issues that matter, policies that make a difference
Our broken system is the result of intentional policy choices that benefit a wealthy few. In the Senate, I will advance a vision of America that is grounded in the ideal that all receive the basic necessities to pursue their individual happiness.
I’m running to secure food, housing, and healthcare as the rights that they are. I’m running to build a country that treats people with dignity, care, and respect - and I’ll be honest about what it takes to get there. Below is a guide to the foundation of this campaign and what my candidacy will factor into every decision - because we deserve leaders we can trust.
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Medical costs are crushing working families. When I worked in hospice and with people with disabilities, I saw families forced to make the impossible choice between rent and treatment. In the United States, the wealthiest country in the world, families lose loved ones to a system that puts profit over people. Health care should be simple: you get sick, you get care.
What I’ll Fight For in the Senate
Passing Medicare-for-All to guarantee healthcare as a human right: Your ability to get care will depend on your need, not your wealth. I will introduce and cosponsor legislation to create a single-payer, Medicare-for-All system that will include full coverage for medical, dental, vision, mental health, and long-term care. We will fund this by finally making the wealthiest Americans and the largest corporations pay their fair share.
Reinvestment in Public Health: It is time to reinvest in our institutions of health such as the FDA, DHHS, and CDC. We must increase support, oversight and funding for local and state health departments to meet the needs of their communities to ensure a safe, and healthy America for al
Rebuilding and funding community health infrastructure: Congress must break from its history of neglect of rural communities. I will push for major federal investment to build and sustain public hospitals and community health centers in underserved rural and urban areas. Additionally, we must expand telehealth services and ensure high-speed internet access so that distance is no longer a barrier to quality care.
Taking on pharmaceutical corporations to make medicine affordable: The high price of life-saving drugs like insulin is a direct result of corporate greed enabled by bad policy. Congress must cap the monthly cost of insulin alongside other essential medicines, because no one should ration their lifesaving medication. Medicare should be authorized to negotiate drug prices for all Americans and allow the importation of safe prescription drugs from other countries. I support public manufacturing of essential medications such as insulin, and will fight the practice of drug patents and pharmacy benefit managers.
Empower the FTC to break up monopolies: Hospital mergers and acquisitions are leaving Americans with fewer places to get care and less workers to provide it. I support the Break Up Big Medicine Act, which will empower the FTC to retrospectively review and break up these monopolies.
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I have been a renter my entire adult life, and my family knows the insecurity of not having a stable home. Today, as corporate investors buy up housing stock, the dream of homeownership is moving out of reach for too many Mainers. With over 2,000 people in Maine alone experiencing homelessness, we need a federal commitment to ensure housing is treated as a human right, not a luxury.
What I’ll Fight For in the Senate
Launching a historic investment in building affordable housing to tackle the root causes of this crisis: We must dramatically increase the supply of quality, permanently affordable homes to meet the needs of our communities. I will support the Homes for All Act to invest $800 billion in the construction of 8.5 million publicly owned, affordable homes across the nation. We also need to expand the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit and provide direct grants to non-profit developers to build and preserve affordable units.
Preventing evictions and providing emergency housing stability to keep families in their homes: Evictions are traumatic events that destabilize families and communities, so we must provide a robust safety net. I plan to permanently fund emergency rental assistance programs to help families facing crises, such as medical emergencies or job losses, and to enact a national right to counsel in housing court to guarantee tenants' representation against predatory landlords and corporate evictions.
Building a skilled construction workforce to meet the demand for new housing: We cannot build the homes we need without supporting the workers who build them. We must significantly expand federal funding for construction apprenticeships and pre-apprenticeship programs, with a focus on creating pathways in rural areas. I also plan to create federal grant programs that prioritize projects that pay prevailing wages and utilize registered apprenticeship programs to ensure high-quality jobs.
Curbing the power of corporate landlords and speculators to protect our community: The financialization of housing by private equity firms drives up costs and displaces longtime residents. It’s time to impose a federal tax on corporate and private equity owners of single-family homes to discourage speculative hoarding of housing. We must also pass the Strengthen the Community Reinvestment Act to pressure banks to invest in affordable housing development in the communities they are meant to serve.
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As a social worker, I’ve seen how food insecurity traps people in a state of survival. Older adults choose between groceries and medication. Families live in constant crisis mode. Children suffer poor health outcomes.
Too often, farmers struggle to stay afloat while their own communities can’t access or afford fresh, healthy food. Maine has extensive farmland, fishing communities, and generations of agricultural knowledge, and food security means connecting Maine farmers to Maine families, treating eating like the critical function it is.
