Abdul El-Sayed
Platform alignment: 28 of 28 assessed commitments align with the platform's published asks — Mostly aligns with the platform. Editorial assessment; every mark cites its ask, and unmarked commitments are subjects the platform takes no position on.
1 Human-Centered Democracy & Equal Representation
“I believe that congressional districts should be drawn by a federal nonpartisan committee of experts who are appointed for defined terms on a rolling basis and who work alongside the U.S. Census Bureau, similar to the Federal Reserve Board.”
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“That’s why I’ll protect the rights of all Americans, regardless of where they live, where their parents came from, how—or if—they pray, their sexual orientation, gender identity, how old they are, or how much money they make.”
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“I support Supreme Court reform, including ending the life-time appointments, imposing limited terms, and allowing the same number of appointments for each presidential term.”
Also stated as Supreme Court Reform
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“That’s why I’m the only candidate running for U.S. Senate in Michigan that has never taken a dime of corporate money–and never will.”
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“And I stand against the weaponization of the state to stamp out or intimidate peaceful protest, including the freedom to boycott.”
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“That’s why I believe that the right to speak against your government’s actions and to peacefully protest them are sacrosanct.”
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“Voters should be automatically registered to vote when they turn eighteen and reregistered automatically when they move.”
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“I oppose mandatory Voter ID laws like the “SAVE Act” that impose unnecessary barriers to citizens voting.”
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“In addition, I support banning outside spending through corporate 501(c)4s, SuperPACs, and 527 groups.”
abdulforsenate.com · captured 2026-08-06
“I support banning outside spending through corporate 501(c)4s, SuperPACs, and 527 groups.”
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“I support legislation to overturn the disastrous Citizens United Supreme Court decision.”
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“I also support public election funding and campaign spending caps.”
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“I believe that it is antidemocratic and should be abolished.”
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“And we need no-reason absentee and early in-person voting.”
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“Banning Corporate Money in Politics”
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“Election days should be holidays.”
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“Ending Gerrymandering”
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“Making Voting Easier”
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2 A Government That Works
“Appointments to critical leadership roles such as CDC Director, FDA Commissioner, and NIH Director should be similar to those for the FBI Director and Federal Reserve: they should be fixed-term appointments that cannot be removed except under specific circumstances.”
abdulforsenate.com · captured 2026-08-06
“Further, any and all appointments to critical public health bodies, such as the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, should be made with the expressed consent of the Senate to protect their integrity.”
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“as your Senator, Abdul will fight to build a government that works for you, not Elon Musk, Donald Trump, or their billionaire friends.”
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“Abdul's priorities will be to get money out of politics, put money in your pocket, and pass Medicare for All.”
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“Abdul will get money out of politics, put money in your pocket, and pass Medicare for All.”
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“Abolishing the Filibuster”
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3 The Foundations of a Dignified Life
“I'll fight for a federal water guarantee that every family has access to at least 50 gallons of clean water per person per day (the basic minimum needed to drink, cook, and bathe) with water bills capped at 2% of household income and ironclad protections against shutoffs for families who can't afford to pay.”
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“I protected children in Detroit from lead in their schools, and I believe that we need a massive investment in school infrastructure–the buildings and community spaces that are so critical to the safety and security of children in the place we leave them, most of the day, most of the year.”
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“I also support more investment in paraprofessionals, including nurses, psychologists, social workers, and behavioral health specialists, so that all students have access to wraparound services that are critical to ensuring a healthy and productive learning environment.”
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“I support expanding that law to empower Medicare to negotiate prices for every single prescription drug, negotiate prices far earlier after drugs hit the market, and extend the ability to negotiate prices to all patients, not just those on Medicare.”
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“In addition, I believe in expanding funding for America’s HBCUs, community colleges, and trade schools, recognizing that these have been the engine of social mobility for generations of young people locked out of other forms of higher education.”
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“Rather than gutting the Department of Education, I will support public schools, protect the civil rights of children, respect and invest in our educators and staff, and fight to guarantee high-quality public education for all.”
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“Further, I oppose any effort to criminalize certain medications and the use of lawfare or funding cuts to stop healthcare providers from providing full-spectrum healthcare that meet all the needs of their diverse communities.”
