Priorities.

Housing is a human right, not a commodity. People are being priced out of the community they helped build and want to raise their families in, and the state controls the tools to help.

• Fight for increases to the Housing Trust Fund to build affordable homes near jobs and transit

• Strengthen rent stabilization, with a lower cap than what passed in 2025

• Strengthen tenant protections, including just cause eviction and a tenant right of first purchase when a building goes up for sale

• Increase funding for the Right to Counsel program so no one loses their home simply because they could not navigate court

• Create real enforcement mechanisms for the Residential Landlord Tenant Act

• Fund the permanent supportive housing the state recently made legal to build

• Expand social housing that is publicly owned and permanently affordable, building on the social housing law passed in 2026

• Expand the Covenant Homeownership Program so it reaches more of the families it was designed for, with less restrictive income limits and more outreach

• Direct anti-displacement resources specifically to BIPOC and other marginalized communities being pushed out of neighborhoods their families invested in

This state has the second most regressive tax structures in the country, which means working families and communities of color pay a disproportionate share while those at the top pay the least. This state has one of the strongest economies in the nation but residents aren’t feeling that, instead we are burnt out, working harder than ever, and yet are behind instead of ahead while the ultra-wealthy are richer than ever before. Fixing that is one of the core reasons I am running.

• Defend the Capital Gains Tax, and the new Millionaire’s Tax on income over $1M dollars from ballot and legal challenges

• Expand taxes on concentrated wealth so the ultra-wealthy and large corporations pay their fair share and what they owe

• Close tax breaks for large corporations so small businesses are not left carrying the most burden

• Direct new revenue to the things our communities depend on: housing, education, healthcare, clean air and water, and the public workforce that delivers those services

• Lower the tax burden on everyday families and small businesses

• Treat the budget as a moral document, where the amounts allocated are aligned with our values

Healthcare is a human right. Too many people technically have insurance but cannot afford to use it, and our behavioral health system does not have enough providers, beds, or community-based services to meet the need.

• Champion the Washington Health Trust to move our state toward a unified system covering all residents, with primary care, dental, vision, and prescription drugs

• Defend Apple Health, respond boldly to federal cuts to Medicaid

• Reopen and fund Apple Health so coverage reaches every low-income resident regardless of immigration status, reversing the 2026 cuts that left thousands on waitlists

• Expand adult and pediatric dental Medicaid, reversing years of cuts

• Strengthen oversight of hospital mergers that drive up costs or eliminate essential services, including reproductive and gender-affirming care

• Stand with healthcare workers for safe staffing standards, mandatory breaks, and overtime protections

• Invest in behavioral health infrastructure, crisis response beds, and the workforce we need to deliver that care

• Support home cultivation of cannabis by persons who are 21 years of age and older, like many other states

Climate change is not a future threat in the 49th District because that threat is already here. It is in the wildfire smoke that blankets our valley each summer, in flooding, and in the heat events that hit our most vulnerable residents hardest.

• Defend the Climate Commitment Act, our state's most significant tool for cutting emissions, make sure the legislature repays what it borrowed from it, and stop climate dollars from being diverted to plug budget holes

• Make the biggest carbon polluters pay for the damage they have already done through a climate superfund approach, with that money returned to the neighborhoods that have paid the highest price

• Invest in climate resilience for the heat, smoke, and flooding our region already faces

• Give frontline communities real decision-making power over how climate dollars are spent

• Keep the clean energy transition a just transition, where the benefits mean good union jobs and are going to the communities who least caused this crisis but are most impacted

The people who carry the heaviest burden from pollution are usually the ones with the least power to change it. A growing community and a clean, healthy environment are not in conflict. We need to remember that we humans are nature and not separate from it, and a harm to the environment is a harm to ourselves.

• Hold manufacturers accountable for the full life cycle of what they make, from hazardous chemicals like PFAS (a.k.a. “forever chemicals”) to single-use plastics, so the companies that design and profit from products don’t leave the burden on consumers or taxpayers to pay for it

• Give our environmental agencies the staff and resources to actually catch violations, and set penalties high enough to deter pollution, not just a cheap cost of doing business a profitable company writes off

• Protect our natural areas, forests, waterways, and wildlife, and oppose trading them away for short-term economic gain

• Water is life. Period.

