Protecting Americans &
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Building a Stronger, Fairer EconomyProtecting workers and families and creating millions of jobs across America, putting home ownership in reach and guaranteeing safe housing for everyone, leveling the economic playing field by reforming the tax code and curbing wall street abuses, and guaranteeing a secure and dignified retirement.
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Achieving Universal, Affordable, Quality HealthcareSecuring universal health care through a public option, bringing down drug prices and taking on the pharmaceutical industry, reducing health care costs and improving health care quality, expanding access to mental health and substance use treatment, expanding long-term care services, eliminate racial, gender, and geographic health inequities, protecting Native American health, securing reproductive health, rights, and justice, protecting and promoting maternal health, protecting lGBTQ+ health, strengthening and supporting the health care workforce, and investing in health science research.
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Protecting Communities & Building Trust by Reforming Our Criminal Justice SystemEnd the failed "War on Drugs", reinvigorate community policing approaches, reinvigorate pattern-or-practice investigations into police misconduct, collect and publish data on the use of force in police departments across the country, support measures to increase diversity among the ranks of police departments, decriminalize marijuana use, support eliminating the use of cash bail, support allowing judges to determine appropriate sentences, nominate and confirm federal judges who have diverse backgrounds and experiences, and support ending the use of private prisons and private detention centers.
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Healing the Soul of AmericaProtecting Americans' civil rights, protecting women's rights, protecting LGBTQ+ rights, honoring indigenous tribal nations, ending violence against women, ending the epidemic of gun violence, supporting faith and service, supporting press freedom, supporting the arts and culture.
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Combating the Climate Crisis & Pursuing Environmental JusticeMake investments to create millions of family-supporting and union jobs in clean energy generation, mobilize a diverse new generation of young workers through a corps and cohort challenged to conserve our public lands, we must achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions as soon as possible, and no later than 2050, commit to eliminating carbon pollution from power plants by 2035 through technology-neutral standards for clean energy and energy efficiency, build a modern electric grid by investing in interstate transmission projects, lower families’ energy bills, and reduce harmful air pollution and protect our children’s health by transitioning the entire fleet of 500,000 school buses to American-made, zero-emission alternatives within five years.
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Restoring & Strengthening Our DemocracyProtecting and enforcing voting rights, reforming the broken campaign finance system, building an effective and transparent federal government system, make Washington DC the 51st state, guaranteeing self-determination for Puerto Rico, supporting U.S. territories, and strengthening the U.S. postal service.
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Creating a 21st century Immigration SystemTerminate the Trump Administration’s discriminatory travel and immigration bans, reinstate, expand, and streamline protections for Dreamers, protect and expand the existing asylum system and other humanitarian protections, provide a roadmap to citizenship for the millions of undocumented workers, caregivers, students, and children, family unity should be a guiding principle for our immigration policy, expand, not reduce, the annual visa cap for victims of human trafficking, promote workers’ rights, and prioritize the enforcement of labor and employment laws across the economy, ensure that enforcement mechanisms are humane, and that detention should be a last resort, not the default.
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