Introducing…
Finally, Politics Done Right
by Sondra Wilson. Updated July 22, 2025.
Wild Willpower is an in-the-making, first-of-its-kind, non-party political organization (“NPPO”). Although I began developing the websites and publications in 2010 (there is still much behind-the-scenes), it is finally beginning to take shape, and conveying that which I have taken many years working to convey.
According to the Iowa Secretary of State’s website, in order to form a new political party, “An organization must have had a candidate for president or governor who received at least 2 percent of the total votes cast at the last general election.” Although I am running to win the election and not to merely “introduce new ideas”, if I do end up forming a party, people need to know what they’re buying into. Should I form a new party, it would be based on this Code of Ethics, Prime Directive, and Platform. Every Member of any of our Member Organizations would have to take The Pledge. If you vote for a candidate we’ve endorsed, and they violate the Pledge to uphold our Code, Wild Willpower will look into, help that person make corrective action, or, if necessary, hold them accountable and relinquish our endorsement. These are the types of internal processes the current two parties appear to be lacking under their current constitutions and bylaws. Additionally, Wild Willpower invites anyone to help us improve our “We the People Platform”.
Candidates who join Wild Willpower will have Wild Willpower’s Official Seal (shown in the following graphic) affixed to their campaign webpage, which will be linked via Our Candidates. This website is designed to showcase what a new party would stand for, should I receive the requisite votes and then qualify.
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Member Organizations
Empowered by Our Sponsors, and consisting of separate, distinct independent Member Organizations who are bound together by Wild Willpower’s Prime Directive, Code of Ethics, and Official Platform.
Wild Willpower PAC (“WWP”): the first “Civil PAC” in the Nation — “PAC” is short for “political action committee”. Although usually PACs only fund candidates, Wild Willpower PAC (“WWP”) finances WWP-Approved Candidates and The Peaceable Assembly™. 10% of all contributions that come through Wild Willpower PAC go toward The Discretionary Fund, which is used to help people live sustainably and/or deal with injustices they may be facing. “Wild Willpower” and “Wild Willpower PAC” are separate organizations. WWP is a Member Organization, and Wild Willpower is used to reference the collective.
The Peaceable Assembly™ (“PA”): Highly-Organized Grassroots — Just like a PA system, our PA amplifies the platform and candidates we believe in, the petitions we’re gathering signatures for, the lawsuits we’re building, and all the grassroots organizing in between. We’re not against the system: we’re fixing it from the inside out. The more people see what we’re up to, the more who join. As a 527 tax-exempt political organization, WWP can accept campaign contributions and offer sponsorship advertising to businesses who get behind and help drive this movement. We keep all our financials above the table to ensure you know exactly where your money is going.
American Accreditation Registrar — Founded on the Fourth of July, 2025, the AAR serves as a competitor with the various Bar associations (e.g. American Bar Association, Iowa State Bar Association, National Bar Association, Hispanic National Bar Association, Federal Bar Association, and so on), who hold a virtual monopoly over America’s legal industry. The AAR is a grassroots organization who seeks to break up this virtual monopoly through attracting legal scholars and activists interested in overturning longstanding, unjust rulings and doctrines that have been “sitting on the shelves for too long”, and are cited by Bar attorneys who help uphold them, to the detriment of the people, instead of working to overturn them. Hans v. Louisiana 134 U.S. 1 (1890) or the unconstitutional doctrine of “sovereign immunity” are perfect examples. The AAR focuses on using the First Amendment to inform fellow Citizens about our judiciary and how to better access the courts and “peaceably, legally, and effectively” work to improve the system.. We are interested in advancing the justice arm of Wild Willpower’s platform, including the establishment of The Public Intelligence Agency™ and the passing of the Justice Accessibility Act. In the words of Nelson Mandela, “For to be free is not to merely cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.“
WWP-Approved Candidates — Candidates must: (1) Align with our Prime Directive, (2) Uphold our Code of Ethics, and (3) Run on our Official Platform. We provide them with a beautiful, professional web page and an online store to showcase their merch on www.WildWillpower.org, and help with passionate outreach, art, and training to help them learn the ropes. Unlike the parties, we keep tabs on our candidates to make sure they act with integrity: Iowans have seen where corrupt politics has gotten us and we’re sick of it. Time to write our own story.
Please Visit Our Sponsors: Get 5% Off All Purchases — Just say, “Thank you for helping to support Wild Willpower!“ and receive 5% off on all products and services. Are you an Iowa-based business who wants to help support the cause? Email WildWillpowerPAC@gmail.com or call 515-357-9725.
About Our Seal
Wild Willpower only allows our seal to be stamped on the web pages of Candidates and Members who uphold our Code of Ethics, and only those who uphold the Code and work toward our Prime Directive and Official Platform can bear the Seal.
The eastern white pine stands in the center to commemorate the first U.S. flag, which stands to honor the struggle of those who fought, both through education and rebellion, to establish a just court system in the Americas… READ THE STORY AND LEARN ABOUT THE FLAG.