What I’ll Fight For in the Senate
Strengthening food access: Food security means connecting Maine farmers to Maine families. I will fight for federal investments that strengthen local and regional food systems to support food hubs, cooperatives, and distribution networks, and make it easier for schools, hospitals, and communities to buy local food. It also means ensuring massive chains that have bought up local grocers are held accountable. Until we can bring back local grocery stores, I will support an end to price gouging on staple groceries, so mega-corporations making massive profits can’t gouge us further.
Expanding nutrition programs with dignity: Nutrition assistance works when it is fully funded and treated with respect. Hunger is not a moral failing - assistance should come with dignity, not judgment. I support expanding SNAP and protecting it from future cuts and increasing public funding for food banks and emergency food providers. I’ll also push for federally funded school meals so no child goes hungry or feels singled out.
Food security as public infrastructure: Food is as essential as roads, housing, and healthcare. I believe the federal government must treat food security as critical infrastructure by investing in nationwide grocery access and transportation and eliminating food deserts.
Bold, long-term solutions: To truly end hunger, we must think bigger. This country needs stronger antitrust enforcements in agriculture and food retail to ensure fair pricing and protections for farmers and food workers. And as the richest country in the world, the country needs to follow Maine’s example in recognizing food as a federal basic human right.
Service means government exists to meet basic human needs - healthcare, food, safety, and care across the lifespan.
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My mom had to rely on SNAP to keep us fed even after working long hours. People who work should be able to afford to live. Right now, teachers, nurses, and caregivers pay higher effective tax rates than billionaires. We need an economy built for everyone, not the wealthy few.
What I’ll Fight For in the Senate
Raising the federal minimum wage: One job should be enough. Americans deserve a living wage at a $25/hour baseline and we must permanently tie the minimum wage to inflation to prevent the disparities we have today. An economy that works for us isn’t just about creating more jobs, but also good jobs.
Protecting and expanding workers’ rights to organize and earn a living wage: Corporations have stacked the deck against working people for decades, and it’s time to restore balance. Congress must pass the PRO Act to strengthen the right to unionize and penalize corporations that engage in union-busting.
Making the wealthiest corporations and individuals pay their fair share: Our tax code rewards wealth over work, and that has to change. I support taxing inheritance over $1 million like ordinary income and imposing a progressive tax on wealth held by trusts. We must increase the high earner and corporate tax rate to New Deal levels and enact a wealth tax on fortunes over $50 million to fund critical investments in communities and close loopholes that allow the ultra-wealthy to avoid paying taxes, such as the carried-interest loophole, buy-borrow-die, and preferential capital gains treatment.
Eliminating the Social Security income cap: Currently, only the first $184,500 of income is taxed to pay for Social Security. That means someone making $50,000 like me pays Social Security taxes on every dollar, while a multimillion-dollar earner pays on only a small share of their income. Eliminating the cap strengthen Social Security and Medicare by ensuring rich high earners contribute at the same rate as everyone else.
Recognizing and compensating the essential labor of caregivers: The work of caring for children, seniors, and people with disabilities is real work that deserves fair pay and dignity. I’ll push for a federal program that guarantees a living wage and benefits for professional and family caregivers, paid for by increasing Medicaid funding to states and requiring a greater share to be directed toward boosting caregiver compensation. Caregiver care is Public care.
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Corruption and corporate capture hit rural states harder. When regulators protect industries instead of people, and when public money becomes private profit, Mainers pay the price. It’s why healthcare costs stay high, housing remains out of reach, climate action stalls, and wages stagnate while corporate profits soar.
What I’ll Fight For in the Senate
Dismantling corporate monopoly power: The excessive consolidation of companies in the American economy harms both workers and consumers. We must break up monopolies in finance, tech, agriculture, and healthcare, prohibit predatory interest rates and fees on credit cards, student loans, and other consumer debt, and refuse future “too big to fail” bailouts to ensure reckless financial institutions face market consequences without public subsidy.
Supporting small businesses in Maine: Small businesses need fair rules and a government that has their back. Congress needs to simplify and streamline SBA loan applications and expand access to capital to support rural and first-time entrepreneurs.
Funding federal grants and tax incentives: Federal money must reach small-scale, community-owned manufacturing and retail, and we should prioritize local and unionized businesses for federal contracting and infrastructure projects.
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Public education is how we build opportunity, protect democracy, and prepare the next generation. Public taxpayer dollars should stay in public schools, which are accountable to communities, open to every child, and subject to transparency laws. From pre-K to university, every student, educator, and family should have the support they deserve.
