Ending Forever Wars at Home and Abroad

I have lived my entire adult life watching this country pour decades and trillions of dollars into reckless wars that made us less safe, killed countless people, and enriched a small circle of defense contractors. The first gulf war. Iraq. Afghanistan. Iraq (again). U.S.-funded weapons fueling the genocide in Gaza. Lebanon. Iran.

I support the Block the Bombs Act to withhold the transfer of offensive weapons to Israel and demand Israel’s compliance with U.S. and international law. I support an end to throwing money at every overseas conflict while telling working people at home that we can't afford healthcare.

I co-sponsored a resolution at my union calling for a ceasefire in Gaza—one of only two federal worker unions to do so. I will not be quiet about this in Congress, and I will not take a dime from AIPAC or anyone trying to buy my silence.

Abolish ICE

ICE now has a budget larger than all other law enforcement agencies combined and is operating as the President's personal police force. ICE agents are terrorizing neighborhoods, separating families, and violating constitutional rights with impunity.

In Maryland's 6th district, people are afraid to go to medical appointments and caretakers are afraid to send their kids to school. Meanwhile, the people elected to represent us have been advancing budget bills that fund this violence and waving through Trump's nominees who carry it out.

ICE cannot be reformed. It needs to be abolished. I'll work to defund immigrant detention and deportation infrastructure. I’ll advocate for dramatically expanded legal protections and representation for our immigrant neighbors.

The people of Maryland's 6th district are running toward danger to protect their neighbors. The least Congress can do is meet them there.

Ending state surveillance

Facial recognition is being deployed on Americans without their knowledge, without their consent, and without meaningful oversight. It's used to identify protesters, harass immigrant communities, and build databases that will outlive whatever administration is in office. It misidentifies Black and brown Americans at staggering rates. And it's being aggressively pushed into local police departments—including in Maryland—by the same Big Tech firms I spent years investigating.

I'll fight to ban federal use of facial recognition outright and to cut off federal funding for state and local agencies that use it. I'll push to strengthen privacy laws so data brokers can't sell your location history to ICE or anyone else, and I'll defend the right to protest, organize, and exist in public without being tracked.

I'll also push to ban federal use of the predictive policing and "risk assessment" algorithms that are quietly automating racial profiling across the country.