The Issues
Healthcare Is a Right, Not a Revenue Stream
Medicare for All Americans
Insurance companies made $50 billion in profit last year.1 Meanwhile, one in four Americans skipped a doctor's visit because they couldn't afford it.2 They've been running a racket, and you've been paying through the needle.
My Medicare for All means you can leave a job you hate, start a business, raise your kids, get sick, and never see a bill in the mail. Every other wealthy country does this. They pay half what we pay. Their people live longer.
Right now a third of every healthcare dollar goes to billing departments, insurance paperwork, and denial processing.3 Under Medicare for All, those administrative jobs become actual healthcare jobs. More nurses. More doctors in underserved communities.
They've been pulling the plug on your coverage while operating in the dark. That ends when I'm president.
The Economy Is Booming. Just Not for You.
Workers First, Always
Worker productivity has doubled since 1980. Wages have barely moved.4 That's deliberate policy, not some accident of history. For forty years they've told workers to tighten their belts while loosening their own.
I'm done asking permission. A $25 minimum wage. Mandatory profit-sharing when companies post record earnings. The right to organize without your employer calling a union-busting law firm. Trade policy that protects American workers, full stop.
Every policy on this page creates jobs. Good jobs. Union jobs. Jobs that don't vanish when a hedge fund decides your town is more valuable as a tax write-off than a place where people live and work.
The billionaire class didn't build this country. They wrenched it away from the people who did. Time to wrench it back.
Your Landlord Is Not Your Friend
Housing as a Human Right
Private equity firms and investors bought one in seven homes sold in America last year.5 They turned the American Dream into a fixer-upper and sent you the bill. They're investment portfolios wearing the clothes of your neighbors.
I will invest massively in public housing construction. Crack down on corporate landlords using algorithms to jack up rents.6 End the tax breaks that make it more profitable to flip houses than to house people.
Building housing at scale means hundreds of thousands of construction jobs. Carpenters, electricians, plumbers, ironworkers. Trades that pay well, build things that last, and can't be offshored.
They've been hammering working families for decades. Time to nail this down. A home is where you live, full stop.
War Is a Business. You're Paying for It.
Diplomacy First, Always
The Iran war cost $11 billion in its first six days.7 That's money that could have built 50,000 units of affordable housing, cancelled student debt for a million people, or fixed every structurally deficient bridge in America.
Instead it went to defense contractors, the same ones who wrote checks to the same politicians who voted for the war. They've been forging policy in Washington for fifty years. The only thing they've manufactured is more war.
I believe in a strong military. I believe in defending America. Regime change wars that destabilize the world, spike your gas prices, and come home in flag-draped coffins? I'm done with that.
Enough.
No One Gets to Be Above the Law
One Standard. Measured the Same for Everyone.
Steal a loaf of bread, you go to jail. Crash the economy through fraud, you get a bailout. Sit on files full of secrets while the world burns, they stay buried.
The powerful have had their thumb on the scale so long they've forgotten what level looks like.
That ends when I take office. Independent prosecutors. Term limits. Public financing of elections. Lobbyist cooling-off periods with real teeth. Full unredacted release of every document the public has a right to see, no exceptions.
Democracy only works when the rules apply to everyone. Right now they don't. I will fix that.
We Paid for Their Oil Wars. Time to Build Our Own Future.
Energy Independence as National Security
The oil industry has had America over a barrel for a hundred years.8 Every dollar we spend importing oil funds regimes we disagree with and wars we didn't ask for.
The answer is building more. Solar. Wind. Geothermal. Battery storage. A modern grid that doesn't fail when it rains. And yes, nuclear. Modern reactor designs are fundamentally safer,9 and small modular reactors can be built faster and cheaper.10 The regulatory framework was written in 1970.11 I will modernize it.
Those plants will be publicly owned. A National Clean Power Authority, with profits going back to ratepayers instead of shareholders.
The jobs here are enormous. Solar and wind installation. Nuclear construction and operations. Electricians, engineers, welders, operators. A full-employment energy policy for every region of the country.
Your Kid Deserves a Great School Regardless of Their Zip Code
Education as the Great Equalizer
A child born in a wealthy suburb and a child born in a poor rural county both deserve a world-class education. Right now a child's future is riveted to their parents' property taxes.12 That's an assembly line to nowhere dressed up as a meritocracy.
I will deliver universal pre-K, fully funded public schools, debt-free college and vocational training, and teacher pay that reflects what the job actually demands.
Debt-free vocational training also means the next generation of electricians, welders, HVAC technicians, and grid workers we're going to need. The trades built this country. They'll build its future too.
For the people who want to fight about what's on the library shelf instead of why teachers are buying their own supplies: I see exactly what you're doing. They called the original Luddites radicals too. They were just workers who saw the writing on the loom.
You Earned It. I Won't Let Them Touch It.
Protect Social Security and Medicare. Full Stop.
You paid into Social Security your entire working life. It's a promise, plain and simple. And there are people in Washington right now, backed by billionaires who'll never need it, quietly drawing up plans to cut it, privatize it, or make you wait longer to get it.
While I'm president: not one dollar cut, not one year added to the retirement age, not one scheme to hand your retirement savings to Wall Street.
This is not negotiable.
The Internet Belongs to Everyone
Break Up Monopolies. Restore Competition.
Five companies have geared the entire internet toward their own profit.13 They control what you see, what you buy, what you read, and how you communicate. That's feudalism with better branding.
The web was built as a commons.14 They threaded a needle to privatize it while no one was watching. Net neutrality is about who controls the switch. That's not a niche issue. That's everything.
I will break up the monopolies. Treat broadband as the public utility it is. Restore net neutrality. Support local journalism — which once employed hundreds of thousands15 — as the democracy infrastructure it is.
The internet was built with public money and public research. It belongs to all of us, not to the five guys who figured out how to monetize your attention.
Your Values Are Not a Distraction
On the Issues They'd Rather Fight About
I have values and I'll defend them clearly: a woman's right to choose, full equality for LGBTQ+ Americans, voting rights for every citizen, and a real reckoning with the racial injustice woven into our institutions.
I won't hide from any of it.
I also know what the other side is doing. When they're screaming about what's in your kid's library, ask yourself what they're not talking about. Why your wages haven't gone up. Why your insulin costs $400. Why they just spent $11 billion on a war nobody voted for.
I'll fight for your rights and your wallet. They've convinced a lot of people those are different fights. They're not.