David for President
written in plain english · 2026

An honest attempt at the job

Yes, I'm runningfor president.Why not? The bar is low.

I'm a regular person in America with a stable internet connection — no party, no donors, nobody's permission. That turns out to be all it takes to do the homework the people in charge keep skipping, and to write a real plan in plain English. So I did. It's all on this site, in words you won't need a dictionary for.

53–47

U.S. Senate

221–216

U.S. House

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raised · no donors

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party · 1 person

FirstThe part you already live

You can feel the squeeze. It's real, and it's built in.

Day care that costs more than your rent, the same year a new baby emptied your savings. A parent who needs looking after right when your own kids do, and almost no help carrying both. Nearly 4 in 10 adults couldn't cover a surprise $400 bill without borrowing. None of that is bad luck or bad budgeting.

The country pours its help into your peak earning years and treats the start and the end of a life as your problem to carry alone. That's the gap you keep falling into. It was built that way, which is the one piece of good news: it can be built differently.

SecondOne rule, behind everything here

Do the homework. Show the math. Throw no one away.

The whole site runs on one habit the people in charge keep skipping: read the country's real numbers before promising anything, and show the math on every hard call — including who pays.

And a hard floor under all of it. Some choices really do cost people something, and I won't pretend otherwise. But there's a line nothing crosses: you can lose something real; you can never be thrown away with nothing and no way forward.

Where we stand · counted from the roster

kept current

Before any plan: who's actually in charge.

We counted every member of Congress ourselves, from the official roster. Each bar is the real split; the line down the middle is where control flips.

U.S. Senate100 seats
53
45
2
R 53D 45I 2
majority at 51
U.S. House437 seats
221
215
1
R 221D 215I 1
majority at 218

One party runs all three at once right now — the White House, the Senate, and the House. But look how close those bars sit to the center line: flip a few seats and control changes hands. Any honest plan has to start from that.

ThirdThe honest part — nobody else will say it

Anyone who tells you it's free is lying.

Every real fix costs something — usually money, sometimes somebody's comfortable arrangement. Most campaigns hide that and promise you the moon. I won't. Where a choice is genuinely hard, I'll say so out loud, show the numbers, and name who pays.

LastFour ways in

Where to start.