LGBTQIA2S+ initiatives and health research are under attack, our fight remains more important than ever. I’ll work to ensure that the Equality Act is finally passed.

I’ll also fight to ensure that trans people are able to live authentically without fear of harassment or discrimination in school, athletics, the workplace, or healthcare by establishing legal and medical protections for trans people across the country.

The first step is to address the historical and ongoing discrimination that communities of color face in income, wages, health, housing, and employment. Today, the racial wealth gap is roughly three times larger than the racial income gap. To fix these disparities, we must implement targeted investments in Black communities, reform housing and lending practices, improve access to quality education and healthcare, and enact progressive tax policies.

 I know very well the importance of the Second Amendment, but I also know the fear of parents, families, teachers, and students across the country. Common-sense gun safety laws aren’t about taking them away from sensible adults; it’s to ensure there isn’t another life lost to preventable violence because we were too scared to do something about it. To accomplish this I will introduce legislation calling for mandatory background checks on all gun sales, banning the sale of assault weapons, implement federal “Red Flag Laws,” and invest in Community Violence Intervention Programs.

We have come to a point, as a nation, where we have to understand that we need to legalize recreational marijuana use at the federal level. As we have seen in states where recreational marijuana is legal, the industry creates hundreds of thousands of jobs and adds billions of dollars to the US economy. Along with legalizing recreational marijuana use, we need to expunge the criminal records of anyone who was a non-violent, low-level offender. As the national cannabis industry takes shape, we must ensure that Black people, who have, for years, been overpoliced for marijuana use, can access wealth and jobs in this new market.

Since it’s creation in 2003, ICE has acted as nothing more than a government-funded, domestic terror group and should be treated as such. If elected, I will immediately introduce legislation to abolish the agency. Additionally, I will introduce articles of impeachment against DHS Secretary Kristi Noem for her complicity.

Corporate Tax Avoidance occurs because Congress allows it to. The US Tax Code must be rewritten to close corporate tax loopholes, end special breaks for the Top 1% of earners, and finally work for the working people of this country, not against them.

To ensure access to safe, affordable, and comprehensive reproductive healthcare I will work to repeal the Comstock Act, expand Title X to ensure that low-income communities have access to contraception and reproductive healthcare services, and enshrine the right to reproductive healthcare as given in Roe v Wade and Griswold v Connecticut.

The first step to reforming our criminal justice system is by address the harmful impact it has had on the Black, POC, and LGBTQIA2S+ communities, this means renouncing and repealing the policies that drove mass incarceration and racial disparities. We must also end the Pentagon’s 1033 and 1122 programs, which funnel battlefield equipment into local police departments, expand and strengthen provisions to limit the use of biometric data by law enforcement, end qualified immunity, end mandatory minimums, and ban solitary confinement.