Safe, permanent housing is a right, not a privilege for the wealthy. Delawareans are paying up to 50% of their income on rent while homeownership drifts further out of reach. Yet efforts to criminalize homelessness remain rampant throughout the state. We are fighting for rent stabilization, direct rental assistance, and strengthening tenant protections. All Delawareans deserve to live with dignity in healthy housing.

Healthcare is a human right, and it's time for Delaware to implement statewide single-payer health care that guarantees coverage for every resident, lowers costs, and saves lives. Our current system leaves Delawareans at the mercy of corporations, drowning in medical debt and unable to afford prescriptions. Delaware is mired by historical medical injustices that plague Black and Brown communities, especially with maternal health care. A cornerstone of our health care policy is focused investments and targeted attention in rectifying racial medical injustices.

The LGBTQIA+ community has always been forced to build our own networks of support in the face of a system that refuses to protect us, and as growing legal threats target every stage of life, that fight is more urgent than ever. I will fight to keep Delaware a safe haven for the LGBTQIA+ community and our right to free expression and autonomy over our lives and bodies. 

Barriers to equality are embedded in our tax code, healthcare, housing, and every corner of daily life. Our policies are grounded in expanding family protections to include those not just within our traditional understanding of family, but those that show up for us every step of the way. As a proud member of this community, I will never back down from fighting for these communities.

One full-time job used to be enough to support a family; it still should be. Every worker, in every industry, deserves compensation that reflects their dignity and hard work, and the minimum wage must be indexed to the cost of living — period. As costs rise, more and more Delawareans are struggling to keep a roof over their heads, while they ought to be spending more time with their neighbors and families. Greedy corporations shifted the work-life balance to increase their profit motive while our standard of living has decreased. This must end.

Schools are the foundation of healthy communities, and decades of federal policy have systematically drained the public education system to funnel tax dollars into charter and private religious schools. For two years I worked as an ESL teacher, where I learned the need to cultivate classrooms with a myriad of experiences and the lack of resources there are to build open and equitable classrooms.

Teachers deserve higher pay, better resources, and real support; students deserve safe, inclusive environments where their existence is never up for debate. Offering free school meals, universal child care programs, inclusive language opportunities to all students regardless of income is a no brainer.  For a better Delaware tomorrow, we need better schools today.

We are a nation of immigrants, and our Constitution guarantees due process to everyone — a fact the Trump administration routinely ignores. As ICE terrorizes communities across the country with unlawful apprehensions and detentions, we are all less free.

As your state senator, I will fight to protect our immigrant neighbors, our doctors, agricultural workers, and everyone who makes this country what it is. Delaware must prevent ICE from infringing on our state sovereignty and endangering our communities. I will fight to make sure there is no cooperation between Delaware and ICE.

The time to debate the moral imperative of addressing the climate crisis has passed. For too long, our energy policy was written by oil corporations and their lobbyists. That ends now.

We need green jobs that pay living wages, investment in renewable energy, and housing retrofits that lower costs and emissions. I will raise taxes on the ultra-wealthy to fund it, and heavily fine the fossil fuel corporations that deliberately deceived us about climate change. They created this crisis. They will pay for it.

Americans are struggling to keep the lights on, and utility companies keep raising rates even as households cut back. Meanwhile, AI data centers, which offer nothing to ordinary Americans, are being subsidized at every level of government while driving energy costs higher.

Enough. Energy companies and data centers should not be receiving public subsidies while families can't pay their bills. We need real relief, real accountability, and a firm stand against any expansion that raises costs and lowers our standard of living.

Access to reproductive healthcare is fundamental to every person's ability to plan their life with dignity and autonomy. The overturning of Roe v. Wade eliminated forty years of precedent at the federal level and put lives at risk — and Republicans continue to override the will of voters to push it further. State and local protections for abortion rights must be strengthened and codified. This is not up for debate.

Mass shootings are not inevitable. They are the consequence of policy failure, and the refusal to act is a stain on this country. Guns are disproportionately impacting marginalized communities while legislation lags behind.

Universal background checks. Mandatory waiting periods. And an assault weapons ban. The solutions are not complicated. The only thing standing in the way is political cowardice, and that ends with new leadership.

The connectivity between our state needs to dramatically improve. The over reliance on cars has nearly made public transportation unresponsive to the needs of Delawareans throughout all three counties. In order to improve mobility inside and outside of the state, we must explore new investments of public transit that reach Delawareans at every corner of our state.

We must imagine new possibilities to make Delaware a walkable and commuter friendly place to live and work. This means giving Delawareans social, physical, and economic mobility; the mobility to visit their families and explore career opportunities throughout every city and locale without long wait times, advanced planning, and financial constraints.