Representing the people of Northern Michigan is a sacred trust. I will never invite corrupting influence into my campaign or allow personal profit to taint my actions in Congress. I refuse to take any money from corporate PACs or organizations like AIPAC. When elected, I will never hold any individual stocks, cryptocurrencies, or invest in any sectors that I might be tasked to regulate.

Healthcare is a human right. I’ll fight for universal, comprehensive, and inclusive healthcare, where you are, when you need it, ending our cruel private health insurance system, which results in care avoidance, claim denial, and medical debt. It’s time for America to join the rest of the modern world in providing care for all people regardless of age, income, or employment status.

Shelter is a human right. I’ll push federal policy to decriminalize homelessness, repeal the Faircloth Amendment, create regulatory “fast-lanes” to provide affordable public housing for all who need it, and ban private equity from hoarding homes and pricing American families out of their own communities. In a nation of plenty, no one should go without a safe place to call home.

Prosperity in work is a human right. I'll champion living wages, paid time-off for all American workers, and pass the PRO Act to protect our unions' rights to organize. With the advent of AI & automation, I’ll join the bold few in Congress fighting to preserve the working class by proposing 32-hour workweeks, the return of a national public works program, and a federal jobs guarantee.

Every American worker deserves a comfortable retirement. I support broad expansion of Social Security, including the uncapping of Social Security tax. These changes would affect only high-income earners and billion-dollar companies, aimed at making Social Security solvent long-term, increasing retirement benefits for all of us, and pulling our seniors out of poverty.

American workers should be empowered to start and grow their families without financial hardship. I'll fight for universal childcare and paid parental leave, providing time for new parents to care and connect with their children and eliminating the high cost and low availability of daycare that disproportionately affect rural districts like ours.

Quality education is essential for individual well-being and national prosperity. I’ll support initiatives to improve funding for K-12 public education, including STEM and special needs programming, improve conditions in rural, urban, and low-income districts, establish federal minimum teachers' salaries, while combating attempts to shift taxpayer money via voucher programs.

Americans should be encouraged and empowered in their pursuit of knowledge and valued careers, not burdened with lifelong debt. I'll support student loan restructuring and forgiveness for 44 million Americans, reform for-profit higher education, and work to create tuition-free access to public colleges and universities.

Our government should serve its people, free of corrupting influence. I'll support legislation to overturn Citizens United, prevent billionaires from buying our elected officials through unaccountable PACs, and ban members of Congress from owning individual stocks. I’ll also fight to implement term limits for Congress and the U.S. Supreme Court.

Billionaires and corporations should be accountable for the vitality of their workforce. I'll support progressive tax increases on the top 10% of earners, including the gains and wealth of billionaires. I’ll push legislation to restrict corporate stock buybacks, tie CEO pay to that of the lowest wage individuals within their companies, and strengthen antitrust laws.

Immigration is our strength and should be treated as a point of pride. I’ll join efforts to abolish ICE, shrinking the immigration enforcement apparatus, prioritizing border security to address legitimate concerns like the fentanyl crisis. I'll support conditional amnesty with viable, expedient pathways to citizenship and oppose mass deportation, keeping vibrant communities intact.

Meeting people’s needs is the most effective way to improve society and prevent crime. The U.S. spends nearly three times as much to imprison people as it does to educate them. I'll support substantial criminal justice & prison reform, including reduced sentencing, humane conditions, reintegration programs, ending prison slavery, & shrinking America’s prison population to mend communities.

Our public funds are better spent doing domestic good, not enriching weapons manufacturers. I'll resist the endless expansion of our military budget - with the lone exception of personnel pay and benefits. This includes the unwinding of foreign military presence, bringing more of our men and women home to serve in their communities, not subject to the whims of war profiteers.

We must honor those who have served by caring for their physical and mental health. I’ll defend the Veterans’ Administration from brutal cuts that seek to undermine benefits. I’ll strongly resist attempts to privatize services based on cynical arguments of efficiency seeking to turn one of our most crucial governmental agencies into yet another profit center for wealthy corporations.

The right to bear arms includes important, inescapable responsibilities. Gun ownership is something that the people of Northern Michigan take seriously, especially when it comes to protecting our children. I support universal background checks, safe storage, “red flag” laws, mandatory gun dealer licenses, and bans on assault weapons, high-capacity magazines, and bump stocks.

Safety is a human right, and humanity is universal. I’ll be a strong voice for peace, supporting diplomacy over violence. I call now and throughout my candidacy for an end to the genocide in Gaza, the resumption of U.N.-administered humanitarian aid, a halt to all U.S. political and material support for the state of Israel, and the recognition of a Palestinian state.

Individuals have a right to make choices with their own bodies. I will always champion reproductive rights for all women, celebrate and support the rights of LGBTQ+ people, and protect trans people from discrimination and oppression. We should be growing the rights, privileges, and acceptance of all people, not bullying and repressing the most vulnerable among us.

Michigan’s natural resources are among the most precious in the world. I am committed to advancing a Green New Deal framework, transitioning to a sustainable economy, prioritizing clean energy, lowering utility costs in the Upper Peninsula, and safeguarding our air, water, and land from corporate exploitation, while creating good-paying jobs and ensuring environmental justice for all communities.

Technological advancement should exist for the prosperity of the working class. Instead, AI is on pace to devastate the American workforce, education system, and environment while increasing energy costs and promoting illegal surveillance. I support the regulation of AI to protect our privacy, personal likeness, and intellectual property. I support the regulation of data centers and oppose their construction in Northern Michigan.

Strengthening the rights of indigenous peoples is just and necessary. I’ll support Land Back policy while recognizing the sovereignty of Native American tribes, preserving self-determination and tribal governance, fostering economic and cultural revitalization. The United States must honor treaty obligations, address historical injustices, and ensure Native communities have the resources to thrive.