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the issues

medicare for all

  • Guarantee quality healthcare as a human right. You deserve good, universal healthcare without mountains of debt.  
  • Make life saving medications affordable. Allow generic versions, imports, and Medicare price negotiation for critical drugs like Insulin. It's time to end the racket of prescription drug overpricing in America.
  • Train more doctors and expand healthcare to include dental, vision, hearing, mental, and long-term care.

Equality for all

  • Same Sex Marriage Recognition across the continental United States and territories. 
  • Total Ban on Conversion Therapy in the US and Territories
  • Extended Protections for the Trans Community including the investigation into the deaths of Transgender citizens and prosecute as hate crimes. 
  • Champion for the Health and Wellbeing of LGBTQ+ People in Every Country

Real public safety

  • Strengthen the George Floyd Policing Act
  • Hold Law Enforcement officials accountable: protect courageous police whistleblowers, punish police misconduct, and make all misconduct public.  
  • Reallocate resources to support proven community-based violence prevention, professional mental healthcare responders, (staff trained in handling neurodivergent residents and drug overdose care) and successful Housing First programs. 
  • 3 R's Retrain, Re-educate, Reallocate
  • Commit the United States to never starting a nuclear war.
  • Common-sense Gun Laws Ending gun show loopholes, require extensive background checks before purchasing firearms, increase hour requirements for gun safety courses.

feed people not prisons

  • Eliminate Cash Bail
  • Investing in Our Returning Citizens Give returning citizens the resources and tools that they need to succeed when they return to society.
  • Rehabilitation, not Incarceration Fund Diversion Programs centered on rehabilitation, and free and expunge the records for low level, non-violent drug offenders  
  • Legalize Marijuana Expunge marijuana convictions, allow the sale of marijuana to become a taxable industry and ensure revenue gets re-invested into communities hit hardest by the war on drugs
  • End the School to Prison Pipeline 

Worker rights

  • Protect Workers from wage theft, harassment, and no-cause firing
  • Raise the Minimum Wage to a living wage, tie it to the cost of living, and provide tax credits for small businesses to more easily adopt it
  • Pass the "Protecting the Right to Organize" (PRO) Act
  • Incentivize bringing jobs back to America
  • Let Labor Unions Negotiate for Workers on a National Scale

a Fair economy

  • Restore the Corporate Tax Rate to 40%  
  • Reopen Public Banking  
  • Cap credit card and consumer loan interest rates at 15% - no one deserves a lifetime of paying runaway debt far beyond what they originally borrowed
  • Invest in Science and Technology Jobs Provide training programs to keep up with rapidly growing technological industries.

Education for all

  • Fully fund our public schools
  • Cancel student loan debt
  • Invest in debt-free college, trade school, and vocational training     
  • Remove third-party corporate paywalls to science and ensure publicly funded research is publicly available                                                                                 

housing for all

  • Rent and mortgage stability. Cap mortgage interest rates and rent increases at a reasonable rate that people can actually afford to pay. Provide waivers for expenses incurred from upgrading living spaces.
  • Build quality, green, affordable housing. 
  • Ban no cause evictions and utility shutoffs, and allow tenants to unionize. 
  • Regulate the buying of homes by both foreign and domestic private equity firms.
  • Give Communities a Voice in New Construction Projects

GREEN NEW DEAL

  • Guarantee Clean Air and Water For Every Person
  • Provide Green Jobs guarantee free job training for fossil-fuel industry works to help transition to green jobs.
  • Upgrade Our Infrastructure 
  • Invest in Clean Energy Initiatives  Fund projects that focus on clean energy such as solar and wind energy. 
  • Create an Green Energy Fund that invests in green businesses and pays a substantial dividend to every resident with the profits generated
  • Commit to Bold Action to Resolve the Climate Crisis
  • Protect and restore our great outdoors, and preserve our beaches, lands, and waterways 
  • Reinvest in Florida Agriculture End Florida Food Deserts by allowing local farmers to sell directly, Reinvest in Florida Citrus 

VOTING RIGHTS

  • Free Voter ID and Same-Day Voter Registration 
  • End Citizens United 
  • Ban Changes of Election Boards during Election Years Restrict the removal of Election Board officials during Election Years. 
  • Empower Citizens to Introduce Ballot Measures Allow citizens to design and promote ballot initiatives on the local and federal level. 
  • Automatic Voter Registration at 18

ROADMAP TO CITIZENSHIP

  • New Americans are our friends, family, and neighbors. We need to create a fair and simple road to citizenship.
  • Ensure Human Rights focused border governance. 
  • Keep families together and ensure every person gets legal representation and a fair trial. 
  • Help Repair and Re-Invest in countries affected negatively by US involvement.
  • Protecting DACA and the citizens who depend on it. 

INTERNATIONAL AND VETERAN AFFAIRS

  • Aid, not bombs. Ensure humanitarian aid after times of war or natural disaster. Ending the armament of Authoritarian Regimes. Work towards a global disarmament of nuclear weapons. 
  • Fund Diplomacy Reinvest in Diplomacy. Create a Department of Peace to work within the UN to rebuild relationships with other countries, supply humanitarian aid, and work towards global peace.
  • Protect Human Rights.
  • Increased Support of VA Hospitals To make sure that VA Hospitals are fully equipped to address the needs of our Active and Veteran service members, both physically and mentally  and in a timely manner. 
  • Address the Homeless Veteran situation. 

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