Our Vision of the Future
My platform puts people over profits, so we can build a country that works for all of us.
Universal Healthcare
Healthcare is a right, not a place for profits. It’s not enough to guarantee access to healthcare when so few Delawareans can afford to use it. No one should ever go into debt to stay healthy again. It’s time for a single payer system that provides comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and mental health care.
Core Policies
Medicare for All including comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and mental health care
Lower the price of prescription drugs by allowing our single payer system to negotiate with drug companies
Import drugs from other industrialized countries to lower prices and provide patients with more options
Hold pharmaceutical companies accountable for predatory practices and price gouging
Decommodify medical research and destroy patent monopolies
Combat the opioid crisis by holding manufacturers liable and requiring them to fund the treatment programs necessary to end the epidemic
Protect and expand abortion rights and reproductive health care, including repealing the Hyde Amendment
End medical bias and eradicate health disparities for people of color, LGBTQ+, indigenous, and rural communities
Equitable Education
Education creates opportunity, but years of funding cuts have crippled our public education system and hurt our students and teachers. The cuts have disproportionately affected low income students, students of color, and students with disabilities. We need to reestablish our public grade schools as community centers from which the strength of our neighborhoods grow and invest in debt-free college for all, no matter their zip code.
Core Policies
Make all public education free from childcare and pre-k to higher education
Cancel all existing student debt in the U.S., both public and private
Increase funding for schools and districts with students living in poverty and for students with disabilities
Shift our focus back to teaching, not testing
Increase teacher pay so no teacher has to struggle to survive and support teachers’ rights to collective bargaining
Guarantee free meals to students to ensure hunger isn’t a barrier to learning
Fund the wrap around services that support the whole child and make schools integral parts of communities—classroom supplies, nurses, counselors, social workers, and adult education or job training for parents
Expand after school and summer programming to ease the childcare burden on working families and create better outcomes for students
Housing as a Right
No one in Delaware should go without a safe and affordable home. We must combat real estate speculation and the development of luxury housing that only the wealthy can afford. By investing in affordable housing across the country, we can end homelessness, housing insecurity, and empower tenants to organize their own communities.
Core Policies
Invest heavily in federal housing programs
Build and redevelop the affordable housing units we need to eradicate homelessness and end the affordable housing crisis
Pass a Tenants’ Bill of Rights
Support first time homebuyers, particularly those from marginalized communities
Fight redlining and racial segregation
Stop predatory and subprime lending practices
Combating Climate Change
Climate change is an emergency at a global scale, and America needs to be a leader in combating it. Delaware’s beach towns and low lying Wilmington neighborhoods are already suffering from the effects of rising sea levels, and our state has some of the most polluted air and water in the country. We must transform our energy system and make corporations pay for their pollution and the damage they’ve caused.
Core Policies
Enact the Green New Deal and transform our energy system to end the extraction of and dependence on fossil fuels
Eliminate carbon emissions from our transportation system
Support climate justice by repairing the disproportionate environmental damage done in Indigenous, Black, and other minority communities
Rebuild our infrastructure to create green buildings and ensure it can withstand the ramifications of climate change we’re already facing
Provide assistance to states and municipalities that want to create publicly-owned, green utilities providers
Economic Justice
In our modern, wealthy society, no one should be too poor to live. Our economic, social, and political institutions have concentrated wealth and power amongst the elite few, while the other 99% of us are struggling to survive. Corporations and shareholders get richer and richer by gambling with our homes, health, environment, education, and future. We need to take power back from corporations and make sure that workers are in control of their own economic future.
