About This Race

Across healthcare, housing, public safety, immigration, environmental protection, and economic security, families increasingly encounter government only during moments of disruption—when clarity and fairness matter most.

Too often, they find delay, confusing complexity, or silence. That’s not because the problems are unsolvable. It’s because Congress has too often stepped back from its responsibility to govern under pressure.

The incumbent has served since 1993. Experience matters, and long service deserves respect. But longevity alone is not leadership. After decades in office, too many quiet failures persist:

• delayed veterans’ benefits

• opaque healthcare and Medicare decisions

• coercive law-enforcement encounters

• housing instability driven by bureaucracy

• financial systems that punish people when they’re most vulnerable

These are failures of accountability… Congress sets the standards for how power is exercised across agencies, courts, hospitals, and financial institutions. When Congress hesitates, ordinary people pay the price.

My campaign is grounded in a simple principle: good government should stabilize people in moments of disruption. Government should be predictable, fair, and present—whether someone is facing a medical emergency, housing shock, legal uncertainty, or sudden economic upheaval.

I didn’t come through a traditional political pipeline. I came through lived experience inside the systems people encounter at their most vulnerable. I’m not running to be loud. I’m running to be effective. This race matters because leadership matters most before crisis becomes catastrophe.