{
  "quote": {
    "text": "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.",
    "credit": "Anonymous recovery-community saying, documented in 1981; later popularized in print by Rita Mae Brown (1983).",
    "fact_check": "Often misattributed to Albert Einstein. No reliable evidence shows Einstein said or wrote it. This is an aphorism, not a clinical or legal definition of insanity.",
    "sources": [
      {
        "label": "MLA Style Center \u2014 Five Commonly Misattributed Quotations",
        "url": "https://style.mla.org/five-commonly-misattributed-quotations/"
      },
      {
        "label": "Quote Investigator \u2014 Insanity Is Doing the Same Thing Over and Over Again",
        "url": "https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/03/23/same/"
      },
      {
        "label": "American Dialect Society \u2014 Oct. 11, 1981 Al-Anon citation discussion",
        "url": "https://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/ads-l/2019-July/155159.html"
      }
    ]
  },
  "reasons": [
    [
      "Citizen-first government",
      "Put voters, workers, families, veterans and taxpayers ahead of donor networks, lobbyists and permanent political machinery."
    ],
    [
      "One-term accountability",
      "Campaign pledge: serve one term, publish measurable goals and judge the administration by delivery instead of the next election."
    ],
    [
      "Public promise tracker",
      "A promise made before Election Day should remain visible after Election Day, with status, deadlines and explanations."
    ],
    [
      "No billionaire-controlled agenda",
      "Campaign position: reject quid-pro-quo donor control and publish donor/transparency information so voters can verify political influence."
    ],
    [
      "America Really First",
      "Prioritize domestic infrastructure, water, energy reliability, veterans, affordability and citizens before optional foreign commitments."
    ],
    [
      "Peace with a strong defense",
      "Avoid unnecessary wars while maintaining credible national defense, military readiness and accountability for Pentagon spending."
    ],
    [
      "Audit the books",
      "Push transparent audits of public spending, assets, contracts and major agencies."
    ],
    [
      "Build and repair",
      "Fix the grid, water systems, roads and public infrastructure rather than accepting recurring failures as normal."
    ],
    [
      "Veterans first",
      "Improve access, transparency, mental-health support, pain care and accountability for veterans."
    ],
    [
      "Health choice + price transparency",
      "Promote prevention and medical price transparency while keeping evidence and safety standards visible."
    ],
    [
      "Open-source government",
      "Publish evidence, sources, corrections, unknowns and public dashboards so voters can inspect claims."
    ],
    [
      "Independent expertise",
      "Bring researchers, creators, scientists, veterans and whistleblowers into public policy discussions while separating nominations from endorsements."
    ]
  ],
  "promises": [
    [
      "TERM",
      "One Term. Get It Done.",
      "One-term campaign pledge with measurable delivery goals."
    ],
    [
      "DONORS",
      "No donor capture",
      "Reject quid-pro-quo billionaire/donor control; publish funding transparency."
    ],
    [
      "WAR",
      "No unnecessary wars",
      "Use military power for genuine national-defense needs, not open-ended optional conflicts."
    ],
    [
      "VETS",
      "Veterans first",
      "Make veteran care, claims, accountability and access a first-order priority."
    ],
    [
      "GRID",
      "Fix the grid",
      "Treat blackouts and fragile infrastructure as solvable engineering problems."
    ],
    [
      "WATER",
      "Fix the water",
      "Modernize water infrastructure, disclosure and contamination response."
    ],
    [
      "AUDIT",
      "Audit the books",
      "Increase public visibility into federal spending, contracts and assets."
    ],
    [
      "HEALTH",
      "Price transparency + prevention",
      "Make medical pricing easier to compare and review prevention/integrative-care evidence."
    ],
    [
      "SOCIAL SECURITY",
      "Protect earned benefits",
      "Protect Social Security and improve long-term accountability."
    ],
    [
      "JUSTICE",
      "Justice-system accountability",
      "Expand transparency, due process, records access and judicial accountability."
    ],
    [
      "AI",
      "Use AI to help citizens",
      "Use AI for explainers, audits, navigation and public-service efficiency with human oversight."
    ],
    [
      "TRANSPARENCY",
      "Evidence before authority",
      "Publish sources, corrections, unknowns and what would change the campaign's mind."
    ]
  ],
  "appointments": [
    [
      "Mike Benz",
      "Digital liberty / information policy",
      "Proposed consideration; no endorsement or acceptance implied."
    ],
    [
      "Dr. Weiping Yu",
      "Physics / science advisory discussion",
      "Proposed consideration; subject to scientific review and vetting."
    ],
    [
      "Ashton Forbes",
      "Open-source technical investigation",
      "Proposed consideration; no endorsement implied."
    ],
    [
      "Catherine Austin Fitts",
      "Financial transparency / public-assets discussion",
      "Proposed consideration; no acceptance implied."
    ],
    [
      "Admiral Tim Gallaudet",
      "Ocean / UAP transparency discussion",
      "Proposed consideration; subject to normal vetting."
    ],
    [
      "John Kiriakou",
      "Whistleblower / intelligence-accountability discussion",
      "Proposed consideration; no endorsement implied."
    ]
  ]
}