53rd Congress Inaugural Address

Inauguration Day in Patria!

Following is the text of the 53rd Congress (LIII Con. Pat.) inaugural address, as delivered shortly after 12:00 noon today:

Devi prapanartihare prasida, prasida matar jagato’khilasya.

Prasida vishveshwari pahi vishvam, twam ishwari devi characharasya.

Madam Chief Justice, Mr. Sergeant-at-Arms, distinguished guests, honourable members of the Fifty Third Congress, those who well and faithfully served in the Fifty Second Congress, fellow citizens of Patria, Amma’s beloved children, all those who have assembled on the grounds of the Capitol on this traditional quadrennial noon hour of the 30th day of June, we invoke the Divine Mother’s blessings on this new Congress with the same verse from the Devi Mahatmyam that introduced the address to a special Patria-India Joint Session two and a half years ago in Amritapuri: O Devi, you who remove the sufferings of your suppliants, be gracious. Protect the universe. You are, O Devi, the ruler of all that is moving and unmoving.

The members of this new Congress stand on the shoulders of those who have gone before, who have supported and defended this Inner Realm since 1818. The men and women who have served Patria so long and so well, who beginning in 1989 transitioned this lovely land from a plain vanilla secular republic into an Inner Realm of compassion and dharma, who replaced an American-style President with the Speaker of the House serving as a ceremonial head of state and who believed that concentrating executive power in the hands of one person and a hand-picked cabinet could lead to oligarchic, over-reaching personality cults that would not end well for both the leaders and ordinary citizens.

The Oath of Office that you have just heard promises to “support and defend” the Constitution of Patria. Support and defend, what exactly? The Constitution is not an old piece of parchment written with quill pens by men - and in 1818 they were exclusively Caucasian males - in funny suits and powdered wigs at a time when news could be disseminated only by word of mouth or hand-operated printing presses and could travel only as fast as a ship could sail or a horse could gallop. The Constitution of Patria is not a static document. It has evolved as technology has evolved, as society and culture have evolved, and as it evolves Patria remembers certain milestones in its history.

Fifty years ago in July 1976, amid the US bicentennial celebrations, the raid on Entebbe and the Montreal Olympics, a special session of 40th Congress took place in response to perceived notions that Patria was failing and powerless against the forces arrayed against it. But Patria survived a dark time, even if it led only to darker times in the failed 41st Congress. Nonetheless, the fear-driven legacy of stoners doing drugs,the proliferation of teenage sex and the peer pressure from high school kids half a century ago, to say nothing of the dreadful music, cars and fashions that prevailed in the 1970s, are duly remembered on this day.

Forty years ago, on this day in 1986, the 43rd Congress was inaugurated and today Patria also remembers its legacy. Even if it melted down and became a house divided against itself in 1989, that Congress taught once-socially backward citizens relevant life skills, real independent living, living as “normal” a life as possible, as well as external growth. Not without reason, the 43rd Congress has been called Patria’s Project Gemini. In the 43rd Congress, the laggardly social and economic legacy of previous failed administrations was finally made up, just as the Gemini space missions of 1965 and 1966, during which American astronauts learned to walk, dock, rendez-vous and truly fly in space, finally overcame the Soviet Union’s early 1960s lead in space exploration.

In 1926, the All-Patria Radio Network, now known as Ramrajyavani, was established. One hundred years later, tune this in: broadcasting on the 520 to 1700 kilohertz medium wave or AM band will never disappear from Patria’s airwaves and that programming on those frequencies will consist of relevant local news and public affairs, Patrienish Hockey League, All Patria Football Federation and other sports, as well as dharmic broadcasts that uplift all spirits.

These legacy AM stations will continue to broadcast the message that has been referenced in previous Inaugural Addresses and Annual Messages, but must be said again: While citizens of Patria are awake, PATRIA IS NOT WOKE! While democratic socialist principles, along with classic age-old human values of compassion and empathy, underpin much of Patria's daily life, Patria is not far-left, communist, libtard, or whatever tired, lame buzzwords the “faith, family, freedom” Reaganite neo-conservatives and MAGA Trumpist Americans choose to slander us with. Does offering a universal basic income make Patria woke? Does affordable public transit make Patria woke? Does comprehensive single-player health care that includes prescription drugs, dental and vision care, make Patria woke? Does making billionaires and oligarchs pay their fair share of taxes make Patria woke? Patria will continue to embrace the progressive left, the old left of Bernie Sanders and Tommy Douglas, while saying no to those who claim to be liberals and leftists - the so-called progressives, mostly in the US, whose feelings are hurt by “microaggressions”, the censorship-loving petty totalitarians who shut down free speech and open debate, the gender-benders who refer to themselves with pronouns that defy both reason and grammar, the land-acknowledgers who shame us with claims of settler colonialism, and many more who hate Patria’s freedom, who will not travel on Patria's politically incorrect go-it-alone path where there are no thought crimes and forbidden topics of debate.

As this new Congress is seated, let us advance a new answer to the question asked of every generation: To whom does Patria belong? For much of our history, the response from Congress, from the Precinct legislatures and from City Halls has been simple: It belongs only to the elites, to the wealthy and well-connected, those who never strain to capture the attention of those in power.

For decades, working people have reckoned with the consequences. Broken, failing infrastructure. Crowded classrooms taught by overworked teachers. Graffiti-splattered, crime-riddled, rodent-infested public housing developments where the elevators sit out of order as does the heating and air conditioning. Roads littered with potholes and filthy molasses-slow buses, streetcars and subways. Wages that do not rise and corporations that rip off consumers and employees alike.

