Policy Positions
Positions as of June 6, 2026, extracted from source websites.
Climate(3)
Supports expanding clean energy jobs and reinstating cancelled clean energy tax incentives.
"Clean energy jobs are good for everyone, and we need to support their expansion and bring back cancelled tax incentives."
Supports the US joining the rest of the world in reducing carbon emissions and addressing climate change.
"The US is a leading contributor to the climate change ravaging our planet, and we need to join the rest of the world in protecting the planet for future generations."
Supports protecting farmworkers from excessive heat and pesticide poisoning, and federal support for farmers dealing with changing conditions.
"Farmworkers deserve protection from excessive heat, pesticide poisoning, and punitive raids, and farmers deserve support from the federal government to deal with changing international conditions."
Criminal Justice(3)
Supports mandatory body cameras for all law enforcement and ending immunity for civil rights violations, calling for a ground-up rebuild of the justice and carceral systems.
"Body cameras should be mandatory for all law enforcement officials, and these officials should not be immune to accountability for civil rights violations."
Supports addressing mental health and addiction through care systems rather than incarceration.
"Mental health and addiction should be addressed through systems of care, not incarceration."
Supports rebuilding the justice and carceral systems from the ground up to address systemic issues.
"The so-called justice and carceral systems need to be rebuilt from the ground up."
Economy(6)
Supports raising the federal minimum wage to $20 per hour with automatic annual inflation adjustments.
"It is far past time to raise the federal minimum wage. I propose $20/hour, to automatically adjust annually with further inflation."
Supports unionization drives, sectoral bargaining legislation, and stronger worker protections.
"I will actively and publicly support unionization drives and legislation to strengthen sectoral bargaining. I will support greater unionization in my district through promoting related legislation, as well as seeking other ways to ensure dignified working conditions."
Supports progressive, simple, and fair taxation, opposing trickle-down economics and calling for reform of the current regressive tax system.
"Taxes should be progressive, simple, and fair. I will work with colleagues from various backgrounds to reform our regressive tax system, and return the surplus money earned by the hard work of Americans back where it belongs: in the hands of those who create wealth, not those who hoard it."
Supports a progressive, simple, and fair tax system to replace the current regressive tax system.
"Taxes should be progressive, simple, and fair. I will work with colleagues from various backgrounds to reform our regressive tax system, and return the surplus money earned by the hard work of Americans back where it belongs."
Opposes corporate subsidies and bailouts, arguing that trickle-down economics is a myth and that corporations should not receive government support.
"Trickle-down is a poisonous myth, and we need to stop subsidizing and bailing out corporations."
The candidate highlights a long history of organizing with unions and workers as central to their background and values.
"I've been organizing since I was 17: with unions, farmworkers, tenants, LGBTQ movements, here and abroad."
Education(9)
Supports full student loan forgiveness.
"Student loans should be forgiven."
Opposes censorship of educational content labeled as 'woke' or DEI, and supports freedom for educators and students to discuss LGBTQ+ topics and diverse family structures.
"We must end the censorship of information labelled woke or DEI. Educators and students must be free to "say gay" and "say trans," and all family structures must be acknowledged in school programming."
Opposes censorship of educational content labeled 'woke' or 'DEI' and supports freedom for educators and students to teach and learn without ideological interference.
"We must end the censorship of information labelled woke or DEI. Educators and students must be free to 'say gay' and 'say trans,' and all family structures must be acknowledged in school programming."
Supports free trade and vocational schools and making higher education accessible to all.
"Quality K-12 education, trade school, and higher education should be accessible to all. Pre-K and childcare should be universally available. Trade and vocational schools should be free, and there should be more of them."
Supports increased funding for North Carolina's public schools, including nutrition, physical and mental health, and wraparound services.
"North Carolina's public schools are some of the least funded in the country. Our children, families, and teachers deserve better. The nutrition, physical and mental health, and other wraparound services provided in schools need further investment."
Supports teachers and the educational system against what the candidate describes as attacks on critical literacy and educational freedom.
"As a professor of history, I am deeply invested in education and will combat attacks on our educational system and critical literacy."
Advocates for the continued existence of the Department of Education and its role in supporting students with disabilities, implicitly opposing efforts to dismantle it.
"I will advocate for the ongoing existence of the Department of Education and its role in supporting students with disabilities."
Supports better conditions and resources for teachers as part of broader investment in public education.
"Our children, families, and teachers deserve better."
