AN ECONOMY THAT PUTS PEOPLE OVER PROFITS

    • We’ve never tolerated having a king rule our democracy, so why should we tolerate any ruling our economy. We must fight for a future where the value of our lives isn’t measured by a company’s profit margins, nor our humanity by the size of our bank account. We must fight for a future where all people can live dignified and fulfilling lives. Below is my brief platform — though not perfect — I believe will lead us in that direction.

  • No one should have to choose between medicine and rent, or work two jobs and still fall behind.
    A strong country makes sure everyone has healthcare, housing, and a fair chance to work and retire with dignity.
    When people are secure, they can plan, contribute, and thrive.

    Providing Healthcare for All

    • Provide guaranteed healthcare to everyone;

    • Provide access to home and community-based care for all who need it;

    • Guarantee coverage for dental, vision and hearing services;

    • End medical debt and medical bankruptcies;

    • Reduce administrative waste by $500 billion per year;

    • End price gouging by pharmaceutical companies; and

    • Put an end to corporations profiting off the sick.

    • Remove profit from healthcare entirely

    • No private gatekeepers

    • Healthcare as a public good, like fire departments

    Making Sure Everyone is Housed

    • Strong rent protections nationwide so families can stay in their homes. No sudden, massive rent hikes that push people out of their communities.

    • Right to a lawyer for anyone facing eviction. No one should lose their home just because they can’t afford legal help.

    • End unfair rental barriers. No credit-score traps or junk application fees. Cap screening at reasonable income standards so working people aren’t locked out.

    • Massive public investment in permanently affordable, non-market housing. Owned by public or community entities, not corporate landlords.

    • End zoning rules that block housing and keep neighborhoods segregated. Build walkable, transit-connected communities where people can actually live near jobs and schools.

    • Use public land for housing near transit and jobs. Stop wasting public space when people need places to live.

    Guaranteed Jobs with a Living Wage

    • Federal Job Guarantee with good pay and benefits. Public jobs in green infrastructure, caregiving, construction, disaster prevention, and community services.

    • 32-hour workweek with no cut in pay or benefits. Productivity has gone up for decades. Families deserve to thrive, not just survive.

    • If you work full-time, you can afford a home. Tie the minimum wage to local housing costs, inflation, and productivity so that rent for a modest one-bedroom stays under 30% of full-time pay.

    • Support small businesses during transitions. Phase in changes and provide public assistance so local employers can adapt and grow.

    Retiring with Dignity

    • Fully fund Social Security by lifting the cap on high incomes. Everyone pays their fair share so benefits stay strong for generations.

    • No tax on Social Security for most seniors. Retirement income shouldn’t be treated like luxury earnings.

    • Retire earlier. Live better. Lower the full retirement age to 64 and boost benefits so seniors can afford rent, groceries, and medical care without having to scrape by or work until death.

    • Expand senior services like Meals on Wheels and community programs. No elder should be isolated, hungry, or forgotten.

    • Ban private equity from gambling with pension funds. Retirement savings should be safe, not feeding Wall Street speculation.

  • Most Americans work hard and play by the rules.
    But right now, the tax code rewards wealth more than work and lets the biggest corporations avoid paying their fair share.
    A fair economy means everyone contributes. And the money we raise goes back into our communities, not into more corporate handouts.

    • Make the Wealthy and Powerful Pay What They Owe

      • Close the loopholes that let the ultra-rich dodge taxes. End special breaks like carried interest, golden parachutes, and offshore tricks that reward executives while everyone else pays full freight.

      • Tax real wealth, not just wages. A modest wealth tax — starting at 1% over $2.5 million and rising for the very largest fortunes — plus a tax on unrealized gains so massive wealth can’t grow forever without being taxed. No more “buy, borrow, die.”

    • Take Essential Services Out of the Profit Machine. When “shareholders” run essentials, prices go up and quality goes down (e.g. SDG&E, 2008 Housing Collapse).

      • Put key infrastructure in community hands. Shift energy, transit, and major logistics toward public and worker-community ownership with democratic boards. Build for reliability and affordability, not shareholder payouts.

      • Stop private equity from ripping off the public. Block speculative firms from extracting profits from hospitals, housing, utilities, and public services.

    • Back everyday Americans and their Communities with Real Investment

      • Create public banks and public lending. Low-cost capital for worker co-ops, small businesses, municipal projects, and permanently affordable housing. Allow communities to build without Wall Street taking a cut.

