Currently holds the office of Columbia Heights City Council until December 31, 2026.
Candidate for Minnesota House of Representatives - District 39B in 2026 Minnesota Primary Election.
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Get StartedPassage of the Equal Rights Amendment and fighting for gender equality in all forms. Learn more
Racial justice initiatives that fully invest in our Minnesotans of color. This includes policies, initiatives, and funds that work towards eliminating current disparities in education, healthcare, criminal justice, economic security, housing, opportunity, and more. Learn more
Public safety that works for the people also means holding the federal government accountable for Operation Metro Surge for the financial, social, and emotional damage created from the campaign. In order to rebuild our communities, significant investments need to be made to support small businesses, rebuild trust with our neighbors, and prosecute the numerous constitutional violations committed. Learn more
Fully investing in public safety means fully investing in our communities. Things such as affordable housing, healthcare, education, infrastructure, livable wages, mental health services, substance use disorder treatment, and supportive services all play critical roles in the safety of all Minnesotans. We as a state must work to pass legislation between our communities and the public safety system so that it both protects and serves them. Policy changes in public safety must proactively invest in and protect our communities instead of making reactionary reform, including the ever developing world of AI. Learn more
Funding for universal pre-K. Learn more
Ensuring school funding continues to keep up with inflation. Learn more
Fully fund Special Education while also increasing support personnel in schools, such as counselors, therapists, and paraprofessionals. Learn more
Not only is green energy good for our environment, but it is also good for our labor force. Investing in renewable energy sources like wind and solar creates good-paying jobs that can put thousands of Minnesotans to work. Environmental protection also means enacting laws to ban harmful chemicals, whether it is for our croplands in rural Minnesota that harvest and supply food for the entire country or for our local plants and pollinators. Learn more
As a state and nation, we must take swift, bold action on climate change. Environmental policy – just like criminal justice policy – must be made proactively instead of reactively after a crisis. Our state is known for its lakes, wildlife, and forestry – Minnesota can and must lead the nation on preservation and clean energy policy. Justice supports the 100% campaign for clean energy by 2040, continuing to put environmental guardrails on data centers, Prove it First legislation, a data center moratorium, and investing in clean drinking water infrastructure. Our energy policy must also acknowledge that climate policy has disproportionately hurt our Black, Brown, and Indigenous communities. Our climate policy must focus on a clean energy future while also acknowledging the harm of previous policies like the redlining of the Rondo neighborhood in St. Paul and actively invest in these communities. Learn more
Gun violence in both Minnesota and the United States needs common-sense policy reforms. We lose too many lives every single year to both homicide and suicide by firearm. Many more are wounded by gunfire and have chronic, debilitating injuries that severely impact their livelihood. In the medical field, data drives decision-making and we need to continue to provide funding for gun violence prevention to make our communities safe. Gun violence is not solely a Twin Cities area issue – most rural Minnesota counties have a gun death rate more than two times the rate of our urban areas. Additionally, gun violence costs our state billions of dollars per year. Learn more
Justice has seen the dire impacts of gun violence on our communities in patients he has treated, taking care of both adults and children who have died due to firearms. Together, we can enact policies that keep everyone safe while respecting the rights of responsible gun owners. These policies include banning assault-style weapons, closing the gun-show loophole, banning ghost guns, and enacting laws such as lost and stolen firearm reporting requirements, bulk firearm purchase restrictions, magazine capacity restrictions, and gun industry accountability laws. Learn more
He fully supports Senator John Marty’s Minnesota Health Plan (MHP), a single-payer system run through the state that includes coverage for dental, vision, and mental health services. Under this plan, every single Minnesotan will be covered, including those with pre-existing conditions. You can read Justice’s Op-Ed published in MinnPost supporting the Minnesota Health Plan here. The MHP will end health insurance being tied to your job – because nobody should ever be forced to forego the medical care they need. While fighting for a single-payer system, Justice will advocate for expanding MinnesotaCare, lowering medication costs, and also fight to prevent our hospitals and clinics from closing – because regardless of where they occur in the state, it affects the quality and timeliness of care we all receive. Learn more
Healthcare for all means healthcare that works for all Minnesotans. This includes protecting and expanding LGBTQIA care, access to contraception, addiction-recovery services, decreasing racial health disparities, including maternal and infant mortality, improving access to mental health services, protecting women’s right to choose, ensuring adequate options for our aging population, investing in home care professionals, improving vaccination rates, and standing up to big Pharma and big tobacco. Additionally, this means investing in our current and future generation of doctors, nurses, and other healthcare workers. We are facing high rates of burnout in our profession due to increased demands and stress despite working in a failing system. In order to make Minnesota thrive, we must ensure that those who take care of us are taken care of. Learn more
Passage of the Minnesota Health Plan, which will take the economic burden off of both large and small businesses to provide health coverage to their employees, allowing them to raise wages. Learn more
Infrastructure matters to everyone in our state as we all rely on our roads, bridges, public buildings, and sanitation systems every day. Investing in new projects not only makes our communities safer and easier to navigate, but it is also an investment in our economy. New projects spark an economic opportunity for Minnesotans to get good-paying jobs that help their community. Just as with climate policy, we must invest in infrastructure proactively before a crisis hits, not after a disaster. This includes investing heavily in public transportation, streamlining the process for municipalities to bring sales tax proposals for critical infrastructure projects directly to voters without needing authorization from the legislature, and supporting state bonding efforts. Learn more
A 21st-century world must be met with a 21st-century infrastructure plan that includes things like increasing access to broadband, robust clean energy transportation systems, renewable energy projects, and clean drinking water initiatives. Additional infrastructure projects should focus on the current needs of our communities, including investments in housing, childcare, and our strained healthcare system. Learn more
Support a 15 minimum wage. Learn more
Policies that help lift low-income Minnesotans out of poverty through community resources, financial aid, and access to good-paying jobs. Learn more
Protect, support, and encourage the right to unionize for all. Learn more
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