In our candidate-centered and money-driven political culture, public campaign financing provides a great opportunity for independent and small-party candidates to run serious, constructive, and visible campaigns. It is an essential electoral reform and it is the first item in the Green Party of the United States Platform regarding Camp...

At the Maryland Green Party Assembly on June 25th, Brian Bittner and I gave a presentation about electoral reform and party building. Our first goal was to engage a conversation within the party about policy tools that enable more healthy parties to participate in our elections and ultimately in our government. Our second goal was to t...

The last few posts here have been very focused around the Maryland Green Party officer and bylaws elections. I am happy to say everything and everybody I was advocating for won, and the things I was against lost. I will do some follow up on that soon. More broadly, I have been very focused on the internal working of my state and local ...

One of the main goals of my campaign for Governor is to build a Green party that can meet the moment. To me that means we need a strong, resilient party that can channel the aspirations of our members into real political change. To do this I believe that we need to build a party that is member driven, democratic, participatory, and res...

One of the main goals of the campaign is to build a Green party that can meet the moment. To me that means we need a strong, resilient party that can channel the aspirations of our members into real political change. To do this I believe that we need to build a party that is member driven, democratic, participatory, and responsive. I t...

I am going to start a section of this newsletter about what I am reading, listening to, or watching as I work on the campaign. There is a lot of great stuff we are interacting with and I want to highlight it! Read Books I recently completed “Blue State Republican-How Larry Hogan Won Where Republicans Lose and Lessons for a Future GOP” ...

The day after election day 2022, I shared that I was exploring a campaign to seek the Green Party nomination for Governor of Maryland in 2026. I am going to use this newsletter article to list a few questions that frame what “exploring” or “thinking about it” means to me. Before we get to the list, here is some context for me. A statew...

Tuesday night this week I worked a polling station for Green Party State Delegate candidate Renaud Brown. As soon as I arrived I met Danny, a volunteer for the Democratic slate for state delegate candidates. Danny and I arrived at the same time and we were the only ones there. When some people think about working a polling station on e...