Forward Party (United States)

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Forward Party
AbbreviationFWD
Chairperson Kerry Healey
Chief executive officerLindsey Williams Drath
Founding Co-Chairs
Chief Strategy & Operating OfficerMatt Shinners
FounderAndrew Yang
FoundedOctober 5, 2021;3 years ago (2021-10-05)
Merger ofForward Party (original PAC)
Renew America Movement
Serve America Movement
Headquarters Washington, D.C., U.S.
Membership (2024)22,029 (California) 693 (Florida), 251 (Colorado), 155 (Utah)
Ideology
Political position Center
Colors  Purple   Cyan   Orange   Blue   Red   Navy   White
Slogan
  • Moving Forward Together.
  • Not Left. Not Right. Forward.
Seats in the Senate
0 / 100
Seats in the House
2 / 435
Governorships
0 / 50
State Upper House Seats [a]
2 / 1,972
State Lower House Seats
0 / 5,411
Other elected officials [b] 44 (November 2024)
Website
forwardparty.com OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

The Forward Party is a centrist political party in the United States. The party, often shortened to Forward (FWD), was founded by former Democratic 2020 presidential and 2021 New York City mayoral candidate Andrew Yang. Forward sees itself as being bottom up innovation, and describes its goals as the reduction of partisan polarization and the implementing of electoral reforms. The party is looking to achieve ballot access in all 50 states by 2025 and federal recognition by 2028.

Contents

Forward was officially formed as a political action committee (PAC) on October 5, 2021. The PAC intended to seek recognition from the Federal Election Commission as a political party to achieve its stated goal of providing an alternative to the two major U.S. political parties. It also stated that, for the time being, candidates affiliated with the organization will remain members of the two major American political parties and third parties, as well as independent candidates. On July 27, 2022, the Forward Party announced that it had merged with the Serve America Movement and the Renew America Movement to further its effort to form a new third party named Forward.

Ideologically, Forward is populist and reformist, and a representative of centrism in the United States. It considers itself to be the center within the American political spectrum, although the party has also been described as big tent or syncretic due to its unwillingness on holding any firm stances or positions, [1] and its rejection of the left–right political spectrum. The party's American-style populism, particularly in its early platform, focused towards independent voters and those dissatisfied with the American two-party system, [2] and advocated an universal basic income within a humanistic capitalism. It continues to support electoral and democratic reform (favoring in particular nonpartisan primaries), independent redistricting commissions, and ranked-choice voting. [3]

The party's principles and positions have been positively commented by the likes of Kara Swisher, while they have been criticized by some on the American Left as a rebranding for the status quo , uninspiring and lacking vision, and questioned its populism and third party aspirations. Forward has also been criticized by some Democrats for the possibility of the spoiler effect that could favor Republicans; the party has disputed this claim.

History

Founding and early history

Andrew Yang, the party founder, in 2019 Andrew Yang by Gage Skidmore.jpg
Andrew Yang, the party founder, in 2019

In his book Forward: Notes on the Future of Our Democracy (2021), Andrew Yang announced the creation of the party. [4] Yang also criticized American political leaders, writing that "our leaders are rewarded based not on solving problems but on accruing resources and retaining office." [5] [6] [7] Yang said that part of the reason why he wanted to start a third party instead of a caucus within the Democratic Party was that a majority of states with ballot initiatives are red states, and that efforts to institute electoral changes would be partisan and not system-wide. [8] [9] Yang stated that he would have liked to have implemented the Forward Party's platform within the Democratic Party; however, he felt that the implementation of ranked-choice voting and open primaries would be difficult to get while remaining a Democrat. [10]

On October 5, 2021, Yang launched the Forward Party as a PAC, with the intention of creating a political party. [11] [5] The Forward Party stated that it would endorse candidates of both major parties in the 2022 midterm elections who support its policies. [10] Yang stated that the Forward Party would not serve a spoiler because it would endorse any Democrats and Republicans who support the party's platform. The Forward Party website suggests that candidates affiliated with the Forward Party would likely run as a member of one of the two major parties. [12] Yang stated that the Forward Party is not interested in running a candidate for U.S. president but is focused on trying to decrease partisan gridlock within Congress and state legislatures. [8] The Forward Party stated it may hold its own primary process to nominate a candidate prior to the 2024 United States presidential election. [13] The party's initial team included former congressional candidate Blair Walshingham and attorney Jeff Kurzon. [14]

