Making Representative Government the New Normal 

MainStream Media Productions, LLC was founded to conceive, develop and produce streaming media properties and civic technology that generates the voter support necessary for electoral reform, common-sense public policy, and candidates that lead the nation away from toxic partisan extremes.

Streaming Media

MainStream Media programming cultivates and promotes a unified narrative with emphasis on the normalization of independent politics and the reforms it requires. 

We seek to establish a perception of partisan-neutral views as “mainstream.”

Our programming engages voters in a virtual

“arena of ideas” and normalizes the specific reforms that make alternatives to toxic partisan choices possible.

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Programs in development cover the entire spectrum of political media content. 

Civic Technology

We seek to develop, support, and partner with tech platforms that provide tools for voters, candidates, and organizers that demand merit-based solutions free from partisan influence.  

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• Builds an audience and creates content for programming 

• Engages, connects, and equips voters with content and political organization tools 

• Creates opportunities for viral promotion through user support of candidates and policies via social media

• Develops consensus among partisan-neutral voting coalition 

In Development

PRESIDENT-ELECT

A reality competition show that follows top candidates, chosen by voters on a companion mobile app, as they compete for the presidency in this alternative, party-neutral primary process. Candidates face challenges designed by political experts and viewers vote for candidates weekly until all but one candidate is eliminated.

LAB OF DEMOCRACY

Academics with expertise in public policy discuss their breakthrough policy ideas on issues resistant to cross-partisan solutions. 

Everyday Americans from opposite sides of the ideological spectrum weigh in on those ideas with a commitment to come together around proposals that will create real change. 

MAINSTREAM NEWS

A news program that focuses on current events that highlight corruption in partisan politics.

This program features news of the day, special investigative reports, and culminates in a segment featuring a panel of guests across the political spectrum for debate and discussion. 

REAL FAKE NEWS

A news parody show where comedian anchors give their satirical take on current events related to partisan politics.

This program also features correspondent comics who deliver investigative reports into a partisan world that often parodies itself and interviews with celebrity guests and pundits.

The MainStream Narrative

• The MainStream Media narrative leverages a simple fact: recent history has proven that many political norms no longer apply and virtually anything in American politics is now possible.

• Expert talking points and sound bites backed by verifiable facts have to be crafted and employed relentlessly in an alternative echo chamber designed to penetrate the national conversation in the "mainstream media."

• In an ongoing cycle of voter education and feedback, MainStream Media will identify and cultivate the most critical non-partisan electoral objectives into a short list that voters will find easy to adopt and actively support, in the streets and at the ballot box.

• The hearts and minds of the American public will be led to link partisan misdeeds with the real and verifiable dangers they create.  

  • Gridlock leads to atrocious outcomes and serious threats to public safety.  

  • Our families are in harm’s way, facing imminent risks because our politicians are more involved with raising campaign funds than protecting their constituents or the Constitution.  

  • On a regular basis, the public needs to see, hear, and feel the impact of partisan dysfunction and rancor in visceral, indelible ways.  

• The narrative will promote an ideology of the possible that takes value away from wedge issues that never get addressed and makes competency and consensus around “kitchen table” issues the top priority. It will explain how wedge issues are used to take away voters’ ability to exercise their influence and how consensus pressure is more effective than trust in any partisan politician.

• Messaging will leverage the term and concept of both “Independents” and “Independence,” declaring voters’ commitment to representative leadership and an end to the manipulation used by the politics industry to game the system.

• In describing MainStream Media project objectives to the public, the emphasis will be on action and progress rather than perfect solutions. The call is for evolution, not revolution.  

• Media projects will be challenging voters to be a part of a representative democracy that once again leads the way for the rest of the world with a new model of political organization and leadership that is independent of the kind of partisan manipulation voters everywhere are all too familiar with.