Voting & Elections

Criminal Justice

· Against defunding police

· Against the death penalty

· Supports full federal cannabis legalization

Economy, trade, & business

· Supports export restrictions on China

· Supports tariffs on Chinese imports, like aluminum and steel

· Supports unions

· Supports the FTC’s ban on noncompete agreements

· Supports not taxing tips

· Supports increasing federal minimum wage

Education

· Supports college free tuition for low-income families

· Supports forgiveness of student loan debt, but with certain requirements

Election policy

· Supports the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, which aims to expand and strengthen the government’s ability to respond to voting discrimination

· Supports mail-in ballots

Energy and environmental issues

· Co-sponsored the Green New Deal

· Supports providing clean energy incentives to businesses and consumers

· Against fracking bans

Foreign policy

· Against an arms embargo on Israel

· Supports NATO and Ukraine in its fight against Russia

Government ethics

· Supports term limits for Supreme Court justices

Gun regulation

· Supports a ban on assault weapons

· Supports universal background checks

· Supports passing red flag laws

Healthcare

· Supports abortion rights

· Supports affordable prescription drug costs

· Supports canceling Americans’ medical debt

· Against a single-payer health care system

Sex and gender issues LGBTQ

· Co-sponsored the Equality Act

Immigration

· Against mistreatment of pregnant women seeking asylum in the US

· Supports citizenship for dreamers

· Supports increasing resources for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)

Technology

· Supports AI development, but concerned with risks posed by AI

· Supports equal access to benefits of AI technology

· Supports protecting workers from risks associated with AI technology

· Supports improving high-speed connectivity for US residents

 

Criminal Justice

· Supports full federal cannabis legalization

· Supports the repeal of the Controlled Substances Act

· Supports pardoning persons who were convicted solely for non-violent drug offenses

· Against qualified immunity for federal law enforcement

· Supports mandatory body cams and liability insurance for officers

· Against the over-militarization of police

· Against federal mandatory minimum sentencing

· Against prosecuting victimless crimes

· Against the death penalty

Economy, trade, & business

· Supports reducing federal spending and balancing the budget

· Supports abolishing all tariffs

· Against deficit spending

· Supports trade being used as a bargaining chip to promote peace with our neighbors

· Supports legislation prohibiting bailing out companies that engage in irresponsible business and fiscal practices

Education

· Supports abolishing the Department of Education

· Supports getting the government out of the student loan business

· Supports making student debt dischargeable in bankruptcy and cutting interest rates to zero

· Supports ending all future government-guaranteed student loans

Election policy

· Supports states implementing ranked choice voting systems

· Against the two-party system

Energy and environmental issues

· Against the use of eminent domain for building carbon dioxide pipelines

Foreign policy

· Supports closing overseas military bases

· Against continuing foreign wars

· Supports a less interventionist foreign policy

· Supports ending aid to Israel and Ukraine

· Supports private defense contractors contributing funds and weapons to allies

Government ethics

· Against the Patriot Act

· Against government surveillance abuses

· Supports abolishing the Transportation Security Administration (TSA)

Gun regulation

· Against any gun restrictions

· Supports protecting the right of all persons to defend themselves from aggression

· Against restrictions on trigger locks and bump stocks

Healthcare

· Supports decriminalizing abortions

· Against federal money from funding abortion clinics

· Supports states incentivizing alternatives to abortion

· Supports removing limits on Health Savings Accounts

· Supports removing regulations on the pharmaceutical industry

· Against product monopolies in healthcare

Immigration

· Supports returning to an Ellis Island style of processing immigrants

· Supports simpler paths to citizenship for immigrants already in the US

· Supports paths to citizenship for DACA-eligible residents and the children of foreign workers on temporary work visas

· Supports expanding the H1B visa and startup visa

Criminal Justice

· Against de-funding police

Economy, trade, & business

· Against increasing taxes

· Supports tariffs on foreign products

· Supports domestic production and supply chains

· Supports not taxing tips

· Against labor unions

Education

· Supports abolishing the Department of Education

· Supports educational needs being determined by the states

· Supports universal school choice

Election policy

· Against mail-in ballots

· Supports verifying the identity and eligibility of all voters

Energy and environmental issues

· Supports the production of domestic energy resources

· Supports eliminating Green New Deal

· Supports energy security

· Against wind subsidies?

