Jill Stein rally Philly

Jill Stein addresses a crowd of supporters in Philadelphia on Tuesday, July 26, 2016. Photo by Sean Simmers.

By Jill Stein

America is ready for a voter revolt.

People are rightly fed up with politics as usual. The super rich are gutting our economy, shipping our jobs overseas, and destroying our planet.

The two-party system has produced the two most disliked and distrusted candidates in history.

In fact, according to polls, most people are not motivated to vote for anyone, but will be voting against someone.

As I travel around the country, I hear disgust with both the Democratic and Republican parties - especially among millennials locked into unbearable student debt.

Americans are clamoring for a way out of two-party tyranny.

But the political establishment is working hard to keep people from hearing about the other choices on their ballot.

On the day of the first presidential debate at Hofstra University, I missed several interviews after being removed from the campus by Hofstra security and Nassau County police.

Since when are the police charged with keeping opposition candidates off the air on debate day?

Seventy-six percent of Americans wanted a four-person debate, but the Democrats and Republicans prevent it through their Commission on Presidential Debates, a private corporation so corrupt that the League of Women Voters warned that it would "perpetrate a fraud on the American voter."

The two parties should not have the power to decide that their opponents cannot debate.

That is not what democracy looks like.

Despite the establishment parties' efforts to silence their competition by excluding us from the televised presidential debates, we were able to reach millions of voters using the open Internet and an innovative social media campaign.

We broke through the debate censorship and reached millions of voters by using cutting edge social media tools to insert my voice live into the debate in real time.

"Jill Stein" trended No. 1 on Facebook on the day after the debate. And Google searches spiked -- one of the top search phrases being "How do I vote for Jill Stein?"

We believe that the American people not only have the right to vote.

We have the right to know who we can vote for. I am the only candidate in this race who will talk about real solutions to the crises we face - including a Green New Deal to create full employment in a transition to 100 percent clean renewable energy by 2030 to save us from climate catastrophe.

We cannot leave the immense task of addressing the climate crisis to a climate denier like Donald Trump, a candidate who sold fracking around the world like Hillary Clinton, or a candidate who says it's okay to do nothing because the sun will eventually swallow the Earth anyway.

I am also the only candidate with a plan to cancel student debt for 43 million Americans.

That's a plurality of the vote with the power to win the election if they come out and vote Green to liberate themselves from debt and lead us out of economic stagnation.

The establishment is trying as hard as they can to marginalize us, to shut us out of the dialogue, to say that a vote for a candidate who's not a Democrat or a Republican is a wasted vote.

But what's more of a waste is giving in to the politics of fear and perpetuating a corrupt two-party system that has given us everything we were afraid of.

Don't waste your vote on the failed two-party system - invest your vote in a movement for real change.

That's what we're building, and what the Stein/Baraka campaign represents. We invite you to join us.

Jill Stein is the 2016 Green Party nominee for president.