Abdul El-Sayed

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Black communities across Michigan have too often been an afterthought in federal policy with promised investment that arrives late, falls short, or comes with no way to measure whether it actually made a difference. Abdul’s THRIVE Agenda sets a different standard: real accountability and measurable results.

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New Rogers ad promises to lower prescription drug costs — but the website directing Michiganders to his supposed plan leads to an error page

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As robots take on human abilities, they must be governed by human means. Big Tech is teaching machines to write, reason, diagnose, create, and decide. That means that a handful of billionaire-backed labs are shaping the future of work, of democracy, of our own safety. And they’re doing it all behind closed doors, accountable to no one but their billionaire investors.

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AI was built on our data and our labor; we should own a piece of it. Senator Bernie Sanders’s American AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Act would transfer 50% equity from the largest AI companies into public hands. I support that effort and propose to take it one step further because Americans deserve a seat at the table.

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Close the lending and contracting gap – Expand Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) Funds and Small Business Administration (SBA) lending to minority-owned businesses, with a goal of doubling the share of SBA-backed loans reaching Black- and Latino-owned firms within five years, and hold federal agencies accountable to disadvantaged-business contracting targets with real penalties for missing them.

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One AI CEO, Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, put it plainly: he was “deeply uncomfortable with these decisions being made by a few companies, by a few people.” We agree. Which is why we need a plan to fix it. We created the internet. The American people funded the research that built it through public universities and federal grants. Humanity created the data that populated it. And without it, AI would not exist. AI was built off us. It should work for us, not against us. Americans deserve clarity, control, and a say in how this transformative technology will shape our world.

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“First, Do No Harm” Governance: Charters must enshrine this as an operating standard. Profit cannot come at the cost of public safety, civil rights, or democratic integrity.

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Annual AI Dividend: Proceeds fund a direct annual dividend to every American.

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Transparency and technical assistance – Require federal lending data to be published by census tract and race on a public dashboard, and fund Minority Business Development Agency centers and CDFI technical-assistance grants so entrepreneurs get real help with applications and compliance.

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And the disappearing plan isn’t the only problem with Rogers’ new ad.

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Make It Easier To Build Housing by massively investing in housing construction and streamlining local regulations that are making it way too hard to build anything in America

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Expanded Unemployment Benefits and Wage Insurance: Longer duration, higher wage replacement, and a federal bridge that makes up the gap between old and new wages during transition.

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Self-acceleration Guardrails: AI used to build or improve other AI must face the same safety review as the models it produces. And limits must be placed on the capacity for agents to produce other agents.

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Increase supply – Expand Low-Income Housing Tax Credit allocations paired with state gap financing, and tie federal incentives like HUD’s PRO Housing grants to local zoning reform, which will allow for supply-increasing changes like by-right multifamily and accessory dwelling units, reduced parking minimums, and firm permit review timelines, so red tape doesn’t block new units.

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Pass Federal Legislation To Ban Algorithmic Rent Price-Fixing Software that allows corporate landlords to collude to raise rent

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In January, we released a Data Center Terms of Engagement platform because communities have the right to know and control what’s being built, who benefits, and what they get in return. Now, we’re putting forward a plan to bring AI Under Democracy – guardrails and a roadmap for AI development with one goal in mind: to bring the most powerful technology in human history under human democratic control. This will ensure that innovation serves all of us who made it possible, not just the few who can profit from it.

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Democracy Protections: We need a federal ban on deceptive AI-generated political media, mandatory disclosure of AI-generated political ads, and a federal task force on algorithmic disinformation with real enforcement power.

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Make ownership and affordability real – Fix HUD’s Area Median Income calculations to use local, not regional, income data; expand first-generation down-payment assistance and FHA/USDA loan access in majority-Black and majority-Latino neighborhoods; tie federal investment to tenant protections and right-to-counsel so revitalization doesn’t price out longtime residents.

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Pass A Federal Renter Bill Of Rights that protects renters from exploitation and clarifies the obligations for landlords across the country.

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A binding ban on lethal autonomous weapons

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A binding timeline – Require HUD-VASH and Housing Choice Voucher applicants to reach lease-up within 90 days of application, with public reporting by housing authority, and cut wait times by digitizing applications and allowing self-certification or virtual inspections for minor issues.

