceptions / 24% all / 6% none. Gallup: 81% support a Dreamer path; 58% oppose deporting all.
Energy and climate. Build solar, natural gas, and nuclear. Do not pretend coal is the future. Do not spike household bills in the name of purity. Nuclear is the least-polarized source we have.
Pew, Mar 2026: 57% prioritize renewables, down from 79% in 2020.
Crime. Fund police. Treat addiction and serious mental illness as part of public safety. Do not put troops in American cities as a governing model.
Gallup, Oct 2025: 60% oppose troops in cities. Pew, July 2026: Republicans still own the crime brand (R+14) — a warning to Democrats, not a license to militarize.
Fairness without racial preferences. Diversity is a good. Racial plus-factors in admissions and hiring are not.
Pew, 2023: 74% say race should not be an admissions factor.
Artificial intelligence. The country is not with either party’s AI story. A majority thinks the technology is moving too fast and does not trust government to regulate it. Slow the frontier enough to be competent. Do not strip every rule in the name of a race.
Pew, July 2026: 51% agree with neither party on AI — the highest “neither” of any issue. Pew, Feb 2026: 63% say AI is advancing too quickly.
Data centers. A national technology strategy is not a blank check on the local grid. Communities may refuse installations that raise their power bills and drain their water.
YouGov, Aug 2026: 47% say new data centers are bad for the country vs. 24% good; 61% oppose them locally.
Housing. Build more. Incentivize zoning that allows supply. Pass a bill.
Bipartisan Policy Center, Apr 2026: 89% of registered voters want Congress to pass a housing bill; 65% support zoning incentives.
Social Security. Do not cut benefits. The public’s preferred fix is to tax high earners, including lifting the payroll cap.
Reagan Institute, 2026: 90% oppose reducing benefits. Voice of the People / UMD, 2026: 79% support taxing wages over $400,000.
Health coverage. Keep the Affordable Care Act. Restore the premium credits Congress let expire. Fight drug prices as the bipartisan issue they already are.
KFF, Jan 2026: ACA 58% favorable; 67% say letting credits expire was the wrong thing.
Guns. Universal background checks. Age 21 for assault-style rifles. No confiscation. No handgun ban.
Gallup, Oct 2024: 56% want stricter laws; 52% support an assault-rifle ban; 20% support a handgun ban.
IVF. Protect access. Laws that treat every embryo as a legal person in a way that collapses IVF are a political project, not a public mandate.
Pew, 2024: 70% say IVF access is a good thing, including 59% of people who say an embryo is a person.
Food and chemicals. Regulate dyes, additives, and pesticides more tightly. Removing fluoride from water and legalizing raw milk are not majority positions; we will not pretend they are.
KFF, Apr 2026: 75% say food dyes and additives are not regulated enough; 64% say the same of pesticides. Annenberg: fluoride removal is not a majority demand. YouGov: 36% would lift raw-milk restrictions.
Public lands. Do not sell them. Western voters, including many Republicans, reject land sales and review-stripping for extraction.
Colorado College State of the Rockies, Jan 2026: 76% of Mountain West voters oppose selling public land for housing; 70% oppose fast-tracking oil, gas, and mining by cutting reviews.
Where we refuse a fake bridge
Some fights are real wedges. We do not launder them into a mushy middle. On these, WePublicans’ job is accountability: a clear question, a recorded answer, a public score.
Abortion. The country is closer to legal in most cases, restricted later. Candidates must say what they would sign. We will not pretend a national ban — or abortion through birth — is the public.
Pew, Jan 2026: 60% legal all or most of the time; 38% illegal. 48-point party gap.
Birthright citizenship. The public is split. We will not invent a majority. Every candidate answers in one sentence.
Pew, Apr 2025: 50% say children of undocumented parents should be citizens / 49% say they should not.
Transgender policy. Anti-discrimination in jobs and housing, yes. Male-bodied athletes in female sports, no. Medicalization of minors is not a consensus. Candidates who hide behind slogans fail the test.
Pew, Nov 2025: 73% uncomfortable with trans athletes on unmatched teams; 56% still favor job and housing nondiscrimination.
China and tariffs. Tough on China. Do not blow up household prices as a personality.
Pew, Jan 2026: 60% disapprove of the 2025 tariff increases. Chicago Council: 72% would cut China tariffs for more farm purchases.
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 ask
If you are tired of being told you must pick a team that does not speak for you: this is the organization.
If you are a candidate who can defend these positions in a debate: we will help you get heard.
If you are a partisan of the extreme: you are welcome to argue. You are not welcome to own us.
We the public. We vote. We keep receipts.
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