My Platform Starts With Questions that Matter
This page is not a list of promises. It is the beginning of a conversation.
Before positions are finalized, we want to understand what actually matters to people in this district, especially young people who will live with the consequences longest. Your responses will directly shape the priorities and proposals of this campaign.
👈 So...Start here: What's Important to You?
My Platform Starts With Questions that Matter
This page is not a list of promises. It is the beginning of a conversation.
Before positions are finalized, we want to understand what actually matters to people in this district, especially young people who will live with the consequences longest. Your responses will directly shape the priorities and proposals of this campaign.
Start here : What's Important to You?
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Why Questions Come Before a Platform
For most of Connecticut’s history, congressional elections in this district have been formalities. The real decisions were made long before any voter had a meaningful choice.
This campaign exists first to create a real Democratic primary in Connecticut’s 3rd District, and with it, a real public conversation about where we are going.
A platform only matters if it is tested, debated, challenged, and shaped by the people who live here. That only happens if there is a primary. That only happens if we make the ballot.
Before there is a platform, there are questions.
Before there are answers, there is listening.
Before there is a campaign, there is a conversation.
This page is the beginning of that process.
Why Questions Come Before a Platform
For most of Connecticut’s history, congressional elections in this district have been formalities. The real decisions were made long before any voter had a meaningful choice.
This campaign exists first to create a real Democratic primary in Connecticut’s 3rd District, and with it, a real public conversation about where we are going.
A platform only matters if it is tested, debated, challenged, and shaped by the people who live here. That only happens if there is a primary. That only happens if we make the ballot.
Before there is a platform, there are questions.
Before there are answers, there is listening.
Before there is a campaign, there is a conversation.
This page is the beginning of that process.
That said: A Future for Young People is What America Must be About
If I had to have a platform, my focus would be clear: make life better for young people and for the families trying to raise them.
For years, the Democratic Party has been good at naming values and bad at offering concrete ideas for how to make those values real in the world young people actually live in. Housing is unaffordable. Starting a family feels financially dangerous. Healthcare is fragmented. Work no longer reliably leads to stability. Technology is reshaping life faster than our institutions can respond.
That said: A Future for Young People is What America Must be About
If I had to have a platform, my focus would be clear: make life better for young people and for the families trying to raise them.
For years, the Democratic Party has been good at naming values and bad at offering concrete ideas for how to make those values real in the world young people actually live in. Housing is unaffordable. Starting a family feels financially dangerous. Healthcare is fragmented. Work no longer reliably leads to stability. Technology is reshaping life faster than our institutions can respond.
Because, This Just Won't Do
As a consequence, young people are being asked to live inside a trap:
rent that rises faster than wages
healthcare that feels like a gamble
student debt that delays adulthood
childcare that costs more than a second mortgage
a climate that makes stability feel temporary
institutions that feel frozen in place
I don’t accept that as normal. My goal is to make life simpler, safer, and more affordable for people building a future.
So instead of slogans, this page offers ideas.
Not as dogma, but as starting points. Not as decrees, but as proposals to be tested, debated, refined, or rejected.
Each idea here is a concrete attempt to answer one question: what would it take to make adulthood feel possible again?
Each one will eventually, between now and April 28, 2026, be accompanied by a short vertical video, and in some cases a longer explainer, so people can engage at whatever depth they want.
Because, This Just Won't Do
As a consequence, young people are being asked to live inside a trap:
rent that rises faster than wages
healthcare that feels like a gamble
student debt that delays adulthood
childcare that costs more than a second mortgage
a climate that makes stability feel temporary
institutions that feel frozen in place
I don’t accept that as normal. My goal is to make life simpler, safer, and more affordable for people building a future.
So instead of slogans, this page offers ideas.
Not as dogma, but as starting points. Not as decrees, but as proposals to be tested, debated, refined, or rejected.
Each idea here is a concrete attempt to answer one question: what would it take to make adulthood feel possible again?
Each one will eventually, between now and April 28, 2026, be accompanied by a short vertical video, and in some cases a longer explainer, so people can engage at whatever depth they want.
So here are 4 Ideas
This is just to get us started
Idea 1:
$500.00/mo Housing
The idea:
Legalize and scale modular starter apartments that turn empty buildings into affordable homes.
What it means:
Instead of trying to make $2,000 apartments slightly cheaper, we change the model.
