Melissa Claire Strange

Protect and expand major health and retirement programs while lowering prescription costs and expanding treatment for addiction.

• Protect and expand Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security; lower prescription-drug costs; protect CHIP; address the drug crisis through border security, treatment and rehabilitation access, and job opportunities.

Support small businesses, reduce inflation pressures, expand American manufacturing and career education, support workers and unions, and protect pensions.

• Includes career and technical education and pension protection for workers such as first responders and teachers.

Expand tax credits, paid leave, early childhood education, and home- and community-based elder-care support.

• Reintroduce and expand the Child Tax Credit; protect and expand paid family leave; create a national NICU leave protection; establish universal pre-K; create a caregivers tax credit; reauthorize and strengthen the Older Americans Act; expand Medicaid and federal support for home- and community-based services.

Protect Kentucky's natural and historic heritage and pursue national-park designation for the Red River Gorge.

Adopt congressional, judicial, and campaign-finance reforms intended to reduce corruption and conflicts of interest.

• Support term limits; ban congressional stock trading; ban former members of Congress from becoming lobbyists; overturn Citizens United; establish an enforceable Supreme Court ethics code; release the Epstein files and prosecute criminal conduct supported by evidence.

Protect constitutional and privacy rights while expanding voter access and local control over surveillance and data-center development.

• Oppose Flock cameras and unconstitutional mass surveillance; require community approval and transparency for data centers; keep government out of reproductive healthcare; support right-to-repair; ban partisan gerrymandering; support automatic voter registration and the John Lewis Voting Rights Act.