ISSUES
The issues are nothing new. Politicians have unfortunately debated and put action on the back-burner for years. What is new, is taking an approach of uncompromising action to policy so we can change the country for the people living in it.
ICE
Throughout U.S. history, the federal government has repeatedly created, reorganized, and dissolved agencies. ICE and the Department of Homeland Security were created by the Bush administration in the aftermath of 9/11 as part of a major reorganization. That restructuring failed to address its stated goals and has instead produced ongoing harm. ICE should be defunded and dissolved, and DHS should be dismantled, with its component agencies reassigned to existing cabinet-level departments where appropriate.
THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION
This administration did not arise in a vacuum. Regardless of which party controls the House during the 120th Congress, it must oppose this administration at every point where it exceeds its authority. It must also ensure that those leaving the Trump administration are held legally accountable for their actions. Enforcing consequences is the only way to deter repetition and prevent an ongoing cycle of escalating abuses and increasingly severe constitutional violations by future Trump-aligned officials.
HEALTHCARE
Medicare for All is the only viable solution to the ongoing failures of the U.S. healthcare system. A functioning society must guarantee everyone access to a reasonably high standard of medical care. When someone dies from a preventable or treatable condition solely because they could not afford care, that outcome is not accidental, it is the result of policy choices made by the state.
AFFORDABLE HOUSING
Housing costs have been driven to unsustainable levels because access to shelter is no longer treated as a basic requirement for a productive society. The consequences fall most heavily on the poorest, increasing housing insecurity and homelessness. We must ensure that everyone has access to affordable housing and prevent financial markets from determining the value of something so fundamental to human life.
WORKER'S RIGHTS
Collective forms of organization should be actively supported. The government has done this before, most notably through the Wagner Act. Collective bargaining remains one of the few mechanisms through which people can exercise real democratic power in their daily lives. Regardless of how fulfilling a job may be, workers should have meaningful control over their compensation, conditions, and the terms of their work.
REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS
Roe v. Wade must be reinstated as the law of the country. Reproductive autonomy is a fundamental right, and it cannot be left to shifting political majorities or state-by-state restriction.
CLIMATE CHANGE
Climate change is not a distant threat or a natural accident. It is the result of policy choices that prioritize short term profit over long term stability. When pollution is treated as a costless externality, ecosystems degrade, public health suffers, and the risks are pushed onto everyone else. A functional society requires setting clear limits on emissions, enforcing accountability for major polluters, and investing at scale in a transition that protects both the climate and the people who depend on it.
ANIMAL WELFARE
Our system of animal welfare is fundamentally broken. Industrial factory farming operates with minimal oversight, allowing routine cruelty to be treated as standard practice. At the same time, many animal shelters lack adequate regulation, leading to neglect, abuse, and corruption, while unregulated and backyard breeding continues to swell the population of abandoned and suffering animals. These failures harm not only animals but the basic functioning of society. We should enforce clear standards for factory farming, strengthen oversight of shelters and breeders, and treat the welfare of domesticated animals as a public responsibility rather than an afterthought.
WEALTH INEQUALITY
Extreme concentrations of wealth distort markets, politics, and public life. When a small number of individuals accumulate power on that scale, democratic institutions weaken and economic opportunity narrows for everyone else. A functional society requires setting clear limits on that concentration through progressive taxation and enforcing a system in which billionaires contribute proportionally to the society from which their wealth is derived.