Our #1 priority needs to be solving the cost of living crisis crushing Americans' economic future. That comes down to 3 things: Housing, Healthcare, and Education.

Republican policies have reduced purchases of US Agricultural products by over $30 billion this year, and proposed a $10 billion band-aid to cover their mistakes. Democrats would reverse the cuts in direct purchases, restore trade competitiveness, and I would support two additional cost-cutting bills Republicans have opposed.

The AI industry has already gotten away with too much and grown into an economic bubble that is not threatening the US economy yet, but will if it continues on its current trajectory. We need AI regulation sooner rather than later and its up to Midwest Democrats specifically to offer those solutions.

New Mexico has pioneered an incredible new model for universal child care. They jumpstarted the program using federal relief funds during covid-19. This model could be implemented nationally with another round of funding from the federal government dedicated to that purpose.

I lived in China for 8 years and built a small business in the city of Beijing. I want to contribute my experience to managing the economic relationship between our two countries, and hopefully avoid a conflict as we did in the first cold war.

What we need now is technological solutions instead of the economic solutions of the past. A focus on economic solutions was harmful to the working class and as a result counterproductive. After the 2024 election, we are too far behind to solve climate change without major advancements in technology and government action.

My private school did not attempt to replace public schools; I worked extensively with students from both systems for years and without any government subsidies. Systems like private school and AI can have a role, but that role is not to divert funding away from the public school system.

I believe that people in the US and in the Mo 4th district understand the trade-offs of lenient gun control, and decided those trade-offs are ones they are willing to accept. That said, we allow people on the terrorism watch list to buy guns and that has close to 90% public approval to change. So some modest regulations are needed.

We've tried for decades to save the private healthcare system from spiraling costs, and Republicans have fought to keep prices rising. Strong government intervention works in every other wealthy country to reduce costs by thousands of dollars per person compared to us. Our system is antiquated by comparison.

The republican house has not taken action on the Road to Housing Act, the main package of housing policies being considered this year. They offer no alternative plan for how to relieve the housing crisis either. The housing crisis is an emergency that will take years to solve, and Republicans haven't even let us out of the gate to start.

The majority of immigration problems in the country comes from a lack of legal capacity to handle large numbers. We need more judges and lawyers, not more masked thugs, in order to solve the process. Even if you agree with ICE's mission, its badly structured as an organization. Restructuring our immigration agencies is necessary to actually solve our immigration problems.

I have been a one state solution supporter since 2011. I was not surprised by how far Israel went after the Oct 7th terrorist attack. The attack on Israel and the warcrimes in Gaza are symptoms of the same underlying problem of an Apartheid system. The 2 state solution America has pursued my entire life led us here; it's time to change course and live up to our own values.

Men are clearly struggling to succeed today in ways that we have not seen in recent history. However, I oppose a raft of recent proposals that appear based on men being inherently flawed. I believe the majority of these problems are about social headwinds, and the right solutions are to create paths for navigating those novel social forces, not "fixing" men.

Women face an aggressive assault on their rights by people trying to turn back the clocks. It goes beyond abortion rights to worker rights, ability to get a divorce, and to access birth control. I am committed to resisting this attack and defending their hard-fought gains towards equality.

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