Our Work

The Prohibition Party is working to move forward. We are growing and engaging membership, advancing policy advocacy, developing state and local organization, looking for opportunities to run candidates, and preparing for the 2028 presidential election. Here is what that means in practice, and where you can take part.

Building membership

We welcome people who care about public health and wellbeing, who are interested in building a better future for their communities, and who are seeking an alternative to the two major parties. There are many ways to be useful as a member, from policy advocacy to organizing to campaign work.

Policy advocacy

We promote policies that protect and advance the lives, health, and wellbeing of people throughout the country. We are especially focused on alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs as social and public health problems, and on the harm caused by the industries that produce, sell, and promote them.

We work on the national, state, and local levels to advance good policy, to oppose efforts that would weaken restrictions on the sale of alcohol and other harmful substances, and to end government support for the alcohol industry.

State and local organization

We are developing state-level organization, with current focus on Tennessee and Alaska. We are also looking to grow in other states where there are opportunities and where local members want to organize.

If you are a member interested in helping grow the party in your state, see the state pages or email us at prohibitionists@gmail.com.

Running candidates

Two Prohibition Party candidates are on the ballot this year.

Jonathan Makeley, the party's National Secretary, is running for Governor of New York, the first Prohibition Party candidate for that office since 1926. New York's ballot access laws make it close to impossible for an alternative party to qualify, so he is running as a write-in. New Yorkers can vote for him by writing his name in the governor section of the ballot.

Bruce Johnson is running for Supervisor of District 4 on the Dakota County Soil and Water Conservation District in Minnesota, with the party's endorsement. The race is non-partisan, so candidates appear without party labels, but parties may endorse. A win would be the first for a Prohibition Party candidate in a local election since Jim Hedges was reelected Thomson Township Assessor in 2005.

If you are considering running for office yourself, email party leadership at prohibitionists@gmail.com to discuss endorsement, the work involved, and what ballot access would require where you live.

Preparing for 2028

Ballot access work is underway in multiple states, driven by both the committee's own efforts and by members who step forward to organize in their states.

If you are a professional ballot access worker interested in contracting for our efforts in one or more states, contact party chairman Zack Kusnir at zack.kusnir@prohibitionparty.org.

It's time to build a better future

We are living in a time where alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs inflict widespread illness, injury, and death, and impose vast social, medical, and economic damage on our society. Where the interests of public health are too often neglected, and officials who are supposed to serve the public instead serve those who enrich themselves from harming it.

To this we say there is hope in forging a different path. The way things are is not how they have to be. Change can happen, but it takes people working to make it happen. It may not be easy, but it is worthwhile.