How to set a Liberty Table

A table in six steps

Ask three or four people. People you already know. They don't have to agree with you or with each other. A table where everyone agrees is a short evening.
Pick a place and an evening. Your table, a diner, a park. Somewhere you can hear each other. If anyone coming is someone you haven't met yet, make it a public place.
Bring food. It doesn't have to be good. People stay longer and argue better when they're eating. If you pour alcohol, that is on you as the host, and the law on it differs from state to state. Read on 14 October 2026: FindLaw, 'Serving Alcohol and Social Host Liability'
Open with one question. Use today's question from my front page, or one from the list below. Go round the table once, so everyone answers before anyone argues.
Keep it fair. Your whole job: nobody talks over anybody, and nobody goes home without having said something.
Pick the next date before anyone leaves. A table with a next date is a group. A table without one was a dinner.

Host your first Liberty Table

What to talk about

These are questions I have put to readers on my front page. Each has a side to take. There is a new one every day.

Should America keep sending weapons to Israel?
Should U.S. forces stay in the war on the regime in Iran?
Should illegal immigrants charged with theft be detained?
Should America keep paying for Ukraine's defense?
Should biological males compete in women's sports?
Who is America's most dangerous enemy today?
Should the 2017 tax cuts be permanent?
Should officials be free to press platforms to delete posts?

Today's question

Pictures

Ask before the phone comes out, and ask out loud: can I post this?
A yes from everyone in the frame, to being shown on this site and on the shows, not only on your own page. One no means no picture.
No children. No house numbers, no street signs, no plates.
Post after everyone has gone home. Never during.
If someone changes their mind next week, take it down.

Reporting back

Open your mission on the Missions page and press Report back. Say how many came and what you argued about. First names only, and never an address.

If you posted a picture or a video somewhere public, add its link. I host no files here, so your post stays yours. The form then asks you to confirm that everyone shown said yes to being shown on this site and on the shows. Your yes is not theirs.

I read every report. An accepted one earns the XP on the card. When I can't accept one I send it back and say why.

How a table grows

One more chair

Hold the table again and let each person ask one new person. That is the mission after your first table.

A watch party

Four people or more and a live show on the biggest screen you have. Say hello in the live chat together, and how many you are. Never where you are: name your state afterwards if you like, and nothing closer than that. When the show ends, keep talking. That part is the point.

A registration party

Phones out, food on the table. Each person opens the state's own site on their own phone and signs themselves up. You answer questions from the state's page. You never fill in, collect or carry anyone's form. The food and the drink are for everyone who comes, signed up already or not, and nothing depends on signing up: no prize, no raffle, no XP. I offer this mission only where signing up online is still open, and not in Florida, where a group that asks people for applications has to sign up with the state first. Read on 14 October 2026: 52 U.S.C. 10307(c), as shown by Cornell Legal Information Institute; US Department of Justice, Public Integrity Section, 'Federal Prosecution of Election Offenses', Seventh Edition, May 2007, page 47; Florida Statutes 97.0575, Online Sunshine (Florida Legislature); Texas Secretary of State, 'Volunteer Deputy Registrars'

Voting together

Pick a day: early voting, or November 3. Meet first and go together. Leave political clothing and signs at home, hand nothing to anyone standing in a line, and take no pictures inside. Then the party, at a different address from the polling place, open to everyone whether they voted or not. Nothing is given for voting. Read on 14 October 2026: 52 U.S.C. 10307(c), as shown by Cornell Legal Information Institute; Georgia Senate Bill 202 (2021), as passed, section amending O.C.G.A. 21-2-414(a), Georgia General Assembly; National Association of Secretaries of State, 'State Laws Prohibiting Electioneering Activities Within a Certain Distance of the Polling Place' (updated October 2020), Louisiana row

The same day every month

Three tables in a row and you have a group. From there the third act is open to you: a group that keeps meeting can make a member of Congress answer.

It is your table

I give you the guide and the XP. I don't run your table, pay for it or decide anything for it, and no money moves through this site for a gathering. A Liberty Table is not a campaign event. If a host turns one into an event for a candidate, campaign finance rules apply to that host. Read on 14 October 2026: 11 CFR 110.20(i), as shown by Cornell Legal Information Institute; Federal Election Commission, 'Volunteer activity' help page

The lines every gathering keeps, and why