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If you want an intro to me, you found it!
I am Vector Hasting, author of ProjectLiberty2029, a blueprint on how to take back our freedom from this fascist, authoritarian regime, and to then secure Liberty and Justice for All here in our Beloved United States of America.
There are two distinct, but interconnected steps: Defeat and Rebuild.
I explore these by being mostly serious, but also silly. The silly is important because we need to increase our numbers, and all those frogs help us throw all the spaghetti and kitchen sinks we can find at this problem.
Sometimes I will sound Scary, like when I talk about the bonkers insane troop standoff that’s coming at us on January 6th, 2029.
I will also be Reassuring, like when I talk about why we’re going to win: it’s because we just have overwhelming math in our favor.
And I’ll be Wonky, ‘cause, that’s my inner muse.
My background includes a lifetime of software engineering.
So, yeah, I’m a techy wonky engineer fixer type.
And it turns out that software and law are very similar. Both programming and law are sets of logical rules that give instruction on how to things should operate.
In computers, those instructions run on precise processing chips.
In law, those instructions run on much less predictable processors. We mostly think of judges, prosecutors, & legislatures. But crucially, it also includes every single one of us. We use the rules of law as best we can to govern our own choices.
Can I turn right on red here? Can I protest here?
That common allegiance to law is one of our strengths as a country. And proposed laws form a crucial part of what I am about here.
I will be unpacking a lot of material here on this channel. This includes laws and plans for action that are on the wiki site. It’s a wiki, because I hope many people will participate in making these proposals better.
It is important to add the following: I’m just a mortal human, and I’ll be making mistakes. My tone may seem severe at times. But I am inviting a community here to help with the proposals, even if it is only making comments.
So if I ever sound disrespectful because I’m criticizing something you’ve written, I apologize. It is not my intent, it’s my fast-moving and intense passions.
Let me say that again, because it’s important.
We are in this together.
If my ego or my ignorance is putting you off, then I am sorry for my fault in that.
And I ask you to help me with comments to do better.
Of course, sometimes through discourse we may find that one or the other of us (including possibly myself) was right and had not really given cause for offense.
Then the words “sorry” will mean “sympathy.” (It’s often useful to realize we use sorry for both sympathy and apology, and sometimes it gets us wound up the wrong way.)
Many times, we may find ourselves in an honest disagreement, and I will do so with as much respect for your Dignity as I can, and look for healing when I fall short.
For the truth is always better discovered together, and that requires trust.
As long as you are supporting Freedom, if I fall short of helping to build community with you, I beg you help me do a better job reaching out.
However, those who support this MAGA regime, or who seek to troll for fun, or who cannot be turned from despair while the rest of us apply ourselves to this battle, then you may find yourself unwelcome here.
(Keep in mind, though, for all of us, there will come a day when we will need reconciliation across this nation.)
And for those of us fighting this, I am always humbled by what so many people are doing.
In that vein, I hope you will find what I offer here to have some wisdom.
If you watch or read me for a while, you may also sense that I often think a little differently.
The proposals I’m offering reflect this.
For example, it’s late October 2025, have you yet heard a plan for how to remove the Attorney General from the power of the President? There are a few voices I’ve found on the edges of legal academia calling for it. But where’s the traction?
Why isn’t this more of a mainstream demand?
It’s a strange grip of orthodoxy because 95% of us live in states that, unlike the Federal Government, do not have a unitary Executive branch because the Attorney General is not appointed by the governor.
The framers of the Constitution debated this point, and they were well warned that this unitary executive was a “baby tyrant” just waiting to grow up.
But now it has.
Let me round out a few things you might want to know about me.
In addition to always being a programmer, I’ve also been a para-legal for over a decade. I fell into that because I was doing the computer support for a law office that was saving people’s homes from foreclosure after the securitized trust breakdown. We were doing it without bankruptcy, but as those foreclosing forces managed to close off the legal remedies we were using, our practice shrank. I stayed on and took up slack doing paralegal work. (Including a lot of bankruptcies.)
I have also lived in the past: my wife and I lived in a remote village in Transylvania for two years back when the 21st century started. (One year was on a Fulbright Grant.) Back then it was a place that was so remote there were no running water, no telephones, and peasants used waterwheels to grind their grain and pound their felt, and washed their clothes in the river.
It was like living in Hobbiton. While there was some ignorance, there was plenty of grace and lots of lessons to me in how we all used to live before modernity took us over.
It’s the way our founders lived. I came home to America with renewed patriotism and insight into the way our earliest founders lived and how that must have affected their thinking.
I’m also a father, a husband, and a maker.
And, I’ve been brought quite low: I had meningitis when I was four. It left me blind in one eye, and it may have been the root of an early onset of the kind of vestibular disability that’s more common in people’s 80’s and 90’s. I fought that for over a decade, and then last year caught long-Covid. I have fought my way back to health over those years, but it’s been a mighty struggle.
Your engagement here can really help me and my family. Please subscribe, and please consider a paid subscription. It will be of untold value to me and my family.
And it will also be a big help to bringing a huge amount of proposals that are written but still need work to get up to the wiki and to get explained to a wider audience.
There are things like: A Universal Basic Share of All Income? Paid for by a Fair Tax the Wealthy cannot avoid? One that only needs a majority to pass into law? Voting Rights for All? Fair Commerce Reform? Data rights? Nature rights?
I hope you can tell I have a breadth of work to get out and... you can help with that subscription.
Or, if you want to lend your expertise, there’s the wiki.
I identify ten stages of the struggle between now and defeating them in 2028.
Then I plow into the swift actions we need to take in 2029 to restore our freedoms before the fog of forgetfulness allows them to regroup for another assault on our way of life.
(If you want to help, go to Stage 0 and there’s a guide on how to start improving the documents.)
In closing, let me share this conviction:
I believe in America.
No, she’s never been perfect. Yes, she’s been awful to many. But if you consider the alternatives, she’s usually been on the better side.
And especially since the New Deal. Since Franklin Delano Roosevelt laid out the Four Freedoms:
Freedom of Speech and Freedom of Worship were two, and we’ve had those until now.
But he also called for Freedom from Want and Freedom from Fear.
If you are reading this, you too know we are living through history.
History will barely remember any of us.
I expect my part to be small. Yet I hope to share that small part with you.
Yes, I believe in America.
I believe in a nation founded on Freedom. One that strives to give those four freedoms to of us.
We live in a world of abundance. Freedom from Want and from Fear are possible.
But the Trumpet and his handlers and minions want to separate us from that.
They have a chance to succeed.
But I believe they will fail.
There are too many of us.
All we must do is remember Benjamin Franklin and hang together to avoid hanging apart. We must use every trick of our consciousness to avoid buying the fear they are selling, and keep up our resistance.
I believe America shall win back our country from these fascists.
And I know that when the day comes that light shines on the destruction they have wrought, that there will be many things we can never fix.
Lives that ended early.
Trust that was broken.
Scars that can never heal.
We must take this pain and make service to it.
We must echo Lincoln in our time. We must build back with wisdom we have gained from our transgressions.
We must renew our promise that our nation, conceived of in Liberty, shall not yet perish from this Earth, not so long as We the People still stand.
Thank you, and as always,
Amen, America.
Vector Hasting
