New US Political Party Accepted After 107 Years

A new US political party, Aloha ʻĀina, composed of native Hawaiian candidates, has gained a spot on the ballot for the August Presidential Primary Elections – the first political party to do so in 107 years. Aloha Aina recognized the Divine, along with traditional Hawaiian values of truth and justice, and demanded government accountability and transparency. Websites: VoteAloha.org.
AlohaAinaParty.com, https://www.alohaainaparty.com/

“The present Hawai’i Governor David Ige has been rated the 4th worst governor in all 50 States,” stated Aloha Aina Party Chair Don Kaulia. “After decades of questionable governance, we needed to find a better way, a new way, to get things done. We were founded by three native Hawaiians in 2016 and finally gained acceptance 1 April 2020.” https://www.kitv.com/story/42305174/aloha-aina-party-kicks-off-election-campaign

“The Aloha Aina party was now recognized by the United States Federal Elections Committee. This was the first time a Hawaiian political entity has been accepted in a foreign illegal occupied nation dominated by a controlled two party system in the USA. We have had Hawaiians serve in US Congress and the Senate as Democrats, Republicans and Home Rule, but never has a Hawaiian Political Party been accepted until now.

Another milestone will be the opportunity to share our Aloha Aina Party for Native American Indians to be on the Ballot in the 2022 Election Year. Can you imagine the “impact” this political party to be nationwide and in 50 States all across North America?”

The 21 Native Hawaiian candidates running for the US Congress, Hawaii State House, Mayor and local governments, were flexing their political muscle to get involved in the political process in order to make badly needed change. Aloha Aina sought to create a better and brighter Hawaii, a higher quality of life; better traffic conditions; more affordable housing; address homelessness with compassion and aloha; hold the line on cost of living; confront rising drugs and crime; advocate for higher wages; better health care; improve the public school system, and have a better stewardship of the environment and natural resources.

To quote from their website: https://www.alohaainaparty.com/: “We recognize and acknowledge the Divine and seek guidance from this source and that of our kūpuna in all that we do.

We all could all learn from the Aloha Aina Party Values:

To love and care for all People regardless of race, color, creed, or national origin.

To feed the hungry, provide shelter for the homeless, and provide assistance to the needy.

To care for and hold all life sacred, from the unborn to the living, and the dead.

To recognize the family as the fundamental building block that makes up the very fabric of the community, society, and nation. Strong families = strong communities and strong communities = a strong lāhui. As such those individuals making up the family unit must be cherished, respected, protected.

To be humble, grateful, and teachable; treating others with respect and aloha.

To recognize and appreciate a Higher Power in all things and to be submissive to this power at all times. To have the privilege to worship, or not, according to the dictates of our own conscience, to worship how, where, and what we may.

To think, speak, and act in a manner that is honest, true, chaste, benevolent, virtuous, and in doing good to all men.

To be balanced physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually.

To find, learn, and preserve one’s genealogy; to know who we are by knowing where we came from. In knowing our genealogy we can bind ourselves to our kupuna (ancestors), who in turn, can inspire, guide, and protect us.

To seek enlightenment, not only the acquirement of knowledge, but of true intelligence, that is, to use knowledge in a pono way.

To understand and fulfill one’s area of responsibility and stewardship as a privilege and honor.

To mālama (care for) the physical and spiritual wellbeing of persons and places you have kuleana.

To seek harmony, peace, unity, collaboration, and balance.

To be steadfast, firm, constant, immovable, loyal, and faithful to that which is pono.

To develop the virtues of the koa (warrior) including, courage, loyalty, justice, mercy, generosity, hope, faith (in ke Akua), and nobility (to act nobly); and to exercise these virtues in the pono defense and advancement of the Kānaka ‘Ōiwi (People), the Kulaiwi (Homeland), and Lāhui (Country).

To make right what is wrong and restore that which was lost, in the light of ‘oia‘i‘o (truth), kaulike (justice), and balanced by aloha (mercy), to the benefit of all according to naʻauao (wisdom) as it related to the overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii in 1893.