How we're built

The organization, in four layers.

The spine decides, the functions do the work, the tools are just what the functions use, and the slate is what comes out.

Read it top to bottom

One test sorts every piece.

If it disappeared tomorrow, what breaks? Lose a tool, we move. Lose a function, we stop growing. Lose the spine, there is no organization. That ranking is the chart.

1

Governance — the spine

who decides · everything else serves this

Members — the cell federation

Leadership informs · members decide
Precinct House district Senate district Region State 7 seats / cell
2

Functions — the work

the working groups · one person can wear several hats early on
Michael's hat now

Recruiting

Bring Alaskans in.

Michael's hat now

Organizing

Turn members into action in their own communities and races.

Feeds the spine ↑

Leadership Development

Grows the people who run the cells — the engine that lets the federation scale past Anchorage.

Fundraising

Resources the work — money builds paid grassroots staff and mutual aid, not media buys.

Communications / Briefs

The vetted, citable canon — the body of argument that outlives any single debate.

Legal / Compliance

The c3/c4 question and APOC — keeps charitable and political money firewalled.

3

Infrastructure — the tools

swappable on purpose · we are not the platform

Discord

The recruiting frontier and debate floor — low-friction, where people already are.

Element / Matrix

The sovereign, encrypted home to grow into. Phase two, once it offers what Discord can't.

Website

Public landing, the address → district role-assignment app, and the home for published briefs.

4

Programs — the output

what the whole structure produces

Voter-Initiative Slate

Always keep one running, state and local. Gathering signatures is the organizing.

First route Employee Bill of Rights
In one line: the spine decides, the functions do the work, the tools are just what the functions use, and the slate is what comes out.