The Issues

Foreign Policy - America First

The Department of War wages offensive, endless interventions abroad at the behest of the oligarchy. America uses force as foreign policy to topple elected leaders, coup nations, install dictators, and steal natural resources.The FY2026 budget is $961.6 billion, more than the next ten countries combined, while Nevadans deal with crumbling infrastructure and crushing medical debt.We are funding a proxy war in Ukraine with tens of billions in weapons that only prolong the fight against Russia. We are bankrolling Israel's operations in Gaza and Lebanon, along with strikes on the Houthis. We are bombing Yemen, Iraq, and Syria. We are running terrorism operations in Somalia and across Africa. And we just invaded Venezuela without a declaration of war, bombed civilian areas, killed innocents, and kidnapped the president and his wife.

I unequivocally oppose Zionism, the ideological foundation of Israel's apartheid system that enforces systematic domination and oppression over Palestinians across the occupied territories and within Israel itself. Amnesty International's 2022 report, "Israel’s Apartheid Against Palestinians," and Human Rights Watch's 2021 report, "A Threshold Crossed," along with parallel findings from B'Tselem and the UN's 2022 analyses, document a regime of institutionalized racial discrimination: segregated legal systems, land expropriation, movement restrictions, home demolitions, disproportionate violence, and denial of basic rights. All of these meet the legal definition of apartheid under the 1973 Apartheid Convention and Rome Statute. I condemn the warmongers, including neoconservative think tanks, defense contractors, and bipartisan politicians, who relentlessly push for U.S. military aid exceeding $3.8 billion annually while cheering Israeli assaults that have killed tens of thousands of civilians. And I denounce the pedophile networks centered on Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. Their financing and blackmail operations intersected with pro-Zionist mega-donors and figures, including documented ties to former Israeli leaders and intelligence circles, channeling vast wealth to sustain the system while protected by the same elite impunity that shields traffickers. This entire apparatus must be dismantled.

Israel is a settler-colonial state built on the ethnic cleansing of indigenous Palestinians, now enforcing a regime of apartheid and committing genocide in Gaza. Leading human rights organizations, including Amnesty International (2022 report), Human Rights Watch (2021 report), B'Tselem, and UN experts, have documented systematic racial domination: separate legal systems for Israelis and Palestinians, mass land theft through settlements, brutal movement restrictions, home demolitions, and indiscriminate military violence that has killed over 40,000 Palestinians since October 2023, mostly women and children. Representative Mark Amodei (R-NV2) has repeatedly prioritized foreign interests, voting yes on H.R. 8034, the 2024 Israel Security Supplemental Appropriations Act that delivered $26 billion in additional U.S. funding, much of it military aid used in the ongoing assault. Northern Nevada deserves a congressman who puts America first, not one beholden to AIPAC and pro-Israel lobbies that funnel millions to secure unconditional support. The only just resolution is the complete end of the Zionist project and the restoration of a free Palestine from the river to the sea, returning to pre-1948 borders with full right of return for all refugees and their descendants.

The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) maintains an unprecedented stranglehold on Congress through massive lobbying and campaign spending, over $3.8 million directly in 2025, with affiliated PACs pouring tens of millions more into primaries to defeat critics of Israeli policy. Its predecessor, the American Zionist Council (AZC), was ordered by the Kennedy administration's Justice Department in 1962 to register as a foreign agent under FARA due to direct Israeli government funding and coordination. That order was never enforced: after President Kennedy's assassination in November 1963, the pressure vanished under Johnson, allowing AZC to dissolve and reemerge as AIPAC—a "domestic" lobby exempt from FARA's transparency requirements on foreign ties, meetings, and financing. No comparable foreign-aligned group enjoys this loophole while dominating U.S. policy. AIPAC's outsized influence must end: force full FARA registration, expose all Israeli contacts and funding sources, cap its election spending, and break the bipartisan fear that silences debate on America-first interests.

Healthcare
The United States runs the world's most expensive healthcare system, spending over $15,000 per person annually (more than 2.5 times the OECD average) and approaching 18% of GDP on care that ranks dead last among 10 high-income nations in the Commonwealth Fund's 2024 Mirror, Mirror report for access, equity, and outcomes. Despite this extravagance, Americans suffer the worst results: life expectancy at 79 years lags far behind peers (many exceeding 82), infant mortality hovers around 5.5 deaths per 1,000 live births, maternal mortality exceeds 22 per 100,000 (highest in the developed world), and preventable/treatable deaths have risen while falling across the OECD. Life expectancy declined in the 2010s from "deaths of despair" (opioids, suicide, alcohol) and plunged further during COVID, unlike comparable countries. The 2010 Affordable Care Act promised affordability, yet marketplace premiums doubled or tripled in many states, over 100 million Americans now carry $220+ billion in medical debt (36% of households affected), insurance denials remain rampant, medical costs drive persistent bankruptcies, and 26-27 million people stay uninsured amid widespread under-insurance. This profit-driven system incentivizes illness through administrative bloat, price gouging, and sickness-focused care. We demand true universal single-payer healthcare: fully public, free at the point of service for every American, with zero premiums, co-pays, deductibles, denials, debt, or bankruptcies.

