America is facing dangerous times, with a resurgence of domestic agitation and push back against democracy. We are seeing a fractured society and a broken political system, as one party (the Republican Party) is entrenched in another period of White backlash, combined with Christian Nationalism -- which distorts Christianity and seeks to put a distorted depiction of the Bible as the governing philosophy of America. They are emmeshed in Q-Anon kookery and Great Replacement Theory fears. From the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville to the 2,500-student home school network with Nazi curricula in Ohio, race-based hate is on the rise across America at the same time the nation is becoming more racially and ethnically diverse.
We have sitting congressional Republican leaders saying things like "we need a national divorce. We need to separate by red and blue states and shrink the federal government," and another former congressman, turned failed nominee for Attorney General, who said in 2021 (two months after the insurrection at the Capitol) “We are a powerful movement … we have a second amendment and I think we have an obligation to use it. The second amendment is about maintaining within the citizenry the ability to have an armed rebellion against the government if that becomes necessary,” and who in 2023 followed that up with "I cannot stand these people that are destroying our country ... we know that only through force can we make any change in a corrupt town like Washington DC.“
This political radicalization has led to a rollback of rights for those deemed "others" -- they want to build a wall to keep out Black and brown immigrants and asylum seekers and instituted policies designed to separate families at the border (to this date, more than 400 children remain separated from their families), khaki-clad, tiki torch wielding protesters chanting "Jews will not replace us," and a bigot in the White House created a Muslim travel ban. They have rolled back the rights of LGBTQ populations through invented harms like a bakery that can now lawfully discriminate against gay couples and since 2020, 23 states have legislated bans on trans athletes--when there are perhaps 100 trans athletes in High Schools across America and the NCAA President says he knows of only 10 trans college student athletes. They have engaged in book bans and legislated curricula and escalated the diffusion of guns throughout society--refusing any restrictions despite rampant mall, movie theater, and school mass shootings.
They have rolled back voting rights and proposed hundreds of voter suppression bills. They have banned or severely restricted abortion rights in nearly 2 dozen states and continue to roll back women's reproductive health freedoms. They deny election results they don't like and supported an insurrection and attempted coup of the U.S. government. The Republican President has engaged in deportations in violation of due process rights, refuses to follow court decrees, called for punishment for women who have abortions, and claimed the right of a president to murder political opponents with immunity from prosecution.
This is not your father's Republican Party -- this is a party of zealots and dangerous extremists and must be forever defeated.
Red Tail Legacy Partners partners in the building and operations of newly-developed, strategically located voting/housing communities targeted to politically progressive young adults (ages 20 - 35).
The America Forward Movement is a long-term solution to the divisive animus infecting today's America, that is driving policy away from the policy interests and values of our coming, more diverse and more tolerant generations. It organizes young adults into racially- and ethnically-diverse, fun, learning and living environment where they can express and imprint their values on the nation through their collective voting power.
The nation has a 3.8 million unit housing shortage: those units will eventually be built somewhere, by somebodies (wealthy developers), for some purpose (to get richer). Why not build them in a manner to stabilize society for the future, instead of the past? Understanding that the rent payer is the person that really has power in new rental housing development, we organize the collective market power of young progressives' rent payments. By organizing new housing developments targeted to young adults in selected states to ensure a bigoted, White supremacist can never again receive 270 electoral college votes to be elected to the presidency -- and in more rural areas of states, rather than concentrating in big cities -- we seek to stop the political radicalization being led by politicians--not the people. We bring America together by diminishing the urban-rural and anti-diversity political divides being exploited by cynical politicians in cahoots with a handful of billionaires profiting off division.
We leverage the $65 billion federal investment (in the 2021 bi-partisan Infrastructure Act) in rural broadband and the national transition to remote learning and work brought about by COVID-19, and we open new areas of the country to profitable, market-based development and the resettlement of rural America by young, progressive voters.
We provide career-focused learning opportunities and the co-curricular supports of a college environment, creating all the life advancement and socialization benefits of a four-year degree in an on-campus environment -- but without the crippling college debt. (Thanks to the "Reagan Revolution", 1984 was the last time the average student graduated with more grant-in-aid than debt. Now, businesses are moving away from the four-year degree as a marker for hiriing.)
We build career skills together, engage in the civic life of the local community, socialize together – making the best friends of our lives. We can defeat today's Nazis by coming together in love in the right places, building community and voting. Leasing by bedroom, units can be affordable at 70% of Area Median Income (roughly a retail worker's full-time salary).
We organize around economic opportunity, the beauty of diversity, love, and political power. Each Red Tail Community has around 1,000 adults (voters)--perhaps at different sites in the same area, but all connected programmatically. Further all of the regional communities are connected electronically and through periodic events around political life or socialization. Through a "Congress" of such strategically-located voting communities, led by community organizers, young progressives can come together and vote as a block to win national elections, making politicians come to us to see what we want -- instead of politicians flocking to campaign contributors to get them what they want while telling us what they think we want to hear in an effort to win our allegiance.
Career Development Services
We organize around economic opportunity, the beauty of diversity, love, and political power. Our career counselors meet with new residents and engage in a variety of career assessments with them to help residents understand their values and work preferences, and then align those elements with potential career pathways.
We then engage in career exploration and mapping of next steps in career progression, including identification of efficient training routes. We organize career field interest groups, study groups, and networking events.
Voter Activation and Mobilization
We support the development of resident-led political study groups to engage in and organize around issues of their concern. Voting in every election is a lease requirement, and these resident-led groups engage in voter education and understanding local candidates and national issues. Voting is celebrated in the community and resident leaders provide information and organize around absentee and early voting, trips to the polling locations and celebration of election results.
Civic Engagement and Socialization
Resident engagement in local community is important, and we provide information about local festivals, access to local adult sports leagues, opportunities to coach little leagues, and volunteer opportunities in schools and libraries. We provide on-line platforms for residents to organize into interest groups and engage in field trips together.
Red Tail Legacy Partners is seeking to build it housing community in southern Georgia -- within 1 hour of Tallahassee, FL and within 2 hours of the beaches of the Gulf of Mexico. This project would add 1,000 progressive voters to Georgia, the first step in securing the nation from the threat of a Republican president.