About The 1913 Project

The 1913 Project is a nonpartisan initiative focused on a simple premise: the structural architecture of American governance was fundamentally reshaped in 1913, and it's time to reexamine the consequences.

This is not a conspiracy theory. These are historical facts: the 16th Amendment, the 17th Amendment, and the Federal Reserve Act were all enacted in the same calendar year. You can verify this in any American history textbook. What's remarkable is not that these changes happened, but that so few Americans know they share a single year.

We believe that understanding the structural foundations of governance is essential to meaningful reform. You can't fix what you don't understand. And you can't hold power accountable if you don't know how it was accumulated.

What We're Not

We are not affiliated with any political party. We are not pushing a left-wing or right-wing agenda. The question of whether the federal government has accumulated too much power at the expense of states and citizens is not a partisan question; it's a structural one.

We are not anti-government. We are pro-accountability. The Founders designed a system of checks and balances for a reason. When those checks are weakened or removed, power concentrates, and concentrated power, regardless of who holds it, is the problem the Constitution was designed to prevent.

What We Want

• ◆Education: Help Americans understand what happened in 1913 and why it matters
• ◆Conversation: Foster honest, nonpartisan dialogue about structural reform
• ◆Action: Advocate for specific, achievable reforms that restore accountability and balance