About Unseat Washington

1. If they don't work for you, fire them.

Politicians want to keep their jobs. Right now, they keep them by raising money from billionaires and private equity firms, not by listening to you. That's why nothing changes. We exist to flip that equation. Sign the pledge, and suddenly your representative has to worry about losing enough votes to lose their seat. We don't care about parties. We don't endorse challengers. We make one promise: do your job or lose it.

We're a Super PAC, and one of our demands is to end Super PACs. If Citizens United gets overturned, we'll shut our doors and celebrate. Until then, we use the broken system to fix the broken system.

2. Same rules for everyone.

318 names showed up in the Epstein files. One person was prosecuted. A hospital CEO bought a $40 million yacht while his company owed workers $290 million in unpaid wages. Nobody went to prison. The people at the top play by different rules... and they spend a lot of money making sure it stays that way.

We believe the law should apply to everyone equally. We believe every dollar flowing into politics should be out in the open: no dark money, no backroom deals. And we believe that when powerful people break the law, they should face the same consequences as everyone else. That shouldn't be a radical idea.

3. Reward the people who build things, not the ones who strip them for parts.

Private equity firms buy businesses with borrowed money, cut staff, raise prices, and walk away when it falls apart. Workers and communities get crushed. The fund managers keep their money.

This isn't how the economy is supposed to work. The economy should reward the nurse who shows up for a 12-hour shift, the small business owner who spent 20 years building something real, and the worker who is 400% more productive than workers were in 1940. Instead, the gains go to people who don't build anything. PE-owned hospitals have 13% more deaths in their emergency rooms. PE-backed funeral homes charge up to 72% more. CEO pay is 400 times the average worker's salary. Your wages haven't moved.

We stand with the people who build, not the people who bleed.

4. Your vote should actually count.

Right now, politicians draw their own district maps so they can't lose. Only about 1 in 10 congressional seats are truly competitive. A voter in Wyoming has nearly four times the say in picking a president as a voter in California. The whole system is set up so your voice doesn't matter, and then they tell you it's your fault for not voting.

We want to end gerrymandering so politicians have to compete for your vote. We support the National Popular Vote so every vote counts equally in presidential elections. And we want money out of politics so billionaires can't drown out everyone else. None of this is partisan. It's basic fairness.

5. Plan for what's coming.

AI is going to change the economy in ways we haven't seen since the Industrial Revolution. It could mean less work, better healthcare, and cheaper goods for everyone. Or it could wipe out millions of jobs while the people at the top pocket all the gains. It depends entirely on whether anyone in power bothers to plan for it.

Right now, nobody is planning. The AI boom is being financed with the same kind of risky deals that caused the 2008 financial crisis. Other countries already have worker retraining programs and transition plans. We have nothing. If the bubble pops, regular people lose their savings. If AI succeeds without a safety net, regular people lose their jobs. Either way, the people at the top will be fine.

We're not against new technology. We're against letting it land on working people with no warning and no plan.