Top-Two Primary · June 2, 2026

California
can lead
the world.

A constitutional revision for the age of artificial intelligence. A new economic vision. Forty million people as shareholders in the most ambitious state platform ever conceived.

CA
GOVERNOR · 2026
Thomas Jefferson
Cares
The Platform

Built from the ground up.
For all forty million.

I went to the ground. I have been homeless. I have been prosecuted. And from that ground, I drafted a constitutional revision — alone — reimagining how California governs at the dawn of artificial intelligence.

01 — CONSTITUTIONAL REVISION
A Constitution for the Age of AI
California is governed by a constitution written for the age of farmland. I wrote the revision that bridges the world we have to the world we are building. No one else is doing this. I did it because no one else would.
02 — CALIFORNIA 3.0
The World's AI Operating System
California becomes a sovereign AI services platform — licensing intelligence optimization to nations and corporations worldwide. Every Californian becomes a shareholder. The state earns trillions. Everyone wins.
03 — UNIVERSAL DIVIDEND
22¢ Every 1,000 Seconds
Every Californian receives a base dividend from the AI platform — around $570/month. Contribute to AI training and your dividend multiplies. This is not welfare. This is your share of the civilization you helped build.
04 — SOCIAL FABRIC
No More Letting Neighbors Fall
I got Altadena and Palisades — devastated, unincorporated, without even a city government to fight for them. The social fabric is not optional. We rebuild it or we lose everything else.
05 — LABOR + INNOVATION
The Days of Zero Sum Are Over
Workers and innovators are not enemies. The same AI revolution that threatens jobs can fund the transition beyond them. I got labor. I got the innovators. Everyone wins when I win.
06 — TECH CO-INVESTMENT
Apple. Google. Meta. Co-Signers.
California's tech giants owe their existence to this state's soil and people. They co-sign the state's investment bonds — not as charity, but as stakeholders in the infrastructure that made them possible.
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The Big Idea

California 3.0

California did not become the world's fifth largest economy by thinking small. We invented the microchip. The internet as the world uses it. The smartphone. Social media. Large language models. Every decade, California has handed the world a new way of being alive.

We have done this as a state. Imagine what we could do as a platform.

$2–3T
State investment
co-signed by tech giants
Potential multiplier
on global GDP
40M
Californians as
platform shareholders
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Hear It Directly

From the candidate.

The Candidate

From the ground.
For everyone.

At fifteen, I left one of the finest high schools in America. My classmates walked to Princeton and Harvard — the conventional roads to power. I saw a better way. I dropped out to find it.

I went to the ground. I have been homeless. I have been prosecuted for breaking a window to survive. And from that ground, I drafted a constitutional revision — alone — reimagining how California governs forty million souls at the dawn of artificial intelligence.

No one else is doing this. I did it because no one else would.

Everyone called me crazy. I kept building. I built it for you.

Budget me your focus. Come build with me.

Full Story → @tomcares
Party
Democratic
Office Sought
Governor of California
Primary Date
June 2, 2026
Form 501 Filed
February 10, 2026 — California Secretary of State
Previous Run
California Governor 2018
Core Belief
Everyone wins when California wins. California wins when the world wins.
Contact
Tom@UH.do
"Everyone wins when California wins. California wins when the world wins. The world wins when intelligence is free."
— Thomas Jefferson Cares