Sam Husseini

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A Right to Vote, publicly owned open-source voting, a National Elections Commission and eliminate barriers for third parties, increasing voter choice. Some talk of “integrity” undermines democracy since it compels many to fearfully stay trapped inside the duopoly; it doesn’t apply in this race since the Republican can’t win. Meaningful election integrity should include taking on how many are effectively bought off by the Epstein class and big money groups like AIPAC, so we need public funding.

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The periodic shutdowns are one way that the Republican and Democratic establishment obscure the funding choices we should be making. Over half of the discretionary federal budget goes to the Department of War and other military spending. That should be put front and center for an agenda for fiscal sanity — and for ensuring our tax dollars go to meet human needs, not destruction and threats.

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Working for a world without war while investing in our community.

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Current laws (not solely enforcement which is ICE and should be stopped) have been so chaotic that it has been impossible for experienced lawyers to keep up. Bipartisan Democrat and Republican policies have been worse than bad policy; they’ve been human rights violations, institutionalizing illegitimate detention and surveillance. Root causes for desperate immigration like US government policies of wars, interventions, corrupt corporate trade and drug policies must also be halted.

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It’s crucial to stop the privatization slide of Medicare and Medicaid and the threat to Social Security. A recent Yale study found that expanding Medicare could cover everyone, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the insurance company system it would replace. “Safety net” is limiting, we must transform our society into one which prioritizes human needs. Whatever people do to manage day to day, when they vote, they should vote where they want our world to go.

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Moreover, members of Congress should not hold individual stocks. Millionaire members of Congress like Glenn Ivey have held stock in individual companies — for example between $100,001 - $250,000 in the AI company NVIDIA which needs desperately to be scrutinized for the threat such companies and their data centers pose to the wellbeing of our society, economy and environment. Members of Congress should divest of such holdings and work in the public interest rather than narrow corporate or self-interest. And then there’s the issue of PAC funding of campaigns. According to Track AIPAC, Ivey is one of the biggest congressional recipients of pro-Israel PAC money ever — over $7 million.

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I would call out this process for what it is: an instrument to make our government more of an oligarchy serving the billionaire class. My being independent of the Republican and Democratic Parties would allow me to scrutinize both and how they cut corrupt deals.

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Obviously, members of Congress should not be allowed to trade individual stocks. It has been scandalous what some — both Republican and Democrat — have done. The SEC and other agencies should be fully investigating and prosecuting any wrongful activity such as insider trading. This should be part of an effort to dramatically escalate funding of police powers against corporate crime, which does more damage to our society than street crime.

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Oligarchs profit off of wars, economic shocks and technology, then we see higher prices. At times they even aim for scarcity. They should obviously be taxed more, more properly regulated, and short term relief granted to people, but the legal structure of corporate power, which perverted the 14th Amendment which gave citizenship to freed slaves but was insidiously used to grant corporations “personhood” must be confronted. Else, there will be endless manipulations of the economy and technology.

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We must treat all people with dignity and address the systemic reasons why people leave their home countries. Part of that means addressing how US government policies like wars, interventions, corrupt corporate trade deals and drug policies drive desperate immigration. People across the political spectrum are critical of these policies, but they have continued because the establishments of the Democratic and Republican parties back them. I would work with people on the left and right to forge a new path to address such root causes.

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Once people see a long-term solution, they will be able to work together to address more immediate concerns. We must protect civil liberties. ICE activity in our district should be confronted and it should be abolished; it’s just one of the oppressive structures put into place after the 9/11 and false flag anthrax attacks against Congress. The clampdown on immigrants has also meant scaled-back cultural events from the Latine community in our area, impoverishing all of us.