So to whom does Patria belong? The simple answer is that Patria belongs to all who live in it. All who, as stated in today’s oath “love and serve, support and defend” the Inner Realm of Patria, seek peaceful co-existence with our neighbors and commit themselves to growth on all levels, and who are open to spiritual growth through regular practice of yoga and following the path of Sanatan Dharma.

So that Patria may truly belong to all who live in it, this Congress must strive to deliver an agenda of safety, affordability, and abundance, where government looks and lives like the people it represents, never flinches in the fight against corporate greed, and refuses to cower before challenges that others have deemed too complicated, too costly, or outside the Overton window of acceptable ideas, policy and discourse.

Well outside that window: refuting the argument that feminists and woke social justice warriors have been claiming since the 1970s: there is a ‘patriarchy’ that serves to discriminate against females and that works to the advantage of all men, even those who deny its existence. They even say “You can’t spell ‘patriarchy’ without ‘Patria’”. But the near disappearance of men in colleges and universities, even in the hard sciences and engineering, suggests there is no such thing as patriarchy. The high proportion of women serving in this Congress and the 13 Precinct legislatures suggests no such thing. The number of women in medicine, law, engineering and other once-overwhelmingly male professions also suggests no such thing. The incredible growth and popularity of women's sports, along with thriving professional women’s hockey, basketball and soccer leagues also suggests no such thing. Therefore, we reject the notion of patriarchy and the claim that you can’t spell Patria without it.

In actual fact, the main reason why one must assert that patriarchy does not exist is because Patria as we know it would not exist without feminine principles. Study any macro-world matrilineal society, of which there are several in India such as the Nairs of Amma’s home state Kerala and you will find a pattern that Patria has attempted to emulate since the first stirrings of the Dharmic Revolution: lower violence, higher social stability, deeper continuity between generations. When the feminine principle leads, life tends to thrive.

By contrast, the masculine obsession with domination has written its legacy in smoke and steel: wars, colonization, resource plunder, environmental collapse — all symptoms of unchecked aggression and ego. The archetype of the conqueror has brought us to the brink of self-extinction, not only in the previous century’s two world wars but countless times throughout history.

Think of all the women who raised us—the mothers who carried our bodies before we had names, who kept us alive before we understood what life even was. The teachers who showed us language, the healers who tended our wounds, the partners who reminded us how to feel when the world demanded we stop. To reject the feminine is, in essence, to reject the very hands that built us, fed us, healed us, and held us when we were too small or broken to hold ourselves. As the Devi Mahatmyam says, striyaha samastah sakala jagatsu - all women in the world are aspects of the Divine Mother.

There is no need to attack men or masculinity. But it is a call, particularly for National Unionists, to evolve it. To make it worthy of the world we claim to defend. Any man who believes in masculinity worth practicing must understand that it cannot exist in isolation—it depends on balance. It depends on the feminine. A world run entirely on masculine energy is a world forever trembling at the edge of collapse—a world out of equilibrium. Much of twentieth century macro-world history is virtual proof of this reality.

In Patria, men were never meant to be the whole story. They were never meant to be the center of the stage. The sooner they stop mistaking their dominance for destiny, the sooner they can step into something far greater: a partnership with the rest of humanity that honors both the builder and the nurturer, the defender and the dreamer.

Amma does not have to say it; the truth is both simple and humbling: no man stands who was not once held by a woman. No civilization survives that silences the voice of compassion. No future is possible if half the same species must still fight twice as hard to be heard, recognized, or appreciated in it.

Imagine not only Patria, but any macro-world civilization recalibrated around the feminine values evolution has spent millions of years refining: cooperation over conquest, empathy over ego, nurture over dominance. Fewer wars, fewer oligarchs, fewer authoritarians and autocrats (in the macro-world, Margaret Thatcher and Golda Meir are the exceptions that prove the rule), but more homes, more gardens, more sanctuaries of understanding. The instinct that protects a child could just as easily protect a planet.

Feminism and matriarchy are not reversals of power; they are restorations of balance. To embrace them is not to diminish men but to remember what we once knew—that strength without compassion corrodes infinitely, and logic without empathy destroys definitely. The story of our species has always depended on the emotional intelligence of care.

The truth is not radical. Women were built to sustain and nurture life, men to help defend it. But defense without creation becomes destruction, and the sword has long forgotten the hand that forged it. If humanity is to survive its own inventions—weapons of mass destruction, biological weapons and artificial intelligence —it must return to its original genius—the feminine principle of care, cooperation, and continuity as it has evolved through human intelligence, both male and female, not through genderless, soulless artificial intelligence.

