Millennials,

Let's declare our independence from political parties, Democrat and Republican, and create the most powerful voting bloc in history.

How?

1. Declare your digital independence by signing this petition.
2. Declare your actual independence by registering to vote.
3. Vote.

Learn more at declareindependence2016.com.

This isn't about becoming a new party or even becoming lifelong independents. It's about taking power from both parties and pushing them to reform their platforms around policies that are relevant to the future. If we show up to vote consistently, not just for president, we can impact the outcome of every election.

Wait, What?

Millennials are 30% of the voting age population—more than any other living generation.

The leading candidates from the Democratic and Republican parties got about 16 million and 13 million votes in their respective primaries. But there are roughly 70 million voting age millennials in the US.

If we voted at the same rate as our parents, the parties would look very different.

Seriously.

The original Declaration of Independence spoke of the need to dissolve political bonds with an unjust ruler. Today, we’re declaring the need to dissolve the political bonds that are anchoring us to parties that seem to be incapable, not only of working together, but of working toward much of anything of relevance for our generation and the generations to come.

Our founders, including many of those whose signatures appear on the Declaration, were well aware of the dangers parties posed. Of the factionalism, the animosity, the demagoguery, the divide they could cause and the power they could assume.

Conservative or liberal, we’re asking you to sign this petition and declare your independence.

We believe George Washington would encourage the same. From his farewell address:

“The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism.

The disorders and miseries which result gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of public liberty.

Without looking forward to an extremity of this kind (which nevertheless ought not to be entirely out of sight), the common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it."