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Accountability and veterans first – Tie a share of HUD administrative fee funding to housing authorities meeting the 90-day benchmark, paired with technical assistance rather than punishment for under-resourced agencies, and expand HUD-VASH voucher allocations with VA caseworkers embedded locally to fast-track veteran eligibility.

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Medicare for All – Fight to guarantee every single American cradle-to-grave health insurance without networks, premiums, co-pays, or deductibles. End discrimination against patients based on their insurance.

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Strengthen the safety net – Secure multi-year Community Health Center Fund reauthorization so Federally Qualified Health Centers can plan and hire beyond a year at a time, and establish Medicaid reimbursement parity for community health workers and patient navigators. Adjust rules to enable cities and counties to build, better partner with, and administer Federally Qualified Health Centers.

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Close food deserts and expand telehealth – Expand Healthy Food Financing Initiative grants to bring full-service grocery access into underserved neighborhoods, and make telehealth reimbursement permanent so care isn’t limited by transportation or provider shortages.

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Support the whole family and track results – Strengthen and simplify WIC enrollment, pair maternal health investment with safe, stable housing support for pregnant and postpartum families, and direct Title V Maternal and Child Health Block Grant dollars specifically toward closing Black maternal mortality disparities, with public reporting by race and county.

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Fix the water – Enforce full lead service line replacement well ahead of the EPA’s 2037 backstop, with priority funding for communities that can’t cover local match requirements, and expand PFAS remediation dollars for affected municipal water systems with mandatory public disclosure of test results by zip code. Guarantee 50 gallons of clean water per person per day (the basic minimum needed to drink, cook, and bathe) with water bills capped at 2% of household income and ironclad protections against shutoffs for families who can’t afford to pay.

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Guarantee cumulative impact review for air quality – Require regulators to assess a community’s existing pollution burden–industrial emissions, diesel truck and rail traffic, and other combined sources–before allowing any new pollution sources nearby, guaranteeing air quality doesn’t get worse in Michigan neighborhoods already experiencing the highest levels of pollution.

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Fund Underfunded School Infrastructure – Assure that every child goes to a school that is modern, clean, warm, and dry by updating funding formulas that deprive schools in urban communities from the infrastructure funding they need.

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Invest in pathways – Expand Title III funding for HBCUs and community colleges, and grow DOL-registered apprenticeships.

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Restore and modernize voting protections – Support passage of the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act to restore preclearance-style review in jurisdictions with a history of discrimination, and establish a federal automatic voter registration standard tied to DMV and public benefits enrollment.

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Count everyone and protect access – Increase outreach funding for accurate census counts in hard-to-count communities, since census data directly determines how much federal formula funding reaches these neighborhoods, and support same-day registration and secure drop-box access as a federal minimum standard.

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I believe that corporations and special interests shouldn’t be able to buy elections. Period. That’s why I’m the only candidate running for U.S. Senate in Michigan that has never taken a dime of corporate money–and never will.

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The Trump Administration has tried to consolidate power at every turn–including pressuring governors to further gerrymander their states. I believe that congressional districts should be drawn by a federal nonpartisan committee of experts who are appointed for defined terms on a rolling basis and who work alongside the U.S. Census Bureau, similar to the Federal Reserve Board. This would come as close as possible to eliminating the partisan gerrymandering that exists because of apportionment by partisan state governments in most states.

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I understand that the Supreme Court itself has become a major impediment to democracy. The Roberts court has moved to limit voting rights, civil rights, and reproductive rights while expanding Trump’s power. I support Supreme Court reform, including ending the life-time appointments, imposing limited terms, and allowing the same number of appointments for each presidential term.

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The filibuster has been used by Senators to shield one another from having to take hard votes. I believe that it is antidemocratic and should be abolished.

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I oppose mandatory Voter ID laws like the “SAVE Act” that impose unnecessary barriers to citizens voting. Instead, I believe in making voting easier. Voters should be automatically registered to vote when they turn eighteen and reregistered automatically when they move. Election days should be holidays. And we need no-reason absentee and early in-person voting.

