We must end the corruption of money in politics by amending the Constitution to impose campaign spending limits and eliminate Super PAC spending—72% of Americans, including 78% of Democratic voters and 71% of Republican voters support spending limits in political campaigns.
Break the incumbent stranglehold by (1) replacing party-controlled gerrymandering with independent redistricting commissions, and (2) replacing partisan primaries with nonpartisan, ranked-choice elections to ensure competitive races.
Our military generals are required to retire at 64. The average age of the Senate is 64. I propose holding our Congress to a similar standard as our generals by amending the Constitution to establish a mandatory retirement age of 75 for members of Congress.
As soon as Members of the House get elected, they immediately focus on reelection. We can stop the endless campaigning by amending the Constitution to extend House terms from two to four years. Congress ought to have the time to focus on governing instead of campaigning.

Our divide is not left vs. right—it is wealth vs. work. Anyone who works full-time ought to earn enough to live, save, and enjoy life.
Labor unions uplift workers from poverty. We must protect every worker’s right to organize and collectively bargain free from retribution; expand protections to agricultural workers, independent contractors, and domestic workers; and establish sector-wide bargaining so workers do not need to unionize one Starbucks or Amazon warehouse at a time.

Healthcare is a human right. No American should be denied that right by prohibitive costs. The VA provides my healthcare, and I have seen how government healthcare can work. We can and should make healthcare available to every American, regardless of employment. In the richest country on Earth, we are not limited by resources. We are limited by a lack of will, because corporations profit from the current, broken healthcare system.

We must maintain a secure border, but that does not mean hanging a ‘No Vacancy’ sign on the Statue of Liberty. Secure borders should not mean cruelty. The ultra-wealthy send their money overseas to evade taxes while migrant workers build our economy. The former effectively steals from us, while the latter contributes to our society. And yet it is the migrant workers who get treated like criminals. If there is a process for capital to freely cross borders, there should be a process for labor to freely cross borders.

We must reduce the national debt. We now pay more in interest on the national debt every year than we do on defense. These interest payments take away money that could otherwise be spent on the American people.
We have a national debt problem because we have a taxing problem, not a spending problem. We must tax wealth over $50 million and close the off-shore loopholes that allow ultra-wealthy individuals and corporations to evade paying their taxes.

Prisons must focus on rehabilitation, not punishment. My brother’s life and death exemplify the costs of this broken system.
Abolish the death penalty: A country that executes its own citizens can not pretend to believe that everyone has inalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

The wealthiest country on the planet should lead in protecting that planet’s future. We should be preserving our natural resources, not eviscerating them.
We must commit to renewable energies. The country that put a man on the Moon can certainly marshal its resources to free itself from its addiction to fossil fuels.

Healthcare decisions, including the incredibly difficult decisions surrounding abortion, belong to patients and healthcare providers alone. We need federal legislation protecting access to reproductive care in every State and Territory.

Isolationism invites war. The United States, alongside its partners and Allies, must promote, from a position of strength, a world order based on individual liberty, human rights, democracy, and the rule of law. Military intervention should always be a last resort, in accordance with international law, and never unilateral. War is not something to be celebrated—it is the abject waste of human potential, energy, and existence. And it should be treated as such.

People ought to have the right to own guns to defend themselves, their families, and their homes—I own guns for that reason. But that right is not indefinite. The second word of the Second Amendment is “well-regulated.” And the gruesome reality of our all-too-frequent school shootings proves that our gun laws are not well-regulated for the 21st Century.