Policy Positions
Criminal Justice(3)
Opposes private prisons and detention centers, arguing that no company should profit from incarceration due to incentives that promote recidivism and abuse.
"No company should profit from the incarceration of Americans."
Supports data-driven, long-term criminal justice reform and ending the criminalization of poverty.
"We need legislation and leadership that focuses on long-term, data-driven solutions to criminal justice, and end the criminalization of poverty."
Opposes the abuse of incarcerated individuals, particularly noting that LGBT+ incarcerated individuals are disproportionately subjected to abuse.
"LGBT+ youth rates of homelessness, incarceration, and substance abuse are all disproportionately high. With incarcerated individuals, of any age, often subjected to horrific abuse."
Economy(15)
Supports repealing the Taft-Hartley Act to expand union power and worker protections, and ending at-will employment to provide job security.
"We must repeal the Taft-Hartley Act, which limits the power of working people and unions to fight for better working conditions."
Supports a wealth tax specifically targeting billionaire assets and accumulated wealth to address inequality.
"Samuel is proposing a wealth tax targeting billionaire assets and wealth."
Supports closing tax code loopholes that allow billionaires to pay lower effective tax rates than average workers.
"We must restructure our tax code to prevent billionaires from paying less than the average worker. There is no reason that a Nevadan making $50,000 a year is paying 20-30 percent in taxes, while billionaires pay less than 10. We must reform our tax code."
Supports increasing taxes on the wealthy and closing tax loopholes so billionaires pay a higher effective rate, while reducing taxes for the middle and working class.
"the best way to correct this is to increase taxes on wealth until we can decrease taxes for the middle and working class"
Supports a living wage for Nevada workers, adjusted annually to the Consumer Price Index.
"Nevada workers deserve a living wage, adjusted every year to the Consumer Pricing Index."
Opposes at-will employment, arguing workers should not be able to be fired without cause given widespread financial insecurity.
"Currently in Nevada, your employer can fire you at any time, for no reason. With almost 70% of Americans living paycheck-to-paycheck, this is unreasonable."
Supports equal pay for equal work and maternity rights as worker protections for women.
"Equal pay for equal work, healthcare and reproductive rights, maternity rights, affordable childcare, protections against harassment and gender-based violence."
Supports stronger worker's rights, arguing that full-time work should provide sufficient pay given that nearly 70% of Americans live paycheck-to-paycheck.
"A full day's work deserves a full day's pay. With almost 70% of Americans working paycheck-to-paycheck, this is not happening."
Supports stronger worker protections and fair wages, noting that nearly 70% of Americans live paycheck-to-paycheck.
"A full day's work deserves a full day's pay. With almost 70% of Americans working paycheck-to-paycheck, this is not happening."
Supports stronger worker protections and fair pay, noting that nearly 70% of Americans are living paycheck-to-paycheck.
"A full day's work deserves a full day's pay. With almost 70% of Americans working paycheck-to-paycheck, this is not happening."
Supports a federal jobs guarantee modeled on New Deal-style legislation to provide employment and improve infrastructure and communities.
"By providing good jobs for anyone who wants to work, we can ensure that Nevadan's won't be taken advantage of by corporations. With well over 1 million layoffs in 2025, "New Deal" style legislation can provide good jobs and a workforce to improve our communities, and infrastructure."
Supports policies that create stable, secure communities to allow small businesses to thrive, and opposes the federal government favoring corporations over small businesses.
"Our federal government has historically backed corporations over unions and small businesses. This Must Change."
Supports taxing wealth over work to address inequality and halt the transfer of wealth to the top 1%.
"We must take action to halt the enormous transfer of wealth being funneled to the 1%, and create a fair and secure economy for the working people of this state."
Supports taxing wealth rather than work to address inequality and halt the transfer of wealth to the top 1%.
"Wealth inequality is driving a cost of living crisis for working families across the United Sates. We must take action to halt the enormous transfer of wealth being funneled to the 1%, and create a fair and secure economy for the working people of this state."
Supports taxing wealth over work to address inequality and create a fairer economy for working families.