What I’ll Fight For in the Senate
Invest in Universal Childcare: In Maine, the average cost of childcare is around $1,000 a month per child. Even for those who can afford it, there aren't enough spots, and the waitlists are long. This insane cost and stress should not hurt so many families.
Childcare is so expensive in Maine because, for decades, the federal government has refused to invest in it. In Congress, I promise to fight for legislation that provides universal childcare to every American. I will fight for federal investment to recruit new childcare workers, ensure that childcare is accessible in rural areas, and pay childcare workers as the hardworking professionals they are.
Massive investment in school infrastructure: Schools are community spaces that are critical to the safety and security of our children. Local budgets do not allow for the repairs that our crumbling school buildings need to survive.
Better pay, protection, and respect for teachers: Taking care of our kids means taking care of their educators. I will fight for a federal minimum salary of $60,000 for public school teachers and stronger federal protections against harassment, threats, and violence.
Invest in wraparound services: Ensuring our kids have access to services such as nurses, social workers, psychologists and behavioral health specialists are critical to ensuring a healthy and productive learning environment.
Fully fund the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
Affordable, accessible, and academically free higher education: Millions of people are crippled with student loan debt, and millions more will be in the future. Together, we can cancel all federal student loan debt and make all public universities and trade schools tuition-free.
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Clean water and protected land are not abstract environmental issues in Maine; they are the backbone of our health, economy, and way of life. From rural wells to coastal fisheries, when federal protections are weakened, Mainers pay the price. Polluted waterways threaten drinking water, destroy livelihoods in fishing, farming, and forestry, and leave communities on the hook for cleanup while polluters walk away. In a state already facing climate impacts, weakened safeguards put our future at risk.
What I’ll Fight For in the Senate
Protecting and strengthening the Clean Water Act:
Defend the Clean Water Act by grounding federal policy in science and restoring a clear, evidence-based definition of Waters of the United States (WOTUS). The 2015 Clean Water Rule provides a strong foundation for protecting wetlands, streams, and headwaters that are essential to clean drinking water and healthy ecosystems across Maine.Protecting Maine’s water, land, and working ecosystems:
Safeguard wetlands, rivers, lakes, and coastal waters that sustain fishing, farming, forestry, and tourism. Hold polluters accountable for contamination and cleanup, and ensure enforcement protects communities.Invest in renewable energy:
Push for massive federal investment in solar, wind, and nuclear. Prioritize a modernized smart grid and energy efficient upgrades to help Mainers save money. This must be done with union jobs - we can solve the climate crisis, and provide reliable affordable power all while rebuilding the middle class.Investing in clean water, climate resilience, and future generations:
Ensure every Mainer has access to safe, affordable drinking water by investing in infrastructure and climate resilience. Prepare rural and coastal communities for flooding, warming waters, and other climate impacts already affecting Maine, so we protect both today’s livelihoods and tomorrow’s future.Hold corporate polluters accountable:
Empower federal agencies to stop corporate polluters before they cause harm in the first place. Strengthen air quality standards, and codifying the Endangerment Finding into law, so we can ensure future administrations cannot stop the EPA from regulating greenhouse gases.
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Transportation and infrastructure are about more than roads and bridges; they are about freedom, safety, and whether people can fully participate in their communities. When infrastructure fails, so does healthcare access, economic opportunity, climate resilience, and public safety. Across this country, we are driving on crumbling roads, crossing unsafe bridges, and relying on water systems long past their intended lifespan. Meanwhile, Washington continues to underinvest and propose cuts while communities are left to fend for themselves.
What I’ll Fight For in the Senate
Fixing it first: Maintenance is not glamorous, but it saves lives and money. We don’t just need more ribbon cuttings; we need infrastructure that works. I will fight to prioritize repair and maintenance of existing roads, bridges, and water systems.
Public transit that actually serves people: Transit is freedom, especially in rural states; it should be usable, affordable, and dependable. I will fight to expand federal funding for public transit operations and invest in rural and regional transit systems that connect people to jobs, healthcare, and services.
Infrastructure for a changing climate: We can protect communities, reduce emissions, and create good-paying jobs at the same time. I support a climate-resilient power grid and infrastructure designed to withstand flooding, storms, and extreme temperatures, as well as investments in clean transportation.
Expanding access to high-speed internet: Access to the internet is essential infrastructure. No student, worker, or patient should be locked out of opportunity because of where they live. I also support restoring net neutrality protections, because the internet must be a place where everyone has equal access to information.
Change happens through human relationships and connection - between services, land, and opportunity.
