About the Campaign
Our Purpose
The current two party system is not working. Too many people have too few choices.
But it is not just about choices.
The outcomes are the issue. Too many people are locked up, too many people can’t afford to live here, too many people are left behind and too many people know that their priorities are going to be ignored by politicians and political parties in Maryland.
New outcomes are going to require more and healthier political parties that can better represent the diverse people and communities of Maryland.
I believe the Maryland Green Party should be one of those parties, but to get there, our party has to grow, it has to be more visible, more organized, and more able to change outcomes so that people’s lives are better.
A major goal of this campaign is to build a Green Party that can understand the challenges and the opportunity, and to meet the moment.
The Plan
We want to ensure every policy proposal we promote demonstrates our transparency, every training session feels safe and supportive because it is founded on inclusivity, and every voter contact is a chance to expand our ecosystem into a living breathing example of what real multiparty democracy can and should look like in our state. How we do work in our campaign is an example of the world we want to see.
Our campaign will be visible and vocal. Since we started this campaign in 2022 and officially launched in January of 2025 we have been hosting and attending events, developing our platform and policy positions attending fairs and festivals across the state and hosting outreach events, online meetings, and community hosted public forums.
Awareness Phase
We are expanding awareness by growing our presence in the public eye. Establishing our campaign identity, building infrastructure, and framing the race around systemic critique, and multiparty democracy will spread our message further.
This fall, we will be developing our statewide volunteer network, constructing our policy priorities, and building the movement we need to go into 2026 strong!
From January through April 2026, we will be engaging the Maryland general assembly, working, supporting, and opposing key legislation, creating educational content and pushing for multiparty democracy, and making sure the people of Maryland and the media know why both parties are failing to meet the needs of most residents.
At the same time, we will be putting forward bold policy proposals that get at the heart of the issues facing Maryland: Housing, Health Care, Economic Opportunity, Energy Prices, Climate and Environmental Crisis, Public Education, Transit, Civil Rights, and more.
Voter Contact
July 2026 we will begin full-scale voter mobilization, canvassing, house parties, peer-to-peer organizing and more all to convert visibility into voters We will work to recruit candidates and volunteers across, the state to challenge Democrats and Republicans up and down the ballot.
We’ll qualify for public financing, and push for debate inclusion, all while reaching voters through mail, digital, and advertising campaigns in every part of the state.
Get Out The Vote
From September 19 when the first mail ballots get sent to voters to election day November 3, we will implement a full statewide GOTV strategy We plan to cover every region of the state with staff and volunteers Our goal is simple we want to get 100,000 votes to secure the best third-party governor performance in Maryland since the Civil War! We believe if we can do that, we can give power back to voters, push our politicians to be responsive to the people, and usher in an era were Maryland works for everyone.
A Decade of Transformation
Becoming a Maryland that works for everyone starts with the courage to imagine a better state and then building the power to transform the current system. Transformation will not occur in the current two-party system. Maryland needs an independent party rooted in peace, justice, democracy, and ecology. A party that represents the people left behind, the people who have checked out, the people organizing in their communities, and the people marching in the street and on the picket lines.
2006 Maryland Green Party Senate Candidate Kevin Zeese forecasted the 2020s would herald this metamorphosis:
“We see the 2020s as a decade of transformation. The movements have been growing since Occupy in 2011, then the Black Lives Matter movement, Fight For 15 — all during the Obama era – and now the growing of the movements during the Trump era. We see the 2020s as a decade of social transformation. In order to have that transformation, we need to be organized and educated . . . It’s normal for us to not always be on a linear path to success. It’s a jagged path. We move up and down, we get stronger.”
Kevin was right—this is a decade of transformation, but what kind of transformation will it be? Will Maryland’s people see more power in the hands of the wealthy? More control by large corporations? Will Marylanders see less free speech and less democracy? More genocide and war?
Or will Maryland become a state that works for everyone, placing power in the hands of people, growing local economies, expanding free speech, and uniting a more inclusive democracy?
That is up to every Marylander. Creating a Maryland that works for everyone means fearlessly imagining a better world by equitably distributing power to transform the current system.
This quote comes from Kevin Zeese: His Last Words For The Movement And Carrying On By Margaret Flowers, Popular Resistance. September 13, 2020. Kevin passed away September 6, 2020