My Commitment To You
An Economy that Works for Everyone
We can create an economy where ingenuity and fairness move together. I will fight to guarantee living wages that rise with the cost of living, expand the Child Tax Credit and Earned Income Tax Credit, and unleash small businesses and local entrepreneurs with federal microloans, procurement access, and tax credits for job creation.
I will advocate for federal seed funding and incentives for clean tech, while building national incubators and accelerators so startups can scale everywhere. We will expand infrastructure jobs so that innovation is not limited to coastal cities but reaches every community from Denver to America’s heartland.
Through universal STEM education, apprenticeships, and workforce training, every American will have a clear path to prosper in the next economy.
Protecting Civil Rights
Black, Latino, and immigrant communities have always been at the center of America’s struggle for justice and equality. Yet for generations, these communities have faced systems that exclude, surveil, and punish rather than protect and empower.
Civil rights are not abstract ideals. They shape whether Black, Latino, and immigrant families can buy homes without discrimination, whether students are treated fairly in schools, whether entrepreneurs can access capital, whether workers are protected from exploitation, and whether communities can live without fear of state or private violence.
In Congress, I will fight to strengthen civil rights enforcement for Black, Latino, and immigrant communities. I will work to close racial and economic gaps in wealth and opportunity, hold institutions accountable when discrimination occurs, and push for sustained federal investment in communities that have been systematically underfunded and ignored. I will defend policies that expand opportunity, protect vulnerable communities, and ensure that the law works for everyone, not just the powerful.
The struggle for civil rights is not history. It is ongoing. Protecting civil rights means confronting racism, xenophobia, and inequality directly, and building systems that finally deliver justice, safety, and opportunity for Black, Latino, and immigrant communities across this country.
Protecting Voting Rights and the John Lewis Voting Rights Act
The right to vote has always been contested for Black Americans, and when voting rights are attacked for Black people, they are ultimately weakened for everyone. From poll taxes and literacy tests to modern voter suppression, the goal has been the same: concentrate power by silencing voices that challenge injustice.
The John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act is essential to restoring protections that were stripped away when the Supreme Court weakened the Voting Rights Act. This legislation would require states with histories of discrimination to prove that new voting laws do not harm voters before they take effect, protecting Black communities and strengthening democracy for all people.
Homes People Can Afford and Communities that Thrive
A good home is the foundation of dignity. I will work to expand the National Housing Trust Fund, grow Housing Choice Vouchers, and offer first-generation homebuyer credits so families can build wealth.
Humane, Modern Immigration Reform
I will fight for a path to citizenship for Dreamers, farmworkers, and long-term essential workers. Smart, technology-driven border security can stop drugs and trafficking without tearing families apart.
Healthcare as a Human Right
Health care should never depend on wealth. I will vote to move us toward Medicare for All, or Universal Healthcare and give Medicare the power to negotiate the cost of life saving medicines. Community health centers and mobile clinics with guaranteed language access will bring care to every neighborhood.
Defend Democracy and Demand Integrity
Democracy is not self-executing. It lives or dies by our choices. I will vote to codify Roe v. Wade, protect contraception, strengthen the Voting Rights Act, and end dark money. I will press for sweeping anti-corruption reforms including bans on congressional stock trading and strict limits on lobbyist influence because public trust is the backbone of a free society.
Honor and Support Veterans
As a Navy veteran, I know service does not end when the uniform comes off. I will fully fund VA health care, modernize clinics, and expand job training, entrepreneurship programs, and mental health and suicide prevention services for those who served.
Confront the Climate Crisis and Lead on Clean Energy
Climate action is both moral duty and economic opportunity. I will accelerate investment in renewable energy, energy storage, and next generation clean technologies. Rebuilding America’s energy grid and expanding electric vehicle infrastructure will create good paying jobs while protecting clean air, water, and public lands.
Why This Vision Inspires American Ingenuity
This campaign is about fairness and shared prosperity because people who work hard deserve decent wages, safe neighborhoods, health care they can trust, and a home they can afford.
It is about innovation and future readiness meeting the challenge of AI, automation, and climate change and ensuring that American science leads the world.
It is about ethics and democracy ending insider stock trades, dark money, and lobbyist dominance so government serves people, not the powerful.
It is about urgency and real world impact bringing technology to places left behind, reconnecting Democrats with working class voters, and delivering policies that touch daily life from housing and childcare to health care and clean energy.
Above all, it is about American ingenuity the belief that our creativity and determination can build a nation where everyone, in every community, shares in the promise of the future.
This is not typical political talk.
This is a call to action.
It is the work of building a country that is fair, fearless, and ready for what comes next.
