Work & wages
What would it take for one honest job to be enough — to raise a family, own a home, retire unafraid?
Make US America.
Ideas that shape the next presidency — gathered from all of us, argued in good faith, offered to whoever wins.
Fifty pieces, from everywhere on Earth. One union.
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Thirteen stars in a ring — the Betsy Ross circle. No star first, no star last, no star above another. The whole idea, in one shape.
The idea
Nobody owns the flag.
Everybody carries it.
Here is a strange and hopeful fact: no founder ever decreed what the flag's colors mean, and no law ever fixed how much of each it should hold. Yet for 249 years — thirteen stars to fifty and every flag in between, the very flags tearing past behind this page — it has kept one quiet proportion: about two-fifths red, two-fifths white, one-fifth blue. The meaning wasn't handed down. We flew the flag until the meaning grew there, together, one generation at a time.
That is how this country works at its best. Not one party's property. Not one era's trophy. A thing held in common that every American adds a stitch to. Every star in the canton is the same size. Every vote, every voice, every neighbor: the same size.
Make US America starts from that premise. Everyone knows the famous template — Make America ___ Again. We fill the blank with the only word that includes everybody: America. Make America united again, by making it, simply, America. Before the next presidency is decided, we gather the best ideas in the country — from the left, the right, and the enormous hopeful middle — test them in the open, and hand the winner, whoever it is, a mandate written by all of us. Explore the issues. Challenge assumptions. Help shape what comes next.
1818
After a detour to fifteen stripes, Congress goes back to thirteen — forever. The origins stay fixed; only the stars may grow.
The triad
What the proportions
already promise
41.5%
Red — what we give
Courage, work, sacrifice. Red holds the largest share and both outer edges: the country is literally bordered by what its people have given it. Honor the givers first.
39.7%
White — what we say
Candor and ideals, interleaved with the red so neither can be read alone. White is where we talk to each other. Keep it open: honest numbers, honest history, honest disagreement.
18.7%
Blue — what we keep
The union: highest honor, smallest share. Government that presides without crowding — and every added star makes the field brighter.
These columns are set at the flag's exact measured proportions. So is everything on this site.
1912
Order arrives: for the first time, the stars line up by executive order. Forty-eight, in rows — the flag of two world wars.
The people
We are the letters
the word is written in
1960
Fifty. Every star added has taken a little blue and turned it to light — the union slowly composed by its members. Keep scrolling: the cloth remembers its way home.
The issues
Six questions
worth a presidency
Not talking points — questions. Each opens a working page where ideas from every direction get a fair hearing. First briefs publish soon.
Schools
How do we hand every child, in every zip code, a genuinely open future — and make teaching a job the best fight for?
Health
How does the wealthiest nation in history make sure no family is bankrupted by a diagnosis?
Energy & land
How do we power the next American century and still hand down cleaner air, fuller rivers, land worth the anthem?
Service
What if every young American spent a season serving the country — and met, really met, the rest of it doing so?
The frontier
Science, space, invention built the American story. What moonshot do we owe the next generation?
Spread the word
Three ways
to carry the flag
Download, post, print. They're yours — the whole point is that they're everyone's. Tag it #MakeUSAmerica so the rest of us can find it.
The emblem
The Make US America seal — chrome on the colors. Avatar, sticker, lapel, bumper.
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The people
"We Are America" — the word spelled in the people it names. Posters and full-width posts.
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The constellation
Everyone on one flag — the whole country spelling itself out. Big-format poster.
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And back to the ring. Avant-garde all along: a circle where nobody outranks anybody. Your turn to add a stitch.
Join
Add your stitch.
The flag got its meaning from everyone who flew it. This project gets its ideas the same way. Leave your name and one idea — big, small, half-formed, contrarian — and we'll put it to work.
Not left, not right — this is how to get involved without joining a party. We'll email you when new issue briefs open for comment. No spam, no fundraising, and your idea stays yours — we just want to hear it.
Prefer something you can share? Add your idea and claim your piece of the flag →