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From the dirt to the gold.
This train is a free train,
This train is a clean train.
This train is built for glory,
This train it pulls no unholy.
This train leading the nation,
This nation is bound for glory.
— From “This Train” to “Get On Board”: Black gospel’s freedom train, carried into folk, country, rock and roll, and reggae music.
Get On Board!
The Candidate
Daniel Brent McKay
No one should be able to run for office who hasn't attempted to serve.
I served. U.S. Air Force, Minuteman II ICBM, DOD Secret clearance.
I got educated. Grossmont College to Stanford, Departmental Honors.
I built a career. Self-taught software engineer. Seven years at Wickfire, Head of Engineering at CloseHack, founder of Equality Music.
I have a family. Father of seven.
One race. Every family on earth traces back to Africa, mine included. Whiteness is only a few thousand years old. I'll be the President who says it out loud.
That's where ending racism starts.
| Office | President of the United States · Independent · 2028 |
| From | San Diego, CA, Section 8. Woodglen. Mapleview. The gutter. |
| Military | Air Force 2007–08. Minuteman II ICBM. DOD Secret clearance. General discharge after a suicide attempt at 130 mph. PTSD. Two TBIs. |
| Education | Stanford B.A. Psychology, Departmental Honors, 3.82. Grossmont College, 3.97, commencement speaker. Decision Neuroscience Lab. Published researcher. |
| Recovery | 17 years sober. Resident Manager at Genesis Recovery, an award-winning facility. Managed West Coast Recovery Centers. Weekly jail volunteer, gang and murder unit. Every week. |
| Engineering | Self-taught. Senior Software Engineer, Wickfire, 7+ years. Head of Engineering, CloseHack. Founder, Equality Music LLC. |
| Family | Father of seven. I became fluent in ASL before my Deaf son was born. I moved my family to St. Augustine for FSDB, the largest school for the Deaf in America. I speak ASL at a native level. The only candidate who can. |
| Faith | AA. The Rock Church, San Diego. Jail and Prison ministry. Reverb Church, St. Augustine. The activation. Every week. Not for photos. |
“I've been in every system America has. I came out the other side with receipts. Genomic. Academic. Spiritual. Lived.”
The Doctrine
One Race. One Tree.
ONE RACE · ONE EARTH · ONE TREE
ONE HEART · ONE LOVE · ONE BODY
ONE MIND · ONE SOUL · ONE GOD
This is not a campaign slogan. It is a genomic, historical, and spiritual finding. One Race is first because it is the foundation everything else rests on. The genome proves it: whiteness is 5,000 to 8,000 years old. We share 84 million DNA variants across every human bloodline. The race war is a lie. The doctrine is the correction.
This doctrine connects east and west. Buddha, Christ, Bob Marley, KRS-One, Bradley Nowell, Prince, Johnny Cash, Michael Jackson, all saying the same thing through different instruments. Eighty Nine Vision is not an invention. It is a principle being lived. One tree. One root system. Every branch feeds from the same dirt.
Lincoln put the final bullet in the head of slavery. The doctrine is the final bullet in the head of the lie that justified it.
“I'm not meant to take down the system.
I'm meant to heal the earth.”
The Hexagon
Six Facets
Every person is a cell in the hive. Each cell has six facets. These are not values chosen; they are what the work required. 17 years sober. Jail ministry. Stanford. Thrown. Seven kids.
The hive grows when each person, being their own full hexagon, connects with others through shared facets. That connection is how the doctrine spreads, not through advertising, through resonance. Like pollination. Like what Christ gave to twelve disciples who each gave it to twelve more, and what Bodhidharma spread across the East along the Silk Road.
The Network
The Hive Grows
Each hexagon is a person. Shared edges are shared facets, the cells are literally joined there.
Add Yourself to the Network
The Vertical Stack
One System
Everything built follows a single upward progression. Each layer feeds the next. Not a campaign with a music side project; it is one system. You can only go up as far as you go down.
The Presidential Campaign
Daniel Brent McKay, running as an independent. The movement made political.
The Book & Ministry
Thrown, memoir and manifesto. 36 chapters, 6 parts, one tree. Going into every prison in America through Chaplain Ray's International Prison Ministry.
The Platform
Equality Music LLC: sovereign label, 125 tracks live, no streaming, 100% to the artist. Chain Gang youth program. equalitymusic.com
The Music
Eighty Nine Vision: 92 tracks, rebel music. Always Audible: faith and recovery podcast. The seed. Where the emotional truth lives.
Join the Hive
Four Entry Points
Every person who joins is a full hexagon cell, equal in value to every other, connected through shared facets. There is no application. There is only resonance. Find your entry point and follow it down.
Tier 1
Read the Book
The memoir, the manifesto, the doctrine: everything. Thrown. The full picture. Start here.
Read →Tier 2
Visit the Platform
The platform, the label, the projects, the art. The full picture above the music. equalitymusic.com
Visit →Tier 3
Find A Support Fund
Direct support: the fund, the movement, the mission. Every dollar goes where it's needed. No middlemen. No party. No establishment.
Support →Tier 4
Listen to the Music
The closest to the heart. Not advertised. Discovered. If you find it, you're in the inner circle. The seed.
Listen →“Point, shoot, aim.”— Pops