About This Publication

The word traces to the Scottish Whiggamore, a term applied to Presbyterian cattle drovers from the west of Scotland who marched on Edinburgh in 1648 to oppose the royalist cause. "Whig" passed into English as a label for those who challenged monarchical power, and by the time of the American Revolution it had become the common name for colonists who sided with independence.

In the colonies, Whigs organized the resistance to the Stamp Act, the Townshend duties, and the Intolerable Acts. They filled the Continental Congress, commanded the Continental Army, and wrote the founding documents. Their opponents, the Loyalists, were called Tories, a name borrowed from the same British political vocabulary. The Whig argument was constitutional: Parliament had no right to tax men who sent no representatives to it. When petitions failed, they fought. Seventy years later, a new American political party took the name deliberately, positioning itself as the heir to that tradition of legislative supremacy and opposition to executive overreach. The Whig Party of the 1830s and 1840s produced four presidents and stood for internal improvements, a strong Congress, and resistance to what they called "executive tyranny," embodied at the time by Andrew Jackson.

Government for, by, and of the People

Abraham Lincoln, who was a Whig for some of his career, said "government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the Earth." It is our responsibility as American citizens to liberate our government from corruption and the tyranny of foreign and corporate interests.

Whig Symbolism

Our mascot is the raccoon, symbolizing resourcefulness, adaptability, and vigilance.

Core Principles

Our core principles are transparency, accountability, and integrity in all political processes.

We believe that a healthy democracy depends on informed citizens, ethical leadership, and robust institutions that uphold the rule of law.