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Nobody is above our constitution. That’s why I’ll protect the rights of all Americans, regardless of where they live, where their parents came from, how—or if—they pray, their sexual orientation, gender identity, how old they are, or how much money they make. I believe in the freedom of speech, the freedom of assembly, the freedom of and from religion, and the freedom of self-expression.

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As senator, I’ll fight to hold corporate polluters fully accountable for contaminating Michigan’s land, air, and water and to empower federal agencies to stop them before they cause harm in the first place. That means codifying the Endangerment Finding into law, so no future administration can strip the EPA of its authority to regulate greenhouse gases by executive order. It means strengthening air quality standards to account for the cumulative impact of multiple pollutants on vulnerable communities. After all, a child in Detroit breathing diesel exhaust, industrial particulates, and ozone simultaneously deserves a regulatory framework that reflects that reality. It means strengthening NEPA so that communities have a meaningful voice before fossil fuel projects are permitted in their backyards, not after the damage is done. And it means making environmental justice an explicit mandate, not an afterthought, of every federal agency with authority over our air and water.

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After the devastation of World War II, our country led the international community to build organizations that would protect civilians from the disasters of war. We should lead the world to protect democracy, prosperity, and peace. We ensure security at home and abroad by standing with our democratic allies and engaging in a foreign policy that centers diplomacy, cooperation, and human rights. When we act in the interest of human rights and democracy

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In the state that built the American Dream, it shouldn’t be this hard to get by. I believe in an economy built by and for working people. I’ll fight against corporate tax breaks and the capture of our economy by billionaires and wanna-be oligarchs. I believe that every worker deserves the right to join a union and to earn a fair wage. And I believe that one good job should pay enough to raise a family. I’ll fight for an economy where anyone can start and grow a business to build wealth for themselves, their family, their co-workers, and their communities. And I believe that every American deserves guaranteed healthcare regardless of what they do for work. I want to abolish medical debt–just like we did for more than 300,000 Michiganders in Wayne County.

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Trade deals, like NAFTA, have been a disaster for American manufacturing and have rotted out our towns and destroyed communities. I believe in bringing dignified, well-paying jobs to Michigan. That means investing in the research, development, and growth of the technologies of the future while using tools like tariffs in a steady, thoughtful, and targeted way to protect them as they grow. I believe that unions must have a significant voice at the tables where decisions about the future of our economy are being made.

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I believe in right-sizing our tax code to take on the outsized power of excess wealth in our economy and democracy. The ultrawealthy should no longer be able to hide behind loopholes that leave them paying lower tax rates than the rest of us. Toward that end, I support taxing capital gains over $1 million at the same rate as ordinary income and closing the stepped-up basis loophole. I also support taxing inheritance greater than $1 million like ordinary income and imposing a progressive tax on wealth held by trusts. I support raising the marginal tax rate on earnings over $1 million and a billionaire tax on wealth over $1 billion. In addition, I support a cost of living exemption on federal taxes up to $50,000. I’ll also fight to close the Social Security payroll tax cap to make sure the rich pay their fair share so that Social Security stays solvent well into the future.

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Government decisions around world-changing technology like AI should not be left to unaccountable corporations. Rather than replace us, AI should be a tool to enhance our lives. Further, the speed and lack of transparency with which these technologies are being developed opens the door to serious risks that powerful AI may fall into the wrong hands or escape human control altogether. That’s why I support legislation to create guardrails around when, how, and for what purposes AI is deployed. And I oppose efforts to pre-empt state action without federal legislation in place.

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Data centers are among the most direct impacts of new technologies in the lives of everyday Michiganders. I support comprehensive federal zoning guidelines and legislation that protect communities from their unintended consequences. Toward that end, I created a leading edge policy proposal for “Terms of Engagement” for data centers that I intend to pass as federal law in the U.S. Senate.

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We need a building boom. And to create that we need to massively invest in building new housing in communities across the country, and to streamline local regulations that are making it way too hard to build anything in America. I’ll stand up to the corporate profiteers who are on the wrong side of affordable housing. I want to ban large corporations that speculate on our housing stock from owning homes at all. And I will support federal legislation to ban algorithmic rental price-fixing software that allows corporate landlords to collude to raise rent. I want to require Big Tech companies like AirBnB and VRBO to pay special housing dislocation fees for the housing stock they occupy in local communities. And I will stand up to corporate landlords against unfair evictions that are forcing too many Americans onto the streets. Toward that end, I believe we need a federal renter bill of rights that protects renters from exploitation and clarifies the obligations for landlords across the country.

