When our Founding Fathers created the United States, they envisioned citizen legislators — men and women who would serve their communities for a time, contribute their ideas and integrity to the public good, and then return home. They did not imagine a permanent political class insulated from the everyday lives of the people they represent. Yet today, that is exactly what Washington has become.

Kentucky candidate Stella Pollard signs the U.S. Term Limits pledge, vowing to cosponsor and defend a proposed Article V amendment for congressional term limits — a major step toward institutional reform.

Smyrna, GA — U.S. Term Limits (USTL), the nation’s leading non-partisan organization advocating term limits for Congress, has gained new support in Georgia. Erica Solomon, a candidate in the 2025 Georgia House District 35 special election, has signed the USTL Article V convention pledge, committing to sponsor and defend a resolution calling for congressional term limits. She joins fellow candidate Josh Tolbert, who previously signed the pledge. The special general election will be held on November 18, 2025.

The dysfunction in Washington isn’t an accident. It’s not just bad luck, bad timing, or bad faith between parties. It’s the natural outcome of a system that rewards permanence over performance.

Across Mississippi and across America, public trust in Congress has collapsed. Polls show that fewer than one in five Americans believe their representatives act in their best interest. The gridlock, the theatrics, the investigations that never resolve — they all stem from the same root cause: power that never changes hands.

Nearly nine in ten Americans want congressional term limits, but Washington won’t act and the courts have blocked reform. States, working together, can change that. By passing identical laws and forcing a new legal test, they can reopen the question the Supreme Court closed three decades ago — and reignite the Founders’ vision of public service as a temporary duty, not a career.