Environmental Pollution
America is under relentless assault from pervasive environmental toxins deliberately introduced into our air, water, and soil. Microplastics contaminate rainwater nationwide and infiltrate human blood, lungs, brains, and placentas. Glyphosate saturates soils and food chains, detected in over 80% of Americans’ urine as a probable human carcinogen. Municipal water is laced with fluoride (linked to lowered IQ and skeletal damage) and atrazine (a banned-in-Europe endocrine disruptor tied to birth defects). Coal plants spew radioactive fly ash and heavy metals. Fossil fuels release mercury, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, and deadly particulates that claim hundreds of thousands of lives yearly.

This systematic poisoning can and must end now through a decisive pivot to truly clean energy: deploying Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors (LFTRs) for safe, abundant, low-waste baseload power alongside vast solar arrays and grid-scale batteries. In Nevada’s 2nd Congressional District, world-class solar resources and immense brackish subsurface aquifers with supply for 4,000 years allow LFTR-driven desalination to deliver unlimited fresh water while generating surplus electricity at near-zero marginal cost. That ultra-cheap power makes synthetic carbon-neutral hydrocarbon fuels viable through electrolysis and CO₂ capture. By harnessing sunlight at immense scale, manufacturing clean fuels, and exporting them worldwide, we generate enormous revenue to build a sovereign wealth fund capable of funding universal basic income and finally breaking free from dependence on the toxic, polluting industries that have poisoned our nation for too long.

Immigration and Borders
America faces a continuing bipartisan invasion of its sovereignty. Over 20 million illegal immigrants are already here. At the same time, IDF-trained ICE agents have invaded our streets to conduct masked raids, warrantless abductions, family separations, wrongful detentions of U.S. citizens, and preventable deaths. More than 30 died in custody in 2025 alone from neglect and excessive force.
We require deportations via due process for those here unlawfully. We must end H-1B program abuses, where corporations import cheaper foreign labor to deliberately depress American wages, displace U.S. workers, and trap visa holders in modern indentured servitude by tying their employment and residency to a single employer, leaving them vulnerable to exploitation without freedom to switch jobs or negotiate fairly. We must abolish ICE's brutality and expand legal immigration pathways for those who follow the rules.

Economy and Workers
The U.S. economy continues to impose severe hardship on working families. Over 140 million Americans—encompassing poverty-level and ALICE (Asset Limited, Income Constrained, Employed) households struggle to cover basic needs despite employment. Roughly 30-40% of the nation's 771,000 homeless individuals hold jobs yet remain unable to afford housing amid skyrocketing rents and home prices that consume nearly 40% of median income. Real wages grew modestly (~1% in 2025), but essential costs, especially housing, have far outpaced gains for lower- and middle-income workers. More than 9 million Americans (5.5% of the workforce) juggle multiple jobs, often without benefits or stability. Record-high wealth inequality, with income Gini near 0.42 and wealth concentration at 60-year peaks, directs economic gains overwhelmingly to the elite while ordinary households face persistent financial precarity.

I strongly oppose Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) because they would vastly expand government power to weaponize financial access against dissent. In 2022, during Canada’s Freedom Convoy protests against vaccine mandates, the government invoked the Emergencies Act and ordered banks to freeze accounts of identified protesters, organizers, and even donors without court orders or due process. Hundreds of individuals and businesses lost access to their funds overnight, crippling their ability to pay bills, buy fuel, or operate. A CBDC would supercharge this mechanism: every transaction would be visible in real time to the central bank, accounts could be frozen or limited instantly by algorithm or decree, funds could be programmed to expire or be restricted to approved uses only, and spending patterns could trigger automatic penalties or exclusions. What took emergency legislation and bank cooperation in 2022 could become silent, routine, and irreversible under a fully digital central-bank currency thereby turning money into a direct lever of social and political control.

Surveillance and Civil Liberties
Big Tech platforms actively suppressed damaging stories during the 2020 election under documented government influence. In October 2020, Twitter blocked links to the New York Post's Hunter Biden laptop article citing its "hacked materials" policy, while Facebook algorithmically demoted it; the laptop's contents were later authenticated by the FBI and admitted as evidence in Hunter Biden's 2024 federal trials. Mark Zuckerberg admitted in his 2022 Joe Rogan interview and 2024 congressional letter that the FBI's warnings about "Russian disinformation" prompted suppression, and that Biden administration officials repeatedly pressured Meta to censor COVID-19 and election-related content, actions he now regrets. Former Twitter executives testified to Congress that blocking the story was a mistake. Separately, Ashley Biden's stolen diary containing entries about inappropriate childhood showers with her father, was confirmed authentic in her April 2024 victim impact letter during thief Aimee Harris's sentencing; its publication faced limited platform amplification amid broader selective censorship patterns revealed in Twitter Files and platform admissions.

Child Trafficking The American people demand the immediate, full, and unredacted release of every remaining Jeffrey Epstein document including flight logs, video recordings, financial records, and the complete client list along with total transparency into the broader child sex trafficking networks he enabled. There is zero reason to believe Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell operated alone: Epstein owned multiple properties used for abuse (Little St. James, Great St. James, Zorro Ranch in New Mexico, Palm Beach mansion, New York townhouse, Paris apartment), maintained a fleet of private jets and helicopters for transport, and cultivated ties to powerful figures across politics, finance, entertainment, and academia. Ongoing court battles and partial 2024-2025 unsealing have revealed names but left critical portions redacted or withheld. The pattern of protection, delayed justice, and sealed records strongly suggests a far larger network, potentially involving intelligence assets and additional locations, that law enforcement and courts continue to shield. Full disclosure is non-negotiable to expose all traffickers and end impunity.

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