Pete Lynch

Reduce the influence of large donors and lobbying while increasing transparency and small-donor power.

• 100% tax on election spending above $2,500 per person or corporation per calendar year, with revenue for schools, healthcare, and infrastructure • 100% tax on lobbying spending above $1 million annually • Require at least half of candidate funding to come from small individual contributions, with a seat-vacating consequence after repeated failure • Full transparency for contributions and political spending • Small-donor matching • Ban unlimited super PAC donations • Ban members of Congress from trading individual stocks

Pause new data-center construction and require local approval, transparency, and full responsibility for energy and water impacts before projects proceed.

• Moratorium on new data centers • Ban NDAs for data-center land purchases and make those sales public • Require data centers to pay full grid-upgrade costs • On-site peak-hour energy and reserve-power requirements • Renewable generation at least equal to facility load • Local majority approval • Independent water and environmental impact studies

Provide universal healthcare coverage while eliminating major out-of-pocket costs and simplifying administration.

• Universal coverage • No out-of-pocket costs for essential services and prescriptions • Reduce administrative waste • Ensure access in rural and underserved areas

Restrict large-scale and foreign ownership of housing and provide support for individual homebuilding.

• Ban foreign and hedge-fund ownership of single-family homes • Cap rent increases for corporate-owned rentals • Limit the number of residential units one individual or corporation may own • Federal matching funds for individuals building their own homes

Increase worker bargaining power and wages while limiting corporate concentration and executive compensation.

• Break up monopolies • Repeal Taft-Hartley or pass the PRO Act • Protect gig workers and independent contractors • Cap CEO compensation relative to average worker pay • Local cost-of-living-based minimum wages • Raise corporate tax rate and use added revenue for a national profit dividend

Shift foreign policy away from offensive military aid and toward congressional war authority, humanitarian assistance, veterans, and domestic investment.

• Strengthen Congress's control over war decisions • End military aid for offensive purposes • Stop U.S. military funding for Israel and require foreign-interest lobbyists to register under FARA • Direct foreign aid toward food, medicine, and reconstruction • Cover healthcare and prescriptions for veterans • Redirect savings to U.S. jobs, schools, and infrastructure

Legalize and regulate recreational marijuana while using the market to support rural economies and reduce criminal penalties.

• New income opportunities for farmers transitioning from tobacco • Tax revenue for pensions, schools, and rural infrastructure • Reduce the black market • Regulate and tax the market while lowering prices • Remove criminal-conviction and employment barriers for users

Create federal privacy protections limiting warrantless access to location and license-plate-reader data.

• End the third-party doctrine for corporate disclosure to law enforcement without a warrant • Bar federal grants for Flock/ALPR systems • Penalize state/local non-toll ALPR use through highway funding • Ban federal purchase/access to commercial ALPR systems • Ban data brokers from selling or sharing geolocation data

Guarantee affordable high-speed internet access and strengthen personal-data rights and digital-skills training.

• Universal fast and affordable internet access • Right to opt out of data monetization and compensation for users who opt in • Expand digital literacy and workforce training

Expand public education, postsecondary training, apprenticeships, and teacher support.

• Free school breakfast • Four years of free public college or subsidized vocational training for young Kentuckians • More internships, apprenticeships, and job-readiness programs • Competitive teacher pay/resources • Incentives for employers to hire local graduates and apprentices

Shift more of the federal tax burden toward very high incomes, capital gains, and billionaire wealth while reducing taxes on lower- and middle-income households.

• Treat capital gains as income • Exempt the first $25,000 of income from federal tax • 10% tax on billionaire net worth above $1 billion • Lower taxes below $250,000 household income and raise rates above $1 million

Expand public power, renewable energy, household incentives, and grid modernization to lower energy costs and increase local control.

• Expand public-power utilities • Invest in rural and underserved-area renewables • Household/small-business rebates for solar and efficiency • Modernize the electric grid

Reduce reliance on incarceration and expand non-prison penalties and post-conviction rights.

• End cash bail • Limit the share of convictions obtained through plea bargaining • Require greater use of fines, community service, and other alternatives to prison • Eliminate three-strikes laws • Restore voting rights after sentences, except for voter-fraud convictions • Narrow employment background-check use

Abolish ICE and replace it with a different immigration-enforcement organization that the campaign says would respect human life and the rule of law.