      • Invest in people, not corporate giveaways. Prioritize spending on jobs, care, housing, and climate. Stop giving handouts to corporations and the rich. Protect Medicare and Medicaid and reject austerity cuts that shift costs and accountability onto families.

    • Change the Rules of the Economy

      • Overturn Dodge v. Ford and require companies to prioritize the well-being of their workers, consumers, communities, and the environment, over maximizing profits.

      • Require every legislator and local authority to reduce economic inequality.

      • Build an economy that is sustainable, and operates without destroying clean air, clean water, and a stable climate.

      • Hold corporations legally accountable when profit comes from harm. Businesses should be responsible for the people who work there, the communities they operate in, and the world our kids will grow up in. Profit should never come before life.

  • Education and healthcare shouldn’t depend on your income, your job, or your zip code.
    They are the foundation of a strong society and a strong economy.
    When we treat them as public goods instead of profit opportunities, everyone does better — kids learn more, families stay healthier, and communities grow stronger.

    • Education: Actually Invest in Our Future

      • Rebuild public schools for the 21st century with big, sustained investment. Safe buildings, modern classrooms, and up-to-date technology in every community.

      • Put teachers first: better pay, smaller class sizes, and real support. Great schools start with respected, well-supported educators.

      • Focus on learning, not endless testing. More equity, less high-stakes exams, and education that builds curious, capable people (Model after Finland).

      • Make public college truly free. Tuition, fees, and room and board covered at community colleges and state schools.

      • Cancel student debt and offer public refinancing for private loans. Education should open doors for our children, not trap them in decades of debt.

      • Stop draining public schools to fund private vouchers. Invest in strong public schools so every child can thrive, no matter their zip code.

      • Expand career and trade pathways and lifelong learning. Paid apprenticeships, job training, and education that keeps pace with a changing economy.

    • Health: Care for People, Not Corporations

      • Treat addiction as healthcare, not a crime. Expand treatment, harm reduction, and recovery services so people get help, not punishment.

      • Massively expand mental health care. More counselors, school-based services, and crisis response that actually shows up when needed.

      • Protect public health before profits. Remove or restrict chemicals and products that threaten health until they’re proven safe.

      • Grow the healthcare workforce. Remove unnecessary training bottlenecks and licensing barriers so more clinicians can serve patients.

      • Lower costs by strengthening public options and prevention. Fewer surprise bills, clear pricing, and care that keeps people healthy instead of just treating emergencies.

    • Keep Wall Street out of classrooms and hospitals. When investors run essential services, cutting costs becomes more important than caring for people.

      • Ban private equity from buying schools, hospitals, nursing homes, and childcare centers.

      • Require full transparency when public services are run by private contractors.

      • Require safe staffing for all hospitals + prevent the projected shortage of 86,000 physicians in 2036.

        • Achieved by expanding publicly funded residency slots and directing them to the places that need care, rebuild community-based training, cancel crushing medical debt, and stop private equity from stripping our hospitals. Effectively turning our shortage into real care.

    • Make schools and clinics community anchors. When services work together, families don’t fall through the cracks.

      • Schools that also offer health care, meals, tutoring, and family services.

      • Clinics that coordinate with housing, food, and social services.

    • Invest where harm has been concentrated. Where communities were hit hardest, that’s where we should invest first.

      • Target funding to schools and hospitals in under-resourced and high-pollution areas.

      • Repair damage from environmental exposure and medical neglect.

  • Economic mobility shouldn’t depend on who your parents were, what zip code you grew up in, or whether you had one bad year.
    Right now, too many families are working hard and still falling behind, not because they failed, but because the system makes basic needs expensive and opportunity risky.
    These policies are about making it easier to build a stable, healthy life while making the necessary public investments to prevent families from having to constantly recover from crises after crises.

    • Free, public childcare (ages 0–12), pre-K, eldercare, and disability supports — run locally and paid caregivers get good wages.

    • Generous, job-protected paid parental leave for everyone (modeled after Sweden), so families can bond without losing income.

    • A national literacy drive to end functional illiteracy and boost job/life skills for adults and kids.

    • Free afterschool programs, teen centers, and youth services, with a nationwide buildout of safe “third places” for young adults to learn, work, and connect.

    • Require supermarkets to donate all unsold, safe-to-eat food to people in need.

    • A National Lifetime Opportunity Account for every newborn — a federal seed deposit that grows into a career & wealth account for school, a home (shared-equity), a business start-up, or retirement; matched credits help families with the least.

