The charter of the Black American Interests Policy & Action Coalition — what we stand for, what we demand, and how we win.
For generations, Black America has delivered its votes faithfully and received promises in return. Loyalty was given freely; results were rationed. That arrangement ends here. The Black American Interests Policy & Action Coalition exists to convert what we already have — votes, dollars, culture, and businesses — into what we have too rarely held: organized, disciplined, lasting political power.
We are not a protest. We are an institution. We do not march to be heard and go home; we keep score, we keep records, and we keep our word. We measure every official by what they deliver on the issues that build Black wealth, Black ownership, and Black freedom — and we attach consequences to the result.
This document is our agenda. It is deliberately short — five pages, not fifty — because focus is power and discipline is the difference between a community and a constituency.
Every other organized interest in America has a lobby that fights for it without apology — by name, with money, with a scorecard, and with a long memory. Black America, the most loyal voting bloc in the country, has too often been treated as a base to be activated rather than an interest to be served. We exist to correct that imbalance.
BAIPAC is built to be permanent. Not a campaign, not a moment, not a hashtag — a fifty-year institution with chapters, capital, lobbyists, and a candidate pipeline. We intend to be the address every politician must visit before they ask for our vote, and the standard they are measured against after they receive it.
A lobby is strong because it is focused. These five priorities are the whole of our litmus test. Every endorsement, every dollar, and every grade we publish runs through them.
Close the racial wealth gap through capital, ownership, and assets families keep across generations — not one-time programs.
Turn renters into owners and owners into landholders. Protect Black land and end the appraisal and lending discrimination that strips it away.
Real access to lending, federal and corporate contracts, and investment for Black entrepreneurs — the engine of community wealth.
Schools, apprenticeships, and trades that lead to wages, not debt — and full investment in HBCUs and skilled-trade pathways.
Protect the vote, the person, and the community — restore the Voting Rights Act, end abusive policing, and defend our rights in court.
Promises are not performance. We grade every member of Congress and the President on their recorded votes against the five non-negotiables, and we publish that grade as a price on the BAIPAC Exchange — our Black Shares Index. Blue chips deliver. The bottom of the board gets divested.
This is a vote-based, quantitative standard in the tradition of the civil-rights scorecards that have held Congress accountable for over a century. A score we cannot point to a vote for is a score we do not publish.
Every candidate who seeks BAIPAC's backing signs the Candidate Pledge: to be measured by their full record, to state their position before the vote rather than after, to meet the local chapter twice a year, and to accept that our support is earned, not inherited.
Four arms, one machine. Each entity does one job and does it well, feeding a single base of power.
Civic education, economics, research, and the scorecards that set one standard.
Advocacy, pressure campaigns, and legislative pushes at every level.
Money directed to candidates who deliver measurable results — and only those who score.
Black business, faith, labor, and culture, organized into one funding base.
We fund this ourselves, so we answer to ourselves. General membership is $10 a month. The Founder Circle begins at $1,000. The Business Council begins at $10,000. Money, members, and discipline — that is how power is built and kept.
We start small but serious. Each stop compounds into the next until the network is too organized to ignore.
Form the entities, recruit the first 100 founders, launch the platform and the first ratings.
Chapters in ten anchor cities; voters, donors, churches, businesses, and trained local leaders.
An annual Black Policy Summit; endorsing, funding, and training candidates who score.
A million members, a $100M+ fund, full-time lobbyists, a legal defense fund, and a media arm.