"We need to move from an economy built on extracting energy to one built on harvesting it, and we need real criminal accountability for the executives who caused this."

"We need to move from an economy built on extracting energy to one built on harvesting it."

"Corporations spent decades hiding what they knew about climate change while buying enough politicians to block every regulation."

"We need to pass the PRO Act and end the legal weapons corporations use to break unions. We need labor law violations to be actually painful, with penalties that scale with company size rather than the trivial fines that current enforcement uses. We need to ban mandatory arbitration agreements that force workers to give up their right to sue when their rights are violated. We need to end at-will employment in cases of suspected discrimination or retaliation. And we need to extend labor protections to gig workers, domestic workers, and farm workers who have been systematically excluded."

"We need to raise the federal minimum wage to a real living wage and tie it to a regional cost-of-living index that updates automatically. We need to end the subminimum wage for tipped workers, for workers with disabilities, and for workers in agricultural jobs that have been excluded from labor protections since the 1930s."

"We need to restrict stock buybacks, especially when a company has laid off workers in the same fiscal year, has received public subsidies, or has unfunded pension obligations. We need to raise the corporate income tax rate back toward historical norms and close the offshore loopholes that let multinationals declare profits in tax havens while doing actual business in the United States. And we need to make corporate criminal penalties paid by the executives who made the decisions, not just by the shareholders."

"We need to tax executive compensation at the same rates as wages, regardless of whether it is paid in cash, stock, or options. We need to close the carried-interest loophole that lets fund managers pay capital gains rates on what is functionally compensation for labor. We need to require that any tax preference granted to executive stock-based compensation be conditioned on broad-based stock ownership for the workers at the same company. And we need a hard cap on the deductibility of executive compensation."

"We need a living wage, taxes on executive stock and options at the same rate as wages, a wealth tax above a high threshold, and an end to the dynasty trusts that let billionaire families compound wealth across generations."

"We need a wealth tax on net worth above a high threshold, structured carefully to address the constitutional and administrative challenges that critics use to dismiss the idea. We need a true minimum tax on the highest earners, calculated on income that includes unrealized capital gains, with a payment timeline that does not allow indefinite deferral. We need to fund the IRS adequately so it can audit complex high-end returns. And we need to end the step-up basis at death, the single largest loophole in the federal tax code."

"The richest 400 families now hold more wealth than the bottom half of the country combined. We need a living wage, taxes on executive stock and options at the same rate as wages, a wealth tax above a high threshold, and an end to the dynasty trusts that let billionaire families compound wealth across generations."

"We need living wages, the right to organize without retaliation, and strong unions to stand up against monopolies and corporate consolidation."

"The country is not broke. It is being looted."

"We need a federal investment in mental health workforce development, with loan forgiveness for therapists, social workers, and psychiatrists who practice in underserved areas."

"Teachers can't afford to live where they teach."

"I have a son who is autistic and I have seen firsthand how hard families have to fight just to get the services their kids are legally entitled to."

"I support Medicare for All. Single-payer. The Bernie Sanders and Pramila Jayapal version, with no carve-outs and no compromises sold as pragmatism by the people lobbying against it."

"The Right to Contraception Act and the Right to IVF Act are both bills that need to pass, and we need members of Congress willing to introduce them as priorities and to vote for them when they come to the floor."

"We need Medicare to negotiate prices on every prescription drug, not just the handful that the Inflation Reduction Act allowed. We need to break up the patent abuse schemes pharmaceutical companies use to keep generics off the market. We need a clear rule that any drug developed with public funding is sold at a fair price domestically, or the patent goes back to the public."

"We need real enforcement of mental health parity, with serious penalties for insurance companies that violate it. We need a federal investment in mental health workforce development, with loan forgiveness for therapists, social workers, and psychiatrists who practice in underserved areas. We need crisis response systems that are not the police."

"We need to expand Medicare to cover long-term care, not force families to bankrupt themselves into Medicaid."

"The decision about whether to continue a pregnancy belongs to the woman, not to a state legislature acting on religious doctrine. The federal law has to codify that right and protect access to care across state lines."

"Nobody should go bankrupt because they got sick. Nobody should ration insulin. Healthcare is a right, not a revenue stream."

"Nobody should go bankrupt because they got sick. Nobody should ration insulin."

"The current healthcare system is designed to extract maximum profit from people at their most vulnerable... We will never reform our way out of this. We have to replace it."

"I believe healthcare is a right."

"The weaponization of federal agencies against our communities is not abstract. It is personal."

"In a district where roughly 25% of the population is Hispanic and over 30% is Asian, the weaponization of federal agencies against our communities is not abstract. It is personal."

"I am pro-choice because that is the only answer consistent with bodily autonomy as a foundational principle."

"We need clear protection for the right to travel between states to access abortion, for access to medication abortion including mifepristone, and for doctors who provide legal medical care from criminal prosecution."

"I support repealing the Hyde Amendment so that the right to access reproductive care is not conditioned on income."

"I support the Women's Health Protection Act, which would establish a statutory right to abortion access that no state can override."

"Anti-abortion state legislatures are already writing laws to criminalize people who help others access care across state lines, and those laws need to be preempted at the federal level."

"Reproductive rights have been in active retreat since Roe was overturned. The decision about whether to continue a pregnancy belongs to the woman, not to a state legislature acting on religious doctrine. The federal law has to codify that right and protect access to care across state lines."

"People who hold that belief are entitled to hold it and to live their own lives by it, but they aren't entitled to write it into law and force everyone else to live by it too."