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The United States is the leader of the Organization of Free Nations, otherwise known as the ONF, which is an international coalition between the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the West Indies Federation, Belize, Iceland, and the Co-operative Republic of Guyana, Haiti, the Faroe Islands, Suriname, and Fiji. Its primary goal is to promote democratic and Western influence worldwide and to ensure the security and sovereignty of Australasia and the Americas.

The United States has a tense relationship with Germany and the Unity Pact, and the Organization often supports separatist movements and anti-German sentiment within the pact in an attempt to reduce Germany's global power in the region.

The United States also militarily controls two countries in the Americas: Iceland and Guyana. The West Indies Federation is a US client state in the Caribbean.

Relations with Japan and the Greater Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere have been strained since the end of World War II due to the occupation of the ports of Los Angeles and San Francisco, Hawaii, the Aleutian Islands, and other Pacific territories, as well as the recent abrogation of the Akagi Treaty. The Free Nations Organization frequently supports separatist movements against the Co-Prosperity Sphere in an attempt to reduce Japan's global power.

Following Reconstruction, brutal racial apartheid was established in the southern United States. Taking its name from the racist minstrel song "Jump Jim Crow," Jim Crow laws forced Black Americans to live separately from whites and without their rights. Black people were forced into the back of buses, through separate entrances to buildings, into separate neighborhoods and schools, and buried in separate cemeteries. These laws even prohibited Black people from marrying white people or using the same drinking fountains. Although fiercely defended in the South, all decent people see them as a monstrous atrocity in the so-called Land of the Free. As Black Americans become increasingly insistent in their demands for equality, the American government will soon be forced to choose whether to crucify Jim Crow or sacrifice its future on its altar.

Extremists While the "more respectable" leaders of the NPP attempt to ignore these forces, the Pact also includes numerous smaller groups whose hostility to the establishment encompasses not only the two major parties but the American system itself. These parties view the United States as a failed state and believe radical change is necessary to save the American people. One such group is the Marxist wing, led by Gus Hall of the Communist Party USA. The Marxist Caucus, composed of avowed communists and socialists, believes that the average American is exploited by the capitalist class and that the current struggle for civil rights is a symptom of a broader class struggle. If there is a group smaller and more marginal than the Marxists, it is the Sovereigntists, a vile group of fascists and white nationalists from all corners of America. Few but the most radical Americans dare join them. Their leader, Francis Parker Yockey, earned a reputation as a Nazi puppet by voicing the dark fantasies of white supremacists who see Germany as an ally rather than an enemy in the coming war.

The Nationalist Wing is the largest faction in the new National Progressive Pact, representing not only the Nationalist Party but also various populist conservative groups such as the Conservative Party of New York, the States' Rights Party, and the Louisiana Progressive Party. Inspired by recent political upheavals, this diverse coalition represents a reactionary response to current events.

In 1964, the wing was led by Alabama Governor George Wallace, an avowed segregationist outraged by what he considered the "lawless" civil rights movement. Also among the nationalists were many former Republican "war hawks," led by Margaret Chase Smith, who deserted the Republican Party after the U.S. defeat in World War II. Also playing a significant role were the remnants of the Midwestern isolationist movement under Senator Robert A. Taft, who rallied around himself the Christian right, who felt abandoned in a rapidly changing nation. The second largest wing of the NPP is the progressives, who have absorbed various liberal groups and movements across America. It includes not only the revived Progressive Party, but also the Non-Partisan League, the Farmer-Labor Party, and the Liberal Party of New York. While more ideologically united than the nationalists, progressives remain no less variable in their politics.

In 1964, the party was led by Henry "Bucket" Jackson, a New Deal liberal and war hawk hoping for a rematch with Nixon. However, fortunes proved unsettled. Many progressives, especially those dissatisfied with Bucket's attempts to make peace with officials opposed to civil rights, sought a different candidate for 1964. Their success now depended on forces beyond their comprehension.

In the corridors of the progressive wing sits Michael Harrington, leader of the Democratic Socialists of America.

The Democratic Party, the heir to Roosevelt, Eisenhower, and Kefauver, found itself led by the charismatic Vice President John F. Kennedy. Embodying all the hopes of this new century, Kennedy called on his nation to look beyond past failures and forward. His decisions to meet with leaders of the Civil Rights Movement, calls for military restraint, and advocacy for aggressive solutions to economic stagnation made him a beloved figure among the American majority, even though such overtures to voters infuriated President Nixon.

Behind Kennedy, factionalism rages. On one side of the party are the Labor Democrats, represented in Congress by Senator Lyndon Baines Johnson. These people consider the New Deal insufficient and seek to expand and develop its programs.

