I support single-payer health insurance. In the absence of a Federal law, this civil right has been turned into a zoning issue. “You can get an abortion in this state but not that one.” This needs to be changed at the Federal level. People should be in charge of their own bodies. Not only do women deserve a right to high quality reproductive health services, but when I’m elected, I’ll work hard to attract more health care practitioners and I’ll expand the pool of exceptional medical professionals to provide the women of NV-02 the comprehensive health care they deserve. I take our freedoms seriously, including a woman’s right to choose. That right should be enshrined in state and federal constitutional protections.

I support issuance of a digital ID that can be on mobile phones and that is considered valid for state purposes (like hunting passes, benefits payouts, drivers licenses, voting, and so on). I don't believe we need Voter ID, but because this is the direction both our state and our country are heading, I will support a voter ID if you make it easy for folks to get hold of one. ID systems must be inclusive, electronic, and easy. Everyone should have this as a birthright. Medical records will transfer easily from provider to provider; you'll have proof that you voted only once; you'll be able to open a bank account, run a background check; you can show up at any local organization or event and pay with your phone – just like ApplePay and GooglePay, but applied to your civic life. Nevada is behind other states. Let's change that.

We need immigration reform, not a masked and unaccountable secret police force, funded to the tune of $80 billion while terrorizing American citizens and communities. That means the right levels of legal immigration and guest workers in key sectors, along with strict controls on illegal entry and on employers who exploit the situation.

A lot of folks are talking out there about Medicare for all, and I support that. That's a stepping stone.  But what does single payer universal health care mean? And why is it so important for the United States to get out of the slow lane and get to the fast lane for something other countries have already figured out? Single payer means that doctors, nurses, and technicians are paid with a salary. They don't get paid by reimbursements from insurance claims. There's no insurance, there's just capacity.  Look at public schools. No payments are involved in public education; there's just teachers and administrators and buildings. And there shouldn't be payments involved in health care. Now, I'm a private sector guy, but there are some things like public transportation, roads, public education – and I believe health care – that are just much more effectively provided when you look at them as a public good. You don't involve a claims process and a payments process, because the US is already spending 50% more per person than any other developed country in the world.  Now you could say, well, we must be getting something for all that extra spend. What we're getting are terrible outcomes. You're three times more likely to die if you're a woman giving birth in this country than the average of all those other industrialized countries, and your life expectancy is four years shorter. We're paying more and getting less. It doesn't work. It shouldn't be a political issue. It’s not Republican versus Democrat, or conservative versus liberal. It should just be ‘what works’. And now more than ever, from both affordability and access points of view, we need to face the fact that the US has not figured this one out. We can look to the other countries that are ahead of us, be humble, learn the lesson, and put that in place to get the US back to where we should be. We're currently spending 18% of our GDP on health care. Put that in perspective: defense is 3.4%!  It's horrendously wasteful. We can't compete as a country and can't be humane or ethical if we continue just to burn money and not face this challenge.  And the way to do that is by creating a single payer system.

