– by J.P. McJefferson J.P. McJefferson Thoughts Americans are frustrated—and increasingly, they are unified in that frustration. Congress’s approval ratings have been mostly underwater since 1974, averaging 28% approval and 65% disapproval. That’s 52 years, five decades of massive disapproval! They look at Congress and see dysfunction. They look at the executive branch and see […]

Is There a Will to Change? J.P. McJefferson Thoughts Exposing the underpinnings of a broken government. In towns and neighborhoods across the country, cooperation is not an abstract ideal—it is a daily reality. Neighbors help each other after storms and natural disasters. Local businesses collaborate to advance common goals. Communities come together in moments of […]

“Shared Legislative Power: The One Rule Congress Must Change” J.P. McJefferson Thoughts Photo by Nick Fewings on Unsplash Congress is widely described as polarized, dysfunctional, and unable to solve the country’s most pressing problems. Those diagnoses are not wrong—but they are incomplete. The deeper issue is not political division. It is structural design—specifically, the internal rules Congress has […]

What Can Democrats Do Now? J.P. McJefferson Thoughts Democrats need to move on and move on fast. What really scares me is whether Democrats, Independents, and any others who care about democracy can, over the next couple of years, preserve the concept of “Free & Fair Elections,” and pack the 2026 campaigns with credible, charismatic […]