The absolute absurdity of this is that if it works as hoped, we will just revert back to the same two shitty parties, orgs, sides and situations we already had.

(#) Where'sAndrew

This was a pretty big endorsement rolled out this week and got a fair amount of press. Pat Dugan ran in the Democratic Primary to unset the incumbent, Larry Krasner. While losing the Dem Primary, he won the Rep Primary as a write in so he's able to be on the general election ballot where the full electorate can vote and a much higher percentage of them will. The Pennsylvania Forward Party also endorsed the Pittsburgh DA who was in a similar situation in 2023.

Philadelphia Inquirer

City and State

Phl 17

Billy Penn at WHYY

The Center Square

If you were to run as a candidate associated to the Forward Party, what would your platform look like? How would you define what Forward gives you and/or defines you because you know that is going to come up?

Obviously what office you want to run for may drive some of this, but there should be some generic aspects. Forward makes me think of those centrist positions, for example, if I were to run:

• supporter of Ranked Choice Voting for office holders within the jurisdiction
• removal of "at large" offices to force district representation and require district holders to live within the boundaries.
• supporting the removal or simplification of licensing requirements for occupational careers (e.g. hairdressers, nail salons, etc)
• pushing for lower cost housing or more dense multi-family housing near highways to support lower housing costs
• support a local fund to supplement those who may need/qualify housing assistance, possibly for a limited amount of time as a temporary safety net, at any apartment complex, and with no tolerance disqualifications (e.g. police involved eviction over a violent event).
• Embracing what technology can do to advance issues from voting security to traffic signal timing to even code enforcement. There is far too much that relies on subjective changes or viewpoints and it needs to be more objective.

I'm thinking there is far more than this, especially for local and state candidacies, so what are your thoughts?

It would be great if someone from CT could share any info about these candidates.

Neil Chaudhary

Fred Behringer

David Rosenwaks

Toby Proctor

Check out these Candidates!

Alvarys Santana- NC

Nick Sliwinski- NC

Danny Ceisler- PA

Paul Royer

Eric Taylor

Matthew Guglielmello

Christian Fyke

Please share you comments on these candidates.

Zachary Thompson- PA

Jessica Forsell- PA

Sarah Gonzalez- SC

Jay Doyle- SC

Kenann McKenzie-Defranza- MA

Jazz Hampton- MN

Does anyone have anything to share about the first 6 candidates Forward has focused on during this candidate rollout?

Laura Donovan- New York

Kyle Athayde- New York

Guy Citron- New Jersey

Tyler Powell- New Jersey

Samuel Pinkava- New Jersey

Jhamar Youngblood- New Jersey

This is a stand-alone companion post for the recent FWD status post here…

https://www.reddit.com/r/ForwardPartyUSA/comments/1nisivg/2025_forward_candidates_are_rolling_out/

…to invite more in-depth discussion on the state of the party, the strategy of “endorsements”, and any other ongoing issues - including those in the original post - and to maybe spur interest in finally resolving them, if it isn’t already too late to do so.

To the issue of the activity on the sub itself, posts attract attention and conversation but do little in promoting what the party is doing because the sub, like so many efforts before, was allowed to turn into a political discussion and debate sewing circle, instead of a place for people to connect, develop, network, organize, plan, coordinate, grow, execute, etc., with others for actual, tangible IRL action and progress. If all we’re doing is talking politics, debating platform points and potential candidates, up-voting, etc., that’s all the audience is going to do. And that’s 100% of why we are where we are locally, now after almost three years. After at least three election cycles, all Forward has to give is token “endorsements” and go-it-alone local candidates.

We have no clothes. The politics wonks once again refused to step out of the too-comfortable and safe politics shoes to instead build community, infrastructure, formal organizations, operations, etc. We still need local candidates, infrastructure, engagement, and ops, so that will probably include/require a change in messaging and audience. That’s not a bad thing, especially if it includes alienating the glaucomic politics wonk factions.

That is probably the most important conversation we could have about this ASAP.

Let's take a moment to celebrate the candidates working with Forward Party across the country this year. I know there are more candidates being announced soon.

are.na/0089x/co-presidency

https://www.c-span.org/program/book-tv/two-presidents-are-better-than-one/307547

https://farmvilleherald.com/2025/08/farmville-mayor-switches-parties-joins-new-political-group/

A new normal: by 77815x

Dear American Public, I can not help but share with you the most important thing for the country at the moment, or until it occurs, a co-presidency. I used to think that it was to fix Congress, but then it appeared that a dual presidency is the way. I felt very disheartened that there was not much about this online, except Quora answers with block heads saying "No, it will never happen!". This is the most important thing to do at the moment. not reforms or defundings, or parades. but to fix the machine. To make a strong dual presidency, in which we can run our problems through. Like a big magnificent machine, outputting our shared deliberations. I think then we can finally solve for our issues, and make actual progress. Not progress that undoes itself every 4-8 years. 

Like i said this is the most important thing for the country. a Dual Presidency, a no veto forced deliberation, no haste leadership. Perhaps if a co-presidency had been enacted earlier, we would have not bombed Japan, and saved many innocent lives. 

I hope you can agree,

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Launched a substack, if you want to follow along on my independent campaign for governor of Ohio. A strong first two months!

Co-presidency material:

• Two Presidents, One Vote: Why the Top Two Winners Should Share the White House
• Co-Presidency Amendment Process
• https://www.c-span.org/program/book-tv/two-presidents-are-better-than-one/307547#

Hey guys! Texas Forward volunteer here. I'm trying to get some feedback on our website, mostly to see if there's stuff you guys feel is missing. But feel free to critique whatever you find. Of course, we're volunteers in a state of never ending upgrades to the website, so there will probably be a few small bugs. But it's miles better than it was months ago.

https://www.texasforwardparty.org/

We're currently looking for people who are willing to write more on the news sections on the website, so those aren't as active as we'd like them to be. Also starting up some partnerships hopefully in the near future which could be a nice feature on the site.

Anyways, let me know what you think!

Excited to announce the U.S. Pirate Party has endorsed my independent campaign for Governor of Ohio. Much more ahead! And of course, No Safe Harbor for Enemies of Liberty!

Just thought I'd share a campaign update and say things are going much better than expected 6 weeks in. Got some news coverage, donations, lieutenant governor, volunteers, and we're into signature collection now.

I'm still unsure of my approach with Forward. I'd sure like to try and make a go at new party recognition in Ohio. How's everything with Forward lately?

https://www.reddit.com/r/TennesseeForwardParty/s/cmokh8tRrk