KEY POINTS:

Pass the American Anti-Corruption Act (AACA), which will make corruption ILLEGAL.
Public funding of elections. Give every citizen a voucher for them to be able to give to their preferred political candidates, the more popular the candidate, the more donations they receive. We need to replace corporate funding and donations from millionaires and billionaires with public funding of elections that amplifies small-dollar donations.
Restore the Voting Rights Act, and repeal the Supreme Courts decision of Citizens United.
Make Election Day a national holiday.
Secure automatic voter registration, and guarantee the right to vote for every American that is 18 years old and over.
End partisan gerrymandering and racist voter suppression.
Abolish burdensome voter ID laws.
Re-enfranchise the more than 6 million Americans who have had their right to vote taken away by a felony conviction, paid their debt to society, and deserve to have their rights restored.
A ban on Super PACs, and Lobbyists.
Nationwide Public Ballot Initiatives, giving the people the right to petition and then directly vote on issues important to them.
Ranked Choice Voting to allow 3rd party candidates an equal chance at winning.

Poll: American Voters Want to Tackle Corruption - 75% of voters say “end the culture of corruption in Washington” by cracking down on special interest money, enforcing stronger ethics rules, and protecting voting rights. - OCCRP

KEY POINTS:

Create a Medicare for All, single-payer, national health insurance program to provide everyone in America with comprehensive health care coverage, free at the point of service.
Stop the pharmaceutical industry from ripping off the American people by making sure that no one in America pays over $200 a year for the medicine they need by capping what Americans pay for prescription drugs under Medicare for All.
5 5-year plan of expanding Medicare to all within our country, with lowering the Medicare age from 65 to 55 in the first year. 45 in the second year. 35 in the third year. 25 in the fourth. Then continue to cover the rest of America in the final year.
No networks, no premiums, no deductibles, no copays, no surprise bills.
Eliminating All Medical Debt

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Reject the Supreme Court’s ruling on overturning Roe vs Wade and codify abortion rights into federal law.
Adopt Equal Pay for Equal Work through the Paycheck Fairness Act.
Guarantee health care through Medicare for All, repeal the Hyde Amendment, and fully fund Planned Parenthood, Title X, and other initiatives that protect women’s health, access to contraception, and the availability of a safe and legal abortion.

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Broad Public Support for Legal Abortion Persists 2 Years After Dobbs - “About six-in-ten (63%) say abortion should be legal in all or most cases.” - Pew Research Center

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Ensure that revenue from legal marijuana is reinvested in communities hit hardest by the War on Drugs.
Decriminalize all drugs, legalize some.
Instead of investing in mass Incarceration, we need to invest in our country’s future.
End private/for-profit prisons
Ensure the legalized marijuana industry does not turn into the new big tobacco
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Grassroots Support for Legalizing Marijuana Hits Record 70% - Gallup

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Supports Working Families: Ensures parents can take time to bond with their newborns or adopted children without risking their financial stability.

Improves Child Health and Development: Studies show that parental leave leads to healthier birth outcomes, increased breastfeeding rates, and stronger early child development.
Promotes Gender Equality: Paid leave empowers both parents to share caregiving responsibilities, reducing the gender pay gap and workplace inequality.
Boosts Workforce Retention: Employees who have access to paid parental leave are more likely to return to their jobs, reducing turnover and saving businesses money.
Strengthens the Economy: Paid leave allows families to maintain spending power during critical periods, stimulating local economies and reducing reliance on public assistance.
Advances Public Health: Enables parents to attend medical appointments, care for sick children, and recover from childbirth, improving overall family health outcomes.
Levels the Playing Field: Provides equal access to leave for all workers, regardless of their job type or income level, ensuring fairness and dignity for every family.
Increases Worker Productivity: Employees with access to paid leave are more satisfied and productive at work, fostering a healthier work-life balance.
Aligns with Global Standards: The U.S. is one of the only developed countries without a national paid parental leave policy; implementing one would align the U.S. with global best practices.

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“Eighty-five percent of voters in battleground states favor paid parental, family and medical leave” - Politico (Paid leave support up ahead of ’24)

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Guarantee tuition and debt-free public colleges, universities, HBCUs, Minority Serving Institutions, and trade schools to all.