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“The federal government has failed to care for students with disabilities and special needs and I believe we should fulfill our obligation to finally fully fund the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.”
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“I will fight to expand Medicare to cover all necessary healthcare, including vision, dental, and hearing, and extend it to every single American from cradle to grave without premiums, copays, or deductibles.”
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“That’s why I believe that every student deserves a debt-free and tuition-free pathway toward the skills they need to thrive, be that a two-year apprenticeship or a four-year college education and beyond.”
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“Rather than gut critical institutions like the CDC, FDA, and Health Resources & Services Administration, I believe in reinvesting and reforming them so that they are better fit for the 21st century.”
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“And healthcare providers should be protected from undue coercion by the government to provide data or to provide, or not provide, healthcare they deem necessary for their patients.”
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“Public school should be truly public–and I oppose efforts to privatize public education through vouchers and other programs intended to move public money into private pockets.”
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“Healthcare data must remain private, and state and federal government should have no right to access your data unless it's for the purposes of providing you healthcare.”
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“I’ll also fight to close the Social Security payroll tax cap to make sure the rich pay their fair share so that Social Security stays solvent well into the future.”
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“I’ll work alongside our unions to fund and expand vocational and apprenticeship training opportunities so that every American has a pathway to expand their skills.”
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“That starts with universal childcare, universal pre-K, and public K-12 education that is comprehensive, empowering, and tailored to kids’ unique needs.”
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“To cap the runaway inflation in higher education, I believe we must cap the administrative overhead costs for institutions receiving federal funding.”
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“It’s why I was proud to help design President Biden’s drug price negotiation policy that was passed into law under the Inflation Reduction Act.”
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“I will also champion non-traditional tenure pathways for educators whose work advances the teaching mission of higher education institutions.”
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“And I believe in vastly increasing support and funding for local and state health departments to meet the needs of their communities.”
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“I propose tying any percentage increase in our national education funding to any equivalent increase in the national defense budget.”
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“I categorically oppose the privatization of Medicare or the attempt to cut Medicaid or destroy the ACA market by cutting subsidies.”
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“We also need to expand public healthcare by investing more in federally qualified health centers and public clinics and hospitals.”
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“He is fighting for an economy and healthcare system that work for everyone, affordable housing for all, and clean air and water.”
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“I categorically oppose the use of AI to allow health insurance of any kind to second-guess decisions made by your doctor.”
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“and I believe we should fulfill our obligation to finally fully fund the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.”
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“I believe we should fulfill our obligation to finally fully fund the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.”
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“And I believe that the government cannot and should not interfere with the right to pursue healthcare choices.”
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“I will push to immediately repeal Medicaid and ACA subsidy cuts from the ‘One Big Beautiful Bill” Act.”
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“And I believe that every American deserves guaranteed healthcare regardless of what they do for work.”
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“I want to abolish medical debt–just like we did for more than 300,000 Michiganders in Wayne County.”
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“I believe that every American deserves guaranteed healthcare regardless of what they do for work.”
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“I believe that healthcare decisions should always stay between an individual and their doctor.”
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“That’s why I support vastly expanding the services we provide our veterans to include them.”
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“I’ll fight to codify the rights once protected by Roe v. Wade into federal law.”
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“So I support raising the minimum salary for teachers to at least $60,000/year.”
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“I also support public manufacturing of essential medications, such as insulin.”
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“I erased it for upwards of 300,000 Michiganders in Wayne County.”
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“I believe in expanding and improving the VA, not cutting it.”
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“I favor abolishing it for every American immediately.”
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“Medicare for All”
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4 Build Enough, Build Well
“And to create that we need to massively invest in building new housing in communities across the country, and to streamline local regulations that are making it way too hard to build anything in America.”
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“I'll push to accelerate federal infrastructure funding to get every lead pipe out of Michigan's water systems by 2030 — seven years ahead of the current federal deadline.”
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“Toward that end, I believe we need a federal renter bill of rights that protects renters from exploitation and clarifies the obligations for landlords across the country.”
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“Toward that end, I created a leading edge policy proposal for “Terms of Engagement” for data centers that I intend to pass as federal law in the U.S. Senate.”
