About Anticapture
The Constitution is very good at stopping tyranny by government. It is nearly silent on the purchase of government through lawful channels. Foreign money is banned from elections, yet flows through domestic nonprofits and corporate treasuries that no one can trace to a human being. FARA requires foreign agents to disclose, and bans nothing. Shell entities buy land, ports, and media with no named owner. Officials regulate an industry, then go work for it. The Supreme Court polices its own conflicts by honor code. None of this is a crime. That is the point. Capture doesn't break the law, it uses it.
Anticapture began with an audit of those gaps, from campaign finance to executive immunity to alliance commitments that never expire. Every gap shares a pattern. It is legal, it is documented, and it persists because the diagnosis never becomes text a legislature could pass. Books, hearings, and documentaries describe the problem. Almost no one drafts the remedy to introducible standard, argues it clause by clause, and revises it on the record. That work is how you build a better America, and it is this project.
Anticapture is for citizens, not spectators, and the work comes in every size. An hour is enough to read a reform and the evidence on which tactics actually move policy. An evening is enough to speak at your city council, file a records request, or testify at your statehouse, the guide for your state is already written, all fifty are. If you can give more, work the polls, take a precinct seat, run for school board, or carry a bill to your legislator with the draft already done. The founders built the defenses against the tyranny they knew and left the defenses against capture to us. What we do now is what our children inherit, a republic hardened against purchase or one still for sale.
Who runs it
Anticapture is written and maintained by Stephen M. Walker II, an American entrepreneur. He is the maintainer of record. He edits the canon, reviews every proposal, and signs every release.
The project is nonpartisan. Support pays for legal review, infrastructure, and maintainer time. It buys no edit rights and no influence over the text.
The software
The site runs on Solon, a version-control engine built for legal text, named for the Athenian lawgiver who published the laws of Athens so they could not be privately owned. Solon treats a statute the way engineers treat source code, and it will be released as open source so any body that drafts rules for other people can run the same discipline.
Solon editorial workflow
How a draft becomes canonical text, in four recorded steps
Reforms live as documents of stable, citable blocks. Edits happen on branches, review happens on the redline, and acceptance is a signed, recorded act.
Every reform lives as canonical text that no one edits directly. Work begins by branching the released text.
The term "intermediary" means any person who receives a covered transfer
A proposal carries the changed text, a written rationale, conflicts disclosure, and named reviewers.
The threshold misses aggregated conduit giving.
Review happens on a redline of the full statute. Comments anchor to clauses, approvals are signed, and legal checks can block the merge.
The term "contribution""covered transfer" means any transfer of anything of value.
A maintainer merges, and the accepted change leaves the private chamber as a numbered public release.
Disagreements are resolved in writing, in the open.
Nothing enters the canon off the record.
Does substantial part import the conduit test, or do we define it?