Synopsis

It begins with a speech by a senator in the Michigan Statehouse — a question, really: What if there’s another way? What if we annex to Canada? But the deeper challenge is this: What if we reclaim our voice, reframe the system, and rewrite the rules?

That question sparks the Freedom Initiative, a grassroots petition to convene a national process of constitutional reform — led not by politicians, but by the people — students, artists, workers, veterans, and ordinary citizens. What begins as a symbolic protest quickly becomes something more: a sovereignty movement based not on division, but collective imagination.

Told through a kaleidoscope of social media posts, news stories, letters to the editor, blog entries, late-night monologues, sermons, and personal reflections, Tru North Uprising is a literary-political novel about how a nation speaks to itself — and what happens when it finally listens.

At once satirical and sincere, the novel explores democracy in crisis, the power of decentralized action, and the radical idea that change doesn’t begin with power — it begins with a question.