· Against DoE and EPA regulations

· Supports Keystone XL and Dakota Access Pipelines

· Supports drilling offshore and on federal lands

· Against electric vehicle mandates

Foreign policy

· Supports increasing military budget

· Supports restrictions on Chinese ownership of any vital infrastructure

· Supports ending Russia-Ukraine war

Government ethics

· Supports term limits on members of Congress

· Against taxpayer funding of campaigns

· Supports a lifetime ban on lobbying by former members of Congress and cabinet members

· Supports a ban on members of Congress trading stocks with insider information

Gun regulation

· Supports Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms

Healthcare

· Against abortion rights being determined by the federal government; the states will decide

· Against making cuts to Medicare

· Supports expanding healthcare choice, transparency, and affordability

· Against Obamacare

· Supports access to lifesaving cures for terminally ill patients

Sex and gender issues LGBTQ

· Supports recognizing only two genders that are assigned at birth – male and female

· Supports Title IX that prohibits men from participating in women’s sports

· Supports parental consent for gender identity for minor children

· Against programs that promote the concept of sex and gender transition at any age

· Against federal tax dollars being used for gender transition procedures

Immigration

· Against decriminalizing illegal immigration

· Against Sanctuary Cities

· Supports building a border wall

· Supports ‘Remain in Mexico’

· Supports deputizing the National Guard to assist with removing illegal alien gang members and criminals

Technology

· Supports AI research and development

· Supports facial recognition technology in airports

 

Criminal Justice

· Against private prisons and detention centers

· Supports abolishing the death penalty

· Supports the full legalization of cannabis for recreational and medicinal use

· Supports releasing nonviolent drug offenders from prisons

· Against mandatory minimum sentencing and ‘three strike’ laws

· Against qualified immunity for federal law enforcement

· Against the over-militarization of police

· Against warrantless mass surveillance

· Supports decriminalizing sex work

Disability rights

· Supports expanding Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) and Supplemental Social Income (SSI) to a living wage of greater than 10% of regional Cost of Living calculations

· Supports eliminating SSI waiting periods and disability proof requirements

Economy, trade, & business

· Supports increasing federal minimum wage to $25 an hour

· Supports progressive taxation for incomes and wealth and increasing the estate tax, and taxing the ultra-wealthy and giant corporations heavily

· Supports breaking up monopolies in big tech and elsewhere

· Supports unionization

· Against ‘at-will’ employment

Education

· Supports abolish all student debt

· Supports lifelong free public education for all institutions, including trade schools and Pre-K through college and graduate school

· Against the privatization of public schools

· Supports free childcare

Election policy

· Supports abolishing the Electoral College

· Supports states implementing ranked choice voting systems and proportional representation

· Against the two-party system

· Supports restoring voting rights to all felons

· Supports making Election Day a federal holiday

· Supports mail-in ballots

· Supports lowering the voting age to 16

Energy and environmental issues

· Supports transitioning all utilities to public not-for-profit ownership

· Supports Green New Deal and expanding it

· Supports achieving 100% clean renewable energy and zero-to-negative carbon emissions by no later than 2035

· Supports ending all forms of subsidies to the fossil fuel industry

· Supports building an electrified coast to coast high-speed rail

· Against all forms of nuclear power, fracking, mountaintop removal, tar sands mining, and new fossil fuel infrastructure

Foreign policy

· Supports reducing the size and budget of the military and closing foreign US military bases

· Supports ending US wars and military interventions

· Supports withdrawing troops from foreign countries

Government ethics

· Supports increasing the number of Supreme Court justices from 9 to 18, with 18-year term limits staggered so that one seat opens per year

· Supports a supermajority of ⅔ of the Supreme Court for judicial review of federal laws

· Against lobbying of any kind by former members of Congress

· Supports prohibiting Congress from giving themselves any benefits they do not give to the people

· Supports honoring all existing treaties with Indigenous nations

· Supports reparations to descendants of African slaves

Gun regulation

· Supports banning the sale of assault rifles and establishing a buyback program

· Supports mandatory waiting periods and background checks for firearm purchases

· Supports red flag laws

· Supports standardized digital records of gun sales, requiring high-quality gun safes to store firearms, and requiring firearm owners to purchase liability insurance of no less than $1,000,000

· Against domestic abusers owning or buying guns

Housing

· Supports a Universal Tenant's Bill of Rights

· Supports universal rent control

· Against excessive rental deposits and credit checks on rental applications

Healthcare

· Supports Medicare for All

· Supports publicly-owned, democratically controlled healthcare service that will guarantee healthcare as a human right to everyone

· Supports canceling all medical debt

· Supports abortion rights

· Supports public funding of medical and pharmaceutical research and putting the pharmaceutical industry into public ownership

· Supports bodily autonomy and personal freedom and choice in medical treatments, including the right to dignified assisted death

· Against private investment in CDC healthcare projects

· Supports free birth control and menstruation products

Immigration

· Supports creating non-custodial, humanitarian reception centers at the border

· Supports abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)

· Supports granting amnesty to every undocumented person in the United States, and implement a path to citizenship with expediency

Sex and gender issues LGBTQ

· Supports the Equality Act, the PRIDE Act, the Every Child Deserves a Family Act, and other bills to prohibit discrimination     by the U.S., the military, state or local governments, or private industry

· Supports the development and implementation of 2SLGBTQIA+ inclusive public education to combat bullying

· Supports adding nonbinary gender options to all Federal public documents

· Against any legislation that purports to protect religious liberty at the expense of the rights of others

Technology

· Supports free high-speed internet across the U.S. with rural broadband via fiber optics

· Supports free Internet and net neutrality