Demands
What We're Marching For
The People Are Done Being Ignored, And We’re Not Asking. We’re Asserting Our Power.
Every generation gets a moment where the country looks itself in the mirror and says: “ENOUGH!” Enough corruption. Enough authoritarian power grabs. Enough stolen wages, stolen freedoms, stolen futures.
March 4 Democracy isn’t marching for “nice-to-haves.” We’re marching because the government has forgotten who the hell it works for, and it’s time to remind them.
These demands belong to no party, no politician, no billionaire donor. They belong to us—the multiracial working class, veterans, caregivers, students, small-town communities, big-city laborers, and every American who refuses to surrender this democracy without a fight.
We demand a country that serves the people. All of them.
Military Personnel
- Ensure immediate, high-quality health care, including full mental health services, for all service members, veterans, and their families.
- Commit to ending unnecessary military occupations and prioritizing diplomacy and human rights.
- Guarantee survivor-centered support, confidential reporting, and accountability for Military Sexual Trauma.
- Reinstate military benefits for all transgender service members and veterans.
- Provide gender-affirming care.
- Provide comprehensive LGBTQIA+-specific support.
- Modernize the VRE program to match local labor-market data, guaranteeing veterans receive relevant training, certifications, and employment pathways in their region.
- Restore and preserve military history, honoring monuments and sites that reflect our nation’s service, sacrifice, and defense of democratic values, both domestically and abroad.
Affordable Living
- Keep utilities publicly accountable and regulate high-volume users so data centers and corporations pay proportionate rates instead of offloading costs onto households.
- Implement federal standards and oversight to guarantee that state utility boards maintain equitable rates, transparent operations, and protections for residential consumers.
- Enact limits on corporate and institutional ownership of housing to ensure neighborhoods remain affordable, stable, and community-controlled.
- Expand federal and state investment in affordable housing development, prioritizing low-income and workforce housing in high-need areas.
- Increase the federal minimum wage to $28/hour and establish a universal living wage benchmark tied to regional cost-of-living data.
Accountability at Every Level of Government
- Implement immigration reforms that protect migrant safety, ensure full due process rights, and mandate humane, dignified treatment for all individuals.
- Enact a variant of the Jay Treaty for the Southern Border, providing free passage between the countries for tribes whose land spans the border (currently, the southern border crosses the land of 23 tribes).
- Establish a less adversarial relationship between the federal government/law enforcement and tribal residents.
- Reimplement indigenous history that has been removed from schools in 27 states.
- In support of the ongoing fight for equal representation, grant the District of Columbia statehood.
- Re-establish disparate impact protections under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, ensuring federal agencies can prevent policies that disproportionately harm protected groups.
- Reallocate funding from the Department of Defense to ensure our vulnerable communities and other public institutions are being properly funded, with a primary focus on veterans and the unhoused.
- Grant all territories (American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands) voting representation in the U.S. Congress.
- Tax the rich and eliminate tax loopholes that allow billionaires to avoid paying taxes, which could potentially generate an additional $1.7 trillion in revenue for the country, per the CATO Institute. Taxing the rich equitably is also a core tenet of capitalism.
Racial & Social Justice
- Replace our current punitive justice system with a restorative justice system, prioritizing accountability, healing, and community cohesion over retribution, recognizing that many offenses stem from unmet needs, systemic neglect, or trauma, not malice. By addressing root causes and relational damage, restorative models reduce recidivism and rebuild trust.
- Protect marriage equality for all individuals, regardless of race, gender, or religion.
- Protect voting rights nationwide and implement ranked-choice voting to ensure fairer and more representative elections.
- End privatization of the prison system and make it illegal for commercial entities to use prison labor to manufacture goods. States with private prisons saw an average increase of 178 additional prisoners per million residents per year. These policies cost states $1.9 to $10.6 million annually, depending on the number of additional prisoners and per diem rates. Sentences were longer on average in jurisdictions using private prisons, even when controlling for offense type and criminal history.
Healthcare
- Establish a universal healthcare system that operates through a public option built on the Medicaid infrastructure, with funding derived from a non-exempt tax deduction, ensuring stable financing and equitable access to comprehensive medical services.
- Reinstate federal funding for Planned Parenthood (pursuant to the Hyde Amendment) to guarantee access to critical reproductive healthcare, cancer screenings, family planning, and preventative services.
- Protect the bodily autonomy of women and individuals of all genders by safeguarding their right to comprehensive reproductive healthcare and independent medical decision-making.
- Establish universal dental, vision, and auditory coverage for all, ensuring these essential health services are included in standard healthcare, not treated as optional add-on plans.
- Regulate prescription drug prices and prohibit profit-driven markups, following models used in countries such as Canada, Mexico, and Germany.
- Protect access to gender-affirming care nationwide, which is not just a health policy, but also a human rights imperative. As state-level bans proliferate, transgender and gender-diverse individuals face dangerous disruptions in care, increased mental health crises, and systemic discrimination. Providers themselves report burnout and fear, undermining the stability of care networks. A national guarantee would restore continuity, safety, and dignity, ensuring that no one’s identity becomes a barrier to healing.
IMPEACH, CONVICT, AND REMOVE DONALD TRUMP FROM OFFICE
And put the fucking desk back!
America Won't Save Itself. We Will.
If our elected officials won’t do their damn jobs, then we’ll do what Americans have always done when pushed to the brink: we rise up and take the future into our own hands.
We march because we love this country enough to fight like hell for it. We march because democracy dies when people stay home. We march because the smallest act of courage is showing up.
On February 28, 2026, we take Washington, D.C. And we march for democracy, for justice, and for dignity, for all.
WE ARE M4D. AND WE ARE DONE BEING FUCKING IGNORED.