I believe that if We The People, demand that every candidate running for office will agree to these principles, and work to implement them, once elected, we can take back our government from the Oligarchs who currently control it.

I have loved ones who are survivors of domestic violence and they never saw justice for their abuse. I want them to feel free to vote without fear of being hunted down and killed.

Our current representatives and senators are caught up in the moral crisis pervading Washington DC, and have forgotten their basic South Dakota values. Please vote for those people who have moral character and say no to big money lobbies. Vote for Sutton and the democratic team. Let's bring back values and morality to our state--and our country.

I was deeply offended and disappointed when I read that Joe Biden plans to honor former President George W. Bush with the National Constitution Center’s Liberty Medal for his “commitment to veterans." As a veteran of the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, I’m joined by thousands of fellow post-9/11 veterans as part of About Face: Veterans Against the War who are disgusted to see Biden award this man for his newfound philanthropic interest in Veterans which is only necessary because he used us to unleash death and destruction that continues today. How could anyone agree to honor a man who used his wealth and privilege to avoid service in Vietnam but, as president of the United States, helped send the nation to war based on misinformation that was later proven to be false? Wars that forever changed the lives of millions of Iraqi and Afghan civilians. How could anyone honor a man who sent more than 2.7 million of my fellow service members into a war with “insufficient protection and aging equipment,” forcing many of us to resort to hiding behind rusty scrap metal that many of us called “hillbilly armor”? How could anyone honor a man who, on his way out of office, cut funding for healthcare veterans desperately needed, leading even his ally, American Legion National Commander Paul Morin, to “blame President [George W. Bush] and Congress for insufficient funding of the VA health care system”? George W. Bush sent many veterans like me into combat zones based on false information with poor planning, lack of preparation, and then cut his support for vital programs, effectively abandoning us when we returned home. He put us at the front line of military invasions that turned many of us into occupiers of countries we knew nothing about, and in some case torturers, and then left many of us homeless or disabled when we returned home. His carelessness with our lives is one of the causes leading more than 20 veterans a day to commit suicide. We know these wars continue to this very day in more than 7 countries, and Muslim communities here in the United States face harassment thanks to the policies the Bush Administration created. While former President Bush may have made headlines recently for public comments in support of U.S. veterans, and even gone so far as to paint bizarre guilt-laden portraits of us, I instead point to the words of the late Iraq war veteran Tomas Young, who in his final letter to Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney said: “You may evade justice but in our eyes, you are each guilty of egregious war crimes, of plunder and, finally, of murder, including the murder of thousands of young Americans—my fellow veterans—whose future you stole.” Signed, Ramon Mejía USMC on behalf of, About Face: Veterans Against the War (formerly Iraq Veterans Against the War)

As a tax payer, this has cost us money. More info: https://www.npr.org/2018/10/18/658509261/trump-intervened-in-fbi-hq-project-to-protect-his-hotel-democrats-allege

A president should be honorable, righteous, altruistic, virtuous and right-minded. We need a president that will do what it can to save our environment instead of working for the corporations that are destroying it. We need a president that fights for the majority, not the top 1%. We need a president that is honest. We need a president that is emotionally intelligent and intellectually intelligent. Until Trump is impeached or voted out, we must rally every vote possible to get control of congress and stop these old, sexist, privileged, hypocritical ‘Christians’ that support the mistreatment of women, people of color and people of poverty. I am ashamed he is our leader.

I’m starting this petition to put Progressives on the offensive or we won’t win in November

The Republican Party has been shown to have had 209 Indictments, 113 Convictions and 36 Sentenced during that period while the Democratic Party has had 3 - 1 - 1 respectively. We don't want or need criminals to make decisions for our country. The Democrats have demonstrated to be more straight forward with the people. Vote the crooks out.

It is extremely hard to come forward and when you do you are victimized again. This must stop. The statute of limitations should be lifted.

The ridiculous profits realized by those who have monopolized the sources of information that would allow for informed consent of our countries governance has led us to a crisis not unlike our healthcare situation. They profit from misinformation and conspire against the citizenry for profits with total disregard for the responsibilities that were once implied by a license to use public airwaves.

I was a healthy twenty six year old with a young family, no debt, a college degree and about to buy our first house. Then one day in December 2016 I went to work not knowing it would never be the same as that morning again. I worked at a horse stable and I had to lift a bag of shavings off the pallet of shavings into my wheelbarrow. It fell, I stupidly caught it and it immediately pulled me with it. All I felt was a pop and pain from the center of my spine down into my foot. Needless to say, everything was no longer how it was. My work had insurance but they still to this day have not given much treatment as they deny almost everything or delay my Physical Therapy which happens all the time even with a lawyer involved. The disability checks are very minimal and my husband at first had to help me so much all the time he missed work. We ran out of money and almost went homeless right before we finally received a HUD apartment. All this being said, I have racked up a ton of debt paying for food, gas, medical equipment/assistive devices because they again fight me on everything. I do receive SNAP, it is $32 a month because I have been forced into HUD housing and it counts against you when you have SNAP. For someone like me, my credit cards became the only way to afford food, but they all have a limit. Unfortunately SNAP will NOT include this an expense and if it did I could buy enough groceries for an entire month for my family. This situation I am in is not new anymore and the federal government needs to step up and help those who really don’t have any other options. Everyone should have enough food for their children and not be panicking all the time about food. Please stand up for those of us that did everything right and still ended up where no one wants to be.

1. No tenure no pension. Members of Congress only are paid while serving. 2. Congress participates in Social Security. All funds in the congressional retirement fund be transferred to the Social Security system. All future retirement funds flow into the social security system and congress participates with all other citizens. Social Security may not be used for any other purpose. 3. Congress can purchase their own retirement and health plans until we are all covered by the same plan. 4. Congress will no longer vote themselves a pay raise. It will be tied to CPI, SS, and minimum wage. 5. Congress loses their current health care system and participates in the same health care system as the rest of the citizens of our country. 6. Congress must abide by the same laws as the rest of the citizens. 7. All contracts with past and present congressional representatives will become void on 12/31/19.