For almost the entirety of the 2026 election campaign, far beyond the culture wars, talking points and shifts of the Overton window, one major issue has stood out and has been endorsed by virtually every party: Patria must stop the proliferation of artificial intelligence. There is only one intelligence: human intelligence. Patria is a micronation created by humans, for humans. Not only has this address been written and edited without the use of ChatGPT or other AI programs, the entire 2026 election cycle was conducted without AI. No algorithms. No fake “photos”, no AI-generated bogus videos and fake speeches, and none of the various forms of AI slop that have become more than just an annoyance on social media. Why does Patria so disdain AI? Someday, perhaps even in these next four years, there may be effective guardrails governing the use of AI. Until then, Patria is committed to keeping this awful scourge out of our schools, workplaces and all media, be it print, broadcast or social. It is no exaggeration to say that AI is the most dangerous technology in human history, a technology that does not lift anyone out of poverty while lining the pockets of the Big Tech billionaires. The Green Party detests AI because of the unsustainable environmental toll of data centers. Social Democrats despise the massive job losses, tens of thousands of real working people replaced by AI bots. National Unionists believe AI can help the bad guys commit even more heinous crimes. The Chakra Party believes yoga must be taught by a real teacher, not a chatbot. For the SRM, the teachings of Sanatan Dharma must be propagated through a bona fide spiritual master and a lineage of gurus, not a chatbot. Finally, virtually all parties are on board with eliminating AI in all of Patria’s schools as this rogue technology will only lead to the end of basic 3-R education as we know it in grade school, will destroy research and essay-writing skills in high school, and take plagiarism to a whole new level in colleges and universities, institutions of higher learning where young people, as recently as four years ago, learned “critical thinking” or “how to think”. If left unchecked, AI will not only take your job, it will take your brain. It will rob you not only of a livelihood, but of your ability to read, write and reason. Know this: Patria has thrown down the gauntlet against Big Tech and all who would promote the use of AI. Here in Patria, from the floor of the Fifty Third Congress let the word go forth: there will be not one word of AI-generated text, not one pixel of AI-generated illustration, not one note of AI-generated music and not one kilohertz or megahertz of AI-generated radio programming. The AI genie will be stuffed into the bottle and thrown back into the ocean, not to return to Patria's shores for a long time, if at all. 

In the big picture of the macro-world, what good is AI? Does anyone actually think that AI can help bring about social justice and compassion? How can AI help repair the world - the Jewish concept of tikkun olam? How can AI help unite the world as one family - the Hindu concept of vasudhaiva kutumbakam?

Can AI end wars? Can AI bring about a free Palestine? Of course it can’t.

Can AI bring down dictators and fascists? Can AI remove Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu from office and put them behind bars? Of course it can’t.

Can AI cause hatred, racism and bigotry to vanish from the earth? Of course it can’t.

Can AI find a cure for cancer? Of course it can’t.

Can AI reverse climate change? Of course it can’t.

Can AI put a stop to rape and violence against women? Of course it can’t.

Can AI end urban decay, homelessness, drug abuse, mental illness and street crime? Of course it can’t.

To paraphrase the Unite the Right protesters of 2017, “AI WILL NOT REPLACE US!”

With human intelligence, and only human intelligence, Patria says “Yato dharmastato jaya”, “Where there is Dharma, there is victory.” 

Yato dharmastato jaya. Victory over the Thought Police and speech codes that have run amuck in our colleges and universities.

Yato dharmastato jaya. Victory over the thin-skinned snowflakes whose hurt feelings or claims of so-called microaggressions are grounds for being prosecuted, canceled and censored.

Yato dharmastato jaya. Victory over the masked totalitarians of the COVID era and the masked secret police such as those seen on the streets of Minneapolis this past winter.

Yato dharmastato jaya. Victory over the billionaires and oligarchs who believe they can buy Patria, the pompous, self-righteous elites and intellectuals who believe they are the smartest in the room, to say nothing of the finger-wagging Karens, moral high-grounders and humorless holier-than-thou totalitarian left censors.

Yato dharmastato jaya. Victory over woke-ism on all fronts and fake progressive gatekeepers who are not progressive at all.

Yato dharmastato jaya. Let those words set the path that Patria is to take in the four years to come as our fellow citizens continue to chant the mantra that this micronation has been given almost from the outset of the Dharmic Revolution: Om namo bhagavate vasudevaya. Not my will, O Lord, but Thine. All goodness and truth are Thine. May no evil estrange us from Thee, nor error darken our vision of Thy purposes. Help us to discern Thy justice and to understand Thy will. In adversity and prosperity, let Thy law be a lamp unto our feet to illuminate our path. May the citizens of Patria so labor in Thy service that their lives become a hymn of praise unto Thee. May God bless each and every one of you here and may God bless Patria!

Ave Atque Vale - 52nd Congress passes into history

 

As Patria Post issued a World Cup 2026 commemorative stamp, and the Inauguration of the Fifty Third Congress only days away, the Fourth Session of the 52nd Congress (4·LII 2025-26) - indeed the entirety of the Fifty Second Congress - adjourned sine die early this morning following a marathon all-night sitting in order to pass and ratify Patria's fiscal 2027 budget.

Following is the text of the final message of the 52nd Congress

Hon. Member, Caesarea (SRM)

Madam Speaker Pro Tem, the House having ratified Patria’s fiscal 2027 budget, with your permission I rise to deliver the final Ave Atque Vale message of the Fifty Second Congress. Together we have shared, together we have grown over the past four years and as the time comes for the Speaker to bring down the gavel for the final time, together we remember a Congress that was elected during the slow recovery from the fear-mongering and government overreach of COVID-19, for which no one in the macro-world, from Dr. Fauci to the petty tyrants who enforced lockdowns, business closures and cancellations of virtually all public gatherings, has yet been brought to justice or held accountable for the spike in alcoholism, drug abuse, domestic violence, depression, anxiety, suicide, personal bankruptcies, shuttered businesses, children’s learning deficits and school dropouts. For who? For what? For the sake of a bad flu season? As the 52^nd Congress began its term of office, Patria said NO to lockdowns, NO to the great reset. And now, four years later, know this: if the macro-powers that be attempt to gin up another fear-fueled pandemic out of a few unfortunate cruise ship passengers succumbing to Hantavirus or a resurgence of Ebola somewhere in Africa, if they attempt to bring back lockdowns, mask mandates and a dodgy vaccine, Patria will say NO and fight tooth and nail. To quote the Who, “We don’t get fooled again!”