    • Replace secret, profit-driven credit scoring with fair rules: ban scores from deciding housing, utilities, or basic services; create public, non-profit lending; cap interest and fees; make approvals simple and explainable; and auto-repair credit after real hardship.

    • Freedom to Get Where You Need to Go

      Mobility is part of economic freedom. If you can’t get to work, school, or healthcare, you don’t really have opportunity.

      • Universal, free, high-quality public transit nationwide. Free metro and HSR systems in cities and reliable shuttles in rural areas.

      • Publicly owned and operated as a service, not for profit.

      • Convert major highway corridors into high-speed rail where feasible.

      • Redesign city streets for fast, safe buses, bikes, and pedestrians. Good transit and city planning saves families money, cuts pollution, and opens access to jobs and education.

  • Climate change is dangerous, but corporate control over energy and infrastructure is what makes it deadly.
    When profits come before safety, people pay the price.

    • Lower Costs by Taking Essentials Out of the Profit System

      • Put water, electricity, and internet into public hands. Cut out profit-seekers and middlemen, and reinvest savings into better service and lower monthly bills.

      • Run essential services for reliability and affordability, not shareholder payouts. When the goal is service, not profit, everyone wins.

    • Build a Clean Energy Economy with Good Local Jobs

      • Move quickly off fossil fuels by building clean energy at scale. Create stable, union jobs in manufacturing, construction, maintenance, and operations.

      • Lead with renewables — solar, wind, and energy storage — the fastest and cheapest power we have. Use modern nuclear responsibly as steady, carbon-free backup where it makes sense and meets strict safety standards.

      • Keep energy investment local. Community and worker ownership so clean energy wealth stays in the community instead of flowing to distant corporations.

    • Modernize Infrastructure for a Hotter, More Extreme World

      • Harden the grid and prevent outages and fires. Bury vulnerable power lines, upgrade transmission, and invest in wildfire and storm protection.

      • Cool and protect our neighborhoods. Green roofs, shade trees, heat-resistant buildings, and flood-resilient streets that protect seniors and kids.

      • Design infrastructure to withstand tomorrow’s storms, not yesterday’s weather.

    • Build Cities Around People, Not Cars

      • Shorter trips, safer streets, and better public transit. Make it easier to live near work, school, and services.

      • More walkable, mixed-use neighborhoods. Cleaner air, healthier communities, and lower transportation costs.

    • Protect the Natural Systems That Protect Us

      • Give ecosystems legal protections/personhood (Rights Of Nature) so they can’t be treated as dumping grounds. Clean water, healthy forests, and strong wetlands protect communities from floods, fires, and pollution.

      • Support Indigenous and local stewardship. Fund the people who have protected these lands for generations.

    • Prepare Now So Disasters Don’t Become Catastrophes

      • Invest in strong early-warning systems and emergency response. No community should be left in the dark during fires, floods, or heat waves.

      • Build region-specific protections. Flood control where flooding is rising, fire prevention where drought is worsening, heat protection where summers are deadly.

  • Human beings want to build, care, solve problems, and be useful to one another. What breaks people down isn’t work, it’s an economy that treats workers like disposable tools while a small few reap the rewards. A democracy that stops at the ballot box is incomplete. We must extend democracy into the economy itself.

    • Protect the Right to Organize

      • Make it easier and safer to form unions. Strong penalties for retaliation, faster union elections, and real enforcement when companies break the law.

      • Strengthen the National Labor Relations Board. Give it the funding and authority to actually protect workers, not just issue warnings.

      • Require strong labor standards on public projects. Fair wages, local hiring, and safe working conditions for any job paid for with public money.

    • Make Work Rewarding

      • When companies succeed, workers should share in the profits. Profit-sharing and worker ownership so success isn’t reserved for the top. If workers create the value, they should benefit from it.

      • Support employee-owned and cooperative businesses. Help workers buy out retiring owners and keep jobs rooted in the community.

    • Support Workers Through Change

      • Strong job-loss protections and fast retraining. Paid transition support, free job training, and placement services so layoffs don’t become long-term hardship.

      • Public investment in new industries and local job creation. Especially in communities hit by plant closures or automation. People shouldn’t be thrown away when the economy shifts.

    • Benefits That Follow You, Wherever You Work

      • Create a National Portable Benefits System. Health coverage, paid leave, retirement savings, and training accounts that move with you from job to job, including freelancers and gig workers.

      • No more losing healthcare or stability because you change jobs. Security should belong to people, not employers.

    • A Worker Bill of Rights

      • Guaranteed basics at every workplace: Paid sick leave, predictable schedules, fair pay, protection from retaliation, and time to care for family.