"Wealth inequality is driving a cost of living crisis for working families across the United Sates. We must take action to halt the enormous transfer of wealth being funneled to the 1%, and create a fair and secure economy for the working people of this state."
Education(13)
Supports higher teacher pay and addressing large classroom sizes, citing a teacher shortage crisis.
"Amidst a massive teacher shortage the best way to bridge the gap is to ensure high paying jobs. For too long our school teachers have had to make due with sub-par pay and enormous classroom sizes."
Supports making higher education more affordable, noting that young Americans carry $1.8 trillion in student debt.
"Young Americans owe $1.8 trillion in student debt. Education has become unaffordable, meanwhile teachers see growing classrooms and cuts. We need to invest in our public schools at all levels."
Supports making higher education more affordable, highlighting the $1.8 trillion student debt crisis.
"Young Americans owe $1.8 trillion in student debt. Education has become unaffordable, meanwhile teachers see growing classrooms and cuts. We need to invest in our public schools at all levels."
Supports making higher education more affordable, citing the $1.8 trillion student debt burden on young Americans.
"Young Americans owe $1.8 trillion in student debt. Education has become unaffordable, meanwhile teachers see growing classrooms and cuts. We need to invest in our public schools at all levels."
Supports increased investment in public K-12 schools, citing growing classrooms and budget cuts.
"Young Americans owe $1.8 trillion in student debt. Education has become unaffordable, meanwhile teachers see growing classrooms and cuts. We need to invest in our public schools at all levels."
Supports increased investment in public K-12 schools, citing growing class sizes and budget cuts affecting teachers.
"Education has become unaffordable, meanwhile teachers see growing classrooms and cuts. We need to invest in our public schools at all levels."
Supports increased investment in public K-12 schools, pointing to growing class sizes and funding cuts.
"Education has become unaffordable, meanwhile teachers see growing classrooms and cuts. We need to invest in our public schools at all levels."
Supports making college and trade schools more affordable, viewing current costs as a barrier to access for millions of Americans.
"We need affordable schooling for all. We need to re-invest in our school systems."
Supports increased investment in school systems, opposing cuts to education funding.
"It is time to stop putting our education on the chopping block."
Supports addressing teacher workforce issues, highlighting growing classrooms and cuts as problems to be remedied.
"Education has become unaffordable, meanwhile teachers see growing classrooms and cuts. We need to invest in our public schools at all levels."
Implicitly supports better conditions for teachers by highlighting growing classrooms and cuts as problems to be addressed.
"Education has become unaffordable, meanwhile teachers see growing classrooms and cuts. We need to invest in our public schools at all levels."
Implicitly supports better conditions for teachers by highlighting growing classrooms and budget cuts as problems to address.
"meanwhile teachers see growing classrooms and cuts. We need to invest in our public schools at all levels."
Acknowledges the burden of student debt across multiple generations, implying support for addressing it.
"We have multiple generations saddled with enormous debt, and millions of Americans finding college and trade schools inaccessible due to cost."
Healthcare(11)
Strongly supports Medicare for All as a single-payer system to provide universal healthcare coverage for all Americans.
"We are in a crisis, and Medicare for All is the solution."
Supports including mental health services as covered benefits under Medicare for All.
"Hospital visits, ambulance rides, doctor's offices, specialists, women's health, dental, vision, mental health, prescription drugs, and treatment would all be covered under the expanded Medicare for All."
Supports Medicare for All, advocating for affordable universal care and removing profit from healthcare.
"A just society does not bankrupt families for being sick. We need affordable, effective care for everyone. We need to remove profit-seeking from our basic medical needs."
Supports Medicare for All, arguing that profit-seeking should be removed from basic medical needs.
"A just society does not bankrupt families for being sick. We need affordable, effective care for everyone. We need to remove profit-seeking from our basic medical needs."
Supports Medicare for All, advocating for affordable universal healthcare and removing profit-seeking from medical care.
"A just society does not bankrupt families for being sick. We need affordable, effective care for everyone. We need to remove profit-seeking from our basic medical needs."
Opposes Republican cuts to Medicare, Medicaid, and the ACA, warning that over 100,000 Nevadans are at risk of losing coverage.
