Our agenda is focused on lowering costs, improving healthcare, creating jobs, ending corruption, and protecting our democracy. We want all Americans to be able to live healthy, safe, and secure lives. While Republicans work for billionaires, Democrats fight for working people.
Lower Costs
Democrats are working to make life more affordable. We believe that everyone deserves quality healthcare and access to the medications they need at a price that they can afford. We will strengthen Medicare and Medicaid that have made tens of millions of lives better, instead of constantly threatening to shred their benefits like Republicans have done.
Gas, groceries, and housing should be affordable.
Trump’s chaotic trade wars, his war of choice in Iran, and his disastrous policies have blown up the economy, while wages fall behind and Americans struggle to find good jobs. Democrats are fighting to bring an end to Republican chaos and incompetence, ensuring that Americans can comfortably cover their everyday expenses.
Ending Corruption
Republicans care more about billionaires and foreign investors than they do working Americans. They’re rigging the tax system so that corporations pay less than working people. Democrats will make the rich pay their fair share. We will go after corporations for price gouging and protect Americans from being nickled and dimed by unfair fees.
Donald Trump, his family, and his closest allies are openly getting rich off the presidency and selling America off to the highest bidder, while pardoning and protecting criminals. Democrats are working to strengthen the justice system so that every person is treated fairly and equally, and that no one – no matter how wealthy or well-connected – is above the law.
A Healthy Democracy
Democrats are fighting to protect American democracy. We believe in free and fair elections and equal representation for all. As Republicans redraw electoral maps to rig elections, Democrats are countering the gerrymandering to even the playing field.
Republicans have turned their backs on their constituents, and know that they can’t win without suppressing the vote. Democrats believe that every state, district, and community in America should be able to pick elected officials who truly represent them. We are working to protect and strengthen the Voting Rights Act and break down the barriers Republicans have created for Americans to exercise their constitutional right to vote.
Democrats believe that our government should work to improve the lives of its citizens, not make them harder.
Which is why as Republicans have sought to ban abortion and restrict reproductive healthcare for women, Democrats are fighting to restore the protections enshrined in Roe and ensure that the right to choose is protected for every woman in America.
Democrats believe we need to call out the spread of false information that creates chaos and sows division in an information environment dominated by social media news and AI.
Safety and Security
While Republicans make life in America more dangerous at home and abroad, Democrats believe that Americans deserve to live in safe communities free from violence, free from the danger of climate-driven natural disasters, and free from unnecessary wars that put Americans in harm’s way and make costs skyrocket at home.
No president in the modern era has ordered more military strikes against as many different countries as Donald Trump. On Trump’s watch, American troops are dying, hundreds are getting injured, and veterans have lost access to the care and support they need. While our troops die overseas, Americans at home are terrorized and killed on the streets by Trump’s masked federal agents with impunity. Democrats have a deep respect for American servicemembers and veterans, and believe they deserve better both while they’re on duty and when they return home.
Democrats will put competent professionals at the helm of critical national security agencies like the Department of Homeland Security, the FBI, the Department of Defense, and the Department of Justice. We believe in secure borders, common-sense immigration laws, and fair enforcement. We also believe in the humanity and dignity of every person. Federal agents should not be able to take over your city, target children, or kill innocent people in the streets.
Under Democratic leadership, communities across the country experience lower rates of violent crime.
We will continue upholding the rule of law while enacting effective programs for crime reduction. Democrats are dedicated to reducing gun violence and investing in public safety.
A Better Future
Americans deserve to live in a country they can afford, where if they work hard, they can get ahead. We believe in keeping the American Dream alive – whether you’re trying to afford college tuition, open a small business, or start a family. Democrats are running on the promise that this future is possible, and it’s our commitment to the communities who elect us to represent them.
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