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Aging with dignity should be a guarantee, not a privilege reserved for the wealthy. After a lifetime of work, people deserve security, stability, and respect. That promise has been embodied in Social Security, Medicare, and the systems meant to support us as we age. Today, that promise is under threat.
Washington is pushing cuts, privatization schemes, and so-called “reforms” that would dismantle Social Security and weaken Medicare. Let’s be clear: any cut to Social Security is unacceptable. These benefits are earned. Mainers paid into them, and they deserve to rely on them.
What I’ll Fight For in the Senate
No cuts, no privatization: Social Security is a promise made to people who worked hard and paid in. I will oppose any attempt to cut, privatize, or weaken Social Security.
Expanding Social Security to meet real costs: We must increase Social Security benefits so people can actually keep up with housing, food, and healthcare costs. This will be accomplished by updating cost-of-living adjustments annually based on actual expenses.
Caregiving, aging in place, and safe long-term care: Too many people are forced into institutions because home-based care isn’t available or affordable. I will fight to ensure that stay-at-home parents and caregivers earn Social Security credits and protect people who leave the workforce to care for family members.
Medicare, prescription drugs, and health security: Healthcare costs should never erase a lifetime of work. Until M4A, we must expand Medicare to include vision, dental, and hearing. I will fight for the federal government to negotiate drug prices down and end exploitative plans like Medicare Advantage that profit by restricting care.
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If we can fund war, we can fund care. Veterans did what this country asked of them. They trained, deployed, endured trauma, and risked their lives, often in wars that never made their communities safer. When they came home, too many were met with delays, denials, understaffing, and excuses. Their treatment is indicative of the American prioritization of war profiteering over humanity.
What I’ll Fight For in the Senate
Providing comprehensive healthcare to veterans: Every person deserves access to all types of care, and our nation has the capacity to provide it. We must have free and complete coverage through the VA, including medical, mental health, dental, vision, assisted living, and long-term care.
Ending veteran homelessness: It is sickening that service members are left on the streets by the state that sent them to war zones.
Helping veterans get back on their feet: I support modernizing the GI Bill for a modern economy. We need to increase Funding for job training and apprenticeships while reinstating federal jobs for veterans laid off by the Trump administration with back pay and benefits.
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As a social worker, I listen to people’s lived experiences. I regularly talk to queer and trans people in the community. Maine’s LGBTQ+ community is woven into every part of our state — from rural towns to coastal cities. I stand in unflinching solidarity with Maine’s LGBTQ+ community, especially trans people, who are being singled out for political attacks.
What I’ll Fight For in the Senate
Federal civil rights protections: I support passing the Equality Act to permanently prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity in employment, housing, education, healthcare, and public accommodations. Maine families should never have to worry that federal law will abandon them.
Ending discrimination in healthcare and protecting gender-affirming care: Healthcare should be safe, affirming, and accessible. The LGBTQ+ community remains critically underserved by our healthcare system. I trust patients, families, and medical professionals to make healthcare decisions, not politicians.
Safe schools and youth protections: I support federal protections for LGBTQ+ students, clear guidance ensuring schools provide appropriate accommodations, and strong enforcement against harassment, bullying, and discrimination.
Housing, safety, and dignity: I will fight to expand LGBTQ+-affirming housing and shelter programs, reduce criminalization that disproportionately harms queer and trans people, and address violence against trans women, especially trans women of color, as a public safety and civil rights crisis.
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Immigration is not new to Maine — it is part of who we are. Immigrants start businesses, fill essential jobs, raise families, and help keep rural communities alive. Our immigration system should reflect the best of the American experiment: dignity, due process, and opportunity.
What I’ll Fight For in the Senate
Due process and accountability in immigration enforcement: My stance is simple - I will vote to abolish ICE. And in the meantime, I’ll always vote against funding the agency and will push to require clear identification, visible badges, and warrants for immigration and law enforcement officers.
A total end to mass deportations and indefinite detention: I oppose indiscriminate mass deportations, inhumane detention practices, and using family separation as a policy tool. We must protect all Mainers from unlawful detention and abuse.
A real pathway to citizenship and protection for workers from exploitation: Millions of people live, work, and raise families in this country without a way to earn legal status, even after decades of contribution. A broken immigration system allows corporations to exploit immigrant labor, driving down wages and working conditions for everyone.
Refugee and asylum reform rooted in humanity: People seeking asylum are not creating a “crisis”, they are human beings fleeing real danger. Asylum should be orderly, fair, and humane.
Dignity means people are not disposable - regardless of income, gender identity, immigration status, or zip code.