Core Policies
Raise the minimum wage to a living wage of $15 with increases tied to inflation
Create a universal paid family leave program and guarantee sick leave to all workers
Increase democracy in workplaces through encouragement and support of unions and worker co-ops, pass card check legislation to expand union membership
Repeal Taft-Hartley and kill Right to Work legislation at the federal level
Use large-scale public works projects like the Green New Deal to guarantee federal jobs to anyone who wants one
End bad trade deals that ship jobs overseas, devalue labor, and destabilize other countries
Invest in and expand social security
Repeal the 2017 tax cuts for the country’s wealthiest people
Institute a more progressive tax system by increasing tax on the wealthiest Americans
End tax breaks to fossil fuel companies
End Mass Incarceration & Punitive Justice
Core Policies
Decarcerate our communities in favor of rehabilitation, restorative justice, and community corrections
Abolish cash bail
End mandatory minimum sentences
Remove the exclusions that prevent formerly incarcerated people from receiving government assistance (housing, student loans, employment opportunities)
End police brutality by divesting funding from police departments and investing in community-based services
Restore the right to vote for all currently and formerly incarcerated people
End the school-to-prison pipeline
Legalize marijuana, expunge the records of people convicted of federal marijuana crimes, and decriminalize all drugs
Decriminalize sex work & fully repeal SESTA/FOSTA
Protect Immigrants
Core Policies
Pass comprehensive immigration reform that protects Dreamers and creates a path to citizenship for those already in the country
End mass deportations and close the border camps
Expand refugee programs
Abolish ICE & replace it with a passport verification and control agency
Racial Justice
Core Policies
Reparations for slavery and for genocide of Indigenous peoples
Fully desegregate schools, ensure equitable and culturally competent education
Eradicate discrimination in housing, employment, finance, and healthcare institutions
Expand multilingual services and information at every level
End environmental racism and hold corporations accountable for polluting communities of color
Increase representation of people of color in education, government, and leadership positions
Disability Rights
We must ensure protections and a dignified standard of living for ALL people with disabilities, as well as caretakers. Our country must provide: universal healthcare, improved protections against workplace discrimination, fully funded Social Security programs, more accessible education and job training opportunities, and more rigorous ADA enforcement.
Core Policies
Include Long Term Supports & Services, both community and facility based care, in Medicare for All legislation
Expand Social Security, Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) and Supplemental Social Income (SSI) to a living wage
End all exceptions in wage laws and strengthen workplace protections for individuals with disabilities
Fund government programs to pay family caregivers for people with disabilities
Update the Americans with Disabilities Act with an increased focus on enforcement of ADA compliance
Overhaul our nation’s drug policies: ensure opioid pain management protections for those with chronic and debilitating pain, support funding for safe consumption and injection sites, and include alternative treatments to opiates in Medicare for All legislation.
LGBTQIA+ Rights
Our country and government must do more to protect LGBTQIA+ folks from discrimination in our systems and institutions. Problems such as lack of affordable medical care, housing insecurity, and mass incarceration disproportionately impact people in the queer community. We must strengthen federal anti-discrimination laws and enforcement, pass policies that guarantee every single person’s basic needs are met, and offer targeted support to LGBTQIA+ folks whose identities intersect with other marginalized communities.
Core Policies
Protect LGBTQIA+ youth by enacting a federal ban on conversion therapy, passing legislation to prevent discrimination for both children and families in the foster care and adoption systems, and passing national anti-bullying legislation
Ensure that gender-affirming surgery is covered as part of Medicare for All legislation
Include both sexual orientation and gender identity as protected classes under federal anti-discrimination laws, such as the Fair Housing Act
Properly fund federal agencies in charge of enforcing anti-discrimination laws
End the LGBTQIA+ youth homeless epidemic and guarantee housing as a right to all
Decarcerate our communities so that fewer LGBTQIA+ people are detained, and ensure that incarcerated transgender people are housed in accordance with their gender identity and have their medical needs fully met
Pass federal legislation to make it easier for trans people to change their gender on legal documents, as well as create a nonbinary option for gender on legal documents
Peace, Not War
Core Policies
Bring our troops home and cease our endless wars, drone strikes, and bombings that destabilize other countries, with the exception of supporting allies like the Syrian Defense Forces who ask for our help to combat invasion, oppression, and genocide
Massively scale back foreign military financing and cut off funding entirely for countries that continue to engage in human rights abuses
End our practice of overthrowing democratically-elected leaders in other countries
Support the right to peacefully protest human rights abuses abroad
End presidential authorization of military force
Close Guantanamo Bay
End economic sanctions and embargoes that disproportionately hurt the working class residents of affected countries
Pursue lasting peace for Palestinians and Israelis: one that uplifts the dignity and right to self-determination of Palestinians. I support ending the occupation of the West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem, equal and universal civil rights for all Palestinians and Israelis, and the ending of sanctions that are stripping Palestinians of the right to a healthy quality of life. I will support legislation to ensure that any aid the US gives to Israel is conditional on its compliance with international law
Make Wall Street Pay Their Fair Share
Core Policies
Increase corporate taxes
Raise capital gains and dividend taxes
Strengthen Dodd-Frank; reinstate Glass-Steagall
Implement a Wall Street speculation tax
Support public and community banks
Get Money Out of Politics
Core Policies
We refuse all corporate PAC, Pharma, and fossil fuel money
End Citizens United and advocate for a 28th Amendment
Move to public financing for campaigns
Hold Government Accountable
Core Policies
End warrantless privacy violations (Patriot Act, FISA, NDAA)
Expand whistleblower protections
Restore net neutrality
Pass an Internet Bill of Rights to protect our privacy and data