Cancel all student loan debt for the some 45 million Americans who owe about $1.6 trillion and place a cap on student loan interest rates going forward at 1.88 percent.
In 2008, the working class bailed out the big Wall Street banks, now it is time for Wall Street to bail out the working class by paying taxes to eliminate student-debt and fund public education.
Invest $1.3 billion every year in private, non-profit historically black colleges and universities and minority-serving institutions
End equity gaps in higher education attainment. And ensure students are able to cover non-tuition costs of attending school by: expanding Pell Grants to cover non-tuition and fee costs, tripling funding for the Work-Study Program, and more.

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Poll indicated that 78% of Americans support state-provided free tuition at public universities or colleges for academically qualified students. This reflects a consistent trend, with overall support ranging from 70% to 81% over nearly seven years. - Campaign for Free College Tuition

KEY POINTS:

Transform our energy system to 100 percent renewable energy and create 20 million jobs needed to solve the climate crisis.
Ensure a just transition for communities and workers, including fossil fuel workers.
Ensure justice for frontline communities, especially under-resourced groups, communities of color, Native Americans, people with disabilities, children and the elderly.
Save American families money with investments in weatherization, public transportation, modern infrastructure and high-speed broadband.
Commit to reducing emissions throughout the world, including providing $200 billion to the Green Climate Fund, rejoining the Paris Agreement, and reasserting the United States’ leadership in the global fight against climate change.
Invest in conservation and public lands to heal our soils, forests, and prairie lands.
End the greed of the fossil fuel industry and hold them accountable.

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Poll: Close to Two-Thirds of Americans Are Concerned About Climate Change - Gallup

Poll: Historical data indicates robust support for environmental regulations. In 2018, 73% of respondents favored more stringent enforcement of federal environmental regulations. - Gallup

Key Points:

Stop arming and funding Israel in their genocide against the Palestinians.

End the occupation: The Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories has been deemed illegal by the United Nations. Continued U.S. funding perpetuates this occupation and the systemic oppression of Palestinians.
Stop funding apartheid: Leading human rights organizations have declared Israel’s treatment of Palestinians a form of apartheid. U.S. aid directly finances policies that segregate and marginalize Palestinians based on their ethnicity and nationality.
Condemn collective punishment: The blockade on Gaza and repeated military offensives have created a humanitarian crisis, punishing over 2 million civilians for the actions of a few.

CEASEFIRE NOW!

Key Points:

Provide continued military aid and defensive arms to Ukraine to repel Russian aggression and protect civilians.
Prioritize defensive systems (air defense, demining, surveillance) that save lives and protect Ukrainian infrastructure.
Ensure aid is transparent and accountable, with strong oversight to prevent corruption and misuse.
Reaffirm U.S. commitment to a diplomatic resolution led by Ukraine, not dictated by outside powers.
Support multilateral talks involving key regional and global actors to pressure Russia toward a cease-fire.
Maintain sanctions on Russia while offering a clear path to rollback if genuine withdrawal and accountability steps are taken.
Reject any peace deal that rewards illegal land grabs, forced annexation, or ethnic cleansing.
Back international efforts to hold Russian war criminals accountable, including support for the International Criminal Court (ICC).
Support post-war reconstruction efforts, including supporting construction of green infrastructure and democratic institutions.

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Polls:

Only 4 percent of Americans back Russia in war, but 44 percent don’t back Ukraine either: Poll

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Raise the minimum wage to a LIVING WAGE! About $17 an hour now.
Eliminate “Right to Work for Less” laws and guarantees the right to unionize for workers historically excluded from labor protections, like farm workers and domestic workers.
Guarantee paid time off nation-wide! The United States is the only major nation in the world that does not guarantee paid time off (vacation / holiday days), when most of the developed world guarantees at least 20 days!
Democratize corporate boards with worker-elected representatives. We need to push for workers to be represented by at least 45% of the board of directors in any large corporation with at least $100 million in annual revenue, corporations with at least $100 million in balance sheet total, and all publicly traded companies will be directly elected by the firm’s workers.
Give workers an ownership stake in the companies they work for.
Break up corrupt corporate mergers and monopolies, including reviewing all mergers that have taken place during the Trump administration and institute new merger guidelines
Deny federal contracts to companies that pay poverty wages, outsource jobs overseas, engage in union busting, deny good benefits, and pay CEOs outrageous compensation packages
Provide unions the ability to organize through a majority sign up process and enact “first contract” provisions to ensure companies cannot prevent a union from forming by denying a first contract.