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Billionaires, corporate lobbyists, and entrenched interests are rewriting the rules so that money speaks louder than people. I refuse to accept a system where billionaires can buy influence, corporations write the rules, and working people are told this is just “how it is.” Democracy should belong to the people who live with its consequences, not those who profit from its failures.
What I’ll Fight For in the Senate
Abolishing the Filibuster: The filibuster is antidemocratic and has been used for far to long to shield one another from taking hard votes.
Ending Gerrymandering: We are watching voter power be diminished across the South. What happens in states like Tennessee and Louisiana should concern all Americans. Congressional districts should been drawn by a nonpartisan federal committee.
Accountability to Mainers, not millionaires: I promise full financial transparency of this campaign and a pledge of complete financial disclosure while serving Maine in Congress. Like my campaign, I believe that congress should take ZERO corporate or foreign lobby PAC money to fund any part of this campaign. And yes, that includes AIPAC.
Supreme Court Reform: Susan Collins helped build a court that has limited voting rights, civil rights, and reproductive rights while giving Trump a hall pass for bad behavior. I support ending life-time appointments, and imposing term limits.
Supporting the Equal Rights Amendment: Constitutional equality should not depend on the political winds. I will champion the passage and ratification of a federal ERA to guarantee that equal rights under the law cannot be denied or abridged on account of sex.
A people's congress: We need new rules in the House and Senate to bring back an actual representative democracy and fight corruption. I will fight to uncap the House (AKA apportionment), which would expand the number of representatives so every constituency is better represented, impose term limits on congresspeople, and ban congresspeople from trading stocks or becoming lobbyists after leaving Congress.
Building a people-centered democracy: It’s time for elections to be uninfluenced by big money interests. I’d begin by overturning Citizens United, one of the most damaging Supreme Court opinions in American history, which declared corporations had a right to donate unlimited amounts to campaigns.
Supporting a free press and democratic information systems: The inability to discern truth and reality is hindering our politics and discourse. We need to promote local journalism, as large media conglomerates harm local, small journalists. Congress should also restore and protect the funding for public broadcasting to ensure the existence of organizations like PBS and NPR.
Establish federal standards that protect truth and public safety online: Social media companies must be held responsible for the misinformation they profit from, with federal standards to stop algorithmic amplification of extremism and disinformation.
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Maine has a proud tradition of independence, civic participation, and community care. But even here, authoritarian policies threaten our way of life. Democracy is worth defending– but it requires participation, courage, and leaders willing to draw clear lines. Let me be part of a government that serves you.
What I’ll Fight For in the Senate
Protecting democracy and voting rights: This includes automatic voter registration, expanded early voting, and protections against voter suppression.
Protecting free speech, protest, and the right to dissent: I believe it’s critical to end efforts to censor education and silence teachers and students. We need to oppose laws that criminalize protest or expand surveillance.
Breaking the concentration of power: Building strong antitrust enforcement and limits on executive overreach needs to be a priority alongside pushing for transparency and accountability in our government, as well as protecting whistleblowers and journalists.
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I believe that the right of owning a gun is based on the duty passed to us in our founding as a nation: to protect ourselves and our communities from authoritarianism and those who want to harm us. But the Second Amendment includes the duty to regulate, and regulate well.
As a gun owner, I understand the importance of weapon competency and training, and how that translates to public safety. And as a Mainer, I’ve seen how deeply violence scars a community. Lewiston should never have happened. We owe it to the people we lost to make sure it never happens again, and we’ll do that by creating safety systems that work. But to be clear, I’ll never support going door-to-door taking people’s guns away.
What I’ll Fight For in the Senate
Universal background checks: This is about responsibility, not punishment. Everyone who purchases a firearm should undergo a background check. I support closing loopholes that allow gun sales without checks at gun shows, online marketplaces, or through private commercial sales. Background checks are a commonsense safeguard to keep firearms out of the hands of people legally prohibited from owning them.
Strong, enforceable yellow & red flag laws: Flag Laws save lives when implemented correctly, and preventing violence before it happens is the most responsible approach we can take. If someone is in crisis and poses a serious risk to themselves or others, families and law enforcement must have clear, effective tools to act before tragedy occurs. Maine’s Yellow Flag law failed in Lewiston; not because the idea was wrong, but because oversight, coordination, and follow-through were lacking.
Safe storage and responsible ownership: Owning a firearm comes with responsibility. Protecting life is part of that responsibility. Firearm safety includes how guns are stored. We need smart, safe storage laws that reduce accidental shootings, suicides, and access by children or unauthorized users, while respecting the rights of responsible gun owners. I also support requiring gun owners to possess Individual First Aid Kits (IFAKs) and attend Stop The Bleed training.