In September 2022, only days before the First Session opened: “The Queen is dead, long live the King!” as Patria paused to pay its respects to a beloved macro-national Queen who reigned for seven decades and to hail the new King Charles III.

In 2023 as international travel once again became safe (not that it wasn’t safe during the years of the so-called pandemic), representatives of Patria and this Congress once again visited the macro-world. On the last day of 2023, the flag of Patria proudly flew over the backwaters of Kerala, raised by the Colonel-in-Chief of Patria’s 108^th Battalion.

 In January 2024, from Cochin to Kanyakumari, Patria fulfilled the almost three decades-old promise of Premyatra II. A special address delivered at Amma’s Amritapuri ashram concluded by praising Amma’s marvelous feats and unparalleled achievements as an environmentalist, chancellor of a major university, representative of Hinduism to the world at large, spiritual mother of millions, and so much more: kritvambike tat prakaroti kanya. Which other goddess can do that work?

 While Patria did not endorse Kamala Harris in the 2024 US presidential election, Patria is not surprised that Donald Trump returned for a second term of office. To the American people we say “Trump is your problem. You elected him, you live with him!” As Patria watches the failed gerontocracy of Donald Trump’s second administration unfold from its safe place in the micronational world, one can only wonder how much better off both the macro- and micro-world community would be had Kamala prevailed.

Fortunately the electorate in Patria has a much broader choice than America’s binary red and blue wasteland. A vote for a third party in the US is little more than a wasted vote. But in Patria, there is not only a third party, but a fourth, fifth, sixth… and even more parties, several of which hold only a single seat. Patria has gone so far beyond the two-party system that virtually no vote is wasted and almost any party can be elected and hold seats in this Congress and the Precinct legislatures. But even in this vibrant multi-party democracy, the major parties have failed to deliver on their slogans and campaign promises.

 The SRM says “bring it home!”, but what has actually been brought home over the course of these four years? Many members of this Congress, SRM and others, regularly  practice yoga, attend satsangs and temple functions, sing bhajans and chant mantras, but do they ever look about them right in their backyard? Have they really brought home compassion and dharma? Do ordinary citizens who live hand-to-mouth on dwindling incomes, who struggle to put food on the table and gas in the tank really benefit from performative displays of Hindu religiosity? How many jobs have been created by doing Lakshmi Puja for Diwali? How have Durga Puja and Navratri celebrations helped to end violence against women? Can anyone chant their way out of runaway inflation, a stagnant economy, flat-lining job growth, skyrocketing fuel prices and endless wars in the macro-world?

 National Unionists say “law and order!”, but where is such obedience to the law and respect for police authority in Patria’s capital city? It takes only a short walk along the streets of downtown Castoropolis or a ride on the Castoropolis Metro to know that urban decay, filth, crime and graffiti have proliferated unchecked. This is not acceptable. The failure of local and precinct governments to re-institutionalize mentally ill and drug addicted homeless street people must be reversed. For decades we have known that deinstitutionalization is a failed policy. This is not acceptable. Judges hand out lenient sentences, or no jail time at all, to violent criminals and repeat offender street thugs, while murderers and rapists roam the streets free on bail while awaiting trial. This is not acceptable. The proliferation of graffiti must stop. Beautiful architectural heritage buildings, including some of the finest Art Deco, defaced by spray paint-wielding punks. This is not acceptable. Yet the main solutions proposed by the National Union, along with banning the sale of spray paint, are restoring the death penalty and public flogging of petty lawbreakers. Again, this is not acceptable. Even in red-state America, most death penalty advocates concede that executions have little deterrent value. Who really thinks that whipping a few graffiti artists and shoplifters in the town square for all to see will deter any young punks? Patria can do better and the NU can do better as well going forward into the new Congress.

 Social Democrats say “go forward!” and “progress with a purpose”, but other than enacting Patria’s universal basic income where is the forward progress? Billionaires and oligarchs are still not paying their fair share of taxes. A network of city-run grocery stores, such as proposed by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, have yet to appear anywhere in Patria. Free public transit for everyone is little more than a pipe dream. Message to the SD caucus in the new Congress: you were elected as democratic socialists, not slightly left of centre liberals. Do not be afraid to put forward an agenda that so-called moderates and liberals would consider too radical. Eyes on the prize. Stay true to the principles of democratic socialism.

 The Chakra Party says “inquire within”, but despite some 36 years of following a yoga-based spiritual practice and claims of inward focus, have very many citizens found peace within? Has anyone meditated their way out of poverty? Has anyone’s yoga practice helped get them a good job? What is the Chakraite agenda, other than being mushy, aimless centre-leftists while advocating yoga in pre-school and mindfulness exercises in kindergarten?

 The Green Party says “for a sustainable Patria”, but one of the Greens’ environmental initiatives misses the big picture. Promoting the purchase of electric cars, while helping break the unsustainable addiction to fossil fuels, does not address the larger issue of breaking the even more unsustainable addiction to driving a personal vehicle, rather than walking or taking public transit wherever possible.

 One last time in this House, can I get a “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free”? Patria’s Jews are not personally accountable for Benjamin Netanyahu’s war crimes. Patria’s Jews know that Judaism and the State of Israel are not one and the same. Jewish spiritual teachings and religious practices do not include or condone the bloodthirsty nationalism of Zionism concocted by Theodor Herzl in the 1890s and pushed since 1948 by the Israel-right-or-wrong lobby in the US. As the Social Democrats congratulate Avi Lewis upon his election as leader of Canada’s New Democratic Party, Patria will never conflate Jewish identity with the political ideology of Zionism and unconditional support for a genocidal apartheid state that claims to represent global Jewry. Not in our name.

