Our Platform
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All people should have equal status and protection under the law regardless of race, disability/ability, religious affiliation or lack thereof, sexual orientation, or gender identity.
Women’s rights are human rights. The right to choose is essential to women’s rights.
We support the rights of all tribal people and their sovereignty rights.We believe in a strong separation between church and state.
Private, for-profit prisons must be eliminated.
Disability rights are civil rights.
Black Lives Matter.
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Public education must be properly funded and teachers should receive the pay they deserve. Public schools are our priority – not vouchers.
Higher education is not a luxury. College, trade schools, and universities should be, as stated in the state constitution, as “nearly free as possible”.
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Climate change is real. It must be addressed immediately.
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Healthcare is an inalienable right and there should be universal healthcare for all.
We support common-sense gun reform which includes a ban on assault weapons, studying gun violence as a public health risk, and no guns for domestic abusers.The right to choose is essential to women’s rights.
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The right to peaceably protest must be protected.
Every citizen has the right to vote.
People’s voices and grassroots movements to elicit change cannot be ignored.
We must overturn “Right to Work” and build strong unions (both private and public sector) that will help provide better living wages for workers.
The right to call for referendum is vital to free society.
Corporations are not people. Dark money must be removed from politics.
We support net neutrality. The internet must remain free from corporate control.
A barrier-free, inclusive, diverse community empowers and values each individual while creating autonomy, opportunity, and dignity.
Diversity and equity are what strengthens our communities and party.