Constitution Party Chair Outlines 2025 Organizing Strategy in Letter to Supporters

Justin Magill, chair of the Constitution Party National Committee, is urging the party to take advantage of the 2025 election cycle to expand local organizing and strengthen state affiliates, providing efforts already underway in some areas as part of a recent message to supporters.

In a July 25 letter, Magill called on the party to treat the off-year cycle as an opportunity to prioritize local organizing and candidate recruitment, particularly in areas where partisan competition is currently minimal or nonexistent. According to his message, party leadership is primarily focusing on contests for school board and other municipal offices, while working to develop their county-level affiliates.

“This is the season for building the local Constitution Party,” Magill wrote. “States have the opportunity to build momentum in localized areas that will later impact larger races.”

Magill specifically pointed to Pennsylvania as a key state where the party has been focusing on local races, referencing two Constitution Party members who currently hold seats on the Clarion-Limestone School Board in Clarion County. He said their presence has already helped shift the district away from “Progressive indoctrination and back towards quality education,” adding that three additional Constitution-affiliated candidates are running for the same board later this year with the goal of capturing a majority.

Alongside recruitment, Magill encouraged state and local affiliates to conduct voter registration drives, host educational programming, and organize “less formal” fundraising events. He also encouraged person-to-person outreach, which he said is particularly effective in smaller races as a direct way to engage with voters while keeping advertising costs lower.

In those states without local elections this cycle, Magill said Constitution Party affiliates are more focused on long-term planning and the training of new local and county-level leaders. The party is also scouting candidates for the 2026 election cycle and gathering ballot access signatures in states where it remains unqualified, though his letter didn’t explore specific examples.

While not referenced in Magill’s letter, Independent Political Report has previously identified off-year activity aimed at rebranding and expanding the Constitution Party. This past Independence Day, the national party launched its first major website redesign in several years. Prior to that, it began soliciting member submissions for a new logo and formally recognized a new Indiana affiliate at its spring national committee meeting.

In California, party organizers aligned with former state chair Don Grundmann also began efforts to regain recognition by filing as a political body. Notably, the state party was previously disaffiliated by the national committee in 2023 and these recent actions do not appear to be part of current party-building efforts. According to a February report from the California Secretary of State, the party currently has 218 registered voters statewide.