Run for something

How to run

• To run with Kentucky Party, the candidate has to fill out a paper voter registration card changing registration from Democrat, Republican, etc. to Kentucky Party. You can't run on the ticket of a party you're not a member of.
• A candidate doesn't need anybody's permission to run. If the candidate knows what to do, just file with the KY Secretary of State and do your thing. Here's the Secretary of State's becoming a candidate tool.
• The Kentucky Party doesn't have Secretary of State-supervised primaries yet. Once you turn in enough valid signatures, you're running in the general and will be on the Nov 2026 ballot. In the unlikely event two or more Kentucky Party candidates run for the same public office, sort it out among yourselves, or ask the Kentucky Party to organize a debate and manage an unofficial primary, probably during the annual convention in May.
• If a candidate wants help paying filing fees, gathering signatures, keeping/filing paperwork, fundraising, bookkeeping, training, or campaign managing, email the Kentucky Party. The response may take a few weeks, the Executive Committee meets monthly. The Kentucky Party's founded on anti-corruption. Services are offered to any member of the party who asks and plans to run a serious race.
• See also Ballotpedia's How to run for office in Kentucky.

Specific offices

• Constable
• City government
• Fiscal Court / County Commission
• KY General Assembly
• US Congress

Policy research

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• Data centers and nuclear enrichment, and utility bill costs
• Taking on corruption, increasing capex and labor share of value
• Fixing housing shortage, high cost, low quality, child and working homelessness
• Fixing medical and prescription drug cost, debt, and availability
• Holding traffickers and employers accountable for illegal immigration
• Strengthening Kentucky's rural economies
• Universal literacy, math, shop, home ec
• Controlling transportation costs
• Consumer protection: sports betting and futures markets, credit and payday loans, data protection and privacy, child online safety, ultraprocessed food

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