For too long, our government has ignored and failed historically marginalized, terrorized, and hated communities. But starting tomorrow, at noon ET, we can begin shifting the national agenda to put people first while combating racism, poverty, and corporate greed.

With Democratic control of both bodies of Congress, Mitch McConnell can no longer unilaterally shut down our progressive agenda. And with Joe Biden and Kamala Harris being sworn in as President and Vice President, we will have allies in the White House to fight for a $15 minimum wage, water is a human right legislation, and COVID relief that puts money directly in people’s pockets.

With your partnership, we can make progress on our visionary agenda, including:

COVID relief that puts money directly in the pockets of all our neighbors. People need ongoing, direct relief in order to survive this crisis—including undocumented residents of this country. Last May, I introduced the ABC Act to give people monthly payments through issuing debit cards (which can come pre-loaded and get updated each month) rather than checks, in order to include the 25% of people who are unbanked and underbanked. Since then, we’ve watched as banks and corporations get bailouts, but our families keep getting left behind. We can’t wait any longer.
Ensuring that water is a human right. I’m going to keep pushing for the right to clean drinking water. Last year I introduced and passed the Emergency Water is a Human Right Act in the U.S. House, which would guarantee access to water by prohibiting water shutoffs, mandating water reconnections, and helping low-income households pay their water bills. And last year I introduced and passed historic amendments that would provide $23 billion to fully replace dangerous lead pipes, protecting our kids from poisonous exposure. These are critical priorities in the first 100 days of the Biden-Harris administration.
Abolishing ICE and ending our government’s human rights abuses against immigrants. We’re going to continue calling on the UN for independent investigations into the horrific human rights violations that people have reported within the Department of Homeland Security, ranging from mass forced hysterectomies of immigrant women to torturing Cameroonian asylum seekers to force them to sign their own deportation orders.
Taking on corporate greed and addressing environmental racism. I represent the most polluted zip code in Michigan, where predominantly Black people were already dealing with high rates of asthma and other respiratory conditions before the pandemic, due to a high concentration of corporations that have polluted our air and water for profit. In partnership with the Biden administration and the environmental justice community working group we created in our district, I’m going to keep fighting back against these abuses and holding corporate polluters accountable across the country.
Reimagining public safety and repairing the harm done by the criminal legal system. I’m proud to support the visionary BREATHE Act from the Movement For Black Lives’ Electoral Justice Project, which would divest our federal taxpayer dollars from brutal and discriminatory policing and invest in a new vision of public safety that centers healthy, sustainable, and equitable communities.
Addressing our country’s housing crisis. Last year, we secured $25 million in funding for housing repairs and revitalization, as well as homeownership and financing assistance to low-income households. This is just the start. I represent one of the most beautiful Blackest cities in the U.S., Detroit. But here, we have a Black housing crisis on our hands, due to intentional policy choices. We have the highest number of property tax foreclosures in any city since the Great Depression—one in three Detroit homes—because of illegally inflated property taxes that hit Black and brown homeowners the hardest. We must continue to fight institutionalized discrimination including racial zoning, redlining, and predatory lending.
Restoring and expanding our country’s most important civil rights laws. We’re going to continue to push for the Justice for All Act, historic legislation that pushes back against decades of conservative court rulings to restore the original intent of our civil rights laws. If passed, it would combat intentional and unintentional discrimination against people based on race, color, religion, sex, disability, age, or national origin—and it would clarify the definition of “sex” to include sexual orientation, pregnancy, gender identity, sex stereotypes, or any sex-related traits. Because no matter how you identify, our civil rights laws must protect you.
Lifting people out of poverty. Our survival should not be tied to our jobs or our ability to work, so I introduced the BOOST Act last year to provide a guaranteed income to low- or no-income Americans, which would instantly lift 45% of people out of poverty.

As the representative for our country’s third poorest congressional district, I know that we cannot go back to a pre-pandemic “normal.” Many of my constituents were already in survival mode before the pandemic, one paycheck away from being in poverty.

But, together, we can expand what’s politically possible and achieve the transformative changes our country needs.

Thank you for always being by my side in our shared fight for justice and equity.