On the other side stand the Dixiecrats, led by Senator Richard Russell Jr. These figures, mostly Southerners, are outraged by Kennedy's meetings with black leaders and seek to maintain segregation at any cost.

The conservative Republican Party is led by the last of the Mohicans: Richard Nixon. A master of negative campaigning, Nixon survived a financial scandal in 1952 and narrowly lost the 1954 California gubernatorial election before storming into Kefauver's cabinet as Secretary of State. Calling himself the leader of the silent majority, Nixon remains oblivious to his growing unpopularity at home.

Directly below him are Barry Goldwater's Radical Republicans, hawks opposed to the federal grip on government and seeking an immediate end to Roosevelt's excesses. Immediately behind them are Nelson Rockefeller's Responsible Republicans, moderates from New England who favor gradual conservative reforms.

The last few years of crises have knocked the chair out from under Nixon's leadership, but he is determined to maintain his leadership of the Republican Party, stabilize the RDC, and achieve re-election at any cost in 1964.

After Ike's second term ended, the American establishment was unwilling to support his progressive vice president, Burton Wheeler. Instead, the Democrats chose the moderate Estes Kefauver, while the Republicans nominated their own moderate candidate, Everett M. Dirksen. While the two major US parties competed for moderation, the Nationalists and the revived Progressive Party became home to disaffected voters. Kefauver narrowly won, but the backlash was significant. During the midterms, dozens of new parties appeared on the ballot. Chaos reigned—senators barely garnered a third of the popular vote, constantly facing accusations of fraud and corruption. The Nationalists, Progressives, and other minor parties realized they could defeat the establishment if they worked together. Thus, an alliance of convenience, the National Progressive Pact, was formed, led by progressive "Bucket" Jackson and right-wing leader James Fulbright. Republicans and Democrats, seeing an existential threat to their rule, formed their own coalition, led by conservative Richard Nixon and liberal John F. Kennedy. Further complicating matters, the Hawaiian Missile Crisis occurred in January 1962. Japanese missiles stationed in Hawaii threatened the West Coast of the United States. However, after tense negotiations between Vice President Kennedy and Japanese Prime Minister Ino, the conflict was resolved, and the doomsday clock was turned back. While the core of the National Progressive Pact praised Kennedy, Nixon was attacked for his inaction on the issue.

The Republican Party suffered a crushing defeat in 1946, but many Americans still blamed Roosevelt's "socialist" policies for America's weakening and the inevitability of war. The 1948 election tested these sentiments, pitting isolationist Republican Robert Taft against internationalist Democrat Dwight D. Eisenhower. Ike won, but his victory exposed deep resentment toward the American establishment. Eisenhower attempted to complete Roosevelt's unfinished work. However, a rift between Ike and progressive Vice President Burton Wheeler over intervention to defend Portuguese Angola from German attacks sabotaged his presidency.

In 1952, Eisenhower narrowly won reelection. Ike's second term was disappointing. Wheeler proved unable to steer the Senate in line with the president's policies, and Eisenhower resorted to executive orders to force the American government to adopt his agenda. As dissatisfaction with the president's actions grew, 1952 saw the formation of a new nationalist party to support General George Patton.

By 1944, with the armed forces on the brink of collapse, Dewey discovered that his bleak legacy had been salvaged by a single general. Eisenhower's defense of Scotland, along with the split in the Democratic Party between moderate James Farley and progressive Henry Wallace, gave the president hope for reelection. Although narrowly defeated, Thomas Dewey won a second term. With the country in disarray, the president agreed to a negotiated peace with the Axis powers, under which the United States would relinquish its Pacific holdings and lease Hawaii to Japan for 100 years.

During his second term, Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt faced a growing backlash from conservatives, who viewed his New Deal as pushing the United States down the same dangerous path Russia had once taken. Fearing that another term could lead to America's political collapse, Roosevelt decided not to run again for president. Instead, he persuaded the party to nominate his close friend and former Works Progress Administration administrator, Harry Hopkins. To ensure his friend's election, Roosevelt pursued a balanced policy and made concessions to isolationists. Meanwhile, conservative Republicans, including Ohio Senator Robert A. Taft, supported the charismatic but inexperienced Manhattan District Attorney Thomas Dewey. Shortly thereafter, Hopkins learned he had been diagnosed with stomach cancer. Bedridden, with rumors of his grave condition swirling in the press, he lost to Dewey, failing to secure less than the 4% of the popular vote needed to win. President Thomas Dewey rewarded his isolationist supporters by appointing many officials associated with Senator Taft to his cabinet. Dewey then launched a campaign to dismantle Roosevelt's New Deal, while his cabinet limited the US military potential to avoid direct confrontation with the growing German Reich and the Japanese Empire. These events created a catastrophe. Recession ensued. Japan and Germany declared war on America.