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I literally wrote the book on Medicare for All. And I am the only candidate for the U.S. Senate in Michigan running to guarantee healthcare for every single American. No one should have to choose between getting the care they need or going into debt in the richest, most powerful country in the world. I will fight to expand Medicare to cover all necessary healthcare, including vision, dental, and hearing, and extend it to every single American from cradle to grave without premiums, copays, or deductibles. Medicare should be automatic, for everyone, and accepted everywhere. Medicare for All does not have to ban additional private insurance through unions or employers, although Medicare for All should make those choices redundant and unnecessary.

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I believe that healthcare decisions should always stay between an individual and their doctor. And I believe that the government cannot and should not interfere with the right to pursue healthcare choices. Healthcare data must remain private, and state and federal government should have no right to access your data unless it’s for the purposes of providing you healthcare. And healthcare providers should be protected from undue coercion by the government to provide data or to provide, or not provide, healthcare they deem necessary for their patients.

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The Great Lakes are Michigan’s crown jewel and keeping them safe and clean is a solemn responsibility for the world. We account for 21% of the planet’s fresh surface water, and an irreplaceable resource for our communities, our economy, and our tribes. No corporation’s profit margin is worth risking them. I support shutting down Line 5, which is putting our Great Lakes at risk and has the potential to destroy sensitive environmental and tribal sites. In the meantime, we need to make the line safer so long as proper care is taken not to disrupt the line itself or destroy sensitive environmental or tribal sites.

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–as in supporting Ukraine against Russian invasion–we find ourselves on the right side of justice. It’s when we break the rules we worked so hard to set up–as in Vietnam, Iraq, Iran, Venezuela, Cuba, or Palestine–that we make critical, deadly mistakes.

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I believe in holding corporations accountable. And I stand for a muscular Federal Trade Commission that enforces anti-monopoly laws so the corporations can’t price-gouge us. We need laws that would stop Wall Street speculators from wrecking good companies and killing good jobs, force publicly-traded corporations to be accountable to their workers, and protect workers on the job.

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To address the risk of massive automation of our jobs, I support exploring income protection programs such as wage insurance and basic income, worker investment through unions, adjusting our tax system to stop penalizing human employment and rewarding automation, and investment in small business revolving loan funds.

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I believe in the right to literacy. That starts with universal childcare, universal pre-K, and public K-12 education that is comprehensive, empowering, and tailored to kids’ unique needs. I protected children in Detroit from lead in their schools, and I believe that we need a massive investment in school infrastructure–the buildings and community spaces that are so critical to the safety and security of children in the place we leave them, most of the day, most of the year. Rather than gutting the Department of Education, I will support public schools, protect the civil rights of children, respect and invest in our educators and staff, and fight to guarantee high-quality public education for all. Teachers deserve to be paid more. So I support raising the minimum salary for teachers to at least $60,000/year. I also support more investment in paraprofessionals, including nurses, psychologists, social workers, and behavioral health specialists, so that all students have access to wraparound services that are critical to ensuring a healthy and productive learning environment.

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Expanding Medicare and providing it to every single American would make it stronger. As a nation, Americans hold more than $225 billion in medical debt. I think it shouldn’t exist–and I erased it for upwards of 300,000 Michiganders in Wayne County. I favor abolishing it for every American immediately.

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I understand that civil rights are just as important when they protect our rights to do things that others might disagree with. That’s why I believe that the right to speak against your government’s actions and to peacefully protest them are sacrosanct. And I stand against the weaponization of the state to stamp out or intimidate peaceful protest, including the freedom to boycott.