Rejecting dangerous, fear-based “solutions”: I reject policies that prioritize the profits and political power of the gun lobby over the lives of kids, educators, and families, such as arming teachers or turning schools into fortresses. These are distractions that make people less safe. Instead, I’ll push for federally funded gun safety training and IFAK distribution and well-informed policies that prioritize public safety while ensuring we don't box out law-abiding residents with extraneous or expensive hurdles.
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A rot of pedophiles and rapists has penetrated every layer of our government. These criminals have protected themselves and their rich accomplices from responsibility. I say enough is enough; we must remove these depraved elites from our government and prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law, whether they’re in Congress or Trump’s Cabinet. Sunlight is the best disinfectant, so I’ll call for openness and accountability to ensure justice for the victims and to clean out our government.
What I’ll Fight For in the Senate
A full release of the Epstein files: Currently, the very people in the files are solely able to decide what gets redacted and what gets released. In Congress, I'll fight tooth and nail to release the full files with ONLY victim names redacted.
Impeachment of officials: The blatant obstruction of justice that has been perpetrated by the current administration is an outrage. In Congress, I’ll push to investigate and impeach any official who is incriminated in the files or who protected these pedophiles.
Pressuring Investigation: The victims need more than just political accountability. In Congress, I’ll pressure law enforcement to investigate and bring criminal charges against anyone who is credibly accused in these files of being part of this disgusting ring. If the UK is willing to prosecute former Prince Andrew for his role, we ought to go after all of these criminals regardless of their rank in society.
Acting honestly, responsibly, and in the public interest - not corporations or foreign interests.
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Long before the United States existed, the Wabanaki people called what we know as Maine home - yet they don’t have the right to sovereignty. As a member of the Cherokee Nation, I have seen firsthand the effects of the federal privileges that are being withheld from the Maliseet, Mi’kmaq, Passamaquoddy, and Penobscot people. I believe that giving the Wabanaki Confederacy its sovereignty is a crucial first step towards supporting and strengthening our Native American neighbors and communities.
What I’ll Fight For in the Senate
Giving the Wabanaki, alongside hundreds of other tribes across the nation, federal recognition and sovereignty: Once a tribe’s sovereignty is recognized, they gain access to dozens of federal programs built to support them, including healthcare services and funding, housing and economic support, and the right to self-determination.
Tribal access to federal environmental and clean energy programs: These opportunities are currently blocked by the Settlement Acts.
Stronger federal action to address the crisis of missing and murdered indigenous women and children: It’s a tragedy that remains far too invisible in Congress. I’ll also defend and strengthen the Indian Child Welfare Act and support updates that reflect today’s realities.
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People with disabilities have the right to make decisions about their own lives, live in their communities, work in meaningful jobs, and hold valued roles in society. Today, people with disabilities still face barriers to housing, employment, transportation, education, and legal rights. Too many are paid subminimum wages, forced into segregated settings, or excluded from decision-making about their own lives. Real inclusion means moving away from systems built on control toward ones built on autonomy, support, and belonging.
What I’ll Fight For in the Senate
Community living and self-determination: Fully enforce the Olmstead v. L.C. decision, expand Home- and Community-Based Services, eliminate waitlists, and protect the right of people to make their own decisions.
Fair pay and meaningful work: End subminimum wage, expand competitive integrated employment, invest in supported employment, and protect benefits while people work.
Accessibility and equal rights: Enforce the ADA and Section 504, ensure accessible transportation and housing, and protect voting rights and civil liberties.
Health care and long-term supports: Protect Medicaid, strengthen long-term services and supports, and invest in the direct support workforce.
Disability justice makes all of us freer. People with disabilities deserve autonomy, real access to their communities, fair wages, and full protection of their civil and human rights.
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True leadership means standing with people and using our influence to reduce suffering, prevent violence, and uphold human dignity. I reject the idea that strength comes from endless war and genocide. Across the world, we are witnessing a dangerous rise in fascism, political violence, and the erosion of human rights. Too often, U.S. foreign policy has responded to this moment with militarism, hypocrisy, and silence in the face of human rights abuses.
What I’ll Fight For in the Senate
Immediate re-investment in foreign aid, including UNRWA: Failing to tackle health and humanitarian threats abroad can quickly lead to local threats. International cooperation on global threats such as global pandemics and climate change is for own our own safety and prosperity.
