Political Activism: Red Tail Legacy Partners, LLC
The America Forward movement we promote and are organizing defends democracy from dictatorship.
The Challenge
America is facing dangerous times, with a resurgence of domestic agitation, push back against democracy, and authoritarian actions. 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 impose 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, pushing the need for an America Forward Movement that champions progressive values.
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 that target voting communities. 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 masked federalized thugs (ICE) to terrorize streets and engage 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 reactionary, racialized zealots and dangerous extremists and must be defeated forever. The Red Tail Legacy of progressivism must rise to counter this tide.
The Solution: America Forward Movement
Red Tail Legacy Partners is committed to the building and operations of newly-developed, resource rich, strategically located voting communities designed specifically for politically progressive young adults (ages 20 - 35). We have seen the collapse of the Republican Party into a grievance-fueled cult of bigotry, misogyny and racism that can never be entrusted with the nation's highest office again. We also know that small vote margins in a handful of swing states determine the presidency.
Our highest level goal is to organize new housing developments for politically progressive young adults in selected states, to ensure that bigoted, White supremacist candidates (like Donald Trump) can never again secure 270 electoral college votes to attain the presidency. And since winning states for the presidency has implications for control of the Senate, we gain for the left the Constitutional power to nominate and confirm federal judges to provide policy stability for generations. And within that top level goal of winning states for the presidency, we look at the location of communities for their down ballot impact as well. We aim to counter the political radicalization driven by politicians, not the people, by bridging urban-rural divides and diminishing the anti-diversity narratives exploited by cynical politicians and a handful of billionaires profiting from division.
The America Forward Movement offers a long-term solution to the divisive animus that currently infects America, which animus is steering policy away from the interests and values of our emerging, more diverse, and more tolerant generations. This initiative organizes progressive younger adults into racially- and ethnically-diverse, engaging environments where they can learn, live, and express their values through collective voting power.
With a housing shortage of at least 3.8 million units nationwide (some estimates show a shortage of up to 8 million housing units), these housing units will inevitably be constructed by wealthy developers for profit. However, we advocate for building them in a way that stabilizes society for the future rather than perpetuating the past. We know that rent payers hold significant power in new rental housing developments, and we harness the collective market influence of young progressives' rent payments to drive those wealthy developers -- by organizing in this manner, we turn American free market, profit-seeking capitalists into an engine for growth and equity. Through co-living and bedroom leasing our communities are affordable and accessible to demographics ranging from young professionals and factory workers to people earning a retail or fast food worker wage. Further, our developments will have available out lots for sale to create a seamless transition for our members from renting to affordable homeownership.
In community, we support progressive issue organizing and other interest groups to help our residents enjoy life together and further clarify and strengthen their values and build the best friendships of their lives. Our communities of young adults will be engaged, fun, and influential. And by connecting communities "in Congress" with an opportunity to develop bloc voting strategies for each election-- whether that be moderating Republican primaries to stop the nomination of right-wing bat-shit crazies, joining together to ensure that no Republican can ever again win the presidency, or becoming (as the election-winning bloc) more valuable to Democrats than corporate campaign contributors -- the America Forward movement led by young progressives in our communities will steer the country towards a future aligned with the interests and values of our beautifully diverse younger generations. Working together in love, we recreate a stable American political foundation from which our younger generations can build -- instead of leaving them a flaming dumpster fire of a country in ruins that they have to work to rebuild.
Our communities will be located within one hour of a major city, or within two hours of a stunning natural attraction. We leverage the $65 billion federal investment from the 2021 bipartisan Infrastructure Act in rural broadband and the national shift to remote learning and work brought about by COVID-19, which opens new areas of the country to profitable, market-based development and the resettlement of more rural America by progressive voters.
Our initiative provides the best, fastest, and most cost-effective career-focused learning opportunities along with the supportive co-curricular environment of a college setting, delivering all the life advancement and socialization benefits of a four-year degree without the crippling college debt. (Due to the Reagan administration's advisor Roger Freeman's "danger of creating an educated proletariat," and subsequent right wing attacks on American higher education.) Our residents will build the careers they love, while stabilizing the country for the future: they will do well as they are also doing good. This is how we use the Constitutional design and free market activity to move America Forward.
Our goal is to begin working on the first community in 2026. We will be building out first in Georgia and North Carolina, as we seek to secure those states' collective 36 electoral college votes for the left forever. Other states will follow. To join the America Forward movement and receive updates (no cost and we will never sell/release your contact information), follow us at www.AmericaForward.us
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What's Coming Next?
Red Tail Legacy Partners is dedicated to fostering the America Forward Movement by building a housing community in southern Georgia, just within 1 hour of Tallahassee, FL, and 2 hours from the beautiful beaches of the Gulf of Mexico. This initiative aims to add 1,000 progressive voters to Georgia, marking an important step in establishing strong voting communities and securing the nation against the threat of a Republican president.