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The climate crisis is not a future threat. It’s here in the forms of historic storms battering Michigan farms, flooding that overwhelms Wayne County neighborhoods, and severe weather that has become the new normal across our state. Oil and gas dependence doesn’t just poison our air, it finances foreign entanglements and enriches the same corporations that have spent decades lying to us about what they knew. Michigan deserves better. That’s why I’ll fight for a pathway to 100% renewable energy. We will anchor it in massive investment in solar, wind, and battery storage, a modernized smart grid, and the energy efficiency upgrades that put money back in families’ pockets. Every step of that transition must be built on good union jobs because solving the climate crisis, rebuilding the American middle class, and providing reliable, affordable power are not competing goals–they are the same goal. I understand that we must remain open to emerging climate solutions as they develop, assessing them on safety, reliability, and community support.

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I oppose the illegal and unjustifiable war in Iran and demand an immediate end to the hostilities. While I oppose a nuclear-armed Iran, I understand that diplomatic means of achieving that goal are more effective and come with a far lower human cost, just as President Obama had achieved under the JCPOA.

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Research and development are among America’s most important assets. Rather than gut critical research agencies like the National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health and pull back from funding research laboratories in universities across America, I believe that our future requires us to invest more and faster. And I believe that the taxpayers who fund this research should earn back the returns on their investment.

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And to address the security risks, I believe we must develop clear “rules of the road” for AI development that governs which hands this technology falls into and requires us to better test and understand the models being developed. This includes clear safety testing standards for frontier models; liability and incident reporting standards; compute controls, including “know your customer” requirements for compute providers; and the creation of an independent technical agency with real enforcement power, like to the Food & Drug Administration, for AI.

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The federal government has failed to care for students with disabilities and special needs and I believe we should fulfill our obligation to finally fully fund the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. Further, we need to think beyond the outdated funding models that tie school funding to property taxes, which deprive working-class communities and schools of sufficient resources. Public school should be truly public–and I oppose efforts to privatize public education through vouchers and other programs intended to move public money into private pockets.

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People don’t come here because they want to take away from America, they come here because they want to build in America – that is what America has always been about. We must replace our broken and unpredictable immigration policy with a clear, comprehensive, and fair system. That begins with Abolishing ICE. ICE has become a tool for autocracy. Its culture of aggression, impunity, and disregard for the rule of law cannot be reformed or retrained. It must be abolished. I believe in a safe, secure border and immigration enforcement–but under a new organizational structure that puts basic human dignity and deference to the rule of law first. And I believe that ICE funds should be repurposed to build out the legal infrastructure of courts to create a clear pathway to citizenship for those who are stuck in limbo in our current system.

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From the Flint water crisis to Detroit water shutoffs to PFAS contamination poisoning communities from Oscoda to Parchment, we have failed the people who depend on clean water most. I’ll fight for a federal water guarantee that every family has access to at least 50 gallons of clean water per person per day (the basic minimum needed to drink, cook, and bathe) with water bills capped at 2% of household income and ironclad protections against shutoffs for families who can’t afford to pay. I’ll push to accelerate federal infrastructure funding to get every lead pipe out of Michigan’s water systems by 2030 — seven years ahead of the current federal deadline. I’ll hold polluters fully accountable for the PFAS contamination they’ve left behind in our soil, our water, and our bodies and ensure that corporate farms taking federal dollars are held accountable for the agricultural runoff poisoning our rivers, our lakes, and our neighbors’ wells. And I’ll fight for federal funding to invest in modernizing our aging drainage and purification systems. I support shutting down Line 5, which is putting our Great Lakes at risk and has the potential to destroy sensitive environmental and tribal sites. In the meantime, we need to make the line safer so long as proper care is taken not to disrupt the line itself or destroy sensitive environmental or tribal sites.

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I oppose the warlike pathway that the foreign policy establishment has pursued with China. Our competition with China is not fated toward kinetic war. Where we compete, it should be with our research, development, and economic power, building solutions to the problems of the future. While we must insist that China play by the rules when it comes to trade and intellectual property, we must also recognize that our shared futures are better when we cooperate with each other for the benefit of all of our people, rather than compete in a zero-sum arms race that makes all of us less safe.

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My American story began because my father wanted to come to America to build cars. Nobody builds better than we do. But dumb trade agreements negotiated without unions at the table have siphoned away too many manufacturing jobs. Trump’s incoherent, self-serving version of tariffs have only made the problem worse. I support targeted, smart tariffs that would help protect Michigan manufacturing and incubate the industries of the future with unions at the forefront. These tariffs would focus on growth industries, rely on clearly communicated benchmarks with trading partners, and sunset as American manufacturers established themselves.

