TOPIC HUB
Government Reform
This hub gathers everything on government reform: what’s broken structurally, where candidates stand, the lessons, and the specific problems you can act on.
Learn it
Start here to understand the whole picture.
The full picture on this topic
Read the record: Why do the branches fight?
Where candidates stand: Government & the Branches (Title 2)
Learn the system: A Short History of Navajo Government
Do something
Specific problems on this subject — what each is, and what you can do about it.
The Executive-Legislative Conflict
35 of 41 candidates named the conflict between the Executive and Legislative branches. The three-branch government was created by CD-68-89 in 1989 as a response to the Peter MacDonald crisis — explicitly described as temporary.
Access to the Law
The Navajo Nation Code was last fully published in 2009. Since then, amendments have been added in a separate sheet and resolutions pass on DiBB — a lookup system that requires knowing the resolution number to find anything.
Six Fixes That Need No Election
Six things the record supports regardless of who wins in July or November and regardless of whether the constitution passes: publish the law, publish the rulings, fund the watchdog, staff the seams, implement healthcare oversight, and creat…
Connected
Reform is the structural layer — the branches conflict, unpublished law, and the fixes that would close the seams every other subject hits.
The roadblocks & where they lead
Seams & accountability — how problems stall and who answers. What runs through all of it →
Root causes — funding, capacity, and unclear law underneath. The root problem →