In November 2021, Yang discussed the Forward Party with Van Jones about "positive populism, finding common ground, and why Democrats often end up having to defend the status quo". [15] In February 2022, the Forward Party chose Minnesota as the first state to launch an affiliate party. [16] According to Yang, Minnesota was chosen because there are "open primaries, public resources for candidates [and the state has] an independent spirit". [16] The Minnesota affiliate is being headed by John Denney, who ran for the sixth district in the 2014 United States House of Representatives elections in Minnesota as a member of the Independence Party of Minnesota. [16] Denney attempted to get Richard Painter, who served as the chief White House ethics lawyer in the George W. Bush administration, to run as a member of the Forward Party in the 2022 Minnesota Attorney General election. [16] Cory Hepola, a radio host, announced he was running as a member of the Forward Party in the 2022 Minnesota gubernatorial election. [17] He later withdrew from the race. [18]

Mergers and official party founding

In July 2022, the Forward Party, Renew America Movement, and Serve America Movement announced that they would be merging in an attempt to form a new third party. [19] [20] The new party, named simply Forward, would be co-chaired by Andrew Yang and former New Jersey governor Christine Todd Whitman. [21] Shortly after launching, former Pennsylvania Democratic U.S. Representative Joe Sestak and former Florida Republican U.S. Representative David Jolly both announced they would be joining the party. [22] [23] They also announced that the party would launch on September 24, 2022, with its first national convention in summer 2023. [19]

The Forward Party's affiliate, the Griebel-Frank for CT Party, appeared in the 2022 Connecticut gubernatorial election.The Griebel-Frank for CT Party endorsed the incumbent governor Ned Lamont. [24] On January 27, 2023, Forward and the Common Sense Party of California announced a coalition in California, with the goal of achieving 73,000 registered voters in order to become a qualified political party in the state. [25] On October 18, 2023, the South Carolina Independence Party announced that the party was merging with the Forward Party, making South Carolina the third state in which Forward is ballot-qualified after Florida and Utah. [26] [27] The Forward Party had no plans to run a candidate for president in 2024 and instead planned on working to elect state and local officials. [28] The party stated they would "do anything we can to make sure that Donald Trump does not get near the White House". [29]

Pledge of the Party

The Forward Party focuses on a values-based platform rather than a traditional policy platform, encouraging candidates to propose innovative and data-driven solutions to local challenges. The Forward Party requires all candidates it endorses to sign a candidate pledge. The main points of the pledge states: "Democracy only works when people respect the established rules and the electoral system is set up to elevate the voice of the voter ... Candidates should work collaboratively to craft long-term solutions to their community's most pressing problems ... Public servants should be role models for the community." [30]

Elected officials

In May 2023, Jordan Marlowe, the mayor of Newberry, Florida, announced that he was switching his party registration from Libertarian to Forward, becoming the party's first sitting executive. [31] On June 21, 2023, two Democratic members of the Pennsylvania State Senate announced they were joining the Forward Party. Senators Anthony H. Williams and Lisa Boscola announced that, while they were retaining their Democratic Party affiliation and caucus membership, they were also affiliating with the Forward Party and would be labeled as "Forward Democrats" according to the Forward Party. [32] [33]

In August 2023, Philadelphia City Commissioner Seth Bluestein and Allegheny County District Attorney Stephen Zappala announced their affiliation as Forward Republicans. [34] [35] [36] In November 2023, Stonington Town Selectwoman Danielle Chesebrough became a member of the Forward Party, and was reelected on an independent Forward Party ticket. She became the Forward Party's first elected official in Connecticut. [37] In total, the Forward Party considered to have elected Forwardists (Danielle Chesebrough of Connecticut as Stonington First Selectman, James Kole of Maryland as Laurel Councilman, Seth Bluestein of Pennsylvania as Philadelphia City Commissioner, Chris Woodward of Pennsylvania as Lower Heidelberg Twp Auditor, and Steve Zappala of Pennsylvania as Allegheny District Attorney. [38]

Ballot access

In 2023, the Forward Party gained ballot access in Florida, South Carolina, and Utah. Five candidates ran for various offices throughout Utah in the 2024 United States elections. [39] In June 2023, Christine Todd Whitman, one of the party's founding-co-chairs, said that the party's goal was to achieve ballot access in all 50 states by 2025. [40] In early 2024, the party added Colorado and Virginia, where it qualifies to have its name printed on ballots if its candidates get on the ballot via petition. In Colorado, it qualified as a minor party. [41] In August 2024, Lindsey Williams Drath, the party's CEO, said that Forward hoped to achieve federal recognition by 2028. [42]

Organization

After its merger and official founding in July 2022, the party's positions included founding co-chairs Andrew Young (2020 Democratic presidential candidate), [19] Christine Todd Whitman (former Republican governor of New Jersey), [21] and Michael S. Willner (businessman), as well as co-CEOs Matt Shinners (from July–September 2022 and then interim CEO from September 2022–February 2023, when he became the chief strategy and operating officer) and Miles Taylor (former Republican who served as Homeland Security official in the Trump administration). [19] [21] David Jolly, another former Republican who had joined the Serve America Movement, was also reported to take a leadership role. [43]

