To be successful in the upcoming 2026 and 2028 elections, Democrats need to offer voters a bold, clear, and concise platform. Below, I’ve written an outline of what is important to me as a Progressive. This is my vision for America, and I urge Democrats across the spectrum to fight for and support these ideas and policies.
Affordability:
- Restore funding for SNAP (food stamps).
- Grants for first time home buyers.
- Subsidized rent payments for low-income households.
- End across-the-board tariffs.
Immigration:
- Abolish ICE.
- Reallocate ICE budget to fund the processing of immigration and refugees.
- Amnesty and a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants with no major criminal record (violence or high value money/property crimes).
- Reform the immigration system to make it easier for immigrants to come in legally.
Foreign Policy:
- Strengthen our bond with NATO and allies.
- Support for Ukraine.
- Stop funding the genocide in Gaza. Send aid to rebuild Gaza and make people healthy.
- Strategically pull out of Iran, and restore oil trade.
- Restore USAID, PEPFAR, and other soft power programs shuttered by DOGE.
- Send aid to war-torn and developing countries.
- Focus on defense, not imperialism.
- Free trade with limited tariffs.
Healthcare:
- Single-payer Medicare for all, including parts A, B, and D, with dental and vision.
- Improve Medicare to include more services including mental health and preventative care.
- Funding for in-home care for seniors and those with disabilities with no waiting lists.
- Full gender affirmative healthcare.
- Restore CDC funding for monitoring, prevention, and mitigating communicable diseases.
- Restore funding for medical research.
- Codify Roe vs Wade in constitution.
Gun Violence:
- Better background checks.
- Close boyfriend loophole.
- Red flag laws.
- Require gun safety courses to get licensed.
- Require license for rifles and handguns.
Drug Policy:
- Legalize marijuana for recreational use above 21 and medical use for any age.
- Decriminalize other drugs.
- Focus on harm reduction like needle exchange, safe use sites, purity testing.
- Treat addiction like a health problem instead of a crime.
- Pardons and expungement for those serving sentences for low level drug crimes.
Election Reform:
- Reinstate The Fairness Doctrine in media.
- Remove corporate money, dark money, and super PACs from elections.
- Make Election Day a national holiday.
- Automatic, irrevocable, lifetime voter registration upon eligibility.
- Ranked choice voting when and where applicable.
- Vote at any polling location in your county.
- Mandatory one month of early voting before Election Day.
- More polling locations in large cities, so people aren’t waiting in line for hours.
- Anyone can request a mail-in ballot for any reason.
- No restrictions on passing out water for people in line.
- Mandatory paper ballots, so audits can be performed.
- Free rides to and from polling locations.
- Free identification documents.
- Abolish the Electoral College in favor of the popular vote.
Environment:
- Phase out fossil fuel vehicles and power grid.
- Solar, wind, water to generate electricity.
- Hazardous material abatement for homes, communities, and waterways.
- Pass the Green New Deal.
Infrastructure:
- Define broadband internet as a public utility. Make it available in rural areas.
- Fix crumbling infrastructure.
- High speed rail connecting the country.
- Invest in new technologies.
- Grants to help middle class own the means of production.
Wealth:
- Raise minimum wage to a living wage.
- Tax the rich, close the loopholes.
- 4 day work week.
- Overtime paid for working more than 8 hours per day.
- Overtime paid for working more that 32 hours a week.
- PTO, vacation, maternity leave for both parents.
- Support unions.
Equity:
- Investment in poor and underserved communities, especially communities of color.
- Investment in small farms.
Education:
- Fix and modernize school infrastructure.
- Free K-12 and college for all.
- School choice with alternate learning opportunities and teaching methods.
- Cancel student debt.
Affordable Housing:
- Ban corporations from buying and owning large percentage of a county’s homes. Keep homes in the hands of individuals, families, and small businesses.
AI:
- Require a mandatory ballot initiative for communities to approve data centers.
- Study and regulate AI.
- Prevent AI from taking human jobs. Create safety nets and education programs to transition affected workers to new careers.
- Prevent AI use in military and policing.
Data Privacy:
- Reform data brokers. Require opt in. Require easy options to remove data.
- Right to be forgotten.
- Ban law enforcement and corporate facial and license plate recognition technology.
- Better consumer and civil protections against data leaks, doxing, and defamation.
- Hold social networks accountable for failing to moderate doxing and defamation.
- Easier recourse for data leaks, doxing, and defamation, modeled after the EU GDPR.
Government by the People:
- Constitutional amendment to require all state and local governments to allow and honor ballot initiatives.
Reform the Supreme Court:
- Staggered Term Limits
- One SCOTUS justice for each of the 13 appellate courts
- Enforceable ethics rules to prevent corruption.
Ethics in Government:
- Ban trading stocks by elected officials.
- Enforce emoluments and laws against grift.
LGBTQ Protections:
- Overturn transgender sports bans.
- Overturn transgender bathroom bans.
- Overturn bans on hormone therapy for transgender youth.
Justice for Corruption and Inhumane
- Investigation into the Trump regime’s alleged crimes.
- Investigation into ICE and Concentration Camps.
- Prosecute those found guilty.
Rebalance the Coequal Branches of Government:
- Constitutional amendment to remove a president’s absolute immunity.
- More avenues to remove a rogue president from power.
- Yearly nationwide vote of confidence. Citizens vote on whether to retain or remove a President. If removed, VP takes over, unless it’s a presidential election year. If it’s an election year, winning presidential candidate is inaugurated as soon as votes are certified.
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