Demand More. You've Earned It!
If They Won't Fight for This, They Won't Fight for You
I’ve been a deacon and nonprofit leader for over a decade, walking with Illinois families choosing between rent and medicine and watching our leaders stay silent while children are starved and bombed under military occupation.
These struggles aren’t separate. They’re the same story. When politicians won’t stand up to genocide overseas, they won’t stand up for working people at home.
That’s why I’m running. Every person deserves dignity: food, housing, healthcare, safety, and the power to live free from corporate control and political cowardice.
The Senate needs leaders who won’t fold. I come out of the tradition of people like Harold Washington and Fannie Lou Hamer. Like them, I carry a democratic socialist conviction that government must put people over profit. They didn’t wait for permission to fight, and neither will I.
I know we can end silence on injustice. Guarantee living wages. Welcome immigrants with dignity. Protect trans and queer lives. Defend workers. Stop billionaires from writing our laws.
I’m not running to join the Senate. I’m running to change it because when we demand more, we get more.
OUR DEMANDS
We're tired of being told to wait and accept less. When government fails us, we don't beg for scraps—we demand what we deserve:
No More Silence
Support Palestinian freedom, return, and self-governance. Back international legal action for war crimes.
End all military aid and weapons transfers to Israel and any government committing genocide, occupation, or mass atrocities. Sanctions, arms restrictions, and international courts to hold all governments accountable.
Strengthen humanitarian aid and reconstruction in Gaza, Congo, Sudan.
Shift billions from defense contractors to diplomacy and peacebuilding.
End Hunger
Every neighborhood deserves fresh food.
When communities lack grocery stores, the federal government will buy land and build community-owned co-ops.
Shift billions in subsidies and grants from big ag to small farmers, growers of color, and local food co-ops.
Clean Food Act to ban harmful chemicals and additives.
Break up corporate consolidation in food systems.
Every family deserves more.
Guaranteed income for families below the poverty line.
Federal jobs guarantee building infrastructure, providing care, and restoring ecosystems.
Raise minimum wage above $17 an hour, tied to cost of living.
Strengthen unions and collective bargaining.
Protect the right to strike. End right-to-work laws.
Require worker profit-sharing at large corporations.
Union labor first for all federal contracts.
Prosecute executives when corporate negligence kills workers.
Medicare for All. Everyone covered automatically from birth.
Emergency care, doctor visits, hospital stays, prescriptions, mental health, dental, vision, long-term care. Free at point of service.
One public insurance system. Any doctor, any hospital, anywhere.
No More Failing Schools
Every child deserves a real education.
National outcomes based on real work and skills, not standardized tests.
End property tax public school funding. Federal government funds every public school based on need.
Massive federal investment in public schools: higher teacher pay, smaller classes, counselors and mental health support in every building.
Strengthen teacher unions in public schools. Extend organizing rights to charter and private school educators.
Free public higher education.
America stops treating immigrants as criminals.
Abolish ICE and the system that allows deportation without constitutional protections.
Universal Due Process Act: warrant requirements, right to counsel, real judges, full appeals.
Simple pathways to documentation and citizenship. Work permits, student visas, family sponsorship. No arbitrary country caps.
Massive investment in processing resources to clear backlogs and speed legal immigration.
End the demonization of immigrants, especially immigrants of color. No National Guard occupation of our cities.
Family unity. Communities where everyone belongs.
Every family deserves a stable home.
Federal government acquires land and builds infrastructure. Transfers ownership to community co-ops. Residents own shares. Affordability locked in permanently.
Tax real estate speculators who drive up costs.
Federal incentives for states to end exclusionary zoning and allow more housing.
No Wall Street landlords buying up neighborhoods.
Video Statement
"Tired of Waiting" - ABC 7 Chicago Video Statement
You’re tired of waiting. And you shouldn’t have to wait six more years for something different.
Let’s demand more. Together.
Press Release
Campaign argues establishment candidates focus on blocking Trump without vision for the four years after he leaves.
Statement
The arrest of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort is a constitutional violation and an abuse of law enforcement for political purposes.