We legalize and subsidize simple, dignified micro-apartments built from modular interior kits. These kits convert underused offices, malls, warehouses, and dormitory shells into thousands of small, private homes for young people.
At the congressional level, the job is to bring in the dollars and incentives to make this possible. This would function like a housing GI Bill for young people: a targeted federal financing and tax incentive program that helps communities and developers convert empty buildings into affordable starter housing.
When done at scale, the interior build-out can be financed for roughly $500 per unit per month over a 30-year mortgage cycle. If the private market cannot provide that financing, we create a public or cooperative vehicle to do it.
Video: Housing is the foundation
Idea 2:
A Family Starter Credit
The idea:
Give young families breathing room when life is most expensive.
What it means:
Instead of forcing young adults to parent and build their working lives on the edge of collapse, we provide a simple monthly cash benefit for families with young children.
This is a focused form of Universal Basic Income, aimed where it matters most: the start of family life.
The payment would be:
Automatic and simple
Paid monthly
Available to working families and caregivers
Large enough to help, small enough to stabilize
It is not a replacement for work. It supports it.
Video: The years that decide everything
Idea 3:
Northeast Medical Trust
The idea:
Build a shared regional healthcare system that guarantees care and lowers costs without having to wait for Mississippi.
What it means:
Instead of waiting for Washington to fix healthcare nationally, New England and neighboring states create a joint public healthcare system, the National eHealth Trust, that functions like Medicare for everyone in the region.
States pool their purchasing power, negotiate drug prices together, standardize coverage, and share digital infrastructure so care is portable, simple, and affordable across state lines.
People keep their doctors. Providers keep practicing. But billing, pricing, and access are unified and public.
This turns healthcare from a fragmented market into a shared public utility.
Video: Healthcare without fear
Idea 4:
Human Work in an AI Economy
The idea:
Protect human labor as technology transforms the economy.
What it means:
AI and automation will increase productivity. That can expand freedom or deepen insecurity, depending on how we govern it.
We draw clear lines about where AI can and cannot be used.
AI should reduce drudgery, errors, and danger. It should not be used to erase jobs, suppress wages, or strip workers of rights.
That means:
No replacing workers with AI without negotiation and fair compensation
No algorithmic hiring, firing, scheduling, or discipline without human oversight and due process
No using AI to misclassify employees as contractors
No invasive workplace surveillance
At the same time, we use AI where it helps:
To reduce paperwork and administrative waste
To improve safety in dangerous work
To make training and upskilling accessible
This makes AI a public tool, not a private weapon.
What success looks like:
People keep good jobs as technology advances. Wages grow with productivity. Workers feel protected, not threatened, by innovation.
Video: The future works for people
What Comes Next
These four ideas are not the end of the platform. They are the first round.
They reflect what we are hearing so far and what feels most urgent for young people trying to build lives right now. They will change as the conversation continues.
More ideas will be added. Some will be refined. Some will be challenged. That is the point.
This page is not meant to be finished. It is meant to stay alive.
But this is all theoretical
How this becomes real is up to you
None of this matters if it never reaches the ballot.
In Connecticut, challengers must gather signatures to qualify for a primary. That is not symbolism. That is the gate.
If you want this conversation to exist, the first step is allowing it to happen.
You do not need to agree with every idea here to support the basic principle that young people deserve a future worth building and voters deserve a real choice.
That is what the petition is for.
But this is all theoretical
How this becomes real is up to you
None of this matters if it never reaches the ballot.
In Connecticut, challengers must gather signatures to qualify for a primary. That is not symbolism. That is the gate.
If you want this conversation to exist, the first step is allowing it to happen.
You do not need to agree with every idea here to support the basic principle that young people deserve a future worth building and voters deserve a real choice.
That is what the petition is for.
Stay in the conversation
If you want to follow along as this develops:
Each idea will be released as a short vertical video.
Some ideas will have longer explainers.
We will periodically share summaries of what we are hearing from the district.
You do not need to agree with every idea to participate. This is not about consensus. It is about seriousness.
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A note to young people
I still have faith that happy endings are possible and my childhood and personal history is racked with plenty of moments that challenged my views of inherent societal stability. But a happy ending will take us gaining power, and beyond that it will take a vision of a future towards which we can apply our ambitions together.
“If we are to succeed in the novel political situation we find ourselves in, we must look towards a future we imagine together…”
-Damjan DeNoble
This effort supports ballot access and voter choice. It does not require support for any candidate or campaign.
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