"With dramatic Republican cuts to medicare, medicaid, and the ACA, over 100,000 Nevadans are at risk of losing healthcare."
Supports using a single-payer system to negotiate lower drug prices and includes prescription drug coverage under Medicare for All.
"A single payer system would eliminate the profit-seeking middle-man, and give the American people vastly more power to negotiate for the fair prices that multiple other countries already enjoy."
Supports reproductive healthcare rights for women as a core component of women's rights.
"Equal pay for equal work, healthcare and reproductive rights, maternity rights, affordable childcare, protections against harassment and gender-based violence."
Supports covering women's health services under Medicare for All.
"Hospital visits, ambulance rides, doctor's offices, specialists, women's health, dental, vision, mental health, prescription drugs, and treatment would all be covered under the expanded Medicare for All."
Implicitly supports the ACA by opposing cuts to it, framing such cuts as harmful to Nevadans' healthcare access.
"With dramatic Republican cuts to medicare, medicaid, and the ACA, over 100,000 Nevadans are at risk of losing healthcare."
Implicitly opposes cuts to vital government healthcare programs, informed by personal experience with the healthcare system's flaws.
"He joined millions of Americans in protest against Donald Trump's cuts to vital government programs"
Immigration(6)
Opposes ICE and its deportation enforcement operations, calling for the agency to be abolished and its funding redirected to social services.
"We must abolish ICE, and redirect the funds back toward social services."
Opposes ICE and calls for defunding it, characterizing its agents as unaccountable and violating constitutional rights.
"A working democracy does not allow masked, armed, unaccountable agents to violate our human and constitutional rights. We must de-fund ICE."
Opposes ICE and its enforcement tactics, calling for the agency to be defunded due to lack of accountability.
"A working democracy does not allow masked, armed, unaccountable agents to violate our human and constitutional rights. We must de-fund ICE."
Opposes ICE and its enforcement activities, calling for the agency to be defunded due to alleged violations of human and constitutional rights.
"A working democracy does not allow masked, armed, unaccountable agents to violate our human and constitutional rights. We must de-fund ICE."
Opposes the current federal enforcement approach, characterizing masked, armed agents acting without warrants or due process as incompatible with democracy.
"We are witnessing a poorly trained, unaccountable, federal force killing Americans. These forces are acting without judicial warrants or due process. They are masked, armed, and acting with impunity. These are not the actions of a democracy."
Opposes what he characterizes as shocking abuses against immigrants under the Trump administration.
"the shocking abuses against immigrants"
Social Issues(8)
Supports ending discrimination against the LGBTQIA+ community, decriminalizing identity, and expanding protections, healthcare, and support for LGBT+ individuals.
"We will fight to end discrimination against the LGBTQIA+ community. We must end the criminalization of identity, and expand protections, healthcare, and support for those in our community."
Supports LGBTQIA+ rights, framing them as human rights deserving of equality, safety, and freedom.
"Women's rights and LGBTQIA+ rights are human rights. We all deserve equality and safety and freedom."
Supports full equality, safety, and freedom for LGBTQIA+ individuals, framing these as human rights.
"Women's rights and LGBTQIA+ rights are human rights. We all deserve equality and safety and freedom."
Supports LGBTQIA+ rights as human rights, advocating for equality, safety, and freedom for all.
"Women's rights and LGBTQIA+ rights are human rights. We all deserve equality and safety and freedom."
Supports reproductive rights for women as part of a broader platform for women's rights.
"Equal pay for equal work, healthcare and reproductive rights, maternity rights, affordable childcare, protections against harassment and gender-based violence."
Supports fighting for the rights and protections of women of color and indigenous women, recognizing they are among those hit hardest by discrimination.
"Particularly, we will fight for those hit hardest, working women/mothers, women of color, indigenous women, and LGBT+ women."
Broadly supports equality and safety for all people as part of a human rights framework.
"We all deserve equality and safety and freedom."
Implicitly supports equal rights and safety for all people as a matter of human rights.
"Women's rights and LGBTQIA+ rights are human rights. We all deserve equality and safety and freedom."