Q: What can I do on this website?

A: You can maximize your political power and influence in U.S. politics in ways you might never have thought possible.

By using this website's free patent pending tools and services, you can now do things that politically engaged individuals and voters could not do before they were invented.

For example, you and millions of Americans can:

• Define your policy agendas across the board, update them whenever you wish and use them to influence elections and legislation;

• Find allies whose agendas are similar to yours and work with them to build consensus and political networks that can pressure elected officials and candidates for office into enacting your agendas;

• If you are not satisfied with their response, you can join forces with your allies to build coalitions and winning voting blocs to run and elect your own candidates for office and get your shared agendas enacted into law.

  You can operate your coalitions and voting blocs at national, regional or local levels -- inside, outside or across party lines, as you see fit.

• You can make your views count in setting U.S. political priorities at all levels of government by emailing your agendas to the media and contributing them to the public opinion polls published regularly on this website.

  You can query the poll database to answer questions you may have about emerging trends in different parts of the country.

• You can use your agendas to pressure your elected representatives and candidates for office into implementing your priorities by emailing your agendas to them, requesting them to define and email you their policy agendas and legislative priorities, and by comparing your respective agendas.

  You can also use your agendas to evaluate the legislative votes of incumbent officeholders to see what their priorities really are.

  If your key policy priorities are similar, you can dialog with them to develop a shared agenda that they pledge to implement. If they are running for re-election, you can support their bid for office and put the full weight of your networks behind their voter mobilization and fund-raising drives.

  If your agendas and those of your incumbent representatives and candidates for office are too divergent across too many issues, and they refuse to join with you in developing a shared agenda, you can point to this divergence when you tell them that you will not support their electoral bids.

• If you decide that you can not support any of the candidates who are running for office, you can transform your networks and coalitions into winning voting blocs that run and elect your own candidates for office -- inside, outside or across party lines.

  You can run your candidates on the lines of existing political parties by winning primary elections or you can run them as Independents or on the lines of new political parties that you or others create.

  This website provides you collaborative tools that your voting blocs can use to continually build consensus about your policy priorities and support your candidates' bids for office. You may find especially helpful the poll-based query and locator services that you can use to find new local voters whose policy agendas make it likely that they will vote for your candidates in sufficient numbers to carry them to victory in the election.

  You can also use these tools to plan, organize and publicize events, debates and press conferences; compose and issue press releases; and conduct get-out-the-vote (GOTV) campaigns.

• You can control who is part of your networks, coalitions and voting blocs and how much information you want to let non-members obtain about your work. You can publicize your work, agendas, initiatives and communication links or keep them private and accessible only to people you designate.

• Similarly, you can create your own public homepage on this website, with your real name, or a screen name or you can decide not to have a publicly-accessible homepage. You can publicize your agendas or keep them private and allow only people you authorize to see them.

Q: Can candidates for public office, political parties and advocacy group use these tools and services?

A: Yes, but not all the services are available free of charge to those that are formally organized and have revenues.

The tools and services provided free of charge on this website have been developed primarily to enable individual Americans and voters to get control of elections and legislation.

The goal is to enable them to increase their political power and influence to the point that they play a more determining role in American government than the political parties, party-backed candidates, special interest groups and corporate-paid lobbyists who have gained so much power in politics that they now call the shots even when their actions run counter to the interests of the American people.

However, candidates, incumbents, political parties and advocacy organizations that are formally organized and have revenues can obtain these services if they pay for them. They can also license the patent pending technology around which the website and its services are built. To find out more, click here.

Q: How do I take advantage of these free tools and services?

A: Just follow these steps:

1. Create your profile. Read more

2. Define your policy agenda. Read more

3. Reset U.S. political priorities. Read more

4. Email your policy agendas to your local elected representatives and candidates for office and ask them to define their agendas and email them to you. Read more

5. Find common ground with people you know on vital political issues. Read more

6. Find political allies and join forces with them to build powerful political networks of any size at any level, inside, outside or across party lines. Read more

7. Establish winning voting blocs. Read more

8. Use your voting blocs to run and elect your own candidates for political office. Read more

9. Use your voting blocs and shared agendas to direct the work of your elected representatives. Read more