☮ Peace & Anti-War
I will refuse to vote for funding unconstitutional wars and war crimes. The United States has spent trillions on forever wars while communities at home struggle with underfunded schools, crumbling infrastructure, and unaffordable healthcare.
Joseph Kent, former Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, resigned stating plainly that we started a war with Iran due to pressure from Israel and its lobby. When career intelligence officials resign rather than participate in dishonest wars, something is deeply broken.
Defend the Guard: I support federal and state-level Defend the Guard laws that would bar Oregon's National Guard from active combat deployments absent a formal congressional declaration of war per Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution. No more sending Oregon troops into unconstitutional wars.
Join the Movement🔍 Transparency & Accountability
The American people deserve to know how foreign interests influence our government. The Epstein files — particularly the second half — should be investigated and released to shed light on the nature of pressures exerted by foreign governments on U.S. policy.
Transparency isn't a partisan issue. It's the foundation of democracy. When decisions are made in secret, corruption follows. I will push for:
- Full release of the Epstein files
- An end to secret lobbying and dark money in politics
- Real enforcement of the STOCK Act — members of Congress should not be trading stocks based on inside information
🔒 Privacy & Surveillance
I will fight to end warrantless NSA and FISA surveillance, repeal Section 702 expansions, and reform or abolish the Patriot Act.
Federal government spying on Americans — including Oregon residents' digital communications and data — represents a far greater threat to liberty than foreign adversaries. The Fourth Amendment isn't optional. Mass surveillance erodes the very freedoms our government is sworn to protect.
If elected, I will oppose any legislation that expands the surveillance state and will work to roll back the most invasive provisions of the post-9/11 security apparatus.
💰 Economy & Tax Fairness
The current tax system is upside down — it burdens working families while corporations and Wall Street skate by. I will fight to:
- Eliminate federal income tax for workers earning less than $100,000 per year
- Tax large corporate profits and Wall Street transactions — a "Robin Hood" tax of less than 1% per stock trade
- End corporate subsidies and bailouts — no more public money for private losses
- Use tariffs to protect domestic industry from exploitation
- Shift toward green taxes and sin taxes rather than taxes on earned income
Taxation should not be levied on things we want more of — like work. It should be levied on things we want less of — like pollution, financial speculation, and corporate excess.
I also recognize that AI and automation may replace most jobs in coming years. We need to prepare for a transition that could require Universal Basic Income (UBI) to prevent mass homelessness and starvation — but only if we manage AI for the general good, not for the further enrichment of billionaires.
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🌳 Public Lands, Housing & Wildfires
Public lands are an asset that should be managed for the greatest benefit to the public over time. If managed well, they could fund a large fraction of government services — offsetting income taxes.
I propose "Rural Residential Clusters" — higher-density but widely dispersed housing on the edges of public forest lands. Residents would live and work in the forest as stewards: thinning dead wood, designating logging projects for fire breaks, improving wildlife habitat, and creating recreational opportunities.
This approach addresses three crises at once: housing affordability, wildfire prevention, and rural economic decline.
O&C Lands are state-owned and should be managed by the state. Timber sale revenues have historically funded public education in Oregon. I oppose both absentee federal neglect and the bidding wars that let global timber corporations strip mature trees at the lowest price. Land should be managed by people who live close to it.
💊 Drug Policy: Healthcare, Not Handcuffs
I regard substance abuse as primarily a healthcare issue, not a criminal one. Fear of arrest and incarceration is a barrier that prevents users from seeking medical help to address their abuse problems.
We should treat addiction with compassion and evidence-based treatment — not prison sentences. The War on Drugs has been a costly failure that filled prisons without reducing addiction.
I support tasking the Coast Guard to cooperate with law enforcement to stem the tide of illicit drugs shipped to Oregon via ocean passage — a particular concern for our coastal district. But interdiction must be paired with decriminalization of personal use and investment in treatment.
⚖ Government Accountability
Our current representative, Val Hoyle, violated the STOCK Act in 2025, failing to report over 200 stock trades — some delayed more than a year. She also faced scrutiny over the La Mota pay-to-play scandal. This isn't leadership. It's a pattern of self-interest that voters across the political spectrum are tired of.
I will never trade individual stocks while in office. My salary will be my only income. No speaking fees, no consulting, no book deals from lobbyists. Public service should be just that — service.
Government's only legitimate role is to protect citizens from violence and theft. When government itself commits violence and theft on its own citizens, it becomes illegitimate.
🗳 Election Reform
I've been an activist for election reform for years. Oregon now has almost as many voters who are neither Democrat nor Republican as we have Democrats and Republicans combined. Yet our electoral system stacks the deck against independent voices.
We need:
- Ranked-choice voting to give voters real choice without fear of "wasting" their vote
- Nonpartisan redistricting to end gerrymandering
- Overturning Citizens United and getting dark money out of politics
- Making it easier — not harder — for independent and third-party candidates to appear on the ballot
Vote by Mail: I've served as a volunteer helping senior and disabled voters get to the polls in Nevada — something that vote-by-mail makes unnecessary in Oregon. Oregon's vote-by-mail system isn't broken and doesn't need to be fixed. I would work to establish better chain-of-custody for mailed-in ballots and more stringent guarantees on ballot delivery timing from the U.S. Postal Service. Personally, I drop my ballot in the election division's white ballot return boxes and encourage others to do the same.
Government should answer to the people. Period.