• Modernize the aging sewage and stormwater systems that pollute our rivers

• Apply an environmental justice lens to every decision, so the communities hit hardest by pollution are first in line for the benefits

Washington leads on clean energy, but the transition only works if it lowers costs for families and puts union workers to work. Getting there means building fast and building fair.

• Build the clean energy we need, including wind, solar, battery storage, and the transmission to move that power

• Clear the permitting and interconnection backlog that has stalled clean energy projects without cutting environmental protections

• Build a grid that stays reliable through extreme heat, wildfire, and storms, with the storage and modernization we need as more of daily life runs on electricity

• Lower energy costs and protect low-income households from high bills and shutoffs, especially as the climate crisis increases the frequency of extreme heat events, making cooling a health necessity and not a luxury anymore

• Protect ratepayers so families are not stuck paying for the infrastructure that powers data centers and other large industrial users while the profits flow to shareholders, and require real transparency on their energy and water use

• Invest in community-controlled clean energy so the benefits reach people, not just corporations

• Approach small modular nuclear with caution, because Washington should not expand nuclear while Hanford remains with waste we are still dealing with, and Tribal communities still bear the consequences of past decisions

Transportation decides whether someone can reach their job, school, or doctor. It is also central to cutting emissions and connecting housing to other spaces. No one should be essentially forced into using a car, stuck paying for gas and insurance just to live their life. Freedom means being able to choose how to get around, but too often our system is designed so a car is the only realistic way. Real freedom means being able to take reliable and fast public transit, walk a safe sidewalk, bike a connected route, or drive if you want to, and having each of those options be equally viable and actually work for you.

• Deliver the I-5 bridge replacement (IBR) with light rail, built with union labor, apprentices, and local hiring

• Prioritize public transit, safe sidewalks, connected bike routes, and Safe Routes to School instead of highway expansion

• Electrify our public transit and ferry systems

• Expand EV charging infrastructure

• Modernize how we pay for transportation. The gas tax revenue will continue to decline as we move toward cleaner means of transportation, but in a way that is fair to low-income and rural drivers

• Direct investment to the neighborhoods cut off by past highway and road decisions

• Work towards fareless transit funded through progressive revenue

Adequately funding education is a moral obligation and a constitutional one. We need to redesign how we pay for schools because what we have right now isn't working.

• Fix the funding formula so it is tailored to each school based on the specific needs of the students it actually serves, like how many kids need English language learning or the added resources high-poverty schools require, instead of assuming every school across the state has the same mix of students

• Deliver a permanent fix for special education funding, so the state fully covers the additional cost of the services it legally requires, instead of forcing districts to divert money from other students and gamble on local levies that are not guaranteed to pass

• Adequately fund the everyday basics like heat, lights, insurance, and classroom materials at what they actually cost

• Make school meals free for every student, not just those who qualify or attend a high-need school, because hungry kids cannot learn

• Replace zero-tolerance discipline with restorative practices, because harsh discipline falls hardest on students of color (especially Native youth), students with disabilities, and LGBTQ+ youth

• Teach history honestly with culturally relevant curriculum, so students learn the full story of Native peoples and communities of color

• Defend diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in our schools

• Fund the programs that keep kids in school and bring back those who have already dropped out, through mentoring, attendance support, and community partnerships

• None of this is free; we can only fund our schools by fixing how Washington raises revenue too

Childcare is the backbone of the economy and working families, but it costs as much as college and providers still cannot make ends meet. No parent should have to leave a job because they cannot find or afford care.

• Restore and expand Working Connections Child Care so more families qualify

• Fund the Fair Start for Kids Act so childcare stays affordable as costs rise

• Pay early educators a living wage, because the people teaching our youngest children should not earn poverty pay

• Expand access to early learning so more kids arrive at kindergarten ready to thrive

• Support the providers, including family, friend, and neighbor care, that working parents actually rely on

College changed my life. I worked multiple jobs and raised my infant child while earning my degree, and I still carry the debt today. A degree or a credential should be a path out of poverty, not a debt that holds you back from the financial security you were promised from hard work.

