Kelly Thompson

Keep more farmland in family hands and restrict additional foreign or non-agricultural corporate ownership.

• Exempt qualifying family-to-individual farmland transfers from estate tax; restrict additional farmland purchases by foreign governments and entities without substantial agricultural investment; require corporations owning farmland to contribute 1% of profits every five years to qualifying farm-stewardship programs.

Lower everyday costs, strengthen worker protections and wages, and make the tax code less favorable to concentrated wealth.

• Crack down on price gouging, junk fees, and anti-competitive practices; support fair wages and worker protections; reduce tax-code advantages tied to loopholes, Wall Street speculation, and offshore accounting.

Use a financial-transaction tax to increase education funding, expand universal pre-K, raise teacher pay, eliminate current student-loan debt, and fund public higher education or trade education.

• Proposes a 2-cent tax on stock, bond, commodity, and derivative trades; funds pre-K facilities and educators; raises teacher pay by $10,000; allows nationwide union bargaining for teachers; funds state-university or trade education and pathways for high-school students to graduate with an associate degree or trade credential.

Move healthcare into a larger shared insurance pool intended to reduce administrative costs, network restrictions, and household out-of-pocket expenses.

• The proposal describes replacing many current premiums, deductibles, copays, coinsurance, dental, vision, and hearing costs with a larger pooled system and a lower proportional household contribution.

Modernize the electric grid, expand diverse domestic energy sources, and use the transition to create skilled jobs and increase energy self-sufficiency.

• Federal residential net metering; additional large solar generation in Southwestern deserts; small nuclear generation where solar is less practical; offshore wind; grid and rail/steel upgrades; workforce retraining as the energy mix changes.

Use a fossil-fuel industry levy to subsidize climate-driven homeowner insurance costs and resilience while funding a broader green-transition and resource-recovery program.

• Create a Climate Impact, Green Transition, and Resource Recovery Fund • Subsidize qualifying homeowner insurance costs and resilience upgrades • Require greater transparency in climate-related insurance pricing • Fund renewable energy, efficiency, public transportation, carbon capture, waste-to-energy, research, and workforce development

Strengthen antitrust enforcement, corporate-ownership transparency, and federal regulatory capacity to reduce market concentration.

• Tighten merger and acquisition review; address creeping acquisitions and institutional-investor common ownership; strengthen beneficial-ownership and securities disclosures; create digital-market competition rules; review the consumer-welfare standard; expand SEC/FTC/DOJ enforcement resources and powers; strengthen inter-agency coordination.

Reduce dark-money influence in elections and create stronger transparency, public-financing, lobbying, media-fairness, and political-content rules.

• Support an amendment overturning Citizens United; support the DISCLOSE Act; establish small-dollar matching and democracy-voucher options; require more corporate political-spending disclosure; strengthen lobbying/revolving-door rules; restore fairness obligations for broadcasters; require algorithmic transparency for major digital platforms; support local-news reinvestment.

Create a nationwide privacy standard, limit surveillance and AI tracking, expand individual data rights, and impose stronger accountability for data misuse.

• Limit data collection/use/sharing; require plain-language disclosures; restrict broad camera and AI identification systems without legal authorization; create access and deletion rights; strengthen breach/misuse penalties; create a non-taxable data dividend when companies profit from personal data.

Create federal consumer-protection and anti-corruption rules for online gambling, with federally regulated access as the preferred approach.

• Require identity verification, self-exclusion, risk/odds disclosures, spending caps, advertising restrictions, and operator transparency; create a Federal Gambling Oversight Commission; prohibit sports insiders from wagering; fund addiction treatment and awareness; permit regulated access through federally licensed operators under the preferred option.

Federally legalize and decriminalize cannabis, remove it from Schedule I, expand research, tax the legal market, and address prior federal cannabis convictions.

• Remove federal criminal penalties for manufacture, distribution, and possession; make SBA services available to legal cannabis businesses; prevent denial of federal benefits or immigration protections based on specified cannabis conduct; create expungement and sentencing review processes; prohibit sales to people under 21.