 Over these four years and particularly during the 53^rd Congress election campaign, Patria became a battleground for petty culture wars, leaving many to wonder “is this really the hill you want to die on?” The NU campaigned hard on “BIG DOGS, NOT PUSSYCATS”, but are men who love cats instead of or more than dogs effeminate pussies? While the Lilith Party defends biological women and were the driving force behind the SAAB Act, are women’s athletics really threatened by a disproportionate number of trans women wannabes? Is the universal basic income the end of the work ethic as we know it? What really constitutes “Cultural Marxism”? Along with the other tired old issues trotted out by rightists and conservatives for decades such as the pushback against feminism, environmentalism, gay rights and abortion on demand. But Patria’s war on AI far transcends the tired, lame culture wars mostly imported from America.

 In this Fourth Session, Congress pushed back against the growth of artificial intelligence, particularly against the use of AI on broadcast media. As proclaimed during the World Radio Day celebration last February, “AI is a tool, not a voice”. As the Ramrajyavani network celebrates its 100^th anniversary in 2026, fake AI-generated songs and fake AI-generated voices will never be heard on Patria’s radio stations. AI must not be allowed to enter our schools. AI must be kept out from kindergarten to college, so that only human intelligence will be used for every lesson from basic arithmetic to differential calculus. The Social Democrats do not need to warn us that AI must not take jobs away from hard-working citizens and the Greens do not need to remind us that the environmental costs of AI data centers are unsustainable.

 The message will be reiterated in the Inaugural Address: NO AI IN PATRIA! No more AI slop. No more Victoria Goldiees. No more bogus AI-generated pictures and texts. The fight against AI is the fight of all fights going forward into the Fifty Third Congress and this is a hill that Patria is ready to die on, true to the last!

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Speaker Pro Tem of the House:

If there is no more business to be brought forward to the attention of this House, I move that this Congress stand adjourned.  All in favor of adjournment, say “aye”. All opposed, let them speak now.

 Therefore, the motion is carried by voice vote.  In closing the Fifty Second Congress, I do so with the following prayers:

Twameva mata cha pita twameva. Twameva bandhush cha sakha twameva. Twameva vidya dravinam twameva. Twameva sarvam mama deva deva.

Asato ma sad gamaya. Tamaso ma jyotir gamaya. Mrtiyorma amritam gamaya.

Mantra hinam kriyahinam bhaktihinam janardana
Yat pujitam maya deva paripurnam tadastu me.

Lokah samastah sukhino bhavantu.

Om, Shanti, Shanti, Shanti.

Under the power vested in me by the Constitution of Patria, I declare closed the Fourth Session of the Fifty Second Congress, and further pursuant to that power I declare the Fifty Second Congressus Patriaë adjourned sine die.

53rd Congress: 108 seats for SRM, strong mandate to fight AI

 

Election Day in Patria, the 53rd since 1818 (aka #patriavotes2026) has come and gone. The SRM (Spiritual Regeneration Movement), the Hindu nationalist, Patria First party inspired by India's BJP, won the most seats in Patria's Fifty Third Congress. A very appropriate number - 108! Up 18 seats from 2022. SRM'ers are actually left-wing populist to some extent, so they can get along well with the second-place Social Democrats who won 82 seats in the 333-seat Congress. In third place were the mushy liberal bliss blobs of the Chakra Party, with 52 seats.

A whopping 22 parties will be represented in the new Congress, though 11 of them are one-seaters. Party standings follow:

SRM – 108 (+18 from 2022)

Social Democrats – 82 (-2)

Chakra – 52 (-24)

Green – 28 (+11)

National Union – 15 (-7)

Lilith – 14 (+6)

IAM – 8 (+4)

Jungle – 7 (-3)

Libertarian – 4 (-1)

Peoples’ Party – 2 (unchanged)

Reconstruction Party – 2 (unchanged)

others* – 11

*one seat each: Popular Front of Caesarea, Family Values Party, PUNC (Patriots' Union of Nova Columbia), LIP (Lazurian Independent Party), Progressive Labor of Centralia, Patriots’ Front of Aeolia, United Farmers of Antioch, Freedom Party of Ambrosia, Free Mauretania Party, Pottsylvanian Alliance, Patriots’ Union of Haldimania.

During the 2026 election cycle, virtually every party spoke out strongly against the proliferation of artificial intelligence, particularly in schools and workplaces. Patria speaks with one voice: NO AI!

What part of "No AI in Patria" don't you understand?

Precinct-by-precinct returns:

Fredonia (9)

SD – 2

SRM – 1

NU – 1

Chakra – 1

Green – 1

Lilith – 1

Jungle – 1

IAM – 1

Haldimania (12; 4 District, 8 Proportional)

SRM – 4

SD – 3

Chakra – 2

NU – 1

Lilith – 1

Patriots’ Union of Haldimania – 1

Pottsylvania (13)

SRM – 4

SD – 3

Chakra – 2

NU – 1

Chakra – 1

Green – 1

Pottsylvanian Alliance – 1

Mauretania (15)

SRM – 4

SD – 3

Chakra – 3

NU – 1

Green – 1

Lilith – 1

Jungle – 1

Free Mauretania – 1

Canardiere (16)

SRM – 6

SD – 5

Chakra – 3

Green – 1

Libertarian – 1

Ambrosia (17)

SRM – 6

SD – 5

Chakra – 2

NU – 1

Green – 1

Lilith – 1

Freedom Party of Ambrosia – 1

Antioch (19; 6 District, 13 proportional)