An end to the genocide in Gaza: I am disgusted by the genocide, dispossession, and ethnic cleansing that Israel has carried out since the Nakba on the Palestinian people with US bombs, surveillance, and money. I support the immediate enforcement of the Leahy Law, blocking all weapons transfers to Israel, to ensure an immediate, real, and permanent ceasefire. I will fight for the full restoration of humanitarian aid, ending the siege on the Gaza Strip, and immediate relief for those suffering under famine, torture, and bombings. Peace cannot exist without justice. I believe what is needed for permanent peace and justice in the region is to end the system of apartheid in the West Bank, demand the right of return for Palestinian refugees, establish truth and reconciliation commissions, and ensure the formation of one, democratic, secular, multi-ethnic state with equal rights, dignity, and safety for all in the original boundaries of Palestine.
Ending dangerous and unnecessary military engagements like the War on Iran: I grew up watching the government spend billions on foreign wars while nickel and diming my family when it came to SNAP and healthcare. Wars that only ever destabilized the countries they were in. As we see a new rise in US militarism, I support peace through diplomacy, not occupation or bombs. The American and Israeli strikes on Iran are unacceptable. We cannot bomb our way to peace; this is reckless, dangerous, and shameful. Democracy and freedom will never come from bombs and the blood of children.
Ending the illegal blockade and siege of Cuba: In no uncertain terms, I condemn the illegal and unjust decades-long blockade and sanctions of Cuba. I agree with the UN that the US must end its siege now and allow Cuba to reintegrate into the global community so that their people can have access to food and fuel and their advancements in medicine can be shared freely with the rest of the world. I stand in complete opposition to any attempt by Trump or Rubio to invade the island or escalate the siege.
End blank-check funding to foreign militaries: We must prioritize our spending on improving access to healthcare, and education here at home rather than fund foreign military objectives, including Saudi Arabia, Israel, Egypt, the AUE, and other.
Upholding human rights, sovereignty, and self-determination: From Palestine, to Sudan, to Congo, to Ukraine, to Venezuela, to Iran, to Greenland, I will fight for people’s human rights and their right to retain their sovereignty and self-determination free from intervention by rogue actors like Trump, Putin, the UAE, and Israel. Genocide and aggression is wrong everywhere.
Transparency and accountability in spending: If our tax dollars are being sent abroad instead of staying at home, it better be for a damn good reason.. I will fight to ensure that no more of our tax dollars go to bombing children instead of feeding, treating, and housing them.
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Our nation’s systems, from justice and housing to education and healthcare, were built on a foundation of racial injustice. These established systems were designed to exclude and exploit, and their legacies continue to determine economic security, safety, health, and opportunity for people of color. Achieving racial justice requires replacing the foundations of oppressive systems with a more equitable structure.
What I’ll Fight For in the Senate
Dismantling systematic racism in healthcare: Health outcomes should not be determined by race. We must fully fund the Indian Health Service to honor our treaty obligations and close the life expectancy gap for Native communities. Congress also needs to require language access and cultural competency standards in all federally-funded health facilities, and push to end preventable Black and Indigenous maternal mortality by requiring transparency in hospital outcomes and funding community-based care.
Closing the racial wealth gap: Generations of discriminatory policy have created profound economic disparities. By enforcing and strengthening anti-discrimination laws in housing and lending, we can combat redlining and predatory practices. We must also incentivize investment in Black, Indigenous, and minority-owned businesses through federal grants, increased access to capital, and procurement opportunities.
Transforming the criminal legal system: We must end cycles of incarceration and violence that devastate communities of color. Congress needs to eliminate mandatory minimum sentences and invest in rehabilitation, re-entry programs, and community-based public safety initiatives. We must also invest in mental health and substance use crisis response.
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Reproductive justice means the right to have children, the right not to have children, and the right to raise families in safe and healthy environments. Mainers need access to abortion, birth control, quality prenatal and postnatal care, and medically accurate sexual education for cisgender and transgender people alike. Restrictions endanger patients, force doctors into impossible legal situations, and delay lifesaving care.
What I’ll Fight For in the Senate
Federally codifying Roe v. Wade: Fundamental rights must be the letter of the law.
Guaranteeing access to the full spectrum of reproductive and maternal healthcare: Reproductive justice does not end at abortion access. I will fight to expand access to prenatal, postnatal, and maternal healthcare, including midwifery care, doula services, fertility care, miscarriage management, and postpartum mental health support — with a focus on ending preventable maternal mortality and eliminating racial disparities in birth outcomes.
Opposing any federal, state, or local effort to restrict access to reproductive healthcare: Abortion is healthcare. Emergency pregnancy care is healthcare. Birth control is healthcare.
