Top Issues

  • Affordability and Economic Rights

    1. TAX THE RICH

    2. Extend Unemployment Benefits

    3. Economic Bill of Rights including protections from economic instability

  • Universal Healthcare

    1. American Taxpayer Run Healthcare

    2. Replace high premiums, co-pays, and deductibles with a cost savings tax

    3. Guarantee every American access to preventative and life saving medical care

    4. Forgive medical debt

  • Higher Education

    1. Double Pell Grants

    2. Broaden eligibility requirements for Pell Grants

    3. Refinance student loans to 1%

Additional Issues

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  • 1. $1.7M 50% from PACs vs. 5% from small donors

    2. Funded by Corporations including: SpaceX, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, HP, Verizon, and AT&T

    3. Takes money from AIPAC

    4. In office since 1991

    5. 20th Century thinking for 21st Century Problems

  • 1. Members of congress cannot use insider information for stock trading and cannot share that information with anyone

    2. Members of congress cannot trade stocks while serving in congress

    1. Members of congress found in violation will be expelled

Taking on the Political Class

  • 1. Denouncing a Genocide is a moral imperative

    2. We shouldn’t be funding foreign governments that commit genocide

    3. Ending this conflict is more money for our own struggling citizens

    4. Citizens of Israel get universal healthcare and education while our citizens suffer

  • 1. End all military intervention abroad

    2. Replace foreign military base staff with sovereign nations’ army

    3. AUDIT the Pentagon

    4. 2nd GI Bill

    5. Current enlisted remain as reserves for National Defense

  • 1. Work with the United Nations to maintain United States Leadership

    2. End the continuing expansion of NATO

    3. No trade agreements with countries that undermine the needs of America’s Working Class

Putting American’s Needs First

  • 1. Publicly funded, good quality, childcare facilities

    2. Progressive tax on private care facilities 

    3. 6 months parental leave for both parents

  • 1. End income cap on Social Security

    2. Tie Social Security benefits to inflation

    3. Publicly funded elder care facilities

  • 1. Every American deserves the minimum amount of housing, water, food, and electricity needed to survive.

    2. Invest in dorm style facilities to create access to housing quickly.

    3. Repossess homes from Investment Firms and subsidize to help people move out of housing dorms

Caring for the Vulnerable

Protecting Our Rights As Citizens

  • 1. Federal Legislation to transition all voting to Ranked Choice Voting

    2. Automatic registration for U.S. citizens upon age 18

    3. No excuse absentee voting

    4. Overturn Citizens United

  • 1. Codify Roe vs. Wade

    2. Increase federal funding for abuse and crisis centers

    3. Increase funding to reduce rape kit backlog

    4. Revive efforts to Pass ERA

  • 1. Codify protections for transgender and gender affirming healthcare 

    2. Codify protections in federal law for healthcare, jobs, rentals, etc

    3. Ban book bans nation wide

    4. Allow transgender women in sports

    5. Ban conversion therapy nation wide

  • 1. Rent increase control to 1.5x yearly inflation

    2. New Leases cannot exceed 10% previous lease

    3. Make Rental payments tax deductible

    4. Taxes on sale of property to investment firms

    5. Limit number of rental homes in area owned by single entity

  • 1. Abolish ICE

    2. Increased funding for immigration judges

    3. 21st Century Marshall Plan for South America

    4. Cease CIA operations in other countries beyond intelligence gathering with allies

  • 1. Legislation to abolish private prisons

    2. Legalization of cannabis, decriminalization of other drug possession

    3. Expungement of criminal drug records

    4. Reparations and jobs programs for victims of War of Drugs

  • 1. Assault weapons ban

    2. Ending federal ban of gun research

    3. Robust Mental Health services for schools and universities

  • 1. Block Police funding from being used to purchase military style equipment

    2. National database of police abuse

    3. End qualified immunity

    4. Crisis Counselors with police escort

Implementing Needed Reforms

  • 1. Aggressively pursue net zero GHG emissions and re-enter/lead global efforts.

    2.  Strengthen pollution laws (clean air/water).

    3. Prioritize environmental justice communities for benefits to ensure equal distribution.

    4. Refund research in climate and environment. Task force on microplastics and potential solutions.

  • 1. High Speed Rail connecting New London, Hartford, and New Haven to Boston and NYC

    2. Increase funding for city and rural bus routes

    3. Update the electric grid

  • 1. Progressive Taxes on Private Education Tuitions

    2. Pay Connecticut Teachers 85k starting salary

    3. Federal income tax breaks for public school teachers

    4. Hire enough teachers to keep classroom sizes below 20 students

    5. Upgrade school infrastructure with modern equipment

  • 1. Increase NIH Budget by 25%

    2. Increase NSF Budget by 25%

    3. Restructure Peer Review process and grant process to increase transparency and access to all publicly funded data

    4. New tax on private industry using federal funding university research data

Funding Needed Investments

Creating a Fair and Modern Workplace

  • 1. 40 hour work week was designed for nuclear family

    2. Return productivity gains of the computer/internet revolutions to the workers

    3. Make all Federal positions 30 hours a week with no loss in pay

    4. Tax incentives for companies that transition to 30 hour work week

  • 1. Make all applicable federal positions Work From Home

    2. Tax incentives for companies that have Work From Home positions

    3. Tax incentives for individuals that move to rural areas

Addressing Other Pressing Issues

  • 1. Jobs trainings programs for individuals who experience job loss to new legislation

    2. Enhanced unemployment benefits to individuals who experience job loss to new legislation

    3. Ensuring legislation targets large corporations and not small business

  • 1. Regulations to ensure human consumption of water prioritized over AI facilities

    2. Research into affects of AI on developing brains

    3. Productivity gains from AI returned to workforce in further work hour reductions

    4. Cancel all federal contracts with Palantir

  • 1. Break up all large media companies

    2. Break up all large telecommunications companies

    3. Break up all large corporate conglomerates

  • 1. Codify the Fairness Doctrine

    2. Regulations as to what can be called news versus opinion or entertainment