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“I want to require Big Tech companies like AirBnB and VRBO to pay special housing dislocation fees for the housing stock they occupy in local communities.”
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“And I will support federal legislation to ban algorithmic rental price-fixing software that allows corporate landlords to collude to raise rent.”
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“I support comprehensive federal zoning guidelines and legislation that protect communities from their unintended consequences.”
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“And I will stand up to corporate landlords against unfair evictions that are forcing too many Americans onto the streets.”
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“And I'll fight for federal funding to invest in modernizing our aging drainage and purification systems.”
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“I want to ban large corporations that speculate on our housing stock from owning homes at all.”
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“We need a building boom.”
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5 Climate Renewal & Regional Resilience
“I’ll hold polluters fully accountable for the PFAS contamination they've left behind in our soil, our water, and our bodies and ensure that corporate farms taking federal dollars are held accountable for the agricultural runoff poisoning our rivers, our lakes, and our neighbors' wells.”
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“Every step of that transition must be built on good union jobs because solving the climate crisis, rebuilding the American middle class, and providing reliable, affordable power are not competing goals–they are the same goal.”
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“As senator, I’ll fight to hold corporate polluters fully accountable for contaminating Michigan's land, air, and water and to empower federal agencies to stop them before they cause harm in the first place.”
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“I’ve spent my career as a public health official in Detroit and Wayne County fighting back: confronting childhood lead poisoning, and standing between polluters and the communities they poison.”
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“We will anchor it in massive investment in solar, wind, and battery storage, a modernized smart grid, and the energy efficiency upgrades that put money back in families' pockets.”
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“That means codifying the Endangerment Finding into law, so no future administration can strip the EPA of its authority to regulate greenhouse gases by executive order.”
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“It means strengthening NEPA so that communities have a meaningful voice before fossil fuel projects are permitted in their backyards, not after the damage is done.”
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“In the meantime, we need to make the line safer so long as proper care is taken not to disrupt the line itself or destroy sensitive environmental or tribal sites.”
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“I support shutting down Line 5, which is putting our Great Lakes at risk and has the potential to destroy sensitive environmental and tribal sites.”
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“And it means making environmental justice an explicit mandate, not an afterthought, of every federal agency with authority over our air and water.”
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“It means strengthening air quality standards to account for the cumulative impact of multiple pollutants on vulnerable communities.”
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“That’s why I’ll fight for a pathway to 100% renewable energy.”
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6 Innovation With Public Return
“This includes clear safety testing standards for frontier models; liability and incident reporting standards; compute controls, including “know your customer” requirements for compute providers; and the creation of an independent technical agency with real enforcement power, like to the Food & Drug Administration, for AI.”
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“To address the risk of massive automation of our jobs, I support exploring income protection programs such as wage insurance and basic income, worker investment through unions, adjusting our tax system to stop penalizing human employment and rewarding automation, and investment in small business revolving loan funds.”
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“That’s why I support legislation that both clarifies the governance and legitimate use-cases of blockchain for financial services, and more importantly, protects consumers and the public from those who would use financial technology to launder funds, defraud the public, or engage in corruption.”
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“I support exploring income protection programs such as wage insurance and basic income, worker investment through unions, adjusting our tax system to stop penalizing human employment and rewarding automation, and investment in small business revolving loan funds.”
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“That means investing in the research, development, and growth of the technologies of the future while using tools like tariffs in a steady, thoughtful, and targeted way to protect them as they grow.”
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“That’s why I support legislation to create guardrails around when, how, and for what purposes AI is deployed.”
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“And I believe that the taxpayers who fund this research should earn back the returns on their investment.”
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“And I oppose efforts to pre-empt state action without federal legislation in place.”
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“I believe that our future requires us to invest more and faster.”
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7 Fair Markets, Fair Work & Anti-Rent Extraction
“I aim to cap individual subsidy payments at $250,000 per year and reinvest those dollars into specialty crops, diversified agriculture, and regenerative farming that builds long-term food security and rural prosperity.”
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“And I'll champion a federal right-to-repair law because a family farmer in Leelanau County shouldn't have to wait two weeks and pay dealer prices just to fix the tractor sitting in their field at harvest time.”
