The most successful political campaign in American history was launched on the Joe Rogan Experience,  February 15, 2027. Manny Garcia announced that he would run for President as a third party candidate. 

From 2019- 2026 when he retired, Lieutenant Colonel Garcia had commanded the New Warrior Battalion, a unit within the U.S. Army tasked with applying methods derived from paranormal science into modern warfare situations such as ESP, levitation, astral projection, psychic healing.

When Rogan asked Garcia if he could see himself ever running for political office, Garcia answered YES and that the issue most important to him was getting  money out of politics.

“We have let our political and economic systems get way too corrupt ever to be reformed,”  Garcia declared. “The American people are long overdue for a massive change of heart– and that new heart will never arise from any existing political party or reform strategies. What America needs now is not just political REFORM, but an all-out spiritual REVIVAL. Our brothers and sisters who were founding this nation in 1787 were being called upon to  answer one  historical and existential question. Our generation is being called upon to answer it yet again — What is the best way for a free people to govern themselves?

Rogan reminded Garcia that every politician promises to “get money out of politics,” so how would he deliver on that promise? Specifically, how would Garcia use the existing legal infrastructure in order to create his American “Revival?”

“There’s only one way” Garcia answered unequivocally. “We schedule a Citizen’s Constitutional Convention for 2034. Then we use every conceivable means of interpersonal communication, social media and electronic collaboration all focused on amending the Constitution of the United States in order to re-define how Congress will be elected– and how our elected representatives will be held accountable.”

Five years after Garcia’s appearance on the Joe Rogan show, the American Revival Party had organized, recruited candidates and achieved an overwhelming mandate by voters to hold a Constitutional Convention in 2034.