Candidate for U.S. House of Representatives - Virginia 1st Congressional District in 2026 Virginia Primary Election.
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Get StartedChild Care for Working Families Act: Supports universal preschool, ensures working families have access to these crucial programs, and guarantees that child care workers get the pay they deserve. Learn more
As Martin Luther King, Jr. Famously said, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” America is safer and stronger when we stand for peace, human rights, and stability – both at home and abroad. The United States cannot support policies that violate those values. In Gaza, Iran, and around the world, we must push for justice, humanitarian aid, and an end to genocides and famines. This isn’t a partisan issue, it’s a moral one. Learn more
America succeeds when we elect leaders focused on service, integrity, and responsibility — not personal gain. Salaam prioritizes restoring trust in government by banning Congressional stock trading and supports campaign finance reform to reject corporate PAC, AIPAC, and dark-money influence. Salaam is already doing the work Congress has failed to do by rejecting corporate PAC and foreign interest money. Learn more
Constitutional Amendment – Regulate Contributions and Expenditures: This is a proposal to “amend the Constitution of the United States relating to the authority of Congress and the States to regulate contributions and expenditures intended to affect elections and to enact public financing systems for political campaigns.”. Learn more
Medicare for All Act: Establishes a national health insurance program administered by the Department of Health and Human Services that covers all U.S. Residents with automatic enrollment, providing comprehensive benefits with no cost-sharing (deductibles, coinsurance, copayments), and includes expanded coverage for dental, vision, and hearing care. Learn more
Medicare Dental, Vision, and Hearing Benefit Act of 2025: Provides for Medicare coverage of dental, vision, and hearing care, including routine dental cleanings and exams, basic and major dental services, emergency dental care, dentures, routine eye exams, eyeglasses, contact lenses, and hearing exams and hearing aids. Learn more
Everyone knows the system is rigged in favor of those who control the most wealth. While working families struggle with groceries, housing, child care, energy costs, and medical bills, billionaires and corporations pay a lower tax rate than nurses and teachers while controlling more wealth than ever before. It’s time to unrig the system and make billionaires pay their fair share so we can decrease our national debt and invest in meeting the basic needs of everyday Americans. Learn more
Raise the Wage Act of 2025: Increases the federal minimum wage in phases to 9.50/hour, 11.00/hour, 12.50/hour, 14.00/hour, 15.50/hour, and ultimately 17.00/hour over six years, with automatic adjustments thereafter; also phases out subminimum wages for tipped workers, youth workers, and workers with disabilities. Learn more
FAMILY Act (Family and Medical Insurance Leave Act): Guarantees the vast majority of working people in the United States the ability to access up to 12 weeks of paid family and medical leave to care for a new child or a loved one with a serious health condition, or to address their own serious health condition. Learn more
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