• Reverse the across-the-board cuts hitting our community and technical colleges

• Stop the push to close or consolidate community and technical colleges just because of cost, and instead treat them as the economic engines, workforce developers, and innovation incubators they are: According to a 2025 economic impact study, Clark College contributed $656 million in income to the area in 2023-24 and supported 7,159 jobs, equivalent to one out of every 40 jobs in the region

• Move toward free community and technical college, because it breaks cycles of poverty and every dollar invested comes back into the community many times over

• Protect Running Start and other college credit programs for high schoolers

• Protect and restore the Washington College Grant, the state's main tuition aid program

• Build on the tuition waivers the state extended to Tribal Elders, and keep opening doors for other students often left out

• Defend diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) on our campuses from federal attacks by supporting through the state

I will fight to keep residents and families in the 49th safe, working, and able to see a doctor and send their kids to school without being targeted by an increasingly hostile federal government.

• Pass the SAFE Act to keep federal immigration enforcement out of schools, healthcare facilities, and other sensitive spaces

• Stronger enforcement of the state’s Keep Washington Working Act and its policies protecting immigrants

• Stop investing state pension dollars in the private prison companies that profit from immigration detention

• Fund community-based deportation and legal defense for people facing deportation

• Fund Apple Health so immigrant Washingtonians who qualify are covered, not stuck on a waitlist by a funding cap

• Restore and expand Dual Language Learning funding that was cut in 2026

• Protect childcare access for immigrant families regardless of status for the state’s childcare subsidy program, Working Connections Child Care

• Expand language access across government services

• Build on the new limits on surveillance tools like FLOCK cameras that are used to track and target immigrant communities

Gun violence is now the leading cause of death in the U.S. for children and teens, and most gun deaths in Washington are suicides. I am proud to stand with the Alliance for Gun Responsibility and the broad coalition of survivors, parents, educators, law enforcement, faith leaders, and responsible gun owners who have made our state a national leader.

• Pass secure storage requirements for firearms in vehicles and homes, so guns are locked away from children, theft, and people in crisis

• Support policies that keep firearms out of the sensitive places where children and families gather, like playgrounds, parks, and public buildings

• Hold irresponsible gun dealers accountable, and close the loopholes that let firearms go into the hands of people intent on causing harm

• Pass an excise tax on firearms and ammunition to fund gun violence prevention

• Limit bulk purchases of guns and ammunition, a loophole traffickers exploit

• Increase funding for community violence intervention

• Keep our laws pro-active and ahead of emerging threats like 3D-printed firearms

• Protect and expand funding for firearm-injury research

• Tackle the root causes and invest upstream to reduce gun violence, like in housing, economic opportunity, and behavioral health. Especially for communities of color and particularly for Black and Indigenous communities most impacted by gun violence

• Defend the gun safety laws we have won against the court challenges and repeal efforts aimed at them, like restrictions on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, extreme risk protection orders that let families and law enforcement step in when someone is in crisis, and the new permit-to-purchase system

Everyone should be able to make their own decisions about their body, their health, and their family. And everyone should be able to live safely and openly as who they are. The people targeted hardest are women and LGBTQIA+ people. I will keep Washington a firewall that protects both reproductive freedom and LGBTQIA+ rights, no matter what comes out of D.C.

• Protect and defend reproductive freedom and abortion access, and keep Washington a refuge for people losing that right in other states

• Protect Medicaid coverage for the full range of reproductive care, and defend public funding for reproductive healthcare providers

• Strengthen oversight to stop anti-abortion "crisis pregnancy centers" from misleading patients about their care and options

• Defend the comprehensive, medically-accurate sex education, that voters already approved, from any effort to roll it back

• Protect access to gender-affirming care, and defend the state's “shield law” so no other state can punish patients or providers for care that is legal here

• Additionally, I urge voters to reject IL26-001 and IL26-638, the two anti-LGBTQIA+ ballot measures this November that would force schools to “out” and strip away privacy protections for LGBTQIA+ students, and that would ban transgender girls from school sports and subject girls to invasive genital exams. Find out more at: No Hate in WA State

Every worker should have the freedom to organize, a safe workplace, and a paycheck they can build a life on. When workers have power, we are all stronger.