      • Strong enforcement, not just promises on paper. Dignity at work shouldn’t depend on where you happen to be employed.

  • Our economy exists to serve people, not trick them.

    • Protect Families from Disaster and Corporate Abandonment

      • Create public home insurance and reinsurance. So families aren’t dropped or priced out after wildfires, floods, or climate disasters.

      • Guarantee coverage where private insurers refuse to serve. No one should lose their home because Wall Street decided it wasn’t profitable. Insurance exists to spread risk, not to abandon people when they need it most.

    • Ban Predatory Business Practices

      • No surprise fees, junk charges, or price gouging. What you see is what you pay — period.

      • Ban products designed to break early just to force repeat purchases.

      • Require clear, honest pricing and plain-language contracts. Taxes included on price tags, clear bills, and no fine-print traps. Exploitation hides behind complexity, simplicity protects people.

    • Right to Repair and Product Durability

      • Require products to be repairable, durable, and clearly labeled. People should be able to fix what they own instead of constantly replacing it.

      • End manufacturer lock-outs that block independent repair.

    • End Corporate Self-Dealing

      • Ban stock buybacks. Companies should invest in workers, innovation, and lower prices, not inflate executive pay. When corporations prioritize extraction, consumers and workers pay the price.

      • Tie executive compensation to long-term performance and worker outcomes.

    • Real Competition, Not Corporate Control

      • Aggressive antitrust enforcement. When a few companies control entire industries, they control prices and politics.

      • Break up mega-banks and mega-corporations.

      • Ban mergers that reduce competition or raise prices.

    • Rein in Wall Street Risk

      • Restore strong financial safeguards. Keep everyday savings from being gambled on Wall Street.

      • Refocus banks on serving communities, not speculation. The economy should be stable for the many, not risky for the benefit of a few.

    • Protect People in the Digital Economy

      • Establish a Digital Bill of Rights. Protect privacy, personal data, and digital identity.

      • Ban the sale of personal data and heavily regulate surveillance and AI technologies.Surveillance corporations like Palantir profit by tracking our movements, our purchases, our conversations, and even our faces. Their goal isn’t safety, it’s about control and profit.

      • Set clear rules for powerful tech companies so new technologies serve people, not exploit them. Your data is your property, not a corporate resource.

      • Democratically control all data centers above a specific size to prevent a techno feudalist future. Managing data and processing should be a public affair.

        • Couple with localized data handling to ensure regulation.

    • Fair Taxes That don’t punish Homeowners

      • Replace unfair property taxes with a land value system. Reward homeowners, discourage speculation, and fund housing and local services. People should be taxed on unearned land gains, not punished for improving their homes.

  • Real safety means strong communities, fair laws, and real accountability, not more punishment. We prevent harm best when people have stability, opportunity, and trust that our government has our back when times gets tough.

    • Accountability at Every Level

      • Hold politicians, corporations, and agencies accountable for corruption and serious crimes. No one is above the law, not CEOs, not public officials, nor corporations. Justice should be based on facts and fairness, not bank accounts.

        • Conduct a full, independent investigation into the Epstein files and prosecute all individuals involved where the evidence leads. Abuse and exploitation cannot be ignored or protected, accountability is non-negotiable.

      • Protect whistleblowers and strengthen independent investigations. Abuse only survives when people are afraid to speak up.

    • Fair Courts, Not Pay-to-Play

      • End cash bail. Freedom before trial should depend on risk, not on how much money you have.

      • End mandatory minimum sentences. Judges should consider the full situation of each case, not follow one-size-fits-all punishments.

      • End civil asset forfeiture without a conviction. Police should not be allowed to take people’s property without proving a crime in court.

    • Right-Sized, Community-Focused Public Safety

      • Demilitarize policing and end the use of military-grade weapons. Safety grows from trust and services, not intimidation.

      • Hold officers accountable for misconduct. Police must carry liability insurance, lose pay for repeated abuses, and face real consequences. No more taxpayer bailouts or pension protections for harming the public.

        • End qualified immunity. Police and government officials must be accountable for breaking the law. No more legal shields that protect abuse while the most vulnerable pay the price.

      • Fund trained community responders for mental health, addiction, and crisis calls. Not every emergency needs a gun, many need medical care or social support.

      • Create strong civilian oversight boards with real power. Communities deserve transparency and accountability when harm happens.

    • End Mass Incarceration, Repair Harm, Reduce Reoffending

      • Close private prisons and end incentives that reward incarceration.

