The Book
A Third Foundation for the Discarded Half - 80 pages, proposal and field manual, fifty-state ballot access annex.
The Independent Parties of America is a proposal and a field manual. Half of America has no voice, not because it is silent but because it was never offered a sentence worth signing. This book is that sentence: written by communities in their own words, tested by seven honest questions, protected by fail-safe clauses, paid for by tithes instead of masters, and bounded always by the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
The path runs through folding chairs, petition clipboards, and fifty state rulebooks that yield to anyone patient enough to read them. No permission is required. No permission was ever required.
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Both editions carry the same edited text: 80 pages, 11 chapters, and a fifty-state annex.
Inside the book
Part One - The Seesaw
Why alternating party control has not served the half that stays home.
Part Two - The Machinery of the Duel / The Discarded Half
How the two-party lock works and who it leaves out.
Part Three - The Proposal
Chapters 4 to 8: the IPA, the community context, the candidate's burden, the seven questions, the fail-safe clause.
Part Four - The Field Manual
Chapter 9: founding circle, bylaws, money without masters, the first context, finding candidates, the ballot, the record in office.
Part Five - Fifty Doors
Chapters 10 and 11, then the annex: real ballot access rules for all fifty states, each with its sources, so you can verify every claim.
For each state: the real sources
Every law summarized in the annex is drawn from public summaries of each state's election statutes, chiefly the compendium maintained by Ballotpedia, plus each state's own election office. The Sources page lists the primary links for all fifty states so you can check any entry yourself. Rules change; verify before you file.