Other individuals in party positions include chief executive officer Lindsey Williams Drath (former Republican National Convention member), [42] chairperson Kerry Healey (former Republican and Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts under Mitt Romney), [44] national organizing director Will Conway (former Republican), [45] and advisory board members like Joe Sestak (former Democratic U.S. Representative). [46] Forward had 22,029 members in California (as of February 20, 2023), [47] 693 members in Florida (as of October 16, 2024), [48] 251 members in Colorado (as of 2024), [49] and 155 members in Utah (as of December 30, 2024). [50] Abbreviated FWD, the party colors are purple, cyan, orange, blue, red, navy blue, and white. [51] Its slogans include "Moving Forward Together" and "Not Left. Not Right. Forward". [19]

Political positions

Early positions

The party's original platform was based around what Andrew Yang called "positive populism". It included instituting 18-year term limits for members of Congress. [8] It also sought to establish a new cabinet-level Department of Technology. The party supported civic juries and advocated for a "citizens' portal". The party supported data as a property right. [52] The party called for an economy based on humanistic capitalism or what Yang called in 2020 "human-centered capitalism", the enactment of universal basic income, [5] [53] and support for alternative forms of measuring economic progress. [52]

The party advocated for automatic tax filing. [54] Forward's former platform supported the implementation of a universal health care system, [55] and it encouraged states to adopt nonpartisan primaries and implement ranked-choice voting, [5] [53] a concept Yang draws from political theorist and businesswoman Katherine Gehl called Final Five Voting.[ citation needed ] It also proposed independent redistricting commissions and public finance reform in the form of democracy dollars. [52] The party encourages people to maintain their membership in the Democratic and Republican parties as to not disenfranchise them by leaving them unable to vote in party primaries. [56] [57] As a consequence, Forward plans to endorse candidates from both major and third parties, as well as independents who advocate for the core values rather than field their own. [56]

Positions after mergers

Upon merging with the Renew America Movement and Serve America Movement in July 2022, Forward was described as centrist. [19] It eliminated its party platform and instead announced they would take an approach that seeks common ground among Americans. [28] Two pillars of the new party's platform were to "reinvigorate a fair, flourishing economy" and to "give Americans more choices in elections, more confidence in a government that works, and more say in our future". [19] Joel Searby, the former Renew America's political director and the then managing director of Forward, [58] said that the party does not plan on taking positions on controversial issues, such as guns and abortion; instead they would leave those issues up to candidates and state and local chapters to decide. [59] Searby also said: "We think that Americans want and need a party that speaks to the needs of their local communities and gives elected officials the flexibility to meet those needs, instead of a rigid, top-down platform that prescribes exactly what you have to believe about any given issue." [28]

Forward takes a specific stance on electoral and democratic reform, [28] and the party continues to support nonpartisan primaries, [60] independent redistricting commissions, [61] ranked-choice voting, [62] STAR voting, [62] and approval voting. [62] After the Democratic loss in the 2024 United States presidential election, Andrew Young took part to the "11 Democratic Thinkers on What the Party Needs Right Now" article in Politico . He wrote: "In many ways, these all boil down to one thing: The Democratic Party should act more democratically. But they will do none of these things. Instead, they will begin jockeying for position within the party to run in 2028. That is why more and more voters will look for options, like the Forward Party, or declare themselves independents as Trump returns to power. Institutions incapable of reform get replaced." [63]

Reception

The Forward Party has faced criticism from some Democrats, who believe the party could cause vote splitting and benefit Republicans in most jurisdictions, [64] which still use first-past-the-post voting. Luke Savage of Jacobin criticized the conception of the party as "pseudo-populism that's ultimately more an effort at rebranding the status quo than overthrowing it". [65] MSNBC opinion columnist Zeeshan Aleem called the Forward Party "an uninspiring mess lacking vision or purpose". [66] Natalie Shure of The New Republic characterized the party as "vapid" and a "political stunt", asking "why bother going through the trouble of building a third party if its creation is the only thing it intends to accomplish?" [67]

Andrew Gawthorpe writing in The Guardian stated that the Forward Party is "likely to collapse under the weight of its own contradictions" as a new third party would not address more fundamental political problems in the United States, [68] a view that had been earlier also echoed by Jamelle Bouie. [69] Gawthorpe offered an alternative, suggesting that the Democratic Party is the only viable political party that could counter the supposed "threat to U.S. democracy" posed by Republicans. [68] In contrast, New York Times opinion writer Kara Swisher praised Yang's book Forward: Notes on the Future of Our Democracy, which inspired the pre-July 2022 positions of the party. Swisher wrote: "Yang does not just give us a laundry list of intractable problems, but shows how we can find solutions if we think in new ways and summon the courage to do so." [6]

See also

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Notes

  1. ↑ Includes members of the Pennsylvania Democratic Party who affiliated with the Forward Party
  2. ↑ Includes officials in Pennsylvania who are affiliated with the Forward Party

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