The Executive Branch is overpowered. Foreign nations are pulling our strings, and crimes against children go unpunished. AI may make it better or worse, so we need a plan.
Because everything we care about, like affordable housing, a sustainable environment, clean food, fair taxes, and ending genocide/ war is downstream of the will of the criminal elites who are selling our democracy for parts and getting away with it. Now is no time for politics as usual. It’s time to fight back.
Jamie Joyce is running for Congress (D12, CA) and has a plan.
If we fight, we can win.
Democracy Reform
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Clean Food
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Sustainable Environment
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Stopping Executive Overreach
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A Plan for AI
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Healthcare for All
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Free, Quality Education
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LGBTQ Rights
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Privacy Rights
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Deleting the Surveillance State
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Fair Taxes
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Democracy Reform - Clean Food - Sustainable Environment - Stopping Executive Overreach - A Plan for AI - Healthcare for All - Free, Quality Education - LGBTQ Rights - Privacy Rights - Deleting the Surveillance State - Fair Taxes -
So What’s Jamie’s Plan?
It’s The MAD Act
Jamie is no stranger to writing legislation. So after she announced she was running for office, she spent several hundred hours writing The MAD Act (The Mass Accountability in Democracy Act). The MAD Act is a 658 page omnibus bill that rebalances power between government and the people.
It covers: AI, ICE, surveillance, Epstein, the Insurrection Act, autonomous weapons, executive overreach, dark money, and more. With this one bill, so much can change.
The MAD Act is not “anti-AI,” “anti-security,” or “anti-business,” it is simply pro-responsibility, safety, accountability, and aggressively defends our rights. The public is outmatched, and we need to rebalance power. Jamie aims to get the MAD Act passed before the election by using the midterms as leverage and coordinating with activist groups across the country to pressure Congress to take action NOW. Want to help? Call your reps here.
Meet Jamie Joyce
Jamie is a multidisciplinary expert, executive, researcher, and activist who is respected by global leaders and has the right expertise for government in this moment of technological change.
Jamie is here to defend democracy in the age of AI and Executive Overreach.
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Jamie has an expertise both in government’s past and future. For over a decade, Jamie has been a leader in the “civic tech” field: a global movement of tech-savvy activists who work to modernize government and make it more transparent, accessible and effective.
For the past 7+ years, Jamie has pioneered work and led teams to accomplish: drafting legislation via computational construction, building decision-making models for local governments, modeling civilization-scale debate about policy issues, authoring intelligence briefs, developing AI tools, and pioneering a new form of reasoning called “Scaled Democratic Reasoning.” Her team is launching a scholarly paper on this new capability this year.
She was was hired to launch and lead the “Democracy’s Library” program at the Internet Archive, an immense effort to digitize and make U.S. local, state, and federal government documents and data accessible, developing an expertise on federal government knowledge management and data types. The Superintendent of Documents for the United States government even flew from D.C. to California to see her present this work.
She led a small team to map the entirety of the government system, including the hundreds of agencies in the executive branch, coming to deeply understand roles, functions, and levers that may be pulled on to enable change.
Jamie has read hundreds of pieces of legislation, authored her own, and even taught students from 32 Universities on how to logically deconstruct legislative text.
At the request of the head of the University of Southern California’s Dornsife Center for the Political Future, she created an internship program to teach students how to build the political decision-making models that she invented.
She has given dozens of talks on stages in multiple countries about how Democracy can be modernized for the 21st century.
Jamie has written several articles and has been a minor contributor to two books on the topic of the future of democracy and text formats.
She relocated to D.C. last year to negotiate with DOGE for 3 months, including performing internal government presentations to stop appropriations cuts. She was thanked for her service by getting a private tour of the U.S. Treaties Vault, where she viewed the Treaty of Paris in person (the document signed by Benjamin Franklin which ended the Revolutionary War).
She was awarded a “Collective Intelligence” fellowship from the Foresight Institute which funds frontier scientific work and has predicted multiple Nobel Prize winners.
She is an ongoing collaborator with various democracy projects, including those ideated by the most world-famous democracy technologists.
Overall, Jamie recognizes that we are entering a new era: one of AI and technology. Her mission is to ensure that a people-centered Democracy survives the transition.
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Jamie has been leading AI and tech projects for several years. Her focus has been on autonomous research, scaling truth-seeking, building fact-checking agents, using AI to scale formal reasoning for evidence-based policy-making, and mapping debates about AI between experts.
She was awarded an “AI For Human Reasoning” fellowship from the Future of Life Foundation to work on how AI can help humanity. She is an expert on the debates about AI and was interviewed for “The AI Doc” alongisde the most famous voices in AI today.
She is the trusted confidante of globally recognized AI ethicists, movement builders, activists, and CEOs. Her work has even led her to be invited to OpenAI and xAI for presentations on her work.
However, despite Jamie appreciating the upsides of AI and now being a vibe-coder, the harms of AI’s impact are documented, and so her MAD Act dedicates 130+ pages towards immediate AI red line regulation, interim provisions, hammer provisions, as well as both forcing the government to develop a plan for AI impact (across 19 different domains, including jobs and the environment) and give them the process to do so in an informed way.
Jamie’s familiarity with AI goes beyond merely sitting on a council or being briefed from time to time. It has been her daily work for many years: both in using it and documenting the harms. She aims to bring that expertise to Congress, if elected, to ensure we have a plan for AI that will actually work. -
Before working in the “democracy” field, Jamie was COO of an international environmental and humanitarian organization, where she oversaw projects in over 20 countries. She also served on the board of Wikitongues, a nonprofit working to preserve the world's 7000+ languages.
Jamie currently sits on the board of the Sand Mandala foundation which gives out art grants and is a multi-award winning artist herself.
Jamie resides in Berkeley, where she also manages a historical building that is gifted as free venue space to community for silent meditation retreats, choir practice, birthday parties, community theatre, weddings and memorials.
Jamie has been a member of the Rotary Club, The Society of American Archivists, The American Library Association, the Office of Intellectual Freedom, Nation of Makers, Freedom to Read Foundation, the Linux Foundation, and the C2PA. She is also a Wikipedia editor.
She has volunteered for the “Human Library” and is co-founder of Canonical Debate Labs.Jamie has always fought for a better world, and she's not stopping anytime soon.
Jamie lives in Berkeley, CA. See her CV here.
So what happens if Jamie is elected?
The “Just 12” Strategy
What happens if The MAD Act gets passed before the midterms? What happens next? Jamie is more than ready to assume the role as a legislator if elected, but that means she becomes 1 member out of over 400+ other congresspersons. She is on the ballot as a Democrat, but Jamie believes it is critically important that a “blue wave” doesn’t just turn into “business as usual.” Jamie has been a disappointed voter over and over again. So she has a strategy for this too: create a disruptive voting block to ensure progress is made.
Jamie is recruiting 11 other congressional candidates from across the political spectrum to run as a block. Why 12? Because neither Democrats nor Republicans can pass legislation in the House without a working majority. If 12 members band together and refuse to rubber-stamp bills that don't serve the people, they become a critical voting unit.
Both parties answer to special interests. A Democratic majority doesn't necessarily guarantee the progress we want. But 12 united members who answer only to the people? That changes the equation.
They don't need to outnumber anyone. They just need to hold the line — and force every bill to earn their vote. That's not a protest. That's leverage. And that's how the game can actually change. Please join Jamie in the “Just 12” strategy.
