Fighting for What Matters.

It is ridiculous that in the richest country in the world, people go into debt every day just by trying to make ends meet. No one should have to decide between seeing a doctor and affording groceries.

Chelsey will fight to:

• End Trump's Tariffs.The US Federal Reserve Bank confirmed that Trump's tariffs on foreign goods produces a "dollar-for-dollar" increase on the cost of what you buy.
• Enact Medicare for All. A comprehensive universal healthcare system would eliminate health insurance premiums and deductibles by ending corporate welfare in the healthcare industry. This reform would relieve small business owners of healthcare costs while saving Americans an estimated $2-5 trillion over the next decade.
• Enact Universal Childcare so parents can afford to raise their kids and participate in the workforce.
• Tie the Minimum to Wage Cost of Living, starting with a $25 Minimum Wage. One adult living alone needs at least $21/hr, and one adult and one child needs at least $35/hr. The current federal minimum wage of $7.25 is unlivable and unjust. We deserve better.
• Tie Social Security Benefits to Cost of Living, starting with a $200 Increase in Benefits. We can fully fund and expand Social Security benefits by simply removing the cap on the Social Security Tax so the ultra-wealthy pay their fair share.
• Pass the PRO Act to ensure workers have a right to organize, unionize, and negotiate higher wages without retaliation.
• Build more affordable housing units and crack down on corporate landlords sitting on empty homes. We are in a housing crisis! These properties should be made available to the communities that need them most!

• Fully fund public services. Libraries, recreation centers, and national parks make our communities more attractive. People are more likely to move to and invest in an area that has these amenities.
• Build more public transit. Our society has become overly dependent on cars. Not only does this create unnecessary traffic congestion, but it also causes pollution, social isolation due to separated communities, and a lack of walkable areas for people to relax in. Public transit is also fantastic for businesses! Workers, customers, and tourists all heavily benefit from having more options. It is estimated for every $1 invested in public transit, we get $5 back.

• Release the Epstein Files. Prosecute the Perpetrators. The survivors of those horrible atrocities deserve to see their abusers brought to justice. Child abusers should be in jail, not running our businesses and our government.
• Enact the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act to ban partisan gerrymandering so we can ensure safe, fair, free, and easily accessible elections.
• Make corporations and billionaires pay their fair share by closing tax loopholes and instituting a progressive income tax and a wealth tax. The working class should not be paying a higher percentage of taxes than Elon Musk and other ultra-wealthy people.
• Ban insider trading. Politics should be about making the world a better place, not personal gain.
• Get corporate and billionaire money out of politics. Our politicians exist to serve WE THE PEOPLE, not the Epstein class.

As a mom with kids in public school, I am a proud supporter of high quality public education. Yet I have witnessed firsthand the consequences of our government's corrupt decision to defund our schools, whether through withholding money at the federal level or pushing voucher scams at the state level that drain money from our public schools and funnel it into private ones. We deserve better. I will fight for full federal investment in every public school in our congressional district.

• Fully fund public services. Libraries, recreation centers, and national parks make our communities more attractive. People are more likely to move to and invest in an area that has these amenities.
• Increasing Funding For Our Public Schools and end the divisive culture wars that seek to ruin our educational system. Our schools are closing at an alarming rate due to government mismanagement and hostility towards the common citizens. Our children deserve quality public education. Billionaires, corporations, and greedy corrupt politicians have no right to take that away.
• Increase Teacher Pay and honor our public servants. We should be making laws and standards that help our kids learn and allow our teachers to guide them, not setting up red tape and nonsensical policies that waste everyone's time and money.

• Abolish and Prosecute ICE and replace it with humane, accountable immigration services. ICE endangers communities through murder, unlawful arrests and deportations, unauthorized entry, refusing to carry ID, assaulting protesters, and intimidating community members. They must be held accountable for these crimes. Providing fair and efficient pathways to citizenship would do far more to secure our borders than masked armed men roaming the streets ever has done.
• Codify Roe V. Wade and return control of women's health decisions to each woman, her doctor, and her conscience. The government should not have the power to dictate each citizen's personal medical decisions.
• Ensure the rights of ALL Americans citizens are protected and respected by passing the Equality Act designed to prevent discrimination based on sex, sexual orientation, and gender identity. It amends the 1964 Civil Rights Act to explicitly include these protections in employment, housing, public accommodations, educations, and federal funding.
• Provide more funding to Prosecute Hate Crimes. Hatred against religions, like the rising prejudice against Islam and Judaism, has been tearing apart our communities. How can we guarantee our Constitutional right to freedom of religion when our neighbors cannot safely practice their own beliefs? Whether we are immigrants, racial minorities, LGBTQIA+, or a part of any marginalized group, We Are All Worthy of Respect and Dignity.

• Ensure access to quality mental health services. People who struggle with mental illness should be able to get the help they need. If we do not treat them, we make the world a more dangerous place.
• Provide more funding to social workers and find nonviolent solutions to crime. Too often our police are sent in to solve situations that they are not certified to deal with. Most of them are not trained mental health professionals. Social workers are chronically underpaid, short-staffed, and work in under-funded agencies. Supporting them helps relieve the burden on police, deescalates mental health crises, and helps prevent future incidents or crimes by providing safety to those in need.
• Use public services to make our communities safer. Research consistently shows that investing in public services like libraries, parks, and recreation centers is a proven strategy for reducing crime and improving community safety. Studies have linked the presence of these spaces to significant reductions in violent crime, burglaries, and assaults, while also fostering stronger social cohesion among residents. Rather than relying solely on enforcement, communities benefit most when residents have safe, accessible places to gather, learn, and engage.

East Texas families depend on clean water, clean air, and healthy land.

• Enact a AI Data Center Moratorium because tech companies are taking away water from our communities and causing horrific pollution.
• Enact a Green New Deal to expand renewable energy initiatives and bring in more jobs. Solar and wind energy are significantly cheaper than fossil fuels. Wind power costs ~$30/MWh, compared to natural gas ($65), coal ($46–$100), and nuclear ($80).

• End the Genocide in Gaza by passing the Block the Bombs Act and other legislation that will terminate all US funding for the apartheid state of Israel while at the same time forcing through desperately needed aid to the people of Palestine. I will work with any and all allies in Congress, like Representative Tlaib, to enforce international law and hold those responsible for the genocide accountable.
• I will support the internationally recognized right of return for Palestinians so they may reclaim their lands from which they have been ethnically cleansed. Palestinians, like all people, have a right to peace, freedom, and self-determination.
• End the forever wars. No more war in Iran. No more war in Lebanon. End the war and genocide in Sudan. No to war in Venezuela. No to war in Cuba. No to war in Mexico. Our citizens are sick of the trillions of taxpayer dollars wasted on these senseless conflicts. We are all heartbroken by the pointless waste of human lives, too often those of innocent women and children. We should be building schools, not bombing them. We should be funding our own country's healthcare and housing, not propping up petty dictatorial regimes.