We have a vision for the future:
one where families like yours can afford rent and groceries, where you decide if and when to start a family, and where no matter where you’re from or how much money your parents make, you have a shot at getting ahead.
We have a vision for the future:
one where families like yours can afford rent and groceries, where you decide if and when to start a family, and where no matter where you’re from or how much money your parents make, you have a shot at getting ahead.
Addressing the Affordability Crisis
Housing is a Human Right
Growing up in Section 8 housing, Deja watched her mom work multiple jobs just to keep a roof over her family’s head and like too many Americans has experienced housing insecurity. She’s fighting for policies to make housing truly affordable: including prioritizing community-driven large-scale investment through the construction of as many as 12 million new units of social housing and allocating funds to maintain and upgrade the existing stock of public housing.
Childcare That Empowers Families
We need leaders in Congress who will fight for working families. Some of Deja’s first organizing memories were watching her neighbors step up to babysit so her mom could pick up an extra shift at work. We owe it to our neighbors to champion initiatives that fund comprehensive pre-K and provide subsidies to low-income families. By investing in early childhood education and supporting childcare workers with fair wages and training, we can build a system that works for everyone.
Economic Justice and Fair Wages
Unlike most candidates, Deja has lived off of minimum wage. She knows what it’s like to make hard choices in the grocery check out line and pull long nights at the gas station to make ends meet. For her, economic justice is more than a talking point. We need to pass the Raise the Wage Act to raise the federal minimum wage to $17/hr and eliminate the tipped minimum wage, while empowering labor and implementing tax reforms that ensure the wealthy pay their fair share.
Protect Social Security
Social Security is a promise made to our seniors that must be kept and reinforced. If elected, Deja would co-sponsor the Social Security Expansion Act to increase Social Security benefits, ensure solvency, and pay for it by making the wealthiest Americans chip in their fair share.
Show Spine. Stand Up to Trump and the GOP
Use Our Power to Fight Back
We need fighters, not politicians. Deja has spent the past decade as an activist: fighting her school board for better sex ed., standing up to a U.S. Senator on birth control funding, and even being arrested in an act of civil disobedience after the overturn of Roe v. Wade. We deserve leaders like her who are willing to do what it takes to block the efforts of the Trump administration, including using parliamentary maneuvers, amendments, and other obstructionist tactics that delay and deny their extreme policies.
Reverse the McConnell “Rules” and Bring Balance to The Supreme Court
Over the past 10 years, the GOP broke every norm to pack the Supreme Court with reactionary Justices – applying different rules under their GOP Presidents. Once a Democratic President is back in office in 2029, we need to immediately bring balance to the Supreme Court by fighting to pass the Judiciary Act of 2021 and increase the number of justices.
Defend and Protect Social Services
Growing up in Section 8 housing, Deja’s family relied on SNAP benefits and Medicaid just to get by. When Donald Trump and Musk label working families ‘the parasite class’, we need elected officials who know first-hand how much of a lifeline basic social services are and have the fire to fight for our most vulnerable.
Curb Executive Overreach
The abuse of Executive Orders and National Emergencies is the real national emergency. Deja will be a loud voice in Congress seeking to reassert Article I prerogatives over questions of war and peace. One step would be repealing the greatly abused and long-outdated 2001 Authorization for the Use of Military Force passed following the 9/11 attacks.
Education that Drives Opportunity
Defend and Fund Our Schools
Slashing the Department of Education hurts the students who need it most. Deja is a proud product of our Tucson Unified School District’s public schools where she participated in the Red For Ed movement in solidarity with the educators who showed up for her. We need to increase Title I funding and back low-income schools so every kid gets a fair shot, no matter their zip code.
Center and Support Students with Disabilities
Every student deserves a classroom that sees them. That means more funding, more training, and more respect for educators working with students with learning disabilities. Inclusion isn’t optional, it’s essential.
Student Loan Reform That Sets All Students Up for Success
It is time to end predatory loans and private for-profit institutions that leave students with more debt than they can take on. Education should meet people where they are, not leave them behind.
Health Care for All
Medicare for All
In one of the richest countries in the world, too many of us are one health emergency from bankruptcy. Lack of quality, affordable health care can derail lives. Take it from Deja, she is one of the millions of Americans who is currently uninsured because of this broken system. Medicare for All is the best path forward to ensure everyone has access to comprehensive coverage that doesn’t break the bank or is tied to employment.
Comprehensive Access to Reproductive Healthcare
Organizations like Planned Parenthood have given millions of women the future they have today – Deja included. Access to comprehensive reproductive health care services is crucial in giving everyone the opportunity to make informed decisions about their bodies and future – this includes accessible birth control, abortion services, and comprehensive sex education.
Abortion Access Is A Human Right
We need leaders who are unafraid to stand up and fight for abortion access. Deja is a part of the first generation of women to have fewer rights than our mothers. She’s been on the front lines of this movement risking arrest on Capitol Hill after the overturn of Roe v. Wade and right here in Arizona supporting our ballot initiative to enshrine the right into our state constitution.
In Congress, Deja will work to pass policies that move us beyond simply restoring Roe. That includes repealing the Hyde Amendment, so no one is denied care because they are on Medicaid. It means supporting the Women’s Health Protection Act to stop states from passing unnecessary and harmful restrictions. And it means protecting access to medication abortion and telehealth services, especially in rural and underserved areas. These fights are not just about policy, they are about power.
Make the Economy Work for Everyone
Level the Playing Field For All
Shady tax loopholes allow U.S. companies off the hook and keep them from paying their fair share. We can’t allow billion dollar corporations to hoard wealth in overseas tax havens while working people are trying to make ends meet. If you make money off our communities, you better be investing back into them. Because corporations should pay what they owe, Congress must fully fund the IRS and empower staff to hold the rich who cut corners accountable.
Build The Innovation Economy
In Arizona and across the United States, young people know we need informed public policy to build an economy that keeps up with innovation. With thoughtful investments and careful regulation, renewable energy services, cryptocurrency and blockchain, advanced AI-ready computing, and the booming creator economy can thrive and continue to prime economic growth that lifts up future generations.
Tax Relief for Working Families
Many Arizonans, including Deja, started working as soon as they could in high school. Working families are who truly keeps the economy humming. We need real tax relief to people who actually need it, not more tax cuts for the highest income earners.
Environmental Stewardship
Environmental Justice is Justice
Clean air, safe water, and a livable, toxin-free environment are not luxuries, they are rights. We need a transition to renewable energy that prioritizes frontline communities, especially historically marginalized neighborhoods in the immediate crosshairs of climate change. Climate justice is racial justice. It’s reproductive justice. It’s about our future.
Let Young People Take The Lead In The Climate Fight
The youngest populations are those most affected by climate change. Federal policy must reflect the urgency our generation feels. We’re not asking, we’re demanding bold investments in clean energy infrastructure that moves us away quickly and permanently away from fossil fuels.
Hold Polluters Accountable
It’s time for the government to protect people, not profits. That starts with regulating and effectively punishing industries that poison our planet for a paycheck. If you hit polluters in their pocketbooks, they will listen.
