June 15th, 2025 Conference

Schedule

Time	Session	Speaker
9:00am-10:00am	Setup
10:00am-10:15am	Opening Address
10:15am-11:15am	Policy and Platform Discussion
11:15am-noon	Monopoly Free Capitalism	Wendy Welsh
noon-12:30pm	Lunch
12:30pm – 1:00pm	How to navigate your local government	Steve Revilak
1:00pm – 1:45pm	Review of Party Initiatives
1:45pm - 2:30pm	Road to Town Meeting	Kolby Blehm
2:30pm - 3:00pm	Candidate Tutorial	James O'Keefe
3:00pm - 3:30pm	Election planning for 2026
3:30pm – 4:00pm	Closing Address
4:00pm – 4:00pm	Clean up

Notes

Policy and Platform Discussion

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environment

• expand to include fishing, farming, mining, energy production, conservation

electoral reform

• specific ways to implement our goals

2nd amendment - drones as weapons

• surveillance and drones

elections

• more details on implementation

education

• using AI adaptive learning to learn how to students learn to develop better curiculums

stance on AI

• a machine can never be accountable, thus a machine must never make decisions
• open sourcing
• human centered design?
• human in the loop

individual responsibility

• to be informed
• up hold our society

Election planning for 2026

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Time line

Post signature gathering

Candidate conference? - How to govern mentoring (State) - How to govern mentoring (town) write a how to govern guide - A pirates guide to local government

2026/04/30 - State nomination papers due 2026/02/15 - State nomination papers available 2025/11/30 - 1st town nom papers available 2025/11/30 - Have started candidate training 2025/11/15 - Have identified all candidates 2025/10/15 - 2025/09/15 - candidate (org/vol) pep talk

          - regional organizing meetings

2025/08/15 - 1 have list of people to do stuff 2. have written specific plans for elections

2025/07/15 - intitial outreach to volunteer + 2025/07/01 - all voter records

We have 93 Voters 221 municipalities need data from 128

2025/06/15 - now

write a how to run guide contact people who wanted to be candidates contact people who wanted to organized their communities

what would you like from us to succeed

what are the opportunities we want to present to volunteers

Massachusetts local government guide guide to town meeting - state/election doc local government / town FAQ

Issues housing/local government/transparency/surveillance/accountabillity

Attending

• James
• Steve
• Joe
• Alec
• Wendy
• Kolby
• another who left early
• Tim (remote)

Media

• WBZ NewsRadio 1030 interviewed us, but segment has not aired.