For decades, Washington put other countries, cheap labor and its own agencies ahead of American citizens. Here's the sourced record, and what we'd do about it.
12 big stories set against the official record. Start with any one.
The Media Record →Border, jobs and prices, energy, war, free speech. Each page has the numbers and a plan.
The five issues →Twenty statements, about three minutes. Then one call to Congress.
Take the quiz →Congress ordered a visa entry-exit tracking system in 1996. Biometric exit still isn't fully built.
Big stories collapse, and the corrections run small. We put the national narrative next to what official reports, court records and the outlets' own corrections later showed. Every case is sourced. Judge it yourself.
Each issue page breaks down the problem with sourced data, explains how we got here, clears up the myths and lays out a concrete America First plan.
Record crossings, a court backlog that peaked near 3.7 million cases, and an exit-tracking system Congress ordered in 1996 that still isn't finished.
Read the plan →The "China Shock" cost millions of jobs. Debt and interest are crushing the next generation. Here's how we bring it back.
Read the plan →The world's top oil producer shouldn't have families paying more every year to keep the lights on. Build, permit and power America.
Read the plan →$8 trillion and two decades later, it's time for a foreign policy built on American interests, not open-ended commitments.
Read the plan →From the Twitter Files to government pressure on platforms, the fight to keep the public square free for every American.
Read the plan →Take the 20-question quiz, get a ready-made script to call Congress and sign the America First pledge.
Get involved →Toggle between eras and watch what a generation of Washington consensus did to the country.
Sources: Treasury, BLS, Census Bureau (new-home sales & household income), Census/BEA trade data, National Association of Realtors. Figures rounded. "Now" uses the latest official figure for each, as of November 2026: debt (Nov. 5, 2026), manufacturing jobs (Oct. 2026), home prices and income (2025), trade (2025, BEA), first-time buyers (NAR 2026 Profile).
America First isn't a slogan about who we're against. It's a simple test for every policy: does this make life better for American citizens? If the answer is no, Washington shouldn't do it.
This idea is older than either party. Washington warned against foreign entanglements. Hamilton built a national industrial policy. Eisenhower warned about the military-industrial complex. Democrat Barbara Jordan called for credible immigration enforcement.
Sign the PledgeGovernment's first duty is to the people who live here legally and the generations who will.
Enforce the law, finish exit tracking and mandate E-Verify so the rules are real.
Rebuild steel, chips, medicine and shipbuilding here, and power it with cheap, reliable American energy. A nation that can't make things can't defend itself.
Trade and immigration policy should raise American paychecks, not lower them.
No war without a vote of Congress. Every dollar sent abroad gets audited.
Partners who rely on American protection must fund their own defense.
Interest on the debt now outruns defense spending. Stop borrowing from our children.
No federal agency should pressure platforms to silence lawful speech.
A home, a family and a decent job on one income should be achievable again.
Every American, of every background, is owed the same rights, the same laws and the same respect.
America First ideas run deep in American history. Read the original speeches and documents from our founders, presidents and leaders, and check every quote yourself.
Ten rapid-fire statements pulled from this site's research. Build a streak, then challenge a friend.
Washington ran a $2.0 trillion deficit in FY2026 (Treasury), and the debt grows about $2 trillion a year. Every dollar has to be repaid, with interest, by American taxpayers and their kids.
In FY2024, net interest on the debt ($881 billion) passed the entire defense budget.
That is your family's share of the national debt. Your share of the interest alone comes to roughly $12,353 a year, money that buys nothing.
No. America First means trading with the world, keeping strong alliances where they serve American security and keeping a powerful military. What it rejects is open-ended wars, nation-building and commitments that Congress never voted on and the American people never agreed to.
No. It's pro-citizen and pro-rule-of-law. Millions of immigrants came here legally, assimilated and made this country stronger. America First asks that immigration be legal, orderly and set at levels that benefit American workers, which is the same standard Democrat Barbara Jordan's commission recommended in the 1990s.
Some targeted protections can raise some prices, and we say so openly. But "cheap" imports carried hidden costs: shuttered towns, lost wages, dependence on China for medicine and chips and supply chains that collapsed during COVID. A nation that makes things is more secure and more prosperous over the long run. See the Economy page for the full trade-off.
No. These ideas have champions and opponents in both parties. We judge every politician by one standard: do they put American citizens first?
Government agencies (CBP, BLS, Census, CBO, Treasury), peer-reviewed research and established research centers. Every issue page has a numbered source list at the bottom. If you think a number is wrong, check the source.
Find out where you stand, call your representatives with a ready-made script and join others who believe Washington should work for Americans first.