The Constitution states how to change our structure of government. [FN1] Gerrymandering to create artificial majorities in the House of Representatives and the “electoral college” [FN2] is not listed. People want to know how to stop the maga/trump takeover. 1/18

On 10/21/25, Greg Olear [FN3] offered a solution. [FN4] A lot of replies were to the effect of “Finally! Someone’s talking about solutions.” We can disagree on specifics of how to reverse damage of trump & magaGOP, & even use parts of some ideas. [FN5] 2/18

What follows here, in no particular order, are ideas about possible solutions & pitfalls that could preclude solutions. In addition to years of study and research of our history, I litigated election cases, including challenges to the validity of the 2016 election. [FN6] 3/18

1) Political parties are central to the problem. The Framers [FN7] loathed factions, i.e., political parties. [FN8] The magaGOP [FN9] has committed or been complicit in insurrection or rebellion, and treason. [FN10] Also, each State has a “branch” of the national party. 4/18

Some State parties are corporate entities separate from nat’l counterparts & pose a threat to any change. The Indiana [FN11] Republican Party is a “d/b/a” of the Indiana Republican State Committee, Inc., created 10/24/05, when Articles of Incorporation were filed 5/18

by Terre Haute IN , attorney James Bopp, Jr., who has served on the RNC [FN12] and was an attorney in the District Court in Citizens United. [FN13] As a future Minnesota Governor said, “He’s dug in like an Alabama tick.” [FN14] Here are the problems. 6/18

1: Ways to participate in, and even take over a political party, should be available to the public, but IN’s GOP is averse to a takeover like its current rulers effectuated back in the day. Its Rules are available online, but not its bylaws, [FN15] where choice of leaders is set out. 7/18

2: The plural form - “parties” - is used to describe the problem. In Indiana, election laws give special status to “two major” political parties “whose nominees received” the highest & 2nd highest numbers of votes “for secretary of state in the last election.” [FN16] 8/18

Illinois confers bennies on an “established political party” whose candidate for Gov drew over five percent (5%) of the vote for Gov in the last election. [FN17] Indiana’s 2 “major political parties” wrote the laws that confer favored status on parties ... well, like them. 9/18

We should loathe the specter of a “Party of No.” We should have complete access to rules & bylaws of all political parties. Look at your State’s election laws & party rules to make sure Bopp isn’t dug in like an Alabama tick. Later: “3rd parties.” 10/18

Footnotes:
FN1. U.S. Const., Art. V.
FN2. There is no “electoral college.” The phrase does not appear in the Constitution. A vote of the States’ electors is described as they mechanism for electing the President/Vice President. described. Id., Art. II, sec 1; Amend. XII. 11/18

FN3. Mr Olear’s blog and podcast, PREVAIL on substack, is well-researched and well-written.
FN4. “The #Liz48 Plan: This Is How We Remove Them—Legally, Quickly, and Nonviolently,” 10/21/25.
FN5. The Framers employed that process in 1787 at the convention in Philadelphia, and the Constitution was the result. 12/18

FN6. Each case was an original action in which I drafted and filed an amended petition for writ of mandamus (Bloomstein, et v Pence, et al, SCOTUS docket 16-907) and a petition for writ of mandamus. (Bailey, et al v Trump, et al, dkt 16-1464). 13/18

FN7. The National Archives has designated as the Framers the 55 delegates who were selected, and attended, the 1787 Constitutional Convention on behalf of 12 States. (“Rhode Island and Providence Plantations” was a no-show.
FN8. See, The Federalist No. 10 (James Madison). 14/18

FN9. This iteration of the GOP is not the “party of Lincoln.”
FN10. The rebellion & insurrection of January 6, 2021, give rise to remedies under U.S. Const. Amend XIV, sec 3. It also has adhered to our Nation’s enemies. U.S. Const. Art III, sec 3; see, Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act, 2017. 15/18

FN11. I was born, raised, educated and spent most of my life in Indiana, where I practiced law for over 30 years and litigated several election law cases. That is why my focus today is on the State of Indiana.
FN12. Republican National Committee. 16/18

FN13. Citizens United v FEC, 558 U.S. 310 (2010), held: laws preventing corporations & unions from using gen’l treasury funds for independent political advertising violated the 1st Amend guarantee of freedom of speech.
FN14. Jesse “The Body” Ventura’s character Blain Cooper, “Predator,” 1986. 17/18

FN15. I requested copies of the bylaws on two occasions, but received no reply either time.
FN16. I.C. § 3-5-2-30.
FN17. 10 ILCS 5/7-2, 10-2. 18/18