SRM – 5

SD – 4

Chakra – 3

Green – 2

NU – 1

Lilith – 1

Jungle – 1

United Farmers of Antioch – 1

Peoples’ Party – 1

Arboria (21)

SRM – 7

SD – 5

Chakra – 4

IAM – 2

NU – 1

Lilith – 1

Green – 1

Aeolia (24)

SRM – 9

SD – 5

Chakra – 5*

NU – 2

Green – 1

Lilith – 1

Patriots’ Front of Aeolia – 1

* re-count awarded Chakra Party one seat, taken away from Jungle Party

Centralia (25)

SRM – 7

SD – 6

Chakra – 5

Green – 2

NU – 1

Lilith – 1

Jungle – 1

IAM – 1

Progressive Labor of Centralia – 1

Lazuria (27)

SD – 9

SRM – 8

Chakra – 4

Green – 2

NU – 1

Lilith – 1

Libertarian – 1

Lazurian Independent (LIP) – 1

Nova Columbia (36)

SRM – 12

SD – 9

Chakra – 5

Green – 3

NU – 2

Lilith – 2

Jungle – 1

IAM – 1

Patriots’ Union (PUNC) – 1

Federal Dist. of Castoropolis (38; 13 District, 25 Proportional)

SRM – 11

SD – 8

Green – 7

Chakra – 3

IAM – 2

NU – 1

Lilith – 1

Libertarian – 1

Jungle – 1

Reconstruction – 1

Family Values – 1

Peoples’ Party – 1

Caesarea (61; 20 District, 41 Proportional) 

SRM – 24

SD – 15

Chakra – 10

Green – 5

NU – 1

Lilith – 1

Libertarian – 1

Jungle – 1

IAM – 1

Popular Front of Caesarea – 1

Reconstruction – 1

Note that the Federal District of Castoropolis, Caesarea, Antioch and Halidmania fill their seats through mixed member proportional representation. Approximately one third of the seats are won by traditional first-past-the-post in electoral districts (known in Canada as ridings), while the remainder are awarded through a precinct-wide party vote. The other precincts award seats through everyone-into-the-pool proportional representation, in which the congressional delegation is chosen by party lists.

World Radio Day 2026: AI is a tool, not a voice

 

On Feb. 13, Patria celebrates World Radio Day. Proclaimed in 2011 by UNESCO Member States (of which Patria and other micronations are not members) and adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 2012, World Radio Day (WRD) is a Day to thank broadcasters for the news they deliver, the voices they amplify and the stories they share. The theme of World Radio Day 2026 is "Radio and AI".

One of the hottest hot-button issues on Patria's Campaign 2026 trail is the fight against AI. Patria is committed to rejecting AI in every facet of daily life. Virtually every party jockeying for seats in the 53rd Congress has come out strongly against AI deepfakes, bogus AI-generated songs, writing and illustrations, as well as AI slop in general. Both UNESCO and the radio industry in Patria -- stations such as PMC-846 have been broadcasting on the AM band for over a century -- stress that AI is a tool, not a voice. While AI might be put to some off-air use, such as in a station's advertising billing department, AI-generated voices and music will never be tolerated on any radio station in Patria. Don't even think about it!

How is WRD celebrated in Patria? Every day is World Radio Day, as Patria's radio stations, particularly those on AM/medium wave, broadcast real, relevant programming with local news and local on-air personalities airing a variety of formats. Unlike in the US, where a scan of the AM dial would usually reveal only a few formats: right-wing talk, religion (no need to mention which one!), sports (often with an emphasis on sports gambling) and Spanish or other ethnic programming.

108 days of “NO AI” campaigning as New Year begins

 As the calendar flips to 2026, there are exactly 108 days until Election Day, April 18. Virtually every party on the #patriavotes2026 campaign trail is on board with Patria’s so-called War on Artificial Intelligence. Whether the leftist Social Democrats, the new-agey Chakra Party, the macho man National Union, the TERFs of the Lilith Party, Jim Rome’s Jungle Party, the tree-hugging Greens, and of course the Hindu nationalist SRM, all parties contesting seats in the 53^rd Congress rise as one with the calls of “NO AI IN PATRIA!”, “Human intelligence, not ChatGPT!” and “No more Victoria Goldiee’s”.

 

One of the worst-kept secrets of the 2026 campaign is the apparent resurrection of the Amrita Party under the name of “IAM”, rising from the tiny Independent Amrita Member caucus that was left over when the Amrita Party dissolved in late 2021. Like virtually all other parties, they also oppose the proliferation of AI. The IAM Party will not have Amma as a sitting member of Congress and will probably be lucky to elect more than a handful of members to the 53^rd Congress, but they stole Patria Post’s 2026 definitive stamp design, depicting Amma as a young girl named Sudhamani, to use as one of their campaign posters.

Needless to mention, the SRM has been leading from the front on the WAR ON AI campaign.

Patria Post 2026 definitive stamp, on sale at post offices across Patria Jan. 5, 2026

Campaign 2026: 53rd Congress election primer

 

Patria is flooded with SRM 2026 campaign posters!

Election time in Patria! Here's what you need to know:

Election Day: April 18, 2026 (Third Saturday in April; Patriot’s Day long weekend). Fredonia votes one week early, on April 11.

Inauguration Day: June 30, 2026

What’s at stake: 333 seats in Patria’s Fifty Third Congress (LIII Con. Pat.), elections for Precinct legislatures and local city, county or demi-precinct councils in some of Patria’s 13 Precincts and the Federal District of Castoropolis (FDC). There is also an upper house in Patria, like the US and Canadian Senate or UK House of Lords, but its 57 members are selected by the Precinct legislatures, not by direct popular vote.

