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About the work.

This page has two people on it. One is the founder. The other is the citizen this party is being built with. Both matter. Only one of them is finished. The other is who shows up.

Brent Graham

Founder

Brent Graham

I am a telecom engineer who was rendered obsolete in the 2001 telecom bust. I moved to code and designed and ran my own business (some say ahead of its time) to service the construction industry, again wiped out during the crash of 2007, hitting the construction industry the hardest.

It's ok, I thought, I will fall back and concentrate on writing code, and became heavy into AI. And here we are again, another industry on the verge of being wiped out, another government that will do nothing for me, as it did nothing for me during telecom, during 2007, heck, even COVID almost bankrupted me, kicking me hard while I was already down and what did I get? A $2,000 check to live on for almost the entire year?

I know the dangers of AI. I am in that space. I hear the rhetoric but never answers. Here's my answers, do you agree?

That's why I built this. The parties we have aren't going to do what the next decade requires, and somebody needed to start. I'm not running for anything. I'm not a former senator. I'm not somebody you've seen on cable news. I'm a citizen who realized the work was not being done by anyone else and decided to start doing it. I wrote the platform. I wrote the essays. I am paying for the server. I am waiting for the people who recognize what's happening to find this and decide to help.

This isn't about me. This was never going to be about me. The country needs a coalition that reads, thinks, and acts. The founder of a coalition is the least important person in the coalition; he's the one who had the time to set up the infrastructure first. What matters is who shows up next.

That's the second card.

Unfilled portrait — this could be you ?

A citizen of the party — this could be you

[Your name here]

I am tired of the usual politics. Tired of broken promises. Tired of wait-and-see before action. Tired of putting out fires instead of fixing the structures that keep starting them.

I am tired of being asked to vote against something instead of for something.

I want to work toward the future of our children, not the present situation of myself. The dangers of doing nothing will destroy the future of our children — and that is what I want to help fix.

I do not know what role I will play. I am not a politician. I have a job and a family and limited free time. But I have read what is here. I have thought about it. I have decided the work is worth my attention.

I am the second card on this page. I am the person the founder has been writing for, all along.

This could be you — join us

The Intelligent Party is one person who started the work, and the people who recognize themselves in the second card. That is all it is. And it is enough — if enough of them show up.

There is no donor list pulling the strings. There is no consulting firm running the messaging. There is no corporate board approving the positions. There is one founder, a published platform, sixteen detailed positions, more than thirty long-form essays, and an open invitation to anyone who reads what we have written and thinks: this is what I have been waiting to find.