For decades upon decades the United States has stripped away the rights of workers and worked to peel away the strength of Unions. Big business and Corporations have lobbied to pass legislation which would fatally wound organized labor, and unfortunately they have been largely successful. This cannot continue, we need politicians in congress who will support the rights of the worker and fight back against the exploitation of labor by big business.

As a Senator, I will support the working class American in their right to organize and bargain for more appropriate conditions and rights. We must destroy anti-labor legislation such as Right to Work, but at the forefront of that will be a total repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act, it is disgusting to me that congress has let that bill stay enforced for so long. I will be a man of the working peoples of this nation, I promise you that.

In the United States, there are many inequalities and injustices for the marginalized peoples of this nation, one would hope however that one system unaffected by this uncomfortable truth is our justice system, and it breaks my heart to say that this isn't the case. America has a law system which disproportionately affects minorities, the poor and the marginalized groups of our society. I will work to reform and fix this terrible system of ours.

One of the first ways of doing this is to make our law enforcement more accountable, I have been a firm supporter of changing the way our police work. I authored both Curb Police Inhumane Behavior Act and the Federal Agent Accountability Act, both of which would make great strides in ending police brutality. I also support ending the disastrous War on Drugs, this program has been a failure since day one and has only caused damage to American communities, we should not be treating drug addicts as criminals but as instead victims who need help. Punish the dealers, not the users.

America has always paraded our booming economy, low unemployment, a high GDP, all the things that make a country great right? Nevermind the stagnation of wages, jobs with little to no benefits, or the people in our nation who need to work more than one job to get by. For too long we've focused on rising profits and abandoned the people who've actually made that happen.

As a senator, I will support progressive policies to enact programs to help those who carry our economy on their back, such as raising the minimum wage. We would generate the revenue required to fund such programs with a bold and progressive tax reform which will make the rich pay their fair share and end our current system which keeps the poor in a never ending cycle of poverty. I will work tirelessly to make the United States of America into a fairer nation for all who live in it.

Since the day I was elected as an Assemblyman, I have been a champion of getting Americans the healthcare they need to live. Healthcare is a right, this I believe, and in Chesapeake I worked closely with Congressman NinjjaDragon to draft a recently passed piece of legislation which made universal healthcare a reality in The Commonwealth. The question to me is, why was it dropped into the hands of the states to pass healthcare programs when in every other developed nation the federal government provides this to their people?

Every state in the union now has their own form of public healthcare set up by their assemblies, some would call this a grand accomplishment and truly it is, but I am angry it had to come to this. I am angry that our federal government is so incompetent that something as basic as universal healthcare had to be achieved state level. I am under the belief that statewide healthcare programs are a bandaid on a greater issue in our country, when I am elected I will work in Washington just as I did in Chesapeake to pass comprehensive healthcare reform, I promise this to you.

Little over half of American households over the age of 55 have no retirement savings, We have senior citizens in our country living entirely off their current Social Security benefits which is only $16,956 a year, just little over poverty levels. All of this combined, and we have politicians running on cutting funding for Social Security and even abolishing it entirely. We cannot allow these actual ghouls to get their hands on the program which many seniors live on and those disabled depend on, we must work to expand Social Security.

Before Social Security, nearly half if seniors lived in poverty, that number today is 9.2%, don't let anyone play you for a fool and tell you that Social Security is a failure because it is the most successful government program ever put into place. You will also hear that Social Security is going to become insolvent, this is true, many economists say that we only have until 2030 before it does, what can we do to fix this?

My plan is to remove the capped payroll tax for Social Security, currently someone who makes little over $100,000 a year will pay the same amount into Social Security as a multibillionaire. Ridiculous, the rich must pay their fair share and I intend to make them do that.

In my career I have always been passionately and unapologetically pro-women and especially in their right to self autonomy. Roe V. Wade is in danger, our Supreme Court currently has a conservative majority, putting the right to choose what to do with your body, something which has been protected for decades, on a tightrope. In the Senate, I would continue my record and push back against any and all forms of draconian policy meant to punish women. I will also keep writing legislation to give women easier access to birth control, similar to my Affordable IUD Act, so that unwanted pregnancy and abortion can be curbed.

Climate Change is real, and human beings are contributing to it exponentially. I hate that I have to say that as if it isn't a indisputable fact, but the modern world has only tested my faith more and more about my belief in mankind's superiority. The United States isn't the sole contributor to global warming and climate change, but America stepping away from nonrenewable energy would certainly make a substantial difference and be a great show of American leadership.

We need to become Carbon Neutral, and we need to do it soon. We need to end the subsidizing of polluting energy such as coal, let me make this clear, there is no such thing as "clean coal", it is still a pollutant. We need to bring America to becoming dependent on energy sources such as solar, hydroelectric, wind and most importantly, nuclear power. We cannot waver on this issue, tax cuts for businesses or whatever nonsense the Republicans will say we need won't work. We must regulate the energy industry and end our reliance on pollutants, this is for our children, our children's children and so on.