Candidate for U.S. House of Representatives - Illinois 8th Congressional District in 2022 Illinois Primary Election.
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Get StartedOppose all efforts to undermine or overturn Roe v. Wade, and pass legislation that enshrines abortion rights in federal law. Learn more
Fully fund Planned Parenthood, Title X, and other initiatives that protect women’s health, access to contraception, and the availability of safe and legal abortion. Learn more
Adopt equal pay for equal work through the Paycheck Fairness Act. Learn more
Immediately reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act. Learn more
Pass the Equal Rights Amendment. Learn more
We should pass a marriage equality act instead of hoping and praying a conservative Supreme Court doesn’t strip away this crucial right on a whim. Learn more
Restore the rights of transgender people to openly serve in the military. Learn more
Let’s recognize housing as a human right – and put a roof over the heads of the homeless LGBTQIA+ youth. Learn more
If we cut the special interests out of Medicare – we can save money for existing users while also expanding the program to cover LGBTQIA+ healthcare needs (like mental health services for youth, PREP, and, oh yeah, plain old healthcare). Learn more
Passing the Equality Act is a no-brainer. It’s already passed in the House twice (which should remind all of us that voting is the bare minimum; our elected officials must fight for the policies their constituents demand). Learn more
Reverse the criminalization of communities, end cycles of violence, provide support to survivors of crime, and invest in our communities. Learn more
Reform our decrepit & dysfunctional prison system, guarantee a “Prisoners Bill of Rights,” and ensure a just transition for incarcerated individuals upon their release. Learn more
Transform the way we police communities by ending the War on Drugs (whatever that even means), expunging past marijuana convictions, treating children who interact with the justice system as children, reversing the criminalization of addiction, and ending the reliance on police forces to handle mental health emergencies, homelessness, maintenance violations, and other low-level situations. Learn more
Cut the national prison population and end mass incarceration by repealing three-strikes laws and mandatory minimum sentences, and expanding the use of alternatives to detention. Learn more
Ensure due process and the right to counsel by increasing funding for public defenders and creating a federal formula to ensure populations have a minimum number of public defenders to meet their needs. Learn more
Make prison and jail communications, re-entry, diversion, and treatment programs fee-free. Learn more
End for-profit greed in our criminal justice system by banning for-profit prisons, detention centers, and cash bail. Learn more
Let’s fully fund public education. Learn more
Let’s fund HBCUs, minority-serving institutions, and trade schools. Learn more
Let’s cancel student debt and use the awesome power of the federal government to demand colleges and universities fix their broken tuition systems. Learn more
Let’s promise a better education system will provide College for All who want it…because, come on, we live and work in a 21st-century economy. Learn more
Let’s get our kids back into safe and supportive classrooms and address the social, emotional, and academic gaps that developed during the pandemic. Learn more
An economy designed to end the climate crisis. Learn more
An economy able to keep churning during global crises…so we can take care of ourselves when supply chains stop. Learn more
An economy that encourages companies to pay more of their profits to their low- and mid-wage employees than their CEOs, CFOs, and COO (we can use better tax policies to do this!). Learn more
Congress must lay out a 10-year plan that requires all companies selling goods and services in the United States to adhere to strict human rights policies, provide thriving wages, and maintain environmentally friendly practices – wherever they do business. Learn more
Congress must only approve trade agreements and treaties that uphold the highest standards of human rights; that embolden social justice across nations and build equity within nations; that disable planet-killing behavior. Learn more
Instituting an opt-out voter registration policy. Learn more
Making Election Day a national holiday (with its own ugly sweater tradition). Learn more
Recognizing what we all already know: partisan gerrymandering is stupid. Let’s stop that. Learn more
Restoring the Voting Rights Act. Learn more
Abolishing super PACs, and reminding the courts that corporations aren’t people. People are people…Actual people–not robots. Learn more
Helping politicians make better decisions by instituting congressional term limits. Learn more
Getting big money out of politics, publicly funding elections, and amplifying small-dollar donations. Learn more
We need to make sure all Americans have access to the treatments they need. That means, every Congressperson should be fighting to reduce the cost of prescription drugs. We know how to do this. All that is stopping us are the politicians taking money from big Pharma. Medicare must be allowed to negotiate with the drug companies. Learn more
About the special interests (the pharmaceutical industry, hospital groups…) who expect to earn a dollar (or several trillion) off any new healthcare bill? No. Just. No. Reform is affordable when we cut out the special interests. Learn more
Because Medicare works and is affordable to administer, let’s expand it to include dental, hearing, vision, home/community-based long-term care, mental health, substance abuse treatment, reproductive and maternity care, and prescription drugs. Learn more
No American should have to worry about housing (it’s a human right) – especially older Americans. We must cover homecare, and ensure every older person has access to high-quality housing. Learn more
We must regulate nursing home monopolies and abusive business practices – and create safer senior care and retirement communities. Learn more
If elected, I will speak up where others have been silent. I will lead an effort to write an Actual Immigration Policy that acknowledges everything that’s working in the current taped-together system and ends once and for all the systemic failures that harm immigrants, residents, and citizens alike. Learn more
Ensure family caregivers are eligible for compensation will reduce poverty among older adults, improve the quality of care, and infuse resources into the economy. Learn more
Medicare should cover all senior health care needs. Older Americans also need eyes, ears, and teeth. Learn more
Every day, we must fight to save and expand social security by making sure the wealthiest Americans contribute the same share of their income as everyone else Learn more
Expand the WIC program for pregnant mothers, infants, and children. Learn more
Let’s commit to supporting our children, seniors, friends, and family members with disabilities. Our country is too awesome to allow so many to fall through the cracks. Learn more
Let’s create millions (yep, millions) of high-paying jobs by not just rebuilding crumbling infrastructure–but by building new stuff that wasn’t designed in the 1800s and 1900s (high-speed rail for a start). Learn more
Let’s stop giving federal contracts to companies that pay poverty wages, engage in union-busting, deny good benefits, and pay CEOs outrageous compensation packages. Learn more
Let’s also empower workers to have more of a voice in their workplaces with labor laws that don’t suck. They include a majority sign-up process and first contract provisions to ensure companies cannot prevent a union from forming by denying them a first contract. Learn more
Let’s start by passing a $15/hour minimum wage. Learn more
Thriving Wage Commissions. These are committees of community stakeholders who represent the needs and interests of their friends, families, and neighbors who live within the same regional economy. Congress must empower them to determine what wage floors work for their communities…because every community is different. Learn more
A tax policy that favors businesses that send more of their revenue to low- and mid-wage workers than to the upper management and shareholders. Sure, we should tax big corporations and billionaires to pay for essential services. But doesn’t it also make sense to use tax policy to simply encourage big corporations to pay their workers more money?! Let’s do that. Learn more
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