It’s not just me doing this. Sure, I’m the one piecing these ideas together, connecting the dots, and putting them out there, but they didn’t just spring from my head fully formed. They’re born out of countless conversations—with friends, family, even strangers sitting at a bar. They come from listening to stories of struggle, from hearing lighthearted jokes that carry the weight of resignation, from people saying, “It is what it is,” and “You’ll never see it change.”

I’ve reached a point where I can’t accept “it is what it is” anymore. Because I think there are enough of you out there—enough of us—who feel the same way. Strip away the divisiveness, peel back the layers of political rhetoric, and at the heart of it, we all seem to stand on common ground. We want something better, something fair, something functional. That’s where these ideas come from—not a political standpoint, but a human one.

I never thought I’d be the one sitting here, trying to figure out how to redesign society from the ground up. But it’s how my mind has always worked. When I look at the world, I see how things should be. Then I ask, “What’s stopping us?” For the longest time, I thought the barriers were insurmountable. I assumed that trying something new—something like the Equity Equation Project—would wreck the economy, simply because it was so different. If it wouldn’t, surely we’d already be doing it, right?

But as I got older, I started questioning those assumptions. What if we gave people more money in their pockets? They’d spend it. What if businesses had a more equitable structure? They’d grow, expand, and innovate. What if we stopped being afraid of bold ideas and started embracing them? That’s when I realized the only thing standing in the way is the fear of change.

I used to joke with my friends, “Why can’t we just all band together and say enough is enough?” It seemed like a pipe dream, a fantasy born out of frustration. But the more I thought about it, the more it started to feel possible. I remembered Ross Perot’s campaign, with his grassroots approach and charts. It wasn’t the right time, and America wasn’t ready for it. But maybe it wasn’t just the timing—maybe it was the approach. What if we did something different? Something bigger?

This isn’t just about electing one person or taking one seat. This is about creating a movement—a call to arms, but not for war. It’s a draft for dreamers, for those who see the cracks in the system and refuse to turn a blind eye.

Think about the housewife in middle America. She wakes up before dawn, packs lunches, gets the kids ready, and sends them off to school. She wants to contribute financially, but daycare costs as much as her potential paycheck. Her husband works two jobs, and they still barely make ends meet. There’s no savings, no room for error, and every trip to the grocery store feels like a juggling act of priorities. She sees news about CEOs taking home millions in bonuses and thinks, “How is this fair?” But she doesn’t have time to dwell on it. Dinner still needs cooking, and the bills keep piling up.

Now imagine that same housewife dreaming with me for a moment. What if we could change the system? What if we could put people like her—people with real stories and struggles—in the halls of Congress? What if she didn’t just vote but had a seat at the table where decisions are made? What if her voice, her experience, her perspective became part of the solution?

That’s the point. This movement isn’t about putting the same faces in different seats. It’s about inviting people like her—like you—into the conversation. It’s about shifting the focus from what divides us to what we share and building solutions that reflect the realities we all live with.

If it scares you, I get it. It scares me too. But sometimes the things that scare us the most are the ones that need to be done. I’m not asking anyone to storm the gates. I’m asking you to step up in a way that’s safe but meaningful—to lend your voice, your ideas, and your passion to something bigger than all of us. The goal isn’t to stay in the limelight or climb the political ladder. It’s to fix what’s broken, then step aside and let the nation heal.

We’ve all joked about how nothing ever changes. We’ve all felt the weight of a system that seems impossible to shift. But what if it isn’t impossible? What if we’ve just been waiting for the right time, the right people, and the right plan?

Maybe, just maybe, that time is now.