Because nobody should be indebted to their employer just to stay alive; medical bankruptcies shouldn’t exist at all and should not be the number one leading cause of bankruptcy. No one should get between your doctor and your health, especially not politicians in Washington D.C.

To secure American elections for American Working Families we need to get money out of politics! We need to institute strict spending caps; stop unlimited corporate spending; get lobbyist money out of D.C.; stop congressional stock trading; and make it illegal to profit from being an elected representative of the people.

The cruel immigration system must be made humane, efficient, and transparent. ICE needs to have its jurisdiction reined in, it’s agents need to be repurposed, and strict oversight needs to be implemented but more than that, the system must be reformed. If you asked 10 different Americans what the “right” way to come to this country, you’d get 10 different answers. We need to open immigration centers with an obvious path for asylum seekers, places for visa processing, proper vetting, and timely processing. Leaving immigrants in a gray area has allowed for abuses which must be addressed and corrected.

Because working parents shouldn’t have to choose between their income and their children. It’s too expensive to raise a child in America, especially places with higher costs of living like in IL-08. 

Because a fair economy and good paying jobs starts with accessible education. We have a shortage of experienced tradespeople and blue-collar jobs used to be the number one way into the middle-class, now over 60% of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck; many of us are just struggling to survive, let alone go to school. 

We need to build more housing and faster; corporate landlords should not be able to own multiple properties; American houses should belong to the families that live in them. 

Kids in asthma-alley don’t get a second set of lungs. We need a hard clean-power deadline, affordable electric cars, and a New Civilian Conservation Corps to tear pollution down while building families up - we’ll be launching hundreds of thousands of environmental-focused union jobs. We refuse to hand our children a burning planet and call it “freedom. 

• NO NEW TAXES ON THE WORKING CLASS, THE MIDDLE CLASS, OR SMALL BUSINESSES 

• Make the 1% pay their fair share - an excise tax on the wealth of the top 1%, progressive taxes on those making over $100M 

• Make Wall Street pay their fair share - Speculation tax on high-dollar trades, tax corporate stock buybacks 

• Legalize Cannabis - Fully legalize and tax cannabis at the federal level 

• Automate Debt Ceiling - Stop letting politicians lower America’s credit score by shutting down government