• Protect the right to organize, bargain, and strike, which is what gives workers real power at the table

• Require prevailing wage on public projects, and expand registered apprenticeship programs that actively recruit from communities of color

• Support a permanent cost-of-living adjustment for the retired public servants on PERS and TRS Plan 1 pensions

• Extend full collective bargaining rights to Washington's farm workers, correcting a historic injustice rooted in racism

• Defend the laws that keep workers from having their immigration status used against them

• Protect isolated workers, like in-home care and janitorial staff, who are most vulnerable to harassment and wage theft

• Stand against the anti-union agenda in Project 2025, and keep it out of Washington

Tribal sovereignty is non-negotiable because treaties are the highest law of the land and must be honored. Tribes were the original caretakers of this land we legislate for, and Washington's relationship with its 29 federally recognized Tribes deserves a legislator who treats that as government-to-government.

• Require meaningful, early consultation with Tribes on every bill and policy that affects their communities, lands, water, and treaty rights, and treat it as the government-to-government obligation it is

• Fund the state's court-ordered duty to fix fish-blocking culverts and restore salmon habitat, and protect the clean water that people and salmon need

• Sustain our state's national leadership on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and People (MMIWP) by protecting funding for the Cold Case Unit and the Missing Indigenous Person Alert, and making the task force permanent

• Fully fund and implement the Since Time Immemorial curriculum in every school district, so our true history, the ongoing presence and contributions of Native peoples, and the harms of colonization are taught

• Address the deep disparities Native communities face in housing, health, education, and safety

• Support federal recognition efforts, including for the Chinook Indian Nation

Safety looks different for everyone, and real safety comes from trust. Community safety can be threatened by crime, by poverty, by discrimination, and by aggressive federal action. Real safety means trauma-informed law enforcement, deescalation, mental health response, and getting to the root causes of crime.

• Fund and expand mental health co-responder programs, and route the 911 calls that do not need an armed response to trained crisis responders, so every community has that option and not just those that can afford to build it

• Find ways to civilianize traffic enforcement the way parking enforcement is handled

• Build community trust through transparency and by bringing the people most affected into the process

• Invest in the community-based services and economic security that prevent harm before it happens

Public health is the infrastructure that protects all of us by stopping outbreaks, supporting safe pregnancies and childbirth, keeping food safe, and being proactive about health outcomes. D.C. is gutting public health so our state needs to step up here too to fill the gap, as it can literally mean life or death.

• Protect and fund our state and local health departments, which lost around $160 million in federal support and have already had to cut services like the mobile clinics that brought vaccines and care to rural and underserved communities

• Build on Washington's new law that keeps vaccine access tied to our own state health experts instead of federal politics

• Keep driving down overdose deaths, which have finally started to fall, by expanding treatment, recovery, and harm reduction, with real focus on the communities hit hardest

• Protect maternal and infant health from federal cuts, and close the racial gaps in childbirth deaths and complications and healthy starts for infants

• Shield people from the health harms of extreme heat, wildfire smoke, and lead, especially kids, seniors, and those working outside

• Defend food assistance as basic preventive health, after federal changes put food aid at risk for hundreds of thousands of Washingtonians

Washington should keep leading the country in making voting accessible, secure, and fair.

• Protect Washington's vote-by-mail system and the security and integrity of our elections from federal attacks

• Defend our elections from the disinformation and interference aimed at undermining trust in the results

• Support proportional and ranked choice voting reforms that give voters more voice and lead to more choices

• Pass legislation that lets any community adopt ranked choice voting (RCV) if it chooses and with clear statewide standards, instead of today's rules that leave it to the few places that can change their charter or where a Voting Rights Act lawsuit is won

• Defend, strengthen, and fund the Voting Rights Act, and the new preclearance protections where jurisdictions with a history of suppression must clear election changes with the state before they take effect

• Lower the barriers that keep working people and other impacted communities from voting

• Defend and strengthen our strong campaign finance laws and protect from frivolous PDC complaints that clog the system and thus harm us all from having fair and accountable campaigns