Campaign Finance & Election Reform

  • 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 term limits and age limits 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.

Economic Justice: Tackling Inequality

  • 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. I fully support the PRO Act and the Clean Slate for Worker Power Agenda

  • 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 for All

  • 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.

Immigration with Humanity

  • 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.

Reducing the National Debt

  • We must reduce the national debt. We paid more in interest on the national debt last year than we did 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.

Reforming Justice

  • 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.

Climate Leadership

  • 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.

Reproductive Freedom

  • 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.

Marriage Equality & Personal Expression

  • Every American deserves equal rights, protections, and privileges under the law regardless of who they love, how they live, what they choose to do with their body, or how they choose to express themselves. And I will always stand up for the equal protection of the law for everyone.

Gun Safety

  • People ought to have the right to own guns to defend themselves and their families—I own a gun 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.

Strong Global Leadership

  • Isolationism invites war. The United States, alongside its partners and Allies in NATO, the Pacific Islands, and across the globe, must promote 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.

  • I stand with the people of Ukraine and Georgia. I fully support continued U.S. military aid to Ukraine in their fight for national survival. And I believe the United States must reprioritize ending the Russian occupation of Georgia within its foreign policy objectives.

  • I condemn the terrorist activities of Hamas and call for the immediate release of all remaining hostages. International law compels all parties to a conflict to protect civilian lives and property.

  • As someone trained in military operations, who studied international law at the University of Oxford, I firmly stand against the continued transfer of U.S. weapons and funds to the State of Israel while its military operations continue to result in the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in Gaza. It is a form of genocide, and the international community must condemn it.

  • We must treat the State of Israel as a geopolitical entity separately from that of the Jewish identity. Antisemitism is very real today, and it must not be tolerated. I condemned the United States’ violation of international law when it invaded Iraq and tortured prisoners at Guantanamo, but that does not make me anti-American. I also condemn the State of Israel’s violations of international law against the Palestinian people. That does not make me antisemitic. We must criticize states that violate international law—not the cultural, ethnic, racial, and religious entities that comprise those states.

  • I stand with the Uyghur people who suffer from ongoing genocide at the hands of the government of the People’s Republic of China. We must condemn these grave crimes against humanity wherever they take place.

  • I strongly advocate for the peaceful reunification of Ireland. Both communities in Northern Ireland must actively embrace integrated education so the next generation may peacefully bring to fruition the inevitable reunification of all 32 counties under the Republic of Ireland. The United States must take a more active role in that process and actively advocate for reunification.

Territorial Self-Determination

  • The United States should not possess colonies. I strongly advocate for D.C. Statehood and for American Samoa, Guam, The Northern Marianas, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands to freely express self-determination in choosing statehood, independence, home rule, or continued status quo. The Congress should not block the self-determination of these peoples.