      • Reinvest savings into housing, jobs, treatment, and education. Punishment alone doesn’t fix what caused the harm, only prevention does.

      • Expand restorative and transformative justice programs. Hold people accountable while helping them repair harm and rejoin society. Use the systems that have cut crime in countries such as Norway.

    • Stop Criminalizing Kids in Poverty

      • End the school-to-prison pipeline. Fully fund counselors, afterschool programs, job pathways, and youth services.

      • Expand anti-poverty programs that reduce crime before it starts. When society abandons people early, it pays far more later.

    • Protect Survivors and End Exploitation

      • Ban child marriage nationwide.

      • Implement a federal age of consent of 18

      • Strengthen anti-trafficking laws with survivor-centered investigations.

      • Create independent oversight so powerful people can’t bury abuse cases. Justice means protecting the vulnerable and holding abusers accountable — no matter their status.

    • Repairing Historic and Ongoing Harm

      • Commit to full reparations and targeted investments in communities harmed by systemic exclusion. That means housing, schools, healthcare, and job access where harm was concentrated. Ignoring past injustice locks inequality into the future, copmounding pain and suffering.

  • People move to survive, to work, and to keep their families safe. A fair country doesn’t punish that. A fair country manages it humanely, legally, and in a way that strengthens communities for everyone.

    • Bring People Out of the Shadows

      • Immediate and full legal status for undocumented neighbors. With full access to work permits, healthcare, education, and social services.

      • End mass deportations that tear families apart and destabilize communities. When people can live and work legally, wages go up, exploitation goes down, and communities are safer.

    • Replace Fear-Based Enforcement with Real Solutions

      • Abolish ICE and redirect funding to lawful documentation and community support.

        ICE enforcement is often described as “lawful,” but it is anything but. Selective policing based on race and economic precarity is an efficient way to discipline labor, silence dissent, and maintain a permanent underclass. History shows that when the state cannot—or will not—solve economic injustice, it turns to repression instead. You don’t build stability by terrorizing the most vulnerable, you lend a helping hand.

      • Create fast, simple, and affordable legal pathways to residency and citizenship.

    • Protect Workers So No One Gets Undercut

      • Strong labor protections for all workers, regardless of status. Ensure bosses can’t use immigration status to threaten or underpay people.

      • Real penalties for employers who exploit undocumented labor.

    • Invest in Communities, Not Detention Systems

      • Reinvest savings from detention and deportation into housing, schools, clinics, and job programs.

      • Support cities and rural towns with resources to welcome and integrate new residents. Communities thrive when resources go to people, not prison contractors.

      This is not about “open borders.”
      It’s about ending a system that benefits traffickers, exploitative employers, and detention contractors while hurting working families on all sides.

  • Real security isn’t tanks or bombs. Real security is schools, hospitals, jobs, clean water, and a planet that’s safe to live on.
    We need a foreign policy that protects people, not profits, and holds those who profit from war accountable.

    • Cut Wasteful Military Spending

      • Stop the endless military expansion and foreign adventures. Redirect taxpayer dollars to schools, healthcare, jobs, climate resilience, and public safety. The billions wasted on war would fix theproblems at home.

      • Bring troops home and close all overseas bases. Focus on communities here, not nation-building abroad.

      End the war economy

      • Repeal the open-ended 2001 AUMF. Congress must approve any overseas military action, with clear limits and expiration dates.

      • Accountability for war profiteers. No special treatment: defense contractors, CEOs, and policymakers should face the same rules as everyone else.

      • Replace forever-war thinking with policies that protect people: community safety, diplomacy, and smart international cooperation. Wars for profit, endless bases, and unchecked military contractors make the world more dangerous.

      Diplomacy and Peace First

      • Invest in diplomacy, conflict prevention, and peacebuilding. Fund mediators, local-led reconstruction, and humanitarian aid, not tanks and bombs.

      • Lead with aid, relationships, and rebuilding, not aggression. Protect civilians first, governments second.

      • Stop unconditional support for nations and companies that violate human rights. Tie U.S. aid to clear human-rights standards and immediate humanitarian relief.

        • No country should get a free pass to bomb civilians, starve families, or occupy people just because they’re our ally.

        • U.S. tax dollars should never fund war crimes. If any government — including Israel — is violating human rights, military aid stops, weapons sales stop, and humanitarian aid takes priority.

        • Anyone who helped make those crimes possible should be held legally accountable, no matter who, or how powerful they are.

