Virginia First. · America Only. · Independent · 2026
Common Benefits
A Reclamation of the Republic
Named for George Mason · Virginia Declaration of Rights · Section 3 · June 12, 1776
Mark Moran for U.S. Senate · Virginia 2026
Virginia wrote the rules of self-governance. George Mason wrote the Virginia Declaration of Rights in 1776 — the source document. Jefferson read it and wrote the Declaration of Independence from it. Madison read both and wrote the Constitution. The revolutionary thought that built this Republic came from this Commonwealth.
Amazon built its empire on Virginia's land, power, and fiber. The bill to Virginia: zero. Virginia's senators did nothing. That ends with this seat.
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The Common Benefits Plan. All eleven sections.
The Data Center Fee. The National Mortgage Trust. Universal Healthcare. The 28th Amendment. The full argument, the funding math, and the constitutional basis. As a PDF, in your inbox.
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The Candidate
Mark Moran
Mark Moran is a Virginia native. He holds a joint JD/MBA from the University of Virginia School of Law and Darden. He spent a decade on Wall Street advising on more than $75 billion in healthcare mergers and acquisitions. He knows how the extraction works because he was trained to execute it.
In 2019, working on the acquisition of a non-profit health insurer at 3am, he changed one cell in a spreadsheet and realized he was deciding whether poor patients in Chicago would get dialysis. He closed his laptop. He made a promise.
He is running as an independent because the two parties built this system together and neither one is going to dismantle it. The Virginia Declaration of Rights. The Declaration of Independence. Mason and Jefferson did not write those documents for posterity. They wrote them as instructions. Virginia is where the reclamation begins because Virginia is where the argument was first made. The Common Benefits Plan is the case he has been building since that night in 2019. This Senate seat is where he intends to use it.
Three Bills. Three Unalienable Rights.
Mason wrote them. Jefferson carried them. Virginia is where we reclaim them.
Bill I
OUR PURSUIT
A 2% fee on every data center in America pays for free community college and a debt-free four-year degree for every American.
The right to pursue your potential.
The Data Center Fee — 2% of gross revenue from every data center in America — funds free community college and debt-free four-year degrees for every American. Amazon, Microsoft, and Google pay the bill they have never paid.
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Bill II
LIBERTY
A 0.1% fee on stock trades funds a national mortgage trust. 20 years at inflation plus 1%. After 20 years, the house is yours.
The right to own land.
The National Mortgage Trust ends the 30-year mortgage. 20 years at inflation plus 1%. After 20 years, the house is yours. No bank. No catch. Wall Street's casino pays for it.
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Bill III
LIFE
No government healthcare dollar goes to a publicly traded corporation. One rule. The money is already there. It is being extracted as profit.
The right to stay alive without going bankrupt.
Healthcare is an innate right, not a stock ticker. The Universal Healthcare Compact covers every American. The insurance industry's extraction ends. Virginia leads the way.
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Why Independent?
One independent senator in a 50/50 Senate is the most powerful person in Washington.
The two parties have built this system together. Neither one is going to dismantle it from the inside. But a senator who owes nothing to either party — who cannot be threatened with a primary, cannot be bribed with a chairmanship, and cannot be bought with a bundler's check — holds every vote that either side needs to pass anything. That leverage is the plan. Virginia sends one independent senator to Washington and the entire calculus of the Senate changes overnight.
50/50
Senate split. Every vote is the deciding vote.
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PAC money. Not one dollar, not one favor owed.
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Job. Get money for Virginians. That's the whole plan.
The Independent Pledge
No party. Virginia First. America Only.
Virginia wrote the rules of self-governance. George Mason wrote the Virginia Declaration of Rights in 1776 — the document that established life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness as natural rights, not government grants. Jefferson read it and built the Declaration of Independence from it. Madison carried it forward as the Bill of Rights. Every word that defines what this country is supposed to be came from this Commonwealth. Virginia's senators now work for Amazon, for Wall Street, and for whichever party promises them a committee chairmanship. That is the betrayal. This campaign is the correction.
I will not caucus with the Democrats. I will not caucus with the Republicans. I will not accept a committee chairmanship in exchange for my vote. I will not trade a procedural favor for a donor's phone call. I will not be the 60th vote for a bill I have not read. I will not pretend that party loyalty and Virginia's interests are the same thing, because they have not been the same thing for fifty years.
My job is one thing: get money for Virginians. Every vote I cast, every bill I sponsor, every hearing I sit in will be measured against a single question — does this put more money in Virginia's pocket? If the answer is no, I vote no. Party leadership does not change that answer. Virginia First. America Only.
I take no corporate PAC money. No bundler money. No AIPAC money. No money from any entity whose interests conflict with the interests of the people of Virginia. The plan is public. The funding is public. The vote record will be public. There is nothing to hide because there is no one to hide it from. Mason wrote that the people have the right to reform or abolish a government that fails them. Virginia is exercising that right. Starting now.
Mark Moran — Virginia Independent — U.S. Senate 2026
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