Green Party candidate Lena Buggs, running for Minnesota State HOR District 65A has endorsed the Unified Platform and earned our endorsement. She joins more than 60 independent and third-party candidates who have endorsed the platform's commonsense call for putting Peace, People and the Planet above profits. 

Buggs' campaign website is here.

Pennsylvania Gubernatorial candidate Paul Glover has endorsed the Unified Platform and earned our endorsement for his campaign. Glover is a longtime community organizer and activist and a former professor of urban studies at Temple University. He is credited with devising and implementing Ithaca Hours, one of the first local currencies, in Ithaca, New York.

Glover has founded several other organizations, including Citizen Planners of Los Angeles and the Philadelphia Orchard Project. His essays are collected at his website, and he has authored several books. 

Glover's campaign website is here.

Cindy Sheehan, Peace and Freedom Party Candidate for Governor of California, has endorsed the Unified Platform and by so doing has won the NPA's endorsement of her candidacy. 

Sheehan became a national symbol of opposition to the war in Iraq after her son, Casey, was killed in action in 2004. She was a member of the steering committee which guided the NPA's formation and strongly influenced the decision to make "Peace" the Unified Platform's first plank.

Far from being a single-issue candidate, however, Sheehan has long advocated the formation of a Worker's Party in the United States. A self-described socialist, she joined the Peace and Freedom Party in 2010.

"I agree with the entire 10 points," Sheehan said in endorsing the Unified Platform, "but would add that the root cause of the problem is an Empire organized around Capitalism and these 10 points are a good start..."

Her campaign website is here.

In 2012, the New Progressive Alliance (NPA) started by endorsing 54 candidates from 23 states who publicly endorsed and pledged to work for the commonsense policies outlined in the Unified Platform (UP).  This page provides more information about the brave men and women who are blazing the trail for the future of democracy in America. If you would like to join them check Elections and So You Want to Run for Office.  That trail is wholly different than that which the Democratic and Republican parties take us down election after election, with the same predictable result: A disenfranchised working class and ever-more enriched military-industrial-Wall Street complex.

We are a 501c4 educational organization, not a political party. We cannot help a candidate directly, but we can note by endorsement when a candidate pledges to support the Unified Platform. We can also disavow a candidate  when through his actions or statements it becomes clear he does not support the Unified Platform.

Also as a 501c4 educational organization, we are  moving towards becoming more of a think tank which supplies documentation to support people and organizations that back the Unified Platform. We will still list candidates that support the Unified Platform, but we will not seek them out.