          • Accountability must include:

            • state officials (foreign and domestic)

            • defense contractors

            • financial institutions

      • End sweeping sanctions that harm ordinary people. Use targeted measures and diplomacy to avoid unnecessary suffering.

      Protect Future Generations

      • Gen Z will not participate in War. Our generation will not be used as cannon fodder for corporate profit, nor will any other child yet to be of draft age. No person should be sent to die so CEOs, weapons contractors, and politicians can get richer. If a war is truly necessary, then the people who profit from it should carry the risk — not working families. We refuse to treat the children of other countries as our enemies when we share the same future on this planet.

        • If war makes you rich, you should be the one sent to fight it.

      • Global push for total nuclear disarmament. Reduce arsenals and treat the planet as sacred, not expendable.

  • Democracy should mean that everyday people actually have a say. Not once every few years, but in the decisions that shape our jobs, our neighborhoods, and our future.
    Right now, too many people feel shut out while big donors and corporations get special access. That isn’t because voters don’t care, it’s because the system makes it hard for regular people to be heard.
    These reforms are about opening the doors back up.

    • Workplace Democracy. If you spend most of your life at work, but have no voice there, then your democracy is incomplete.

      • Give workers the right to form unions without intimidation.

      • Require worker representation on large corporate boards.

      • Support worker cooperatives where employees own and run the business together.

    • Free and Independent Media. You can’t have a real democracy if a handful of corporations are controlling the conversation.

      • Break up media monopolies so a few companies don’t control what we see and hear.

      • Fund strong public media that serves communities, not advertisers.

      • Protect local journalism and nonprofit newsrooms.

    • Make Participation in Democracy Possible

      • Election Day = national holiday; expanded early voting; childcare at polls.

      • Guaranteed paid time off to vote and attend civic meetings.

      • Free childcare at polling places and public hearings.

      • Universal suffrage: restore voting for people with convictions, extend voting to permanent residents, and make D.C. a state.

      • Automatic voter registration, same-day registration, and pre-paid postage for mail ballots.

      • Synchronize House & Senate elections to reduce perpetual campaigning, shorten the fundraising cycle, improve turnout, and let voters judge Congress as a whole.

    • Stop corporations from owning the process by making elections publicly funded.

      • Federal matching funds for small donations

      • Strict caps on total campaign spending

      • Free TV and digital ad time for candidates

    • Ban the revolving door. You shouldn’t be able to write laws for an industry, then take a job from that same industry.

      • 10–15 year bans on lobbying after leaving office

      • Lifetime bans on lobbying agencies you once regulated

    • Strip corporate money out of lobbying. No more paid access to lawmakers.

      • Cap lobbying spending

      • Ban lobbyist-drafted legislation

      • Public logs of every meeting involving the office

    • Replace the Electoral College with a national popular vote.

    • Implement a constitutional amendment to make housing, healthcare (including abortion), childcare, parental leave, human centric cities, education, clean food & water, electricity, internet, a healthy environment and a living wage job constitutional rights.

    • Make Courts Serve the Public, Not Politics.

      • Set term limits so no one holds power for life.

      • Expand the court to reduce political capture.

      • Prevent courts from blocking basic rights like healthcare and voting.

    • Tie congressional pay to the median American’s income. Remove all special privileges. Have our congresspersons make legislation from the lived experience of everyday Americans.

      • Remove pensions, tax loopholes, and other perks that separate representatives from ordinary life; require real-time public disclosure of contributions & expenditures.

    • End lying in government: criminal penalties and removal from office for representatives who knowingly deceive the public about matters that affect people’s lives.

      • In every society, power depends on narrative control. When those in office are permitted to lie with impunity, democracy becomes theater and policy becomes fraud. Criminal accountability for deliberate deception is not censorship; it is the minimum safeguard against rule by manipulation.

    • Citizens’ Assemblies Chosen by Lottery (like Jury duty but for Democracy).

      • Regular citizen panels to help write and review major legislation.

      • Paid, trained, and protected from corporate influence.

      • Works alongside elected officials to keep policy grounded in real life.

    • Expand the number of seats in the House of Representatives (ex. Wyoming rule) and end the Senate filibuster.

    • Allow those who would fight to have democratic say over declarations of war.

    • Overturn Citizens v. United and remove the ultra-wealthy ability to further manipulate politics; Pass a constitutional amendment declaring that money is not speech and corporations are not people. In addition, overturn Dodge v. Ford that prioritizes profits over the well being of people.

    • Set the voting age to 16.