The phrase “Audi Alteram Partem“ is Latin for “hear the other side” signifies the fact that, as a non-party political organization, those of us involved have not felt accurately represented by the modern Republican or Democratic parties. Additionally, it represents the fact that parties involved in THE CASES WE ARE WORKING ON have not yet been heard, that we RESERVE ALL OUR RIGHTS, and that we deserve our day in court.
About the Name “Wild Willpower”
Around September 11, 2001, I experienced a profound spiritual experience in the wilderness area behind Southwoods Drive in Nevada Iowa. While the country was gearing up to retaliate against those responsible for the attacks, I didn’t want anything to do with war. I gave away my possessions, bought a guitar, and — in summary — began hitchhiking the country on August 7, 2002 to write an anti-war rock & roll opera I’d come up with.
I left behind the modern world, fasting from technology and the news, weaning off domestic products, and soon began everything I could about living in the wilderness. In spring 2003 I had the fortune of meeting U.S. Army Veteran and Wilderness Survival Instructor Richard Lonewolf, who changed my life. In Twin Oaks, California he began teaching myself and a handful of friends how to live among the Mojave Desert, foraging wild plants and utilizing old world wilderness survival techniques to survive. He taught gardening skills, and, as a man of Cherokee ancestry, imparted a worldview unfamiliar to our young minds raised in a world of technology, government regulations, and commerce. It was a completely different way of life.
After approximately six months, I left to seek medical help in Los Angeles. For the next year and a half I survived by street performing with my guitar, hitchhiking, foraging wild plants, dumpster diving, and practicing QiGong and Yoga to lessen my worldly cravings.
Around 2005, after traveling to San Jose, I became friends with SJSU Environmental Studies Professor Emeritus Frank Schavo, and renown philanthropist and inventor Ashawna Hailey, both of whom imparted a great deal of knowledge to my prior to their passing in 2010 and 2011, respectively. Frank invited me as a guest speaker at some of his classes at SJSU and De Anza College, and for our final years together, we gave tours of his famous sustainable home. Throughout this time Frank mentored me, preparing me with legal knowledge, sustainable development knowhow, entrepreneurial and engineering skills, and nuggets of wisdom he’d picked up throughout this lifetime of teaching. He passed away on my birthday, January 26, in 2010.
In 2009 Ashawna flew me to her second home in Kauai, Hawaii. For the next six months or so, until hearing word of Frank’s death, I dedicated to crafting the most efficient, lightweight gear I could design while spending much of my time leaning to live in the wild along the Kalalau Trail. This is when the name “Wild Willpower” came to me. Being around entrepreneurial-minded inventors like Frank and Ashawna had put me into the spirit, and I knew this would be the name of the organization because more than anything else, abstaining from worldly desires to learn to live among the wilderness takes willpower.
I had the opportunity to live, learn, and teach alongside other great teachers who are no longer with us as well, including renown ethnobiologist Frank Cook and co-founder of the California Lichen Society (“CALS”), Bill Hill. I documented and learned to identify hundreds of wild mushrooms and lichens alongside Bill and CALS, all of which will eventually be added into the Wild Living Skills App™.
My journey is now embedded into Wild Willpower’s official platform, such as Gardens Across Iowa!™ and the Crop Diversity and Enrichment Act, for example; every section of the platform has research and a story behind it, all of which was picked up throughout my travels. Even though I had a difficult life, I never gave up, and always tried to do the right thing and help people wherever I went.
Willpower is what it takes to “do the right thing” when you’re given a choice. As a political organization, Wild Willpower PAC only endorses candidates who have willpower and uphold our Code of Ethics. If they get into office and then violate the Code, we don’t continue to endorse them and put “party over people” like certain political organizations do. To do the right thing for your fellow Citizens takes willpower. To to the right thing for both humanity and nature — even against all odds — takes Wild Willpower.
The rest of my journey, and what led her to run for Governor, is being transcribed here.
About the Symbol
During the last conversation between Sondra and Myron Dewey — before he was tragically killed in a car wreck — he told here that native people here in the U.S. — here on Turtle Island — really need people of European descent to learn about their ancestors, because they had a in common with Native Americans. “A lot of we indigenous people know about our ancestors,” Myron said. “We know how we were colonized. What we really need your people to do is learn about your ancestors, because your people were colonized much the same way.” Wild Willpower will be bringing a lot more about Native American and old world European history to the forefront as we move forward, and we are quite certain this knowledge will help everyone. After all, you have have know where you came from in order to know which way to go.
The two light blue, water-like lines weaved through the words “Wild Willpower” are the symbol for Aquarius.
The two acorns adorning the edge of the words are used because (1) Acorns fed Native American people from coast to coast more than any other food, and (2) They were the primary food source for European tribes prior to the Roman Empire’s expanse. The Celts referred to the Oak as the Tree of Life.
A loaf of acorn bread shared at Sondra’s Oct. 18 Kirkendall Library event:
Richard Lonewolf on acorn bread:
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Binod, Ruchi. (Feb. 26, 2020). 25 Nelson Mandela Quotes On Peace, Leadership, Change & More. ScrollDroll. https://scrolldroll.com/nelson-mandela-quotes/.