Social justice means changing the systems that create harm - not managing the damage afterward.
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Technology can make our lives better. It can improve healthcare, expand access to education, strengthen public services, and reduce dangerous or exhausting work. But without clear rules, the same technologies can also extract wealth, deepen inequality, surveil communities, and strain the basic systems we all rely on. We cannot afford a “move fast and break things” approach.
Artificial intelligence, data centers, and digital surveillance are expanding faster than our laws, and the costs are being pushed onto working people, rural communities, and public infrastructure.
What I’ll Fight For in the Senate
Guardrails on Surveillance and Automated Harm: Democracy cannot survive constant surveillance and unaccountable algorithms, and technology must not erode civil liberties. I support banning data extraction and surveillance without informed consent and prohibiting algorithmic discrimination in hiring, housing, healthcare, education, and policing.
Transparency First: Communities have the right to know what’s being built and what it costs them. I will fight to require large AI companies and data centers to publicly disclose: estimated energy, water, and electricity use and emissions; peak demands; and the environmental impacts of major model training runs. Comprehensive federal zoning guidelines and legislation should protect communities from unintended consequences of data centers.
Clean Energy and Water Protections: Clean water, rivers, and power grids are not expendable inputs for corporate profit. I support independent emissions verification, enforceable decarbonization timelines, and mandatory consultation with tribes and affected communities.
Guaranteeing That Workers Get a Share of AI’s Gains: Technology should shorten workweeks and raise wages. But corporations capture nearly all the rewards while workers absorb the losses. I support requiring companies that replace workers with automation to pay into worker transition funds; wage insurance, paid retraining, and job placement for displaced workers; and expanded union bargaining rights over automation.
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When you buy something, it should belong to you. As Mainers, we know that when a crab boat’s engine seizes up in September, your truck’s transmission breaks down during a haul, or your medical equipment fails, waiting weeks for a manufacturer-approved technician can cost a season, a livelihood, or a life. It’s time to push back against corporate greed that puts profits over people.
What I’ll Fight For in the Senate
Better protections for consumers: we can end predatory warranties by creating real enforcement authorities and penalties for breaking the law.
Shutting down corporate greed: diagnostic tools and manuals must be made free and accessible.
Stopping planned obsolescence: I will fight to eliminate artificially inflated costs, the monopolies that drive them, and unnecessary waste.
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As Mainers, we rely on the mail for prescriptions, medical equipment, groceries, benefit checks, legal documents, and communication with loved ones. Any attempt to weaken the Postal Service is an attack on rural America, working families, older adults, people with disabilities, and veterans.
What I’ll Fight For in the Senate
Keeping the postal service running: I will oppose any effort to privatize USPS, outsource its core functions, or undermine collective bargaining rights. I support continued reforms that treat USPS like every other federal agency without artificial financial burdens that distort its books and weaken public trust.
Smart modernization without abandonment: The Postal Service must evolve, but modernization cannot mean abandoning communities or degrading service, and it must be transparent, accountable, and grounded in the promise of universal service.
Expanding services that strengthen communities: I support exploring postal banking and other basic financial services to serve communities abandoned by traditional banks. Expanding USPS as a trusted, local access point for essential government services strengthens democracy, creates revenue, and meets people where they are.
Protecting democracy and voting access: The Postal Service plays a critical role in free and fair elections. I will oppose any attempt to undermine vote-by-mail or politicize mail delivery.
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Protecting public lands means honoring Indigenous sovereignty, restoring balance, and ensuring that future generations inherit living ecosystems. Across the country, land has been treated as something to extract from, sell off, or exploit, often by erasing the people who have lived in relationship with it for thousands of years.
What I’ll Fight For in the Senate
Prioritizing Indigenous-led conservation: Our approach to conservation must begin with the original stewards of this land. This means expanding federal funding for indigenous-led land stewardship and restoration projects, requiring meaningful Tribal consultation and consent in all federal land management decisions, protecting treaty rights and subsistence practices, and ensuring that federal agencies respect Tribal sovereignty.
Safeguarding national parks, forests, and cultural sites: We must save our natural heritage from degradation and prioritize its long-term health. This means protecting old-growth and mature forests as vital natural assets and expanding the National Wildlife Refuge System in partnership with Tribal nations.
Enshrining equitable access to water, coastlines, and fish: Clean water and healthy marine ecosystems are fundamental rights. We must protect marine ecosystems, defend Tribal fishing rights and access, and protect rivers and watersheds critical to sustenance fishing.
Competence means government that actually works - grounded in evidence, prevention, and follow-through.
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