Tamika Lyles

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She's raised three sons as a single mother while working multiple jobs. Tamika knows Florida's affordability crisis isn't an accident; it's the result of leaders who protect insiders while families absorb the costs. She's running for FL-16 to stabilize insurance, make housing affordable, protect healthcare, raise wages, and restore the basic promise that work should lead to security.

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Healthcare costs are pushing families into financial crisis while access disappears for those who need it most. Tamika will expand Medicaid to close Florida’s coverage gap, cap prescription drug costs for seniors and families, protect Medicare and VA healthcare, and ensure caregivers have the resources and support they need to provide care with dignity.

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For years, lawmakers have shielded insurance companies while Florida's working families absorb soaring premiums and shrinking coverage. Tamika will fight to cap excessive insurance rate increases, end predatory industry practices, and enforce real accountability so insurers meet their obligations to Florida homeowners and renters.

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Florida’s housing market increasingly serves investors and speculators while working people are priced out of their homes. Tamika will protect renters from predatory rent increases, expand affordable housing, and fight to preserve homeownership as a realistic path to stability and long-term security for Florida's families.

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Full-time work no longer produces stability. Wages haven't kept pace with costs. Florida has normalized extraction as the cost of employment. Tamika will fight for a living wage, protect workers' rights, and ensure that work produces security, not just survival. She will work to ensure that economic dignity is a baseline expectation for all workers. because she believes that if you work for this country, it should work for you.

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Tamika will protect Social Security and Medicare and ensure seniors can retire with dignity and predictability, not anxiety. She’ll fight to rein in rising prescription drug, insurance, and housing costs that are pricing retirees out of the communities they built, and defend pensions from corporate raids and political neglect.

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Veterans served this country with honor, and the government owes them healthcare, benefits, housing support, and dignity in return. Too many veterans are met with bureaucratic dysfunction, delayed benefits, and abandonment when they come home. Tamika will fight to fully fund veterans’ healthcare without gaps or delays, streamline benefits delivery to cut through red tape, and invest in housing solutions to end veteran homelessness.

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Florida’s climate reality is driving up insurance costs, threatening homes, and making basic survival more expensive, deepening the state’s cost-of-living crisis. Tamika will invest in resilient infrastructure that protects homes and lowers household costs, treat climate impacts as solvency and affordability issues, and build systems that protect families instead of forcing them to shoulder the costs of preventable disasters.

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Tamika will fight to fully fund Florida’s public education system. She supports raising teacher pay to competitive, livable levels to recruit and retain high-quality educators, reducing class sizes, and ensuring schools have the counselors, support staff, and modern resources students need to succeed. She will treat education as essential infrastructure for Florida’s long-term economic and civic health.

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Fighting to Make Florida Livable Again

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Veterans' Rights & Benefits

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She's running to restore a simple promise: If you work for this country, it should work for you.

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Tamika Lyles supports comprehensive immigration reform that secures the border while protecting constitutional rights and human dignity. She supports modern border security technology, increased efforts to combat human trafficking and drug smuggling, expanding legal immigration pathways, reducing visa backlogs, protecting Dreamers, and creating an earned pathway to citizenship for law-abiding undocumented immigrants. Tamika also supports abolishing ICE. She believes immigration enforcement should focus on genuine security threats, not indiscriminate civil enforcement. As a veteran, Tamika believes America can have secure borders without sacrificing its constitutional values. She supports reform because the current system is inefficient, backlogged, and too often fails both immigrants seeking a legal process and the American people, who deserve a secure, fair, and functional immigration system.

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Yes. Tamika Lyles believes climate change is both an environmental and economic threat to the United States. More frequent hurricanes, flooding, wildfires, droughts, and rising sea levels increase disaster recovery costs, disrupt businesses and supply chains, damage infrastructure, drive up insurance premiums, and threaten agriculture and tourism, particularly in Florida. Tamika believes failing to address climate change will cost far more than investing in solutions. She supports the Green New Deal's goal of accelerating clean energy, strengthening climate resilience, and creating millions of good-paying union jobs while protecting workers during the transition. She sees climate action not only as an environmental responsibility, but as an economic opportunity to modernize infrastructure, reduce long-term costs, improve public health, strengthen energy independence, and position the United States as a global leader in clean-energy innovation.

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Healthcare and Affordability

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To Tamika Lyles, the First Amendment's guarantee of freedom of speech means every American has the right to express their views, criticize the government, peacefully protest, organize, publish ideas, and advocate for change without fear of government censorship or retaliation. She believes this protection applies regardless of political ideology and is essential to a healthy democracy. Tamika supports robust protections for free expression, freedom of the press, peaceful assembly, and the right to petition the government. She also believes the government has a constitutional duty to protect public safety by enforcing laws against true threats, criminal conduct, and incitement to imminent violence, consistent with longstanding First Amendment principles. Her guiding belief is that democracy is strengthened when ideas are debated openly, rights are protected equally, and government remains accountable to the people.

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Tamika Lyles believes election integrity and voter access must go hand in hand. If documentary proof of citizenship is required to register to vote, no eligible citizen should be denied the right to vote because they cannot afford or easily obtain the necessary documents. She would support federal funding to reduce or eliminate the cost of obtaining certified birth certificates and other required records, streamline document replacement processes, and establish assistance programs for seniors, women who have changed their names through marriage or divorce, veterans, rural residents, and low-income Americans. She also supports secure electronic verification systems that minimize unnecessary paperwork while protecting election integrity. Tamika believes the right to vote should never depend on a person's financial means or ability to navigate burdensome bureaucracy. Every eligible citizen should have a fair and accessible path to exercising this fundamental constitutional right.

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Tamika Lyles believes education is a shared responsibility, with states and local communities leading curriculum while the federal government ensures every child has an equal opportunity to succeed. She supports expanding access to affordable, high-quality preschool, strengthening K-12 public education through increased funding, teacher support, and equitable resources, and protecting students' civil rights. For higher education, Tamika supports making community college tuition-free, expanding access to affordable public colleges and universities, investing in trade schools and apprenticeships, and reducing the burden of student debt. As an educator, she believes the federal government should help remove financial barriers to education while respecting local control over instruction. Her goal is simple: every American, regardless of zip code or income, deserves access to a quality education that prepares them for success.