Three hundred thirty three seats, same as it has been since 1982. An effort to shrink the Congress to 315 (the number of seats from 1966 to 1982) or even 300 seats has apparently failed as of Oct. 10, 2025. The bill was introduced at the outset of the Fourth Session, but failed to make it out of the Elections Committee to be voted on by the full House.

Members of Congress are elected by proportional representation. In each precinct, lists of candidates are prepared by each party and seats are awarded in proportion to the percentage of votes received. In the Federal District of Castoropolis, Caesarea, Antioch and Haldimania, a mixed-member proportional format is used. One-third of the seats (district seats) are awarded by traditional US, Canadian and UK-style first past the post, the remainder are proportional from party lists.

Congressional apportionment per precinct:

Caesarea – 61 seats (20 district, 41 proportional)

FDC – 38 (13 district, 25 proportional)

Nova Columbia – 36

Lazuria – 27

Centralia – 25

Aeolia – 24

Arboria – 21

Antioch – 19 (6 district, 13 proportional)

Ambrosia – 17

Canardiere – 16

Mauretania – 15

Pottsylvania – 13

Haldimania – 12 (4 district, 8 proportional)

Fredonia – 9

Term of office: Four year term ending June 30, 2030.

Vote counting: paper ballots counted by hand. Early mail-in voting will be encouraged. There will also be advance polls to allow in-person voting prior to Election Day. Fredonia is traditionally the first precinct to vote and its vote count is released a few hours before the polls open on Election Day in the rest of Patria.

Follow on X/Twitter @Patria1818. Hashtags: #PatriaVotes2026 #53rdCongress

Patria is as far as it gets from the dishwater-dull, boring, uninspired US two-party system, and what is essentially a two-party Liberal-Conservative duopoly in Canada. Following are capsule descriptions of the parties contesting the 2026 election.

Social Democrats “Go Forward!” democratic socialists in the tradition of the NDP/CCF and Bernie Sanders. Populist/dissident left, not PC, little tolerance for snowflakes. Won plurality in 2018, allied with Amrita and Chakra parties. (Unofficial color: blue, cf. US Democratic Party)

SRM (Swadeshi Ramrajya Movement) “Bring the jobs home” “Patria first” Small-c conservative Hindu nationalist, economic protectionist. Partially inspired by India’s BJP. Once used to be leftist-progressive, when the party originated among hippie students in the late 1960s, and SRM used to stand for Spiritual Regeneration Movement. Although the “BRING IT HOME” slogan didn’t work for Pierre Poilievre, the SRM will be using it hard for 2026. (Unofficial color: saffron) 

Chakra Party “no gurus, just right” yoga/new age liberal. Unreconstructed 1990s new agers. Generally allied with Amrita and/or Social Democrats. (Unofficial color: teal) 

National Union “where a man belongs”, “big dogs, tough men” macho, populist law and order, obedience, respect for authority. Owning a big dog is a test of manhood. Cats are for pussies. In 2026 the NU will likely stick to strictly law and order issues, push for restoration of the death penalty, and not go after the cat owners and non-macho men. (Unofficial color: deep purple) 

Jungle Party “Have a take, don’t suck”, inspired by Jim Rome. Really a fringe party with no real platform. Silk Brah (failed candidate in Huntington Beach, CA) led the Jungle caucus in 2022. (Unofficial color: red, cf. US Republican Party as a lot of Jim Rome’s US clones, the late Trapper notwithstanding, would probably vote GOP.) 

Green Party, environmentalist, sustainable growth, same as in macro-world. (color, duhhhh, green) 

Libertarian Party, more freedom, less government, also same as in macro-world. (Unofficial color: grey/silver) 

Lilith Party, for biological women only, originally intended as the anti-National Union. Mostly made up of radical left feminists who love cats. Extremely TERF. Co-sponsored the SAAB (Sex Assigned At Birth) act along with the NU and SRM. An unlikely alliance is forming between the NU (who are also extremely trans-phobic) and Lilith: REAL MEN AND REAL WOMEN! NO TRANS! (unofficial color pink, to no one’s surprise) 

IAM Party: new for 2026, a possible resurrection of the Amrita Party that was dissolved in late 2021. Name of party would simply be IAM, not Independent Amrita Members. In Patrienish “I am” is literally “ími sím”. 

Minor parties: fringe groups and nutbars (Chastity Party, Family Values Party, Freedom Party, Patriots’ Union of Nova Columbia, etc.) that get in thanks to no votes being wasted under proportional representation. There are several parties that hold only a single seat in Congress. 

Hot-button campaign issues and slogans: 

Continuing the post-pandemic recovery. “Just move on” is not acceptable. Patria should say “never again”, i.e. no more over-reaction and government over-reach. IT WAS ONLY THE FUCKING FLU! Or a bad cold. Why is there not a COVID Nuremberg? Why is no one in the macro-world being held accountable for the spike in domestic violence, drug abuse, alcoholism, children’s learning deficits, bankruptcies, suicides and other collateral damage? 

PATRIA FIRST! No need to fear populism, whether from the right or left. 

TAKE BACK THE ECONOMY! Return the Patrienish Rupee to the gold standard. Patria says NO FIAT CURRENCY! NO GREAT RESET! 

Attempting to re-define or ret-con the legacy of the 43^rd Congress, after 40 years, along with attempting to rehabilitate the failed 41^st Congress. 

Four more years of Social Democrat populist/dissident left? If so, Patria says NO to cancel culture. NO to PC virtue signaling. YES to free speech and open debate. Patria may be leftist or socialist in economic policy but it rejects Cultural Marxism and is NOT WOKE! 