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Blockchain has the potential to disrupt the overwhelming power of big banks in our financial lives. But these technologies also can open doors to misuse and abuse, such as pump-and-dump schemes, shitcoins, and Donald Trump’s own pay-to-play corruption scheme. That’s why I support legislation that both clarifies the governance and legitimate use-cases of blockchain for financial services, and more importantly, protects consumers and the public from those who would use financial technology to launder funds, defraud the public, or engage in corruption.

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We need to think past traditional models of education. I’ll work alongside our unions to fund and expand vocational and apprenticeship training opportunities so that every American has a pathway to expand their skills. In addition, I believe in expanding funding for America’s HBCUs, community colleges, and trade schools, recognizing that these have been the engine of social mobility for generations of young people locked out of other forms of higher education.

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We have maintained a policy of “strategic ambiguity” with China on the question of Taiwan for decades. The future of Taiwan should be a matter for the Taiwanese to choose through democratic means. But in recognition of the possible risks, we must continue to onshore critical national security assets, such as chip manufacturing.

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America’s colleges and universities are among its most critical research institutions. They deserve more funding, not less. That funding should focus on high-risk, high-impact science that has the potential to change the world. Sadly, too few have access to our colleges and universities. That’s why I believe that every student deserves a debt-free and tuition-free pathway toward the skills they need to thrive, be that a two-year apprenticeship or a four-year college education and beyond. To cap the runaway inflation in higher education, I believe we must cap the administrative overhead costs for institutions receiving federal funding. We need more research and teaching rather than rec centers and flavors of frozen yogurt. I will also champion non-traditional tenure pathways for educators whose work advances the teaching mission of higher education institutions.

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I believe that in an era where our schools are crumbling and healthcare is unaffordable, we should be spending our taxpayer dollars here at home. That’s why I oppose direct blank-check funding to foreign militaries–including Egypt, Israel, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and others.

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Michigan is the cherry capital of America and one of the most agriculturally diverse states in the nation. For too long, Washington has ignored us. Federal farm subsidies funnel money to massive corn and soy operations while family farmers go broke and the crops that define Michigan farming struggle. I’ll fight to redirect federal farm subsidies away from corporate agribusiness and toward the family farmers who need them. I aim to cap individual subsidy payments at $250,000 per year and reinvest those dollars into specialty crops, diversified agriculture, and regenerative farming that builds long-term food security and rural prosperity. I’ll push for targeted, negotiated trade protections for Michigan’s specialty crops. Unlike the reckless blanket tariffs that raise farmers’ costs and invite retaliation, I’ll focus duties squarely at the foreign producers who dump below-cost goods into our markets and undercut Michigan farmers who play by the rules. I’ll reform the H-2A guest worker program through the Farm Workforce Modernization Act, creating real pathways to legal status for the immigrant farmworkers who harvest our food while streamlining a visa system that currently leaves family farms in limbo every season. And I’ll champion a federal right-to-repair law because a family farmer in Leelanau County shouldn’t have to wait two weeks and pay dealer prices just to fix the tractor sitting in their field at harvest time.

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Right now, our tax dollars and American-made weapons are being used to perpetrate a genocide in Gaza, illegal settlements in the West Bank and Jerusalem, and the attempted annexation of Southern Lebanon. That must end. I support immediate and comprehensive enforcement of U.S. laws that condition the provision of military aid and sales. And I support an immediate arms embargo on Israel and reject the false differentiation between “offensive” and “defensive” weapons.

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As a physician and epidemiologist, I understand that global threats can quickly become local threats. And when we fail to tackle health and humanitarian threats where they present themselves abroad, they can land in our neighborhoods. Helping to diminish deprivation and disease abroad isn’t just charity, it’s important for our own safety and prosperity. That’s why I support immediate re-investment in foreign aid, including to UNRWA.

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I believe in international cooperation to take on our most dire global threats, such as global pandemics and climate change. And I support America’s meaningful engagement in the World Health Organization, the Conference of Parties, and the Paris Agreement to both address the climate crisis and global health challenges.