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“We need laws that would stop Wall Street speculators from wrecking good companies and killing good jobs, force publicly-traded corporations to be accountable to their workers, and protect workers on the job.”
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“These tariffs would focus on growth industries, rely on clearly communicated benchmarks with trading partners, and sunset as American manufacturers established themselves.”
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“I’ll fight for an economy where anyone can start and grow a business to build wealth for themselves, their family, their co-workers, and their communities.”
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“I support targeted, smart tariffs that would help protect Michigan manufacturing and incubate the industries of the future with unions at the forefront.”
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“I’ll focus duties squarely at the foreign producers who dump below-cost goods into our markets and undercut Michigan farmers who play by the rules.”
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“I want to empower the FTC to retrospectively review mergers and acquisitions and grant them the power to break up monopolies in healthcare.”
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“I also support taxing inheritance greater than $1 million like ordinary income and imposing a progressive tax on wealth held by trusts.”
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“I believe that unions must have a significant voice at the tables where decisions about the future of our economy are being made.”
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“And I stand for a muscular Federal Trade Commission that enforces anti-monopoly laws so the corporations can’t price-gouge us.”
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“I support taxing capital gains over $1 million at the same rate as ordinary income and closing the stepped-up basis loophole.”
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“I'll fight to redirect federal farm subsidies away from corporate agribusiness and toward the family farmers who need them.”
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“I’ll take on the practice of excessive drug patents to stop Big Pharma from using legal tactics to extend their patents.”
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“And I will Ban the Middleman, ending pharmacy benefit managers who price-gouge us while offering no essential benefit.”
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“I support raising the marginal tax rate on earnings over $1 million and a billionaire tax on wealth over $1 billion.”
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“I’ll fight against corporate tax breaks and the capture of our economy by billionaires and wanna-be oligarchs.”
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“I believe that every worker deserves the right to join a union and to earn a fair wage.”
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“I'll push for targeted, negotiated trade protections for Michigan's specialty crops.”
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“In addition, I support a cost of living exemption on federal taxes up to $50,000.”
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“I believe in holding corporations accountable.”
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“I support the Break Up Big Medicine Act.”
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“Taxing Billionaire Wealth”
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“Break up Big Healthcare”
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8 Humane Safety, Justice & Immigration
“I'll reform the H-2A guest worker program through the Farm Workforce Modernization Act, creating real pathways to legal status for the immigrant farmworkers who harvest our food while streamlining a visa system that currently leaves family farms in limbo every season.”
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“And I believe that ICE funds should be repurposed to build out the legal infrastructure of courts to create a clear pathway to citizenship for those who are stuck in limbo in our current system.”
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“I believe in a safe, secure border and immigration enforcement–but under a new organizational structure that puts basic human dignity and deference to the rule of law first.”
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“That begins with Abolishing ICE.”
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“It must be abolished.”
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10 Democratic Security in a Changing World
“While I oppose a nuclear-armed Iran, I understand that diplomatic means of achieving that goal are more effective and come with a far lower human cost, just as President Obama had achieved under the JCPOA.”
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“And I support America’s meaningful engagement in the World Health Organization, the Conference of Parties, and the Paris Agreement to both address the climate crisis and global health challenges.”
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“But in recognition of the possible risks, we must continue to onshore critical national security assets, such as chip manufacturing.”
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“And I support an immediate arms embargo on Israel and reject the false differentiation between “offensive” and “defensive” weapons.”
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“That’s why I oppose direct blank-check funding to foreign militaries–including Egypt, Israel, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and others.”
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“I support immediate and comprehensive enforcement of U.S. laws that condition the provision of military aid and sales.”
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“I oppose the illegal and unjustifiable war in Iran and demand an immediate end to the hostilities.”
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“The future of Taiwan should be a matter for the Taiwanese to choose through democratic means.”
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“I oppose the warlike pathway that the foreign policy establishment has pursued with China.”
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“we must continue to onshore critical national security assets, such as chip manufacturing.”
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“That’s why I support immediate re-investment in foreign aid, including to UNRWA.”
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· Cross-cutting — no single pillar
Commitments that span several pillars, or state an allegiance or position that maps to none — labeled with the pillars they touch where they touch any.
“He’s committed to accessible education and sensible foreign policy rooted in diplomacy and justice.”
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