“BRING IT HOME!” – slogan of the SRM-led coalition of right-populist Hindu nationalists and Patria-Firsters in 2026. Social Democrats: “PROGRESS WITH A PURPOSE”. Chakra Party: “BRING IT TOGETHER!” National Union: “BIG DOGS! LAW AND ORDER!”

No to woke, no to AI as Congress adjourns

Patria is not on Trump's tariff list.

On the day that Patria Post issued a commemorative stamp in memory of Jimmy Carter (scroll down to end), the Third Session of Patria's 52nd Congress (3·LII 2024-25) adjourned for the Northern Hemisphere Summer recess, following the traditional Annual Message delivered by the Speaker of the House:

Om lalitambikayai namaha. Salutations to Devi who is the Divine Mother Lalita. With Her blessings, the Fifty Second Congress has served three-quarters of its term of office. 

As always, and as per tradition, the final act of the Third Session earlier today was the ratification of Patria’s fiscal 2026 budget. Along with the budget’s usual appropriations, as in several years past, for spending on infrastructure improvements or re-builds and day-to-day improvement of existing public transit service is a call for micronational free trade. In past years, Patria pursued policies of isolationism, protectionism and a so-called “wall of tariffs”. But as unpopular as globalism might be with the grass roots and non-elites, such positions are now virtually untenable. Free Trade agreements must be ratified between Patria and other micronations, along with the current free flow of goods and services between Patria and Canada. Due to the economies of scale (or should we say, lack of scale) and the lack of a manufacturing base in most micronations, requiring almost all consumer goods to be imported, there must be no tariffs between micronations. To no one’s surprise, Patria stands with Canada, not to mention the rest of the macro-world, in the tariff wars being waged by Donald Trump. 

As this Session adjourns, it seems necessary to remind Americans and Patrienish citizens alike that the most profound act of patriotism is not waving a flag or singing an anthem, but defending the constitutional order when it faces existential threat, as is now the case in Trump’s America. True patriotism is not “my country right or wrong”. It is not abstract love of country divorced from its foundational principles. It is not blind loyalty to the person or the party who currently holds power. It is certainly not the willingness to abandon constitutional principles in the name of partisan advantage or cultural grievance. True patriotism is the moral courage to stand for the democratic republic and its constitutional underpinnings even—especially—when doing so comes at personal cost such as the risk of arrest, deportation, or imprisonment without due process. 

Patria said it a year ago with the passage of the SAAB (Sex Assigned At Birth) Act and Patria will say it again today: women’s competitive sports, women’s change rooms and public restrooms in Patria are intended for biological females only. Patria may not agree with much of President Trump’s bluster and bombast, but he is absolutely correct, as is the UK’s Supreme Court, that there are only two genders, male and female. Those former men can take pills and hormones, they can seek surgery in order to give them fake breasts and fake vulvas, but most citizens of Patria will still see them for what they are: guys pretending to be girls. They can use female pronouns and call themselves by women’s names, but we will call them he, him and by their given names as stated on their birth certificates. No one in Patria should hate trans-women, only love real biological women and shout it loudly without fear of pushback from misguided wokesters and leftist totalitarians: you transpeople are not women, you will not play sports against real women, you will not share intimate and safe spaces with real women. 

Once again it is necessary to state the obvious: Patria is not a home for unelected elites and “we know what is best for you” petty tyrants who claim to be liberals or progressives. Know this: there is nothing liberal or progressive about these totalitarian elites. Patria must be a safe haven for the average Joe and Jane, for the real people who work hard and struggle from paycheck to paycheck if they are lucky enough to have a job that has not been outsourced, offshored, or replaced by AI, for the grass roots, for the non-woke and never-woke. Let us forever say NO to cancel culture, NO to the gatekeepers, NO to the thought police, and particularly NO to AI! 

To paraphrase George HW Bush: “Read my lips, no Artificial Intelligence!” As far as can be determined in the daily lives of most citizens of Patria, ChatGPT and other AI programs serve no practical or beneficial purpose, particularly on social media where AI has only caused fake news to proliferate alongside lame pop culture fads such as blister-packed action figures. Bogus AI-generated “photos” and artwork such as the so-called Ghibli images are worse than photoshopped fake pictures, which at least must be based on an actual photograph. AI-generated text, essays and the like tend to be stilted, uninspired cliché-riddled prose that comes out sounding like a middle-school kid’s book report. Indeed, for students from grade school to graduate school, AI has done more harm than good. Not only does AI not improve writing skills, it takes plagiarism to a whole new level and outsources critical thinking to a nameless, faceless server bot. Consequently, Patria will not use AI for any official purpose – particularly in the campaign for the Fifty-Third Congress that will begin to roll out in this inter-session summer recess and continue until Election Day on April 18, 2026. While it is impossible for Patria to ban the use of AI, those who make excessive and unnecessary use of it will be looked down on with derision and scorn, just as Patria disdains sidewalk cyclists, graffiti artists, dog owners who fail to stoop and scoop, let their pets run off-leash and do not acknowledge that many people dislike dogs or are scared of them, and of course the proliferation of young hipsters (or even older folks) with otherwise attractive bodies defaced by tacky, ugly tattoos. 

Under the power vested in me by the Constitution of Patria, I declare closed the Third Session of the 52^nd Congress, and call this Congress to re-assemble here on Monday, 15 September 2025, in order to open the Fourth Session of the 52^nd Congress. 

HUMAN INTELLIGENCE DISCLAIMER: the preceding message was prepared, edited and delivered without the use of ChatGPT or other AI tool.