The American Dreams should work for working families and not just the billionaire class.

• Raise the minimum wage.

• Reinstate the Child Tax Credit.

• Support Social Security and Medicare for seniors.

• Revise tax policies to ensure that working families aren’t subsidizing corporations and the ultra-wealthy.

• Support public education with additional federal funding.

Every American deserves access to high-quality and truly affordable healthcare and a healthcare system that prioritizes health over corporate profits.

• Expand and support programs like Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act to provide affordable health insurance to working families.

• Stop pharmaceutical companies from price gouging life saving medications like insulin.

• Hold the pharmaceutical industry accountable for the opioid crisis.

• Rein in anti-competitive for-profit hospital monopolies by strengthening federal antitrust laws.

Future generations deserve to enjoy the same beautiful mountains that we have today and we must protect the natural resources that fuel WNC’s economy.

• Ensure the US meets its commitments to achieving net zero carbon emissions by 2050 in accordance with the Paris Agreement.

• End our dependence on adversarial foreign powers and ensure our national security by transitioning to a domestically produced clean energy economy.

• Bring new, high-paying jobs in the clean energy economy to WNC.

• Conserve and protect our forests and natural resources.

• Foster a strong, sustainable local agricultural economy and keep family farms open.

The people in Appalachia understand that it isn’t the government’s business to interfere in your personal life and I believe we need to limit the overreach that is keeping citizens from being able to live how they want to live.

• Enshrine reproductive rights into federal law to reinstate the legal protections granted by Roe v. Wade.

• Deschedule cannabis at the federal level to clear the path for states to choose to legalize cannabis.

• Protect the rights of the LGBTQ+ community and push back against discrimination in all its forms.

• Ensure that the federal government respects tribal sovereignty.

• Protect against further infringement of our voting rights by passing the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act.