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Poll: 67% of Americans approve of labor unions - More in U.S. See Unions Strengthening and Want It That Way - Gallup

Poll: Most Americans See Unions as a Gateway to Financial Stability and Job Security. - Two in three Americans support making it easier for employees to form or join a labor union, with even larger shares who support the “right to bargain collectively” and to increase worker power in the United States. - Navigator Research

Key Points:

Start off by being able to negotiate to lower drug prices as big pharm companies currently spike prices only for more profit at the expense of vulnerable Americans.
Establish a publicly owned national pharmaceutical organization to oversee the development, production, and distribution of medications.
Focus on providing affordable access to essential medicines while prioritizing public health over profit.
Ensure that medications developed through taxpayer-funded research at universities and federal institutions (e.g., NIH grants) remain publicly owned and are not sold to private companies.
Set transparent, fair pricing for all medications based on production costs and public health needs.
Prevent exploitative pricing and patent abuse that forces Americans to pay inflated costs for lifesaving medications.
Expand public manufacturing facilities to produce generic versions of high-demand drugs at cost, reducing reliance on profit-driven pharmaceutical companies.

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Poll: Voters Support Medicare Drug Price Negotiation, and Oppose Lawsuits Targeting It - Voters Support Initiatives to Lower Drug Costs, Ban Junk Fees, and Strengthen Supply Chains - Data For Progress

Poll: Americans are fed up with pharmaceutical industry - “A Poll found that 58% of Americans held negative views of the pharmaceutical industry while only 27% held positive views of it.” - Harvard.edu

KEY POINTS:

Full Tricare for life for all servicemembers.
Eliminate the VA benefits backlog, fully fund and resource the VA, and reverse the disastrous privatization of services for veterans.
Expand VA, and filling the nearly 50,000 vacancies at the VA.
Provide at least $62 billion in new funding to repair, modernize and rebuild VA infrastructure.
Expand the VA’s Caregivers Program as well as mental health services for veterans.
Reform harmful VA regulations that restrict access to care and benefits based on character of discharge.
Improve the GI Bill: Increase benefits to cover the full cost of higher education, including tuition, housing, and books, at public and private institutions

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Whether they were drafted three-quarters of a century ago, commissioned or enlisted within the last few years, no one with prior military service should have to spend months, years or even decades fighting through red tape and government bureaucracy to prove they’re entitled to the benefits they were promised. We need to guarantee veterans they will receive the benefits and services they were promised.

KEY POINTS:

Codify Obergefell v. Hodges: Protect the right to same-sex marriage through federal law to prevent it from being overturned by future court decisions.
Ensure Parental Rights: Guarantee that LGBTQ+ parents have equal adoption rights and legal protections as any other families.
Ensure LGBTQ+ people have comprehensive health insurance without discrimination from providers.
Strongly oppose any legislation that purports to “protect” religious liberty at the expense of others’ rights.
Advance policies to ensure students can attend school without fear of bullying, and work to substantially reduce suicides.
Investigate every murder of trans individuals as a federal hate crime.
Make it easier for LGBTQ+ workers to form a union.

Anti-Discrimination Protections: Americans broadly support laws forbidding LGBTQ discrimination in situations like jobs, public accommodations and housing, with PRRI’s 2022 polling finding that 80% of Americans support such laws
Drag Bans Unpopular: Americans largely oppose bans on drag performances with 58% oppose legislation that would “restrict drag shows or performances,” including 73% of Democrats, 37% of Republicans and 57% of Independents.

Key Points:

In order to fix the massive wealth inequality in this country, and in order to pay for the extremely popular policies on this page, this country needs to TAX THE RICH!

Wealth Tax on Multi-Millionaires and Billionaires
End Corporate Loopholes & Offshore Tax Havens
Fair Capital Gains Taxes
Restore Top Marginal Tax Rates

Policy Platform

Fighting Corruption And Expanding Democracy

Medicare For All

Protect Women's Reproductive And Economic Rights

Legalize Marijuana And End The War On Drugs

Paid Family Leave

Universal Education - College For All

Protecting The Climate - Creating Green New Jobs

Justice For Palestine

Support Ukrainian Sovereignty

Workplace Democracy, Strengthening Our Workers & Unions

Nationalize The Pharmaceutical Industry - Lower Drug Cost

Helping Our Veterans

Protect LGBTQ Rights

How Do We Pay For It? Tax The Rich

Universal Day-Care - Universal Pre-K - Universal School Lunches

Universal Assisted Living & Elder Care

Housing For All

Make America Welcome & Safe For All

Common Sense Popular Gun Reform

Universal Basic Income