Implicitly opposes diversion of resources from public education by advocating for the Department of Education and equitable public school funding.
"I will advocate for the ongoing existence of the Department of Education and its role in supporting students with disabilities. All students should have access to an equitable education."
Healthcare(5)
Supports full abortion rights and free on-demand reproductive healthcare without restrictions, including subsidized access in rural and conservative areas.
"I support full rights to abortion and reproductive healthcare, including free on-demand access without restrictions. Contraceptives, abortion, and reproductive healthcare should be free and subsidized across more conservative and rural areas."
Supports full reproductive healthcare rights including free contraceptives and abortion, expanded provider safety, and discouraging pregnancy crisis centers.
"I would like to work with colleagues to support the safety of doctors and other providers, disincentivize 'pregnancy crisis centers,' and expand healthcare access."
Supports universal healthcare access for all Americans, drawing inspiration from other countries' public systems and opposing insurance and pharmaceutical industry influence.
"Everyone deserves access to quality healthcare. Social safety programs should be available to all, regardless of employment. We can draw inspiration from the many other countries with cheaper and more effective public systems."
Supports addressing mental health through systems of care rather than incarceration, and investing in mental health services in schools.
"Mental health and addiction should be addressed through systems of care, not incarceration."
Opposes pharmaceutical industry influence over healthcare policy, calling for getting money out of politics to make healthcare about health.
"We must override the objections funded by the insurance, pharmaceutical, and hospital industries: we have to get money out of politics to make healthcare about health."
Immigration(3)
Opposes ICE deportation enforcement, calling for defunding ICE and CBP and stopping illegal detentions and deportations.
"Stop funding ICE, CBP, and other out-of-control enforcers. Stop racial profiling. Stop detaining non-criminals. Stop separating families. Stop illegal detentions and deportations."
Opposes current border enforcement practices, advocating that local law enforcement uphold civil rights even when federal agents are violating them.
"Local law enforcement should uphold civil rights, even if federal agents are violating them. Respect due process, habeas corpus, and basic human rights."
The candidate opposes aggressive ICE deportation operations, having organized community resistance against ICE raids in their neighborhood.
"This candidacy was born on November 20, 2025, on the corner of Sprague and Old Lexington in Waughtown—Winston-Salem's Little Mexico—as Operation Charlotte's Web spread across the region. Terrified immigrant families and allies held that intersection for twelve hours. People brought food, whistles, and supplies. ICE didn't take our neighborhood that day."
Social Issues(7)
Supports enshrining full abortion rights into law and providing free on-demand access to reproductive healthcare.
"Reproductive justice is a critical economic and racial justice issue, and needs to be enshrined into law. I support full rights to abortion and reproductive healthcare, including free on-demand access without restrictions."
Supports full abortion rights and free, on-demand reproductive healthcare without restrictions, including subsidized access in conservative and rural areas.
"I support full rights to abortion and reproductive healthcare, including free on-demand access without restrictions. Contraceptives, abortion, and reproductive healthcare should be free and subsidized across more conservative and rural areas."
Supports full legal protections for LGBTQ+ people including gender-affirming healthcare, anti-discrimination policies, and opposing all discriminatory legislation.
"I support full legal protections, access to gender-affirming healthcare as a human right, and everyone's right to bodily autonomy... I will oppose all discriminatory legislation and advance policies that affirm LGBTQ+ people in housing, employment, healthcare, and public accommodations."
Supports dismantling systems of racial control and has advocated against over-policing, police brutality, and racial profiling of Black, Brown, and Indigenous people.
"ICE's violations of human rights are an increasingly visible extension of the brutal surveillance and carceral systems which have always existed to control Black, Brown, and Indigenous people. Over the last decade, I joined with many other people to demand change in over-policing, police brutality, and racial profiling."
Supports addressing systemic racial injustice, linking ICE enforcement and carceral systems to historical control of Black, Brown, and Indigenous people.
"ICE's violations of human rights are an increasingly visible extension of the brutal surveillance and carceral systems which have always existed to control Black, Brown, and Indigenous people."
Opposes attacks on DEI programs and supports their continuation in educational institutions.
"We must end the censorship of information labelled woke or DEI."
The candidate, as an out queer and trans man, explicitly states they will defend LGBTQ+ lives and rights.
"As a queer and trans man, who transitioned over two decades ago, I have always been out and proud to defend myself and the lives of my friends."