The most critical need in Congress regarding AI right now is to elect people who have a deep understanding of it. A seat at the table means technology that works for our citizens, not the other way around. I support strong federal legislation on AI and will fight for it in Congress. At the federal level: AI should not be used to build a surveillance state. That is the real 1984 risk, and we do not want to be like China — we want to compete with China. AI should not be used autonomously in weapons systems. We cannot have RoboCop-style weapons firing without human oversight. Anything driven by AI must carry accountability — traceable to an identifiable person and an ultimate beneficial owner. There can be no concept of AI that is unaccountable. AI also consumes enormous resources. Nevada is in a data-center boom, and it makes no sense to subsidize it, given our shortages of power and water. If we want data centers at all, they should be paying us — putting energy back into the grid and water back into the system. More specifically: Data Privacy Americans deserve a national data privacy law giving everyone the protections that currently exist only in some states. By default, your data belongs to you — companies shouldn't be able to sell it without explicit consent, and consumers should have the right to know what data AI systems have collected and trained on. This is something I've fought for, all the way to the Supreme Court, and won. On deepfakes, we need to adopt existing standards that let people trace the origin of images, video, and audio, and create real penalties for malicious deepfakes used in revenge porn, political campaigns, and scams. Data Centers and Energy Data centers should cover 100% of grid upgrade costs themselves, with no rate hikes for residents. Development should be expedited for centers powered by new green energy and slowed or blocked for those relying on fossil fuels. Community benefit agreements, water usage monitoring, and closing property tax loopholes would ensure these massive investments actually serve the public. Protecting Kids and Students Children need real protections from AI exploitation, including parental visibility into their kids' AI interactions, age verification for high-risk tools like romantic chatbots, and mandatory self-harm screening for any chatbot designed for repeated use. Schools should set clear guidelines on appropriate AI use and update assignments to ensure students are still developing core skills like writing and critical thinking. The Federal Government should provide guidance on how to interact with these models without giving up the process of thinking. AI's educational upside — personalized tutoring, new career preparation — should be actively explored. Worker Protections Large companies should be required to report AI-driven workforce changes, and tax incentives should reward businesses that upskill existing employees rather than simply replace them. AI should be prohibited from being the sole decision-maker in hiring, firing, or promotion. Workers who've invested in licenses or permits to do a job should be protected during a transitional period before AI can perform the same work without equivalent certification. A tax on large AI companies would fund an AI dividend, returning a share of productivity gains to all Americans. What we don’t want is yet another mechanism by which billionaires become multibillionaires and the American people are left behind. AI Safety Standards The most powerful AI models should require independent safety testing before deployment — similar to FDA approval for pharmaceuticals. Companies should be required to report cybersecurity incidents involving AI, and government use of AI tools from foreign adversaries like China should be restricted. International diplomacy should be used to reduce AI arms-race dynamics, including negotiated limits where possible. Building Government Capacity Government needs to understand the technology it's trying to regulate. That means funding NIST's Center for AI Standards and Innovation, expanding technical expertise across federal agencies through fellowships, special hiring authorities, and advisory boards, and requiring large AI developers to provide confidential disclosures to regulators about training scale, compute use, and capabilities. Critically, agencies should develop contingency plans now for rapid AI improvements and large-scale risks — before those scenarios become crises. Keeping America Competitive The U.S. can lead on AI without abandoning its values. Federal funding for AI research at universities and national labs — including alignment research (which aligns what the models are doing with what humans want done) — combined with reasonable, targeted regulation can support American companies while protecting people. Working with allies on verifiable international safety standards, maintaining strategic export controls, and keeping diplomatic channels open for negotiated limits would ensure democratic values shape AI's future rather than ceding that ground to adversaries.

We have picked a war with a country whose mineral, oil, and gas reserves are enormous. Iran's oil reserves are the third largest in the world; the United States is ninth. Its natural gas reserves are second in the world; the United States is fourth. Because of the supply disruption we have caused, the value of those resources for Iran has skyrocketed — they are currently worth roughly $27 trillion. That is about half the value of the U.S. stock market, more than the top five U.S. companies combined, and nearly three-quarters of our national debt. It is a gift to the Iranian regime and to Vladimir Putin. We have created a situation in which our adversary knows it is winning, regardless of what the talking heads in Washington say. Iran has years of reserves. Even if we destroy its production capacity, it can keep selling oil, gas, and minerals to China — and China is fully capable of supplying Iran with the weapons it needs to keep fighting us. We can declare victory and walk away, but it takes two to end a war.

I am a payments person. I was there at the beginning of Square and Coinbase, and I worked in the payments group at the Federal Reserve. Payments are my field — and that experience has taught me that many industries should not be operating on a payments model at all. Same examples: phone bills, healthcare, public transportation, preschool/universal pre-K. These public services are essential both to our competitiveness and to our being a humane society. We have gotten on the wrong track by financializing services that work better as public goods, and we need to reevaluate which industries genuinely warrant a payments layer.

Like the character Barnes says in the movie Platoon, "There's the way it ought to be, and there's the way it is." Citizens United should be repealed. Other countries set a fixed amount of public funding per candidate. But current law treats corporations as people and turns campaigns into spending contests. In the last midterm, $36 million was spent in a comparable district. Committed not to spend heavily in the primary, but will spend what it takes to make the general election competitive. Our future playbook is an election process without Citizens United and without PACs.

Wealthy people must pay their fair share. Three principles: 1. Tax wealth, not income — wealthy people don't need income. 2. Don't tax productive investments. Tax non-productive consumption: luxury real estate, luxury cars, boats, first-class/private-jet travel. 3. Bring back a progressive estate tax — carve out family farms and small businesses, but 90%+ rate above a threshold. Prevents permanent American aristocracy. That is how you tax billionaires while still rewarding the creation of value.

Climate change is happening before our eyes, and we feel it every day. Reno is one of the fastest warming cities in the country. The federal government should return to science rather than dogma-based understandings, repaying billion-dollar contributions by the oil companies, encouraging outdated and dirty fuels like coal and oil, and solutions of challenges like global warming for Reno and every other affected locale, industry, etc.

What is happening in Gaza is a genocide. The United States is complicit — Israel could not sustain this campaign without American weapons, funding, and diplomatic cover at the UN. I will fight for an immediate and permanent ceasefire, a full arms embargo on Israel, full humanitarian access to Gaza; and a genuine two-state solution based on 1967 borders. There should be no forced displacement of Gaza's population. History will ask what each of us did when we knew. I intend to be able to answer honestly.