Wild Willpower's
We the People Platform —
A bold plan to rebuild Iowa.
Written by Sondra Wilson. Updated August 10, 2026.
Iowa needs a real plan for the future—not more slogans, political theater, bureaucratic stagnation, or systems that grow more expensive while becoming less accountable.
That is why I have spent years developing a comprehensive platform to rebuild Iowa from the ground up.
The We the People Platform is organized around four major pillars: infrastructure and economic development, education, healthcare, and justice. Together, they form a long-term strategy to strengthen Iowa’s economy, restore public trust, revitalize communities, and improve quality of life across the state.
I believe Iowa can become a national leader again through bold, practical reform.
As Iowa’s only independent (nonparty) candidate for governor, I am also currently litigating my exclusion from the ballot.
Select any title or seal below to explore that part of the plan.
I. Civilian Restoration Corps
Iowa's Historic Infrastructure Plan
A statewide jobs-and-infrastructure initiative designed to rebuild Iowa’s physical foundations while revitalizing rural communities and expanding new industries.
Jobs • clean water • rural revitalization • energy • manufacturing
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II. Upskilling Iowa
World Leader in Education
A statewide plan to make Iowa a world leader in education again—supporting great teachers while combining strong academics with practical skills, trades, technology, law and civics, and hands-on preparation for adult life.
Teachers • practical skills • trades • STEM • law & civics • school gardens • student support
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III. New Iowa Healthcare Compact
Essential Care for Every Iowan
A two-tier healthcare plan designed for Iowa: guaranteeing essential care for every Iowan while partnering with employers and private insurers to expand coverage, strengthen rural healthcare, reward caregivers, and reduce waste.
Essential care • lower costs • rural healthcare • caregiver pay • small-business coverage • preventive care
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IV. Justice Across Iowa
Justice People Can Actually Reach
A comprehensive justice reform plan designed to make Iowa’s courts, civil-rights systems, government, and legal profession more accessible, understandable, transparent, and accountable to the people they exist to serve.
Accessible courts • practical legal education • attorney-client rights • civil-rights reform • government accountability • public integrity
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Want the Full Vision?
These proposals are part of a broader strategy for rebuilding Iowa’s economy and institutions. The expanded vision will appear in Reclaiming Iowa: The Path Forward.
We the People Demand More
For too long, politics has asked Iowans to settle for slogans, rhetoric, partisan talking points, and carefully rehearsed answers that avoid the hardest questions.
That is not enough anymore.
Hope matters. Values matter. Leadership matters. But governing requires something more:
A plan.
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In recent years, too much of Iowa politics has been consumed by an old strategy: divide and conquer. We are encouraged to see one another as enemies while enormous questions about healthcare, education, infrastructure, justice, wages, rural communities, and the future of our state go unanswered.
We have watched civil-rights protections narrowed, healthcare access threatened, and laws shaped to protect powerful interests from accountability. Meanwhile, ordinary Iowans are left arguing with one another over who deserves what.
I believe Iowa can choose something better.
The We the People Platform challenges us to ask a very different question:
How do we build a government that works better for all of us?
Not by helping one group at the expense of another.
Not by governing through resentment.
Not by offering one constituency protection while asking another to absorb the harm.
But by designing systems that make Iowa healthier, stronger, safer, better educated, more prosperous, and more just for everyone who calls this state home.
That requires us to dream bigger.
It requires us to refocus our priorities.
And it requires us to tell politicians—regardless of party—that watered-down platforms, empty platitudes, political theater, and dodging serious questions are no longer enough.
We the People demand more, starting now.
Something I Hope Iowans Will Remember
Transgender people are increasingly discussed in American politics as abstractions, controversies, or political issues rather than as human beings.
I will not be on this Earth forever, so there is something I hope people remember about me:
A transgender Iowan devoted decades of her life to trying to build a better future for the people of this state.
That is how deeply I care about Iowa.
You do not have to agree with me about everything. Democracy does not require that. It requires something more important: that we continue to recognize one another as fellow citizens whose futures are connected.
But we must stop allowing disagreement to convince us that we have nothing in common.
We drink the same water. We travel the same roads. Our children attend the same schools. We depend upon the same hospitals, courts, farms, businesses, emergency services, and communities. And whatever our differences, we inherit Iowa together—and one day we will leave it to generations who had no say in the decisions we make today.
Dr. Seuss put it simply in The Lorax:
“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.”
I have cared an awful lot about our for a very long time—neither this website nor the publications were written overnight. But caring cannot stop with one person, and no one person can rebuild a state.
Now I am asking you to care, too.
United we stand. Divided we fall.
It is time for Iowans to pull together.
Why This Is Called the "We the People Platform"
Although I am running for Governor of Iowa on this platform, this platform does not belong only to me.
Wild Willpower was created around a larger idea: citizens should not have to wait for political parties to give them permission to participate meaningfully in government.
If these principles speak to you and you are considering running for public office in Iowa, you are invited to learn about Wild Willpower, take the pledge, and help carry this work forward.
If you wish to run on the We the People Platform, email WildWillpowerPAC@gmail.com with “I Take the Pledge” in the subject line. Copy the pledge into the email, tell us why you are taking it, and tell us what office you hope to serve in.
Because reclaiming government cannot ultimately be the work of one candidate.
It has to become the work of we the people.
This is how we reclaim Iowa—together, for ourselves and for generations to come.